Chapter 70: Walk Others' Paths, Leaving Them No Way to Go (34k Request)

Approaching noon, the Fox Tao members gradually descended the stairs, heading for the cafeteria.

After finishing the product selection list sent by Zhang Yifeng, Chen Yansen looked up and realized only three customer service staff remained on the second floor; he patted his belly and strolled out leisurely.

It was peak dining hour; Xuelin Road and Xuehai Road were packed with vibrant college students, but alas, late autumn had arrived, and the number of girls wearing short skirts and stockings on the streets was dwindling.

"Someone has fainted! Someone help!"

A girl's startled cry suddenly rang out ahead, and the surrounding crowd immediately erupted into chaos.

Hearing the commotion, Chen Yansen glanced casually and intended to go around.

It was still college students; if this were ten-plus years later, who would dare be so enthusiastic?

Chen Yansen sneered, and just as he was about to pass, his peripheral vision suddenly caught the fainted girl's belongings: an ugly, earthy-yellow backpack and a business laptop uniformly procured by Fox Tao.

His brows instantly knitted together; he thrust both arms into the chaotic crowd and casually shoved the onlookers on both sides half a meter backward.

In the center of the crowd, Song Yuncheng lay on her side on the ground, lips pale, eyes tightly shut; her knees and palms were scraped, oozing deep red blood, yet she remained completely unaware.

"Move!"

Chen Yansen shouted loudly, then immediately scooped Song Yuncheng up into his arms.

Only then did he realize Song Yuncheng's face looked fleshy, but her weight probably didn't even reach ninety jin; holding her in his arms, she felt feather-light.

Chen Yansen had no time to ponder; carrying her, he ran toward the infirmary.

"Holy crap! This guy's got serious strength; carrying someone and still running that fast!"

"Looks like Chen Yansen, the senior from Fox Tao; handsome and manly."

"That backpack and computer belong to the fainted girl; someone help, take them to the infirmary together."

"I'll do it!"

A girl wearing glasses volunteered, picked up Song Yuncheng's belongings, and trotted after them toward the infirmary.

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"Xiao Chen, is this your girlfriend? Don't say I didn't warn you; you eat well and dress warmly, but your girlfriend is anemic and malnourished. If I'd known you were this kind of person, I definitely wouldn't have written you a sick leave note."

Meng Yating glared fiercely at Chen Yansen, her eyes full of disdain for a scumbag, just short of spitting directly in his face.

"Sister Ting, don't wrong an innocent person; she's an employee of Fox Tao. I pay her three or four thousand yuan a month in wages. Who knows how she managed to wreck herself like this?"

Chen Yansen didn't want to take the blame and retorted in a bad mood.

Meng Yating's older sister was the channel manager at the campus telecom business hall; previously, Chen Yansen's sick leave slip had been obtained through her connections.

"Oh, I see. Don't worry; she just has mild hypoglycemia. Once this bag of glucose is done, she'll be fine."

Meng Yating's face stiffened; she smiled awkwardly, realizing she had wronged Chen Yansen, and hurriedly walked out of the infusion room.

Lying on the hospital bed, Song Yuncheng, in her dazed state, suddenly heard Chen Yansen say, "She's an employee of Fox Tao," and felt an immediate sense of relief in her heart; yes, her relationship with Chen Yansen had always been that of superior and subordinate, never changing.

A crystal tear welled up in her eye socket; she pressed her eyelids hard, refusing to let the tears flow down.

"Senior, here are her backpack and computer; I've put them on the chair."

At that moment, a girl wearing glasses walked in smiling and pointed at Song Yuncheng on the hospital bed, explaining.

"Thank you." Chen Yansen smiled faintly and responded politely.

The girl waved her hand, indicating no need for thanks, but her eyes were secretly sizing up Chen Yansen.

"Do you have anything else?" Chen Yansen asked abruptly.

"N-no, goodbye, senior." The girl's expression panicked; she shook her head hurriedly and left with a forced smile.

Chen Yansen pulled over a chair, sat beside Song Yuncheng's bed, and muttered, "This person is really troublesome; earning a few thousand yuan a month, yet living like this. Could it be she also has a sick mother, a gambling father, and a younger brother in school?"

Song Yuncheng had planned to keep pretending to sleep, but hearing Chen Yansen's teasing, her heart ached faintly; she immediately opened her eyes and shot back fiercely, "You're the one with a sick mother, a gambling father, and a younger brother in school!"

Song Yuncheng, activated in battle mode, was like a wild cat with its fur standing on end.

"You were actually pretending to sleep?" Chen Yansen realized.

"Fine, I admit I was wrong; I'm leaving now." Seeing her awake and looking ready to bite him, Chen Yansen chuckled lightly, turned his head, and walked away.

"You—" Song Yuncheng watched his retreating back without turning around, so angry she couldn't finish her sentence.

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Chen Yansen wouldn't coax anyone; after finishing lunch, he returned to room 0418 for a nap, and only at one-thirty in the afternoon did he yawn and stroll leisurely into the Entrepreneurship Park.

"Monitor, here is the December office supplies procurement list and employee welfare plan; do you need any adjustments?"

As soon as he sat down, Xu Xingxing approached with a stack of documents, smiling cheerfully.

"Mm, leave it here." Chen Yansen tapped the table and said flatly.

Fox Tao's current daily active user count is stable at around 600,000; of these, 400,000 new customers come from the zero-yuan bargaining viral activity, 50,000 new customers come from advertising channels, and the remaining 150,000 are retained old customers.

Once the advertising and zero-yuan bargaining activities stop, the daily active user count will quickly drop below 100,000.

The platform processes over 70,000 orders daily, with a gross profit of roughly 500,000; after deducting marketing, labor, and technical costs, 200,000 remains, totaling 6 million per month.

When you have money, you must spend it!

In this life, Chen Yansen's interest in villas, luxury cars, and yachts has decreased significantly; after all, he grew tired of them in his previous life. Having experienced life and death, he understands the importance of health even more, so he let Xu Xingxing figure out employee welfare to find himself a reason to spend money.

"1. Holiday gifts: For Spring Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, and employee birthdays, distribute 200-yuan red envelopes;"

"2. Supplemental medical insurance;"

"3. One team-building activity per month;"

"4. One group trip per year;"

Chen Yansen opened the document, glanced casually at two lines, couldn't help but shake his head, took out a pen, and began to revise.

Team building? Cross it out!

Group trip? Cross it out!

Isn't it much better to convert everything into cash?

Chen Yansen added a note at the bottom: Full-time employees receive 200 yuan monthly for team-building expenses, distributed with their wages.

Full-time employees receive an annual travel fund of 2,000 yuan; for every additional year of service, the quota increases by 1,000 yuan, capped at a maximum of 10,000 yuan.

As for whether employees actually attend team-building events or travel, the company doesn't bother worrying about it.

Giving only 200 yuan red packets for holidays is too stingy; he crossed it out with his pen and changed it to 500 yuan.

Finally, he added a new clause: All members of Fox Tao receive a monthly meal subsidy of 500 yuan, effective immediately, uniformly recharged to meal cards by the Administration Department, with reimbursement strictly prohibited.

Chen Yansen tossed the document to Xu Xingxing; the other party glanced at it and immediately let out an excited scream.

Hearing the commotion, everyone else poked their heads over, their eyes full of curiosity.

"Monitor! You didn't accidentally add an extra zero, did you?" Seeing everyone staring at her, Xu Xingxing lowered her head in embarrassment, too shy to speak up.

"Stop wasting words! Implement this starting today; this is my meal card!" Chen Yansen rolled his eyes and threw the card over.

Xu Xingxing took the meal card, ran back to her seat with an excited expression, made revisions to the document, and then directly sent the electronic version of the employee welfare plan to the project group chat.

"Ah—ahhhhh—!"

Not long after, a cheer erupted on the second floor.

Chen Yansen smiled faintly; these miscellaneous expenses would add at least one point of Humanitarian Life Fire for him per employee annually; in the future, with more employees, that would amount to tens of thousands of points of Humanitarian Life Fire.

Even if Superman came, he would have to kneel obediently and sing "Conquer" for him!

The stimulated members of Fox Tao worked even harder, as if they had been injected with chicken blood.

When Song Yuncheng returned to the Entrepreneurship Park after her glucose infusion, she clearly sensed that the atmosphere today was quite different.

"Why are they so motivated?" Song Yuncheng looked puzzled, but only discovered the new file in the project group chat after she sat down and opened her computer.

Supplementary medical insurance, holiday red packets, travel funds, team-building expenses, and a monthly meal subsidy of 500 yuan?

Through the gap in the computer screen, Song Yuncheng stole a glance at Chen Yansen; the sentence in the document stating "meal subsidies cannot be processed via reimbursement" seemed specifically designed to guard against her.

"He isn't such a bad person after all," Song Yuncheng thought silently.

The incident of being bullied by Chen Yansen in the morning had unknowingly been buried deep in her heart.

Around two o'clock, an interview vehicle bearing the words "First Time" stopped at the entrance of the Entrepreneurship Park.

"Student Chen Yansen, let me introduce you; this is Zhang Liang, the outdoor host from First Time, Zhang Laoshi, who specially traveled from Lu City to record a program for you." Cao Dahua walked ahead, leading several people to Room 206.

"Zhang Laoshi, welcome, welcome!"

Chen Yansen extended his hand to greet the group, then led them to Room 202; this office was currently vacant and would serve perfectly as an interview room.

Zhang Liang couldn't help but scrutinize Chen Yansen from head to toe: eighteen or nineteen years old, wearing a white shirt underneath and a brown jacket over, handsome with refined features, and half a head taller than him.

His demeanor and speech were not at all like a college student; rather, he seemed like an old hand who had struggled in the business world for many years.

After the accompanying staff finished adjusting the lights and microphones, they asked Zhang Liang, "Zhang Laoshi, should we apply light makeup to Student Chen?"

"No need; with his skin condition and facial features, makeup would actually look worse." Zhang Liang stared straight at Chen Yansen for a moment, then waved his hand to refuse.

The subsequent interview left Zhang Liang increasingly shocked; the young man before him spoke flawlessly, with wit, humor, and rich experience, managing to engage in a lively back-and-forth conversation with him.

This episode is definitely going to be a hit!

Before leaving, Zhang Liang held this belief firmly.

Three days later, when the program aired, Chen Yansen's image sitting in a chair and speaking eloquently to the camera instantly caused a sensation throughout the province.

Subsequently, video clips of the program topped the trending searches, and the three major portal websites successively reposted and reported on it.

This time, Chen Yansen and his Fox Tao truly broke out of their circle.

Chen Yansen was handsome and already possessed natural traffic; coupled with the media dubbing him the "Youngest Multi-Millionaire of the Post-90s Generation," he became even more sought after by students and white-collar workers.

Among them, women made up the majority; they all registered Fox Tao accounts and purchased clothes, bags, cosmetics, and snacks on the website.

Some even promoted and supported him on Weibo.

This made confused netizens think that Chen Yansen was some newly debuted traffic star.

Upon learning this, Chen Yansen found it both funny and frustrating; he never expected that he would end up following Cheng Ou's path.

But he didn't act pretentious; he registered a Weibo account overnight, with the nickname simply "Fox Tao CEO Chen Yansen," and immediately, without a second thought, uploaded several handsome photos along with a link to a 0-yuan bargaining event.

"Hello everyone, I am Chen Yuncheng, the founder of Fox Tao; I endorse myself. Use Fox Tao for smarter shopping!"

Chen Yansen didn't hold back, directly copying Cheng Ou's lines; as for what the other party would do in the future, what was it to him!

Walking someone else's path so they have nowhere to go—that's the real satisfaction!

As a result, in just a few short days, his Weibo follower count surged from zero to 800,000, and it looked like it was about to break the million mark.

Meanwhile, far away in Chunshen, Chen Guobin sat in front of the TV, watching the sharply dressed Chen Yansen, and once again felt doubt: Is this thing really my son?

(End of this chapter)