How A Ride-Hailing Driver Comes To Dominate The World? [EN]: Chapter 561

Advanced Green Tea Tactics: What’s Wrong with a Ride-Hailing Driver Having Some Money?

Yang Chen was heading back to Haicheng [a major city in China] tomorrow, and he had some things to make clear to Yuan Siyao.

First, she needed to keep a low profile and not become arrogant just because of her relationship with him.

Second, regarding the takeover of Xizi Group and Yuan’s Group, Qiu Tian was nearing completion of the integration of both companies. Yuan Siyao only needed to be a figurehead chairperson.

The restructured Xizi Group would hire professional managers as CEOs to handle daily operations. Yuan Siyao’s task was to help Yang Chen monitor the company’s normal operations and report any anomalies to him immediately.

…

Yang Chen spent a long time explaining dozens of matters, big and small, before finally going to sleep with peace of mind.

As soon as it was dawn, Yang Chen set off with his bodyguards to return to Haicheng.

Returning to Haicheng wouldn’t delay him from having breakfast.

The bodyguards’ injuries hadn’t fully healed, so Yang Chen gave them a few more days off. Once they were fully recovered, they would return to Jingcheng [another major city, often used as a metonym for Beijing]. In the meantime, Yang Chen would stay with the materials team at Starlight Technology, working together to research room-temperature superconducting materials.

After a day of verification, research teams from around the world provided experimental results confirming that the room-temperature superconductivity paper from the Korean team was fake. The material synthesized according to the steps in the paper did not exhibit room-temperature superconductivity, only showing diamagnetism at specific temperatures.

Influenced by this news, room-temperature superconductivity concept stocks generally fell.

Fortunately, Starlight Investment’s funds had already been withdrawn during yesterday’s surge, leaving retail investors who chased the highs to be fleeced once again.

For example, the stock commentary section of Western Superconducting was filled with wails.

“Are the Koreans crazy? Why release a fake paper? Other research teams can prove it’s fake, didn’t they test it themselves?”

“Don’t even mention it, we were scammed by the Koreans for no reason. I strongly suspect they’re coordinating with capital to harvest the market. Not long ago, an American experimental team also claimed to have created room-temperature superconductivity, but then said the material was lost and couldn’t be reproduced. Isn’t this clearly a coordinated effort to tell stories and harvest the market?”

“So many fake room-temperature superconductivity claims have appeared. Next time anyone announces they’ve created room-temperature superconducting materials, I won’t believe them. I bought in at the limit up, and today it was directly hammered down, couldn’t even escape. I lost 18 points in two trading days, damn it.”

“Damn it, you can’t trust any experts now, whether domestic or foreign. Unless Boss Yang says he’s created room-temperature superconductivity, I won’t believe anyone else.”

…

It was clear that repeated false news about room-temperature superconductivity had broken the hearts of many investors. But this was good, as it would generate more widespread attention when Starlight Technology announced its research results in the future.

After spending three days at the experimental base, Yang Chen felt a bit physically and mentally drained.

He was used to relaxing, and suddenly doing such high-intensity research was a bit much.

However, Yang Chen had already led the materials team to overcome several key problems in room-temperature superconductivity. Now they needed to explore on their own for a while to confirm that the final research results were genuine and effective.

Yang Chen left the lab and found a coffee shop to pass the time.

After the waiter served Yang Chen’s coffee, she quickly ran back to gossip with her colleagues.

“Hey, hey, that handsome guy by the window is a rich second generation [a term for someone born into wealth].”

“How do you know?”

“Yeah, how do you know he’s a rich second generation? Does it say so on his face?”

“I saw he’s wearing a Jaeger-LeCoultre’s flagship watch, worth 15 million [approximately $2.1 million USD]. He’s wearing a limited edition LV down jacket. Most importantly, I just saw him looking at a text message from the bank, the balance had so many digits, I couldn’t even count them all. Don’t you think he is a rich second generation?”

“Wow, a watch worth 15 million? Are you sure you didn’t see it wrong?”

“How could I be wrong? When I went to Jingcheng with my friends before, we went to SKP [a high-end shopping mall], and I saw Jaeger-LeCoultre’s flagship watch, it’s the one he’s wearing.”

…

Said without thinking, heard with intention.

The waitress, Li Xue, quietly looked at Yang Chen, her eyes full of desire.

Soon, a customer with long hair, fair skin, beautiful appearance, long legs, big breasts, a thin waist, and a plump butt beckoned for a waiter.

That customer was served by Li Xue, and she hurried over.

“Hello, is there anything you need?” Li Xue asked politely.

The long-legged customer beckoned, signaling Li Xue to come closer to talk.

Li Xue quickly bent down, and the long-legged woman whispered in her ear, “See that handsome guy by the window on the right?”

Li Xue: “Yes, I see him.”

Long legs: “Go get his number for me, and I’ll give you a fifty-yuan tip later.”

Li Xue’s eyes lit up, and a “smart” idea instantly popped into her head.

“Stop it, you’re so ugly, he won’t even look at you, just give up on that idea,” Li Xue whispered.

The long-legged woman’s eyes widened, and she wondered if she had heard correctly.

“What did you just say?” The long-legged woman deliberately suppressed her voice, but her tone was clearly very angry.

Li Xue continued to whisper, “I said you’re so ugly, he can’t possibly like you, don’t waste your time. You might as well go back and scroll through Douyin [the Chinese version of TikTok], watching a few more videos is better than daydreaming here.”

The long-legged woman couldn’t bear it anymore, she slammed the table and shouted, “What are you saying? Say it again if you dare!”

Li Xue quickly stood in front of Yang Chen, saying, “Beauty, this is a coffee shop, I’m just a waitress, don’t make things difficult for me.”

The long-legged woman was furious and pushed Li Xue. Li Xue took the opportunity to step back, pretending to trip over the table leg, then turned and staggered towards Yang Chen.

Yang Chen instinctively wanted to dodge, but seeing Li Xue falling so dangerously, he quickly stepped forward and hugged her.

Li Xue’s plan succeeded, and she was overjoyed. She took the opportunity to forcefully bump her knee against the nearby table, then let out a scream.

“Ah! It hurts!”

Yang Chen picked up Li Xue, put her on a chair, and said, “Hello, are you okay? Do you need an ambulance?”

Before Li Xue could speak, the long-legged woman angrily walked over to hit her, but Yang Chen naturally instinctively stopped her, saying, “Beauty, let’s talk nicely, why make things difficult for a waitress?”

The manager and other waiters ran over.

Li Xue cried and said

“Beauty, I’m just a waitress, earning a little hard-earned money, why do you have to make things so difficult for me? This is a coffee shop, not a nightclub. You insisted on forcing me to ask this handsome guy for his contact information, isn’t that making things difficult for me? I don’t want to, and you threatened to make me suffer and even lose my job. It’s not easy being a waitress, why are you bullying me so much. Wuwu…”

The long-legged woman was dumbfounded, saying, “Damn! You green tea [a derogatory term for a woman who appears innocent but is actually manipulative], can you be any more of a green tea? Handsome, don’t be fooled by her, she’s clearly using me as a tool to get close to you.”

Li Xue: “Dare you deny that you didn’t force me to ask this handsome guy for his contact information?”

Long legs: “Yes, I did ask you to help me…”

Li Xue: “See, you admitted it yourself, right? I didn’t want to, and you yelled at me, threatened me, and pushed me. Manager, I’m so sad. Wuwu…”

The manager was also deceived by Li Xue’s acting skills and quickly said, “Don’t cry, don’t cry, don’t worry, we will definitely stand by you. Beauty, we welcome you to spend money here. But this is a coffee shop, not a nightclub, please respect yourself. If you really want this handsome guy’s contact information, ask for it yourself, don’t make things difficult for our staff. Thank you.”

The long-legged woman opened and closed her mouth but couldn’t say a word. She had so much to say, but she couldn’t get it out.

Li Xue: “Ouch, it hurts so much. Manager, I want to go to the hospital, can I?”

Manager: “Yes. Do you need an ambulance?”

Li Xue: “No, no. I’ll just take a taxi, an ambulance is too wasteful.”

After speaking, Li Xue struggled to stand up, but as soon as she stood up, she fell into Yang Chen’s arms with an “ah” sound, saying, “It hurts so much… I’m sorry, handsome, my knee hurts so much.”

The long-legged woman was about to be driven crazy, saying, “Green tea bitch, can you be any more of a green tea? Ah! You’re making me so angry!”

The manager quickly rolled up Li Xue’s pants, and she was cruel enough to herself, her knee was bruised and swollen from the bump.

“Oh dear, you hit it pretty hard! You have to go to the hospital quickly,” the manager said anxiously.

Li Xue: “I’ll take a taxi to the hospital. Hiss… it hurts so much.”

Yang Chen: “My Didi [the Chinese equivalent of Uber] is parked outside, I’ll take you to the hospital.”

Didi, ride-hailing car?

Li Xue’s expression visibly changed. She paid such a high price to get close to him, but he’s just a ride-hailing driver?

Weren’t they saying he was wearing a limited edition LV?

Didn’t he have a 15 million watch on his wrist?

How could he just be a ride-hailing driver?

So, his LV was fake, and the watch was fake too?

Li Xue looked at her colleague Liu Hui, who had reported false information. If looks could kill, her eyes would have torn Liu Hui to pieces and reincarnated her hundreds of times.

Liu Hui looked embarrassed, thinking, “Wow, it turns out it’s a high imitation. I thought he was a rich second generation, but he’s just a ride-hailing driver.”

Yang Chen made a gesture to pick up Li Xue, but Li Xue quickly dodged.

“I’ll take you to the hospital,” Yang Chen said.

Li Xue really didn’t want to waste her “precious” time on a poor guy.

“No need, I’ll go myself,” Li Xue coldly replied, then she got up and left.

But soon she felt that it was a bit wrong to leave like this, so she quickly pretended to limp again.

The long-legged woman laughed loudly, saying, “What? Now that you know he’s just a ride-hailing driver, you won’t even give him a chance to take you to the hospital? Green tea bitch, seeing him wearing LV and a Jaeger-LeCoultre watch, you thought he was a super-rich second generation, so you used me as a stepping stone to get close to him. Now that you know he’s just a ride-hailing driver, you can’t wait to run away. Tsk tsk tsk… you’re really realistic.”

Li Xue quickly retorted, “Don’t talk nonsense, I don’t know this handsome guy, I’m just embarrassed to trouble him. If I delay him for half a day, he’ll earn a lot less money, I’d be so embarrassed. Don’t think of others with your own thoughts, disgusting.”

Liu Hui couldn’t help but ask, “Handsome, are your LV and Jaeger-LeCoultre watch fake? They look so realistic.”

Yang Chen: “They’re not fake! Who wears fake designer brands these days? If you can afford it, you buy it, if you can’t afford it, you don’t. It’s not like ten years ago, when many people were vain, too poor to buy the real thing, so they had to get fakes to show off.”

Liu Hui: “But that LV outfit costs over 50,000 [approximately $7,000 USD], and that watch costs 15 million, how could a ride-hailing driver afford the real thing?”

Yang Chen: “Oh, I drive a ride-hailing car to pass the time, I don’t rely on it for a living. Have you ever seen a driver who makes a living driving a ride-hailing car so leisurely come here to drink coffee and pass the time?”

Everyone nodded, agreeing with Yang Chen’s statement.

Li Xue immediately stopped and sat down, holding the table.

“Ouch, hiss… it hurts so much! I really can’t walk,” Li Xue said hypocritically.

The long-legged woman laughed loudly, saying, “Why don’t you let this handsome guy take you to the hospital?”

Li Xue: “Would that delay your time, handsome?”

Yang Chen: “It would indeed delay my time, so you should still take a taxi. Beauty, want to go for a ride?”

The long-legged woman immediately nodded happily, saying, “Sure! Let’s go for a ride.”

After speaking, the two paid the bill and left.

Li Xue looked at Yang Chen’s departing figure with an embarrassed + unwilling expression, feeling like she had missed out on a billion dollars.

If only she had held her breath just now, she would have missed a super-rich man by just one thought.

The long-legged woman got into Yang Chen’s car, saying, “Hello, my name is Chen Xi, what’s your name?”

Yang Chen: “Yang Chen.”

Chen Xi: “Hello, Brother Yang. I was so angry just now, I was so worried that you would be deceived by that green tea bitch. Fortunately, she couldn’t hold her breath and revealed her true colors first, oh, no, revealed her true intentions first.”

Yang Chen: “Actually, I heard your conversation with her, I just wanted to see how she would act.”

Chen Xi immediately sat up straight, saying, “Brother Yang, you’re not kidding, are you? I spoke so softly, you could still hear me? Are you bragging? Tell me what I said to her?”

Yang Chen: “You asked her to help you get my phone number, and you would give her a 50-yuan tip if she succeeded.”

Chen Xi: “Wow, Brother Yang, are your ears so sharp? You really heard everything clearly!”

Yang Chen: “Would I lie to you?

Where do you want to go?”

Chen Xi: “Let’s go back to school. I’m a graduate student at Haicheng University, I came out for an interview today. After the interview, I had a cup of coffee, and I didn’t expect to meet you, a handsome guy, and I wanted your contact information. But, I was a little embarrassed, so I wanted that green tea bitch to help me, but I didn’t expect her to put on such a show.”

Yang Chen immediately drove to Haicheng University.

“What’s your major?” Yang Chen asked.

Chen Xi: “Journalism. Sigh… I don’t know what got into my head when I chose this major. I couldn’t find a job after graduating with a bachelor’s degree, so I had to take the postgraduate entrance examination. Now that I’m about to graduate with a master’s degree, it’s still difficult to find a job. I don’t want to go to bad companies, and it’s not easy to get into good companies. Seeing that I’m 28 years old and still relying on my parents, it’s really frustrating.”

Yang Chen: “It’s true that journalism is not easy to find a job, but you’re a graduate student at Haicheng University, it shouldn’t be difficult. Which company are you applying to now?”

Chen Xi: “Haicheng Daily.”

Yang Chen: “It’s really not easy to get into this kind of unit, it’s full of people who are just coasting along, it doesn’t matter if you’re a journalism major or not, it mainly depends on your family background and connections. Do you want to go to Jingcheng?”

Chen Xi: “I don’t want to go. My parents are both in Haicheng, and I still want to live in Haicheng.”

Yang Chen nodded, not forcing her.

If she was willing to work and live in Jingcheng, he could introduce her to Penguin News to try.

Haicheng University is a 211 university [a designation for top-tier universities in China], and a master’s degree is still very valuable.

Soon, they arrived at Haicheng University.

It was lunchtime, so Chen Xi said, “Brother Yang, let me treat you to a meal in our cafeteria, as a thank you for taking me back.”

Yang Chen: “Okay, I haven’t been to Haicheng University for a long time. The last time I came here was 8 years ago, when I was studying at Haicai [likely a local college], and I came here with my classmates.”

Chen Xi: “Ah? Brother Yang, are you a Haicai undergraduate?”

Yang Chen: “Yes.”

Chen Xi: “Then why are you driving a ride-hailing car? Oh, right, you said it was to pass the time. Brother Yang, what’s your real job?”

Yang Chen: “I’m an investor, buying stocks and stuff.”

Chen Xi: “Oh, no wonder, investors are all rich.”

Soon, the two arrived at the cafeteria.

It was lunchtime, and there were many students eating.

“Brother Yang, you hold the seats here, I’ll go get the food. What dishes do you want to eat?” Chen Xi asked.

Yang Chen: “Anything is fine, I’m not picky, just get whatever you like to eat.”

Chen Xi nodded and quickly ran to get the food.

Yang Chen was bored, so he took out his phone to play.

In less than a minute, a girl with a fierce-looking face knocked on the table.

Yang Chen quickly put his phone face down on the table, because he was looking at the experimental data sent by the materials team. He couldn’t let it be exposed before the funds lurking in Starlight Investment were in place, so he was especially careful.

“Is there something wrong?” Yang Chen asked.

Girl: “Are you secretly filming me?”

Yang Chen: “No! I’m looking at data, I didn’t film anyone.”

Girl: “Then open your phone album and let me see.”

Yang Chen: “Are you not awake? Who do you think you are, why should I open my album for you to see?”

Girl: “I suspect you’re secretly filming me, I want to see your album, isn’t that reasonable? And what’s that green light on your feet? Did you put a pinhole camera on your feet, are you secretly filming girls’ skirts?”

Yang Chen: “Damn, is there something wrong with your brain? That’s just the reflective sequins on the shoes, what pinhole camera? Have you been watching too many adult movies, are you crazy?”

The students next to them couldn’t help but laugh, which made the fierce-looking girl lose her composure.

“You’re not a student at our school, why are you here?” the girl questioned.

Yang Chen: “How do you know I’m not a student at Haida [short for Haicheng University]?”

Girl: “I know all the handsome guys at Haida, I’ve never seen you before, so of course I can be sure you’re not a student at our school.”

Was she complimenting Yang Chen for being handsome?

At this moment, Chen Xi came back with the food.

“Huh? Zhao Juan, what are you doing?” Chen Xi asked.

The fierce-looking girl immediately replied, “He’s secretly filming me, I want to see his phone album, but he won’t let me. Did you bring him in? Who is he? How can you just bring social people [people from outside the university] into the school?”

Chen Xi put down the dinner plate, saying, “Is there some misunderstanding? How could Brother Yang secretly film you! The school didn’t prohibit social people from coming in, why can’t I bring him in?”

Zhao Juan said unreasonably, “You brought him in, and he secretly filmed me. Why can’t I bring him in? He violated my right to privacy, are you going to take responsibility?”

Yang Chen: “Are you also a graduate student majoring in journalism?”

Zhao Juan: “Yes! Is there a problem?”

Yang Chen: “The three elements of journalism are truthfulness, timeliness, and freshness. You can’t even guarantee the most basic truthfulness, are you worthy of being a journalist? Will you write news in the future based on your subjective assumptions, without even investigating whether it’s true?”

Zhao Juan: “So I want to see your phone album, isn’t that to verify my judgment?”

Yang Chen: “Who do you think you are? Don’t you even understand the most basic laws? What qualifications do you have to check my phone?”

Zhao Juan: “If you’re not guilty, why are you afraid of me checking? Just take a look, if you didn’t secretly film, you can immediately prove your innocence. You don’t dare to let me check, it can only mean that you secretly filmed.”