Chapter 256 - 166: Separate Households
Chapter 256: Chapter 166: Separate Households
Thank goodness.
Gao Yuan had nerves of steel.
Though his heart was pounding, his hand only trembled slightly. He glanced up at Lin Wanyu and saw her staring at the TV, then breathed a sigh of relief.
He slowly stood up. ’I can’t panic now,’ he thought, answering the voice call as if nothing was wrong.
The call was from Xiao Xiao.
It was no wonder Gao Yuan was so nervous; the contact name he’d saved for Xiao Xiao was far too bold.
Originally, Gao Yuan had saved Xiao Xiao’s name as "Landlady." He’d found it too troublesome to change it later. But the last time they’d shared an intimate moment in Shanghai, Gao Yuan was lying in bed, playing on his phone.
Xiao Xiao had suddenly wanted to see what he had saved her as. When she saw "Landlady," she was instantly unhappy.
What was this "Landlady" nonsense?
The name was just so cold and impersonal.
To appease Xiao Xiao, Gao Yuan had changed the contact name to "Wife" right in front of her.
The moment he’d picked up his phone just now, he had been genuinely terrified Lin Wanyu would see. He wasn’t afraid of her finding out he had other women, but if Lin Wanyu saw the contact name "Wife," it would cause a major incident.
He walked over to the desk and sat down, then started chatting with Xiao Xiao.
"Miss me?"
"Not at all. My daughter and I are living it up in Shanghai!"
"Even if you don’t, does our big bed miss me?"
"You’re impossible..."
Xiao Xiao scolded him with a laugh before asking, "What’s this about your bags?"
"Bags?"
Gao Yuan was confused for a moment, but then he quickly understood.
Xiao Xiao was talking about the National Style Bags from GY. He explained it to her directly, saying he wanted to run another marketing wave to keep the hype around GY going.
Gao Yuan didn’t hide anything from his woman. It was just a business activity, after all, and Xiao Xiao probably understood this area better than he did.
"How did you find out about this?"
Gao Yuan was a little puzzled. Why would something like this attract Xiao Xiao’s attention, enough for her to call him specifically about it?
Logically, it was a minor, run-of-the-mill business move. Could it be that this wealthy woman was really that concerned about him?
"I saw a friend post on Facebook. I was also wondering why she was using a GY product, so we chatted for a bit."
Now Gao Yuan completely understood.
Xiao Xiao had friends in Hollywood. She must have seen the promotion he’d arranged with Wang Sichao, which was why she called to ask about it.
"I need to sell 9,999 bags within a week, so the marketing has to work. That’s why I found some celebrities to promote it."
Xiao Xiao understood.
She left him with a final, "Xiao Yu misses you," and then hung up.
This instantly made Gao Yuan happy. He already knew Xiao Yu missed him, because she had him on WeChat and called him "Dad" every day, asking when he’d be done with work and could come see her.
Xiao Xiao knew about this, so why would she need to act as a messenger?
’This woman... it’s clear she’s the one who misses me,’ he thought.
After hanging up, Xiao Xiao immediately bought the bag from Gao Yuan’s shop and posted a message on her social media platform.
Her post was full of praise for the bag, and she emphasized how rare it was and what a status symbol it represented.
At Xiao Xiao’s level, people didn’t just casually post public messages. However, every message they did post would spread through their various circles.
And very quickly, at that.
Sure enough, it wasn’t long before friends in Xiao Xiao’s circles—mostly other wealthy socialites—saw her post.
These people were instantly interested in the GY brand. They looked it up themselves and found out it was a domestic skincare brand.
Buy!
It was only a few tens of thousands of yuan. Were they short on that kind of money?
If Xiao Xiao had one, how could they fall behind?
Less than half an hour had passed since Gao Yuan’s call with Wang Sichao, but the sales figures for the bags in the GY shop were already starting to grow steadily, with new orders coming in every few minutes.
In that short time, more than thirty bags had already been sold.
At the same time, many celebrities began posting new updates on Weibo, all around the same time.
At first, it didn’t attract much attention beyond their own fans. But as more and more celebrities started showing off their purchases...
...some people in the media noticed something was up.
A few celebrities buying GY products and these National Style Bags would be normal, but now more than twenty female celebrities had posted about their purchases.
Some male celebrities even got involved, though most of them were publicly known to be married. A few of the male celebrities specifically noted that they were gifts for their mothers when they posted.
And this was just the beginning. As Xiao Xiao also started helping Gao Yuan with the marketing, wealthy socialites from affluent circles began showing off their purchases too.
Sales for the National Style Bags in the GY flagship store quickly surpassed one hundred units, and the growth rate was accelerating, just like a rolling snowball.
The media professionals had a keen sense of smell. From the moment a dozen or so celebrities started posting on Weibo, they felt that something wasn’t quite right.
It was highly likely that Yuanfang Company was making its move. Given the momentum, the GY National Style Set and the National Style Bags were bound to become a massive hit.
So they worked through the night, writing articles and creating short videos, determined to get a piece of this viral traffic.
What Gao Yuan hadn’t expected was that two other groups in the country had also sprung into action at this time.
One group was the personal shoppers. These people often helped clients buy clothes from abroad and bring them back into the country. When they sensed that GY’s National Style Bag was about to blow up, they immediately started a reverse-sales push.
They frantically started promoting the National Style skincare products and bags to their international contacts through their respective networks.