When we were young, immersed in countless tales of martial heroes, we all dreamed of becoming a great hero—soaring through the skies, upholding justice, and righting wrongs wherever we found them. Yet
2015.
Autumn.
Qu Liqing City.
In the LC District, inside a dilapidated residential building.
Within it, there was one particularly large room, perhaps fifty or sixty square meters, its floor covered with cheap, low-quality tiles. A blackboard still hung on the wall, and dozens of student desks were arranged in rows, making it look like some kind of cram school.
Seated behind these desks were dozens of adults, each dressed in their own unique way.
On the podium stood a young man in a blue suit and glasses, exuding the air of a so-called “pseudo-intellectual.” He held a teaching pointer and gesticulated energetically in front of the blackboard. “This is not pyramid selling. Pyramid selling is a business model strictly prohibited by the state. How could we possibly be involved in that? What we practice is direct selling. Direct selling was introduced from abroad in May 1998 as an advanced sales model.”
“Our company operates international, state-of-the-art production lines, our product technology leads the way in Europe, America, Japan, and Korea. Founded in 2004 with a registered capital of thirty million, we increased it to two hundred million a year later, and now it has reached over ten billion, with annual revenues in the hundreds of billions. Since our inception, we have imported advanced network direct selling models and the principle of market multiplication.”
“The direct selling model means products are delivered directly from the manufacturer to the consumer through a single agent, bypassing traditional logistics, who