Chapter 1402: Chapter 1002: The Full-time Mother’s Counterattack 10 (Five Thousand)
Qi Qi has a lot of nicknames now. Because her name is a bit of a pain to type, everyone calls her [Qi Qi] or [Seventh Princess]. These are all pet names from her true fans, and Qi Qi really likes them.
Now whenever she needs to show her face, she’ll put on at least a little makeup, unless she’s outside and it’s inconvenient, then she’ll go bare-faced. She once studied makeup and even used to be a star, so she has basic aesthetics, it’s just that she doesn’t have time to dress herself up now and can look a bit rough around the edges. But she never uses beauty filters in her livestreams; in her videos she always looks very down-to-earth. People don’t find her annoying, and they won’t instinctively hurl insults at her either. She’s way better than some of those clips where ugly people do the most for attention.
Besides, Qi Qi isn’t ugly, she just has a very ordinary, typical face.
After starting college she became even more sunny and confident. Even though life, school, and her kid sometimes weigh on her so much she can barely breathe, she still maintains an upbeat outlook on life at all times, and it really has a Healing effect on people. That’s also why so many Moms like her—because she’s genuinely, sincerely teaching everyone real skills.
Not just Cooking. Now when she’s doing embroidery, she also pulls the camera in super close and clear, showing exactly how to thread the needle, how to lead the thread, explaining everything in great detail. She never sells goods on her streams, and even though lots of people want to buy her embroidery, she’ll say these pieces have to be handed in. In the future when she has time, she’ll buy some materials herself and give away what she makes to everyone.
The yoga livestreams are something she learned by watching other people’s streams, because she already had the basics in her memory, and that’s decades of accumulation. It’s just that this body has never done it before, so everything has to start from scratch. Her daily practice now is also a warm-up for getting certified over summer break.
She also livestreams Calligraphy Class. Calligraphy is the kind of art that really tests your foundation—once the brush touches the paper, experts can instantly see how deep your skills run.
Back then, Qi Qi’s level had been good enough to get into the National Calligraphers Association, and she’d even won major awards, so the moment she showed her calligraphy on stream, everyone in the room was stunned. A lot of people scrambled to ask if it was for sale and even started a bidding war in the comments.
Qi Qi hadn’t expected this course she casually started, just to grow her follower count, to gain so much popularity. She figured this was way better than substitute teaching at a calligraphy class, so she didn’t overthink it. Using the price of her work in her previous life as a reference, she set each piece anywhere from five thousand to fifty thousand depending on how many characters there were.
In the Crossed World she had the glorious record of the Calligraphy Association behind her, so her prices started at ten thousand yuan. In this life, the highest price she sells at is fifty thousand yuan.
A lot of people in the comments felt it wasn’t worth it, but the buyers who snapped up those fifty-thousand-yuan pieces didn’t feel that way at all—in fact, they thought it was a steal.
Only Qi Qi knew that if that same piece of work had been placed in Zhou Yiyi’s world, it would’ve gone for at least five hundred thousand, so this is only a tenth of that.
In September, after deducting her and her son’s expenses, she saved ten thousand yuan.
In October the income was on a completely different level. Just from selling calligraphy she earned over 90,000 yuan; livestreaming, food delivery, and embroidery added up to about 30,000 yuan. After deducting living expenses, she was able to save one hundred twenty thousand, which made it a total of one hundred thirty thousand.
This income really shocked her, especially when those who received the pieces took them to professional institutions for appraisal and then all came to the comments to say that the works were absolutely worth more than their price, and they kept placing orders one after another, making many people think they were shills.
Qi Qi herself was amazed too. If she’d known calligraphy could sell for this much, she would’ve gotten into this line of work much earlier.
However, in order to maintain her current lifestyle, Qi Qi set a goal for herself: she wouldn’t sell more than ten thousand yuan worth of pieces every month.
Better to have too few than too many.
Even though she no longer had financial pressure, her daily routine was still the same as before: dropping off and picking up her kid from class, delivering food, doing embroidery, yoga, calligraphy, studying.
A lot of people can’t understand how she manages her time, but only she knows it’s thanks to the blessing of the space. Otherwise, it really isn’t something an ordinary person could do—working this hard and this diligently for a better life.
At this pace, by the time she graduates, she should more or less have enough money saved to buy a place in Beijing.
Since she’s going to college in Beijing, she’ll probably end up staying here for this lifetime.
Luckily it’s just the two of them, mother and son—two mouths to feed. In the future, if conditions allow, they’ll buy a two-bedroom place; if not, then a one-bedroom with a living room.
By the end of October, Qi Qi’s video account had reached five hundred thousand followers. With 130,000 in savings plus 110,000 in investments, she had a total of 240,000.
