In order to live in seclusion, I tricked my roommate into falling in love

Chapter 643: Combining Work and Rest to Balance Hardness and Softness

Originally, it was Zi Xiaowei who suggested in the morning to visit the famous Peter the Great's Summer Palace in the suburbs, where there is a fountain garden known as the Versailles of Rome, which is also one of the super classics of overseas gardening.

As a result, the energetic Alpova has already made an appointment with Mr. Mai and the photography crew to shoot an advertising video, while Dai Anni is not giving up and has made an appointment with those beauties to shoot some car videos and underwear commercials as well, so they're done together.

Li Xiang, who had been thinking hard all night, met Zi Xiaowei in the hotel restaurant yawning and set off with him.

On the way, Zi Xiaowei bluntly said, "Perhaps your original intention was to sell models priced at 400,000 or 500,000 yuan so that you could occupy the luxury car market. This is indeed the most profitable segment, and you can replace the BBA segment, which has a lot of specs but is still the same. However, this also makes your car an expensive item that only a few people can enjoy. The vast majority of ordinary people really can't afford it. It's already impressive that you can sell over 10,000 yuan a month, but this false prosperity will collapse as soon as the bubble is popped!"

The tiredness on Li Xiang's face disappeared.

As an Internet prodigy and corporate boss for more than 20 years, it is rare to hear anyone being so rude about his hard work.

If he hadn't dealt with the bear anchor many times before, he would have retaliated with a rage.

Now raise your hand to signal, you continue.

Zi Xiaowei wasn't exaggerating. From the very beginning, he never considered Li Xiang, the best-selling new force, as a competitor: "Li Xiang's strong sales rely on your ability to capture product perception, just like I followed your lead in catering to users with Totoro to the extreme. But for users who buy cars priced in the tens of thousands, having a car is enough for transportation. Cars priced in the hundreds of thousands need to be reliable and durable, cars priced over 200,000 need to have quality, and cars priced in the 300,000, 400,000, or 500,000 yuan need to have added value, premium, and social features. So, you were the first to advocate for making beds for sleeping in cars while driving. You have to constantly find gimmicks to satisfy the psychology of users in this price range. Our fake technology with stacked configurations will be beaten when it encounters the real technology content of leading brands. Although they are not mature enough now, your moat of 400,000 or 500,000 yuan will quickly collapse, while Totoro will not because of its huge scale."

The Summer Palace is 40 kilometers outside of St. Petersburg. It is covered with snow everywhere and I don’t know what kind of gardens and gardening there are.

But now that they were here, Zi Xiaowei still wouldn't let them go. "We can already see that from Kazakhstan and Russia. I even suggest you go to Europe and the United States to investigate. Even if 400,000 or 500,000 plus tariffs are luxury cars in developed countries, luxury car consumption in European countries is declining now, let alone these developing countries. If you decided to go the luxury car route from the beginning, you were doomed to be a niche car. Even if you cunningly chose the 400,000 yuan price point and could force many pseudo-middle-class people who are trying to save face into it, you can't quickly reach hundreds of thousands or even millions of users. Look at all the luxury brands that haven't been acquired by large manufacturers. At times like this, you should adjust your scale thinking. How did you do it?"

It's like a teacher reviewing a situation with a useless student: "You chose to expand into overseas markets, but in reality, you're still thinking of selling at a high price, right? Even in Kazakhstan and Russia, you find that there are not many people who can afford luxury cars, so you're going to the Middle East where the rich are everywhere. Brother, how many rich people are there? The UAE seems to have 10 million people, but in fact 90% are poor migrant workers serving the locals. Of the one million locals, how many are rich? I haven't been there, but I've heard about Dubai's fake prosperity. This is similar to the quality of new city construction in China. Those who brag about the rich everywhere online are just trying to attract more people to play the game of passing the parcel. You should understand this principle better than me, right?"

At this point, he couldn't help but quote Brother Qiang's case: "When he got into that situation, you should have known that he was being hunted. Look at what he did... I'm going to use what he said thirty years ago: How can you be so fragile!"

Li Xiang was stunned. He achieved financial freedom by becoming famous at the age of 20, became a billionaire at the age of 30, and had two companies listed on the US stock market at the age of 40.

Being looked down upon by such a twenty-something internet celebrity, it took him several seconds to speak: "You! You..."

Zi Xiaowei was simply used to the teacher's tone. "You're more successful than me. I may not have your wealth, career, or status in the future, but what I excel at is observing each student and seeing if I can find a suitable method to become a top student. You, the super top student, are becoming more and more timid. Judging from the way you're coping, your path is getting narrower and narrower. You're just a coward. You've already admitted defeat. You can't make money anymore and want to escape overseas. Overseas, people only want to make money from the rich and don't dare to confront the tough market. It's useless for you to argue with me. Ask yourself if this is your mentality."

Sometimes teachers need to point out the key points and let students reflect on them.

Zi Xiaowei has been researching and studying various car companies over and over again in the past two years. Just look at Totoro and you will know that Li Xiang is the academic master he has studied the most.

Why did they do this? What were they thinking at the time? Is there a better solution?

These are all details that he would think about subconsciously.

As a forum user who has been following Li Xiang's industry since the car website, I have known about it for more than ten years.

Even Lao Chang's industry was only begun to be deeply understood by Zi Xiaowei this year, and Zi Xiaowei was unable to form any psychological perception of Li Xiang's journey from the enterprise to the founder.

So when Li Xiang first expressed his yin and yang views on Weibo, Zi Xiaowei was able to grasp the key points and fight back without hesitation!
He just knew what Li Xiang's temper was like and how he would react.

After interacting with each other several times, we got to know each other better.

Silence fell in the carriage.

Zi Xiaowei commented on everything he saw: "I've risen to prominence this year by seizing the opportunities of new energy vehicles and live streaming. Back then, you also seized the opportunity of computer hardware, and it seemed like you took off in just one or two years. Look, Russia is really rough and broke. Even the road to such a famous attraction as the Summer Palace is just so-so. I learned from your car website that in Japan and developed European countries, there are arrow signs on the roadside in winter to prevent the road from being obscured by heavy snow. It's okay that they don't have them in the countryside, but places like St. Petersburg don't either. So I'm really not optimistic about this market. Selling here is just to serve as a springboard for European and American consumers."

That's the teacher's mentality. No matter how impressive the parents are, they'll treat them all the same. Li Xiang probably hasn't had anyone talk to him this way in years. Even if he met a big shot, they wouldn't talk to him like that.

Watching quietly, we arrived at the famous scenic spot along the deserted inter-district road. Arpova had already jumped down and was trying to strike a pose, discussing with Maizi what to take in the snow in front of the palace.

The boss then spoke: "So what do you think we should do now?"

Zi Xiaowei still had the same idea: "Copy the top student. You want to go high-end, that's fine, but the scale is bound to be small, and you will run the risk of being acquired or defeated. So look at the successful high-end cases. Volkswagen, BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Toyota, they all sell a large number of mid- and low-end models to maintain their high-end series to lead the technological trend. You said you want to make a small SUV, but it's actually a disguised price reduction to expand the scale. I think it's a good idea. Of course, the experience of these top students is with fuel vehicles. Can new energy vehicles be played in this way? We need to try it, but at least it is a direction."

Li Xiang sighed deeply: "I think so too, but if the profit margin decreases, the capital market won't react very well."

Zi Xiaowei shrugged. "That's your own business. Brother Qiang has approached me several times, hoping to get me involved in capital operations. We internet celebrities have a relatively ample cash flow, and we're naturally wary of capital. Most importantly, I'm not particularly interested in making money. I'm more interested in what I can do through this wave of influence. For example, I'm more interested in cultural tourism projects and gardening than in selling cars."

Diane finally found an MPV displayed at the 4S store of Changjiang Automobile here, and filled the car with beauties!
Following her down was like the seven fairies descending to earth. The child's mother even deliberately turned her head to look at Zi Xiaowei.

As a result, the guy who got off the car didn't even bother to look at the volleyball girl in the palace square who started to take off her skirt, and rushed directly into the royal garden.

Li Xiang was completely baffled. "You said you don't like this, right? Your girlfriends... I think these are really pretty. Are they being controlled?"

Zi Xiaowei looked down helplessly at the homebody boss. "It seems you haven't picked up enough girls. Being pretty doesn't necessarily mean having a good personality. It's even more likely that their appearance and personality are in stark contrast. If you've ever been a teacher, you'll know that good students who are both pretty and studious are rare. These ones are obviously spoiled and do whatever they want by relying on their beauty. Stay away from them."

The boss of a car company who started out by doing hardware reviews and then started a car website was stunned.

His company is so big, and he must have seen many beautiful women in Pingjing. I didn't expect this guy to have such a unique perspective.

But there's really nothing to see right now.

This garden, famous for its fountains, is completely frozen in winter.

The flower beds, trees, and shrubbery that were vibrantly colored in spring and summer were now gray and covered in knee-deep snow.

Even tourists are few and far between.

But Zi Xiaowei was still very interested in watching, and he looked at everything from the palace buildings to the distribution of fountains and pools, to the varieties and pruning of garden plants, and took photos from time to time.

Li Xiang, who must have been extremely anxious in the past few months, suddenly felt a little envious following beside him.

It seems like since he became famous at a young age, he has been rushing around all the time, and has never slowed down and wandered around so leisurely.

Lian Zi Xiaowei and his friends went on a road trip a few days ago, and he met with various people in Mocos.

The key point is that as the morning hours progressed, the market outside had already started to run at full speed like a ignited diesel engine.

After a whole night of fermentation, various Internet celebrities began to go to the nearby Changjiang Automobile Sales Stores to test drive and film. Those Internet celebrities who got the cars began to spare no effort to introduce the features of the models and their own experience of using them.

It feels like Zi Xiaowei is now strolling in the garden with his hands behind his back, increasing sales.

The brokers who had been watching his movements became even more excited to catch this big fish.

(End of this chapter)