Chapter 110: Riding Xiaomi Across the River!

Fox Tao's valuation is one thing, but the 560 million from financing has its specific uses—to put it bluntly, that's the company's money, not his personal money.

Unless he sells Fox Tao!

"Going back to Void City this afternoon? I'll book the tickets." Song Yuncheng saw him spacing out, nudged him, and asked softly.

"In a couple of days. Let's spend two days in Yanjing first." Chen Yansen came back to his senses and shook his head.

"But I still have over a dozen b2c platforms waiting to onboard, and a whole bunch of follow-up processes to coordinate."

Song Yuncheng quickly explained—she wanted to go back and earn money.

"Just have the tech team follow up, hand the contracts to legal for review—they're all fixed templates, nothing can go wrong."

Chen Yansen took her hand and began kneading it, neither too lightly nor too firmly.

That familiar touch made Song Yuncheng's face flush red in an instant; last night's scene involuntarily surfaced in her mind.

"Driver, skip the hotel, head to Wang Fujing instead."

Chen Yansen said to the driver.

"You got it, no problem." The driver laughed and agreed. Glancing through the rearview mirror, he could tell these two weren't short on cash, so he pulled the car right up to the entrance of the shopping center.

"What are we doing here?" Song Yuncheng looked around after getting out and asked curiously.

"To buy you work clothes."

Chen Yansen put his arm around her shoulder and said with a light laugh.

The little white blazer Song Yuncheng was wearing—from Penguin headquarters to the Series A financing party to Xiaomi headquarters—wasn't that the clothes were bad, Chen Yansen had just grown tired of looking at them.

"Oh." Song Yuncheng hummed and obediently followed.

She understood clearly: Chen Yansen was a very domineering person who never gave anyone a chance to refuse. She thought: I'll just pay for it myself.

She, Song Yuncheng, could afford it just fine.

After earning money, she felt even more confident.

Chen Yansen pulled her into the elevator and went straight to the fourth floor where the women's clothing was. After a casual look around, he walked into a mid-to-high-end women's clothing store.

A shirt in the store sold for 800-1500 yuan, a skirt for 1500-3000 yuan. Song Yuncheng clicked her tongue inwardly—any random piece of clothing was worth a whole month of her previous part-time income.

Although she could afford it now, seeing the price still stung.

She thought about buying an outfit suitable for business occasions, dark in color, cheap in price, best kept under 3000 yuan.

"One set of this black one, one set of the off-white one, size m, and bring that skirt too…"

Chen Yansen instructed the sales associate.

He didn't have much patience for accompanying girls on shopping trips. He pointed at a few pieces with nice styles and told the sales associate to fetch new stock.

"Too many, how could I ever wear them all?" Song Yuncheng grabbed his arm to stop him.

"Back at the hotel, take your time wearing them for me."

Chen Yansen leaned close to her ear and said in an ambiguous tone.

Song Yuncheng's ears turned red, she stepped back, and hesitated, wanting to say something but holding back.

Drawing on his past-life experience reviewing female streamers, along with his 4.11 physique and 3.49 spirit attributes, the few outfits Chen Yansen picked out for Song Yuncheng were basically all a good fit and appropriate.

Among these clothes were both playful and pretty everyday outfits and looks suitable for formal occasions.

"Mr., that's 43,700 total. We've already given you a 5% discount. This is our store's VIP card—126 stores nationwide all offer the 5% discount."

The sales associate folded the clothes into bags while enthusiastically handing over the card.

Chen Yansen took the card, casually stuffed it into the bag, then prepared to pull out his wallet.

"I-I'll pay for it myself." Song Yuncheng said, steeling herself.

"Sure." Chen Yansen put both hands in his pockets, not insisting.

As her boss, he knew Song Yuncheng's income very well—the other woman had at least over a hundred thousand in her card.

Song Yuncheng was stunned; she hadn't expected Chen Yansen to really intend to let her pay.

Bastard!

Didn't he say it was to buy work clothes!

Song Yuncheng pitifully handed over her bank card; the balance instantly dropped by a huge chunk, and she almost couldn't catch her breath from the heartache—worse than last night.

Carrying the bags, Song Yuncheng walked out of the store with a miserable face.

"We've already spent forty thousand, so I suppose you won't mind treating me to a meal of Cantonese fusion cuisine at a thousand yuan per person, right?"

Chen Yansen pointed at a restaurant upstairs; just from the sign and the décor at the entrance, one could tell the spending wouldn't be low.

"I don't mind! Not one bit!" Song Yuncheng was about to cry.

"Director Song, very generous."

Chen Yansen smiled slightly and gave a thumbs-up in praise.

As for those clothes, they were all in Song Yuncheng's hands—Chen Yansen didn't have the bad habit of carrying bags for others.

"Boss, I-I want to go back and earn money." Song Yuncheng tugged at Chen Yansen's sleeve and said seriously.

Her savings had dropped by a huge chunk, and her desire to earn money at this moment was stronger than ever.

"Just earning money without spending it—what's the point of earning it? Your brother's illness, I've had people ask about it. It's been dragged on too long; the only option is behavioral intervention to keep his condition from worsening."

Chen Yansen stopped walking and said slowly.

"I know, that's why I want to save up more money, so I can hire someone to take care of my brother later. I wasn't planning to get married anyway—given my situation, no one would dare want me."

Song Yuncheng forced a faint smile and said softly.

She never dared hope that anyone would pull her out of the mire. Chen Yansen gave her a job and personally taught her negotiation and market development—she was already content.

As for being with Chen Yansen, she had thought about it, but she knew it simply wasn't realistic.

"People, you have to rely on yourself." Chen Yansen felt a stir in his heart.

He wouldn't say bullshit like 'I'll take care of you and your brother from now on.' He knew perfectly well what kind of person he was—his novelty with women lasted at most a year or a half.

Whether it was for Meng Jie or Song Yuncheng, he held one attitude: just date, no need to get too attached.

In this world, what is worth putting one's heart into?

Song Yuncheng thought Chen Yansen was reminding her to work hard and earn money, so she nodded heavily, adjusted her mood, and continued walking upstairs.

One lunch cost another two thousand-plus.

Song Yuncheng couldn't smile, but strangely, the oppressive feeling she had felt before was gone from her heart.

It was as if, after spending those tens of thousands of yuan, the big stone pressing on her heart had suddenly vanished.

For the next three days, Chen Yansen took her to tour several landmark spots in Yanjing, went to the CBD, and also visited the 798 Art District.

Returning to the hotel at night, no one was curled up on the sofa in the suite anymore.

For three consecutive days, Chen Yansen felt no fatigue; he couldn't help but sigh in his heart: Being young is damn good!

It wasn't until Wang Zihao called to urge him, informing him that the mobile phone special event in cooperation with the telecom company was about to go on sale, that Chen Yansen let Song Yuncheng book train tickets and prepare to return.

On the way, after Wang Zihao explained, Chen Yansen learned that after Zhao Maolin conveyed to the contact person at the online mall that Fox Tao disagreed with the cooperation, the other party actually got anxious, and the original 30% commission had risen to 45%.

According to the rules for releasing the commission on Super Returns, the final price was 120 to 180 yuan cheaper than the market price.

Even if the marked price was artificially high, it did not affect the user experience.

After discussing several categories, they agreed to the cooperation and even sent an email to Chen Yansen's inbox, but two days passed with no reply.

"Okay, I've seen the price. Have the event team create a secondary page to pre-heat it in advance."

Sitting on the train, Chen Yansen sent a message back to Wang Zihao.

For a shopping guide website, resources for all product categories are extremely critical; they can not only elevate the product's class but also raise the average order value, thereby attracting more big brands' favor and entry.

If the website always sold only generic white-label products worth a few dozen yuan, even if big-brand merchants came knocking for cooperation, users would harbor doubts and think they were fakes.

This is like selling cosmetics at a vegetable market; who would feel safe buying them?

The value of users in digital 3C and major home appliances was too high; even if he had to subsidize money and resources, he wanted to incubate a batch of them among internal users, even if it was only 10%, or even 5%.

When they returned to Xucheng Academy, it was only a little past four in the afternoon.

Chen Yansen rested his hand on the steering wheel and asked Song Yuncheng, "Should I take you back to your dorm first, or go to my place?"

"I'm going back to the dorm," Song Yuncheng answered hurriedly. These past few days, Chen Yansen had taken advantage of her completely; if she went back to room 0418 with him, who knows what nonsense he might pull.

"Alright, dinner together tonight?" Chen Yansen asked again.

"You should go accompany your other girlfriend first," Song Yuncheng said as she opened the door, got out of the car, and waved goodbye while pulling her suitcase.

"Hey! Saying that, you admit you are one of my girlfriends too," Chen Yansen stuck his head out and joked with a smile.

"Go to hell! Scum!" Song Yuncheng grabbed a mineral water bottle and threw it over without any hesitation.

With Chen Yansen's reaction ability, although he couldn't catch a bullet, he could easily handle a badminton smash at 300 kilometers per hour.

He caught the mineral water bottle steadily and drove toward the faculty apartments.

Song Yuncheng turned around, glanced at him from a distance, suddenly broke into a smile on her face, and walked leisurely toward the dorm.

Chen Yansen got out of the car, stood downstairs, called Xu Dan, and blurted out a string of hiring requirements.

"Brother Sen, we are a shopping guide e-commerce company; why hire a system architect and an Android system development engineer?" Xu Dan asked, confused and curious.

"To develop an app; Fox Tao plans to develop toward the mobile end in the future," Chen Yansen lied.

Actually, the reason he hired these people was naturally to improve UI design, function optimization, and user experience based on the Android system, and to develop a better operating system.

Whether the skin changes or not doesn't matter; as long as it works well!

Xu Dan didn't ask further; after hanging up, he had the recruitment specialist start writing the job description and publish the job information on several mainstream recruitment websites.

Chen Yansen lacked sufficient funds; without selling equity or selling the company, he could only borrow a chicken to lay eggs, so he had to build the system first and worry about the rest later.

However, the choice of candidates for the procurement director and technical director gave him trouble; in his previous life, he had never touched the mobile phone industry and had only heard of names like Yu Dazui and Lei Bus.

Forget about spending money; you couldn't even poach them by offering equity!

'Forget it, just take it one step at a time.'

Chen Yansen shook his head, suppressed these thoughts; as for Lei Yi, he could only say sorry.

How could the number of positions a shopping guide e-commerce company could offer compare to the mobile phone manufacturing industry?

Moreover, he planned to not even use contract factories; he would do it all himself!

Just one R&D team could make up 200 people; first hire system R&D engineers, and when resources are abundant, then hire engineers in hardware and industrial design.

Xiaomi crossed the river by feeling the stones; I will ride on Xiaomi to cross the river!

(End of this chapter)