Rebirth Starting as a Stock Market Enthusiast

Shen Fei: "The breasts and buttocks you mentioned are strong visual stimuli. They might attract attention at first glance, but that's all. There are plenty of perverts online now, and there are tons of streamers who show more skin than you. Why would anyone watch yours? Just open your Douyin and scroll through it; you'll see how many borderline videos are being pushed to you."

"To make a truly good borderline video, you have to stop abruptly after arousing the desires of those perverts."

"Arouses desire, but leaves unsatisfied?"

Qin Ziyi felt as if a door to a new world was opening.

"For example, if a woman is dancing on the beach in a bikini, you watch for three seconds and then leave, because you can guess what will happen next."

If it were a girl wearing a loose white shirt, tiptoeing to reach a book on the bookshelf, her shirt would ride up slightly, revealing a glimpse of her waist. Just as the shirt was getting tighter, she suddenly stopped…

Qin Ziyi's eyes suddenly lit up: "Brother, I know! It's like going to a foot massage. The most nerve-wracking moment is when the masseuse touches your thigh and tells you there's a second floor."

"...That's one way to understand it."

Qin Ziyi left the company with a smug look on his face. So this is how you can play the game of skirting the edge?

Good heavens! He truly lives up to his reputation as my godfather!

Qin Ziyi genuinely wanted to become Shen Fei's godfather. Other companies would rather you work for them for free than give you their core expertise.

You can buy courses online for thousands of dollars, but they're all outdated and don't teach any of the core concepts. They're just passing through the same old stuff.

Shen Fei hadn't originally intended to get involved in something borderline, but the profits were just too high. Even now, Shen Fei didn't want to get involved himself, fearing it would affect his future.

The current focus is on operational aspects rather than simply skirting the edges of the issue. The previous private domain operation methods are no longer very effective in this area, and the customer base is also quite diverse.

However, there is one method that still generates revenue: directing traffic to other domains.

The two simplest methods are: one is to drive traffic to a WeChat official account and use a large number of matrix accounts to harvest traffic on a large scale. Whether it's Google AdSense, CPA, or novel distribution, you can earn thousands or tens of thousands of yuan just by reading a single article.

It's easy to operate and easy to cash out; it's simply too tempting.

Another method involves redirecting users to certain specialized apps, such as those you've never even heard of. After registering and following the "borderline" girls (female celebrities involved in suggestive content), users can subscribe to view their personal updates. For an additional fee, they can even engage in WeChat video chats.

……

Shen Fei had just seen Qin Ziyi off when he sat back down at his computer.

He opened the online forum and clicked on his previous post. In just one day, dozens of replies had appeared below it.

He casually clicked on a few script links.

The first one has a rather intimidating title: "The Overbearing Prince Falls in Love with Me: The Desperate Counterattack of the Abandoned Concubine in the Cold Palace".

Shen Fei glanced at the plot summary: the female lead was framed and banished to the cold palace, where she met an old eunuch who was skilled in both medicine and poison, learned his skills, and returned to the palace five years later to take revenge on her enemies.

"Five years? The opportunity will be lost by then!"

If this were made into a short drama, viewers would probably scroll away before the female lead even finished practicing her skills.

Shen Fei clicked on the second one, which had a classic title: "Special Agent Poisonous Consort: Your Highness, Please Accept the Challenge".

This is a time-travel story. A modern female special agent dies unexpectedly during a mission and her soul transmigrates into the body of a discarded concubine who has been banished to the cold palace.

Using modern martial arts, psychological knowledge, and drug-making skills, she wreaked havoc in the harem, not only avenging herself but also attracting the attention of a domineering prince.

"It's just fighting and killing again, the same old stuff in a new guise."

Shen Fei shook his head. This kind of setting was everywhere in online novels at the time. Although it was exciting, the idea had become stale.

"Sigh, a bunch of old white men, why can't they understand?"

These screenwriters are still stuck in the mindset of writing TV dramas.

A story that wants to explain the cause and effect in every possible way.

In the era of short videos, who has the patience to watch your setup?

……

He patiently continued flipping through the pages and unexpectedly found a rather interesting one.

The title is very simple: "Deep Palace Makeup".

The plot synopsis comes into view: A modern makeup artist transmigrates into the body of a palace maid. With her makeup skills and skincare product making expertise, she makes a name for herself in the harem, attracting the attention of a prince and also arousing the jealousy and suppression of other concubines.

The core of the story is how the female protagonist uses her beauty skills as a weapon in palace intrigue to help the prince ascend to the position of crown prince step by step.

This is a good angle. It utilizes the user's professional skills, and the beauty and makeup theme is very appealing to female viewers.

However, the core of this script is still about vying for favor and depending on men.

All of the female protagonist's efforts are ultimately aimed at helping a man rise to power so that she can become empress.

Although there were some minor issues, they could be fixed and still be used. Shen Fei glanced at the author's ID—"The Sleepless Penman".

He contacted them directly via private message.

"Hello, I am the poster of this post. I have read your script outline. Using modern beauty technology to delve into palace intrigue is a very novel idea."

First, show some courtesy, then use force. This author is clearly female. Let's praise her first and let her feel a little smug.

"However, I feel that the core of the story still leans towards traditional palace intrigue."

"It would be better if the female lead's goal were changed to achieving financial freedom in the harem. She would develop all the concubines in the harem into her own customers, and use methods such as private customization and scarcity marketing to make her business thrive, so that even the emperor and empress dowager would be unable to do without her products."

The other party replied shortly after.

The sleepless writer said, "Boss, I don't quite understand what you mean. If a character doesn't compete for favor or assist the prince, does this script even have a soul? It doesn't hold up logically at all."

Shen Fei looked at the screen, chuckled, and typed rapidly on the keyboard.

"Logic is for historians, and 'satisfaction' is for laborers. Viewers are already tired enough from scrolling through short videos all day; do you really expect them to watch a female lead kneeling and vying for favor on their phones?"

"A modern beauty blogger who travels back in time just to draw an imperial concubine's eyebrows and earn a few taels of silver—even a dog wouldn't look at that kind of stuff. What I want is for him to monopolize the market and reap the benefits."

"Have people in ancient times ever seen sunscreen? Have they ever seen hyaluronic acid? When she masters the means to make all the women in the harem beautiful, what is the emperor but a fart? He'll have to beg the heroine to prolong his mother's life and keep her beautiful."

The author, who never sleeps, writes: "But without a romance, female viewers simply won't watch it. Aren't palace dramas all about generating emotion through tragic love stories?"

"That's outdated. Modern romance is all about having money."

"But... isn't this the popular style right now?"

On the other end of the computer, Su Nai pursed her lips, pushed up her glasses, and fell into a kind of logical dilemma.

She had prepared a whole host of theories about love-hate relationships, but the other person simply overturned her table and told her that technique is innocent, and pleasure is the only justice.

"Forget those artificially sweetened characters. The female lead is independent, clear-headed, and good at making money, making the princes fawn over her like lapdogs, but all she cares about is money. That's the real anti-cliché."

"Remember, what we want is to pollute the past, not to adapt to it. Doesn't make sense? Then let's break the logic with a slap."

After the message was sent, the screenwriter on the other end went completely silent.