"I want everyone to know that I, Hao Jianguo, am not to be trifled with!" he thought, emerging from the old man's room. Hao Jianguo had developed thoughts that a pawn should not have.
Or rather, he was a pawn who tried to break free from the confines of being a pawn. This was quite normal; many people were unwilling to remain pawns for their entire lives, especially those who considered themselves extraordinary. They always believed they could defy fate, transcend the game, and ultimately become the players.
This probably required a bit of luck, like obtaining the protagonist's halo.
Hao Jianguo felt he possessed such a halo. After all, he had just graduated from university and become the president of a large enterprise with capital in the hundreds of millions of US dollars. Wasn't that enough of a protagonist's halo?
"The key is how to break the deadlock. If I want to become a player, I must replace someone!" Hao Jianguo pondered, believing this was the only way for him to break free, the most likely path. And the target of this replacement could only be our Boss Huang.
Firstly, all of Hao Jianguo's current strength was basically within the BL of Jiangnan Group.
At that time, Fusang's population was 120 million. Children aged 5-14 were about 10 million. This meant that, on average, every child in Fusang ate 2.5 KFC Happy Meals to achieve sales of 23 million.
There was no other way, as KFC had launched 12 different Pokémon toys with their Happy Meals. To collect all 12, one had to eat 12 Happy Meals.
This wasn't all. All these toys were packaged in identical boxes, so even if you ate 12, there was a high probability of getting duplicates. A child once spent every day at KFC and ate over 150 Happy Meals in a month, yet still couldn't collect all the Pokémon toys. It was truly tragic.
Therefore, when the Pokémon toys given away with KFC Happy Meals were more exquisite than those in historical records, made with extremely high quality, and designed perfectly, moving as if they were real Pokémon except for the unavoidable plastic feel, the wave that swept through Fusang, a nation of Pokémon fans, was terrifying.
On July 25, 2004, as many office workers rushed to work, planning to buy a bento box at a nearby convenience store, something incomprehensible happened.
A long queue had formed at the entrance of almost every convenience store. The queue extended to the entrance of convenience stores two or three shops away, blocking the intersection of this particular convenience store.
But the problem was that only this one convenience store had a queue; all other convenience stores were operating normally, with no one in sight.
Upon closer inspection, all these convenience stores with queues were Xiyou convenience stores.