How A Ride-Hailing Driver Comes To Dominate The World? [EN]: Chapter 278

278. Doing Delivery as a Rider, but Being Confessed to by a Rich Beauty

Yang Chen understood the delivery guys’ feelings, but he really couldn’t help them.

You can understand by looking at some data.

In 2019, Meituan’s full-year net profit was 4.5 billion yuan.

In 2020, Meituan’s full-year net profit was 3 billion yuan.

In 2021, Meituan’s full-year net profit was -18.7 billion yuan.

The most devastating thing is that Meituan was also fined 3.5 billion last year for anti-monopoly practices.

According to the data, Meituan currently has about 3 million riders.

If all these riders were to be included as employees, each rider would need social security and insurance.

If the average monthly income of riders is 5,000 yuan, then the company needs to bear about 20% of the social security costs, which means that Meituan would have to pay 1,000 yuan per month for each rider’s social security costs.

That’s 3 million riders costing 3 billion yuan per month and 36 billion yuan per year.

When Meituan was at its best, its annual net profit was only a few billion yuan, and it lost more than 18 billion yuan last year. If it also has to bear the rider’s social security costs of 36 billion yuan,

Meituan would have to shut down.

No matter how foolish the investors are, it is impossible to continue to invest in Meituan. This is an unprofitable company. How high can the commission be raised to earn more than 30 billion yuan a year to subsidize the rider’s social security costs?

This is also why Meituan outsources, but the government doesn’t punish them. It’s not that they don’t want to bear corporate responsibility, but they really cannot afford it.

Yang Chen explained to the brothers in detail with data, and they were all silent.

They hadn’t known until they heard it. It turned out that the cost of including riders was so high.

This social security fee can only be afforded by the net profits of several giant companies such as Longwei, Alibaba, and Penguin Technology.

The key is that after the riders are included, it is not just a matter of bearing the social security costs.

Riding is a high-risk occupation, and the annual expenses such as work-related injuries are also scary.

So, Yang Chen meant to help them fight for an improved evaluation mechanism.

As for including them as employees, everyone should not think about it.

When Meituan is able to make its own products on the platform and earn more money, maybe it will be possible to include the riders.

At this time, many people watching the excitement were peering from the windows upstairs.

“Who bought this building?”

“I heard that it was a delivery guy. Because someone gave him a bad review, he bought the building in a rage and threatened to raise the rent to the company where the person who gave the bad review was located if they didn’t delete the bad review and pay him compensation.”

“Damn it! So extravagant! Are delivery guys so awesome now? Which one is him? I’m going down to chase him. It doesn’t matter if I have money or not, I mainly like delivery guys.”

“Haha…”

“The tall guy in the middle who is very clean is the one who bought this building.”

“So handsome! And so rich, isn’t this the man I’ve been waiting for? I’m going down to ask for his WeChat [Chinese messaging app]!”

……

At this time, Yang Chen finished communicating with the delivery guys, and everyone dispersed.

Yang Chen secured the property certificate of this building and drove away.

The female white-collar workers who wanted to come down and ask him for WeChat were left empty-handed, and stomped their feet regretfully looking at his car’s rear.

Yang Chen

278. Doing Delivery as a Rider, but Being Confessed to by a Rich Beauty

Sent the property certificate home.

Yu Shishi and Maya are having lunch.

“Huh? Sir, you’re back! Why didn’t you say anything?” Yu Shishi asked, getting up.

Yang Chen said with a smile: “I just bought a building, and I’m sending the property certificate back.”

Yu Shishi and Maya hurried over to take a look.

They opened the cardboard boxes that Yang Chen brought in, and they were neatly arranged with the property certificates of each room in Qianjiang No. 1 Building.

Yu Shishi: “Sir, are you going to lie down and collect rent? You already have Haishang Financial Building, and you even bought Qianjiang No. 1 Building.”

Yang Chen: “Then I have to plan for the future. When I get old and can’t do it anymore, I will live on rent with my wife.”

Maya: “Hee hee… Chen, your plan is really long-term. I heard Shishi say that you have a lot of industries and are very rich. Can I discuss something with you?”

Yang Chen: “What’s the matter?”

Maya: “You go to my house to propose marriage, just say you want to marry me. Let’s get a certificate [marriage license] and go through the motions, and then secretly divorce, and we won’t affect each other in the future. What do you think?”

Yang Chen: “I don’t think so. If your family is a big company, I can handle it. Your family is a royal family, I dare not mess around. At least for now, my strength is not enough to deal with the royal family. That has to rise to the diplomatic level, I can’t handle it.”

Maya: “I’ll give you money, I won’t let you help me for nothing. I’ll give you all the money I have, about 2 million Dragon Coins [Chinese currency]. You have to know that you have become my husband, although only in name, but it doesn’t matter, after all, outsiders don’t know that we are fake married, you can do oil business in the future. You said that we have a piece of cloth on our heads [referring to a headscarf, implying she’s from an oil-rich Middle Eastern country], and we are the richest in the world. But what is the reason for our wealth? Because we have oil. If this thing is successful, I can get rid of that old geezer, you can do oil business, we win-win. Isn’t it good?”

Maya’s father wants to use her as a tool for political marriage, and he must win over a powerful force group.

Yang Chen is not afraid of fighting against this kind of force group, the key is that he doesn’t want to be so high-profile.

Now that the Internet is so developed, if it is known to everyone, how can he get rewards by running a sports car to pick up passengers?

Perhaps doing oil business will indeed make a lot of money, but compared with system rewards, it is a piece of cake.

Not to mention anything else, how much do you have to sell oil to earn 25% of Meituan’s equity?

If these shares are sold in the secondary market, according to Meituan’s current market value, Yang Chen can get about 200 billion, which is 30 billion US dollars.

The UAE’s total crude oil exports last year were only 35 billion US dollars, so you can see the gap by comparison.

Yang Chen is still very clear about how to calculate this account.

Yang Chen shook his head and said, “I don’t want to do oil business now, let’s talk about it when I want to do it in the future.”

Maya: “But when you want to do it in the future, I have already married someone else, and you will have no chance to cooperate with me. I mainly don’t want to obey the political marriage arranged by my family and marry a 50-year-old man. I urgently need a powerful person to marry me and let me get rid of him. Do you understand what I mean?”

Yang Chen nodded and said, “Understood!

But this thing is not cost-effective for me. I’ll send the things up, you eat.”

Yang Chen went upstairs with the cardboard box.

Maya looked at Yang Chen with disappointment, feeling that her last hope was gone.

After a while, Yang Chen came down to eat.

Maya was still unwilling to give up and tried to persuade Yang Chen to help her.

Yang Chen’s attitude was very firm; it was impossible to do such an uneconomical thing.

Maya said: “Then I really marry you, give you two children, and then divorce, without delaying you from marrying other people. Or you don’t have to divorce me, I won’t stop you from being with other girls, and I can even let them give you children. Do you think this will work?”

Maya felt that being with a young, handsome and rich young man must be better than being with a fifty-year-old old geezer.

As long as Yang Chen can help her get rid of that political marriage, she can give everything.

But Yang Chen’s focus is that he can’t be too high-profile, otherwise it will be difficult to get rewards for bad reviews in the future.

Therefore, no matter what price she pays, Yang Chen will not agree.

“You don’t need to say anything, I can’t agree,” Yang Chen refused decisively.

Maya nodded sadly and said, “Then can you introduce me to a man who is as strong as you and has a chance to snatch me away? It’s best to be about the same age as you, I don’t want an old geezer.”

To snatch a bride from the royal family, this strength is not ordinary.

Even Wang Nianming, the son of Yida, may not be qualified.

Yang Chen chewed the rice while shaking his head, and said after swallowing, “I really can’t remember who in my circle of friends is qualified to marry you. And your customs are too… well, if you are privately with other men, you will definitely be stoned to death when you go back. Don’t think about these messy things, enjoy life while you haven’t been caught back.”

The daughter of the previous king was stoned to death because of emotional problems; this is not Yang Chen scaring Maya.

The customs there are like that, and the social status of women is very low.

Maya nodded and said, “I know. This is also why I want to escape from there, I want to live in a truly fair and free country. I think Dragon Country [China] is very good, I really want to stay here forever.”

Yu Shishi sighed and said, “I sympathize with your situation, but customs and laws cannot be changed by one person. Unless there is a complete social change, no one can save you.”

Maya nodded, the light in her eyes dimmed.

……

After lunch, Yang Chen went upstairs to sleep for a while before going out to pick up passengers.

Helping a delivery guy deliver food in the morning is also considered a special task.

Yang Chen suddenly had an idea, why not register a Meituan takeaway account and occasionally deliver takeaways, maybe he can trigger a special task again?

Just do it, Yang Chen found the nearest Meituan outlet.

Yang Chen stopped a brother and asked, “Excuse me, where is your outlet manager?”

The brother pointed to an office and said, “Inside.”

Yang Chen nodded, walked over and knocked on the door.

Manager: “What’s the matter?”

Yang Chen: “I’m Yang Chen, come and see, and please register a rider account for me.”

Manager: “Yang Chen? Is it President Yang who just acquired 25% of Meituan’s shares?”

Yang Chen took out a business card and handed it to him.

The manager immediately jumped up and stood up, quickly holding Yang Chen’s hand with both hands, nodding and bowing and said: “Hello, President Yang, hello, President Yang. I didn’t know you were coming, otherwise I would definitely bring my brothers to welcome you. My name is Wang Bing, and I am willing to serve Mr. Yang.”

Yang Chen said with a smile: “Don’t make such a big show, I’m just here to register an account and experience the life of the brothers.”

After speaking, Yang Chen took out his ID card.

Wang Bing nodded and quickly registered an account for Yang Chen himself.

Yang Chen didn’t have time to talk nonsense with him, downloaded the software, took the equipment and left.

Just trying his luck to see if he can encounter a special task again, not really to deliver takeaways, so Yang Chen didn’t plan to deliver takeaways like other brothers, and didn’t plan to buy electric cars or anything, just occasionally pick an order and drive to deliver it.

Yang Chen wanted to experience the novelty, and the platform also has a novice protection period, pushing him a lot of orders, and he chose an order to send flowers.

Yang Chen drove to the entrance of the flower shop, put on Meituan’s yellow clothes, opened the door and got out of the car and walked into the store.

The flower shop owner was stunned, which celebrity young heartthrob is here to guest star as a takeaway delivery person?

This brother is too wow.

Yang Chen: “Hello, I’m a takeaway rider, here to pick up Zhou Changhe’s order.”

Female boss: “Wow, are takeaway brothers so handsome now?”

Yang Chen: “Thank you for the compliment, boss, you are also very beautiful.”

The female boss took the flowers and handed them to Yang Chen, and deliberately touched the back of his hand.

“You drive this car to deliver takeaways?” the female boss asked.

Yang Chen nodded and said, “Yes! It’s not safe to ride an electric car, so I drive this car to deliver. I have to go, I wish the boss a prosperous business and more and more wow-ness.”

The female boss immediately covered her mouth and laughed happily, and the whole person was much happier.

Yang Chen drove to the entrance of Yida Plaza and found the customer Zhou Changhe through the phone.

At this time, Zhou Changhe was confessing to a girl.

Yang Chen really admires his courage to confess in this place.

If this is rejected, wouldn’t it be social suicide?

“Xiaorui, I love you, be my girlfriend. I will be good to you for the rest of my life! As long as you accept me, you can buy whatever you want in Yida Shopping Mall today!” Zhou Changhe said loudly.

The onlookers girls were all envious.

“This is too extravagant!”

“I also want to have such a man confess to me.”

“Too romantic, if someone confessed to me like this, I would definitely agree without hesitation.”

……

Zhou Changhe waved to Yang Chen.

Yang Chen quickly ran over and handed the flowers to Zhou Changhe. Just as he turned to leave, he was suddenly stopped by the girl who was confessed to.

“Brother Chen, it’s you!” the girl said in surprise.

Yang Chen took a closer look, good heavens, isn’t this the girl Zhou Rui who he saved who was hit by a tricycle before?

At the beginning, Zhou Rui’s father, Zhou Hai, wanted to recruit Yang Chen as his son-in-law with tens of billions of assets, but Yang Chen refused.

Yang Chen nodded with a smile and said, “It’s you! Long time no see!”

Zhou Rui: “Yes! Long time no see, since the last time we said goodbye,

I was sad for a long time, and I always wanted to see you again but I couldn’t. I didn’t expect to meet you here today, is this the legendary fate?”

Yang Chen quickly took his hand back and said, “Little girl, don’t make trouble, don’t let your boyfriend misunderstand. I won’t disturb you guys being romantic, bye bye.”

Zhou Rui quickly grabbed Yang Chen again, and smoothly snatched the flowers in Zhou Changhe’s hand, then knelt on one knee in front of Yang Chen and said, “Brother Chen, be my boyfriend. I will love you for the rest of my life, and all the tens of billions of assets in our family are yours. Please, be my boyfriend.”

What’s the situation?

The onlookers people were stunned.

Is the pace of life of young people so fast now?

In the last second, the man just confessed, and in the next second, the woman confessed to another boy?

The key is that this girl is also a rich and beautiful woman, as long as she is her girlfriend, she can get tens of billions of assets, so why send a measly takeaway?

Wang Dachui’s famous saying, become CEO, marry a rich and beautiful woman, and embark on the peak of life from then on, as long as this takeaway brother nods, he can achieve it.

The onlookers people were talking.

“Damn, is this filming a Douyin [TikTok] skit? The plot is too ridiculous.”

“This brother is going to take off, a beauty is offering herself with tens of billions of dowry, I dare not do this even in my dreams.”

“It’s good to be handsome, being handsome really pays off!”

“The takeaway brother will definitely agree, no one can resist the temptation of beauty and tens of billions of assets.”

……

Yang Chen quickly smiled and helped Zhou Rui up and said, “Miss Zhou, get up quickly! Didn’t I tell you last time, I am very satisfied with my current life, and I won’t be with you just because your family is rich. Let’s be honest, I’m not familiar with you, I don’t even know how many boyfriends you’ve had before, what you usually like to do, your character, etc., how can I be with you?”

Zhou Rui: “I haven’t had a boyfriend, as long as you nod, you will be my first love. I have a very good character, if you are with me, if we quarrel, I will slap myself. Okay?”

This made her say it all.

Yang Chen was speechless.

The onlookers people were shocked again.

“Did I hear it right? The takeaway brother refused? This is definitely a script, no one in this world can resist the temptation of beauty and tens of billions of assets. Even if Wang Nianming comes, he can’t resist the temptation of beauty!”

“No way, this beauty is too humble.”

“It’s obvious that she’s too young, and she’s been charmed by the handsome little brother. When she experiences more, she will know that there are many good men in the world, and she will definitely regret today’s choice in the future.”

……

“Miss Zhou, don’t be like this, feelings can’t be forced. If I agree now, it’s for your body and property, do you really want such a me?” Yang Chen said.

Zhou Rui was stunned for a moment, nodded and said, “Brother Chen, what you said seems to make sense. Then are you free now? I’ll invite you in for a cup of coffee. Let’s date for a while and get to know each other.”

Yang Chen: “That’s definitely not possible, I have to drive and deliver takeaways. I’m not only running a ride-hailing service now, but also working part-time delivering takeaways,

I’m very busy.”

Zhou Rui: “Then leave me a number, you said last time, if we are destined to meet again, you will add me as a friend.”

Yang Chen: “Ah? Did I say that?”

Zhou Rui: “Yes! You can’t go back on your word!”

Zhou Rui was about to cry.

Yang Chen nodded and said, “Okay! Okay! Add a friend.”

At this time, Zhou Changhe on the side couldn’t stand it anymore, and stepped forward to push Yang Chen away, but Yang Chen’s stance was very stable, Zhou Changhe couldn’t push him away, but instead bounced himself away, almost falling backwards.

Zhou Rui quickly scolded: “Zhou Changhe, what are you doing? If you dare to be rude to Brother Chen, I will never let you go!”

Zhou Changhe: “You are too bullying! In front of me, you took the flowers I asked him to send to you and gave them to him, what do you think of me?”

Yang Chen and Zhou Rui added friends and said, “Miss Zhou, you continue, I won’t disturb you, I have to go to work.”

Zhou Rui: “I don’t like him at all, I have rejected him many times, but he just won’t let me go. Zhou Changhe, I will tell you again in front of so many people, it is impossible for me to accept you. The person I like is Brother Chen, as long as he nods, I am willing to marry him with my family property at any time. I hope you can respect me, and also respect yourself, and don’t cause trouble to both parents. I have been tolerant because of the friendship between our two families, but today is my last tolerance to you, if you do this again in the future, I will let the parents come forward to solve it.”

Zhou Changhe was furious and said, “Zhou Rui, you can not like me. But how can you like a takeaway? You are humiliating me! If you like a man who is better than me, I can convince myself to give up. You like a takeaway, how can I accept it?”

Zhou Rui: “Who I like has nothing to do with you. My family is already very rich, as long as Brother Chen doesn’t mess around, it’s enough for us to live for several lifetimes. It doesn’t matter what job he does, the important thing is that I like him as a person.”

The onlookers people were talking again.

“Having money is awesome!”

“It’s good to have money, you can make friends without caring whether the other party has money, anyway, her money is enough to spend.”

“Work hard to make money, so that your children can be like this beauty in the future, making friends only based on whether they like it or not, regardless of the other party’s economic ability.”

……

Yang Chen didn’t want to waste time for someone he wasn’t very familiar with, so he turned to leave.

But Zhou Changhe felt that he had lost all face, how could he let him leave so easily.

“Stop! Give us a clear answer now, do you like her or not?” Zhou Changhe said.

Yang Chen: “Didn’t I say it? At least I don’t like her now. As for the future, I can’t say for sure.”

Zhou Changhe: “Xiaorui, did you hear that? He doesn’t like you, he treats you as a spare tire. If he is lonely in the future and finds you to vent his loneliness, are you really willing to wait for him like this?”

Zhou Rui: “I am willing.”

Zhou Changhe: “……”

Damn it, I’m so angry.

At this time, a group of people came over.

“Wow, Wang Nianming is here.”

“Damn, is Wang Nianming here to cause a scene?”

“This dude has changed girlfriends again, more frequently than me changing clothes.”

……

Wang Nianming, head held high, followed by six girls and four men, walking over with a rich gait.

When Wang Nianming saw Yang Chen wearing Meituan takeaway clothes, he immediately became normal.

“Brother Chen, why are you here? I swear! Why are you still delivering takeaways?” Wang Nianming said loudly, and quickly ran over to high-five and bump shoulders with Yang Chen.

Yang Chen: “I swear, can I compare with you? What do I eat if I don’t work!”

Wang Nianming: “Brother Chen, you are not being fair, aren’t you making fun of me?”

Yang Chen: “No, I really envy your state of life. When can I be as open-minded as you, and my daily task is to enjoy life, I will definitely be very happy.”

Wang Nianming: “Haha… Brother Chen, you are so rich, there is no need to be so tired. What’s wrong? Blocked by a girl’s confession?”

Yang Chen: “It’s a long story. I won’t delay you taking girls out to have fun, I have to go drive and pick up passengers. Oh, by the way, help me deal with this guy.”

Wang Nianming nodded and said, “Okay! Brother Chen, go and work, I’ll deal with him.”

Yang Chen nodded and hurried away.

The onlookers people were stunned, how could Wang Nianming be so polite to a takeaway brother?

Wang Nianming: “What’s going on? Why are you bothering Chen Ge [respectful term for older brother]? You don’t like this girl, this girl likes Chen Ge, and then you are bothering Chen Ge?”

Zhou Changhe: “Brother Ming, you come and judge. I ordered flowers online, that Yang Chen sent them to me, I sent them to Xiaorui to confess, but Xiaorui took the flowers and confessed to him, do you think he is still being ethical?”

“Haha…” Wang Nianming and others laughed.

Wang Nianming: “People don’t like you, what’s the use of you bothering Chen Ge? I warn you, don’t think Chen Ge is driving a ride-hailing service, delivering takeaways or something, you think he is easy to bully. I have to call him Brother Chen when I see him, do you know what it means? Get out of here, be polite to Brother Chen in the future, otherwise I won’t spare you!”

Zhou Changhe: Brother Ming, I just don’t understand, he is just a takeaway, why are you so polite to him?”

Wang Nianming: “Are you stupid? If he is just a takeaway, would I be so humble to him? Bad brain.”

After speaking, Wang Nianming left with the girls.

Wang Nianming’s unexplained words confused everyone.

“No wonder, I said how could the takeaway brother not like beauty and tens of billions of assets, it turns out that he is a hidden rich man, the kind that Wang Nianming has to call brother.”

“This is reasonable! Only this situation can explain why he would reject this beauty’s confession. People don’t lack money, even more money than Wang Nianming, and naturally there is no shortage of beauties around him, so how could he be hung up on one tree for a mere tens of billions?”

“So rich and still going to deliver takeaways, I really don’t understand the thoughts of rich people.”

“Haven’t you read online novels? The recent popular son-in-law articles are all about the three-year term expiring and going home to inherit the family property? This brother is definitely experiencing family training, maybe he is now the son-in-law of a small family, living a humble life by delivering takeaways, but in fact he is a powerful big shot behind the scenes.”

“I swear! There is a crooked mouth dragon king vibe! [reference to a popular trope in Chinese web novels where a seemingly ordinary person is secretly a powerful figure]”

……

Zhou Changhe was dumbfounded, feeling a burst of fear in his heart.

“It’s over, I seemed to have pushed him just now, will he retaliate against me? It’s over, it’s over, it’s over…”