Chapter 354: Chapter 278: Daddy of Several Circles Chapter 354: Chapter 278: Daddy of Several Circles In the hotel suite, Ye Zi received a WeChat message from Cheng Zhu and immediately replied, “Okay.”

She kept her boss’s instructions in mind, that when she was to take photos of the model for the auction later, she needed to capture that flirtatious look in the eyes, and to highlight the model’s strengths.

At the moment, Ye Zi took out the Christmas dress she had worn from the bathroom and laid it out on the bed along with two other outfits.

After doing all this, she was going to go downstairs to receive someone.

But before that, she carefully touched the red Christmas dress to see if it got wet anywhere.

She turned it over carefully, inspecting every corner, and only after making sure there were no issues, did she lay it out on the bed.

Honestly, thinking about the model wearing this dress later, her feelings were quite complex.

She felt shy and also a bit…thrilled?

“I don’t even want to let her wear it,” Ye Zi thought to herself.

But there was only one sample of each dress, and nothing could be done about that.

After checking the room thoroughly, Ye Zi put some of the hotel’s chargeable items into her bag.

A box of three, with only one left.

“It’s not worth using the hotel’s.”

This sensible woman would bring her own in the future, purchasing the best kind, and then wait for Cheng Zhu’s call.

After making sure there were no obvious issues in the room, she went downstairs to meet the young model.

Upon meeting her, the young model was stunned.

“Is there such a beautiful photographer with such a great figure?” she was dumbfounded.

“With that figure, you should be the one modeling for QQ!” she was somewhat flabbergasted.

For someone who came to model and be photographed, it was the first time she encountered someone who was a photographer and yet had better looks and figure.

In fact, before calling Ye Zi, she had not expected a QQ store’s photographer to be a woman.

She had thought she might have to make some sacrifices today.

She hadn’t expected that a job typically coveted by men was being done by a woman.

“Could she be the boss’s wife, or maybe the lady boss?” The young girl’s mind made leaps, thinking this was highly probable.

Opening such a type of shop, if it became big and strong, could easily lead to trouble, right? Wouldn’t you have to keep an eye on your husband?

After entering the elevator, Ye Zi gave her a brief introduction, “My name is Ye Zi, I am the photographer for Persistent Visit; you look younger than me, you can call me Sister Ye.”

“No need to be so formal, we are all here to work,” she said with a smile.

“Ah? You’re really just a photographer?” the young girl was perplexed.

Would ordinary models feel inferior in front of a woman with such a figure?

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On the other side, Cheng Zhu was driving towards Star City.

Halfway through the drive, he noticed the rain had stopped.

“Damn, is there some metaphysics at play here?” he looked through the glass at the still somewhat gloomy sky.

When he parked the car in the underground parking lot of Star City, he picked up his phone to send Ye Zi a WeChat message.

“Have you started taking pictures? Send me some to see how they look on camera,” he said.

“Mmm, just did a few test shots, boss, I’ll send them to you now,” Ye Zi immediately sent the images to Cheng Zhu.

This new QQ model used the stage name Susu.

Names like Susu, Susu…were quite common.

When she heard that she had to send the pictures to the boss of Persistent Visit for approval, her heart jumped to her throat!

She was skirting on the edge of certain circles, with a VIP group in hand.

For people like them, the boss of Persistent Visit was like a god-like figure, a Daddy-level person.

Who could have imagined that a store selling QQ products could start leading several circles’ trends because it did so well with innovation!

Everyone wanted to follow his wave and make this money!

He was truly the daddy of these circles!

Susu had no idea that the extremely mysterious big boss she idolized had just met her.

After Cheng Zhu saw the photos, he nodded slightly and typed, “Not bad. I think the effect might be better than with Xixi. Keep shooting.”

“Okay, boss,” Ye Zi replied.

She was in a very good state now, overflowing with the desire to work for her boss.

Besides that, it was the usual rule: even though so much had just happened in the room, since Cheng Zhu left, she would not and did not dare contact him on her own. The main thing was to be sensible.

For Ye Zi, who was heavily M in both body and mind, such seemingly indifferent behavior after pulling out a carrot was actually a form of…spiritual aftertaste.

Model Susu’s spirits lifted when Ye Zi said the boss thought there were no problems with the photos.

Normally, during a photoshoot, chatting while photographing is common.

Susu also wanted to casually inquire about the mysterious boss.

The people in the circles she was in were extremely curious about the boss of Persistent Visit.

Who was this mystery person who in just a few short months had such terrifying dominance in the QQ world!

But then, Ye Zi slowly put down the camera and said, “Don’t ask too much about the boss. And don’t mention it to outsiders.”

“Oh, oh,” she immediately nodded obediently, daring not to inquire any further.

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At the entrance of Star City, Cheng Zhu stood in front of his store, his back to the Starbucks across from the milk tea shop.

As previously mentioned, during renovations in the mall, they would enclose it with paper walls or curtains to prevent the construction environment from being seen and affecting the overall image of the mall.

At the same time, these paper walls or curtains could also be an early stage of advertising.

As a known commercial area in Hang City, Star City had a significant daily foot traffic.

And with the rise of the “net red” economy, Hang City could be considered one of the representative cities for this economy, where these people would frequent upscale commercial areas.

In a few years, with the development of live streaming and short videos, if you go to Wanxiang City in Hang City, you will find there are crowds outside the shopping center taking photos, streaming, and recording videos, not just inside.

Youu Tea’s storefront had already replaced the wallpaper with the second one.

The white wallpaper featured the name and logo of Youu Tea, and there was also the phrase, “Creating a new power brand in China’s beverage industry.”

Looking at this phrase on its own, it’s actually no big deal.

Which brand doesn’t exaggerate in its early stages?

More precisely, not only in the early stages but whenever there is a new product release or significant action, they need to blow their own trumpet!

In fact, if you don’t dare to boast, can you even dare to take action?

Boasting is just the most basic first step.

Passersby in the mall, when passing by, actually wouldn’t feel much about this phrase.

Their first reaction might well be, “There’s a milk tea shop on the first floor of Star City?”

Normally, given Star City’s status, it would be more reasonable for this milk tea shop to be located in the basement or opposite the mall.

With this expectation, along with the location of the shop and this phrase, they subtly highlighted the status of this store.

But what Cheng Zhu wanted was not just status.

Originally, his phrase should have read, “Creating a new power in China’s tea beverage industry”.

After all, it’s a newly opened milk tea shop, so it should be positioned as a tea beverage brand.

However, he wanted to use the word “beverage.”

The reason was simple: opposite his milk tea shop was Starbucks, known as “Starbucks”.

You are beverages.

So am I.

In this way, the people passing through the mall would have increased attention on this store.

This is Starbucks, known as a gathering place for the petit bourgeoisie.

The brand comes with a large following.

–How dare this store!

Is Starbucks a formidable opponent?

Of course, it is.

After all, it is a brand that has a certain dominance in the global beverage industry!

How dare this store!

But what people didn’t know was that Cheng Zhu was forcefully creating a rival for his store.

In the face of Starbucks, which has stores all over the world, Youu Tea, which had just opened its first store, was naturally nothing, not even an ant.

Cheng Zhu wanted to forcibly establish it as a competitor of equal price and grade.

He even planned to find some marketing accounts to write a few soft articles.

And for this reason, some passersby thought: Why is the owner so reckless as to rent a place opposite to Starbucks?

Cheng Zhu did not know this location was opposite Starbucks at the beginning. When he saw this coffee shop, he immediately had three words leap to his mind with great joy:
“Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant!”

–Ning Bao has done a great job!

Now standing in the mall, he observed whether passersby’s gazes paused briefly at Youu Tea when they walked into the mall’s entrance, as well as the reactions of some people.

Just half a minute ago, he saw a couple walking by hand in hand, the man reading the phrase on the wall and couldn’t help but say it out loud: “Youu Tea: Creating a new power brand in China’s beverage industry.”

“Want to try it next time?” he asked.

The volume of the girl’s response was low, and even with his ears pricked up, Cheng Zhu couldn’t hear her clearly.

He really wanted to follow them and eavesdrop.

After standing for a few minutes, he entered the milk tea shop through the paper wall’s side.

The shop had undergone a second cleaning and looked much more comfortable now.

Clean, bright, simple, and impressive!

Cheng Zhu took out his phone and clicked a photo, feeling it had a high turnout.

Net red stores actually pay attention to some details.

And during renovation, it’s easy for details to slip, as some workers might just make do.

But Lin Lu was very strict about this.

–Baby Lu has done a great job!

After Cheng Zhu made a round inside the shop and felt that the second cleaning was done quite meticulously, he would move the two sets of milk tea equipment in tomorrow.

Once the inspection was complete inside the store, he left to follow his routine and walked across to Starbucks.

Youu Tea had already begun the 7-day countdown to opening.

“This is the last time I’ll patronize,” Cheng Zhu thought to himself.

After today, he wouldn’t come again.

Upon entering the globally known coffee brand store, he saw several familiar staff members.

As he joined the queue to order, they naturally noticed the extraordinarily eye-catching Cheng Zhu.

After all, he truly was a man with a striking set.

Inevitably, while ordering, the female staff saw the man’s benign, polite smile again.

And heard the sentence he always asked:
“How’s business been lately?”

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(P.S.: Second update, now fifth in the monthly ticket list, only a little behind the third place, begging for monthly tickets!)