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.
ke''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 ke 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 nned 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 ce, her face flushed red.
The doctor nced 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, amercial began ying 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 notpatible!"
The man hastily pulled out his phone and checked, revealing a credit limit of $150,000.
With that, the flight attendant''s tears turned intoughter, and she happily entered the house, arm in
arm with the man.
Amid this scene,bined with Lilly''s recent words...
The gaze of the onlookers at Kelly resembled the way people looked at that dimwitted flight attendant
in themercial.
Kelly felt a burning sensation on her face, humiliated and disheartened. She stomped her foot in
frustration and dashed away, feeling utterly mortified.
The television on the hospital wall was ying an advertisement video. The screens throughout the
entire hospital were synchronized, and Lilly, who was in line to make the payment, also caught sight of
thatmercial.
Curiously, she asked, "Daddy, do people believe thesemercials?"
Even she knew they were deceiving.
Her grandmother always said that pie wouldn''t fall from the sky, only traps would. No one would
willingly give away money for nothing.
ke replied, "Only fools would believe them."
Despite their low quality, these types ofmercials had low production costs and low advertising
thresholds. This meant that they could be flooded into the market on a massive scale.
The tantly obvious and lowbrow nature of thesemercials filtered out the group of people with
normal cognitive abilities. When normal individuals saw 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.
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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 thesemercials 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 loanpanies. Once they captured these customers, they
would never experience a loss.
"Do you understand?" ke asked after exining.
In truth, he only asked casually. After all, for a four-year-old child, these concepts were tooplex.
What is online lending? What is a target audience? What is filtering... These were not things a young
child couldprehend.
However, Lilly responded, "It''s like a fishing, 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? The fish
and shrimp will just swim out of the holes.''"
"But this fishing 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. One catch and it''s a sure thing!"
ke went silent.
That made a lot of sense. He was rendered speechless.
After making the payment, ke 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 ears, the stray dog had slightly off-white, yellowish fur that resembled
a 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 ke''s shoulder and curiously asked, "What''s a bloodline, and is it important?"
The staff member nced at ke discreetly and hesitated to say anything.
Of course, bloodline was important. Purebred Labrador puppies cost at least a thousand bucks each,
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.