Zhang Qiqi: "There’s such a good thing?"
After receiving the WeChat message from her cousin Yiyi, the web celebrity and campus beauty Zhang Qiqi’s mood soared.
"Yiyi isn’t coming to Hang City, it doesn’t matter at all."
"Anyway, she was just an excuse for me to go find Cheng Zhu."
"Now that’s great, this light bulb won’t be in my way."
"Then I can go find Cheng Zhu by myself tomorrow."
These two green tea sisters could be said to have their own ulterior motives, viewing each other merely as tools.
Just out of yoga class, Zhang Qiqi sat on her yoga mat, texting back to her cousin: "Oh, is that so? Alright then."
She didn’t even bother to ask why she couldn’t come to Hang City.
Wearing her yoga top and pants, the web celebrity and campus beauty felt cheerful, already thinking about an excuse to meet Cheng Zhu offline tomorrow.
"It would be great to have dinner together!" thought Zhang Qiqi.
Little did she know, far away in Tai City, Meng Yiyi was sitting on the sofa in her high school uniform, looking youthful and tender with a faint smile on her face.
"I knew I just needed to make up any reason, Zhang Qiqi won’t bother asking for details," Meng Yiyi thought to herself.
In the yoga classroom, Zhang Qiqi, just finished with class, stood in front of the mirrored wall and straightened her clothes before taking selfies.
The popularity of yoga classes, and later, Pilates classes, was partly due to women’s desires for shaping up and staying healthy, and partly for the sake of taking photos and getting emotional satisfaction.
Of course, Zhang Qiqi would only take photos of her upper body in her yoga clothes.
It’s not that her long legs weren’t worthy of the camera; it’s just that her camel-toe was a bit too conspicuous.
She was known for her beauty online, not a fringe blogger.
Such treasures aren’t meant to be shared with the outside world.
After taking the photos, Zhang Qiqi draped over herself the long coat that was lying on the chair, wrapping herself up tightly.
She was already looking forward to tomorrow.
Even her Weibo post read: "Feels like the weather is going to be great tomorrow."
Although a green tea, Zhang Qiqi was still a young girl who sometimes hid her little emotions in her writing.
Little did she know Cheng Zhu was set to head to Tai City the next morning, and her own cousin was secretly keeping it from her.
You haven’t come away empty-handed, have you?
At least you’ve gotten yourself a milk tea voucher worth 32 yuan.
The next day, Cheng Zhu had breakfast with Lin Lu at nine in the morning, then drove off to Tai City.
Lin Lu had chosen a run-down but 11-year-old breakfast shop that had amazing tofu pudding and pickled vegetable pork soup dumplings.
From Little Lu’s point of view: "My boyfriend still made time to join me for breakfast at a place I wanted to try before his business trip."
"Cheng Zhu is really nice."
When it came to managing time and providing emotional value, Cheng Zhu really did it better than the breakfast shop’s tofu pudding and soup dumplings!
After all, isn’t Baby Lu the genuine girlfriend?
Compared to that, someone like Zhang Qiqi, a mere tool, Cheng Zhu would use and then discard.
Of course, the web celebrity and campus beauty shouldn’t belittle herself.
"Once Doule is up and running, I’ll still give you a boost," Cheng Zhu intended to do just that in his mind.
For now, Zhang Qiqi was easy to control and useful.
The campus beauty was a good publicity stunt.
And it didn’t matter that Senior Sister Zhang would graduate after this semester as a senior; Cheng Zhu would still arrange for her to record some dance videos and the like on campus.
For a platform, it is necessary to provide some individual traffic to promote some star web celebrities.
Big data promotion is one aspect, but the support of the platform is also crucial.
The emergence of such star web celebrities is beneficial to attracting more people to develop on the platform and can have a certain effect.
Like at the beginning, many celebrities didn’t use Weibo, nor did their teams operate it.
Later, many celebrities didn’t engage with short videos at first, and their teams didn’t join the short video platforms.
This is all something that would gradually change.
Cheng Zhu’s trip to Tai City wasn’t just about deceiving Lin Lu, telling her he was going for work.
He really had things to be busy with.
Through channels at the university, he got in touch with Wang Yunan, a senior who graduated from Technology University years ago, the founder of Ming Tea.
Now at the beginning of 2015, Ming Tea had over two hundred stores nationwide.
This year’s goal was to break through 300 franchises!
It was a brand established in Wenling of Tai City in 2010, which, within just a few short years, had fought its way through the traditional milk tea industry to become one of the most famous brands, an incredibly impressive feat.
One could say that before Cheng Zhu came onto the scene, Wang Yunan was the only Milk Tea King at Technology University!
In his previous life, since they were all alumni, Cheng Zhu had Wang Yunan as a friend and they had chatted.
To Cheng Zhu, this senior was a very impressive person.
"In the milk tea 2.0 era, he started from a small workshop, then dominated Tai City and expanded to stores all over the country."
"After becoming a top brand in the traditional milk tea industry, he also caught up with the new era of milk tea, not getting crushed in the change of times."
"On the contrary, he was doing better and better!"
"If I remember correctly, by 2017, the number of stores broke through a thousand."
"In 2019, it seemed to be close to 3000?"
"And by 2021, it reached the terrifying number of 6000!"