My System Forces Me to Live off Women

Chapter 310 - 261: The Villain Strikes First

"Of course, what I’ve said counts... but I want to hear you say it again."

"If it’s forgotten, then it’s forgotten, no need to be so subtle."

He Yimeng didn’t mind: "Right now, you and I are just ordinary friends, and you’d better not deliberately create an ambiguous atmosphere that might taint our friendship, or else you can’t afford the consequences."

"Is that so? You’re right."

Li Peifeng chuckled: "Then please, He Yimeng, speak directly. What can I do for you?"

"Earlier at the academic office, you promised to invest. Now, I’ve chosen the location and personnel for my counseling studio, but it needs a bit of renovation and some new furniture. I don’t have enough money, so does your promise still stand?"

Li Peifeng realized: "No problem, how much more do you need?"

He Yimeng pondered: "An Alliance Leader’s reward share should be enough. Let’s have a meal and discuss it?"

"Sure, tell me the place."

...

A thousand miles of yellow clouds blot the sun, the north wind blows, snowflakes fall.

Today is the solar term of Heavy Snow. By five in the afternoon, the sky started cooperating with a bit of snow. It wasn’t heavy, but with snowflakes drifting and the sky covered in orange-red clouds, it matched the occasion.

After holing up at home for ages, Li Peifeng finally walked onto the street, zipped up his casual down jacket tightly, braved the light snow, and headed towards the hotpot restaurant He Yimeng mentioned, answering a call from Wu Wenyue on his phone.

The call was to share good news, not baby news.

But that Wu Wenyue received her fourth advertisement since her studio was established, and the first one in December—it’s in the beauty category, and for the first time, the ad fee reached two hundred thousand!

Actually, this brand had approached her in early November, when Wu Wenyue only had two to three million followers, but she didn’t take it. Instead, she shot for a sneaker brand, then the "True Self" clothing line, and a long-form sports equipment ad. Along with a hundred thousand from Xu Manning, these ads earned her a total of three hundred and seventy thousand.

And these three ads all brought good returns for the brand, with "True Self" clothing reaping the most benefits—the hot pre-sale results of the fall and winter collection are the best proof.

The commercial value of the ’Wu Wenyue’ account was recognized, and naturally, the ad fees followed suit.

Additionally, during the time when Li Peifeng was secluded writing, Wu Wenyue wasn’t idle. She kept updating videos, and her followers broke past five million. But this growth wasn’t just due to Wu Wenyue’s abilities and the hard work of her studio staff; it also had something to do with Li Peifeng.

Because of the Peiyuan Pill!

Over this period, Wu Wenyue consistently and adequately took the Peiyuan Pill, which not only quickly healed her old back injury but also significantly improved her physical condition. Her strength, stamina, and endurance all saw boosts.

She initially didn’t feel much about the pill until once when filming a video at the gym and exercising on the side, she found her strength not only hadn’t decreased but increased instead.

Filming a basketball-related video and casually pulling off a dunk move made Wu Wenyue realize the changes in herself.

So, using her strengthened body, she shot some violent dunks and fancy moves that even the school basketball team couldn’t do before, creating a small stir, and her follower growth never slowed down.

Nowadays, getting two hundred thousand per video ad isn’t more than the market price.

"Get two more, just two more ads, and I’ll be a millionaire!"

Wu Wenyue’s joy on the other end of the call was about to overflow, and it was indeed something to be happy about.

In the early days of the studio’s creation, Li Peifeng and Xu Manning together invested eight hundred thousand funds, but after all this time, the studio’s premises, account maintenance, employee salaries, and the purchase of camera equipment—these expenditures only amounted to three hundred thousand.

In other words, Wu Wenyue now has not only fifty thousand of the initial funds lying in the bank account but also fifty-seven thousand in profit. Even after deducting taxes and platform fees, about fifty thousand remains.

This fifty thousand less the thirty thousand investment means that in less than two months since Trinity Studio’s establishment, not only has the initial cost been recouped, but there’s also a net profit of twenty thousand dollars.

Return on investment in two months, million earned in three, doubling in four—will financial freedom be achieved in a year?

That’s exaggerated; it sounds like pyramid schemes...

Li Peifeng marveled at the quick money-making speed of influencers and was genuinely happy for her; in fact, he might be even more delighted than Wu Wenyue herself. Because while listening to her boasting on the other end, his ears also heard the system prompts, and before his eyes, a dialogue box appeared!

[Congratulations, host, for completing the ’Savior of a Poor Woman’ mission.]

[Completion condition: Help Wu Wenyue achieve a stable economic income of more than fifty thousand a month. Now she not only has the mindset to support the host but also the ability to do so!]

[Reward: Three lottery chances.]

Though looking forward a little to the lottery, Li Peifeng was still outside on the phone, so he had to set it aside, congratulating Wu Wenyue a bit and sharing in her joy before switching to educational mode, admonishing;

"Alright, don’t be so cocky. Although you’re doing great now, no flower blooms for a hundred days, and no one stays good for a thousand. Many influencers are like meteors that, with the help of trending topics, get hot for a moment, make a quick buck, and then disappear. If you want to keep drawing fans and maintaining traffic, you have to keep learning... By the way, how’s your music learning going?"

Li Peifeng wasn’t just referring to music but also to Wu Wenyue’s work of bringing songs from the Otherworld she remembered from her dreams into reality.