Brother Dao Took the Entertainment Industry by Storm, Fans Beg Me Not to Kill Anymore

Chapter 211: Merchants Break the Rules and the Platform Does Nothing? Dog Eat Dog!

Ma Zhuo had been in an exceptionally good mood lately.

There seemed to be some character blowing up on television recently, which had brought a lot of traffic to their business.

Ma Zhuo quickly seized the opportunity, urgently pushing his subordinate online shops to make adjustments, demanding they capitalize on this wave of popularity to sell out their inventory.

Since news had become more widespread and information spread faster among the general public, their business had become increasingly difficult.

After all, while many people might not know the taste of the fruit, its dangers were visible to everyoneʼs two eyes.

Especially those typical cases used as cautionary examples - the uncles whose mouths couldnʼt even open properly from eating the fruit, whose faces appeared half-shaved away, yet still craved that one bite - these truly showcased the terrifying image of fruit addiction reaching demonic levels.

At least smoking could be hidden in the lungs, causing suffering only in later years, but eating this fruit rotted your face, and the more severe cases didnʼt have many years left.

Ordinary people really didnʼt dare to casually try it.

So as information and education increased these days, their fruit-selling business had become increasingly difficult.

Ma Zhuo had previously tried renaming the product and taking an entertainment industry approach to link it with other products, to shake off the official ”stigma,” but everyone remained quite vigilant and basically didnʼt buy it, so this method of reviving the dead had to be temporarily shelved.
But now was good, now was wonderful - someone was providing free promotion, and that was just perfect!

Ma Zhuoʼs face was splitting with smiles, already calculating how to massively sell these products during this opportunity, but little did he expect that before his beautiful dream could even begin, his door was suddenly knocked—

Hearing the sound, Ma Zhuo felt somewhat annoyed but still told the person to enter: ”What is it?”

”Terrible news, boss! Weʼve been soft-banned!”

An employee rushed in anxiously.

”Tch, I thought it was something major.”

Ma Zhuo casually waved his hand: ”If one shop gets banned, just switch to another! Do you need to bother me with such a small matter?”

The employeeʼs face was pale, his lips trembling as he spoke: ”No, no, itʼs all our accounts that got banned!”

”What?”

Ma Zhuo immediately stood up, grabbing the employee by the collar, his eyes blazing with angry fire: ”What did you say? All of them?”

The employee, being held by Ma Zhuo, didnʼt dare struggle, mumbling: ”A-actually, not exactly—”

”What do you mean not exactly? So are they banned or not banned?”

Ma Zhuo roared, too impatient to deal with this good-for-nothing who couldnʼt even speak clearly, immediately pulling out his phone to check his shops—

Normal, normal, normal... everything normal!

The shops were there, the links were there, definitely not banned!

What was this idiot talking about! Had he gotten stupid from taking fruit?

Ma Zhuo instantly flew into a rage, but this time the employee finally straightened out his tongue, quickly explaining before Ma Zhuo could erupt: ”Our shops indeed have no problems, but since early this morning, none of our links have received new orders! And when searching using other peopleʼs phones, we canʼt find our own shops and links either!”

Instantly, Ma Zhuo felt dizzy with anger.

”Whatʼs going on? What did the platform customer service say? Havenʼt you contacted the platform yet?”

To secure better recommended positions, they had also paid a substantial promotion fee.

Otherwise, why would their shops always appear first when others searched related terms?

This was money, real money!

And even during previous slow business periods, they had never experienced this complete absence of orders!

This was completely abnormal!

Many thoughts flashed through Ma Zhuoʼs mind.

Was it malicious competition from peers? Or a severe platform bug? Or perhaps policy changes from above?

So Ma Zhuo waved for the employee to get lost while calling the platform customer service.

”Malicious traffic limiting? Impossible, dear, our platform never targets specific merchants or users with malicious traffic limiting. Please verify your own reasons, dear, check if links were accidentally taken down, or if shops were suspended, etc...”