Qiao Liang had no idea that Tardif Studio was also closely monitoring online public opinion.

“Tailored to Measure” was the crystallization of all Tardif Studio staff members’ hard work. How could they possibly give up on it?

The lack of early promotion and the current silence in the face of online controversy were only because Lin Wan, Cai Jiadong, and other Tardif Studio members were brewing a bigger storm.

At this moment in Tardif Studio’s conference room, Lin Wan, Cai Jiadong, and several other key creative team members were all present, holding a meeting.

Lin Wan handed the meeting materials to Cai Jiadong, who distributed them to everyone.

“The preliminary preparation work for establishing the Luxury clothing brand has been completed.”

“We’ve contacted the best clothing manufacturing factories in China, all using the highest quality fabrics, especially premium domestic materials like extra-long staple cotton.”

“Additionally, we’ve also contacted a group of excellent designers to join ‘Tailored to Measure’ and the Luxury clothing brand, becoming our official clothing designers.”

“On the gaming front, those designers we invited during our closed beta testing designed many excellent game outfits, and since the game launched a few days ago, there have been many outstanding designs emerging.”

“By integrating these player designs with our official designers’ work, we can launch the first series of clothing for our Luxury brand.”

“It’s time to announce the collaboration between ‘Tailored to Measure’ and the Luxury brand!”

Everyone nodded, their expressions full of excitement and anticipation.

This day had finally arrived!

When Pei Qian came to Tardif Studio to check on the game’s progress, Lin Wan wasn’t there; Cai Jiadong received him instead.

At that time, Lin Wan had gone to southern China to negotiate cooperation with clothing manufacturing factories.

And after “Tailored to Measure” was released, they didn’t conduct large-scale promotional campaigns or announce the collaboration with the Luxury clothing brand—this was to let the bullet fly a while longer and accumulate some buzz.

In reality, for Tardif Studio, the worst-case scenario wasn’t being criticized or attacked, but being ignored.

If this game, after its release and without any promotion, couldn’t create any ripples or generate any buzz, then the game would truly be doomed!

But now the level of online discussion wasn’t low. Whether it was trolls attacking or players debating, having discussions was always good.

This way, Tardif Studio’s upcoming plans could unfold smoothly.

Lin Wan paused briefly and continued: “Beyond that, I’ve noticed a recent international news hot topic. We won’t actively try to capitalize on trending topics, but if a hot topic has already landed right in front of us, it would be a shame not to take advantage of it!”

Cai Jiadong was momentarily stunned, but immediately understood what Lin Wan meant.

“Director Lin, are you referring to the news about many foreign clothing brands joining forces to boycott our country’s extra-long staple cotton?”

Lin Wan nodded: “Yes!”

“To be honest, I’ve been dissatisfied with these foreign clothing brands for a long time! Unfortunately, many of our domestic clothing brands are simply too disappointing. Consumers barely have any choices.”

“But now it’s different. Since we’ve decided to create the Luxury brand, a battle with these foreign clothing brands is inevitable sooner or later.”

“This incident is an excellent opportunity.”

“We must use this opportunity to make a big splash, striving to establish Luxury firmly in the domestic clothing brand market.”

“First build our reputation through online models, and once sales pick up, quickly expand offline into major shopping malls in all cities, pushing out the market share occupied by those foreign clothing brands.”

“Is everyone confident?”

Everyone answered in unison: “Yes!”

Under these circumstances, even if they weren’t confident, they had to say they were!

Although foreign clothing brands were indeed powerful, and many excellent domestic brands had been unable to defeat them despite years of effort—let alone the newly born Luxury brand.

But this battle wasn’t merely between clothing brands; it was a battle between domestic products and foreign brands.

How could they retreat or admit defeat in such a battle?

Moreover, the Luxury brand embodied Mr. Pei’s Tenda spirit and his profound critique of foreign brands and luxury brands. With such powerful theoretical weapons in hand, how could they bow to foreign brands?

Everyone felt inspired and determined to win this public opinion battle.

…

August 8th, Thursday.

Qiao Liang sat in front of his computer, scratching his head and sighing. He felt very frustrated.

After thinking for an entire day, he still couldn’t figure out how to refute that review.

Not only that, but as he searched online for inspiration and materials, he saw many posts criticizing “Tailored to Measure” for lacking gameplay, which made him even more furious.

“Trolls! These are definitely trolls!”

“The signs of troll activity are way too obvious this time!”

“These trolls are so rampant, it’s simply outrageous!”

Qiao Liang grew angrier.

The growth history of Qiao Laoshi’s account could be seen as a history of struggle against trolls.

Since Tenda’s earliest games, troll activities had never ceased. And as a loyal player of Tenda games, Qiao Liang had always been on the front lines against these trolls.

Objectively speaking, when trolls attacked Tenda games online, they created significant buzz. And Qiao Liang’s heroic stance in refuting these trolls had indeed made a huge contribution to his follower growth.

But this didn’t diminish Qiao Liang’s hatred for these trolls.

It was truly infuriating!

The key was that previously these trolls were relatively restrained, knowing how to blend in among players when attacking Tenda games, subtly steering the narrative.

But this time they weren’t even pretending anymore.

Just as “Tailored to Measure” went online, before the officials had time to conduct large-scale promotions, the trolls had already rampantly begun their activities, giving negative reviews and low scores on various forums and websites, while diligently instilling the idea into players that “this game has poor gameplay, it’s not fun.”

Although their hasty actions led to obvious exposure and triggered unanimous condemnation from netizens, as the buzz gradually fermented over these two days, these trolls still showed no restraint, even escalating their efforts.

This was absolutely intolerable!

Qiao Liang was very angry, with serious consequences!

However, he temporarily couldn’t think of a way to refute that game review. Full of pent-up anger, he could only vent his frustration on the trolls.

“We can’t tolerate this any longer. I think now is the time to strike hard and call for justice from above!”

“I’ve decided to report them formally.”

“Whether it works or not, I have to do my part. I can’t just stand by and watch these trolls continue to run rampant, continuing to smear Tenda’s good games.”

With this in mind, Qiao Liang decided to report to the internet police, while also compiling all the evidence he had collected.

It must be said that there was quite a lot of evidence.

Qiao Liang searched carefully and found that many of Tenda’s games and movies showed signs of troll activity at their initial release, and he had identified several troll accounts.

Of course, many trolls had the habit of switching accounts, not sticking to one account continuously, often hitting once and moving elsewhere—but these were mostly low-level trolls.

Many high-level trolls nurtured their accounts because accounts needed a certain number of followers and influence to have the desired effect. And nurturing these accounts wasn’t something that could be done overnight. If one traced these accounts continuously, they could always find some clues.

As for how the internet police would determine whether the posting records of these accounts constituted troll activities and whether they would continue to investigate, that was beyond Qiao Liang’s control.

But in any case, he felt he needed to report this situation seriously.

What if it worked?

Qiao Liang believed that as long as people with hearts oriented toward the light persisted in their struggle, justice would eventually prevail.

…

By the time Qiao Liang had finished everything and returned home, it was already past 9 PM.

Having settled one matter, Qiao Liang felt refreshed. He opened his computer to continue browsing online discussions about “Tailored to Measure,” wanting to find a breakthrough point to refute that game review.

At that moment, his eyes lit up.

“Tardif Studio’s Real Collaboration Department is actually creating a new clothing brand called Luxury in conjunction with ‘Tailored to Measure’?”

“And the official website is already online, with various promotional activities fully launched!”

“Great, is this a new domestic clothing brand on the rise?”

“Wait, isn’t Luxury the name of the clothing brand in ‘Struggle’?”

After seeing Tardif Studio’s announcement about creating a new clothing brand, Qiao Liang was first overjoyed, then confused.

He was overjoyed because he seemed to see the strong rise of a new domestic brand!

Although there were already some decent domestic clothing brands, there was still a considerable gap compared to top foreign brands.

And for some reason, certain brands always made inexplicably bizarre moves. Just when netizens were beginning to develop some goodwill because of patriotic sentiments, they completely ruined that goodwill.

Recently, Qiao Liang had also noticed international news about some foreign brands jointly boycotting domestic extra-long staple cotton. This news had also filled Qiao Liang with righteous indignation!

In fact, Qiao Liang had long been fed up with these foreign brands.

Not only were clothes and shoes getting more expensive while the craftsmanship got worse, but they were also increasingly taxing people’s intelligence, often smuggling in cultural exports.

Some shoes had even become speculative futures, with many young people going broke speculating on shoes, experiencing their first financial collapse.

Clothes and shoes were clearly daily consumer goods, but these “genius” foreign brands had turned them into financial products by artificially creating scarcity.

One could only say: city tricks run deep, foreign tricks run deeper.

In this environment, many people eagerly awaited the emergence of a batch of high-quality, affordable domestic brands.

If such brands existed, many people would surely turn to domestic brands out of frustration with foreign ones.

However, previously, domestic brands each had their own problems, many of them not being very promising. So even if consumers wanted to support them with real money, they simply couldn’t spend it.

But now it was different. Tardif Studio’s brand had already provided designs, prices, and materials on the official website.

Not only did they use premium domestic materials like extra-long staple cotton, but their designs were aesthetically pleasing, and the prices were very reasonable.

Combined with the reputation of Tardif Studio and the Tenda Group, this product would naturally receive widespread attention upon its launch.

Moreover, officials had announced that the Luxury clothing brand would collaborate with “Tailored to Measure,” with excellent designs from the game being promoted in the Luxury brand, and designers receiving generous rewards.

All these were essential factors for success—a perfect confluence of timing, geographical advantage, and human harmony!

But the problem was: what was up with the name of this clothing brand?

The Luxury clothing brand in the game “Struggle” was clearly a representative of consumerism and hedonism, a tool for the wealthy to exploit the poor.

Was it really appropriate to directly use it as a new clothing brand in reality?

Qiao Liang couldn’t help but wonder, was it because the person in charge at Tardif Studio hadn’t played “Struggle,” or hadn’t correctly understood the game, that they made such an outrageous decision?

No, that’s impossible!

For such a big matter, Mr. Pei most likely knew about it, and moreover, Lin Wan was in charge of Tardif Studio. Having a close relationship with Tenda, her understanding of Tenda games even far exceeded Qiao Liang’s.

How could she not know what the Luxury clothing brand represented in the game?

So there was only one explanation for this: it was intentional by the designers!

Qiao Liang couldn’t help but get excited. He felt that he might have found the key entry point to refute that game review!