Chapter 201: The Perfect Way To Make Money
After leaving the Underworld Club, Wu Xian thought for a moment and decided to visit his high school alma mater.
Now, he was already a “famous alumnus” of his alma mater.
After some pleasantries and negotiations with the principal, he flipped through the drawing class exam scores of the junior students and prepared to select a few to be his beast-of-burden apprentice workers.
Being able to serve as his beast-of-burden apprentice was absolutely a great opportunity that couldn’t be found even with a lantern.
If Wu Xian hadn’t only recruited students, the principal and teachers would have knelt on the spot to take him as their master.
“Hmm~ This painting is nice, quite imaginative.”
“This one is also decent, though it lacks a bit of its own style and ideas, but every aspect of the whole painting is impeccably neat and standard!”
The former undoubtedly had some scroll painter talent, with the artwork being whimsical and full of original ideas.
The latter, undoubtedly a heaven-sent beast-of-burden substitute apprentice worker, excelling in every aspect with meticulous care, strictly following standards, even more precise than some textbook example illustrations.
“It’s these two, please trouble Principal Xu to help me contact and negotiate with them.” Wu Xian said politely.
“Master Xiao Wu, you’re too polite. Don’t worry, I’ll personally go communicate with their parents right away.”
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Returning to the North Street District Small Villa.
Looking at the continuously increasing order volume on the Club Official Website, he felt so worried inside.
He then devised a set of Gold Scroll petition standard that ordinary people could only yearn for from afar, preparing to publish it in his own column.
“No, no, this doesn’t align with my original intention.”
As someone born at the bottom, he deeply understood the hardships of the bottom, and with his identity as the God of Wealth spokesperson, his heart also emphasized making money ethically.
Ideally, while earning money himself, he could also drive more people to make money, narrowing the class gap.
Setting such a high Gold Scroll petition standard meant ordinary people wouldn’t dare to hope for it and could hardly afford it.
Moreover, Gold Scroll users should ideally be carefully selected destined individuals, so they could bring him more and higher-quality perception power.
Setting the standard this high would undoubtedly shrink the target audience, while only expanding the target audience could find high-quality, destined users.
This undoubtedly became a self-contradictory problem.
“Is there no way that can both make money, expand the target audience, benefit society, and give more people the chance to use high-quality scroll paintings?”
He then consulted his Master Sister Xue Lingling.
Currently, scroll painters in this aspect used the most primitive and clumsy method: by destiny.
In fact, this method was indeed sufficient for most scroll painters, after all, other scroll painters only had a few sets of scroll painting concepts in their lifetime, with Gold Scroll numbers countable on one hand.
They had no issue doing so naturally, but Wu Xian was different.
Even a random scroll painting concept had Gold Scroll potential, and in the future, there would be countless high-quality scroll paintings produced.
With so many high-quality scroll paintings, relying on casually finding destined people was simply unrealistic.
Therefore, he must find a suitable method.
“Gold Scroll? Petition?”
In thought, Wu Xian had a flash of inspiration.
“Yeah, this method works!” Wu Xian grew more excited the more he thought about it, “And with the God of Wealth’s aura of wealth in operation, it should theoretically work too.”
After pondering and perfecting it overnight, Wu Xian went to the club early the next morning.
Greeting members along the way, he excitedly arrived at the club’s Network Department.
As the department responsible for daily maintenance and operation of the official website, the staff were usually quite idle.
Wu Xian, this vice president’s arrival, nearly scared the Network Department colleagues silly.
“Vice President, you… why are you here?”
The department director seemed to be Uncle of that kid Du Yifan, a senior old programmer.
“Manager Du, I have an idea I want to discuss with you, see if you can help implement it ahead of time.” Wu Xian said enthusiastically.
Manager Du was flattered, “If you have any ideas, just have someone notify me directly, no need to come personally?”
“No, this matter is very important.” Wu Xian said with a serious face.
Hearing this, Manager Du and several tech big shots in the department also sat up straight.
“How should I put it? I’m not satisfied with the current scroll painting sales method on the Club Official Website,” Wu Xian said thoughtfully: “After much deliberation, I thought of a great method that can both stimulate consumer enthusiasm and control sales volume to a certain extent.”
At these words, Manager Du and the others exchanged glances, awkwardly asking back: “Is there such a magical method?”
At least in their view, the vice president’s request seemed a bit far-fetched.
“Have you ever drawn blind boxes?” Wu Xian asked with a smile.
“Blind boxes?” One tech big shot looked puzzled, “Isn’t that something kids and young people play with? What does it have to do with our scroll painting sales?”
Manager Du pondered: “Your meaning is to sell scroll paintings in the form of blind boxes? This… can it work?”
“Heh heh, of course it’s not that simple, and implementing it will bring various troubles.” Wu Xian smirked, “My idea is to completely abandon the current ordering mode and adopt a blind box lottery draw mode, but not directly selling the scroll paintings themselves, but selling the qualification to order scroll paintings, or rather, scroll painting exchange vouchers.”
“Ah?” Manager Du and the group were confused.
Wu Xian stopped being mysterious and began explaining his idea, “Simply put, create a gacha mini-game on the official website, turn my current scroll paintings into illustration cards, make them as exquisite as possible, people can recharge and pay to draw these illustrations, and drawing the corresponding illustration allows exchanging for scroll paintings of the corresponding rank and tier.”
“I think I get it a bit.” Manager Du’s eyes flickered, “But will people really be willing to spend money drawing these virtual illustrations?”
Wu Xian smiled faintly, “What if they can draw a Gold Scroll illustration?”
“Ah?” Manager Du was both surprised and doubtful, “You’re going to put Gold Scroll qualification into the prize pool too?”
“Exactly, just like the lottery, as long as there’s a grand prize as bait, people will naturally buy in.” Wu Xian was enthusiastic, “Of course, the probability of drawing Gold Scroll vouchers must be as low as possible, testing luck while setting up a guarantee mechanism.
For example, ten draws guarantee a Copper Axis Instance Scroll Painting, fifty draws guarantee a Silver Scroll Instance Scroll Painting.
For Gold Scroll, at least a hundred draws guarantee, and only get one special gold lottery ticket, to try luck in the prize pool without guarantee, and ultimately only get the qualification to petition me for the corresponding Gold Scroll, materials self-provided.
Of course, the guarantee is just to reduce losses for rich brothers, the key is if someone is lucky, they can soul-bind in one draw, or draw their desired scroll painting in one go.”
“This this this…”
Manager Du and the tech big shots exchanged glances, swallowing saliva nonstop.
No way around it, this planning was too clever and too mature, from sales and operation perspectives, it was genius-level idea.
Of course, this was only what they could understand.
The real key lay in the God of Wealth’s aura of wealth power operating in the shadows, the more destiny a drawer has with a certain scroll painting, the higher the probability of drawing the corresponding scroll painting illustration voucher, thereby selecting compatible user believers for the scroll paintings, while also helping him select excellent “inspirational energy” providers.
In plain terms, as long as there’s destiny with the scroll painting, even without much money, there’s a chance to get a high-quality scroll painting from Master Xiao Wu.
While rich brothers, no matter how wealthy, without destiny, can only spend big on guarantees, indirectly paying for the lucky poor brothers.
It could even optimize wealth distribution to a certain extent.
Truth be told, when he thought of this idea, he felt he was truly a little clever ghost.
“How about it? Can you make it?” Wu Xian asked.
“Yes… of course, and Vice President has already conceived the plan very perfectly,” Manager Du couldn’t hide his excitement, “Just, what price for the lottery draw is appropriate? And the subsequent probabilities for copper, silver, gold?”
“How about 160 Spirit Crystals per draw?”
“Ah? Nearly fifty thousand per draw, isn’t that too expensive?”
“Not expensive, if lucky, forty-eight thousand gets your desired Copper Axis Scroll Painting, that’s a great deal, right?”
Manager Du scratched his head: “But what if it’s not the desired result? We can solve that technically, like letting users select a desired target before drawing.”
“No need, I have my own way.” Wu Xian smiled mysteriously, “You just need to set a basic and reasonable probability, for the mystical probability aspect, I’ll control it with other methods.”
