I just want to sell products, but you're forcing me to perform talents.

Chapter 414 Qixi Festival, Who to Spend It With?

The production team of "Dream of the Red Chamber" was well-funded, not only because the two major investors, the Sixth Princess and Ye Xian, provided substantial financial support, but also because they received numerous tips and sold a lot of merchandise during the live-streaming of filming.

Therefore, the well-funded "Dream of the Red Chamber" production team collaborated with Tuku.com and spent a lot of money to place various GG (Ghostly) ads on Kuaiyin (a Chinese music streaming platform).

In the new era, the marketing of film and television dramas has changed significantly. Although they may still appear on some popular variety shows or participate in some program roadshows, the battleground has begun to shift to Kuaishou (a Chinese short video platform).

At almost the same time, many influential figures on Kuaishou received promotional invitations from the "Dream of the Red Chamber" production team, with GG fees ranging from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of yuan depending on their level of influence.

These influential figures represent fans of different age groups. In Ye Xian's words, this drama is not entirely suitable for young people; those over 30 might find it more relatable.

This is why Ye Xian, despite having over 7000 million followers, didn't limit himself to promoting things on his own account.

In addition to inviting external influencers to help promote the product, the lead actors Ye Xian, Jiang Tian, ​​Liu Xiaoxiao, Li Xin, Duan Fei, Chen Xu, and Li Hong, along with the five female singers, all joined forces. Industry friends such as Ding Ding, Jiang Wei, Tang Feng, Huang Xiang, and Director Ding also spoke out to promote it. Artists from Datang Entertainment, Baixiang Entertainment, and Tianmu Pictures, whom Ye Xian had previously invited during his "Fireside Chat" event, also lent their support.

The result of spending a lot of money is that in the past few days, anyone who uses Kuaishou (a Chinese short video platform) knows that a new TV series called "Dream of the Red Chamber" is about to be released.

Many people who were unaware of the drama before were attracted by the beautiful makeup and styling, the excellent acting, and the poignant background music in the theme song promotional video.

The hashtag #DreamoftheRedChamber was released on August 25th, and the number of views for the topic surged to 5 billion in a very short time.

The already highly anticipated TV series "Dream of the Red Chamber" has now exploded in popularity.

This is the immense power of Kuaiyin as the leading short video platform.

The executives at TuKoo.com, who had initially considered taking a gamble, were overjoyed when they saw the number of new users increasing daily in the backend.

……

8 month 21 day.

Ye Xian was live streaming as usual when the comments in the live stream suddenly took a turn.

[Nothing's more popular than Aunt Flo: Hey bro, tomorrow's Qixi Festival, have you decided who you'll be spending it with?]

[The Casual Ghost: Hahaha, this is a death trap! I bet Brother Xian hasn't thought of it yet!]

[Kindergarten Turtle: Xian-ge is such a straight man, how is he supposed to answer? Say he spent it with Qiu-qing? What about the others? Say he spent it with other people? What about Qiu-qing? Come on, all you CP fans, place your bets! I bet Xian-ge will pretend to have deliberately forgotten about this holiday!]

[The silly little fairy: Hmph, I bet it'll definitely be spent with Princess Six...! Because Princess Six still has a trump card up her sleeve! That's the one from the last charity auction, where Brother Xian had to be at Princess Six's beck and call for a day unconditionally! If it were me, I would definitely use it on that day.]

……

Seeing the comments in the live stream start to go off-topic, Ye Xian, who was chatting with everyone, suddenly realized that tomorrow was Valentine's Day!

Oh no, I was careless!

I was so busy, I completely forgot!

Ye Xian glanced guiltily at Qiu Qing, who was standing not far away from the camera. Seeing her looking at her phone nonchalantly, he suddenly had an idea.

"Everyone mentioned that tomorrow is Valentine's Day. Have you all prepared what gifts to buy for your loved ones? Come on, type them in the chat and show them off! Let me see what amazing ideas you have so I can copy them!"

Throw the question to the fans and let them help you figure it out.

I'm such a clever little guy!

[Pure Natural Green Underachiever: Holy crap, shameless! Brother Xian, if you weren't prepared, just say so! How could you so shamelessly and openly plagiarize everyone's ideas, and even say it so confidently?]

[All the good names have been chosen by dogs: I've prepared movie tickets, a candlelight dinner, and a hotel for my girlfriend—the whole package. Waiting for her return.]

[Masked Hero in the Cornfield: Buy flowers in the morning, condoms in the evening, emergency medicine the next day; after 3 months, the maternity hospital starts to get busy; after 10 months, bottles and diapers are piling up. Upstairs, if you're not planning to buy DuPont, then you can just wait to become a dad on May Day!]

[Juicer Girl: You've all been led astray! Didn't you see that Brother Xian, the sixth brother, successfully changed the subject? He still hasn't answered who he spent Qixi Festival with.]

……

Qiu Qing, who was watching the live stream, remained expressionless, but her slender fingers had turned white from gripping the screen too tightly.

That scoundrel hasn't made a move yet, has he forgotten about it?

Or is it that he still hasn't decided who to spend his life with?

Also watching the screen was the Sixth Princess, far away in the capital.

Seeing Ye Xian ask the viewers in the live stream how they would spend Qixi Festival, she couldn't help but snort. She casually picked up a cup of Forest Rose Fruit tea. Lately, for some reason, she liked to drink sour and sweet drinks.

Looking at her lower abdomen, Li Yunxi wondered if she had gained a little weight. She couldn't help but stand up and walk to the body fat scale to weigh herself: "Hmm, still so thin. It's just an illusion, all an illusion! I'll drink a few more sips."

Back on the sofa, I continued watching Ye Xian act silly in the live stream.

……

Ye Xian asked all sorts of questions in the live stream, looking around but couldn't come up with any really good ideas. All he could think of were going to the movies or booking hotel rooms. Couldn't they come up with something better?

Shaking his head in disappointment, Ye Xian prepared for his routine live stream chat.

The first person to be connected was a young man. When he saw that he had successfully connected, he was overjoyed and shouted excitedly.

"Please introduce yourself."

As is customary, many late-night food delivery riders know what to do. After excitedly shouting a few times, the young man enthusiastically introduced himself: "Hi everyone, my name is Deng Li, I'm a delivery rider, and I'm currently waiting for an order. I never expected to be connected with Brother Xian on a live stream!"

"Won't this interfere with your order taking?" Ye Xian asked.

"No, no!"

Deng Li shook his head and said with a laugh, "It's ten o'clock now, so there aren't many orders. But in a little while, there will be a surge in orders, so it won't affect anything."

"Oh? Why do you say that?"

Ye Xian couldn't help but ask.

Deng Li explained, "Right now, the dinner rush has just ended, and the late-night snack rush hasn't started yet. Around 10:30 or 11:00, the late-night snack rush, the medicine rush, and some people working the night shift will place orders, as will some people who have just finished get off work. Of course, there will also be a lot of hotel room orders. These orders come from all sorts of people. So there will be a peak around midnight, after which people can go home after get off work."

"I've learned something new! But you must be working really hard, staying up so late at night and then having to rush to the breakfast rush early in the morning. Take care of yourself!" Ye Xian said with emotion.

"Haha, we're used to it, thanks, Brother Xian! Besides, didn't you say, Brother Xian, 'Making money is like eating shit, spending money is like having diarrhea'? Compared to that, we just work harder to make money. We don't have all the back and forth in the office. We have no choice but to do this because we didn't study hard enough. When we can't keep going anymore, there'll be no other way."

Ye Xian nodded and said, "Then you should be careful in your daily life. Okay, that's enough chatting. Have you decided what song you want to sing?"

Deng Li's excitement had worn off. After thinking for a moment, he smiled and said, "Tomorrow is Valentine's Day, and I want to sing 'The First Time' for my girlfriend."

Ye Xian was speechless. "You guys are really not going to celebrate Valentine's Day, are you?"

……

P.S.: Today's Recap

Haizhou aged liquor inventory: 4663 bottles

(End of this chapter)