Mythical Scroll Artist: Starting with the God of Wealth, Zhao Gongming

Chapter 201 The Perfect Money-Making Strategy
After leaving the Underworld Club, Wu Xian pondered for a while and decided to visit his high school.

Today, he is a "distinguished alumnus" of his alma mater.

After exchanging pleasantries and negotiating with the principal, I looked through the art exam results of the younger students and prepared to select a few to be my apprentices.

Being able to serve him as an apprentice is an opportunity you couldn't find even with a lantern.

If Wu Xian hadn't only accepted students, the principal and teachers would have knelt down and become his disciples on the spot.

"Hmm~ This painting is pretty good, it has a good idea."

"This one is alright too. Although it lacks its own style and ideas, the whole painting is very neat and standard in every aspect!"

The former undoubtedly possesses some talent as a scroll painter; his paintings are imaginative and full of his own ideas.

The latter, undoubtedly a chosen apprentice in the OEM industry, excels in every aspect, adhering strictly to standards, even more so than some of the examples in textbooks.

"These are the two I'll take. I'll trouble Principal Xu to help me make some arrangements," Wu Xian said politely.

"Master Wu, you're too kind. Don't worry, I'll go and talk to their parents myself right away."

……

Back to the small villa in the North Block.

Seeing the ever-increasing number of orders on the club's official website, I felt so worried.

He quickly devised a set of standards for petitions that would be beyond the reach of ordinary people, and prepared to publish them in his column.

"No, no, this doesn't align with my original intention."

Born into a poor family, he knows the hardships of life, and as a representative of the God of Wealth, he also believes in making money ethically.

Ideally, one should not only earn money for oneself but also help more people earn money, thus bridging the class gap.

Setting such high standards for gold notes makes them unattainable for ordinary people, and difficult for them to afford.

Moreover, the best users of the Gold Scroll are carefully selected individuals who are destined to receive it, so that it can bring them more and better insights and power.

Setting such a high standard undoubtedly narrows the target audience, while only by expanding the target audience can we find high-quality, compatible users.

This undoubtedly becomes a self-contradictory problem.

"Isn't there a way to make money, expand the audience, benefit society, and give more people the opportunity to use high-quality picture scrolls?"

I immediately consulted my mentor, Xue Lingling.

Currently, the most primitive and rudimentary method used by scroll painters in this regard is: going with the flow.

In fact, this method is sufficient for most scroll painters, since other scroll painters only have a few scroll painting ideas in their entire lives, and the number of gold scrolls they have can be counted on one hand.

There's nothing wrong with what they're doing, but Wu Xian is different.

Any idea for a picture scroll has the potential to become a masterpiece, and countless high-quality picture scrolls will be produced in the future.

With so many high-quality illustrated scrolls, it's simply unrealistic to expect to find the right person just by randomly selecting one.

Therefore, he had to find a suitable solution.

"Golden scroll? Petition?"

While pondering, Wu Xian had a flash of inspiration.

“Yes, this method works!” Wu Xian became more and more excited as he thought about it. “Moreover, with the God of Wealth’s wealth working in the system, it should be feasible in theory.”

After a night of deliberation and refinement, Wu Xian went to the club early in the morning.

I greeted the members along the way and excitedly arrived at the club's network department.

As the department responsible for the daily maintenance and operation of the official website, the staff members have a relatively relaxed schedule.

The arrival of Vice President Wu Xian almost scared the colleagues in the network department to death.

"Vice President, what brings you here?"

The department head seemed to be Du Yifan's uncle, a veteran programmer. "Manager Du, I have an idea I'd like to discuss with you, see if you can help me out beforehand," Wu Xian said enthusiastically.

Manager Du was flattered. "If you have any ideas, you can just have someone notify me directly. Why did you have to come in person?"

“No, this is very important.” Wu Xian said with a serious expression.

Upon hearing this, Supervisor Du and several technical experts in the department sat up straight.

"Well, I'm not satisfied with the way the club's official website sells the scrolls right now," Wu Xian said after a moment of contemplation. "After thinking hard for a long time, I've come up with a great idea that can both motivate consumers and control sales to some extent."

Upon hearing this, Supervisor Du and the others exchanged bewildered glances and awkwardly asked, "Is there really such a miraculous method?"

At least in their view, the request for a vice president was a bit of a pipe dream.

"Have you ever tried blind boxes?" Wu Xian asked with a smile.

"Blind boxes?" A tech guru looked puzzled. "Isn't that something for kids and young people? What does that have to do with our scroll sales?"

Manager Du pondered, "You mean, sell the scrolls in the form of blind boxes? Is that... feasible?"

"Hehe, of course it's not that simple, and there will be all sorts of troubles in implementing it." Wu Xian's lips curled into a wicked smile. "My idea is to completely abandon the current ordering model and adopt a blind box lottery model, but instead of directly selling the scrolls themselves, we sell the qualification to order the scrolls, or rather, the vouchers for the scrolls."

"Huh?" Manager Du and his group were completely confused.

Wu Xian stopped being mysterious and began to explain his idea: "Simply put, I'll create a gacha game on the official website, turn my current scrolls into character illustrations, and make them as exquisite as possible. People can pay to draw these illustrations, and once they draw the corresponding illustration, they can exchange it for scrolls of the corresponding grade and level."

"I think I understand a little bit now." Manager Du's eyes flickered. "But are there really people willing to spend money to get these virtual character illustrations?"

Wu Xian smiled slightly, "What if I can draw a gold scroll illustration?"

"Huh?" Manager Du was both surprised and suspicious. "You want to put the gold ticket eligibility into the prize pool as well?"

“That’s right, just like the lottery. As long as there’s a big prize as an incentive, people will naturally buy it.” Wu Xian said enthusiastically. “Of course, the probability of winning a gold voucher should be as low as possible. While relying on luck, we also need to establish a safety net mechanism.”

For example, you are guaranteed to get a bronze axis scroll after 10 draws, and a silver axis scroll after 50 draws.

For the Gold Scroll, you need at least 100 pulls to guarantee a pity draw, and you can only get one special Gold Scroll ticket. You have to rely on luck in the Gold Scroll gacha pool without a pity draw, and in the end you can only get the qualification to petition me for the corresponding Gold Scroll. You need to prepare the materials yourself.

Of course, the pity system is just to reduce the losses for wealthy players. The main point is that if someone is lucky enough to get their desired item on the first try, or even draw their favorite scroll in one go.

"This, this, this..."

Manager Du and the technical experts looked at each other, swallowing hard.

There's no way around it, this plan is too ingenious and too mature; from a sales and operations perspective, it's a genius-level idea.

Of course, this is only what they can understand.

The real key lies in the mysterious operation of the God of Wealth's wealth power. The more affinity a lottery player has with a certain scroll, the higher the probability of drawing the corresponding scroll illustration certificate. This helps the scroll select suitable user followers, and at the same time, it helps select excellent "enlightenment energy" providers.

To put it simply, as long as you have a connection with the scroll painting, even if you don't have much money, you may still be able to obtain a high-quality scroll painting from Master Wu Xian.

Even if the rich guys are incredibly wealthy, if they don't have the right connections, they can only spend a lot of money to secure a minimum return, thus inadvertently paying the price for the unlucky but poor guys.

It can also optimize wealth distribution to some extent.

To be honest, when he came up with this idea, he thought he was quite the clever little devil.

"How's it going? Can you get it done?" Wu Xian asked.

"Yes...of course, the vice president has already come up with a very comprehensive plan," Manager Du said, unable to hide his excitement. "But what would be a reasonable price for the lottery? And what are the odds of winning bronze, silver, and gold prizes?"

"How about 160 spirit crystals for one draw?"

"Huh? Nearly 50,000 per draw, isn't that too expensive?"

"Not expensive at all. With good luck, you can own your favorite copper scroll painting for 480,000. That's a great deal, isn't it?"

Manager Du scratched his head and said, "But what if it's not the result you want? We can solve that technically, for example, by letting users select a desired result before the lottery."

“No need, I have my own way.” Wu Xian smiled mysteriously. “You just need to help me set a basic and reasonable probability. As for the metaphysical probability, I will use other methods to control it.”

(End of this chapter)