This celebrity became even more popular after being exposed of having multiple girlfriends-Chapter 353 - 291 Scandal

"No way, hold on!"

The official product was priced at 8,800, but only sold about 500 units, while Wu Mu marked it up by over 20,000—blatantly scalping—and sold over 1,400 units!?

Is that even reasonable!?

Upon pulling out his phone and seeing the sales figures on Wu Mu’s store page, Wang Xing could only show astonishment on his face.

This is just too strange!

Why would their official store, the one with the original prices, be outperformed by a third-party store like Wu Mu’s that marked up the prices by more than 20,000?

Is his name really worth that much?

Wang Xing had never even considered the possibility that the goods Wu Mu marked up for resale could sell so well.

After all, no matter how you looked at it, the whole operation seemed pretty abstract.

But... does everyone really accept it like this?

Is Wu Mu’s ability to drive sales that strong?

One thousand four hundred twenty-one units, priced at 30,000 each; that’s... over 42 million in sales!

How easy the money was made...

Wang Xing thought absurdly.

...

News of Wu Mu making over 40 million in two days of sales quickly fermented online.

Without a doubt, this immediately triggered a series of chain reactions.

For instance, a bunch of companies contacted Wu Mu right away, wanting to collaborate on co-branded products or even directly paying a slot fee for Wu Mu to help sell their products through live streams.

However, all these requests were naturally rejected by Wu Mu.

Do you really think I have that selling power?

Wu Mu muttered to himself.

He was well aware that without the Performance Card, his selling ability wouldn’t have much of an edge, at least not more than stars with bigger fame and better reputations like Mo Mo.

Let alone earning 40 million in two days.

After all, it was the Performance Card that was being cashed in.

But the Performance Card had one flaw: he had no control over when the cash-in would complete.

From the crazy sales in his backend for two days followed by a rapid stagnation, Wu Mu could see that the system probably had reached most of the people who were in demand and easily influenced.

After all, the operation of marking up the price and then releasing the official original link would have some impact on the performance cash-in.

In this country, there are people who wouldn’t mind an extra 30,000, not just a few thousand, probably even hundreds of thousands.

But those who wouldn’t mind the extra cost, and still respond to the system’s influence, would suddenly find their range much narrowed.

"Is Atong going to slowly drag out the time to cash in, or create demand to do so?"

Wu Mu was curious.

Having used the Performance Card a lot, he could already summarize some of the system’s performance cash-in patterns.

Firstly, use big data to push performance to those who are willing to buy with just a little influence.

If the performance project itself is attractive enough, there will be a lot of these people, and the cash-in could be completed directly.

But if the project itself isn’t that appealing, such as when it involves some outrageous strategies like his, then they start ramping up the intensity, secretly heating up the market, guiding and creating demand.

Or they might simply take their time to grind it out over time, like that album that took almost half a year to cash in at the beginning.

Wu Mu quickly found out which method Tongzi was using.

Not long after he finished his vacation and returned to filming, the news exploded online about a multi-national military exercise where the Star Tree Mechanical Dog had shined.

Though the Star Tree Mechanical Dog is still basic, it’s cheap and easy to operate!

Just like drones that can’t compare in quality to real large-scale military unmanned vehicles.

But it’s the ease of operation and the low cost that make the difference!

Strap on a few guns, add a firing mechanism, and if ten mechanical dogs can take down an enemy at no cost, it’s already a win.

There’s definitely a potential to become a major killer weapon like drones.

After this news broke out, especially after official channels like the People Daily, Xinhua Society, and the foreign ministry spokesperson praised it in their reports, the topic of the Star Tree Mechanical Dog, which had been hot for several days because of Wu Mu, exploded even more.

Though these reports would definitely not mention a scalping, price-gouging star like Wu Mu, netizens who had broken the Star Tree official store’s stock couldn’t help but turn their attention to Wu Mu’s store.

Hey, there’s a store here selling it for 30,000?

While it seems a bit expensive, it appears to be a rarer co-branded limited edition?

Buy it, buy it!

...

Nangang City.

Huang Yunxia, the deputy mayor in charge of culture and tourism, returned home somewhat exhausted.

Although the title sounded prestigious—a city’s deputy mayor—

for a peripheral deputy mayor like her who handled tertiary industry in a small city and couldn’t even enter the standing committee, her actual power was not as big as imagined.

On the contrary, she had quite a few worries to manage regularly.

For example, at a recent municipal meeting, it was expressly pointed out that her work had been unsatisfactory, stating that Nangang’s cultural and tourism development could be said to have made no progress over several years.

At a time when the country was strongly advocating to develop the tertiary industry and reduce the proportions of the primary and secondary industries, this was a serious act of defiance against central government policy.

To talk about developing the tertiary industry - how could a place like Nangang, which lacked any renowned tourism resources, find it easy to develop?

Huang Yunxia shook her head and then, upon reaching home, saw her daughter—who had returned from studying overseas, didn’t go out to find a job, and lived at home freeloading—fiddling with a very sci-fi-looking mechanical dog.

Her brows immediately furrowed. "What is this? Where did it come from?"

Her neet daughter, already accustomed to her mother’s style, continued to operate the mechanical dog with its wobbles and bows, and greeted her as if offering New Year’s salutations, "I bought it, cost me over 30,000, haha, Mom, look how fun this thing is."