How A Ride-Hailing Driver Comes To Dominate The World? [EN]: Chapter 419

## Two Consecutive Rewards. What’s Wrong with a Ride-Hailing Driver Having Some Money? (1)

After dinner, Yang Chen headed out to drive.

Driving was Yang Chen’s livelihood, and he had to keep at it, no matter what.

Yang Chen: “Hello, welcome to DiDi [China’s largest ride-hailing service, similar to Uber]. Are you the passenger with the last four digits of your phone number being 8238?”

Female passenger: “Yes. Driver, could you please not start the meter yet? I need to pick someone up first, and then we’ll start the meter together.”

Start the meter?

Damn, did she think this was a taxi?

After driving for so long, he was used to these kinds of passengers.

Yang Chen didn’t bother arguing with her and nodded, replying, “Sure. Who are you picking up, and where?”

Female passenger: “Just in the alley ahead. Drive forward and slow down. I’ll tell you when to stop.”

Yang Chen did as the female passenger said, slowly driving to the alley entrance.

Five minutes passed.

Although Yang Chen didn’t rely on this to survive, just waiting here wasn’t a good idea.

So, Yang Chen asked, “Madam, could you call the person you’re waiting for? We’ve been waiting for five minutes. Can you ask where they are?”

The female passenger nodded and called her friend.

But the call didn’t go through.

Female passenger: “I’m sorry! It didn’t go through! Let’s wait a little longer, five minutes. If he doesn’t come in five minutes, then we won’t wait anymore.”

Yang Chen nodded and started playing with his phone.

Nearly ten minutes passed, and still no one came.

Yang Chen put down his phone and said, “Madam, can we leave now?”

Female passenger: “Let me call again.”

She made another call, but it still didn’t go through.

“Forget it, I’m not going. You can leave. I’m going home, not going out,” the female passenger said, then proceeded to open the door to get out of the car.

Damn it!

How could he tolerate this?

Her time might not be worth anything, but his was.

Yang Chen immediately locked the car door and turned around to scold her, “Are you out of your mind? You made me wait for twenty minutes, and now you’re telling me you’re not taking the ride. Are you kidding me?”

Female passenger: “Who are you yelling at? If my friend isn’t coming, there’s no point in me going to the movies alone. I don’t want to go out anymore, is that not allowed? What, is this a black car [unlicensed taxi]? Once you get in, you’re not allowed to get out?”

Yang Chen: “This isn’t a black car, and I’m not stopping you from getting out. I just want to yell at you. Can’t you make plans for a movie in advance? I drove you thirty-some meters, but you made me wait for twenty minutes. What else could this be but intentional?”

Female passenger: “How would I know he suddenly wouldn’t want to go to the movies? Open the door now, or I’m calling the police.”

Yang Chen: “Go ahead! Call them! I’m going to curse out idiots like you who go out without a brain, even if the police come today.”

The female passenger took out her phone and dialed the police, then showed it to Yang Chen, saying, “I’m really calling the police! Are you going to open the door or not?”

Yang Chen: “Call! Call right now!”

But instead of calling the police, the female passenger gave Yang Chen a bad review.

“The driver’s performance was very poor, the service attitude was terrible, and he had no patience. Overall rating: unqualified.”

However, as soon as she clicked send, the review disappeared.

Yang Chen glanced at the review and smirked.

At that moment, the system issued a notification.

“Congratulations to the host for receiving a bad review. The system rewards the host with the opportunity to forcibly suppress prices in a certain industry. PS: The suppression period is five days. The host needs to take action within five days, after which prices will gradually return to normal.”

Forcibly suppressing prices in a certain industry sounded a bit mysterious, but upon closer inspection, this reward was awesome.

For example, Yang Chen could short gold prices in advance and then use this opportunity to forcibly suppress them, thus profiting from the short position. Then, on the fifth day, when the price was at its lowest, he could buy physical gold at the bottom and sell it again after the price gradually returned to normal.

With this, Yang Chen could make money from shorting in the futures and stock markets, and then make another profit from buying low and selling high in the physical market.

If he could manage it well, the money he could make from this was immeasurable.

Yang Chen smiled contentedly. This reward was great, much more interesting than directly rewarding wealth.

However, these were all things for later. Right now, he needed to deal with this bizarre female passenger.

The female passenger noticed that she couldn’t give Yang Chen a bad review and asked suspiciously, “Why is my bad review automatically deleted? Do you have connections in DiDi’s customer service department?”

Yang Chen: “Is it any of your business? Hurry up and call the police. I’m waiting for them to come so I can curse you out in front of them and teach you a lesson.”

The female passenger sneered, “Do you know who I am?”

Yang Chen: “I don’t care who you are. If I want to curse you, why would I care who you are?”

The female passenger was rendered speechless by Yang Chen’s retort. Then, she took out a work ID from her bag, which read: Chen Yuanyuan, Specialist of the Marketing Department of DiDi Group.

What does this mean?

Trying to scare me with this?

Yang Chen: “Even if you’re the CEO of DiDi, I’ll still curse you if I want to. Put it away and stop embarrassing yourself.”

Chen Yuanyuan was furious and said, “Get your facts straight! I’m a specialist from the Marketing Department sent to randomly survey the service quality of drivers. Your service quality is very low and has been deemed unqualified by me. Do you understand?”

Oh, a sting operation!

Yang Chen became even more annoyed.

These office-sitting fools have nothing better to do than come out and cause trouble for drivers!

“Who told you to conduct the survey this way?” Yang Chen asked.

Chen Yuanyuan: “That’s not something you need to know. You just need to know one thing: your service quality is very poor. We will suspend your eligibility to accept orders. You can only continue to accept orders after you write a self-criticism that passes our review.”

What kind of idiot came up with this idea?

It never happened before!

Yang Chen didn’t want to waste words with Chen Yuanyuan and directly called the chairman of DiDi.

“Who the hell came up with the idea of sending idiots from the Marketing Department to conduct sting operations?” Yang Chen asked impolitely.

DiDi Chairman: “It was the new Marketing Manager, Gao Peng. Mr. Yang, did you run into them?”

Yang Chen: “What do you think? This Chen Yuanyuan from the Marketing Department called my car, only rode for about 30 meters, but tried every means to make me wait for 20 minutes. Then she said she didn’t want to go out and wanted to go home. I’m asking you, if a brother who relies on driving for a living encounters this, this 20 minutes would delay him from completing a ride. Wouldn’t he be angry? If he gets angry and says a few words, this damn marketing specialist will deem him unqualified and suspend his eligibility to accept orders, waiting for his self-criticism to pass the review before he can resume. I’m asking you, what’s the point of this sting operation? Is it to educate drivers to act like pushovers and swallow their anger even when they encounter unreasonable things?”

DiDi Chairman: “Mr. Yang, please don’t be angry. When Gao Peng reported to me, it sounded pretty good, so I agreed to let him do it. I really didn’t expect the people below to execute it like this! Please don’t be angry, I’ll call Gao Peng immediately and tell him to stop this meaningless action. I’ll have him come to your door to apologize tomorrow.”

Yang Chen: “Just stop it, I don’t want to see such a stupid person.”

Yang Chen hung up the phone, opened the car door, and said, “Get out.”

Chen Yuanyuan didn’t dare to get out and asked cautiously, “Can I ask who you were calling just now?”

Yang Chen: “You’re not qualified to ask. Just wait for Gao Peng to tell you. Get out of the car now!”

Chen Yuanyuan was shocked. How did this driver know Manager Gao Peng?

“You… who exactly are you? Do you have some special relationship with DiDi Group?” Chen Yuanyuan asked.

Yang Chen got out of the car, walked to the back row, opened the door, and pulled Chen Yuanyuan out.

Not long after Yang Chen drove away, Gao Peng called Chen Yuanyuan.

Gao Peng: “Hey, Yuanyuan, is the car you were just in still next to you?”

Chen Yuanyuan: “No, it just left.”

Gao Peng: “Oh no, we’re done for!”

Chen Yuanyuan: “What’s wrong?”

Gao Peng: “What do you think is wrong? He’s Mr. Yang Chen, the third largest shareholder of the group! You messed with him in his car, and he called the chairman. The chairman just called and scolded me, and told me to immediately stop this market research.”

Chen Yuanyuan: “Ah? He’s the third largest shareholder? Are you sure there isn’t a mistake? If he’s the third largest shareholder, why would he be driving a ride-hailing car?”

Gao Peng: “Rich people experience life! Hurry back to the company, we need to discuss countermeasures quickly, otherwise we’re all done for, most likely we’ll all be fired.”

Chen Yuanyuan was shocked and quickly hailed a taxi back to the company.

Yang Chen found a parking spot by the roadside and stopped. Then, he sent messages to the driver groups in both Beijing and Hai City.

Yang Chen @all: Brothers, have you encountered any sting operations by people sent down by the group?

A single stone stirred up a thousand waves [caused a great commotion]. Drivers in both groups who had encountered sting operations by group specialists immediately came out to share their experiences.

Driver Chen Zhun: “Brother Chen, I encountered one. That person was simply an idiot, deliberately delaying time to make me wait for people, and then said that the person wasn’t coming and he didn’t want to go out either. So I drove him a few dozen meters, but waited for more than 20 minutes. I complained about it, and he said my attitude was bad and deemed me unqualified, suspending my eligibility to accept orders. Now I have to write a self-criticism, and I can only resume accepting orders when the self-criticism passes the review. Brother Chen, don’t you think their behavior is disgusting?”

Driver Wang Lele: “I also encountered this situation. I wrote three self-criticisms, but none of them passed the review. This is the fourth one. If it still doesn’t pass the review, then I’ll have to switch platforms.”

Many other drivers had encountered similar situations.

They were also preparing to switch platforms.

Yang Chen @All Members: “Brothers, please be patient. I’ll make the chairman of Bilibili [a popular video-sharing website] issue an apology letter, or I’ll take him down!”

These drivers only knew that Yang Chen was the president of the union and were unaware of his other identities.

Therefore, they were worried that Yang Chen would offend the chairman of Bilibili and be banned by the platform, so they advised him to remain calm.

Yang Chen @All Members: “Don’t worry. Since I’ve become the president, I will definitely protect your interests. Just wait, and tomorrow morning you’ll see the group chairman’s public apology letter.”

After speaking, Yang Chen sent a message to the chairman of Bilibili.

“The driver brothers in Beijing and Hai City have reported to me that they’ve encountered sting operations by the group’s market specialists. Some people have written several self-criticisms that haven’t been approved. They already have plans to switch platforms. I invested real money, not for you to mess around. I want the group to develop better so I can earn money and get dividends. So many brothers in Beijing and Hai City have been affected. There are so many cities across the country, I don’t know how many more driver brothers have been harmed. Issue an apology letter tomorrow morning, or this isn’t over!”

The chairman of Bilibili quickly called, but Yang Chen rejected the call.

Then he sent many messages, but Yang Chen didn’t reply to any of them.

He had already given him the solution, so he could handle it himself.

Yang Chen continued to take orders and pick up passengers.

This time, he picked up a guy who had just failed a blind date.

Passenger: “Brother, do you think girls nowadays are particularly hard to please? I’m already 28 years old and haven’t had a girlfriend yet. Today, during the blind date, the other person *xiàn qì* [disliked/looked down on] my income wasn’t high enough and looked down on me. I make more than 20,000 a month, which should be okay, right? What do you think?”

Yang Chen: “An income of more than 20,000 a month is indeed very good. It exceeds 99% of people, so you can say you’re very successful. If she still thinks it’s too little, then that means she’s a materialistic woman. If you end up with this kind of woman, you’ll be even more miserable in the future. I think girls are very easy to please, not difficult at all.”

Passenger: “Brother, I agree with the first part of what you said, but I don’t agree with the last sentence. How much do you make a month driving for a ride-hailing service? Do you have a girlfriend?”

Yang Chen: “I’m not sure about the exact income, I haven’t calculated it carefully, but it’s definitely a few thousand. I have many girlfriends, and they don’t care about my income.”

Passenger: “Haha… Brother, don’t brag.”

At this moment, Maya called Yang Chen.

Yang Chen: “Hello, Maya, what’s up? I’m driving a passenger, so make it quick.”

Maya: “A girl came to the house looking for you. You should come back and see.”

Yang Chen: “What’s her name?”

Maya: “Tao Yanran.”

Hmm?

This name sounds a bit familiar, but not too familiar.

After a few seconds, Yang Chen remembered.

Tao Yanran was the girl who ran away from her wedding and took Yang Chen’s car. To avoid marrying someone she didn’t like, she even chose to cut her wrist. Moreover, her blood was very rare, it was *xióng māo* [panda] blood [referring to Rh-negative blood type, considered rare in China], and Yang Chen had to use a helicopter to find a *dà gē* [big brother/influential figure] with the same blood type from Wan Province to save her.

It’s been more than a month, so she should have recovered quite a bit.

Yang Chen: “Tell her I’m busy right now, and I’ll go back when I’m done.”

Maya: “Okay.

Then you should come back sooner, I’m afraid I’ll fight with her.”

Yang Chen: “Don’t make trouble. I’ll be back soon.”

After speaking, Yang Chen hung up the phone.

The passenger in the back seat now believed Yang Chen’s words that girls are very easy to please.

Yang Chen: “Where were we?”

The passenger replied with an awkward smile: “No… we weren’t saying anything. Just drive carefully and don’t talk.”

Damn it, that stings a bit.

A ride-hailing driver with an income of only a few thousand has two girls competing for him, while he, who makes more than 20,000 a month, has been single for 28 years.

Comparing people is really infuriating.

Soon, Yang Chen dropped the passenger off at his destination.

He was also worried that Maya and Tao Yanran would fight, so he immediately rushed home.

Before he had driven far, the Bilibili platform system popped up a notification of a bad review.

“No other reason, just can’t stand that two girls are competing for him, and I don’t have any. I’m a researcher, making more than 20,000 a month, and he’s just a ride-hailing driver making only a few thousand a month. I’m much better than him, so why does he have what I don’t? This is so unfair. Giving him a bad review will make me feel more balanced.”

Damn, what kind of genius did his parents raise?

At this moment, the system issued a reminder.

“Congratulations to the host for receiving a bad review. The system rewards the host with the [Mathematical Genius] skill, effective immediately.”

Instantly, Yang Chen’s mind was filled with dense numbers, formulas, etc.

After a few seconds, everything returned to normal.

At first glance, this reward doesn’t seem to mean much.

In fact, this skill came just in time.

Because Yang Chen had just partnered with Professor Yang to study quantum entanglement, he would inevitably encounter many mathematical problems.

There’s a saying that “the end of physics is mathematics, the end of mathematics is philosophy, and the end of philosophy is theology.”

This shows how important mathematics is in physics research.

Perhaps this reward can help Yang Chen and Professor Yang’s research achieve a breakthrough.

Soon, Yang Chen returned home.

Maya and Tao Yanran were sitting on the sofa glaring at each other.

Seeing Yang Chen return, they both stood up at the same time.

Maya ran over and threw herself into Yang Chen’s arms.

Tao Yanran immediately stopped and said with a smile, “Brother Chen, long time no see.”

Yang Chen walked over with Maya in his arms and put her on the sofa.

Then, he beckoned Tao Yanran to sit down and asked, “How’s your wrist?”

Tao Yanran rolled up her sleeve and showed Yang Chen the scar on her wrist.

“It’s much better. It just left a scar. After I recover a bit more, I’ll go to the hospital to have it removed. Brother Chen, thank you. If it weren’t for you, I would definitely be dead,” Tao Yanran said as she got up and bowed to Yang Chen.

Yang Chen: “You’re welcome. But give me back the bank card. I was just a little sentimental, that’s why I saved you. You don’t need to thank me, it’s good that you’re okay.”

Tao Yanran: “You saved my life, I can’t not repay you. I want to live here in the future and take care of Brother Chen’s daily life and meals, to repay Brother Chen for saving my life. I hope Brother Chen can grant my wish.”

Maya: “That’s ridiculous! You’re here to take care of his daily life and meals, then what am I supposed to do? Am I just supposed to watch from the sidelines?”

Tao Yanran: “If you can’t accept it, you can leave. It’s not like you have to stay.”

Maya: “Brother Chen, did you hear that? Doesn’t she deserve a beating?”

Saying that, Maya got up and rolled up her sleeves to fight Tao Yanran.

At this moment, the doorbell rang.

Maya immediately quieted down.

Who could be here in the middle of the night?

Yang Chen walked over and looked at the video doorbell. Outside was a Middle Eastern man.

Because he didn’t know if there were people hiding on either side of the door, for safety reasons, Yang Chen didn’t open the door. Instead, he shouted through the door, “Who are you? What do you want?”

The man replied, “I’m looking for Princess Maya. I have very important matters to report to her.”

At this moment, Yang Chen’s bodyguards came up and instantly subdued the man outside the door.

Only then did Yang Chen open the door and beckon the bodyguards to bring him in.

As soon as the man saw Maya, he quickly saluted and said, “Your Highness Princess Maya, hello. I am Zhadubi, a bodyguard ordered to protect you.”

Tao Yanran was shocked. This Maya is actually a princess!

Luckily, she didn’t fight her just now, or she would have been in big trouble.

If she had beaten a princess from the Middle East, would the tycoons there be happy?

Maya: “So, you’re the ones who have been guarding in that car outside the door every day, right?”

Zhadubi: “That’s right, it’s us. His Highness Prince Lansheed ordered us to protect the princess. His Highness will arrive tomorrow on a private plane to take the princess home. He specifically ordered me to report to the princess in advance. His Highness instructed me to tell the princess to go to the international airport with this gentleman at ten o’clock tomorrow morning to pick him up.”

Maya was stunned and didn’t know what to say for a moment.

Her mood at this moment was, “This day has finally come.”