Since they are reborn, they must be supported by the school beauties.

Chapter 164 The new user acquisition competition is a hit!

A crisp question made Chen Cheng and Lu Youyou turn around almost simultaneously.

The petite Yan Ruoxuan was smiling as she looked at Chen Cheng when she suddenly noticed a tall, beautiful woman beside him, and she was instinctively surprised.

Lu Youyou was also somewhat surprised.

She had seen many beautiful girls, but none of them seemed as cute as Yan Ruoxuan. Her fresh and clean style of dress was not commonly seen in daily life; she was more like the cute girls in Japanese and Korean dramas.

Chen Cheng's roommates were all worried for him.

Whether Chen Chengcheng admits it or not, they all regard him as a master at picking up girls. Behind his back, they all say that Yan Ruoxuan is Chen Cheng's mistress.

The high school classmate who lent him money and often called him to chat on the phone was someone everyone felt had an ulterior motive. Today, after seeing Lu Youyou in person and finding her outrageously beautiful, they were even more convinced of this.

Now that Yan Ruoxuan and Lu Youyou have met, it feels like a concubine meeting the first wife.

Both girls were stunned by each other's appearance and demeanor, and a sense of tension and crisis involuntarily arose in their hearts.

Chen Cheng, however, was a man of integrity who had nothing to fear. He thought, "Why should I be nervous when all these women are like bodhisattvas?"

So he smiled and said, "What brings you here, class monitor? Have you eaten yet?"

"Ah I……"

Yan Ruoxuan's nervousness was written all over her face as she stared at her toes and said, "Um... I just finished eating and thought I'd come and see how things are going and if there's anything I can help with."

After saying that, he asked Chen Cheng, "Have you eaten?"

Chen Cheng said, "Not yet. My high school classmate is coming over to visit, so we'll eat together later."

Then he calmly introduced her to Lu Youyou: "Little Lu, let me introduce you. This is our class monitor, Yan Ruoxuan. Class monitor, this is my high school classmate, Lu Youyou, from Huazhong University of Science and Technology."

Yan Ruoxuan immediately knew who her high school classmate from Huazhong University of Science and Technology was when the topic of Huazhong University of Science and Technology came up.

She had never met Lu Youyou, but she knew from having dinner with Chen Cheng and his roommates that Chen Cheng had borrowed money from Lu Youyou and that the two had a good relationship.

She couldn't help but wonder to herself, "Is this little deer Chen Cheng's girlfriend?"

But then he thought it probably wasn't true, otherwise Chen Cheng wouldn't have referred to his girlfriend as his high school classmate in front of her.

In other words, we're all classmates.

Xiaolu was my high school classmate, and I was her college classmate.

Lu Youyou was surprised. She knew that Chen Cheng's class had a beloved class monitor, but she didn't expect her to be so beautiful and, more importantly, so cute. Even as a girl herself, she felt a pang of pity for her.

However, she had a much better mental fortitude than Yan Ruoxuan, and immediately smiled and said, "Hello, Yan classmate. I've heard Chen Cheng talk about you a lot."

Yan Ruoxuan wasn't quite in sync with the situation and was a little nervous, so she awkwardly smoothed her hair on both sides and politely said, "Hello..."

Chen Cheng had already set up Lu Youyou's account, and seeing that it was almost time to announce the new user acquisition campaign, he said, "Little Lu, wait for me to export the backend data, and then we'll go eat."

Lu Youyou nodded: "You go ahead with your work, I'm not hungry yet."

Chen Cheng waited until 12:30 to pull up the ranking of new user referrals. Each person's name and the number of new users they referred were generated directly in the background, without any cheating or underhanded operations.

He exported the list and immediately sent an internal message to all users of Jiangda University, attaching the list of all winners and reminding them to collect their cash prizes at the campus printing shop at 1:30 p.m.

After the message was sent out, the winners were all overjoyed and eagerly awaited receiving their money.

Chen Cheng then took Lu Youyou to eat first.

Since Lu Youyou liked spicy food, Chen Cheng simply took her to the Sichuan restaurant he had chosen.

The middle-aged couple who run the Sichuan restaurant told him about the progress of the demolition and renovation on the second floor as soon as they saw him. They had found helpers and started the demolition and renovation early in the morning. The plasterboard partition walls had been basically removed and taken away. The workers would come in the afternoon to finish up, and after cleaning, it would be basically done.

Chen Cheng paid them the remaining rent and then prepared to buy computers and office furniture in the afternoon.

Lu Youyou was surprised and wondered why he had rented a two-story building in a Sichuan restaurant. Chen Cheng took her upstairs for a tour and told her, "This place will soon become the startup base for Renren.com. I have found some senior students majoring in computer science, and we will gather them here to maintain and operate Renren.com."

Lu Youyou looked around and saw that the place was at least forty or fifty square meters, so she asked him, "How many people do you plan to hire to work here?"

Chen Cheng said, "We'll start with a little over ten, and next month we expect to have twenty. Then this place won't be enough, and I'll have to expand to other venues."

Lu Youyou listened with admiration, exclaiming, "Your efficiency is amazing... You've even assembled the team!"

Chen Cheng laughed and said, "When it comes to building a website, speed is of the essence; the faster, the better."

Lu Youyou nodded in agreement, then thought of a serious problem and said, "You must be short of money, right? How about I ask my dad for some?"

Chen Cheng said in a serious tone, "How could I be short of money? I'm about to become rich, okay?"

When Lu Youyou heard him say he was going to make a fortune, she immediately thought of the taxi company he had bought and asked him in surprise, "The price of taxi license plates has gone up?"

"Yes, it's gone up."

Chen Cheng smiled and said, "The company I bought the quota for was 45,000 each, and now it's 52,000 or 50,000. I estimate it will go up again this afternoon."

"so smart!"

Lu Youyou could hardly believe it. She thought Chen Cheng might lose money on this deal, but unexpectedly, the price went up right after the National Day holiday.

So she asked curiously, "What's your target price?"

Chen Cheng raised an eyebrow and smiled, saying calmly, "I plan to wait another month or two until the price rises to over 150,000 before making a move." Lu Youyou's eyes widened, feeling that the boy she had known for three years had suddenly become a complete stranger.

With a unit price of 150,000, the profit is doubled, and he should earn at least 4 million. Yet he spoke of it so casually, and there was no excitement or pride in his smile. Has Chen Cheng always been this calm?
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After dinner, Chen Cheng originally suggested taking Lu Youyou around, but Lu Youyou knew that Chen Cheng was busy, so she told him to take care of his business first and that she would come to see him another day.

Chen Cheng didn't stand on ceremony with her. He saw her into a taxi, wrote down the license plate number, and sent it to Lu Youyou via text message before turning around and going back to school.

At this moment, in addition to students queuing to scan photos, there were also more than a dozen students who had won awards at the entrance of the school's printing shop.

These people were all holding their ID cards and waiting here. This was the first time they had earned money through the internet, so whether it was 500 or 100, everyone was very excited and felt that this was a windfall.

However, some people are slightly worried about the credibility of Renren.com. What if they renege on their promise? Until they receive the money, everything is uncertain.

When Chen Cheng arrived at the store, Yan Ruoxuan was still there.

Seeing him return, Yan Ruoxuan cautiously asked, "Did your high school classmate go back?"

"Correct."

Chen Cheng nodded: "Just saw them off."

Just then, someone came over and asked, "Hey, it's almost 1:30, who's going to hand out the rewards?"

Chen Cheng pointed at Yan Ruoxuan: "Her! This time, the referral bonus will be distributed by Yan Ruoxuan from Class 3 of Computer Science, 2002."

Yan Ruoxuan was extremely nervous and looked at Chen Cheng, asking in a low voice, "Me? I didn't bring that much money!"

Chen Cheng laughed and said, "You just need to be in charge of distributing the money. I'll give you the money; it's all ready."

Yan Ruoxuan was naturally shy and easily embarrassed, so she subconsciously asked him in a low voice, "Chen Cheng, you can send it yourself, why do I have to send it?"

Chen Cheng picked up his DSLR camera and said with a smile, "I'm going to take some photos to record this, and then post them in the announcement so that other users know that we really are giving money."

Then, Chen Cheng whispered in her ear, "It seems that most of the people receiving the bonuses are boys. As the newly crowned beauty queen of our Computer Science Department, it is an honor for them to personally distribute the bonuses to them."

Yan Ruoxuan thought Chen Cheng was teasing her again, and felt shy, but she didn't back down from the task. She thought that Chen Cheng still had to take photos and everyone else was busy, so she naturally had to take on the responsibility of distributing the money.

So he handed the prepared cash to Yan Ruoxuan, and then, looking at the first name on the list, shouted loudly, "Is Gao Haichao here?"

A boy waiting not far from the door immediately raised his hands excitedly: "Me, me, me! I am Gao Haichao!"

Chen Cheng nodded and asked him, "Did you bring your ID, classmate?"

"Take it, take it."

The other party responded repeatedly and ran over to hand Chen Cheng an ID card.

After verifying that everything was correct, Chen Cheng shouted loudly, "Congratulations to Gao Haichao for winning yesterday's new student recruitment competition! The prize money is 500 yuan!"

As he spoke, he picked up his camera and said to Yan Ruoxuan, "Class monitor, give this student five hundred yuan in cash."

Yan Ruoxuan hurriedly counted out five bills from a stack of cash and handed them to Gao Haichao with both hands.

Gao Haichao grinned excitedly. He hadn't expected to get 500 yuan so easily, especially since it was Yan Ruoxuan, the beautiful girl on the school's online community, who personally gave him the bonus. It felt pretty good.

After receiving the cash, he asked excitedly, "Will we have any similar activities later?"

"Of course."

After taking the photos, Chen Cheng smiled and said, "We will be launching new user acquisition competitions from time to time. Please pay attention to our backend messages; we will send out notifications in advance."

"Great!"

Gao Haichao clenched his fist excitedly, thinking to himself, "Next time, I'll get first place again. This money is easy to earn; all I have to do is work hard to recruit my high school classmates and some netizens from college forums."

Subsequently, the other award-winning students also received their prize money in order of their attendance.

Chen Cheng took photos of each student who received the prize money, mainly capturing the moment they received the money. He specifically sought everyone's opinions before publishing the news on the website, and everyone was very agreeable and agreed to appear in the news.

After all the prize money was distributed, the students who were queuing to scan their photos and those who were just passing by to watch the spectacle were also given a hard time.

Surprisingly, they actually gave out money! And they even knew some of the students who received the bonuses, so there was definitely no shady business involved.

This immediately raised the profile and credibility of Xiaonei.com at Jiangnan University to a new level.

Chen Cheng quickly imported all the photos to his computer, then registered a "Campus News" account, edited an article with pictures, and uploaded the list of participants in the first new user recruitment competition and photos of each person receiving their prize.

He then posted the link to the article in the system announcements, but this time, unlike before, he didn't only push it to Jiangda users.

The reason why we only promoted it to Jiangnan University users the first time was because we have a physical store in Jiangnan University, which gives us a certain level of credibility. This is the only way to get Jiangnan University users to participate actively. Even if we promoted it to users of other schools, they would not know enough about Renren.com and would not have enough trust in it, so they would probably not take it seriously.

But now that he has these photos, he plans to push the message to all users in Jiangcheng, that is, to include users from all universities in Jiangcheng.

Seeing these photos will make them trust the school's intranet, and if they win the prize, they can come to the Jiangda campus printing shop to collect their winnings.

So he shared the post with pictures and text, informing everyone: "The second round of the new user referral competition will officially begin tonight at 8 PM, and the first-place prize will be doubled to 1,000 yuan by tomorrow night at 8 PM!"

Once this in-app message was pushed out, all registered users in Jiangcheng knew about it.

When they saw that Renren.com was actually spending real money on the event, they were all shocked, though they didn't understand it.

The competition has become a hot topic of discussion in various campuses and internet cafes near schools throughout Jiangcheng.

This user acquisition competition, which Chen Cheng thought didn't cost much, suddenly became a hit!
(End of this chapter)