Although Love Cottage was a dating variety show that had just premiered its first season, it truly wasn’t lacking for investment from sponsors.
Firstly, because the producer who created this show was already super rich. Secondly, because ever since Love Cottage started airing, quite a few sponsor daddies had been begging and pleading to invest in this dating reality show.
So, it really wasn’t short on sponsor investment at all.
However, the news that Glory of Kings wanted to invest in Love Cottage as a sponsor was truly astonishing.
After all, this 5v5 competitive mobile game was the hottest game in the country with the highest popularity and download rankings. It completely didn’t need to advertise.
Yet now, this game that netizens all over the country were playing had approached the Love Cottage production team and, by name, requested Bai Baozhu to be their advertising spokesperson for the game, serving as the product placement spokesperson within the show.
This simply left the Love Cottage staff utterly stunned!
But after thinking about Bai Baozhu’s gaming skills, which matched her super high looks, they somewhat understood.
“What should we do… Cooperate with Glory of Kings?”
“This matter should be asked of Bai Baozhu herself, the person involved. After all, they mainly want to cooperate with her, not really with our show.”
And so, that very evening, Bai Baozhu once again received the ‘solo interview’ procedure from the production team.
“Huh? Advertising spokesperson for Glory of Kings?”
When Bai Baozhu heard what the production team notified her about, she blinked her eyes somewhat bewilderedly. After confirming in her mind that an advertising spokesperson meant filming commercials on TV, which didn’t seem particularly difficult and also meant earning money, she happily agreed.
“So, I just play games casually, and I can get money, is that what it means?”
Listening to Bai Baozhu’s words, the Love Cottage staff felt there was something strange about how she phrased it.
Shouldn’t the focus be on being the Glory of Kings advertising spokesperson? Such a hugely popular game! Its audience is massive!
This mobile game, up until now, hadn’t had a proper, legitimate game spokesperson, right? And it hadn’t even filmed game spokesperson commercials more than a few times, right…
Yet, faced with such a precious opportunity, what Bai Baozhu cared more about was… being able to earn money?
“That’s the idea, but the money is a minor issue. Cooperating with Glory of Kings would be very helpful for your fame, give you plenty of exposure, and gain you a lot of fans…”
Listening to the production team’s words, Bai Baozhu blinked her eyes and said very bluntly.
“So, how much money can I get?”
“…”
K.O.’d by Bai Baozhu’s single sentence, the production team felt utterly helpless.
“Well, because you have an agency, all this still needs to be negotiated between your agency and Glory of Kings.”
Hearing the production team say this, Bai Baozhu’s brows immediately furrowed.
In her memory, that company called Sunrise Entertainment hadn’t really done anything for the Original Host, had it?
The Original Host was their signed artist. Because she hadn’t debuted, she didn’t receive any salary either.
And now, when she herself could earn money, she still had to involve that agency?
And even had to share the money with the agency the Original Host signed with…
Thinking about having to share the money from her ‘hard work’ with an agency that hadn’t done anything, Bai Baozhu felt extremely unbalanced.
However, remembering that the Original Host had a contract with Sunrise Entertainment and breaking it would mean paying compensation, Bai Baozhu, who was extremely short on money, held back.
After communicating with Bai Baozhu herself and receiving a definite affirmative reply, the Love Cottage staff relayed the willingness to cooperate to Glory of Kings and also notified Bai Baozhu’s agency, Sunrise Entertainment.
Finally, the three parties reached a cooperation agreement in the shortest possible time.
After completely finalizing that Glory of Kings would cooperate with Love Cottage, and considering the audience’s feelings, Love Cottage pretended to conduct another vote.
[Would everyone be willing to see Female Guest No. 1 Bai Baozhu play the game Glory of Kings as an interstitial advertisement in the show? [Willing] [Unwilling]]
And they very solemnly explained that some time ago, because of the hot search involving Bai Baozhu and Song Zhi, they had already confiscated the phone specifically for Bai Baozhu to play games, not letting her play anymore. But because Glory of Kings sent such a cooperation proposal, so blah blah blah…
In short, they spouted a bunch of high-sounding words, really going to great pains so Bai Baozhu could film the advertisement in the show without suffering any bad reputation.
Once Love Cottage released this voting announcement, it immediately attracted the attention of all netizens online!
And very quickly, it trended on the hot search!
[I was wondering why there haven’t been any clips of Zhu Zhu playing games in the show recently. So you confiscated our Zhu Zhu’s phone! My heart aches for my Zhu Zhu.]
[Production Team! Regardless of whether there’s an ad or not, let my Zhu Zhu play games! Let her play! We all love watching it!]
Zhu Zhu is so amazing! Glory of Kings seems like it hasn’t had a game spokesperson before, right? Is Zhu Zhu going to be the Glory of Kings spokesperson?
[As a career fan of Zhu Zhu, I’m very happy! Zhu Zhu’s first endorsement is already this impressive. I really want to know what the next endorsement will be~]
…
Just as the production team had predicted, netizens accepted the news of Bai Baozhu officially endorsing a game advertisement very well.
A day passed, and the votes were almost entirely in favor, supporting Bai Baozhu endorsing Glory of Kings in the show. Not many people opposed it.
Faced with such overwhelming ‘public opinion’, the production team had already begun preparing to film a separate advertisement for Bai Baozhu and insert it into the show at the fastest speed.
However, what Bai Baozhu truly cared about wasn’t filming the advertisement. What she truly cared about was—
She could play games openly and legitimately in the show again~!
…
“Brother, did you see the announcement Love Cottage posted today? Glory of Kings and Love Cottage are going to cooperate! Little Fairy is going to film an interstitial game advertisement for the show!”
Wei Haoyang, who always paid close attention to online trends, especially those related to the variety show Love Cottage, excitedly sent this message to Song Zhi as soon as he discovered the news.
Song Zhi opened his phone, looked at the announcement and vote posted on Love Cottage‘s official Weibo, and the corner of his mouth unconsciously lifted.
After carefully reading the entire announcement, Song Zhi thought of something and quickly opened Glory of Kings.
He thought that since the Love Cottage production team was cooperating with Glory of Kings, then Bai Baozhu should be able to return to playing games again.
Sure enough, when Song Zhi opened the game, he saw Bai Baozhu’s game account displayed as in-game.
Seeing Little Fairy’s game avatar lit up, the curve of Song Zhi’s mouth deepened.
His dark eyes were filled with laughter.
Looking at Bai Baozhu’s lit-up avatar, he patiently held his phone, waiting for Little Fairy’s game to end so he could invite her to play together at the first opportunity.
During this patient wait, Bai Baozhu’s game soon ended.
The moment Little Fairy’s game status showed as online, Song Zhi clicked invite.
The moment he saw Bai Baozhu enter the game room, Song Zhi felt his heart grow somewhat nervous.
However, before he could nervously and expectantly greet Bai Baozhu…
His heart shattered into pieces.
[Little Fairy: How come it’s just you again? Where’s Sister Yangyang? I haven’t seen her for so long, I really miss her so much~]
[SZ: …]
[Little Fairy: Since Sister Yangyang isn’t here, then I’ll log off! Bye bye!]
[SZ: Wait…]
Seeing that the words he wanted to say weren’t even finished typing, yet Little Fairy said she was logging off and did just that! For the first time, Song Zhi realized that his charm was actually inferior to a green tea yingying monster who was a man disguised as a woman!
Even in the past, when he hadn’t left the group, his popularity was the highest within the group!
For a moment, Song Zhi doubted life. He pondered whether he should be the bad guy once and directly rip off that guy Wei Haoyang’s disguise!
…
Having played games for a good part of the day, Bai Baozhu, feeling refreshed and clear-headed, logged off the game, returned the phone to the production team, and then leisurely went to the kitchen to prepare dinner for everyone.
While she was leisurely preparing dinner for everyone in the kitchen, she received yet another notification from the production team.
Right after accepting the game endorsement advertisement, before even starting to film it, an advertisement for kitchen condiments arrived!
“Zhu Zhu, what do you think? Although this kitchen condiment endorsement advertisement was accepted by your agency for you, and the endorsement fee offered is very high. But, we feel this condiment brand is quite niche, and the taste seems average. We recommend you refuse…”
Regarding Bai Baozhu’s agency, the Love Cottage production team had also discovered that this company was truly a short-sighted small agency. Now that Bai Baozhu was just starting to get popular, they were already accepting all sorts of uneven advertisements.
Bai Baozhu’s starting point was so good. Her first advertisement, although for a game, this game wasn’t an ordinary game! Its audience reach was so wide!
Yet her second advertisement was actually for some unknown brand of condiments…
Not only did this lower the tier, but the product’s quality couldn’t be guaranteed. If something went wrong, her star career would be completely ruined.
“Can I taste the condiments that want me to endorse them?”
Bai Baozhu, who was short on money, listened to the staff’s tactful persuasion, considered for a moment, and then said rationally.
Hearing Bai Baozhu’s words, the staff delivered the unknown small-brand condiments to Bai Baozhu at the fastest speed. After Bai Baozhu tasted each of these unknown small-brand condiments, she immediately—
“The taste really is so average. Forget it, I don’t want to earn this kind of money.”
As someone who valued culinary skills highly and pursued quality ingredients, Bai Baozhu, after tasting this small workshop’s condiments, felt that even if she was short on money, she couldn’t earn money by going against her conscience. She also couldn’t get past her own standards as a chef. In the end, she could only painfully refuse this supposedly super high-paying money-making opportunity.
Just as her heart ached over the little money that had flown away, her eyes suddenly glanced at the vinegar beside her.
Condiments… vinegar…
“Ah!”
Bai Baozhu’s eyes suddenly lit up, shining brightly as she looked at the production team staff.
“Um, may I advertise my own condiment brand on the show?”
“?” The Love Cottage staff: Your own condiment brand? Aren’t you an artist about to debut? Since when do you have your own condiment brand?!
Just as the production team staff were completely baffled, not understanding what kind of mischief Bai Baozhu was up to this time.
Little did they know, Bai Baozhu was really serious this time!
A sudden inspiration had struck her just now. If such unpalatable condiments could be made into a brand and advertised, then she could also create a condiment brand! And she wouldn’t even need to do everything herself! She could just provide the recipe, and it could be mass-produced and sold.
That would be much easier and simpler than opening some snack shop. Most importantly, the shelf life would be long, and it would not be easy to spoil.
She had plenty of such condiment formulas in her head! And these condiments would taste much better than any she had used so far!
“I won’t need you to specially film any interstitial advertisements. Just when I use the condiments I make myself in the show, I can briefly introduce my product. Would that be okay?”
Bai Baozhu widened her round eyes, looking at the production team staff with an earnest expression. Her big eyes blinked, so cute and pretty, making it completely impossible to resist such a request.
But—
“Well, we can’t decide this. We still have to ask the management of the production team.”
Not getting a definite reply, Bai Baozhu nodded, feeling a little disappointed.
However, she figured that if the production team didn’t agree, the worst that could happen was she wouldn’t be allowed to explicitly state it was her own brand’s seasoning. She could still advertise her own product, so it didn’t seem like a big deal.
“So, Zhu Zhu, what kind of seasoning do you plan to make?”
The staff of the production team, although they didn’t know whether the higher-ups would approve of Bai Baozhu’s blatant act of promoting her own product on the show, were still very confident in her culinary skills. They grew even more curious about what seasoning she wanted to make.
“Vinegar. Immortal Vinegar.”
Bai Baozhu confidently curled her lips into a smile and proudly announced the seasoning she intended to make.
“Immortal Vinegar? That name alone sounds impressive…”
Just as the production staff’s interest was piqued by Bai Baozhu’s ‘Immortal Vinegar,’ Huo Yu—the producer of Love Cottage who had the final say, and Bo Shenyu’s cousin—was watching the video of her cousin’s latest four-person date, which the team had just sent over.
“Pfft—”
When she saw her useless cousin faint and then get princess-carried by Bai Baozhu, she sprayed a mouthful of red wine.