After arranging for the outstanding employees, Pei Qian returned to his rented apartment and took out the delivery package that had just arrived not long ago.

This time, Pei Qian bought two phones at once.

One was Shenhua’s latest flagship phone, the Shenhua N7, priced at 4,199 yuan, mainly targeting business professionals.

The other was the foreign manufacturer MSC’s latest flagship phone, B90, priced at over 4,600 yuan.

Many industries in this world have undergone significant changes compared to Pei Qian’s memories. This year, domestic phone manufacturers should theoretically be just beginning to gain momentum, struggling to compete with foreign phone manufacturers. But in this world, Shenhua’s mobile phone industry had developed rapidly.

Although their flagship phones couldn’t yet compete with Apple phones in overall strength, they had established themselves in the 4,000+ yuan price range, which was three to four years faster than the domestic phone manufacturers in Pei Qian’s memory.

Of course, considering the development level of the mobile phone and mobile game industries in this world, this didn’t seem too strange to Pei Qian.

Anyway, these weren’t the main points.

The main point was that today’s second victim would be this Shenhua N7.

As for the MSC phone, he would destroy it in the next episode.

Just like the previous episode, Pei Qian used his phone to record, and then went through the process step by step.

First soaking it in water, then dropping it from the air, followed by hardcore disassembly, reverse playback…

In short, he tortured this phone to death.

After completing the standard process, he simply cut and rendered the video, then uploaded it.

“Alright, job done!”

Pei Qian stretched lazily.

Work was tiring.

To be honest, the Shenhua N7’s drop resistance was really good, with a back cover even more solid than the Apple phone. Pei Qian couldn’t easily pry open the entire back cover like last time and had to put in quite a bit more effort.

However, as they say, great effort produces miracles—there was still no phone in this world that Mr. Pei couldn’t dismantle.

After finishing everything, Pei Qian felt it had taken less time than he expected, so he could do something else.

“Hmm… how about I just do the MSC flagship phone today as well.”

“After that, I’ll temporarily stop doing phones and can try other digital products like earphones, cameras, laptops, and so on—they can all be considered.”

Pei Qian yawned, opened a can of cola to refresh himself, and continued making the third episode of hardcore reviews.

Releasing two episodes at once was inappropriate. Pei Qian planned to wait and see the response to this episode tomorrow. If the response was good, he would release the MSC episode tomorrow or the day after.

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After “Hardcore Review Episode 2: Shenhua N7” was uploaded to AiLiDao, viewers who had previously followed this account quickly received notifications.

Although the “Hardcore Review” account didn’t have many fans at the moment, many people followed after watching the first episode. So when the second episode came out, the comment section quickly filled with responses.

“Holy crap, the second episode came so fast!”

“Last time it was the Apple 4, this time it’s the Shenhua N7? Two videos with a combined view count of less than 5,000, but the cost of both videos is heading straight for 10,000?!”

“The Apple 4 was nearly 5,000 yuan, the Shenhua N7 is 4,199 yuan, that’s over 9,000 yuan combined! All I can say is, we don’t understand the world of the rich!”

“Could it be a repost?”

“It’s not a repost. You can’t find this ‘Hardcore Review’ account anywhere else—it seems to be an AiLiDao exclusive.”

“This is a real rich guy!”

“Nothing more to say—like, coin, share! Just for the cost of this video, we have to support it!”

Many viewers were sharing it.

With the accumulation from the first video, this episode had more viewers.

Moreover, there hadn’t been any new product launches recently, and the digital section had been somewhat stagnant, with nothing new.

This video was uploaded at just the right time, naturally receiving more attention.

Plus, the video’s keywords included terms like hardcore, review, Shenhua N7, etc., so if someone searched for similar words, this video would appear in the results.

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Evening.

Pengcheng.

Hu Xiao had just finished battling with an enthusiastic netizen on a forum, and his mood was still difficult to calm down.

As the founder of “Xiao Hu Reviews,” Hu Xiao’s days were quite comfortable. After all, current viewers were easy to fool, fans’ money was easy to earn, and many foreign manufacturers were generous with their payments.

As a professional Shenhua hater, Hu Xiao had always made it his mission to thoroughly criticize and condemn Shenhua. However, Shenhua phones were selling better and better, which genuinely angered him.

Just now, he had been battling with an enthusiastic netizen on a forum, ending with them insulting each other’s immediate family members.

Hu Xiao opened AiLiDao’s digital section, intending to casually browse and see if there were any new videos.

“Hmm? ‘Hardcore Review Episode 2: Shenhua N7’?”

“Never heard of this review organization before. Are they new?”

With some curiosity, Hu Xiao opened the video.

The video wasn’t long, about ten minutes in total. Although most of the content was shot in one take, some rather crude editing marks could be seen.

This content almost made Hu Xiao laugh out loud.

Is this even called a review?

This is a stress test!

First, soaking it in water, then dropping it, then cutting it with a dinner knife…

The final disassembly was even more hilarious. Using a flathead screwdriver along the cracks in the back cover to pry it open, then removing the internal components using the principle of “great force produces miracles,” not caring if the wires were still connected or if there was any glue, just going in and prying away.

You could clearly see the exposed veins on the person’s hands, showing how much force they were using.

When there was nothing left to disassemble, the phone was completely ruined, practically indistinguishable from an accident scene.

The funniest part was that the host said he would restore the phone, but then brazenly played the violent disassembly video in reverse.

“Great content!”

“Seeing someone smash a Shenhua phone like this feels good. Let me share this!”

“I’d like to smash one too, but I don’t have the money.”

Having just finished arguing with a netizen who supported Shenhua phones, Hu Xiao still had a belly full of anger that hadn’t subsided.

Now, seeing a video of someone dropping and smashing a Shenhua phone, his mood suddenly improved dramatically.

Without further thought, he shared it!

Hu Xiao’s “Xiao Hu Reviews” main platform was on Weibo, but his account on AiLiDao also had thirty to forty thousand fans.

Although the number of fans wasn’t particularly large, each one had considerable fighting power. Plus, Hu Xiao could contact specialized troll teams—creating a bit of a storm was a piece of cake for him.

After sharing the video, he added a caption: “Rich guy angrily smashes Shenhua N7, actually because…”

After writing this, Hu Xiao himself laughed.

This sentence would make many uninformed people think that a rich guy had bought a Shenhua N7, but was dissatisfied with the phone, so he angrily smashed it.

This behavior was quite improper, yet not too excessive—at most it was just standard clickbait behavior, not enough to cause public outrage against Hu Xiao or get him condemned across the internet.

If someone confronted him, he could dismiss it as just “teasing,” implying that they were being overly sensitive or taking things too seriously if they got upset.

This was the highest level of being annoying, and Hu Xiao was well-versed in it.

After sharing, Hu Xiao couldn’t help but wonder.

What kind of team was this, Hardcore Review, anyway?

When Hu Xiao did reviews, he generally got paid and also got to keep the phone for free.

But Hardcore Review didn’t seem like they were being paid.

If Shenhua had hired this review organization for promotion, how could they have had no requirements for the content, allowing them to mistreat their phone like this?

Moreover, insiders knew that Shenhua didn’t particularly like hiring review organizations. Hu Xiao had gradually gone from love to hate precisely because he could never get paid by Shenhua, eventually becoming a professional mindless hater.

So… could it be that this Hardcore Review was spending their own money just to attract attention?

And before testing, the phone’s screen was on; after being soaked in water, a series of operations were performed, clearly showing it wasn’t a model but a real phone.

Trashing a real phone for one episode?

The world of rich people—hard to understand…

Hu Xiao didn’t take this matter to heart too much. Feeling satisfied, he hummed a little tune as he went to wash up.