Editor|Xiao Chu
Who hasn't fantasized about what it's like to be smashed by a jackpot?
In 2018, there was such a girl who was hit by such a jackpot.
In October of that year, Alipay suddenly launched a lottery on Weibo: "Looking for 'Chinese Koi'".
Under this Weibo, all major APPs came to participate in the prize giveaway, and the prizes were worth about 100 million.
And this prize was drawn by the blogger Derpy.
What a blessing to be. But no one expected that in just one year, she would become a person with high debts.
What's going on here?
1. Jackpot from the sky
A prize worth 100 million, which may be money that all migrant workers can't earn in their lifetime.
But Derpy was just at home, moving his fingers, and he easily got it.
This is something that many people can't think of.
Suddenly, Derpy became the "Chinese Koi" that all netizens envied.
In fact, Derpy, like most ordinary people, was one of the many migrant workers before winning the lottery.
In the past 20 years, Derpy relied on his own efforts to successfully graduate from university, and was successfully admitted to the state-owned enterprise in his hometown, and joined the IT position.
Day in and day out is always going to be boring.
Every day, I do the work facing the computer and facing the ceiling, and I get a fixed salary every month, and the second half of my life seems to be at a glance.
But the sudden lottery won broke this backwater-like day.
On October 7, 2018, Derpy was suddenly drawn by Alipay and became the luckiest "koi" in China.
I was suddenly smashed with a jackpot, which stunned Derpy.
She posted on Weibo in disbelief:
"Am I not going to have to work for the rest of my life?"
Alipay's official blog also joked under Derpy's Weibo:
"We're not liars."
After repeated confirmations, Derpy finally believes that he has really won the lottery.
So the next day, Derpy went to the unit to ask for his resignation.
This is also reasonable, whoever wins this award will leave his job immediately, get out of this kind of working days, and enjoy life and the world.
Alipay offers a variety of prizes, including gifts from various brands, covering cosmetics, household items, and even houses and cars.
It also includes shopping coupons and discount coupons for goods from different countries, and of course, there are also "free admission" services for tourist attractions in different countries, as well as free orders for various luxury hotels, and free tours in 40 countries.... Various.
After leaving his job, Derpy received couriers at home every day.
I was reluctant to buy it before, and I couldn't afford it, but this time I got it for free!
In addition to getting the courier, Derpy immediately began to sort out the content of the prize and began to plan his own trip to "travel around the world".
With all the things delivered home almost in place, Derpy heads straight on her long trip.
Second, a trap
Derpy first traveled to Hong Kong and Macau with a friend.
Before leaving, she posted on the platform:
"We're going to Hong Kong and Macau, do you have any fun and delicious recommendations~"
After going to Hong Kong and Macau, she went to Japan, Thailand and other countries non-stop.
She filmed all her travels into videos, edited them and posted them on social platforms.
The food and beauty in the video have firmly caught the attention of the audience and made everyone very envious.
Suddenly, Derpy's followers rose to 159W.
Some media companies took a fancy to the huge traffic that Xin Xiaodu had, and handed her an olive branch of cooperation.
And Derpy is also more convinced of the correctness of his resignation, using this kind of traffic to make money, and an ad can cover two months' salary.
Although the traffic comes quickly, it will also go quickly.
When the novelty of Derpy passed, people's eyes were attracted by other new things, and the flow disappeared directly.
At the same time, the long-term wandering trip also made Derpy feel very tired.
But she can't stop easily, because many prizes have a deadline: it needs to be spent within a year.
Moreover, these prizes are very routine - those prizes for free travel abroad are not really free.
Some just say that all of them are free, but only free airfare, free train tickets, or accommodation fees are only free for one night.
Derpy will have to pay for all the other expenses.
However, even if it is only free of travel tolls/accommodation fees, this can save a lot of money.
So in order to get the wool, and not to waste the prizes, Derpy often travels back and forth between different countries, even between two or three countries a month.
I may have just arrived in this country this morning, and I will be going to another country next week.
Failing to redeem these prizes is like wasting them.
But there are a lot of prizes that you have to pay for yourself.
So after traveling for a while, Derpy had to pay for other expenses out of his own pocket.
Soon, she spent all the 200,000 yuan she had worked so hard to save.
But even so, she was reluctant to redeem the prizes she didn't redeem, and in the end, she even had to take out credit cards, borrow money from friends, redeem prizes, and travel.
The long-term psychological tug-of-war and the long-term wandering made Derpy very tired.
In addition, I have to connect with many brands, shoot advertisements, and edit videos.
Soon, Derpy's videos got worse and worse, and her views became lower and lower, until she only had a few views in the end.
The traffic on her body is gone, and the advertisers are no longer staring at her.
Soon, Derpy will have no ads to answer.
The hard-working work is gone, the money I saved hard-earned is gone, and I owe a lot of money.
I didn't enjoy the world much, I didn't enjoy life anymore, and I even got anxious about redeeming prizes, and finally suffered from depression.
Derpy was firmly trapped by Alipay's trap step by step.
3. One wrong step, one wrong step
At the end of the year, Derpy looked back and saw that he had been devastated and had nothing left in the end.
She knew she had to go back to her real life.
So she's ready to look for a job again.
Derpy sighed in his video account:
"I used to be in the IT industry, but now when I look for a job, I find that the industry has been reshuffled. I'm already too far behind, so it's not going well for interviews anywhere now. ”
After the video was posted, a company contacted her and said that they thought she had a lot of potential to be a vlogger, so her position was a good fit for her.
Derpy didn't think much of it, and just joined the company.
After she joined the company, the traffic push of the new company allowed her to have traffic again.
But Derpy soon falls into the company's trap again.
The new company launched a campaign in which they emulated Alipay's "Chinese Koi" campaign and used Derpy's status as a "Chinese Koi" to hold a "one-yuan transfer koi" lottery. The prize money is up to 5 million.
Although there is no 100 million, 5 million is not a lot.
In addition, it was issued by "Chinese koi", so there is still a certain degree of trust. Therefore, everyone is also actively forwarding and participating.
But what no one expected was that it didn't take long for Derpy's news to be identified by the platform as "illegal prize activities, don't be deceived".
There are also comments from netizens below:
"This one is a liar, she's a liar!"
This frightened Derpy and hurriedly posted a blog explanation, saying that she didn't know it herself, and she was also a victim.
But that's it, Derpy spent all his credit. There is no traffic at all.
IV. Conclusion
People are greedy, and they can't let go of this or that.
If Derpy could give up some of the "chicken" prizes and make reasonable use of the resources in her hands, then maybe she wouldn't have taken out a loan to travel, and she wouldn't have ended up in the situation where she has no job and no savings.
Now she has officially returned to her life, she goes home to study, reads books every day, watches dramas, and her life is plain and comfortable.
Perhaps this is also the true meaning of life - the ordinary is the true