How A Ride-Hailing Driver Comes To Dominate The World? [EN]: Chapter 299

Yang Chen’s Bizarre Design for LV

Yang Chen’s idea was actually inspired by what Lao Yu [Old Yu, a common way to address someone with the surname Yu] said earlier about having teachers teach online, combined with the most popular live streaming e-commerce elements of the moment.

Lao Yu must have a good understanding of the abilities, character, and life pressures of the teachers under him. He can completely have a few teachers volunteer—not too many, five or six will do.

They’d still do live broadcasts online as Lao Yu said, but not online teaching; instead, live streaming e-commerce.

Lao Yu shook his head as soon as he heard it and said, “That would be difficult. Now only big streamers can drive sales. If our sales can’t keep up, it won’t work for a listed company at all. And they are all teachers, after all. If they shout every day like those streamers, ‘Don’t need 998, don’t need 198, only need 98,’ I think it’s too insulting to them. I’ve already made them lose their jobs, and I can’t let them lose the last dignity of being a teacher.”

Yang Chen nodded and said, “President Yu is mistaken. If you follow the routine you described, these teachers won’t be able to make a way out even if they work day and night. We have to make good use of the teachers’ advantages. What advantages do they have?”

Lao Yu thought for a while and said, “Maybe they have some culture.”

Yang Chen: “That’s right, knowledge! Knowledge is something that those internet celebrity streamers don’t have.”

Lao Yu became interested and asked Yang Chen to explain in detail how to do it.

Yang Chen shared his ideas with Lao Yu.

Similarly, when selling rice through live streaming, other streamers will definitely introduce what brand the rice is and how cheap it is. They can’t come up with any new tricks even if they try.

However, when the teachers of the Oriental Group sell goods, they can talk about the local customs and historical allusions of the place of origin, and explain from the perspectives of physics, chemistry, and biology why some foods can lower blood pressure and why some foods can be poisonous when eaten together.

Isn’t this different from those internet celebrity streamers?

While watching the live broadcast, the audience learns knowledge. If they are happy to watch, and the product being explained happens to be something they need, won’t they place an order?

The teachers of the Oriental Group must cultivate a group of loyal customers, so that they feel that they are not only buying the product itself, but also buying knowledge, so that they feel that buying the products we sell through live streaming is high-end, and different from those streamers who shout “Don’t need 998.” Even if the Oriental Group sells it a little more expensive, people will still buy it. As long as everyone is willing to buy it, won’t the performance and profit come?

LV consumers will despise other low-end brands from the bottom of their hearts. Even if the products sold by LV are very strange and expensive, they will still buy them. Even if other brands are very cheap and cost-effective, they will not buy them.

Because they think LV is a symbol of their identity, and other brands are trash and not worthy of them, which will lower their grade.

If the Oriental Group can also cultivate its customer base in this way, so that they feel that buying the products sold by the teachers is with knowledge, which is different from the products sold by other streamers shouting “Don’t need 998”, even if the Oriental Group sells it more expensive, people will still buy it. As long as everyone is willing to pay, won’t the performance and profit come?

In the early stage, you can sell existing brands. When the Oriental Group’s brand becomes famous, you can make your own brand, find a foundry for processing, and make it bigger and stronger, and create greater glories.

Lao Yu was immediately happy.

He laughed heartily and shook Yang Chen’s hands excitedly.

“President Yang is really a young hero. As expected, his brain is better than ours old guys. Our board of directors, shareholders’ meeting, and internal group meetings have been held no less than a hundred times, and the results of the discussions are not as useful as President Yang’s few seconds of thinking,” Lao Yu said with a smile.

Yang Chen: “I also attended your English tutoring classes when I was in school. I know how popular you were back then. Now I feel sorry to see such a company declining. I will buy stocks in the secondary market and pull the stock price back up. If it is convenient for President Yu, you can also give me some stocks. When I invest in other people’s companies, I don’t interfere with the management and just wait for dividends. Of course, I can not manage, but I still have to retain the voting rights represented by the equity I hold. There is a saying, I can not use it, but I must have it.”

Lao Yu: “Haha… I understand, I understand. New Oriental Group holds 55% of the shares, Intentional Investment Company holds 9%, I personally hold 4.99%, and the shareholding ratios of other shareholders are very small and can be ignored. While the company is in bad shape and the stock price has plummeted, President Yang can acquire some equity from the secondary market, and I will give you about 5% more. What do you think?”

Yang Chen: “Okay! However, President Yu has to cooperate with me and release some negative news to suppress the stock price first, so I can spend less money to acquire stocks. As compensation, I will give our live broadcast room some traffic from Douyin [TikTok’s Chinese version]. And I am planning to take a road trip recently. The original route was to take the Sichuan-Tibet line, but now I can change it a little. The streamers will follow me, and every time we arrive in a city, we will promote local specialty agricultural products, etc. With the label of helping farmers, we will be more likely to succeed.”

Lao Yu: “Haha… Okay! Everything is up to President Yang.”

Yang Chen took a sip of tea and said, “Thank you for the tea, President Yu. I’ll leave first.”

Lao Yu: “Is President Yang still going to deliver food?”

Yang Chen: “What kind of food am I going to deliver at this point? I’m going to drive for a ride-hailing service.”

Lao Yu was speechless and looked shocked.

So rich, but still driving for a ride-hailing service and delivering food?

After sending Yang Chen into the elevator, Lao Yu ran back excitedly and clapped his hands and shouted, “Everyone, stop what you are doing, I have something to discuss with you.”

The employees quickly put down what they were doing and gathered in the conference room.

Lao Yu: “I was originally going to dissolve the company, but now I still want to struggle a bit. I still need six teachers to work hard with me. Those who are willing to stay will stay, and those who are not willing to stay will still take the severance pay and find another way out according to the previous agreement. Staying or leaving is up to you.”

The teachers immediately discussed in a low voice.

“What do you say? Stay or find another way out?”

“I just bought a house and have to pay nearly 20,000 yuan in mortgage every month. I can’t accompany President Yu again.”

“I’m still young and can work hard one more time. I want to stay and work hard with President Yu again!”

“I have to go home and discuss it with my family before I can decide.”

…

After some discussion, everyone told President Yu their thoughts.

Lao Yu nodded and said, “Okay, I’ll give everyone a day to consider and give me a reply before 12 noon tomorrow.

Those who do not give me a reply, I will assume that you choose to leave. Okay, everyone, go back to work.”

…

At this time, Yang Chen had already picked up a passenger and was on the way to the destination.

At this time, Zhang Xiaoming, the president of ByteDance Group [The parent company of Douyin/TikTok], called Yang Chen.

Yang Chen answered the phone with Bluetooth headphones.

Zhang Xiaoming: “Hello, Mr. Yang, hello, I am Zhang Xiaoming, the president of ByteDance Group.”

Yang Chen: “President Zhang! Hello, hello.”

Zhang Xiaoming: “President Yang, hello. I don’t have anything in particular, just calling to say hello. Also, Wang Nianming wants to register on Douyin, and the people below asked me whether to approve it for him. I was thinking that President Yang explicitly banned Wang Nianming, so I have to call you to tell you about it.”

Yang Chen: “This kid is still not giving up. Don’t let him register, don’t approve it! He and that female internet celebrity are messing around, and the stock prices of Yida Film and Yida Commercial have fallen, causing me to lose 100 million yuan. If I don’t ban him again, he will cause more trouble. His father spoils him, and he is not to blame for causing trouble. But I don’t spoil him, I have no reason to lose real money to let him mess around.”

Zhang Xiaoming: “So, President Yang also invested in Yida Group?”

Yang Chen: “Yes! I bought some of their shares when I had nothing to do, and now I am the second largest shareholder of Yida Group and Yida Film.”

The two passengers in the back row were stunned. Is this driver bragging?

Does the second largest shareholder of Yida need to drive for a ride-hailing service?

Yang Chen chatted with Zhang Xiaoming for a while before hanging up the phone.

Later, the two female passengers quickly asked.

“Handsome guy, are you a shareholder of Yida?”

“Did you ban Wang Nianming’s Weibo [Chinese Twitter]?”

Yang Chen smiled and replied, “Bragging! Don’t believe it! We’re here, check your belongings, and welcome to choose DiDi [Leading ride-hailing service in China] again next time.”

The two female passengers laughed and really thought Yang Chen was bragging, so they quickly took their things and got out of the car.

At this time, Lin Yiren sent a message to Yang Chen.

“Achen [term of endearment], come to the airport to pick me up later. Someone is harassing me again, you have to help me teach him a lesson!”

Yang Chen was also helpless. It’s a crime for a girlfriend to be beautiful. There are always some jerks who want to harass her.

At five o’clock, Yang Chen arrived at the airport to pick up Lin Yiren.

Lin Yiren hugged Yang Chen and kissed him.

Yang Chen quickly asked, “Who harassed you?”

Lin Yiren turned around and looked around and said, “Huh? Where is he? He was following me just now, why is he gone? He’s a foreigner, named something like Fertas Freeman, that’s about the sound of it. He also said that he is an LV designer and can send me a lot of LV goodies and stuff.”

Yang Chen nodded, picked up Lin Yiren’s suitcase and put it in the trunk, and asked her to get in the car.

After leaving the airport, Yang Chen found a place to park.

Then he took out his mobile phone and called Wu Yue and asked, “President Wu, is there a designer named Fertas Freeman here?”

Wu Yue: “Yes! He is an LV designer and also the director of the design department. Why did Mr. Yang suddenly ask about him?”

Yang Chen: “What is he here for?”

Wu Yue: “It’s like this, we are holding a design competition in China, and he is here to judge and also to select to see if there are any designs that meet our LV style. It will be held at the headquarters of the China region at nine o’clock tomorrow morning.”

Yang Chen: “Okay. I’ll go and see it tomorrow. You’re busy.”

After hanging up the phone, Yang Chen smiled and said to Lin Yiren, “I’ll pick you up at eight o’clock tomorrow morning, and I’ll take you to LV’s China headquarters to settle the score with him.”

Lin Yiren: “Will it cause you trouble? If it causes trouble, forget it, it’s not a big deal. If you can easily deal with him, then we’ll go and teach him a lesson.”

Yang Chen: “Haha… As long as you don’t mess with those people in the news, I can deal with anyone. Go home, or go to eat?”

Lin Yiren: “I miss you, you arrange it tonight. I bought new stockings in New York.”

Yang Chen: “Haha… Then I have to take a look. Let’s go eat first, you have to be full to have the strength to work.”

Lin Yiren: “Hee hee… Rogue.”

The next day at 9:10 a.m., Yang Chen took Lin Yiren to the headquarters of LVMH China.

Wu Yue knew he was coming and had been waiting at the elevator entrance.

Seeing Yang Chen walking out of the elevator with a girl, Wu Yue quickly stepped forward to greet him.

Wu Yue: “Hello, Mr. Yang, hello, beautiful lady. I am Wu Yue, the president of LVMH Group China. May I ask your name?”

Lin Yiren: “My name is Lin Yiren, and I am the chief flight attendant of China Eastern Airlines.”

Wu Yue: “Oh, hello, Miss Lin. Mr. Yang, Miss Lin, please come with me. I will take you to the scene to see now.”

The three came to the conference room, where there were dozens of designers participating in the competition.

Lin Yiren pointed to the foreigner sitting on the stage and said, “Achen, it’s him.”

Wu Yue felt something was wrong and quickly asked with a smile, “Does Miss Lin know Mr. Freeman?”

Lin Yiren briefly told Wu Yue about the situation on the plane yesterday.

Wu Yue’s face changed drastically. She knew that something big was going to happen, and how big it would be depended on what Yang Chen meant.

Yang Chen didn’t care so much. No one is allowed to harass his woman.

“Open the door!” Yang Chen said.

Wu Yue nodded and immediately pushed the door open.

The three walked in.

Freeman saw Lin Yiren coming and immediately walked over happily.

Lin Yiren quickly linked arms with Yang Chen.

Wu Yue was worried that Freeman would say something wrong, so she quickly introduced in a low voice: “Mr. Freeman, let me introduce you. This is Mr. Yang Chen, the second largest shareholder of our LVMH Group. This is his girlfriend, Miss Lin.”

The smile on Freeman’s face froze and said, “Hello, Mr. Yang, hello, Miss Lin. Miss Lin, I am very sorry, there may be some misunderstanding between us.”

Lin Yiren chuckled and ignored him.

Yang Chen walked to the table, picked up some design drafts and looked at them and said, “Are these the designs you have chosen?”

Freeman nodded and said, “Yes, Mr. Yang. These are the designs I have chosen. I think they are very suitable for our LV brand style.”

Yang Chen threw the design draft on Freeman’s face and cursed, “You are farting! LV pays attention to being maverick and different. The designs you have chosen are too mediocre. Other brands are like this, how can we highlight the brand personality of LV?”

The dozens of contestants in the audience were frightened by this scene. Who is this handsome guy who dares to slam LV’s design director like this?

Wu Yue wanted to pull them apart, but she didn’t dare.

Whoever dares to stand out at this time will be unlucky.

Freeman looked angry and said, “Mr. Yang, I admit that it was wrong for me to harass your girlfriend. But I didn’t know she was your girlfriend. If I knew she was your girlfriend, I would definitely not dare to harass her. I think public affairs are public affairs, and private affairs are private affairs. You can’t abuse your power for private revenge and disregard the interests of the group because of private affairs. As a shareholder of the group, you must be responsible to all shareholders, employees, and consumers!”

Yang Chen sneered and said, “I’m not abusing my power for private revenge! If you don’t agree with anything, look at what kind of designs you have chosen? If LV products were so generic, how could they have developed to today? As the design director of the headquarters, you don’t even understand LV’s brand positioning and culture, do you think you are qualified?”

Freeman was furious and said, “Mr. Yang, you can question my character, but you can’t question my profession! I have served the LV brand for thirty years, and it can be said that LV can develop to today’s level, and I have made great contributions! You are now insulting my professionalism, you are insulting the LV brand! You are insulting all shareholders, all employees, and all customers!”

This old foreigner is quite good at playing the blame game, and he has risen to this level all of a sudden.

Today, Yang Chen will fight him to the end, and he must be made to submit!

Wu Yue quickly said, “Mr. Yang, Mr. Freeman, please calm down, let’s go to the office to talk.”

Yang Chen: “No, let’s make the problem clear in front of so many designers today.”

Speaking, Yang Chen picked up a few design drafts and showed them to everyone.

Yang Chen: “Let’s take a look at this dress, is it good-looking? It’s good-looking! But it’s useless if it’s good-looking, other brands can design such products. If we make this kind of product, how can we distinguish it from other brands?”

The designer of this design is a woman in her 30s. She immediately stood up and said, “Sir, you must know that most people have the same aesthetics. This is a design that meets the aesthetics of most people.”

Yang Chen: “You can say this sentence, which means you don’t understand the LV brand. Still that sentence, if LV, including other brands under the group, use such popular designs, these brands cannot have today’s status. The LV brand has developed to today, and it is no longer just a brand, it represents an identity and a social status. Whether or not they are LV customers, they must be able to recognize at a glance that this product is LV’s. Customers enjoy the feeling of others recognizing at a glance that the products on them are LV’s, and thus think that they are rich people. Do you understand this meaning? May I ask if you designed this dress without the LV logo, can you know that it is an LV product?”

The female designer was asked by Yang Chen and couldn’t answer, but she finally said that she always believed that clothes are for people to wear and should meet the aesthetics of most people.

Afterwards, Yang Chen picked out a few more designs to find faults.

This offended all the designers, and they were all angry and giving him cold looks.

Freeman is the design director of the headquarters, and all designs of the group need to be personally approved by him.

Freeman had to personally approve all designs of the group before they could be finalized and put into production.

He absolutely would not allow Yang Chen to “settle personal grudges.”

Freeman: “Mr. Yang, there’s no point in you continuing to make a scene like this. You think so many good designs are not good enough. Then what kind of design do you think is good?”

The designers below the stage echoed his sentiment.

“You’re a shareholder of LV, right? I don’t understand your motivation for doing this. Since you think our designs are no good, then show us a design and let us see how brilliant your design is.”

“That’s right! Let us see what kind of things you can design that fit the LV brand’s image.”

“If you have a grudge against Mr. Freeman, you can resolve it privately. Why are you taking it out on us? Do you realize how unprofessional your behavior is!”

…

Design?

Who couldn’t do that? [Sarcastic tone]

LV’s products already had a lot of eccentricities. He might not be able to do serious designs, but couldn’t he do odd designs?

Besides, Yang Chen was the second-largest shareholder of LVMH Group. Even if the things he designed weren’t popular, who could do anything to him?

He spent hundreds of billions to hold shares, and he usually didn’t interfere with the group’s management. Wasn’t he allowed to be capricious once in a while?

Even Arnold, the president of LVMH Group, wouldn’t dare to refuse!

At this time, the cleaning lady passed by, pushing her cart.

Yang Chen’s eyes lit up, and he quickly ran out.

Just as everyone was wondering, Yang Chen brought the cleaning lady in with her cleaning cart.

Everyone was even more puzzled. What was he going to do?

Yang Chen picked up a cleaning ball [steel wool] and said, “Everyone, do you think this bracelet looks good?”

The whole place was shocked, and everyone’s eyes widened.

This was clearly a cleaning steel wool ball; how could it be a bracelet?

Freeman: “Isn’t this a cleaning ball? What bracelet?”

Yang Chen: “Is this a cleaning ball?”

Freeman: “Yes! Isn’t it?”

Cleaning lady: “This is a cleaning ball.”

Yang Chen: “I know it’s a cleaning ball, but now it’s not just a cleaning ball; it’s also LV’s autumn new hot-selling bracelet!”

With that said, Yang Chen stretched and pulled the cleaning steel wool ball into an irregular circle and put it on Freeman’s wrist.

Yang Chen: “Look! Isn’t this bracelet very unique?”

The whole place was dumbfounded. Was this guy here to cause trouble?

Then, Yang Chen took out a straw hat from under the cart.

Cleaning lady: “This is a straw hat that my old man brought from the countryside. I usually use it to block the sun when I go to and from work.”

Yang Chen: “No! It will soon not be a rural straw hat, but LV’s autumn new hot-selling sun hat.”

“Ah?” The whole place exclaimed.

The designers couldn’t take it anymore.

“Aren’t you just messing around?”

“Which rich person would buy such a rustic thing? People are rich, not crazy!”

“Wearing this will make you look like a farmer. Which rich person would be stupid enough to buy it?”

…

Freeman was so angry that he was about to vomit blood and said, “Mr. Yang, please stop your unreasonable behavior! You are insulting LV, and you are also insulting yourself!”

Yang Chen put the straw hat on Freeman’s head and said, “You professional designers don’t even understand fashion as much as an amateur like me. There’s a saying that when something is rustic to the extreme, it becomes trendy [a concept of intentionally embracing outdated or simple styles].

You don’t even understand such a simple principle; no wonder you can’t design good works.”

The cleaning lady covered her mouth and laughed, and said, “Oh my, can this steel wool ball and straw hat also become LV products? Haha… My family has a lot of these things; doesn’t that mean I’m going to get rich? Haha…”

Yang Chen: “Auntie, the ones in your house are different from the ones produced by our LV. The ones in your house are not worth much, but after putting on the LV brand logo, they can be sold for tens of thousands of dollars each. We have a hat and a bracelet, so shouldn’t we have a top too?”

Yang Chen looked around and saw the cleaning lady’s sun protection clothing and suddenly had an inspiration.

He held his hands in the air and gestured on Freeman’s body, and said, “This is our LV’s hot product this autumn – the Air Vest!”

This made the designers angry. Wasn’t this rubbing their IQs on the ground?

“Damn it! I can’t stand it anymore! I’m going to beat him up; he’s insulting our IQ!”

“That’s too much; he doesn’t treat us like human beings at all! Even if there was a group of three-year-olds sitting below, you can’t play like this!”

“Too humiliating! Even if LV wants my design, I won’t sell it!”

…

Although Lin Yiren found the steel wool ball and straw hat funny, she could still tolerate it.

But she really couldn’t tolerate this air vest; she couldn’t stand it anymore.

“Ah Chen, stop teasing them. You can even think of an air vest; you bad guy,” Lin Yiren said with a smile.

Wu Yue also said, “Mr. Yang, you can vent your anger, but this air vest is a bit too much to bear.”

Freeman gritted his teeth and said, “Mr. Yang, I don’t want to curse. But I can’t hold back anymore! I said, you apologize to you and Miss Lin for my rudeness, you can bring up any ideas you have, and I can accept your punishment. But you can’t humiliate people like this! Air vest, where is it? Are the sales staff going to hold a handful of air for the customer, and the customer will pay for it? You are not insulting the customer’s IQ, but insulting our IQ!”

Yang Chen: “Tsk tsk tsk… Why are you so excited? Oh, I didn’t give you a pair of pants; are you angry? Pants, pants… Hmm?”

Yang Chen took out a pair of big shorts from the cleaning cart again, and the cleaning lady quickly said, “These are my son’s big shorts. He wore them when he was little, so I washed them and used them as rags. I have to say, they are quite useful.”

Yang Chen unfolded the big shorts and looked at them.

Freeman shook his head and said, “No! No! Please! Don’t! Don’t! Listen to me! For God’s sake, don’t mess with me anymore!”

Yang Chen threw the big shorts to Freeman and said, “Put them on! I think these big shorts are very good, especially the patterns on them are particularly good. Change them all to the LV logo, and then take in the waist and enlarge the legs to make them flared big shorts. It will definitely cause a buying frenzy this summer!”

Freeman: “Enough! You’re bullying people too much!”

Yang Chen: “Are you going to wear them or not? If you don’t wear them, I’ll call Arnold and fire you!”

Freeman: “You…”

Wu Yue persuaded, “Mr. Freeman, just put them on. Let him vent his anger, and this thing will pass. If you don’t go along with him, who knows how he will target you in the future. Bear with it; put it on.”

Freeman was really humiliated to the point of tears. He had served LV diligently for thirty years and was a well-known designer in the industry. Now that he was humiliated by Yang Chen like this, he felt like his reputation was ruined in his old age.

The designers below the stage were already numb, and they all looked at Yang Chen with iron faces.

If this wasn’t a design competition held by LVMH Group, they would have left long ago.

Just as Freeman put on the big shorts, Yang Chen had already chosen shoes for him.

Yang Chen looked at it and started to target the cleaning lady again.

“Auntie, your sandals are not bad! How much did you buy them for?” Yang Chen asked.

Cleaning lady: “This is a stall product I bought in my rural hometown, ten dollars a pair. The material is not very good; it seems to be rubber.”

Yang Chen: “Oh, auntie, you are at the forefront of this summer’s trend. This sandal uses a transparent rubber design, highlighting the trend of the 90s. If you put the LV logo and pattern on the shoes, it will definitely remind everyone of that difficult, thriving, and prosperous era. This is not just a pair of shoes, but an era, but a historical heritage!”

“Haha…” The cleaning lady covered her mouth and laughed. Because she laughed too exaggeratedly, she couldn’t cover it up.

The designers below the stage gritted their teeth with anger, hating why God was so unfair, allowing this kind of bastard to have money, and making them, who really understand art design, have no money, so it led to the current situation. Whatever the bastard says is right, and what they say doesn’t work.

Heavens, it’s unfair!

Yang Chen asked the cleaning lady to take off her shoes and let Freeman put them on.

Freeman: “A scholar can be killed, but not humiliated! You are bullying people too much!”

Yang Chen: “Do you want to be fired?”

Freeman: “You deliberately humiliate me like this just to fire me, or let me resign voluntarily. Right? I just won’t let you get what you want!”

With that said, Freeman put on the cleaning lady’s shoes.

But after all, he is a man, so he definitely can’t wear the cleaning lady’s shoes. He can only step on a little bit with his toes.

Seeing Yang Chen clean up Freeman so badly, Lin Yiren felt relieved.

However, Yang Chen was now addicted to playing.

He looked at Freeman and said, “I have to say, I think these things might really become popular if they are really made into products!”

Freeman: “LV’s customers are all tasteful; how could they buy these things?”

Yang Chen: “LV’s customers have no taste; they just buy a brand. You really don’t understand the LV brand and its customers’ mentality. Come, I’ll tell you to draw, and you’ll get half of the design.”

Freeman quickly took off these messy things and said, “Are you really going to use these designs?”

Yang Chen: “Nonsense! Do I look like I’m joking with you? Hurry up; don’t waste my time. I’ll say it, you draw it.”

Even if Freeman had ten thousand un-willingnesses in his heart, Yang Chen’s status as the second-largest shareholder of the group was enough to control him, and he had to obey.

So, under Yang Chen’s guidance, Freeman drew out the design drafts of these products.

Steel wool ball bracelet + air vest + flared beach pants + transparent rubber sandals, whoever can wear this set of combinations will definitely be the most fashionable person in the world.

Yang Chen ordered: “Freeman, I’m giving you a chance now. If you perform well, I’ll let you off. Otherwise, you must get out! And I will also use LVMH Group’s position in the industry to block you, so that you will have no job opportunities in the future! I am very serious now, and I hope you can take it seriously!”

Freeman swallowed and quickly replied, “Then tell me; I will definitely do what you say.”

Yang Chen: “Immediately take these design drafts to the OEM [Original Equipment Manufacturer] factory to make samples, make samples for me within three days, and upload photos to the official website for pre-sale. You can also make posters and send them to various stores for pre-sale. Whether it can become a popular product depends on the pre-sale situation. By the way, in order to ensure the authenticity of the data, all pre-sale customers need to pay 30% deposit first! I don’t know about pricing; you can contact the headquarters to confirm it.”

After speaking, Yang Chen called Arnold.

Arnold: “Mr. Yang, hello, why did you think of calling me?”

Yang Chen: “It’s like this, I have designed some products here, and I have handed them over to Mr. Freeman to operate. I’m calling Mr. Arnold to tell you that you should cooperate with Mr. Freeman at the headquarters. We will make samples for pre-sale now. If the pre-sale situation is very good, we will make them in large quantities. If the pre-sale situation is not good, then find a reason to cancel it. Since acquiring LVMH Group’s shares, I haven’t asked about the group’s affairs much. This time I want to do my part for the group; will Mr. Arnold support me?”

Arnold quickly said: “Haha… That’s for sure; I will definitely support Mr. Yang. No matter whether the pre-sale situation is good or not, we must officially release it. Because it is Mr. Yang’s design, it has a very important commemorative significance.”

Yang Chen: “Haha… Mr. Arnold understands people very well. I believe that even if I don’t interfere with the group’s management, the group will definitely get better and better under Mr. Arnold’s management.”

Arnold: “Haha… That’s for sure! Mr. Yang can always trust me!”

Both parties are smart people; some things can be said to the point, no need to say it too clearly.

With Arnold’s promise, Freeman can rest assured and boldly operate according to Yang Chen’s orders.

Yang Chen smiled and said to the designers below the stage: “Dear designers, I’m sorry; your products are too mediocre to meet our LV’s needs. I regret to tell you that all your designs have been rejected! Thank you for your active participation, and I hope everyone can still actively participate in such activities in the future. But I hope everyone can draw inspiration from my designs and design some products that are really suitable for our brand, and don’t use these mediocre designs to fool people anymore!”

This made these high-ranking designers explode with anger.

“Even a homeless man would shake his head at your designs!”

“Rich people are rich, not crazy; only fools would buy these things.”

“If these designs can be popular, I will directly withdraw from the designer industry and deliver food!”

“What kind of shareholder are you? If you play like this, LV will be finished sooner or later!”

“Waiting for LV to be criticized and scolded by netizens!”

…

Yang Chen said with a smile: “Everyone seems very unconvinced. Then how about this, let’s make a bet. If these designs are all popular, everyone will work for our LVMH Group for free for one year. We need any design, and you will come up with any design. If these designs are not popular, I will personally compensate each of you with one million in cash. Do you dare to bet on this?”

“Dare! Why don’t we dare!”

“That’s right! Why don’t we dare?”

“You are really so confident in your designs! Let’s bet, come on!”

…

These are all professional designers, and they think they understand consumer aesthetics and market demand better than Yang Chen.

Yang Chen nodded and said to Wu Yue, “General Manager Wu, record them. In addition, I’ll say the ugly things first. If anyone loses and doesn’t admit it, don’t blame me for using my connections to block you!”

After speaking, Yang Chen walked away with Lin Yiren in his arms.

Lin Yiren was very flustered and said, “Ah Chen, you are playing a bit too big this time!”

Yang Chen replied with a smile: “Haha… I don’t know why, but I just feel that these designs will be popular. If I feel wrong, then I am willing to pay for my mistakes. It’s just tens of millions; I don’t care. Let’s go; let’s go shopping.”

Wu Yue quickly took action and left the identity and other information of the designers who were willing to bet.

Freeman also took action and immediately took the designs to the OEM factory to make samples…