How A Ride-Hailing Driver Comes To Dominate The World? [EN]: Chapter 140

140. It’s a Pity You’re Just a Ride-Hailing Driver (Seeking Subscriptions)_What’s Wrong with a Ride-Hailing Driver Having Some Money? (1)

Yang Chen got straight to the point with Thomas Robinson as soon as the call connected.

Thomas Robinson chuckled, sensing Yang Chen’s need, which gave him leverage. “We can immediately fulfill your request, Mr. Yang. Brain cancer expert Marta Chris, stomach cancer expert Paul Fairman, liver cancer expert Jones Marcus—the world’s top three—can be in Haicheng serving you right away. We’d very much like to become allies. What do you think?” Robinson asked confidently.

He was clearly trying to use the experts to coerce Yang Chen.

While Yang Chen needed their help, he didn’t have to obey them.

Things depend on human effort. A change in perspective can alter the outcome.

Yang Chen smiled. “Of course, I want to be allies. The Dragon Country [China] is proposing to increase your shareholding to 31%, hoping to join forces with me to control Longmei Group. They could then reject any proposals from the US side, passing theirs smoothly. But that wouldn’t be fair to you, so I hesitated. Of course, I’m a Dragon Country citizen, and they’re officials, so I can’t refuse directly. I’m struggling with whether to accept or reject based on fairness. Mr. Robinson, what do you advise?”

This was turning passivity into initiative.

Thomas Robinson was shocked. If the Dragon Country Medical Association joined forces with Yang Chen, they’d control the shareholders’ meeting. Where would that leave the US side?

Complete separation? Each playing their own game?

That wouldn’t work.

First, the hospital is profitable.

Dragon Country has a large population, with hundreds of millions treated at Longmei Hospital annually.

That’s a lot of money. The US side doesn’t want to lose this cash cow.

Second, while neither side is convinced by the other and they usually operate in parallel, the hospital symbolizes friendly relations. No one dares suggest separation. Whoever does bears responsibility for future troubles.

Everyone understands and has a tacit agreement. No one interferes, but the nominal things can’t be broken.

Thomas Robinson panicked. “Mr. Yang is right. We must adhere to fairness.”

“Indeed, Mr. Robinson. Alas, have we gone too far? I called about three experts, and I’m discussing company equity. Can you arrange for those experts immediately?” Yang Chen asked.

“Yes! Of course! But I need your agreement. You must not agree to the Dragon Country Medical Association’s proposal to increase their shareholding. Vote against it,” Thomas Robinson said.

Casually mentioning a non-existent matter scared the foreigner.

It seems the 20% equity in Yang Chen’s hands is powerful, perhaps more so than the major shareholders’.

140. It’s a Pity You’re Just a Ride-Hailing Driver (Seeking Subscriptions)_What’s Wrong with a Ride-Hailing Driver Having Some Money? (2)

Yang Chen concluded he couldn’t favor either party, let them break up, or let them join forces.

The fiercer the fight, the higher the value of his 20% equity, and the more benefits he’d get.

“Mr. Robinson wants me to reject the Dragon Country Medical Association…” Yang Chen feigned embarrassment.

Thomas Robinson: “I know this troubles you. It’s your official association, and you’ll face pressure. But I can’t help for nothing, right? Give me some benefits for mutual progress.”

Yang Chen nearly laughed.

This foreigner knew how to bargain.

Yang Chen sighed. “Okay! To save people, I’ll withstand any pressure! If they propose that at the shareholders’ meeting, I’ll vote against it!”

“Great! I’ll arrange for the experts to go to Dragon Country immediately. They’re at your disposal,” Thomas Robinson said.

The expert matter was resolved easily, surprising Zhang Senmiao and others.

They suggested Yang Chen offer benefits to the US side. A joke. He has to give them benefits to get three experts over. What is the significance of Yang Chen holding 20% of the equity?

Yu Shishi said admiringly: “Sir, you’re amazing. You control Longmei International Hospital in the US. It’s a five-star hotel-standard hospital, known for being expensive. My MIT [Massachusetts Institute of Technology] classmate spent $200,000 on an appendicitis operation. It’s scary. I didn’t expect them to listen to you so much. You’re more powerful.”

The system issued a reminder.

“Yu Shishi’s loyalty to the master has increased to 65, an increase of 5 points.”

Longmei Hospital must be impressive in Yu Shishi’s eyes to increase her loyalty by 5 points.

“When you get pregnant, I’ll send you to Longmei Hospital for five-star service,” Yang Chen smiled.

Yu Shishi blushed. “Oh, sir, don’t talk nonsense.”

“Pregnancy isn’t a disease, it’s a blessing. I can’t say you’re going to the hospital because you’re sick, that’s cursing you,” Yang Chen explained.

Yu Shishi pouted and nodded. “It seems so. I hope I go to Longmei Hospital to have children, not because I’m sick. Hee hee…”

…

Early, Yang Chen called Dean Li, informing him the experts were arranged. He immediately arranged to receive them and prepare for the patients’ surgeries.

Near noon, Director Chen called, saying Yang Qing was suspended for investigation. The Municipal Administration for Industry and Commerce, taxation, fire protection, price, and other departments were conducting surprise inspections of Hai Shang Ming Yue chain supermarkets, tolerating no problems.

At Yang Tianming’s home.

Yang Qing watched his elder brother Yang Guo beat Yang Tianming numbly.

“You bastard, why did you provoke such a powerful person? The family business your grandfather and I built for 30 years is being destroyed by you. So many departments are conducting joint inspections. Problems will be found even if there are none, let alone the fact that we really have some problems. It’s over, understand? Your second uncle is implicated and suspended. The whole family is harmed! That bastard Zhang Xiang is still staring at us to file a lawsuit. Do you know how much trouble we are in now? You bastard!” Yang Guo roared.

Yang Tianming covered his swollen face, aggrieved and angry. “I told you he was a shareholder. You said he wasn’t the third shareholder of Longmei Group, only the hospital, so we didn’t have to be afraid. Now you’re blaming me. You scold me for being a bastard, then you are old bastards!”

“Hey! You little brat, do you want to go to heaven?” Yang Guo cursed and kicked him again.

They finally understood some people cannot be provoked.

…

Yang Chen cashed Chen Ju’s check and deposited it into Chen’s medical card.

Let her use it first, and Zhang Yanni will pay it back when she makes a lot of money as an actress.

At ten p.m., Yang Chen drove back across the river bridge after dropping off a passenger.

He saw a girl trying to climb the bridge railing.

Yang Chen braked, ran over, and shouted, “Girl, don’t be impulsive.”

She was already sitting on the railing, and she would fall down as soon as she let go.

The girl looked at Yang Chen, attracted by his handsome face.

It’s good to be handsome; you can save people.

“Is your family rich?” the girl asked.

Was she being so direct?

Yang Chen pointed to his car. “I’m just a ride-hailing driver. Do you think I have money?”

The girl’s eyes dimmed, and a bitter smile touched her lips. Her oval face was disappointed.

Yang Chen smiled helplessly. “We don’t know each other. I’m poor, but it shouldn’t embarrass you so much, right? What’s your name? I’m Yang Chen.”

The girl turned. “Yang Chen? Oh, you’re the brave celebrity driver, right? I said you looked familiar. I’m Li Yanyun. It’s a pity… you’re just a ride-hailing driver. It would be great if you were a rich second generation [someone born into wealth].”

Yang Chen took two steps forward, less than three meters from Li Yanyun.

This distance, with Yang Chen’s explosiveness and speed, ensured that he could pull her back in an emergency.

“Miss Li, I don’t understand. If I were rich, what impact would it have on you? Why do you emphasize this?” Yang Chen asked.

“If you were rich, I’d marry you, and my dad would agree. If I have to marry someone I don’t like, marrying someone as handsome as you is better than marrying Zhou Bin, that ugly guy,” Li Yanyun said helplessly.

She was forced by her father to marry a rich man she didn’t like, so she came to seek death.

Rich families like political marriages. It’s okay to meet someone you like, but it’s uncomfortable to meet someone you don’t like. You can’t escape.

Looking at her LV [Louis Vuitton] and other things, her family was well-off.

The person her father asked her to marry must be even richer.

“You’re wearing LV, so your living conditions must be very good. What can’t you figure out?” Yang Chen asked.

“My dad asked me to go on a blind date with someone I don’t like. I’ve learned about him. He’s a complete playboy. He has no strengths except going to bars and picking up girls. He’s very ugly. Except for being rich, he has no advantages. But I don’t lack money, so why should I find someone like that? If I can’t even choose the person I want to live with, there’s no point in living,” Li Yanyun said, and then let go without warning.

“Damn it!” Yang Chen roared, and after taking a step forward at an extremely fast speed, he pounced over, grabbed Li Yanyun’s hair, and grabbed her arm with his left hand through the railing.

“Ah! It hurts! It hurts! It hurts! Wuwu… It hurts me to death!” Li Yanyun cried.

“You’re not afraid of death, are you still afraid of pain?” Yang Chen joked.

“I checked, jumping from such a high place will stun me on the water surface, and then I will be drowned in a coma. I won’t feel any pain,” Li Yanyun said.

“You really want to die! You even checked these things in advance. That’s just your theoretical estimate, and it may not stun you. But it will shatter your internal organs, and then you will feel the pain from the inside out in the water until you are physically exhausted and sink into the water and be drowned alive in pain. Do you think this is painful?” Yang Chen threatened.

“Ah? Will all the internal organs be shattered?” Li Yanyun asked.

“Of course! It’s no different from falling on a cement floor from such a high place,” Yang Chen said.

“Ah? Then… then pull me up quickly. I don’t want to die like this. I want to change to a less painful way to die. Hurry up, please pull me up,” Li Yanyun begged crying.

The two cooperated, and Yang Chen pulled Li Yanyun up.

Li Yanyun rubbed her scalp and complained, “It hurts so much! I’m most afraid of pain!”

You can tell she has been spoiled since she was a child. She is willful and reckless. She wants to die for a while because she can’t figure it out, but she doesn’t really want to die in her heart, otherwise she wouldn’t say she is afraid of pain.

But she is so self-destructive that she will really die sooner or later.

“If you’re afraid of pain, don’t die. It’s a pity to die so young and beautiful, and there will be one more single man,” Yang Chen joked.

“No! I still have to die! If I don’t die, my dad will marry me to someone I don’t like sooner or later. You think of a way for me to die without pain,” Li Yanyun said.

Yang Chen got up and patted his butt and said, “You’re crazy, I don’t want to be crazy with you. I have to go home and sleep. I have to get up early to drive tomorrow. I work so hard every day, but I still want to live. You live in luxury all day long, but you want to die. I really can’t understand your thoughts. Isn’t this flowery world good? It’s painful to think about being burned into ashes after death. Oh, by the way, no matter what method you use to die, you will eventually have to be pushed into the cremator and burned into ashes with a big fire. Think about what it feels like to be burned into ashes by a big fire.”

“Ah! Ah! Ah!” Li Yanyun screamed three times, jumped over and hugged Yang Chen.

“Hey, hey, what do you want to do? I am a person with a sense of chastity, don’t do this,” Yang Chen said, raising his hands.

“It’s all your fault! What you said is too scary, being burned into ashes by a big fire… Ugh, it’s scary to think about it. No, I don’t want to die, it’s too scary,” Li Yanyun said crying.

This is the willful princess in the TV series, who seeks death at every turn, but she doesn’t really want to die, she just uses this method to achieve her goals.

“That’s right. Go home quickly. Girls shouldn’t come out alone at night. It’s easy to be followed by perverts. I followed one last night, but I lost him in the end,” Yang Chen joked.

Li Yanyun burst out laughing. “You have no other shortcomings except being poor. You’re handsome, have temperament, are humorous, and are enthusiastic. It’s a pity that in this era, as long as you have no money, all your advantages will be blocked by this one shortcoming. What others see is always your poverty, not your advantages.”

“Damn it! Beauty, do you have to be so direct? I saved your life anyway, and you still have to hit me like this before you leave. I’m angry, goodbye!” Yang Chen said pretending to be angry, and quickly got in the car and left.

As a passerby, Yang Chen has done what he should do in terms of humanitarianism. If she still wants to seek death, that’s her own business, and Yang Chen has a clear conscience.

Li Yanyun watched Yang Chen’s car going away, a smile touched her lips, but then she shook her head helplessly. “It’s a pity you are just a ride-hailing driver…”

Yang Chen spent two days uneventfully and felt a little bored.

He picked up dozens of passengers, all very kind, and Yang Chen was embarrassed to deliberately provoke them to give bad reviews.

But without bad reviews, he felt that this kind of passenger-pulling day was very boring.

Early this morning, Yang Chen received a strange call.

It might be someone who wanted to use the car, so Yang Chen answered it.

“Hello, who is this?” Yang Chen asked.

“Hee hee… It’s me! Li Yanyun, I want to charter your car today, how much does it cost?” Li Yanyun asked with a smile.

Yang Chen asked curiously, “How did you get my phone number?”

“I called the platform to ask for it. I said I wanted to charter your car, and the customer service gave it to me,” Li Yanyun replied.

Silly bird customer service, so easily deceived.

“It’s very expensive to charter my car. It’s 1,000 yuan a day, and you’re responsible for all the fuel, tolls, food expenses, etc.,” Yang Chen deliberately made things difficult.

But he forgot that Li Yanyun is a rich second generation. As long as she is happy, she will agree to 10,000 or even 100,000 yuan a day, as long as she has so much money now.

“No problem! Come pick me up now. I’m waiting for you at the entrance of Disneyland, see you there!” Li Yanyun said happily, and then hung up the phone.

Yang Chen packed up and drove to Disneyland.

Soon, the two met at the entrance of Disneyland.

“Park the car and let’s go in and play,” Li Yanyun said.

Yang Chen asked, “Aren’t you going to use the car? I only do the work of a ride-hailing driver, not other work. If you want to find someone to play with, you can make an appointment on the accompanying app. Is there anything else? If not, I’m going to pick up passengers. There are a lot of orders here, and I’m jealous just looking at them.”

Li Yanyun was speechless. “Brother, I just need to give you money, why do you care what I want you to do?”

“What you said, if you give me money and ask me to sleep with you, then I have to agree? I’m going to drive, bye.” Yang Chen said.

In fact, Yang Chen just didn’t want to have anything to do with this kind of rich second generation. According to past experience, there is definitely no benefit in getting involved with them.

Especially since she was forced by her father to marry an ugly rich second generation, if he gets too close to her, he might get into trouble again.

Although Yang Chen’s current status and status are not afraid of trouble coming to him, no one likes trouble coming to him, and he can avoid it if he can.

Li Yanyun has never been rejected by anyone in her life, especially boys, who all can’t wait to take the initiative to find opportunities to lick her.

Yang Chen is just a poor ride-hailing driver, but he dares to reject her invitation, which is really hateful!

Li Yanyun blocked Yang Chen’s car. “Open the door, I want to use the car! You agreed to let me charter it for 1,000 yuan a day, and you can’t go back on your word.”

“Sigh…” Yang Chen waved his hand helplessly to signal her to get in the car.

Li Yanyun quickly got into the passenger seat. “I will bear the fuel, tolls, and any other expenses. Just take me to the suburbs of Haicheng to relax. Is that okay? This is 1,000 yuan for the charter fee. I will pay you now.”

She scanned the code and transferred 1,000 yuan to Yang Chen.

Yang Chen nodded and drove towards Sheshan.

To relax, it is most suitable to go to a place with beautiful mountains and rivers.

Yang Chen’s car drove in front, followed by a Bi Wandi Tang [Bentley].

The man in the passenger seat of Bi Wandi Tang made a call and reported: “Chairman, the young lady got into a man’s car, and now I don’t know where to go. We are following her. And… judging from the young lady’s performance just now, it seems that she is chasing that man.”

“Ah? This dead girl, she really wants my life. Our conditions are so good, why should she chase others? Alas… I knew she must have someone outside, otherwise, why would she reject the blind date? You follow me closely, take pictures and send them to me. If they have any overly intimate behavior, you immediately step forward to stop them and prevent Yanyun from being taken advantage of. Understand?”

“Understood! Don’t worry, Chairman, we will definitely keep a close eye on the young lady and will not let her be taken advantage of.”