How A Ride-Hailing Driver Comes To Dominate The World? [EN]: Chapter 12

Encountering Classmate Daxue [Big Snow, a term referring to a specific period in the Chinese calendar, here likely used as a nickname or online handle]

Zhang Jingyan was taken away by the police.

The employees were at a loss for a while.

They all basically had mortgages or car loans, so suddenly losing their jobs naturally made them panic.

Yang Chen had worked with these colleagues for a while and understood them pretty well.

To summarize their characteristics, there were two.

First, they all had solid business skills.

Second, they were all particularly tolerant.

Actually, thinking about it, it made sense. The employees who could be kept around by someone like Zhang Jingyan must be those who had decent abilities and were particularly tolerant of various unfair treatments.

If their temperaments were like Yang Chen’s, they would have quit long ago.

To be honest, no boss would refuse such employees, right?

Don’t all bosses hope that their employees have decent business skills and are particularly tolerant?

Yang Chen felt that he couldn’t just rely on driving a ride-hailing car for income; he still needed to start his own company.

He majored in advertising planning in college, so opening an advertising company would definitely be a more stable path.

And weren’t these people, capable and tolerant of being bullied by the boss, the best employee candidates?

Moreover, if he hired them, the company could operate immediately without wasting time slowly recruiting.

Essentially, Yang Chen only had grievances with the boss and manager, and no grudges with others, so it wasn’t impossible to accept them.

So Yang Chen said, “I’m going to open an advertising company, and I’ll just use this office. Is anyone willing to come over?”

Everyone was extremely excited and quickly raised their hands to express their willingness.

“Me! I’m willing!”

“I’m willing too!”

“Me too, Brother Chen!”

……

First, the job problem was solved.

Second, Yang Chen was a mysterious rich second generation [a term for someone born into wealth], so following him definitely wouldn’t be a loss.

Yang Chen pointed to Li Yuan and said, “Li Yuan, you shouldn’t get involved. Aren’t you Zhang Jingyan’s loyal servant? What are you doing joining in the fun?”

Li Yuan quickly replied, “Brother Chen, don’t say that. You also know what kind of person Zhang Jingyan is. If I didn’t flatter him, I wouldn’t be able to sit in the manager’s position.”

“Hehe… that’s your business, I don’t want to hear your explanation. You can leave now; you are not welcome here,” Yang Chen said very directly.

Li Yuan quickly said, “If I become a witness with a stain and report Zhang Jingyan, can you keep me?”

Yang Chen shook his head and said, “Even if you kill Zhang Jingyan, I won’t keep you. You can have no bottom line in order to be a manager, and unconditionally lick Zhang Jingyan’s boots. Now, in order to stay here and work for me, you betray him to please me. Then in the future, if someone offers better conditions to tempt you to betray me, you will definitely accept it without hesitation. You are the kind of person who has no bottom line; I can’t keep you. Get out of here.”

Li Yuan was speechless by Yang Chen’s words.

Others immediately launched an attack on Li Yuan.

“Li Yuan, you often bully us; don’t make yourself sound so innocent.”

“That’s right! You always subtly ask me to treat you to dinner. I’m just a newcomer in the workplace; where do I get so much money to treat you to dinner? If I don’t treat you to dinner, you deliberately make things difficult for me in every way. We don’t want to work with you; you can leave now.”

“We can still talk to you nicely now, so leave quickly.

Don’t force us to get rough with you. You know very well what you have done to us; don’t pretend to be innocent.”

……

Looking at the angry employees, Li Yuan chickened out and ran away in a dejected manner.

With Li Yuan gone, the rest were all “fellow sufferers”.

Everyone asked Yang Chen when they could start work so they could prepare.

In another week, Jingyan Advertising’s lease with Haishang Financial Building would expire.

With things developing to this point, it was definitely impossible to renew the lease.

Zhang Jingyan himself would also go to jail for issues such as falsely issuing value-added tax invoices, and Jingyan Advertising would definitely go bankrupt.

When the time comes, Yang Chen would contact Zhang Jingyan’s family and negotiate a price to acquire the company.

Then change the company name and legal person, and it could be re-operated.

So, Yang Chen said, “At most half a month, everyone can come back to work. In the future, the company manager will be Xu Xiaoli. If you have anything, just contact her directly. If I have anything, I will also notify her and let her tell everyone. During this time, everyone will take a vacation, go home and rest well, and wait for the notice to come back and work hard.”

Xu Xiaoli was so excited that she didn’t know what to say.

She used to be just a receptionist, but suddenly she became a manager. The span was too big, and she herself couldn’t accept it.

“Boss, you want me to be the manager?” Xu Xiaoli asked.

Yang Chen nodded and said, “If you don’t think the title of manager sounds good, you can also call it CEO. I’ll leave the company to you to manage in the future; don’t let me down.”

Xu Xiaoli’s hands were shaking with excitement, and she said, “But I don’t have any experience; I might not be able to do it.”

“It doesn’t matter if you don’t have experience, as long as you are obedient and eager to learn,” Yang Chen replied with a smile.

Xu Xiaoli nodded and quickly replied, “Boss, don’t worry, I will definitely listen to you, and I will definitely study hard.”

Yang Chen nodded and said, “Okay, I’ll leave it to you here; I have something else to do, so I’ll leave first.”

Xu Xiaoli led everyone to bow to Yang Chen to say goodbye.

Chen Zhichao also ordered the management office staff and the building security guards to return to their respective posts.

Afterwards, he chased after Yang Chen.

Yang Chen explained a few words to Chen Zhichao and then drove away from Haishang Financial Building.

With the great revenge avenged, Yang Chen had to hurry up and get to work.

Yang Chen picked up four passengers in a row. Seeing that it was time for lunch, he prepared to take a break and continue working after lunch.

But at this time, the platform pushed an order to him, only 500 meters away from him, and it was back to the city.

Yang Chen thought it was on the way, so he wouldn’t earn for nothing.

So, he quickly grabbed the order and followed the navigation to find it.

Arriving at the passenger’s location, Yang Chen saw a man and a woman hugging each other intimately.

Maybe they were too engrossed; they didn’t even notice Yang Chen’s car parked next to them.

Of course, Yang Chen was not sure if they were the passengers who placed the order.

So, he called the passenger through the platform.

At this time, the man’s phone rang.

The two then separated.

As soon as they separated, Yang Chen recognized that the woman was actually his college classmate Wang Lixin.

Yang Chen was very conflicted. He just saw her with her boyfriend so intimately; wouldn’t it be embarrassing if the two recognized each other later?

Wang Lixin and her boyfriend checked the license plate number and quickly got into the car.

As soon as she got into the car, Wang Lixin felt that the driver looked familiar.

She quickly got up and leaned forward to take a look, and then said in surprise, “Yang Chen? How is it you!”

Yang Chen still thought it would be embarrassing for the two to recognize each other, but seeing that Wang Lixin didn’t show any signs of embarrassment, he felt relieved.

“Wang Lixin, what a coincidence! Out playing with your boyfriend?” Yang Chen replied with a smile.

Wang Lixin nodded and immediately linked arms with her boyfriend, saying, “Let me introduce you; this is my boyfriend Zhang Jiankun. Kun Kun, this driver is my college classmate Yang Chen. He was very *lihai* [impressive, capable] in school. He never missed out on various scholarships, and he was also the *yuancao* [school hunk] of our School of Economics. He was so popular.”

Although Wang Lixin was very polite on the surface, her heart was full of *bishi* [contempt].

As a top student of Haicheng University of Finance and Economics, he has been reduced to driving a ride-hailing car, which is embarrassing to say.

Zhang Jiankun asked with a half-smile, “Then he was very popular with girls at that time?”

Wang Lixin nodded and said, “That’s right, too many girls liked him. It’s a pity that he always liked his *qingmei zhuma* [childhood sweetheart]. Oh, by the way, how is your *qingmei zhuma* girlfriend doing? Have you broken up? Oh, sorry, I mean, what stage have you reached now? Should you be getting married?”

Yang Chen started the car and replied with a smile, “We broke up.”

Wang Lixin immediately put on an I-knew-it-all-along look and said, “That’s really a pity. You rejected so many girls for her back then; do you regret it now?”