Chapter 190 - 123: Stunned! Paying for Peace

Chapter 190: Chapter 123: Stunned! Paying for Peace

Then, it dawned on her. The other woman was targeting her. Otherwise, she wouldn’t have deliberately said that someone was intentionally slandering Li Yuan Farm’s moisturizing cream.

’Considering the situation online, isn’t she talking about me?’

"Is this Li Qiuya an idiot?" Zhao Lili muttered. ’Even if she wants to come after me, stomping on me while shilling for Li Yuan Farm’s moisturizing cream this hard... it’s like she thinks everyone is a fool.’

She immediately left Li Qiuya’s livestream. There was no point in watching some idiot’s stream. She clicked into another cosmetics blogger’s livestream to continue observing, wanting to hear some genuine opinions on Li Yuan Farm’s moisturizing cream.

But as soon as she entered the stream, she heard the blogger say, "Li Yuan Farm’s moisturizing cream is honestly better than those international brands. You all want to know why it’s getting slandered despite being so effective? Isn’t it obvious? Someone wants to get an invitation to the International Fashion Convention for Cosmetics Bloggers and is trying to kiss up to the foreign brands. Too bad she doesn’t have enough followers!"

"So, she had to find a way to get more followers. The fastest way to do that is obviously to tear someone else down. Li Yuan Farm is trending right now and just happened to launch a new moisturizing cream. But to do it dishonestly, to deliberately slander them... that’s just despicable."

"You all know who I’m talking about, right?"

Zhao Lili nearly coughed up blood when she heard this. She looked at the live comments scrolling across the blogger’s stream:

"Lili Fragrance, duh!"

"I think her name is Zhao Lili!"

"Was a neutral observer, now I’m a hater!"

"People like her are disgusting!"

...

...Zhao Lili’s expression suddenly turned ugly.

Things were not going as she had expected. In fact, they were the complete opposite.

One blogger might be an idiot, but it was impossible for all of them to be this foolish.

’Wait...’ She immediately realized a serious problem. If Li Yuan Farm’s moisturizing cream was really that good, then she was truly screwed.

Her original video had deliberately left some wiggle room. She’d said she couldn’t rule out the possibility of Li Yuan Farm having some special manufacturing technique. That was to give herself an out, just in case. But then the people targeting Li Yuan Farm from behind the scenes got involved, hired a troll army, and now that wiggle room was gone.

’Who would believe me now?’

Zhao Lili quickly opened the livestreams of several other cosmetics bloggers. She heard the same sentiment in every one. Every single blogger was saying that the effects of Li Yuan Farm’s moisturizing cream were better than international brands.

Some bloggers even pointed their cameras at the tourists who were trying the samples, and every single one of them said the same thing.

That meant the effects of Li Yuan Farm’s moisturizing cream were truly amazing, even better than international brands.

After all, it was impossible for so many well-known bloggers to sell out for a quick buck and collectively tell such blatant lies. Their fans would flame them to death.

But for her, this was a complete disaster.

The tables had turned. She had truly become the scapegoat.

Just then, a member of her operations team rushed over, shouting, "Lili, we have a situation! A ton of people are flooding our account’s backend, all of them cursing us out! And we’re losing a lot of followers!"

Zhao Lili’s face fell when she heard this. She scrambled up to take a look. When she saw the data her team member was showing her, her expression grew even darker.

’So many angry comments and lost followers already, right at the beginning... Once this incident really blows up, I’ll be in serious trouble.’

She couldn’t help but feel a surge of resentment toward her planner.

’If the planner hadn’t suggested this clout-chasing scheme, I wouldn’t have tried it, and now look at this mess.’

The planner had just returned from helping Zhao Lili submit her application. When he heard about the situation, his face turned grim. "How did this happen? Lili, didn’t you say there was no way Li Yuan Farm could make a moisturizing cream better than the big brands?"

Hearing that, Zhao Lili’s anger instantly deflated. After all, it was her misjudgment.

’But how on earth did Li Yuan Farm create a moisturizing cream that’s even better than those big-name brands?’

’It’s completely unbelievable.’

"What do we do now?" Zhao Lili asked, her face grave.

The planner frowned, thinking hard. After a moment, he suggested, "Post a new video. Retract what you said in the last one. Emphasize the point you made about how it would be a different story if Li Yuan Farm had some special technique. That might salvage things a bit and keep the situation from getting too out of hand."

"What if Li Yuan Farm issues another statement refuting us? We’ll be in an even worse position," Zhao Lili pointed out the main flaw in his plan.

The planner said flatly, "We’ll buy our way out of it."

...

「At the Li Yuan Farm Trial Event」

After trying Li Yuan Farm’s moisturizing cream, the tourists and bloggers were all in a state of disbelief.

One blogger couldn’t resist asking Lin Muxue, who was hosting on stage, "Director Lin, your moisturizing cream is amazing! I think I’ll be choosing Li Yuan Farm’s cream from now on. I was just wondering, what will the price be?"

Lin Muxue was prepared for this question. After all, it was a crucial part of the trial event.

The farm was promoting this product, and the ultimate goal was to sell it to tourists.

So, she said with a smile, "Everyone has now experienced the effects of our moisturizing cream. As for the price, we haven’t set it too high. A 100-gram container will be 208 yuan. Competing international products of the same size generally start at 200 yuan, so I trust you’ll find our product is worth the price."

Everyone nodded at her words.

It was definitely worth it.

Some of the bloggers even felt that, brand value aside, based on effect alone, Li Yuan Farm could have priced the moisturizing cream even higher.