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Chapter 421
Chapter 421
Chapter 421
Chapter 421 The World of Grown-Ups, Where Everything Comes With a Price Tag
After Lilly finished speaking, she tiptoed and snatched the bill from the doctor’s hand before darting off to make the payment.
Just a couple of steps outside, she suddenly remembered something and turned back to grab Grace.
Blake’s eyes gleamed with amusement. His daughter was truly remarkable, capable of standing up for
herself.
“She’s got some spirit, that girl of mine!” he chuckled to himself.
And off they went, with Blake leading a stray dog on a makeshift leash provided by the hospital.
With the big wolf dog now out of danger, there was less cause for worry. They planned to drop off the stray dog at the nearby grooming center for a bath while getting a full check-up done.
Kelly, on the other hand, was left ignored.
Frozen in place, her face flushed red.
The doctor glanced at her and continued into the emergency room.
People nearby started whispering and gossiping about Kelly:
“That woman is a hypocrite. She cried like she lost her mother… and she wanna do the blood transfusion with her blood?”
“Good Samaritan my foot! The moment it’s time to pay up, her true colors show.”
Someone even snidely remarked, “I thought she could do anything. But she won’t even lend twenty thousand!”
Coincidentally, a commercial began playing on the television mounted on the wall:
A tall and stunning flight attendant followed a short and unattractive old man home. Just before entering the house, she abruptly refused to go inside and demanded the man check his credit limit on a certain credit card.
“What? You don’t even know your limit on xxx? We’re not compatible!”
The man hastily pulled out his phone and checked, revealing a credit limit of $150,000.
With that, the flight attendant’s tears turned into laughter, and she happily entered the house, arm in arm with the man.
Amid this scene, combined with Lilly’s recent words….
The gaze of the onlookers at Kelly resembled the way people looked at that dimwitted flight attendant in the commercial.
Kelly felt a burning sensation on her face, humiliated aid disheartened. She stomped her foot in frustration and dashed away, feeling utterly mortified.
The television on the hospital wall was playing an advertisement video. The screens throughout the entire
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hospital were synchronized, and Lilly, who was in line to make the payment, also caught sight of that commercial.
Curiously, she asked, “Daddy, do people believe these commercials?”
Even she knew they were deceiving.
Her grandmother always said that pic wouldn’t fall from the sky, only traps would. No one would willingly. give away money for nothing.
Blake replied, “Only fools would believe them.”
Despite their low quality, these types of commercials had low production costs and low advertising. thresholds. This meant that they could be flooded into the market on a massive scale.
The blatantly obvious and lowbrow nature of these commercials filtered out the group of people with normal cognitive abilities. When normal individuals say such advertisements, they generally scoffed and rolled their eyes in disbelief.
What remained were the believers, and it was this group that was easily deceived.
The principle was simple: think about it, which is more costly, deceiving a normal person or deceiving a fool?
Certainly, the former!
By flooding the market with these advertisements, even among ten thousand people, there would always be one or two who believed. What about one hundred thousand people, one million people, or ten million people?
The vast target audience was immediately narrowed down.
So, the objective of these commercials was to identify the “fools” they desired. Those who would call them were easy to deceive, reducing the cost of promotion and drastically lowering the cost of failure.
The conversion rate became incredibly high.
These were the target customers of online loan companies. Once they captured these customers, they would never experience a loss.
“Do you understand?” Blake asked after explaining.
In truth, he only asked casually. After all, for a four-year-old child, these concepts were too complex.
What is online lending? What is a target audience? What is filtering… These were not things a young child could comprehend.
However, Lilly responded, “It’s like a fishing net, with big holes in it.”
The little one made a circle with her hands.
“And then someone makes fun of it, saying, ‘What can you catch with such a big fishing net? The fish and shrimp will just swim out of the holes.””
“But this fishing net isn’t meant to catch normal fish and shrimp. It’s meant to catch big dumb fish. The big dumb fish are big, so they won’t slip out of the holes in the net. One catch and it’s a sure thing!”
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Blake went sen11.
That made a lot of sense. He was rendered speechless.
After making the payment, Blake took Lilly and Grace to have the stray dog bathed.
Once the dog was clean and had undergone a thorough examination, it was found to be only skinny from hunger, without any other health issues.
With its clean coat and drooping cars, the stray dog had slightly off-white, yellowish fur that resembled at rural mutt.
As the staff attached a leash to the dog, one of them remarked, “This Labrador doesn’t have a very pure. bloodline… Are you willing to spend a few thousand bucks on it?”
A few thousand bucks might not be much to Lilly, but for the average person, it was indeed a sizable sum.
Lilly leaned on Blake’s shoulder and curiously asked, “What’s a bloodline, and is it important?”
The staff member glanced at Blake discreetly and hesitated to say anything.
Of course, bloodline was important. Purebred Labrador puppies cost at least a thousand bucks cach, and those bred by reputable breeders could go for tens of thousands or even more.
But with mixed breeds, it was a different story. You could probably get one for a hundred or two hundred bucks, so naturally, they were considered less valuable
However, the staff members didn’t dare say that. They simply smiled and replied, “It’s alright, this dog is well-behaved. Doesn’t make a fuss, nor does it bite.”
Polly interjected, “Nonsense! It just bit a pig a moment ago!”
The staff member remained speechless.
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