Forcing Me to Be Reborn?!-Chapter 196 - 168 The 18-Year-Old King of QQ

Chapter 196: Chapter 168: The 18-Year-Old King of QQ

Chapter 196: Chapter 168: The 18-Year-Old King of QQ

In the minds of normal people, what do ordinary eighteen-year-olds do every day?

Forget about looking for a proper job, not skipping classes to go to an internet cafe is already an achievement!

And now you’re telling me that the future leader of the QQ lingerie industry in e-commerce has just turned eighteen this year and has only just started university?

Bullshit! Keep spinning that yarn!

Not to mention anything else, an eighteen-year-old understands QQ lingerie?

Can an eighteen-year-old launch styles like stepmother skirts, grey backless sweaters, and black spider bodysuits?

Even the usual styles that everyone makes in this store have small detail adjustments.

These small tweaks are obviously able to enhance the customer experience.

Don’t tell me this stuff doesn’t need hands-on experience! This is clearly the result of actual hands-on experience!

If he’s only eighteen, then what the hell kind of shocking life has he been living in his adolescent years!?

At this moment, Cheng Zhu still doesn’t know that people inside the circle have been discussing his age.

If you ask him to examine his conscience, when he was doing e-commerce in his previous life, if he had heard that the top name in the QQ lingerie category was a freshman eighteen years old, he probably would not have believed it either.

All I can say is—college life is good.

Right now, in the QQ lingerie field, because of insane price wars, the situation can be said to be partially necrotic.

What Cheng Zhu does is exactly the opposite of partially necrotic—absolutely thriving.

And when it comes to stirring things up, he’s the professional.

“I didn’t expect to be the brief top name of the category today; it came even a few days earlier than I anticipated,” Cheng Zhu was very satisfied with this.

“At this rate, by the end of the National Day holiday, I might just secure the top spot firmly,” he estimated.

Right now, he was sitting in front of his computer, roughly calculating his income for the upcoming period.

“With [Persistent Visit] continuing like this, earning a seven-figure sum a month is a piece of cake.”

“The year 2014 was exactly when the price wars were at their hottest, and everyone’s profit margins were getting thinner.”

“Some stores might look like they have good sales, but who the hell knows how much money they’re really making.”

“Guess how some stores have stooped to? They’re at the point where they’re not earning profits anymore, just earning the difference in shipping costs!”

“In such a fierce competitive environment, for [Persistent Visit] to cut a path of blood, it’s really not easy.”

Given the above…

“I’m truly fucking awesome!”

From now on, please call me the king of QQ lingerie e-commerce!

With [Persistent Visit]’s ascent to the top on Taobao, Cheng Zhu would inevitably have to put more thought into exports.

With this in mind, he sent a WeChat message to Ye Zi.

“Are you asleep?” he asked.

Ye Zi was no longer working night shifts, she recently began to adjust her biological clock, striving to keep it consistent with Cheng Zhu’s.

“Not yet, I’m editing photos,” Ye Zi reported back.

“What’s the situation with the foreign model, when is that mixed-race girl bringing someone over for an interview?” Cheng Zhu asked.

“She said any time is fine, she’ll first bring her girlfriend for an interview, and if we’re not satisfied, she’ll go contact her ex-girlfriend,” Ye Zi’s reply contained a lot of information.

Cheng Zhu: “…”

Many things flashed through his mind, but he didn’t know where to begin his tirade of old complaints.

“I have time these two days; you set it up with her,” he finally said.

“Okay, boss.”

In the end, Ye Zi contacted the bisexual Franco-Chinese girl and set the time for tomorrow afternoon.

After arranging this, Cheng Zhu opened the group chat where Shen Minglang was the group owner.

This group had only five people in it, but four of them were Hang City rich second generations, and furthermore, they were high-caliber rich second generations, unlike poor Cheng Zhu.

So, when you have resources, you should make use of them.

“I’m looking to rent a storefront in a mall to open a milk tea shop, in the mall’s core area. Do you guys know someone?” he asked in the group.

Yes, after much contemplation, Cheng Zhu had decided to open his own brand store instead of becoming a super franchisee.

Certainly, being the latter would be easier than the former and would leverage his advantage as a Reborn.

“I clearly know which milk tea brands will rise rapidly in the upcoming years,” Cheng Zhu thought.

However, the problem lies not in this timeline, it’s not suitable for this year.

“The ones that will become popular next are mostly high-end internet-famous milk tea brands, like Hey Tea.”

“Such stores mostly start with direct management and do not open up for franchising in the early stage, and may never open up for franchising.”

“But with milk tea brands that are already popular, such as Yididian, super agents for each area of Hang City are feared to have already been secured by others.”

“If I wanted to become a super franchisee, I could certainly do it. Like the current situation, if Yididian opens in some smaller cities, the business would definitely boom.”

“In my memory, those few Yididian in Wu City just opened for a couple of years, they could be said to have ruled supremely, sweeping across the Wu City milk tea industry with each store bustling and queuing, it’s clear they made a fortune.”

“But I also can’t spare the time to open milk tea shops outside Hang City.”

Creating his own brand is Cheng Zhu’s current best choice.

And the reason why he’s asking for connections and resources in the group chat is because high-end milk tea brands are not something that just anyone can do.

To continue with the example of Wu City, it is different from Hang City. Although it’s quite wealthy due to the Small Commodity City, after all, it’s just a county-level city.

During Cheng Zhu’s entrepreneurial years in Wu City, he had seen people trying to mimic the Hey Tea model to open milk tea shops focusing on fruit teas.

When the shop opened, it was crazy how people were enticed to queue up; you had to wait at least half an hour for a cup of fruit tea.

Relying on this model, it was quite lively for a few days at the beginning, and this brand immediately became popular in Wu City, but not long after, it quieted down.

As previously said with doll machine shops, opening internet-famous stores in small cities should approach things differently than in large cities.

For this high-end internet-famous milk tea, it definitely has to start from large cities and then gradually expand to smaller cities.

And your first shop, location becomes especially important!

It’s best to open in high-end malls, and as much as possible, secure a core location!

This is a very important step in the early stage, extremely important.

The logic here, someone with a bit of business sense should be able to understand.

But, here comes the problem.

“Those core locations in malls… are beyond my reach,” Cheng Zhu was very clear on this.

Do you really think you can just approach high-end malls with rent money and that’s it?

It’s not about being able to afford the rent to be able to set up shop.

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Those core locations represent the class and façade of the mall.

Core locations are usually for big brands, ordinary people have no chance to get such a space.

“When the leasing manager asks me what project it is, if I say it’s a milk tea shop, then forget about it. Given the current stereotype about milk tea shops, it’ll be a miracle if a partnership could be formed!”

“They will probably tell you to find a shop by the school gates,” Cheng Zhu thought to himself.

“Therefore, like those well-known high-end internet-famous milk tea shops of my previous life that were able to start in the malls of big cities, it already represents the fact that they’ve got huge backing! They are supported by capital!”

“The vast majority got the support from [venture capital] at this stage.”

But this contradicts Cheng Zhu’s current thoughts.

So, he needs to do something ancient and venerable—pull some strings.

“Finding connections, sneaking through back doors, that’s my path, my business way!”

In the WeChat group, Shen Minglang is always the most active, probably the only one without [do not disturb] on his messages.

“Cousin, what new project are you starting now? You’re not planning to open a branch of [Youu Come to Play] in the mall, are you?” he started with curiosity.

“What branch? I’m planning to transfer it next month.” Since it’s all friends here, Cheng Zhu didn’t hold back his thoughts.

Moreover, he suspected that when it comes time to transfer [Youu Come to Play] under the pretext of financial loopholes, Shen Minglang would probably be the first to knock on his door!

Better to give him an early heads-up.

“There’s so much dumb money in Hang City, can’t pick on anyone but Ning Bao’s dear brother, yeah,” Cheng Zhu thought to himself.

“Ah? Why are you transferring it?” Shen Minglang really perked up.

“I’ll take the time to explain it to you later,” Cheng Zhu replied.

In his view, his [Youu Come to Play] has a big name and lots of girls, just these two points would be enough to make Shen Minglang eagerly spend money.

Jiang Wanzhou chimed in at this moment in the group chat, mentioning a mall’s name, indicating that his father often plays cards with one of the major shareholders of this mall.

This mall is located in University City, near the schools, and isn’t of very high grade.

Of course, Cheng Zhu didn’t even dare to think about Hang City’s truly top-tier shopping districts.

He wanted the second tier.

“Is there something better?” he asked Jiang Wanzhou.

“Not anymore,” Jiang Wanzhou shook his head.

Lin Lu was even more impressive; this straightforward girl called her parents directly to ask. After confirming that her family didn’t have this connection, she reported in the group: “Nothing here.”

Cheng Zhu watched the group chat, thinking that his grand milk tea entrepreneurship was going to die on the first step.

—Dairy Emperor’s entrepreneurship halts midway.

But who would have thought, Shen Qingning suddenly messaged him privately.

“Can Star City do?” she asked.

This surprised Cheng Zhu because he assumed the Shen family did not have this connection since Shen Minglang didn’t mention it.

Otherwise, with Shen Minglang’s enthusiasm, he would have said so first.

And since he didn’t get along with Jiang Wanzhou, he would have likely flaunted it in front of him.

Little President Jiang, in terms of connections, resources, and relationships, you definitely can’t beat your dear cousin!

But now it seems that may not be the case.

“Star City? Of course, that would do,” Cheng Zhu replied.

Star City’s mall has a higher grade than the one Jiang Wanzhou mentioned, considered a good shopping area in Hang City, and also close to Wanxiang City.

For Cheng Zhu, this is an excellent choice.

Of course, the threshold for entering the mall would certainly be high, and ordinary people certainly wouldn’t qualify for the core dining locations.

“Wait a moment then, I’ll ask my aunt at home tomorrow,” Shen Qingning said on WeChat.

Cheng Zhu shrewdly guessed that the aunt she referred to was not a domestic helper but likely her and Shen Minglang’s stepmother.

The one only two years older than Shen Minglang.

Probably for this reason, she chose not to mention it in the group.

Speaking of which, last time Cheng Zhu spent a blurred night with Shen Qingning, it was also because Shen Minglang and this stepmother were at odds, as Young Master Shen started throwing tantrums again, leading to the subsequent chain reaction.

“So, the key person unlocked by the [Mission: Opening a Milk Tea Shop], is her?” Cheng Zhu thought to himself.

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