Who would still start a business seriously after being reborn?

Chapter 387 This is what you call the "simp economy" (Supplementing the midnight update)

Cheng Yi hates people who lack a sense of boundaries, like the bunch in front of him.

His heart was already broken, and these people were rubbing salt into it.

Looking at the unrestrained smiles on these people's faces, Cheng Yi suddenly felt it was necessary to implement the 996 work system.

That way, these people won't get bored.

These people deserve this kind of blessing.

Soon, Jiang Yuxi handed a large bouquet of flowers to Cheng Yi, forcing a smile as she said, "Hey school heartthrob, here are the flowers."

"I'll take your breath away." Cheng Yi grabbed the flowers and threw them into the trash can by the elevator, saying irritably, "The meeting is at 4:55 this afternoon."

"4:55? Isn't that almost the time to get off work?" Su Duo was taken aback.

“That’s right, from now on we’ll have a meeting at 4:55 pm every day, so you won’t have anything to do.” Cheng Yi said this and went back to his office.

Jiang Yuxi blinked her big eyes and said, "He seems angry. It seems this incident has hit him pretty hard."

"Hmm." Zhang Lingyu nodded and said, "We might have gone a bit too far."

"Then go apologize," Su Duo agreed.

Su Duo ran quickly to Cheng Yi's office door, knocked, and called out, "School heartthrob, I'm sorry..."

"Get out of here!" Cheng Yi roared from inside the office.

In this competition, there were many confident players like Cheng Yi who got injured, because the competition is about survival of the fittest.

In the past two weeks, the promotion of Legend has also made great progress.

Cheng Yi isn't the kind of person who spends money without delivering results; he wouldn't just use offline bots to farm money.

In 1225 universities, promotional posters for Legend were everywhere. The homepage and pop-ups of Renren Technology were also full of promotional links for Legend. The promotional momentum completely overwhelmed the promotional team of Magic Baby on campus.

In just half a month, the peak number of concurrent online users in the game skyrocketed to 221 million! That's an increase of nearly 500,000 to 600,000.

Although the hundreds of thousands of online players were generated by offline bots, this did not affect the overall situation.

This result greatly exceeded Chen Tianqiao's expectations. He thought Cheng Yi would at most just go through the motions, after all, their sponsorship model was very demanding, purely piecework-based.

But to his utter surprise, Cheng Yi actually put in a lot of effort. However, this also had its drawbacks, namely, it was too expensive. At first, it was fine, with only tens of thousands of new accounts every day. But after half a month, the number of new accounts increased dramatically.

Accounts starting with Q have over 20 million registrations, and pay an average of over 18 million in sponsorship fees every day.

But everything has its pros and cons. The downside is that the money is being burned too quickly, but the upside is that the user acquisition data is really impressive.

If this trend continues, their group will be able to list on NASDAQ within three months.

Although the technical department detected abnormal data in some accounts, the senior management of Shengda Group adopted a laissez-faire attitude.

"If the water is too clear, there will be no fish." As long as the data is steadily increasing, who cares if it's abnormal or not? What bad intentions could college students possibly have? They just want to level up their account to level 15 and get some votes, which is understandable.

Not only should we understand, but we should also support them.

It's just a little over 1800 million a day. Compared to the huge profits from listing on Nasdaq, this little bit of money is really nothing.

In just half a month, almost every college student knows about Legend.

Throughout the dormitories, the roars of rake cats and orcs could be heard everywhere.

Level up, level up like crazy.

Once you reach level 15, you can vote for your favorite school beauty.

Xiaonei.com uses a real-name system. Once you bind your student ID, the university, year, and department will be displayed below your account name, followed by your real name.

Xiaonei.com Technology has added a leaderboard feature to each of the campus beauties and hunks' selection accounts, which will display the thirty people with the most votes.

In addition, the ballots now include a gifting feature, which is very user-friendly.

All students in a class can give their ballots to the same person, who will then vote.

This is called the "licking dog economy".

If a class produces one sycophant, the entire class is doomed and will have to become experts at leveling up accounts.

There's no way around it; those who qualify to be sycophants are all people with some family wealth.

If a vote could be exchanged for an Yili ice cream, would you vote or not?

For example, Meng Gang and Zhuang Ming in Cheng Yi's dormitory completely acted as Fei Zhengyu's vote-buying machines. They ate jianbing guozi (Chinese crepes) and drank Jianlibao (a type of Chinese liquor) every day, and spent their time voting after school. Of course, they voted for Momo Legend.

This was a carnival for everyone. Outside the school, Renren (a Chinese online community for college students) became the biggest source of gossip, while within the school, Renren ignited the passion of college students.

Inside Shengda Group, Chen Tianqiao's eyes lit up as he looked at the financial statements on the table.

"President Chen, at this growth momentum, we can apply for a Nasdaq listing in a month at most. We have already demonstrated high growth and potential. Once listed, the stock price is guaranteed to soar. Those fresh investors on Wall Street can't wait to be harvested by us." Su Yao, CFO of Shengda Group, said excitedly, "Our current growth curve is too beautiful, especially this month's data, which shows the strong momentum of our group. This is rare even on a global scale."

"Cheng Yi really knows how to surprise people." Chen Tianqiao's expression was somewhat conflicted.

From the equipment trading website to the current Xiaonei.com technology, Cheng Yi's business acumen has already made Chen Tianqiao wary.

Chen Tianqiao had already found out that the equipment transaction and the Xiaonei.com technology were all orchestrated by Cheng Yi.

She's only nineteen.

Such people must either be recruited or destroyed. The equipment trading website was Shengda's first tentative encounter with Momo, and Shengda Group suffered a crushing defeat, losing the equipment trading market for nothing.

After that battle, Shengda's market share in the equipment trading field has dropped to 18%. Having lost the trust of users, it is now very difficult for them to organize a second counterattack.

Chen Tianqiao asked, "How long does it take to go public?"

Su Yao immediately said, "Two months is enough. In the past six months, I have resolved the hard listing requirements such as 300 shareholders. In addition, we have also poached a lot of financial staff from Xinlang and Wangyi. After all, they have experience in handling Nasdaq listings."

“Okay.” Chen Tianqiao nodded and said, “Then let’s officially begin. Let’s try to get the listing sorted out before this event ends.”

"Okay." Su Yao's mood also became somewhat excited.

He had been preparing for eight months, all for this day.

According to the group's plan, their listing was originally scheduled for the end of next year, but plans really can't keep up with changes.

This data improvement is fantastic; such strong and stable data is very attractive to investors.

It's so beautiful it looks like it was painted on.

But what idiot would inflate their IPO data? Unless it's a listed company that's just looking to fleece investors from the start.

After Su Yao left, Chen Tianqiao called over Luo Shengyi, the group's vice president, and Qi Yonghuai, the technical director.

During this period, Luo Shengyi and Qi Yonghuai's relationship became very strained, almost to the point of never speaking to each other again.

Both of them were his top generals, and Chen Tianqiao intended to try to ease the tension between them.

However, he only wanted to ease the tension between the two. The first principle of imperial strategy is to prevent subordinates from getting too close.

It's easier to manage subordinates if you maintain a relationship where they don't fight.

Qi Yonghuai was the first to enter.

With a stern face, Qi Yonghuai couldn't help but say as soon as he saw Chen Tianqiao, "President Chen, I swear, President Luo must have received kickbacks from Xiaonei.com Technology."

Chen Tianqiao had heard Qi Yonghuai say this ten times already. Just as he was about to speak, Luo Shengyi's angry roar came from outside the door: "Qi Yonghuai, talking badly about people behind their backs is not something a man does."

Qi Yonghuai turned around, looking at Luo Shengyi who had walked in, and said, "I'll say it to your face too, you must have received kickbacks from Xiaonei.com Technology."

"Shut up, you son of a bitch!" Luo Shengyi cursed.

Qi Yonghuai angrily retorted, "Why are you swearing at me?"

"Swearing? I can hit people too, you believe me?" Luo Shengyi made a move as if to strike.

"Alright! Quiet down, both of you!" Chen Tianqiao shouted as soon as he saw the two about to fight.

Luo Shengyi reluctantly lowered his raised arm and said to Chen Tianqiao, "Chairman, this is pure slander. You know, Cheng Yi and I are sworn enemies."

“Hmm.” Chen Tianqiao knew how much Luo Shengyi hated Cheng Yi, so even though Qi Yonghuai kept reporting him, he just treated it as a joke.

He was quite happy to see Qi Yonghuai and Luo Shenyi causing trouble before, but now, if he doesn't step in to resolve this matter, the two of them will be in big trouble, especially since it's a crucial moment for the company to go public.

Chen Tianqiao said, "Director Qi, why don't you confront President Luo face to face? Let's resolve this matter today."

“Okay.” Qi Yonghuai immediately said, “Starting from September 8th, we have been monitoring some accounts with data starting with Q and we have noticed that there are problems. We strongly suspect that these accounts were deliberately created by someone. Since President Luo is in charge of the Q series accounts, we reported these abnormal data to President Luo, but we have not received a response from him.”

"On September 12, the number of abnormal data increased. Since we couldn't get the right to further investigate, we could only ask President Luo for authorization to investigate. But President Luo told us not to worry about it," Qi Yonghuai said. "According to the abnormal data we have initially grasped, there are at least 1 million of these abnormal accounts every day, so I have reason to suspect that this matter is related to President Luo."

Chen Tianqiao then looked at Luo Shengyi and said with a smile, "President Luo, why don't you explain?"

“Okay.” Luo Shengyi said without changing his expression, “Chairman, this is why I applied for the Q series accounts. We can’t lose sight of the bigger picture. How much money is 1 million accounts? It’s only 5 million. Let’s not even talk about whether these accounts are abnormal or not. Even if they are abnormal, so what?”

“We are adding more than three million new accounts every day, and students from 1225 universities are playing our game. Are we going to ban accounts indiscriminately at this critical juncture when things are going so well? It's okay if we ban an account, but if college students think we are bullying them and label us as looking down on college students, wouldn't all our efforts be in vain?”

After Luo Shengyi finished speaking, he glanced at Qi Yonghuai with disdain and said, "Programmers are often rather dull-witted and tend to focus on trivial matters while neglecting the bigger picture. In my opinion, as long as the data is growing and our income is increasing, we don't need to care whether these accounts are abnormal."

"That's nonsense!" Qi Yonghuai roared. "According to you, as long as the crime rate steadily declines, then the law won't even need to exist?"

"Is there a problem with that? If the crime rate steadily increases when the law exists, but decreases when the law doesn't exist, then why do we need the law at all?" Luo Shengyi argued forcefully.

Qi Yonghuai was not good with words, so he was no match for Luo Shengyi, a sales tycoon. After a series of exchanges, he couldn't win either, so he could only sulk.

"Alright." Chen Tianqiao chuckled and said, "Let's leave it at that. The Q series accounts are under the management of General Manager Luo, so please continue to manage them. Director Qi, you no longer need to monitor the Q series accounts."

"Chairman..." Qi Yonghuai was anxious and was about to speak when Chen Tianqiao interrupted him, saying, "President Luo is right. Regardless of whether those accounts are abnormal or not, as long as our situation is very good, we don't need to create any unnecessary trouble. Any unnecessary actions we take now could become the butterfly that triggers a tsunami."

"Yes." Qi Yonghuai sighed and said nothing more.

Chen Tianqiao raised his head, squinted at Luo Shengyi, and asked, "What's going on with Momo Legend? I heard that you can get 5 votes if you reach level 15 in Momo Legend? That's two more votes than us?"

Luo Shenyi said with a wry smile, "That's true. I questioned Cheng Yi, and he said that Momo Legend is also one of the sponsors, and their average order value is higher than ours. They pay 8 yuan for a level 15 account, which is 3 yuan more than us, so they have three more votes than us."

"?" Chen Tianqiao felt like cursing.

That's Cheng Yi for you. He always manages to stab you in the back when you least expect it, and then calmly asks you if it hurts.

Chen Tianqiao frowned and said, "Does he mean it's 8 yuan?"

Luo Shengyi said, "He showed me the sponsorship contract and also provided a payment slip from Momo Group as proof. Chairman Cheng Yi has absolute control over Xiaonei.com Technology. Strictly speaking, Xiaonei.com Technology is not a true subsidiary of Momo Group."

Chen Tianqiao said unhappily, "I have a feeling he deliberately set us up. Is he intentionally driving traffic to Momo Legend?"

“Cheng Yi said that he opened his door to do business and there was no reason for him to turn away customers,” Luo Shengyi replied.

(End of this chapter)