Our Glamorous Time( A Vsoo adaptation novel by Ding Mo)

Chapter 21(Keep Your Hope Up)

After the words burst from Jisoo’s mouth, she felt her heart lift somewhere high, wobbly and uncertain.

“Okay,” was the only thing Taehyung said.

Jisoo hung up the phone. She could feel herself covered in an icy frost, yet the palms of her hands were hot and sweaty.

Pacing around the room, she had no idea when Mr Park had come in. He stared at her from the doorway and looked sullen.

“I already know,” he said. “We can only try our luck now.”

Gently biting her lower lip, Jisoo nodded in agreement.

This was a gamble, a massive one—one that could cost 20 million. But it was their last hope.

The gamble carried all of their strong desires: fear, luck, reluctance, and their unwillingness to give up.

The two stepped out of the room together.

“Manager Park” Lin Qian said, lowering her voice, “I think for our next step we slow down the process and drag the online promotion along.”

As the words came out from her, oddly, she found herself already calming down. But her heart pounded intensely.

Unexpectedly, Jimin glanced at her with a smirk. How could he laugh at this point?

“That was also our opinion,” he responded.

Soon, on behalf of Taehyung, Jimin placed a new order—keep the website open, but lower the access speed of the servers and the event pages. The customers’ payments could only come through around one out of every ten orders.

Meanwhile, they needed to release an announcement saying they had been working on fixing the website attacked by hackers.

Jisoo returned to her computer and started to cook up a commercial hype in various online shopping websites, their related forums, and the popular discussion groups in the second and third-tier cities.

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The lights of the Layover head quarters were on throughout the whole night.

The customers’ shopping craze lasted until one o’clock the next morning. The first 2,000 bags containing the first prize were finally sold out. However, even after the promotion was over, the sales volume still grew for another 800. The main event page had over 5 million visits, leaving the comment section overloaded. The heated posts also kept coming on all the other major forums.

For those who failed to be one of the first 2,000 visitors, it was a shame. But the majority of them believed the sale was justified, as they were happy with the quality of Layover’s bags.

Those who managed to get the first prizes were extremely pleased. They started to post their proof for winning on their social media. However, there was also a lot of skepticism, questioning if Layover would be able to pay these prizes worth 20 million yuan due to the mistake.

Some people posted blogs and claimed that they would give up the prize because they were loyal customers of Layover, and they understood Layover was in a difficult situation. Some others proposed to Layover that there was no need to pay out the full 10,000 yuan prize, but it would be appreciated if Layover could reduce the payment for each prize after an explanation.

But, for the most part, the customers wouldn’t acknowledge the fact that Layover’s website had been hacked. They believed that this was the company’s own business. So they suggested Layover give away the red envelopes—that way they would be loyal to them forever.

Layover was already in the center of the media’s attention after the previous Carcinogen Incident. But after that night, multiple media platforms and websites had all started to forward this ridiculous news. The title of one of the articles read, “20 million dollars. Are you sure?” Yet Layover remained silent throughout the heated skepticism.