Campus Ace Girl-Chapter 553 - 554 Crying! She is Using Me to Boost Sales
Manager Ma cautiously asked their respected Little Gu, "Are we going to release the new products right away? Don’t we have 6 million units in stock?"
Gu Anxi looked at him. "If we release it now, it won’t sell. The discussion volume today isn’t enough to sustain 6 million units."
Manager Ma inquired anxiously, "Then when will we release them?"
"On the Qixi Festival!" Gu Anxi said with a light smile. "We’ll make a gift set with one sleeping oil and two regular oils—a VIP exclusive. We’ll also include a little bunny in the set."
She thought for a moment. "The theme will be a holiday gift for all girls."
A cute little bunny; from teenage girls to women in their forties, no one would dislike it.
And in another week, the anxiety stirred up by ’Pain of Youth’ will have peaked. That’s when demand will be at its highest. These one million units are just to test the waters and build word-of-mouth.
Manager Ma slapped his thigh. "Brilliant!"
Gu Anxi glanced at him and snorted lightly. "The rest of the planning is up to you. You need to boost the sales figures for the autumn essential oils and whatever you have for winter. Or else..."
Managers Ma and Wang spoke in unison, "Or else we’ll be on cleaning duty! But rest assured, we won’t let Little Gu down."
Gu Anxi was very satisfied. "Alright, that’s all for the meeting. Let’s go! We have a team-building dinner. Secretary Tang booked the best restaurant."
Everyone cheered. Working with Little Gu might be demanding, but the rewards were undeniable. Their funds this month had increased threefold. Not by thirty percent, but a full three times.
Take Manager Ma, for example; his income increased by several hundred thousand this month, and even ordinary employees earned an extra ten or twenty thousand. Who wouldn’t be willing to be on duty or work hard?
「That evening」
The Cloud He Group’s team-building event was very joyful.
But when some are happy, others are not.
Gu Mingzhu sat in her study, unable to comprehend why Gu Anxi always managed to unexpectedly steal her spotlight. It wasn’t that her youth film was no longer popular; it was that Gu Anxi was shamelessly using her film for marketing, which was truly despicable.
One million units sold out instantly... That’s... an explosive figure in the business world.
She had thought the Cloud He Group would release more stock, but they hadn’t. Not a single unit was left on the market, and still, the Cloud He Group didn’t release more...
What on earth is Gu Anxi plotting now?
Tang Yuan, sitting beside her, comforted, "Mingzhu, isn’t this a good thing? If she went online again and broke the record, wouldn’t that be too arrogant of her?"
Gu Mingzhu was incredibly calm at this moment. She thought for a long time before saying softly, "Mom, it’s not like that."
Then, a sharp pain pierced Gu Mingzhu’s heart, and her voice choked with tears. "She’s too wicked! She’s just using our ’Pain of Youth’ to generate hype for herself. As long as the topic of anxiety is discussed more, her advertisements keep playing, and she won’t have to worry about sales. Plus, right now there isn’t a single unit on the market—she’s blatantly using hunger marketing!"
Tang Yuan listened, stunned. After a long pause, she said, "She can’t be that capable, can she?"
Gu Mingzhu spoke quickly and urgently, "She planned it all along, choosing to release her ads on the very day of my movie premiere! Furthermore, the advertisement’s theme directly mirrors my movie’s theme. Mom, she’s too malicious! Now, promoting my movie is essentially driving sales for her. The higher the box office for ’Pain of Youth’, the better her perfume sells!"
Gritting her teeth, she said bitterly, "I have never seen such a despicable and shameless person. She is truly... utterly rotten."
Tang Yuan still hadn’t fully processed it, mumbling, "She can’t be that formidable, can she? How... wicked would someone have to be to come up with such a scheme?"
Gu Mingzhu was furious. No matter how well her movie was selling now, she no longer felt that happy.
All the glory, it seemed, had to be shared with Gu Anxi.
While she fumed, Gu Anxi’s side was having an incredibly fun time at their team-building event. They were at a water park in the evening, armed with water guns. The Cloud He Group employees on duty felt both a sense of triumph and genuine happiness.
Following Little Gu, it seemed that besides higher income and fulfilling days, they were also genuinely happy.
Gu Anxi played so wildly with the water guns that she fell ill that night. She lay there, weak and listless like a little bunny, reaching out to her uncle and calling, "Uncle, I need a bottle of perfume right now."
Bo Xichen was caught between amusement and exasperation. What kind of child is she?
The Bo family rarely interfered with the affairs of the Cloud He Group, leaving everything to Gu Anxi’s discretion.
Occasionally, he would ask a few questions, but Managers Ma and Wang had become Anxi’s loyal followers, and he couldn’t get any useful information out of them. Eventually, he stopped asking.
Tonight, she had said she needed to work overtime and mentioned a new product launch, but he hadn’t paid much attention. Little did he know she would give everyone such a huge surprise overnight.
One million units, sold out in an instant.
It broke all existing records.
Many people outside envied the Bo family, saying they had found a business prodigy. To Bo Xichen, however, she was just a little mischievous imp. Others might think she was striving to boost sales and elevate the Cloud He Group, but he saw through her at a glance: she simply enjoyed watching Gu Mingzhu stomp her feet and cry.
Although it’s a bit childish, it’s utterly adorable.
Uncle Bo sat beside her, his warm palm resting on her small head. After a moment, he whispered, "You have a bit of a fever."
The little girl snuggled closer, pressing her small face into his chest. "Just hold me, and I’ll be fine. I don’t want to take medicine."
He felt helpless. "You have to take medicine when you’re sick."
The little girl shook her head and closed her eyes. "Sing me to sleep. I’ll be fine by tomorrow if I sleep."
She was being willful, but Bo Xichen wouldn’t let her have her way entirely. He got up, poured a glass of water, fetched the medicine, and tried to give it to her.
She refused. "The medicine is bitter."
He was at his wit’s end with her pestering. He leaned down and murmured softly, "Baby, then how will you agree to take it?"
She wrapped her arms around his waist and said in a small voice, "Well, everyone praised me today, but Uncle, you haven’t given me my reward yet."
He froze for a moment, then his voice was raspy as he said, "You’re sick."
"Then I’ll take the medicine obediently, and I’ll be all better by tomorrow morning... I want a double reward." She clung to him. "You haven’t rewarded me recently at all."
Bo Xichen felt his heart was about to pound out of his chest, and a wave of heat washed over him. Who could possibly resist her when she acted so spoiled? Nevertheless, he patiently coaxed her and made various promises...
She’s truly... lethal these days.
And she even had the audacity to complain first! It was clearly her who had been busy all day with this and that, having no time for him, yet she turned around and said he wasn’t rewarding her...
Naughty child! Once she’s recovered from her illness, he’ll definitely have to teach her a proper lesson!
Uncle Bo was a man of his word. The next day, that little bunny was droopy and listless, her spirits even lower than when she had been sick the previous day.
Professor Bo, however, looked radiant and energetic. While adjusting his tie, he said, "I’m heading to the hospital. You don’t need to go to the company this morning. Your elder brother called just now. He wants you to have lunch with him; he has a friend who’d like to meet you."
