Forced Me to Regress, Huh?

Cheng Zhu truly had a rare talent. He was born with a deep voice, the kind often referred to as a bass voice.

No matter the era, people had always been drawn to good voices.

A pleasing voice, regardless of gender, always added points.

Just like in Douyin, some men didn’t look good, but when you heard their voice, it sparked boundless imagination.

The same went for certain female streamers who didn’t show their faces.

In real life, once some men became aware of their advantages, they were eager to show them at every opportunity. For example, if they were tall, they practically wanted to plaster their height on their foreheads and have it etched on their tombstones—I was 184 cm tall.

But in Cheng Zhu’s opinion, this approach wasn’t ideal.

Take a deep voice as an example. If you kept sending voice messages every time you chatted with a girl, it would come off as overly slick and quickly lose its charm.

However, if you spent the whole day texting, and when it came time to say goodnight, you found a reasonable excuse to claim you couldn’t type and then sent a voice message to say goodnight, she might suddenly not feel so sleepy anymore.

She might even dream about you!

A strong point should be used as a finishing blow, not as a routine attack.

Cheng Zhu and Yezi had been chatting for days, exchanging all kinds of playful and flirty banter.

A simple “Hey, babe, you there?” didn’t even count as effective teasing unless he sent it as a voice message.

He was deliberately being slick, purely to liven up the conversation. Otherwise, why call it flirty banter?

Yezi usually replied to his messages almost instantly and sent him an emoji.

“Have you thought about what I mentioned last time?” Cheng Zhu asked.

This time, Yezi didn’t reply immediately.

After a while, a message came. “When are we shooting?”

“It’s best if it’s the day after tomorrow or the day after that,” Cheng Zhu replied.

“I haven’t been feeling well these past few days, but the day after tomorrow works.” Yezi added a sad-face emoji.

After sending this, she said, “To be honest, I’m not afraid to tell you that I used to work as a model, but I’ve never done this type of shoot before.”

Cheng Zhu smiled and fell into a moment of reminiscence before replying, “What a coincidence. I used to be a model too.”

* * *

The next day, Cheng Zhu took Wang Anquan to board the train back to Hangzhou.

In recent days, he had started putting his little brother through special training.

Soon, the two of them would work as customer service agents for the Taobao store.

In this era, the routines for customer service typically boiled down to the same few moves.

When it came to pretending to be a female customer service agent, Wang Anquan was quite enthusiastic.

To be fair, many men liked to pretend to be girls online and trick others for fun, finding it highly entertaining.

Some even took it further and used this method to scam people for money.

Cheng Zhu even suspected that since he was selling lingerie, Wang Anquan would be enthusiastic no matter what task he was assigned.

Also, don’t forget one thing. In clothing e-commerce, customer service agents are always encouraging customers to post review photos.

Many merchants even offer cash incentives or rebates for them.

This kid, as soon as he heard that he’d be persuading customers to post review photos, it looked like he was going to get a nosebleed.

So, do you understand? This line of work needs male employees!

Cheng Zhu felt that he needed to make the most of these next few years, as if it wouldn’t be long before photos disappeared from customer reviews for these types of products.

You have to understand that managing the review section for these kinds of products is very important.

It’s not just the reviews with photos. Even text reviews matter.

These things can stimulate customers’ desire to buy.

He decided that, when the time came, he would hire some people to reply in the review section of his store.

If a custerer posted a review photo, they’d shower them with praise!

Praise, heap it on until they are overwhelmed. Let them know that everyone was utterly captivated.

Don’t underestimate the power of such flattery. It genuinely boosted people’s willingness to post review photos. Anyway, these photos didn’t even need to show faces.

Of course, these replies would be more crucial during the early stages of the store.

Once it gained popularity, there was no need to hire anyone to praise others.

There will be plenty of curious netizens showing up spontaneously to leave comments of their own.

At that point, a positive loop will form.

Ten minutes before the train reached Hangzhou Station, Cheng Zhu’s and Wang Anquan’s phones vibrated simultaneously.

They picked up their phones and saw that their class monitor, Li Rui, had tagged everyone in the class group chat to organize a class gathering.

Since everyone had just graduated from high school, the group was still quite lively.

Cheng Zhu hadn’t spoken here in a while. He didn’t even bother to check it daily anymore.

He had been extremely busy recently and had no energy to spare.

If he had the time, he would rather chat with Lin Lu and the others.

“Brother Zhu, are you going to the class gathering the day after tomorrow?” Wang Anquan asked.

“No, I’m not free,” Cheng Zhu rejected directly. “Besides, I’m not interested.”

There were only a few people he got along with well in high school, and they could always meet up privately. There was no need to go to a class gathering.

“Then I won’t go either,” Wang Anquan said.

Cheng Zhu looked at him and nodded in satisfaction.

He had thought that Wang Anquan would attend the gathering for Chen Rongrong.

It seemed that his focus and thoughts had indeed shifted.

Cheng Zhu looked at the class group chat and found that the antics of teenagers were quite amusing.

Some people, who initially said they wouldn’t come, immediately changed their minds upon seeing that someone else would attend.

Yet there were also those who said they would go, but once they saw someone they disliked was also going, they immediately reversed their decision and said they wouldn’t show up.

Cheng Zhu didn’t bother to say anything in the group. He asked Wang Anquan to reply. “Brother Zhu and I have things to do, so we won’t be coming.”

Not long after he sent this message, they saw Li Xinyue and Chen Rongrong also saying they wouldn’t attend.

Meanwhile, the warm-hearted class monitor, Li Rui, was still in the group asking about their reasons for not attending, but Li Xinyue and Chen Rongrong didn’t reply at all.

Eventually, the lively class group chat began to talk about their own matters.

This was how it was in large chats. Unless there was a topic that everyone was interested in, conversations often splintered off into separate discussions.

Some were chatting about games, some about travel, and some about where to get affordable haircuts…

Then someone mentioned wanting to find a part-time job, and another chimed in, offering to help them get a position at his company.

When the topic of money came up, a male classmate named Qin Wei suddenly tagged Cheng Zhu. “I heard you won several thousand from the World Cup?”

Cheng Zhu was stunned for a moment before realizing that Jiang Wanzhou must have leaked the news.

After all, he had told Jiang Wanzhou that he had only bet 800, and the remaining 12,000 were other people’s.

Since this person said he had won several thousand, then it could only be CEO Little Jiang boasting about him.

The circle of students in the same school was only so big. Although Jiang Wanzhou wasn’t in the same class as him, some things could easily make their way into the ears of his classmates.

“Fuck, so awesome? You won several thousand?” someone immediately responded in the group chat.

“Shouldn’t you send some red packets?”

“What do you mean? How did he win money from the World Cup?”

“How much did you win?”

“Awesome, that’s several months of living expenses!”

Chen Rongrong, who had been lurking, said directly, “Where did you hear that rumor? Cheng Zhu won more than 70,000!”

Fuck, why are you speaking for me? Cheng Zhu cursed.

For a moment, the group fell silent, and then the entire chat exploded!

Shocking, too shocking!

Chen Rongrong began to describe the situation vividly.

Cheng Zhu felt a headache coming on.

He hadn’t planned to show up in the group chat, but he had no choice but to make something up. “That 12,000 isn’t my money alone. I only bet 800 to join in the fun.

“Winning was pure luck. Look at our class monitor. He lost over 10,000 in one night. I’ve taken this as a warning and decided never to gamble again. Thank you, class monitor.” Cheng Zhu diverted the focus while sprinkling salt on this warm-hearted king.

—Let go of personal integrity and enjoy a wicked life.

Sure enough, the conversation immediately shifted to focus on Li Rui.

Cheng Zhu immediately closed the group chat.

Li Rui forced a smile and kept emphasizing that losing over 10,000 yuan wasn’t a big deal.

It was as though he believed he could earn back the 10,000 yuan by pretending to be cool a few more times.

Wang Anquan sat nearby, fully aware that Cheng Zhu had really bet 12,000 and won tens of thousands. He was using this money for his e-commerce venture.

He didn’t know why Brother Zhu didn’t admit it, but for some reason, he felt that Cheng Zhu and Li Rui were worlds apart.

The person who won isn’t showing off, but you, the loser, keep talking like it’s pocket change.

He looked like a clown!

When will I be able to reach the level of Brother Zhu? He began to yearn for it

Wang Anquan didn’t realize that he had undergone quite a transformation himself after just a few days with Cheng Zhu.

At this moment, the train arrived at Hangzhou Station.

Once they got into the taxi, Cheng Zhu looked out the window frequently.

“Brother Zhu, what are you looking at?” Wang Anquan asked, a bit curious.

“It has nothing to do with you. I’m choosing a hotel for the photo shoot the day after tomorrow.”