7. The Rise of the Coco Demon

In 2007, the Symbian system is still the mainstream, the iPhone that has subverted the world has just released the first generation, and it has not yet entered the public eye, people are talking about Nokia's machine N95, and the MP5 that can read books is already a high-end product, such as Qin Wei, Fan Lifeng and Qiao Yun, who can talk about Q.Q with a mobile phone, which belongs to the elite class. In such an era, everyone is talking about the rise of online media, but they don't know that in the eyes of future generations, the speed of information dissemination in this era can only be called the era of ignorance at best - in Chinese mainland, especially in the 21st century, this dragon has just taken off into the 21st century, and a large number of residents have been shaken off poverty and begun to slowly accept the fact that the 'petty bourgeois life' that used to only appear in movies and television dramas, and was envied and looked up to by them, is now really starting and happening around them......

Li Mei is such a typical example, she was born in a small inland city, her parents are both employees of the enterprise, so she is an only child, and like most people in this era, her life has been tight since she was a child. The contradiction between abundant desire and scarce resources has been the main theme of her growing up. But fortunately, life is always getting better, and the same is true for Li Mei's family, after graduating from college in 2003, Li Mei found a job in a foreign company in Shanghai, and since that day, her life has changed greatly. Just graduated, her monthly salary is about 3,000 yuan, this income is already the sum of her parents' salary, four years later, her parents' salary has doubled, but Li Mei is the same, 7,000 yuan a month, a foreign company charters a lunch, deducts 1,000 yuan of rent, and the remaining five or six thousand can make her free to spend, occasionally have a glass of Starbucks will not feel distressed, KFC and McDonald's, which used to be regarded as high-end restaurants, are now regarded as normal, and even vaguely feel that the price is too low. Li Mei carefully manages her own small life, she can finally go into the mall to get a set of Estee Lauder small brown bottles (but the amount is saved), for her, all aspects of life, the most ointment is the clothing, food, housing and transportation in the clothing column.

In the life of Chinese, clothes have always been very expensive products, just like walking into KFC to eat a meal of fried chicken, buying decent clothes in a specialty store is also a rare luxury, but now, KFC is constantly cheaper, and clothes have not become cheaper, every time you climb the clothing layer is a baptism of body and mind, according to Li Mei's psychological budget, she now only wears Bannelu and Metersbonwe, which are laughed at at the end of the world, Esp*it, e*am, Shu*wu and EtB*ite are terriblely expensive, Verom*da and O*ly can't buy them without discounts, it's Et*m's secondary line E*amWeekend, and a summer skirt costs 600 yuan when it first goes on the market - her monthly salary is only six or seven thousand!

Expensive, these clothing brands have about another characteristic, that is, ugly terrible, even if you let go of the budget, the workmanship and materials are so bad that it is not worth the price, three hundred T-shirts, washed twice and began to deform, the basic model is ugly to understand, the upper body effect is simply a village girl, a little bit of slim style are all five or eight hundred, even so, over the skirt, the inside is full of threads, individual exaggeration, the line is crooked. The clerk's face is never good-looking, and a pair of eyes seem to be able to see through that she is not a high-roller, and she pushes back when she greets, which makes people feel angry about being despised and despised . Even so, the store is always overcrowded, and there are always some customers who buy clothes and don't want money - Li Mei can't understand that every time she plucks up the courage to go shopping, she has the illusion that her IQ is insulted, and when she sees the customers in the store, she even sees the pain of her compatriots throwing thieves: the more people buy, the less the price will rise.

Fortunately, there is Taobao - thank God, fortunately there is Taobao, Li Mei simply loves Taobao to death, although it is not that she has not paid the tuition, but even without Taobao, she does not know where her clothes will come from - the cost performance of 7 Pu is not so good for individual customers who are not good at bargaining. Since discovering this secret holy place two years ago, more than 80% of her clothing purchase budget has been contributed, starting from EMS to YTO, Black Cat Home Delivery Service, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai free shipping...... The speed of express delivery is getting faster and faster, and there are more and more stores, which is indeed exciting good news, but sighing that the world is not in the ointment - after the honeymoon period, Li Mei began to gradually feel the regret of the Taobao model: of course, the website is all-inclusive, everything has to be sold, but, what should she buy?

At the beginning, of course, I bought all the 'discount goods' of the shopping mall brand, and I knew that I bought more, and it was an imitation when I said it, but she didn't care, she bought one or two pieces for a hundred yuan, and she didn't feel distressed if she lost it two or three times...... Anyway, the quality of the mall goods is not much better, but then her aesthetics are also improving, the money of the mall goods is completely unattractive, and the low-end goods of 7Pu are the same, I want to go to the high-end brand, but ...... She really didn't know what brand was better than V*romoda.

It's not that I haven't read clothing magazines, but I usually just flip through them casually, and the models there are at least three or four thousand, and it is impossible for her to have anything to do with it, and it can't play any guiding role, and then she was completely dumbfounded, Li Mei realized for the first time how unfriendly the fashion industry is to ordinary people, go to Baidu fashion mid-range brands, and most of the styles that come out have no imitations and tail lists. Originally, she didn't know how to search for keywords if she wanted to, and she always felt that there was a world secretly developing in Taobao's treasure pile, but she couldn't enter it. Where is the brand introduction of [the style is better than O*ly], [you can find about 100 yuan imitation on TB], and the preview of the new clothes of the season? This question is the main contradiction of Li Mei for a long time.

It was during this period that she discovered the Tianya fashion section and the Onlylady forum.

"Rosy, did you call for lunch? If you don't call it, let's eat Guilin rice noodles together?" Near noon, MSN was full of people ordering takeout or going to the cafeteria together, Li Mei also turned off Excel, and replied first, "I don't eat Guilin rice noodles anymore, you weren't afraid of eating cockroaches last time?" ”

"Okay, the cafeteria. The colleague was persuaded in a frustration, "Then you wait for me for five minutes, and I'll call you." ”

replied casually, Li Mei thought about it, and casually clicked on the OnlyLady in the favorites - over there in the world, the flow of people is too large, and there are a lot of advertising posts, I really can't bear it, or the quality of the posts on the forum is higher, and she often goes up to see it in fragmented time, especially recently, the season is about to change, and if you want to buy a T-shirt, you click more often.

"Oh, Coco has a new post?" her eyes lit up, and she quickly pressed the left mouse button. "Awesome, this time I must show off some T-shirts, I must show off~"

Before clicking in, she paid attention to the number of replies: "Uh, I posted last night, and now the replies have exceeded three hundred, and her popularity is really speechless......"

Speaking of which,There are actually not a lot of stickers who like to show clothes on Onlylady,In this era when there is no buyer show and personal Weibo,The entire online social culture is still based on the website,Onlylady's clothing version will have at least seventy or eighty new themes every day,Of course, there is no shortage of popular posters,For example, a pair of well-known twin sisters,Nicknamed Little C's posters,They are all old faces in the forum,Their posts Li Mei is also a must-see,Often search and buy according to the map,These are all old users for several years,Coco demon is new compared to the demon,However,Several of her posts have left a deep impression on Li MeiShe couldn't tell what it was......

[I haven't posted for a few days, do you miss me? The weather is getting hotter and hotter, and I've been very busy lately, I haven't visited TB much, show a few sets of recent small new favorites, according to the usual practice, go directly to the address, please go out if you question the trust, don't quarrel with the relatives who trust the demon's vision, come and see the demon's summer clothes review, hehe~]

Or go directly to the address, pinched so hard before, the post questioning her advertising swept the entire plate, and even the twins and little C were forced to post to clarify that they are definitely not trusted, and they will not be on the address, I didn't expect the demon to still insist so much, Li Mei couldn't help but smile: It's not that she hasn't seen it, she hasn't scolded the advertising post, but the demon's post is different, she can be so insistent on herself, Li Mei feels very individual.

[The first show is this set of floral chiffon doll shirts, this doll shirt is from the demon very much like Snidel, to new friends science popularization, Snidel is a high-end young brand in Japan, in Japan's first popular super popular street brand Ha, Japanese miscellaneous VIVI girl plate selection, so the design and identity is not doubtful, her clothes are described in one word that is 'fairy'! Lace, what is used for heavy work, a very real brand, that is, the price is also very real, crying, this babydoll shirt is the main style of this season, paste a little daily miscellaneous picture ......]

More than a dozen Japanese magazine photos were quickly loaded, although they were all Japanese that Li Mei couldn't understand, but there were a lot of jars, and she knew the name of the magazine and knew some models, but Li Mei only hurriedly skimmed over these pictures: the matching on the daily miscellaneous items, at least for her, is very ungrounded, and it can't be copied in daily life, plus the models have been strictly zhòngPS, and she also knows that it won't look so good when she really wears it, so she generally doesn't look close. Still, Coco's habit of being a demon still makes her like it - even if she doesn't look closely, it always feels more authoritative when it comes to provenance.

[But Snidel doesn't have a counter in China now, and the demon has no Japanese relatives and friends, crying, I can only turn to the almighty TB, I squatted at Xiaoxiang's house for a few days, and I happened to see a new one, it's this, the price of 140 is a little expensive, but in line with the trust in Xiaoxiang's family, I still started! ]

Coco demon's posts are basically mixed with pictures and texts.,At this time, it's the physical upper body picture—— The demon wearing sunglasses sat at the coffee table, only revealing her pointed chin, looking at the camera with her cheeks back, in the comfortable natural light, she was wearing a loose chiffon floral baby doll shirt, with a pair of black leggings underneath, and a pair of nude fish-toe shoes, a small black bag was placed on the side of the coffee table, which became an embellishment in the picture, there was a golden arrow necklace on the chest, and her hair was tied up with a silk scarf, which made her skin fair, and her outfit was simple and romantic.

It's different from magazine photos, although this photo also has significant traces of retouching, for example, the tone is adjusted to the very common A Bao color, but it doesn't feel like that kind of ungrounded magazine photo - Li Mei doesn't know how to describe the difference between these two photos, anyway, this photo is very simple, it won't make her feel that this is a magazine photo with no reference value, and so is the demon, not thin, It's so beautiful that kind of magazine model, the makeup is light, it looks very pleasing, and it's not refined like a magazine girl, it's basically a doll, and the skin is so good that it's not a little alive - but it's very good-looking, which makes people feel very comfortable and fairy-looking -

The most important thing is that the combination she chose may seem very inconspicuous in the magazine, not trendy at all, but it makes Li Mei's eyes shine and nod frequently: the several items matched here look very versatile, and low-key and simple, she is very confident that she can control it, even if it is worn without makeup, it is completely OK, and most importantly, although it is simple, it looks fairy.

The only thing is to tie the hair with a silk scarf, which seems to be a bit complicated, but it doesn't matter, can you use a ponytail instead, this silk scarf can be tied up and copied when you go out to play later......

She specially pulled it down, and found that the silk scarf also had a link, and as long as it was more than thirty yuan, she nodded and went back to look at the details - this is also an aspect of her liking demon stickers, although every time she releases a link, but she is not a trust at all, every time she will objectively evaluate the quality of this dress, and will also popularize some knowledge to judge the grade of clothes.

[In terms of quality, a friend came back with a Snidel shirt when he traveled to Japan, this brand is actually a very few women's brand in Japan, not a lady brand, so the workmanship itself is also Soso, and there is also a problem with the alignment of the thread and the pattern, so the psychological expectation is not high, the workmanship of this doll shirt is not much different from the genuine, if you turn it over, you can see some miscellaneous threads, such as the following picture, but fortunately, there is no flaw on the front, the thread is OK to trim it yourself, 140 yuan is really cost-effective~ In addition, the leggings on the body are really cheap and beautiful!40 yuan a piece, if you wear it out, it will be lost, it looks no different from hundreds of them, and it is super ~~ comfortable to wear, and versatile! There is also a silk scarf to tie your hair......]

"It's over, it's over. In just five minutes, Li Mei has been planted with at least three pieces of grass - not counting the bags and shoes that the demon did not put the link, the pair of nude fish-mouth shoes look very skin color and long legs......

"Ahh ”

Annie had finished her business, and walked over and asked curiously, "What kind of clothes?" ”

Just look at it, it's amazing, she also grassed up, "It's pretty good-looking, how much is it?" Yo, this body is more than 300, it's really not expensive! Send me the address, and I'll buy it too." ”

Li Mei is a little slandered: they don't need to wear a uniform to work in their company, and Annie always follows her, and it's actually quite embarrassing to bump into her shirt......

She didn't tell Annie that the M code was almost sold out, and it took a few minutes to deliberately delay it after the photograph, and only after the payment was completed did she send the address to Annie, and Annie opened it to select the number, and after a while she screamed, "Ah!

"Really? It looks like I bought the last few pieces -- I was in such a hurry that I didn't even notice. Li Mei's eyes lit up, and her face was still very pity, "Ouch, what should I do, you either search to see if there are other stores that sell it." ”

"Then what if the goods are not right?" Annie pouted, but quickly made a decision, "Then I'll buy blue, blue is pretty good, you wait for me, I'll pay for all these things together and we'll go to dinner." ”

For the remaining items, Li Mei originally wanted to think about it, but stimulated by the empty sale of the doll shirt, Annie said again, she didn't say a word, and bought the silk scarf and pants, and the two of them went to eat together, she also sighed for a long time, trying to dispel Annie's idea of buying clothes, "It's a pity, if you go faster, you can still buy pink - blue doesn't have an upper body picture, it's hard to say how it looks like to wear it." ”

Annie looked at her and smiled, and didn't answer, Li Mei was a little depressed, thinking about it, she could only blame herself for being cheap, and secretly made up her mind to buy clothes in the future, and never tell Annie again.

- When I came back from dinner, I caught a glimpse of Annie's computer screen and noticed that the page she was browsing looked very similar to Onlylady.

She stood up to pour water, and when she passed by, she glanced at the post of the Coco demon, knowing that Annie might have seen through her careful thoughts, and looked at Annie, and both of them laughed. Annie's smile was a little clear and ironic: Isn't it just a forum? If it doesn't depend on you, I won't be unable to find it, I won't be able to see it.

Li Mei's smile was sneering, and she had a sense of superiority: Hmph, what about the previous posts? The goods linked to them are all sold out, if you don't want to accept the so-called same model found in other stores, it's not the same and can't be bought?

The two white-collar workers did not reply to the post sent by the demon, Li Mei skimmed the reply post a little, and found that in addition to the reply post complimenting her for her good looks, most of them were asking about the purchase link of bags and shoes, so she closed the post with peace of mind: so many people asked, so there was no need for her to type anymore. The next time you post, youkai should release the link.

As for the replies that questioned her about her doing the tuo and P pictures, because there were not many of them, she skipped them casually - what Li Mei likes is her matching, and she doesn't have much affection for the little girl Coco Demon for the time being.

And the number of views and replies to this post, as well as the baby sales of the TB store, neither Li Mei nor Annie paid attention to it, for them, this is not worth caring about at all.

For some, it's different......

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"Four hundred pieces of clothes, all gone in one night?" At a stall in the 7P Road market, a young man shouted in surprise, "No, it hasn't been more than 12 hours, and all of them are sold out......?" Two hundred, go two hundred first, and see how the new one goes. ”

"It's not going to happen, Sister Zhang said that Xiaoxiang's family has packed this batch of goods. The purchaser who specializes in running the factory held a boxed lunch in his hand, and said inarticulately, "They were also surprised, how could they eat more than a thousand pieces, before their family couldn't have so much of it, so they went to ambush them to see on their page, it was like that for several days, and they walked seventy or eighty, but I didn't expect that last night they really walked away four hundred pieces, all the pink ones were gone in 12 hours, and there were more than 100 pieces of blue." I also placed an order to replenish the stock today, don't want blue, and the pink one will cost another 800, it's really crazy!"

"A lot of people on our side are asking about this and asking if we have it in stock. The little girl who was ambushed in front of the computer also turned her head and reported crisply, "Brother Qing, this time Sister Zhang is really not interesting, she has pitted us so badly!"

In any field, as long as there is no monopoly, of course, there is competition, such as this time Coco demon service Xiaoxiangjia, in the Japanese original single world belongs to a more famous store, there is a bamboo family with her size as a competitor, the two channels and pricing are basically the same, upstream wholesalers generally have goods are also evenly distributed, in the past few years, the two stores have cooperation and grievances, in general, the status of the rivers and lakes is still quite, but now it is different, Xiaoxiang's family out of the demon model, if this demon model comes out a few more times, the sales of her entire store will follow to a higher level, once the bamboo family is thrown off, It's not just as simple as standing still - any wholesaler will like to go to the volume of merchants, Xiaoxiang's volume rises, the price of the goods will be cheaper, not to mention, and the power to pick and choose colors will be greater, the bamboo family can only eat leftovers, and the prospects will be a lot darker.

Therefore, every time these two stores are new to each other, they are staring at each other, this time when Xiaoxiang's family first put on the floral doll shirt, Brother Qing was a little suspicious that they were taking the goods from Sister Zhang, but Sister Zhang is a big business, every shipment is a thousand, the two stores can't eat it alone, plus the total amount of Xiaoxiang's new is only 200 pieces, this suspicion is not stable, he has been inquiring about this for the past few days, thinking that Xiaoxiang's family has found something fresh, but he didn't expect that last night's sales suddenly exploded...... They haven't reacted yet, it was when they went to the factory this morning, Sister Zhang took the initiative to bring it up, and the purchase exploded when she heard it, and she drove back from Nantong and went straight to 7P to complain. "After the pit, I'm going to pretend to be a good person! Say more when you pay for the money, won't we take it?

Brother Qing also had a sense of panic with one foot in the air, but he was not angry, he was just anxious to find the reason for the sudden explosion of Xiaoxiang's family, put down the box lunch, turned on the computer to find all the contact methods, and pointed out the purchase while chatting, "It's not cheap, Sister Zhang can't talk about this just to anger us, on the one hand, it is gossip, on the other hand, she also hopes that we can also learn the secrets of the Xiang family, and make a hit...... Competition, two people have to be equal to each other to compete, if only the Xiang family is bigger, do you think they will return the money in seven days?"

The flow of funds in garment factories has always been a big problem, the more large customers can press the payment, seven days of payment this belongs to the extremely fast, some large businesses are three months, or even half a year to pay, just the pressure of the capital chain, sometimes can crush the garment factory. The sales sighed, understood, but was still a little angry, "Just tell the Xiang family, everyone will be transferred to three months to pay, I see what she will return." ”

The contradiction between the wholesaler and the retailer belongs to the class contradiction, it is almost impossible to reconcile, the palace fight drama is performed every day, Brother Qing laughs, and concentrates on chatting - the Xiang family suddenly came out with a demon money, which is tantamount to a small earthquake for this circle: think about it carefully, 140 yuan of skirts, Xiaoxiang's profit can almost reach about 100 yuan, 400 pieces is 40,000 yuan, if more than 1,000 pieces can be gone, how can the profit be 100,000 yuan - this is just one paragraph!

In the TB circle, there is no eternal secret, and it is impossible for a forum as big as Onlylady to be invisible, and Brother Qing heard gossip after a while: If you count it by time, it should be that in Onlylady's fashion section yesterday, a little girl showed off their clothes...... That's right, it's the COCO demon. I haven't heard of it, I haven't heard of it, she has posted more than a dozen threaded posts in less than two months after she appeared......

Brother Qing was stunned - as if he remembered something, he quickly rushed into the forum and clicked on all her post records to sort out -

"Ouch!"

Several employees in the store looked over, and even the owner of the neighboring shop stood up curiously to look - Qingge, who had always been calm, suddenly let out a cry of regret, and even slapped himself lightly.

"It's her—I'm such a pig, and she's wearing our clothes!"

Eventually, his voice fell, as if to cover up something, Brother Qing quickly closed all pages of the browser - but quickly reopened another one, sending a message to the Coco demon.

[Demon, hello, very presumptuous to disturb, I am the shopkeeper of the TB bamboo family, Qing Zhuzi, and I want to discuss something with you...... My Q number is ...... Can you get your Q number?]

-- In 24 hours, Qiao Yun received more than 30 letters with such content.