Introduction to the novel
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Gu Wantang, a 21st century marketing elite, suddenly suffered from heart palpitations during a work report meeting. When he opened his eyes again, he was already on Xiafei Road in Shanghai in the late autumn of 1930. When modern digital marketing thinking collided with the gilded days of Shili Foreign Market, she looked at the hem of the cheongsam embroidered with lotus flowers in the mirror, and vaguely scrolled through the afterimage of the data report - the Rong's Silk and Satin Factory, where her father left him alone before his death, was being squeezed by foreign cloth companies and its books were red.
Relying on accurate user portrait analysis, she asked the embroiderers to embroider the brand story on the rickshaw driver's sweat towel, turning the backlog of lake blue satin into a "twenty-year inheritance" time brocade; when using the SWOT model to dismantle competing products, the pen tip sketched the cutting diagram of the improved cheongsam on rice paper. When the "modern" foreign cloth store of Huo Tingshen, an overseas businessman, lit up with neon lights across the street, the confrontation between the two evolved from an open and covert battle over window display design to a late-night confrontation over advertising copywriting.
He said: "Shopping malls are like battlefields, and women should stay in the embroidery room." She used the modern technique of holographic projection to recreate the twelve ancient embroidery techniques in the Shu embroidery exhibition area of the World Expo, and the buyers from Paris were amazed by the three-dimensional embroidered peonies on the cheongsam. When the gold powder at the end of the calendar girl's eyes overlapped with the fluorescence of the Excel table in his memory, Gu Wantang discovered that what was more difficult to calculate than the business game was Huo Tingshen's eyes that inadvertently fell on her hair when she was checking her account books.
The neon lights of Shili Foreign Market reflect the marketing notes exposed at the slits of the cheongsam. A business war and love that spans time and space is quietly fermenting in the shadow of the parasol trees of old Shanghai along with the scent of ink from the calendar advertisement.
Protagonist's name
Gu Wantang
