Rebirth of the God of Comics

Lu You is the owner of a sporting goods store. In recent years, it has become increasingly difficult to find a job, so after graduating from university, he asked someone to borrow money to open such a store.

Originally, he still dreamed of paying off the money in half a year and earning hundreds of thousands a year. But then something happened that completely shattered his dream.

It was a sports equipment salesman, selling basketball to Lu You. His eloquence is very good, and basketball is also Lu You's favorite sport in college, so although he knows the market is not good, the sales may not be good after he comes back. However, he still spent a lot of money and brought back a batch of equipment.

In the end, who knew that the market for basketball equipment was frighteningly small, and the batch of basketballs, wristbands, basketball shoes, and jerseys that Lu Youjin brought back could not be sold at all.

In just two months, because of this batch of basketball equipment, it actually lost more than 100,000 yuan. For a fresh graduate like him, a huge debt of hundreds of thousands is almost unaffordable.

With no other choice, Lu You has already planned to close the store. Judging from this situation, it will only lose more and more money if it continues to operate.

Today is the last day of his operation.

Early in the morning, Lu You woke up. Although he has decided to close the store, it is still the brainchild of his own struggle for several months, and he still feels very reluctant, so he came to open the store early this morning.

The whole morning passed, and the business was still as dull as before. I didn't come in to look at it at all, and even if I did, I left after a second look, without any intention of buying.

Originally, Lu You was still expecting a miracle to happen, maybe his business suddenly took a turn for the worse. But unfortunately, it seems that the miracle will not happen.

Thinking of this, Lu You sat down on the bench weakly.

Da da!

There was a sound of footsteps outside, and then the door of Lu You's store was pushed open. Lu You looked up and saw that it was a father and son. The father is probably in his thirties, and the son is around twelve.

"I won't buy it anyway, so just ignore them."

Lu You thought to himself that in the past, he would greet the guests very enthusiastically and answer their doubts throughout the process, but most of them just looked at them.

Today's father and son looked no different from other guests, anyway, it was the last day, so Lu You didn't bother to talk to them.

However, the development of the matter exceeded his expectations. The father and son chatted for a long time, came over with a lot of things in their hands, and wanted to pay Lu You.

"You all want to buy these?"

Lu You asked in disbelief. He looked at the things the father and son wanted to buy. He bought jerseys, wristbands, basketballs, basketball shoes, and almost all the equipment in his store related to basketball. This transaction is almost worth the transaction in the past half a month.

"Yes, what's the problem?" the father asked.

"No, no!" Lu You quickly shook his head, although he didn't know what happened, someone suddenly bought so many things, but it doesn't matter, it's best if they can be sold.

"How much is that?" The father was obviously a middle-class man, so he didn't pay much attention to this money. After Lu You quoted the price, he didn't even hesitate, and immediately paid the bill.

"Dad, do you think I can be as good as the characters in "Slam Dunk" in the future?"

This is what the father and son said before they left.

Originally, Lu You thought that the father and son would be the only business deal today,

Unexpectedly, another family came over soon, three people, parents and sons. After the three came in, they also picked out a lot of things related to basketball equipment, and asked Lu You to pay the bill.

During the whole day, more than a dozen families came one after another. They more or less bought basketball-related equipment and left. At the end of Lu You's calculations, he made a profit of tens of thousands of yuan today. Although it is not as good as the daily loss, it is already the best turnover for him to open a store.

"What happened today?" Lu You looked at the bill and thought that he had already planned to close the door, but how could such a thing happen on the last day, he really couldn't figure it out!

Suddenly, Lu You remembered something. It seems that every kid who came to buy something said something about Slam Dunk, Rukawa Kaede, Sendo, Sakuragi, etc. What are these?

Lu You didn't like to read comics and animations since he was a child, so he didn't have much impression of the recently popular "Slam Dunk".

Out of curiosity, he searched the Internet and found out that "Slam Dunk" is a basketball animation, and it has also been adapted into an animation, which seems to be very popular recently.

Are basketball comics still popular?

Lu You was stunned. Through the recent sales, he knew how niche basketball really is. It's such a niche subject, yet it's very popular?

For a moment, Lu You felt that the abnormal situation in his store today was definitely related to this basketball-themed cartoon. He made up his mind to go back to watch this animation at night.

Early the next morning, Lu You opened his shop with a tired body. Last night he watched the animation with the mentality of trying, who knew that it was out of control, and he watched it late at night, watching all the updated episodes.

Lu You yawned and opened the store door, still thinking about the animation he watched last night.

It's really wonderful, I don't know how many years I haven't seen such a wonderful animation. Lu You thought to himself that although he was not a fan of animation, he was still attracted and planned to finish "Slam Dunk".

And after last night, he had a vague guess in his heart. My business suddenly improved yesterday, I'm afraid it has something to do with this comic. Based on this, he plans to delay for a few more days to see how the business will turn out.

The development of the matter later confirmed Lu You's idea. His business was better that day than the day before. When he checked out at night, he earned more than 10,000 yuan, basically reaching a balance of payments.

And everyone who came was talking about "Slam Dunk", and Lu You asked them why they bought basketballs, and the answer he got was that he had watched "Slam Dunk", so he wanted to play basketball like the characters in it.

"Sure enough!" This answer confirmed Lu You's thoughts.

Back home at night, watching "Slam Dunk" played on the computer, Lu You made another bold decision. Then he borrowed money to invest in his own store, and brought back a batch of "Slam Dunk" peripheral products.

This decision was very bold. Lu You had already lost hundreds of thousands, and if he invested more money, if something happened, it would be hundreds of thousands. For Lu You now, it was definitely not a small sum.

However, Lu You also has his own confidence. "Slam Dunk" is indeed very exciting. According to his estimation, it has a tendency to become popular all over the country. Buy its peripherals now, maybe you can make a lot of money by taking advantage of the general trend of animation.

Just do what you say, Lu You borrowed money from a circle of friends the next day, all of which were used to buy the peripherals of "Slam Dunk", such as jerseys, sweaters, wristbands, basketball shoes, etc. The store has become the theme store of "Slam Dunk".

Since then, his business has rapidly improved with the popularity of animation, and he has paid off all the debts in just one month. In one year, the desire to buy a car and a house was realized.

It can be said that it was "Slam Dunk" that completely changed Lu You's fate. And there are many sporting goods store owners like him who were saved by "Slam Dunk".

Later generations commented on the influence of Chen Ze's "Slam Dunk", saying that he changed the sports habits of the Chinese people and the fate of a group of sports shop owners.

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