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Chapter 340 - Chapter 340 Chapter 265 Milk Tea Shop Opening Countdown

Chapter 340: Chapter 265: Milk Tea Shop Opening Countdown Chapter 340: Chapter 265: Milk Tea Shop Opening Countdown The people at the game studio were completely dumbfounded by the effectiveness of such a cunning strategy.

Someone actually used a cheat to promote their own game!

What’s more, the effect was surprisingly good!

Cheng Zhu knew from his past life that when “Sheep” cheats were rampant, it was a hot topic all over the net.

Not only did the game’s popularity not decline, but it actually surged a great deal.

The next day, it had shot up to the Weibo hot search!

Though the ranking wasn’t high, this was a genuine hot search without paying a dime!

This caused the [Topic] viewership to nearly break a hundred million in the following days.

Of course, it was nowhere near the 3 billion topic viewership on Weibo back in 2022, but the gap was significant.

But achieving such an effect in 2014, Cheng Zhu was quite satisfied.

In the past life of 2022, the game was wildly popular online, with over four million related posts on Little Red Book, an off-the-charts Baidu search index, not to mention the explosive traffic on TikTok.

Such a phenomenal burst of popularity is hard to replicate.

Luckily, the investment in this game was small. It couldn’t make billions in profit like in the past life, but it could still be considered a frighteningly profitable venture!

Wei Bo and the others now had complete faith in Cheng Zhu.

They had thought the boss was confused before, but now they believed the boss was wise.

What’s more interesting is that the cheat was concocted by their own studio, meaning the vulnerability was intentionally left by themselves.

So, whenever we want to plug it, we can!

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Two days had passed, and Cheng Zhu had already started to act like a hands-off boss at the game studio.

In his view, he didn’t need to bother with this disposable monthly game any longer.

After all, the point was just to be popular for a short time.

He was now focusing more on his milk tea shop.

According to the Hurun list published in 2023, the richest self-made entrepreneur born in the 90s was the 31-year-old Hey Tea boss, with a fortune of 8.5 billion at the top.

At this moment, he drove away from Technology University and passed by the claw machine store, paying special attention to the business situation.

“Customer flow has visibly started to decline,” Cheng Zhu thought to himself.

Previously, when he was the boss of Youu Come to Play, there used to be a long queue outside this store.

Thankfully, its neighbors were a fried chicken store and a snack store, whose businesses were somewhat boosted by the popularity of the claw machine store, otherwise, they might have been resentful.

These queues are even spilling over to our doorstep!

Now, there were still many customers inside the store.

But, there was hardly any need to queue.

“And there’s one fatal point.”

“Once a trendy store doesn’t seem as busy, and there aren’t as many people there, it gives off a sense of not living up to its hype, and the decline can become even steeper.”

“This kind of trendy check-in place relies on people’s herd mentality; countless people come to take pictures and check in, so I want to be trendy too. If there aren’t many people around anymore, the pulling effect naturally wanes.”

“Xu Shao and Pei Yan must be pretty anxious by now,” Cheng Zhu thought to himself.

According to the “little spy” Zhang Qiqi, Xu Shao’s plan was to seek financing from venture capitalists.

But with the store having just changed owners, investors aren’t fools; they’d watch and wait for a period.

The problem is, this observation period is hard to endure.

Your business gets worse during the observation period, and the online heat rapidly declines, do you think I’d still invest in you?

Cheng Zhu sat in his car, fingertips lightly tapping on the steering wheel, as he saw Pei Yan come out of the store.

Pei Yan was almost in the store every day, and Xu Shao, rather anxious, had gone to Shanghai to line up dates with contacts in the venture capital community.

Cheng Zhu rolled down the car window without greeting Pei Yan, just showing his face, letting him know that he was observing the claw machine store’s business.

After doing this, Cheng Zhu rolled up the window, pressed on the accelerator, and drove away.

The Vice Chairman Pei, standing at the shop’s entrance, felt mocked even though the other party had done nothing; it was just the loss of business.

Cheng Zhu, the former boss, merely coming by for a look, was enough to embarrass Pei Yan greatly.

Without uttering a single word, that casual glance was more powerful than a thousand words.

— Vice Chairman Pei, Mr. Xu, you guys are not up to par.

Look at how freely he presses on the accelerator, not even stopping for a moment longer here.

At the time when the shop had just changed owners, the Technology University forums had the Student Union’s lackeys hyping it up.

Pei Yan felt secretly thrilled when he first saw the comment, “The shop has a new owner, and it sure is different, ha!”

Nice, nice! Sufficiently sarcastic! Hahaha!

But who could have predicted that today, the comment would backfire?

It hit him right in the face!

Indeed, the shop with a new owner sure is different, ha!

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After leaving the claw machine store, Cheng Zhu drove his Land Rover to the building where Persistent Visit studio was located.

He got out of the car for a smoke before going upstairs.

The Guan Yun factory had already sent over all the Christmas battle skirts.

Upon receiving them and checking, they pretty much met his expectations.

These Christmas battle skirts had to be predominantly red, similar to Santa hats, with red as the main color and white as an accent.