After hanging up the phone, Han Zidong pressed his eyebrows and secretly decided to open a box for Xiao Heizi when he returned from China.

Pei Zhuxuan sat up: "Let's get up, it's getting late."

Han Zidong really didn't want to get up, so he pulled up the quilt and covered his face, squinting his eyes and continuing to rest.

Upon seeing this, Pei Zhuxuan lay down next to Han Zidong and blew the air at the half of Han Zidong's ears exposed outside the quilt.

"Get up quickly. Didn't you say you still have to pay the rent deposit and draw a short comic?"

"Stop talking, I have a headache!"

"By the way, you have to submit a manuscript to me, once every three days, twice a week. Are you still one manuscript short of this week?"

Han Zidong's head hurt even more.

Last week, he did make an appointment with Pei Zhuhyun to help each other draw some popular science comics about ancient poems or classic love stories, and at the same time mark the pronunciation of Chinese characters with Korean syllables to help Pei Zhuhyun learn Chinese.

"You Who Came from the Star", "What's Wrong with Secretary Kim" by Kim Jae-kyung, "The Strange Lawyer Woo Young-woo" by Kim Ah-young, house design drawings, Shin Yoon-joo's birthday present, and the next comic "" which is currently in the stage of collecting materials

"Signal", a short comic "Occasional Event" created for Dal Shabet...

Reluctantly, he got up, put on his slippers, and walked towards the bathroom. What woke him up every day was not only a series of life-threatening calls, but also gifts from his girlfriends and prospective girlfriends.

Pei Zhuxuan smiled and followed quickly with her calves.

"Together, my dear."

…

At a salad shop in Gangnam District, Shin Yoon-joo walked in front of the members and waved a bank card in her hand.

When she came to the counter, she handed over her bank card.

"Please place an order."

The cashier glanced at Shen Yunzhu and took the bank card. However, the next second the cashier suddenly raised his head and looked at Shen Yunzhu blankly.

She has long blond hair, rare air bangs, is above the average height, and is wearing a mask...

"Maybe...are you Shin Yoon-joo, the doormat?"

"Inside?"

Seeing that the person involved had not yet reacted, a girl with smiling eyes who was slightly taller than her walked over from behind. The cashier raised his finger and pointed at the girl and said: "With the iconic smiling eyes, you are the group's maknae Li Yuying."

Li Yuying couldn't believe her ears.

Even though she was wearing a mask, she could still be recognized by others. This made her so excited that she even forgot about the words she had just prepared to deny for Shen Yunzhu.

"You know us?"

The cashier nodded, then pointed at the other four members and said: "Kwon Nara with eight heads, Yoo A-ra with beautiful pupils, Kim Hye-rim with high pitch, and Song Joo-hee with lips."

The cashier's voice was so loud that it disturbed many customers sitting nearby.

Liu Eluo glanced around, and several diners slowly gathered around with their mobile phones. She whispered to Quan Nara and walked straight to the cashier.

"Here, we are Hello Venus, please help us settle the meal bill first."

"Inside, please wait a moment."

The cashier glanced at several members while calculating the meal cost.

He quoted a number, and after Shen Yunzhu confirmed it, he inserted his bank card and deducted the corresponding meal fee.

When handing back the bank card, the cashier asked: "Perhaps... can a few of you take photos and autographs? We have a display wall with artist signatures and photos in the store..."

There are many entertainment agencies in Gangnam District. Many restaurants will encounter diners who are celebrities. Once they recognize the identity of the other party, they will usually ask for an autograph to attract fans of the corresponding celebrity to check in, thereby increasing the reputation of the store.

Generally speaking, most artists will agree to the store's request whether they are sincere or to avoid being slandered by big names.

Liu Aluo did not dare to refuse the other party's proposal without authorization, and asked the members to take off their masks.

As soon as several members took off their masks, the people who were originally gathered around from afar immediately came over and formed a small circle around them.

"Here, we are Hello Venus."

The six members bent down to say hello to the surrounding diners, and were greeted by a burst of snapping photos.

At this time, the cashier had already taken the Polaroid from another staff member: "Hey, please stand a little more concentratedly."

Liu Eluo called the members to gather together and gestured with scissors happily. The cashier took two pictures in succession, checked the effect, and handed them to Liu Eluo and Li Yuying respectively.

The six members signed their names in the corners of the photo, and finally returned it to the cashier respectfully.

The cashier thanked him with satisfaction, secretly picked up one of the sheets and put it into his pocket.

Axi, the real person is more beautiful than the emoji. Why hasn’t he discovered this girl group before?

Seeing this, other diners came over one after another and asked for photos. The six members wore standard smiles and fulfilled most of the diners' photo requests one by one.

But as the news spread, it was inevitable that a new group of passerby fans would arrive nearby.

The group photo of this chance encounter ended with the manager and driver escorting the six members away citing their schedules, but half an hour had passed since they were recognized.

Sitting in the nanny's car, several people were still chattering about what they had just seen.

Maknae Li Yuying said with a smile: "This must be the first time we can be recognized by fans while wearing masks."

Liu Eluo responded: "It's a pity that all of them are fans of emojis."

Her words caused several other members to clap their hands and laugh.

Finally, Song Zhuxi called her manager: "Oppa, how many copies of our Yunzhu emoticons have been sold?"

The manager held up his cell phone and showed it to Liu Eluo, who was sitting nearest: "On the way here, I specifically asked the person in charge of Lezhi Comics. It seems that Yunzhu's emoticon pack has sold 1.9 million copies."

"so much?"

1.9 million copies is not a small number. You must know that the number of people online at the same time in the national game "Anipang" is only more than 2 million, and the emoticon package module has only been online for nearly four hours so far. It is not a problem to break 2 million today.

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"What about ours?"

"Actually, the sales volume of the two of you are not much different. A Luo's is 1.63 million, Nora's is 1.65 million, Zhu Xi's is 1.58 million, Hui Lin, and Li Yuying's are about 1.45 and 1.48 million."

The difference between the highest and the lowest is 180,000, but it’s not that much of a difference?

Well, a few people have to admit that compared with the overall data, the difference of more than 100,000 is indeed "not too different."

"Where's Senior Kim Jae Kyung?"

"It is said that it has exceeded 2 million copies, but no one knows how many copies it is."

"Yunju Unnie," Li Yuying called Shen Yunzhu: "There is only the last half day left. Unnie has to make a good run for the first place before the end of this week."

Shin Yoon-joo put down her phone: "It's not that easy. Senior Kim Jae-kyung is so awesome, even I bought her emoji pack."

…

“What is the sales volume of Kim Zai-kyung emoticon packs?”

"Reporter Huang, which third question is this for you?"

In the study room, while Han Zidong was sketching "The Incident of Encounter", he asked Huang Quancan on the other side of the phone to the phone that was held by Pei Zhuhyun's lips.

Huang Quancan laughed awkwardly: "This is really the last question this time. How many registered users do you have of Lezhi Comics?"

"Hey, Reporter Huang, do you think I can give you an accurate answer for this kind of question?"

"Then let me ask and you answer, do you have 10 million?"

"You really think highly of me."

"6 million?"

"No more." Seeing a series of new Kakao messages pop up on the screen of his mobile phone, Han Zidong paused and swallowed: "Stop it, this is enough for you to write an article."

"Hahaha, okay."

Han Zidong winked at Pei Zhuxuan, and Pei Zhuxuan hung up the phone tacitly and returned the phone to him.

One hand was sketching a line drawing, and the other hand was in the blind spot under the table, secretly clearing the notification bar based on the feel of the hand.

With more than 6 million users, Pei Zhuxuan felt incredible: "Does your website have so many users?"

Han Zidong said calmly: "There is actually no point in discussing registered users."

"Why?"

Hearing this, Han Zidong put down the pressure-sensitive pen and thought it was an intermission. He turned around and patted his thigh. Pei Zhuxuan pursed her lips in a funny way and sat up skillfully, facing him.

"Let me ask you, what do you think I want users to do in Lezhi Comics? To put it more simply, it is what users do on the platform."

"Of course I read comics and spend money to read comics." After a pause, Bae Zhuhyun suddenly added: "And buy emoticons."

"Yes, in the final analysis, we are a comics platform, and our goal is to allow users to read comics and then take more paying actions."

While explaining to Bae Zhuhyun, Han Zidong's hands were not idle, and he quickly typed in reply to Shin Yunzhu's message.

“So from registered users, to active users who just use the online voting function, to free users who read comics, and finally to paid users, the latter two are the real users we need.

Our biggest task right now is to retain users and drive user consumption, thereby cultivating users’ habit of opening Lezhi Comics every day.”
To be continued...