"Was this the little show you arranged?" Li Ling looked at Shang Yuxian with a smile. The young woman certainly had a few tricks up her sleeve.
Shang Yuxian said, "Actually, one of the guild's managers came up with it. I only approved buying up this batch of unsold perfume for a demonstration."
Li Ling said meaningfully, "You paid out of your own pocket to advertise it? Five whole bottles in one go, no less."
Shang Yuxian said nonchalantly, "It's really nothing. When new goods go on sale, we always do our best to help. Besides, it isn't all coming out of my own pocket. Promoting goods for a new customer comes with its own reasonable expenses."
"Even so, thank you," Li Ling said appreciatively. "But there's something I still don't understand. Why go to all this trouble? Couldn't you simply open a bottle or two and invite people to try it?"
"Ordinary rogue cultivators are suspicious by nature, but they also love a bargain," Shang Yuxian said. "If we simply set it out for them to sample free of charge, they might think the perfume was poor quality... Besides, such an ordinary approach wouldn't give them anything to talk about, would it?
"With an opening like this, we can say the bottles broke and can no longer be sold, then bring them out for everyone to sample on the spot. That makes it much easier for people to accept.
"Even those who don't care to take advantage, or have something else to attend to, will already have smelled a little of it. When they hear people mention it later, they'll remember something.
"And those who do accept may talk about it with others, advertising it for us free of charge."
"Very clever!" Li Ling couldn't help marveling. The hidebound