Since we are both reborn, of course I would choose the rich woman!

Chapter 399 Overseas Popularity
Lu Yao thought Liu Tongxiong might bow his head a little later, but before Lu Yao could finish the coffee Lin Yongzhen had brought, Liu Tongxiong sent a text message.

Liu Tongxiong: "President Lü, I agree with your previous proposal."

Looking at the text message sent by Liu Tongxiong, Lü Yao raised an eyebrow and smiled, "This Mr. Liu is quite magnanimous; he figured it out so quickly."

Lin Yongzhen laughed and said, "Actually, I think it's about the same. Liu Tongxiong's family is quite well-off, so he must have had someone to guide him, which is why he was able to figure it out so quickly."

Lü Yao remarked with emotion, "This is the benefit of having 'family' to help."

In fact, young people are very willing to listen to the advice of "experienced people," but these "experienced people" refer to those who made achievements during times of war, found opportunities at the beginning of national development, and amassed great wealth in the subsequent waves of the times... As for those lower-class people who keep saying they are "experienced people"...

They weren't actually "people who had been through it all," they just survived those difficult times.

If a young person has a "successful person" around them who can give them advice, they can avoid taking many detours.

Lu Yao put aside his emotions, looked at Cheng Xinyu in the room, and said, "Xinyu, I'll leave the matter of liaising with President Liu to you. I'll have the company's legal department help you."

Cheng Xinyu's eyes curved like a pair of moons: "Yes, ma'am~~"

In the following days, Cheng Xinyu, acting on behalf of Lü Yao, began to contact Liu Tongxiong's side. Liu Tongxiong first handed over Li Ziqi's contract. After Li Ziqi became a free agent, she first established a cultural media company on her own, and then used this media company to establish a cultural media business company with Lü Yao.

Afterwards, Lü Yao and Li Ziqi cross-shared their shares in each other's companies, using a complex equity structure to ensure the interests of both parties.

As for Li Ziqi's trademark registration and intellectual property registration, a transfer process is required. This process usually takes four to six months, and even if Lü Yao plays his role, it will still take a month to complete.

However, now is not the time for Li Ziqi's internet IP to be monetized. Li Ziqi herself prefers to focus on creating content first, allowing it to accumulate, and then develop monetization strategies later.

As for how to monetize it, Lü Yao, backed by Huasheng Lifestyle Commodity Supply Chain, has plenty of ways.

When Li Ziqi was finalized, Lü Yao began his subsequent investment strategy. Cooperation with Sichuan Air Shield Technology was put on the agenda, the Luoma Lake AI intelligent computing project was also progressing steadily, and the Weiguang International project was actively cooperating with Rong Nianqing. Rong Nianqing was also actively cooperating with domestic technology manufacturers, research institutions, and even some official research institutions.

Official scientific research cannot operate as efficiently as possible due to its cumbersome approval process and lengthy procedures. Under Rong Nianqing's leadership, some technologies that could flow out of research institutes began to be connected to the civilian market. As new technologies flowed into the market, the already highly competitive domestic business environment suddenly became like sharks smelling blood, and everyone quickly took action.

Amidst this fierce competition, the development of the Geek Phone 2 also reached its later stages.

Since Lü Yao opened up the market by copying the future Apple 14pm mobile phone model, Geek Phone has achieved a user penetration rate of about five percent in the mobile phone market for a year.

This data may not seem like much, but in 2017, even Apple's share of the high-end market was only 17%. Apple's entry-level models were the mainstream in the market, but they only accounted for a little over 30%.

The remaining 40% or so was divided up by Xiaomi, Xiaomi, OPPO, Huawei, and some smaller mobile phone manufacturers.

In other words, the market share of mobile phone manufacturers such as Xiaomi, Blue, Green, and Chrysanthemum is only around 10%, while Geek Phone, which was first launched last year, has achieved an astonishing 5% market share in just one year.

Simultaneously.

During this year, Lü Yao also established a production line and R&D team independent of the rice mill. With the support of a huge amount of capital, the team's output was quite impressive.

First, Lu Yao's R&D team overcame Apple's Live Map technology barriers and the AirDrop technology barriers of the Apple ecosystem, achieving a technological leap where if Apple doesn't come to us, we will. In terms of hardware, Lu Yao also began to use chips produced independently by Micro-Light International. Although the design and framework are still the same as before, the independent production of core high-precision components is also a major step forward.

With the core components being produced domestically, the price of the Geek 2nd generation has been significantly reduced.

As for the appearance of the Geek 2nd generation, Lü Yao did not make many upgrades in this aspect.

After all, after Lu Yao returned from studying abroad in the future, he had already released a phone with a "notch screen" ahead of Apple. It wouldn't be a bad idea to continue the "family design language" for the second generation's appearance, since the software upgrades this time have already generated enough buzz.

With Apple's iPhones sweeping the globe and its dominant position, piggybacking on Apple's success is undoubtedly the best marketing strategy.

As the Geek 2nd generation enters the later stages of debugging, actual testing will soon be put on the agenda. Mass production will only begin after the actual testing shows no problems.

With less than five months until the Geek 2 launch event, the timeline is already very tight.

Therefore, the marketing department on the geek side has also started working intensively.

Various leaks began to appear frequently on the Internet, wriggling like a cuckoo in an Amsterdam shop window, attracting the attention of people coming and going on the Internet.

……

May, 2017.

Lü Yao remained in Mianyang.

During my time in Mianyang, I have already assigned personnel to set up an office here. This office has only two responsibilities: one is to handle the affairs of Li Ziqi Culture Media Company, and the other is to find high-tech investment companies worth investing in in this central city of Southwest China.

In Lü Yao's memory, although Chengdu has always been jokingly called a vampire city by netizens, Chengdu does have its own unique features.

There are many scientific and technological innovations and factory construction projects here. BOE, a high-end screen panel manufacturer, has a factory here. Tencent, Alibaba, ByteDance, Huawei and other leading domestic manufacturers have R&D centers and branches here. It is indeed well-deserved to be the dominant force in Southwest China.

At least among the local bigwigs, he has much more say than this Brother Nan from Shangnan.

By establishing the MCN company first, Lü Yao can lay a solid foundation for the subsequent entry of other companies and secure a seat in the Southwest region.

With the establishment of the office and the transfer of personnel from Shangnan, the online promotion of Li Ziqi is proceeding at a rapid pace. When Li Ziqi was working under Liu Tongxiong, she registered an overseas YouTube account. After Lü Yao's side completed the handover with Liu Tongxiong's side, all the account information was transferred, and Lü Yao's side officially began to help Li Ziqi operate the overseas account.

The tricks to creating accounts online are actually quite simple.

Besides common underhanded tactics like manipulating data to deceive merchants, following trending topics, finding points of empathy, and evoking emotions are all frequently used methods in operations.

Li Ziqi's works, due to their distinctive characteristics and style at the time, are very likely to become popular on the internet, because the world was undergoing tremendous changes in 2017.

Thanks to over sixty years of accumulation and dedicated efforts, the manufacturing level in Tokyo has made rapid progress. "Made in China" has gained increasing recognition from users around the world. In the Land of Light across the ocean, there is even a saying that "if 'Made in China' stops, even Christmas in the Land of Light will have to stop."

In more and more films and television series about the Land of Light, Todai appears as a villain more and more often.

Thanks to the rapid development of domestic manufacturing and the booming OEM industry, life in China was quite comfortable. In 2017, the overall environment in China was very exciting and exciting. Under such circumstances, anyone with a bit of ability would start a business, hoping to get rich overnight.

During this period, news of overnight riches is always presented to netizens through various information platforms.

Let alone the social elites, even ordinary people in China have all fallen into a collective frenzy, with taking out loans to buy houses and cars, and exorbitant dowries for marriage and having children becoming the trend in recent years.

The most courageous group of people also emerged during this period.

Buying a house at a high price in one's hometown county, carrying a 30-year mortgage with high interest rates, paying rent in the city where one works, renovating the house, preparing for a wedding, buying a car on a whim, and then finding out that one's partner is pregnant, with all sorts of expensive baby products beckoning... Most people around 2017 were like this, practically "nuclear-powered donkeys".

Is someone with such courage happy?
Lu Yao dared not say, what if someone just enjoys this kind of life where they are constantly working hard and dare not stop, and dying from overwork at the company would be considered a happy death?

But without a doubt, in this era where everyone is caught up in the hype and the atmosphere is frenzied, there must be many anxious, tired, confused, and desperate people, and these people need a spiritual haven.

Then Li Ziqi appeared.

Unlike the meticulously staged, bourgeois elegance and the artificially cozy paradise of "Daily Food Diary," Li Ziqi's videos never shy away from showing her vulnerable side.

In many videos, she is dressed in coarse linen clothes, walking in the fields, and her hands are unabashedly digging in the soil and doing all kinds of rough work.

If you look closely, you can see in Li Ziqi's videos that her hands have become increasingly rough.

This kind of self-reliant behavior—putting aside one's status, returning to the countryside, and relying on oneself for everything—coupled with Li Ziqi's rural and idyllic scenery, gives Dongda students a natural sense of familiarity.

At this moment, the poems of modern poets are brought to life in Li Ziqi's hands—

"Starting tomorrow, I will concern myself with grains and vegetables, feed the horses, chop wood, and face the fields."

This kind of life is an aspiration deeply rooted in the blood and genes of many Dongda students.

Just like the saying goes, whether a student from Dongda University is rich or poor, their ultimate dream is to return to the countryside to raise chickens and grow vegetables.

If you don't have money, build a small house, raise chickens, and grow vegetables.

If you have money, build a big house, raise chickens, and grow vegetables.

What Li Ziqi does is something that many city dwellers fantasize about but dare not and cannot do.

Therefore, the explosive popularity of Li Ziqi's videos is almost an inevitable result of the urbanization process in Tokyo.

This makes it much easier for the team responsible for promoting Li Ziqi's videos to achieve excellent results with minimal effort.

Li Ziqi's performance on overseas internet platforms is equally impressive.

In Lü Yao's future study abroad timeline, Li Ziqi's overseas operations did not begin until around October 2017. With the support of a future perspective, after Lü Yao received all the registered accounts related to Li Ziqi from Liu Tongxiong, he began to operate Li Ziqi's overseas accounts.

Under the supervision of Lü Yao, the team followed up on the operation of overseas accounts, starting from the end of April to upload and promote videos. Videos that Li Ziqi had previously made began to appear on overseas YouTube platforms.

After operating for a month, Li Ziqi's YouTube channel began to see a surge in traffic. In just one month, Li Ziqi's overseas YouTube channel accumulated 100,000 followers, and her total number of followers across all overseas platforms exceeded 500,000.

Initially, it was overseas Chinese who had been living abroad for many years or settled overseas who came across Li Ziqi's videos. The videos, featuring dishes with distinctly Eastern characteristics such as beef noodles and cherry wine, instantly ignited the food cravings of overseas Chinese, while the idyllic scenes perfectly captured their yearning for a pastoral life.

The attention from these Chinese people helped Li Ziqi's videos quickly gain wider popularity overseas. With the help of Lu Yao's operations and promotion, more and more foreigners began to be attracted to the idyllic oriental life presented by Li Ziqi.

2017 was actually a pretty tough year for people overseas.

Leaving aside other countries, let's take the Land of Light, the third strongest country in the universe. At this time, the Land of Light's manufacturing industry is in decline, and the blue-collar workers in the Rust Belt are facing unemployment and a lack of income. Intense cultural conflicts and identity labels are intensifying, causing the living environment in the Land of Light to deteriorate.

In the increasingly divisive social environment of the Land of Light, the foreigners living in chaotic neighborhoods or the Rust Belt are also very anxious and irritable, and their spiritual world urgently needs a haven.

In the distant and mysterious ancient country of the East, this pastoral woman, with her gentle and resilient Eastern qualities, painted a picture of a "utopia" far removed from their own land—a picturesque and charming pastoral world that could be built simply by relying on one's own hands.

Because it is so far away, and so beautiful, foreigners who watch Li Ziqi's videos are filled with longing, just like the lookout in the Three-Body Problem who, after discovering the beauty of Earth, felt a yearning for it.

Li Ziqi's videos remain incredibly popular overseas, and this surge in popularity has even begun to flow back into China through various channels, further fueling online discussions about her.

(End of this chapter)