Chapter 62: I Didn't Ask For It, He Insisted on Giving It (32k Requests for Follows)

The next morning, Chen Yansen was sleeping soundly when his phone rang and woke him up.

"Hello! Who is it?"

Chen Yansen, still groggy, pressed the answer button without even looking at the caller ID and mumbled the question.

"Student Chen Yansen, this is Guo Dongchen, your counselor."

In nearly two months, Guo Dongchen had seen Chen Yansen in the classroom only a handful of times; perhaps worried Chen Yansen had forgotten him, he specifically emphasized his name.

"Old Guo, it's not even dawn yet, and you're calling me. Do you want to invite me for a morning run?"

Chen Yansen wasn't fully awake, his words coming out jumbled.

Guo Dongchen was speechless; he glanced at the time—it was already seven-thirty.

He took a deep breath and explained patiently: "Principal Tang heard you secured ten million in funding from Ma Wenteng and insists on inspecting the Entrepreneurship Park this morning. You made the Principal wait for half an hour last time; this time, you must prepare in advance."

"I didn't actively take it; President Ma forced it on me."

Chen Yansen flatly denied it; the distinction was huge.

If Ma Wenteng shoved the money at him and he finally accepted it, it showed he was doing Ma a favor by accepting; if it were said he asked Ma Wenteng for ten million, wouldn't that mean he was begging Ma Wenteng?

"..."

Guo Dongchen really wanted to hang up, but thinking of the Dean's instructions, he continued: "Remember to prepare for the reception; don't forget, your attendance record is still in my hands."

With that, a 'beep' sounded as he hung up, giving Chen Yansen no chance to react.

That old rascal!

I hope you fail your doctoral entrance exam!

Chen Yansen rubbed his eyes, threw off the quilt, and reluctantly walked into the bathroom to brush his teeth and wash his face.

As for Guo Dongchen's threat, he didn't care at all; he knew perfectly well that Tang Qingshan needed his golden reputation too much to let him go, let alone punish him for skipping class or even failing a course—he could still be rated as outstanding.

When your strength is great, everyone before me is just a little brother!

After washing up and dressing neatly, Chen Yansen glanced quickly at himself in the mirror; after several stat-boost enhancements, his current height was 1.86 meters; he wore a pure black shirt on top and black-patterned casual pants below, with a broad back, narrow waist, long legs, abundant vitality, and overflowing energy.

In this life, I will never take those little blue pills again!

Chen Yansen pushed open the door and walked toward the Entrepreneurship Park.

On the way, he thought as he walked that he needed to recruit another batch of people to fill the positions for HR, administration, legal, and operations; he also needed to pick a reliable team leader for operations and another for customer service; letting Song Yuncheng continue to hold both roles wasn't a solution.

It wasn't that he disliked her, but human energy is limited; with too many tasks, oversights were inevitable.

Unknowingly, Chen Yansen arrived at the second floor of the Entrepreneurship Park.

Passing Cao Dahua's office, he deliberately peered inside and saw the other person leisurely drinking morning tea.

"Teacher Cao, enjoying your tea!"

Chen Yansen used his toe to push open the glass door of the office and walked in with a smile.

"Yo! Isn't this student Chen Yansen? Come sit! Try my hometown's new tea from this year; I wouldn't dare share it with just anyone."

Seeing it was Chen Yansen, Cao Dahua sat up straight with a smile and warmly poured him a cup.

"Then I've struck gold, thank you, Teacher Cao." Chen Yansen blew on it, took a small sip, didn't stand on ceremony, and got straight to the point: "Teacher Cao, could you trouble me again to find the keys for rooms 202 and 210?"

"Hiring again?"

Cao Dahua was startled upon hearing this and reflexively asked.

"We're short on manpower now, especially in development; I can't have them pulling all-nighters every day."

Chen Yansen shrugged and explained with a bitter smile.

"That's true; the electricity bill for your rooms 206, 208, and 204 in one month is higher than the usage of the twenty-plus startup rooms downstairs." Cao Dahua joked with a smile.

He had once gone into business himself when he was young, so he naturally understood the difficulties of doing business; the Chen Yansen before him made running projects as simple as eating and drinking; in just two months, he had managed to make things thrive.

"The keys aren't urgent; I'll deliver them to you later, and I'll call a few students to help you move the desks up then. However, the water dispenser is indeed gone; either buy one yourself or wait for the higher-ups to allocate funds to purchase a new one."

After joking, Cao Dahua said seriously.

"Then it's trouble for you, Teacher Cao." Chen Yansen thanked him, drank two more cups of tea, and then walked out slowly and leisurely.

"Morning, Brother Sen!"

"Morning, Boss!"

Several members of the backend team waved and greeted him.

Chen Yansen nodded, and as soon as he sat down, he began arranging things for Song Yuncheng: "At ten-thirty this morning, Principal Tang will come for an inspection; at that time, you are responsible for introducing Fox Tao's current development status to him; by the way, can you act pitiful?"

"Act pitiful?"

Song Yuncheng, holding a vegetable bun in her hand, froze for a moment and asked with a confused face.

"If the Principal asks what difficulties our project faces, you play the victim; for example, say we have a shortage of funds, insufficient computer equipment, incomplete office supplies, and that it's affecting our studies, and so on."

Chen Yansen casually listed a bunch of things.

Affecting studies?

Can you even say that to the Principal? Song Yuncheng looked highly skeptical.

Besides, everyone knows you secured ten million in funding from Penguin; the topic is still hanging on the hot search list!

Will the Principal believe it?

"Why are you looking at me? This is for your own good; if you stay in the Entrepreneurship Park all day, what if you don't have enough credits by the time you graduate?"

Chen Yansen rolled his eyes and said impatiently.

"Why don't you say it? Why force me to play the victim?" Song Yuncheng thought for a moment and asked again.

"I'm the boss; I have an image to maintain." Chen Yansen answered perfunctorily.

"Tch—" Song Yuncheng scoffed; just as she was about to pout and refute, she saw Chen Yansen pull out a stack of cash.

"Thank you, Boss! May the Boss get rich soon!" Song Yuncheng immediately changed her expression, accepted the wages obsequiously, and her little mouth was as sweet as honey.

"I really don't understand you; do you love money or not?"

Chen Yansen was in low spirits, sighed and said.

Song Yuncheng looked at the hint of disappointment in his eyes, and her heart couldn't help but clench, aching and sour. She was just about to muster the courage to explain, when Xu Xingxing came over: "Class monitor, I brought you some ciba, try it and see how it tastes?"

"Sweet or savory?" Chen Yansen didn't take it, smiling as he asked.

"Savory, with crispy skin and duck egg yolk." Xu Xingxing held the ciba, grinning as she replied.

"Then I can't eat it, I like the sweet ones." Chen Yansen shook his head and refused.

"Class monitor, actually I also bought the sweet kind." Xu Xingxing, as if she had long anticipated this, unhurriedly pulled out another portion of ciba.

"Forget it, as a person, one must be willing to try new things, I'll eat the savory one."

Chen Yansen snatched the savory ciba in one go, saying cheekily.

"Those two must be sick!" Song Yuncheng didn't make a sound, her gaze swept over the two of them, secretly summing up in her heart.

In no time, most of the Fox Treasure members had arrived.

Just then, Cao Dahua was directing several students, carrying office desks and chairs upstairs.

"Wenbo, get a few people to lend a hand." Seeing this, Chen Yansen shouted to Zhang Wenbo.

"Got it, Brother Sen." Zhang Wenbo called over a few front-end classmates, and after several trips to the storage room, they finally crammed rooms 202 and 210 full.

Xu Xingxing took a few bottles of drinks from the fridge, thanking them as she handed the drinks to the students.

At ten twenty, Tang Qingshan arrived upstairs unhurriedly with several deans.

"Hello, Principal Tang!" ×23!

The uniform chorus of greetings pleased Tang Qingshan greatly. He waved his hand, signaling everyone to return to their workstations—he was only here for a casual look, and absolutely must not delay everyone's work progress.

"Principal Tang, last time was so rushed I didn't get to introduce her to you. This is Fox Treasure's employee number one, Song Yuncheng, who handles the financing-related liaison work. If you want to know the situation, just ask her—she knows best."

Chen Yansen pushed Song Yuncheng forward. He understood Tang Qingshan's thinking—nothing more than wanting to see Fox Treasure's development status, to see if it could serve as a typical college student entrepreneurship case study to take to the provincial university alliance to share (show off).

He couldn't be bothered to repeat the data stuff multiple times. In any case, Song Yuncheng had plenty of experience in this area—even in front of Ma Wenteng, she could introduce the project's progress with ease, so handling Tang Qingshan was naturally no problem.

Cao Dahua stood at the side, belly puffed out, accompanying them the whole time.

An hour later, Tang Qingshan and the others left. Cao Dahua came over with a long face: "You kid stirred things up again, my research report has to be rewritten."

"Just change a few numbers, with Teacher Cao's skills, there's no need to worry about that." Chen Yansen said lightly.

"That's true! When I was young, I was out making my way at Shencheng Electronics Harbor, what big storm haven't I seen." Cao Dahua's lips curled up, his face taking on a reminiscent look.

"Oh? Teacher Cao used to start a business too, what product did you make?" Chen Yansen chimed in at the right moment.

"Forget it, let's not mention it, it's all old history, you were still in elementary school back then." Cao Dahua's smile froze for a moment, he gave a dry laugh and skipped the topic.

Then he turned around, ducked back into his office, and continued patching up his report.

Tang Qingshan's trip wasn't wasted. Simply put, the school planned to allocate 100,000 yuan as Fox Treasure's entrepreneurship prize money, but with one prerequisite—Chen Yansen had to participate in the university entrepreneurship competition at the beginning of next year.

Twenty business office computers, one printer, several office desks, water dispensers, and refrigerators would be provided for free.

These things didn't look like much, but all added together they were worth several hundred thousand yuan—still better than nothing.

Chen Yansen smiled faintly, moved his mouse, and clicked open each group's hiring plan. If he felt there was no problem, he skipped it; if something was unreasonable, he modified it. After confirming everything was correct, he sent the plan back to Xu Xingxing, asking her to post the recruitment notice.

As soon as the recruitment information was posted on the bulletin board, someone reposted it to the campus forum and Tieba.

This time, it attracted even more people; graduates who had originally been preparing for the autumn recruitment all revised their resumes, getting ready to head to the entrepreneurship park for interviews tomorrow.

In just two short months, going from zero to a million users and securing a ten-million-yuan venture capital investment from Penguin—this project was already no small achievement for the students of Xucheng College; combined with salaries that were subtly higher than market rates, Xu Xingxing's inbox was already overflowing before the workday was even over.

She printed out the resumes one by one, handed them to the person in charge of each group, and only after initial screening would the candidates be invited to the entrepreneurship park for an interview.

Even so, there were still over two hundred candidates who made it to the second round. After some consideration, Chen Yansen had Xu Xingxing extend the interview arrangements to three days.

The next morning, Chen Yansen walked into room 202 with a stack of resumes, while Xu Xingxing outside the door was in charge of arranging the candidates' entry order.

"Hello interviewer, my name is Xu Kun, I'm a senior this year…"

The first interviewee, with a smile on his face, slowly made his self-introduction.

Chen Yansen waited for him to finish before curiously asking: "Your surname is Cai?"

"Huh!? No, my surname is Xu." Xu Kun was stunned for a moment, then seriously corrected him.

(End of this chapter)