Chapter 1418: Chapter 1006: Full-time Mother’s Counterattack 14 (Four Thousand)_3
Maybe getting this certification isn’t immediately useful since she doesn’t have time to substitute teach right now, but she feels that earning a certification could be handy for future needs, and it was something she had planned for a long time. So, as soon as the summer vacation started, she threw herself into training.
By the end of June, her savings had exceeded 680,000 yuan. This was after deducting all living expenses and her yoga learning fees; all this money was painstakingly saved up over the last six months through every stitch and stroke, which wasn’t easy at all.
The daily expenses for her and her son rely on the 2,000 yuan monthly living allowance from the company. Since they eat two or three meals a day at school, they’re saving quite a bit.
Even living in Beijing, there’s still room to save.
Over the past half year, Qi Qi’s life, work, and studies have gone very smoothly. She hasn’t done food delivery work for a long time because these other activities have taken up all her time, leaving no time to take orders. Moreover, her followers have already exceeded 2.8 million, increasingly reaching towards a ’big V’ status.
Though she planned to start live-streaming advertising after reaching one million, she hasn’t found the time to do it. Others insert ads in their videos, but she doesn’t have the energy to do this yet. She always feels that doing these things isn’t as worthwhile as writing more calligraphy, but of course, no one finds too much money burdensome. So she plans to seriously research this area in August when things slow down.
Many broadcasters with millions of followers have signed with company teams behind the scenes, but Qi Qi doesn’t want to sign with anyone else. Even if she builds a team, she will find people herself, do it herself, and promote it herself. After all, Xingchen is in this field, so seeking advice from some relevant units for exchange or collaborative learning isn’t out of the question.
During the scorching summer, learning yoga in the stuffy room is absolutely a challenge. During exercises, the pores open up, so neither the air conditioner nor even a fan can be used, and Qi Qi originally weighed 100 pounds. By the time she earned the professional certificate and walked out of the yoga studio, she’d slimmed down to 80 pounds.
Just imagine how much exercise she did in a month. She didn’t even know how much saltwater, sugar water, and Huo Xiang Zheng Qi Liquid she drank.
She doesn’t even know what enabled her to stick through it all, aside from yoga poses. She also had to memorize commands. In the whole month, she rested for four days, mainly learning commands in those days, intertwined with exercise. It wasn’t that she spent four days doing nothing but learning commands, but practiced them during exercises. Post-class, she allocated two to three hours for learning, so she might have rested for a total of three to four days.
Spending this 20,000 yuan was quite worthwhile. The coach was very responsible. One could only receive the certificate after memorizing everything, and passing the pose assessment was necessary before leaving; otherwise, no certificate would be issued.
With this certificate, she can become a true yoga coach.
This makes the year or two she spent practicing yoga every day worthwhile. Now, there’s finally some result. Even if she doesn’t become a yoga instructor at a studio, she can teach yoga on her video channel, which is also a way to gain followers.
This month, she will shoot a series of videos, producing three parts—upper, middle, and lower—to detail how she earned the yoga certificate.
Of course, all the filming was done with the consent of all the students who attended the training, and even the coach thought it was a great way to promote, so they were very cooperative. After all, Qi Qi is a rare influencer student; they might not encounter someone like her for years.
At the beginning of August, Qi Qi returned. Her classmate, who helped look after her child, happily went home with the salary she gave. The next month, she planned to work in her hometown because renting apartments in Beijing is too expensive. She mentioned to Qi Qi that if she needed such help in the future, she should contact her first as she would gladly take care of Xiao Han.
Xiao Han also praised Sister Pan Ting for being good to him. Watching the surveillance, she could see that this girl was patient, down-to-earth, and reliable. If there were a chance in the future, she would certainly be willing to cooperate again with such a dependable friend.
In July, she was busy studying, didn’t write calligraphy, and didn’t do embroidery. She only received over 5,000 yuan in platform traffic and live-streaming income.
Of course, this income might seem pitifully small for influencers with several million followers, mainly because she has expressly forbidden her followers from sending her gifts.
Everyone works hard to make money, so she’d rather not receive gifts. As long as everyone enjoys her content, she is happy. In the future, if she starts marketing products, and people find them useful and trustworthy, they can try them out at home. If they don’t like it, they don’t have to buy it. Her principle emphasizes voluntary choice, without any compulsion, to let things take their own course naturally.
Her approach has earned her increasingly deep respect from her fans as such. Qi Qi’s comment section has become more harmonious, and even when trolls appear, her loyal fans will rally to her defense, which truly moves her in countless ways.
