Chapter 1577

Gu Li did not have Nan Xiang's politeness.

Nan Xiang at least knew to knock on the glass door first, but Gu Li pushed the door open and walked right in.

"You really think this is your own backyard." Wang Yan glanced at her.

"Let's talk some more."

"What's there to talk about? Didn't Nan Xiang make it clear to you?"

Gu Li softened her tone: "Look, we're all from the same school, we see each other all the time, and you're starting a business now. We can definitely provide you with help, invest in you, and introduce clients to you..."

"Investment?" Wang Yan waved his hand to interrupt her, "My company is definitely going to succeed. Even if it doesn't, as long as I make a name for myself, venture capital will come knocking. By then, a valuation of tens or hundreds of millions will be like child's play. Are you sure your investment is to help me?"

"Venture capital is meant to help startups with ideas like yours grow rapidly. The market changes in an instant; there are countless good ideas every day, but how many actually succeed? Aren't they all suppressed by companies with more money?"

"Having ideas isn't enough; you need technology, service, a sincere attitude toward consumers, and you have to treat consumers like God."

"Fine, fine, fine. You're right, what you say makes sense. I won't argue with you."

Gu Li changed her train of thought and said, "At the end of the day, this whole thing is because of Nan Xiang. It's because you kept staring at her that that trash Xicheng lost his mind and got into a conflict with you."

"But I have to say, Nan Xiang is indeed very beautiful. Sometimes even I envy her—she's taller and has a better figure. When we walk with her, we're all overshadowed. You staring at her wasn't just because you were blinded by lust, was it?"

"How about this: I'll find an opportunity for you to spend more time with Nan Xiang. Whether you can win her over is up to you. Although you're also annoying, to be honest, that trash Xicheng is even more annoying; he's not worthy of Nan Xiang at all. As Nan Xiang's good friend, I have an obligation to help her find a better choice. What do you think?"

"I think you're truly shameless to make such a thing sound so pleasant." Wang Yan looked disgusted, "Why are you going through all this trouble to make me chase her? Am I that cheap? Why don't you be more direct and just send her to my bed?"

"I dare to send her, but do you dare to take her?" Gu Li glared at Wang Yan.

"I don't dare, because your mind is dirty and you definitely don't take Nan Xiang seriously. But you're different..." Wang Yan leaned in two steps closer and reached out to lift Gu Li's chin, "I said when we first met that you're also quite pretty and very much to my liking. Why don't we give it a try?"

"You filthy pervert, be careful or I'll tear your mouth apart!" Gu Li forcefully slapped Wang Yan's hand away.

Wang Yan shrugged: "Then there's nothing to talk about. If I reconcile, they'll still want to mess with me; if I don't reconcile, they'll still mess with me. You're also trying to stir up trouble, so why should I reconcile? Don't talk about hundreds of thousands; even if you gave me tens of millions, I wouldn't take the money. A person may be poor, but their spirit cannot be short. I just want to win this argument."

"Then you'd better stay like this for the rest of your life and never kneel down to the people you look down upon."

"You think of yourself as very noble, which is wrong. In fact, you are only high and mighty when facing the general public. In private, you are kowtowing and kneeling to others every day. You have to beg others for cooperation, beg for bank loans and bridge financing when you're out of funds, beg others to introduce resources, and kowtow to foreigners to fight for some agency rights. All of this—how is that any better?"

"How is it better? The money you earn working hard for a month isn't enough for one of my meals. One of my cars would take you over a decade of working without eating or drinking to earn. The bag in my hand—everyone in this room combined couldn't afford it with a month's earnings. I..."

"Give me two hundred to see your strength."

Looking at Wang Yan's outstretched palm, Gu Li let out a long breath: "I..."

"What 'I'? You just don't have a memory and are showing off again. Gu Li, do you think I was joking when I said I'd report your family's company last time and didn't take action?"

"The fine your family received from the government is something I couldn't earn in several lifetimes, wouldn't you say? Comparing it like this, are you proud? Are you boastful?"

Gu Li had nothing left to say...

Wang Yan grabbed Gu Li's shoulders, turned her around, opened the door, and sent her out, waving his hand as if shooing a fly: "Alright, you won't sleep with me and you're still plotting to harm me, so there's nothing left to say. Go on, don't delay my startup. Every second is money—can you afford to compensate me?"

"I have enough money to buy your life several times over!"

"If you aren't even willing to cough up two hundred, stop bragging here and get the hell out."

Wang Yan closed the door and took his phone out of his pocket to make a call...

Gu Li, in a fit of pique, swung the bag—which cost more than Wang Yan's current team could earn in a month of working—and smashed it against the glass door twice. Seeing Wang Yan frown and look back, she glared at him fiercely, then clicked away in her high heels.

Downstairs, Nan Xiang put her phone back into her bag. Seeing Gu Li's exasperated state, she asked, "He didn't agree, right?"

"Isn't it written all over my face? He's truly a psychopath! A hooligan and a scoundrel!" Gu Li was still seething.

She had met Wang Yan three times in total, and every time it made her furious.

"Let's go. There's really no other way. It looks like Gu Yuan will just have to suffer for three months..."

Nan Xiang said, "Gu Yuan definitely won't blame you; it's all that Wang Yan's fault."

"He really deserves to die, that psychopath!"

Gu Li stomped away in her high heels, fuming.

Nan Xiang looked up at the floor above. Even though she couldn't see anything, she still took a look before following Gu Li back to the house outside the school.

After returning, the four girls—Gu Li, Lin Xiao, Nan Xiang, and Tang Wanru—began to talk about today's events, comforting Gu Li one moment, cursing Wang Yan the next, and then cursing Wang Yan while comforting Gu Li.

In short, they were good sisters with one heart...

But in reality, these four good sisters must have had eleven group chats...

The next day, Wang Yan was called in for mediation again.

This was an official routine procedure; they always had to try. As for whether Ye Chuanping had found a way, that was unknown.

In the mediation room, in front of the police and Ye Chuanping, Wang Yan firmly stated that he would not reconcile. He very diligently took out the legal code he had just bought, flipped to the statutes, and read them one by one. At the same time, he took out the Supervision Law and read the statutes from that as well.

His attitude was very clear: if they didn't handle Gu Yuan according to proper law, he would handle them according to proper law.

Ye Chuanping did have some connections and was a property owner, but although she couldn't be called super-rich, she was still a wealthy person. However, to say she was all that impressive or had powerful influence was definitely an exaggeration.

Therefore, facing Wang Yan's threat to blow things up, and with Wang Yan clearly being impervious to reason, soft or hard tactics, possessing considerable combat power himself, and being a lone wolf, even a rich and powerful person standing alone in front of Wang Yan would tremble, let alone Ye Chuanping.

"Young man, if you take things too far, it won't be easy to meet in the future." Ye Chuanping had previously offered one million as a final bid, but after being ruthlessly rejected by Wang Yan, she was somewhat exasperated.

"Stop showing off. I thought you were so rich, but when your own son goes to jail, you only offer one million at most. Sure enough, the richer people are, the more inhumane they become. You're still calculating at this point—is your son worth one million for three months in jail? It's really meaningless."

"Young people who haven't experienced the education of society don't know the weight of money, and being glib is even more meaningless." Ye Chuanping suppressed her anger and changed the subject, "I heard you're starting a business and developing a website?"

"What do you mean?"

"What if I use one million to develop a website of the same type as yours?" Ye Chuanping said it lightly, and the smugness was written all over her face, as if she had already won.

Wang Yan laughed: "Of course you can. Hasn't the twenty-year development of the Chinese internet just been about copying each other and then using financial advantages to suppress those who succeed? But suppressing me won't work. Maybe you haven't paid much attention to the current internet landscape. Wait until you actually build it and see. By then, you'll know whether you can suppress me in this regard. To be honest, you won't even be in the running by then."

"Arrogant!"

"Who's actually arrogant is hard to say. You old hag, you don't know how to behave yourself. Just wait, your family will face retribution sooner or later."

Wang Yan ignored the old woman and walked away leisurely. Only Ye Chuanping remained, gnashing her teeth as she watched Wang Yan's back...

Being unable to stand someone but also unable to take them down is truly infuriating; it's enough to keep you awake at night.

Especially since Wang Yan said her family would face retribution—this was obviously a threat, but how exactly would the retribution come? It was unsettling.

However, long-standing arrogance made Ye Chuanping quickly ignore this matter, no longer taking Wang Yan, this outsider little punk, seriously...

Just like that, Gu Yuan, Xicheng, and the others, whose mediation failed, began the process of being sent for prosecution, waiting for them were various terms of detention.

Wang Yan also received some compensation that he should normally have received, though it was worlds apart from the money he could have gotten through reconciliation.

This matter came to a temporary end, and Wang Yan continued to focus on his work.

The makeshift team had been set up for a while, and because Wang Yan adopted agile development—that is, first building the overall project framework, getting each functional module running, and then constantly enriching functions, filling in content, and perfecting the website. During the development process, they went round after round, constantly iterating, from front-end to back-end, from website to APP application, developing everything synchronously.

Therefore, the software development speed was quite fast, and it could already be put into preliminary use.

So Wang Yan busied himself with finding college students for promotion, launching high-intensity attacks on forums within his school and other schools, as well as various other forums, to make a name for his "Zhenxuan Life."

"College student startup project," "more objective than websites like Dazhong Dianping," "truly serving consumers," etc., were the labels Wang Yan attached to Zhenxuan Life. At the same time, he transformed into a big critic on the internet, pointing fingers at various current internet companies.

Of course, he wasn't just cursing; he was pointing out the situations and existing problems of various companies and capital with a target in mind. But if you asked him for solutions, there were absolutely none. He couldn't possibly solve problems for others for free.

At the same time, he also expressed his confidence in the country's development, his optimism for the future development of the internet, and his outlook on various new technologies on various forums. This attracted a lot of counter-arguments, and everyone traded blows and greeted each other, which hyped up the heat and took advantage of the trend to promote Zhenxuan Life.

"I want to see what you can come up with, since you brag so hard and say you're so impressive..."

This mindset was exactly what Wang Yan needed, as it always allowed Zhenxuan Life to gain more users. It was currently still in a large-scale testing phase, and he needed these people to help.

Of course, although it was called internal testing, Wang Yan actually issued unlimited internal test codes, which could be obtained directly on the official website...

This day, Wang Yan was handing out flyers on campus for promotion.

"Handing out flyers yourself."

Hearing the voice behind him, Wang Yan turned back to look at Nan Xiang: "That's easy to say. I'm so poor; if I had a choice, I wouldn't want to hand out flyers either—isn't this all money? Why are you alone?"

"Aren't I alone every day? It's not like I'm always acting as a maid for the young lady." Nan Xiang's words revealed a sense of resentment.

Seeing Wang Yan smile without speaking, Nan Xiang took a few sheets of paper out of her bag, "This is the logo I drew for you. Look at this one, my idea is..."

Nan Xiang explained directly to Wang Yan, talking about her design concept.

After she finished speaking, not hearing Wang Yan's response, she said, "Say something, will it work or not?"

"Your efficiency is indeed a bit lacking. It's been seven or eight days, right? I thought you weren't doing it anymore."

"Slow work produces fine products, do you understand? Will it work or not?"

Wang Yan picked one out: "A trademark and logo are for distinguishing products and leaving an impression when people see them. In design, they should be simple and beautiful; in color, they should be eye-catching without being overwhelming. I wrote these requirements very clearly, but you still made it very complicated. It's pretty, but it's not suitable for a trademark or logo. This one is still okay, change it a bit, take this part... Understand?"

Nan Xiang nodded and then asked, "So does that mean I passed?"

"Barely good enough. We're all on the same side, so I'll let you earn a little."

"Then... can you first..."

"Five hundred is hard to come by? It seems you aren't doing a very good job as a maid for the young lady. Oh, and all those things you said earlier about wanting to be better were all for nothing."

Wang Yan took his wallet out of his pocket, counted out five bills, and said very generously, "Take it and spend it!"

Nan Xiang looked left and right and took the five hundred Wang Yan handed over.

"This is what I earned through my labor, not money you gave me for free. You make it sound like you're very generous."

"Didn't I tell you? Normally it's a two-hundred-yuan job; this five hundred is already extra. Wanting money for free is a dream; at the end of the day, it's about value. Your drawing is worth two hundred, but you as a person are different..."

"Cut it out, acting like a pervert again." Nan Xiang said this, but her eyes were smiling...

"I'm stating facts."

Wang Yan said, "Didn't Gu Li say earlier that she wanted to create an opportunity for me to sleep with you so that I would forgive Gu Yuan? And the price for forgiving Gu Yuan was the one million offered by that old hag Ye Chuanping. So, if you count the discount for me sleeping with you, there's still four or five hundred thousand; you're quite valuable."

"Don't sow discord; Gu Li said she wanted you to pursue me!"

"It's all about sleeping together anyway." Wang Yan reached out to lift Nan Xiang's chin, "And to be honest, you really should think carefully about whether you're worthy of someone else's pursuit."

The smile on Nan Xiang's face vanished instantly; she put the money away into her bag and walked straight away.

Wang Yan looked with a smile at the tree not far away, where two figures had just zipped away...

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