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Chapter 212 0209 [Lin Daiyu Takes Over]

The 202 lecture hall of Guanghua College was not only full of people, but the aisles were also full of people.

No tickets are needed; you can listen as soon as you arrive.

Between the entrance and the podium, there is a stage where several student union officers from Guanghua College stand.

Chen Guiliang took the gifts from the entrepreneur trainees and stuffed them under the stage.

"What is it?" asked Song Yu, a student council member and tonight's host.

Chen Guiliang said, "The students in the Guanghua training program heard that Chen Xiaoxu was at Peking University and asked me to bring her some gifts."

"Oh." Song Yu didn't ask any more questions.

Chen Guiliang then stood there motionless.

He arrived late and couldn't get a seat. Too lazy to squeeze into the aisle with other people, he simply stood behind the stage and joined a few student council members.

They don't consider themselves outsiders at all.

A student council member named Zhang Jun said, "President Chen, why don't you just transfer to our Guanghua College?"

"I do have that plan," Chen Guiliang replied casually.

Students in the Yuanpei Class can choose their major in the second semester of their sophomore year.

If Chen Guiliang chooses management as his major now, all his academic studies and activities will be transferred to Guanghua College, and he will be considered a member of Guanghua College. However, his student status and administrative affiliation will remain with the Yuanpei Class.

This means they have a dual identity.

Chen Guiliang was too lazy to choose a major; he was quite content with his current status as a freelancer.

There are many students like him in the Yuanpei Class, and some outstanding students only start choosing their major in their senior year.

Chen Guiliang chatted idly with the student union officers and then made a phone call to Tao Chenggang. He hung up when he saw Chen Xiaoxu arrive.

Some students have already come up to ask for autographs, but most people are still quite reserved.

After signing autographs twenty or thirty times, Chen Xiaoxu finally managed to get rid of all the star-struck students. Chen Xiaoxu then walked over to the stage and spoke with Song Yu, a student council member—Song Yu had somehow managed to persuade Chen Xiaoxu to come.

This Song Yu is quite handsome, dressed in a suit and tie, with a haircut even shorter than Li Yuchun's. At first glance, you might mistake him for a very dashing man.

It wasn't until she spoke that I realized she was a woman.

“Hello Ms. Chen,” Chen Guiliang said, pulling out a few gifts from under the table. “There’s an entrepreneurship training program at Peking University. The students heard you were coming and asked me to bring you some gifts as a token of their appreciation. They’re nothing valuable; some people even just sent a postcard.”

Chen Xiaoxu thought Chen Guiliang was also a member of the student council, and immediately said with a smile, "Please also convey my thanks to them."

She looked very healthy and didn't appear to be sick.

But she will be diagnosed with stage II breast cancer next month. This is considered a relatively early stage, and with medical technology in 2006, the five-year survival rate was around 80%.

The cure rate is quite high.

The prerequisite is that you are willing to cooperate with the treatment.

Chen Guiliang handed over a business card, a Class A card, with his personal phone number on it.

Chen Xiaoxu took it and glanced at it: Founder and CEO of ByteDance, Founder and CEO of Game Science.

At this moment, Song Yu has stepped onto the podium and begun to speak on the topic of today's speech.

Chen Xiaoxu asked curiously, "Aren't you a student?"

Chen Guiliang said, "He's a student too."

"Starting a business is quite difficult. I wish you success." Chen Xiaoxu didn't seem to pay much attention to the news; she hadn't even managed her company for the past two years.

Instead of explaining, Chen Guiliang seized the opportunity to say, "My company is located just outside the east gate of Peking University. If possible, I would love to invite Ms. Chen to visit and share her entrepreneurial experience with everyone."

Chen Xiaoxu politely declined, saying, "I have other things to do tomorrow."

"Even a few minutes is fine, my friends will definitely be very excited," Chen Guiliang said.

Chen Xiaoxu was staying at Changchun Xinyuan tonight, which is very close to the east gate of Peking University. She thought for a moment and said, "Then I'll go in 30 minutes. I have other things to do this morning."

She felt she could offer some encouragement to student entrepreneurs.

Starting a business is quite difficult.

On the stage, Song Yu started with dreams and then talked about entrepreneurship, then from Li Ning to Chen Xiaoxu, and then gave a detailed introduction to Chen Xiaoxu herself and her company.

After about six and a half minutes of rambling, they finally invited Chen Xiaoxu to the stage to give a speech.

Song Yu returned to the stage: "What were you all talking about just now?"

“I’ve asked her to come to my company tomorrow to say a few words,” Chen Guiliang said.

"accepted?"

"Ah."

"Wow, you're really something. I begged and pleaded with her for half a year before she finally agreed to give a speech at Peking University."

"You're even more impressive; you managed to get this done."

"..."

Chen Xiaoxu stood on the podium, and it was obvious that she was very nervous.

Just as she was about to speak, she clutched her chest and gasped for breath, unable to speak after several attempts, which amused the students present. She also clutched her chest and laughed along with everyone.

Her expression and actions were just like those of a young girl who hadn't yet entered society.

She laughed, tossed her hair, patted her chest, and exhaled, "I really wish Ms. Song Yu could keep speaking, so I wouldn't have to go on stage and could continue as an audience member. Because in all these years, I've rarely attended reports with so many people. And I rarely give media interviews, because I always feel like I haven't learned enough..."

Chen Xiaoxu began to recount her life experiences, which Chen Guiliang found quite interesting, mainly because he hadn't heard of some of the content before.

For example, Chen Xiaoxu said that she was denied a visa by Americans several times when she went abroad for tourism because the Americans suspected that she had immigration intentions.

After finally managing to travel from Germany to the United States, her friends advised her to stay in America. Chen Xiaoxu said the reason she didn't stay was that she couldn't bring herself to wash dishes; she felt her friends were working very hard in the US.

Finally, she spent all her money and returned to her home country.

She said she had saved 30,000 yuan, and a boss persuaded her to buy stocks, spending 20,000 yuan of that. She used the remaining 10,000 yuan for her trip to the United States. By the time she returned to China, those stocks had risen from 1 yuan to 7 yuan.

These stocks were the capital she used to start her company. What followed was her entrepreneurial experience; she didn't preach any grand theories, just talked about the people and events she encountered.

She speaks in a witty and humorous way, and doesn't seem like a pessimistic or negative person.

"The character '仁' (ren) has a person on the left and two horizontal strokes on the right... If we understand the character '仁,' we will know how to be a qualified person. The person on the left represents a life, and the two horizontal strokes on the right represent oneself and others."

“All life is made up of me and him. Sometimes, the top line represents yourself; you are a father, and the bottom line might be your son. Sometimes, you are a husband, and the bottom line is your wife…”

"Compassion means having others in your heart... If you are a doctor and you don't have others in your heart, you might prescribe an expensive drug for a kickback instead of thinking about saving lives first... As people in the media industry, we especially need to have compassion in our hearts and shoulder our social responsibility, because we influence the entire society..."

"If society as a whole is misled by our ideas and develops negative trends or directions, we are actually destroying the world... We cannot have any erroneous ideas that mislead the public, nor can we have any works that do not conform to traditional Chinese morality..."

After the applause, the audience asked questions.

The first person to get the microphone was actually a student from an entrepreneur training program; who knows how he managed to sneak in.

He started off with a barrage of compliments, even saying he'd come all this way because he was a fan, and it got increasingly cheesy as he went on: "I want to ask my Lin Daiyu a question..."

"Hahaha!"

The whole crowd laughed.

Why did you choose to change careers and do something else after becoming an overnight sensation?

Chen Xiaoxu said, "Nothing I did was meticulously planned; it was all a result of chance... I am a rational person, not suited to be an actress... When I was playing Lin Daiyu crying, I was actually thinking about other things; I wasn't really putting my emotions into it..."

Chen Guiliang thought to himself, even the most rational person can't escape the shadow of a role. Otherwise, he wouldn't have given up on treatment.

The next day.

Chen Xiaoxu asked for directions and arrived at the Peking University Science Park Building.

She came to Beijing alone this time, without even a follower.

As she walked toward the elevator, Chen Guiliang, who had been playing on his phone in the lobby, quickly walked over and said, "Good morning, Ms. Chen."

"It's not early, I overslept," Chen Xiaoxu said.

Chen Guiliang said, "There's a canteen here, why don't we go get some breakfast first?"

"I've already eaten," Chen Xiaoxu said.

The morning rush hour was over, and there was no one in the elevator.

As they rode the elevator upstairs, Chen Xiaoxu asked, "How old are you?"

Chen Guiliang said, "I'll be 20 in three months."

"You're quite young. You're already running a company at this age." If she had married and had children early, her son would be as old as Chen Guiliang by now.

They completely treated Chen Guiliang as a junior.

She got out of the elevator and followed Chen Guiliang to the company, only to realize she had been tricked the moment she entered.

ByteDance is bigger than her company!
Where is the story of college students struggling to start a business?

"Clap clap clap!"

The employees stood up and applauded.

The person in front of me is a regular during summer vacation, appearing only less frequently than Sun Wukong or Bai Suzhen.

Chen Guiliang took her on a tour of the company's various departments, explaining in detail, "I started this company with my writing fees when I was a freshman in college. Last year, we received venture capital funding... Our company's products include..."

"Are you a writer?" Chen Xiaoxu asked curiously.

Secretary Hu Yuexia presented the first three volumes of "Those Things of the Ming Dynasty," which Chen Guiliang took and handed to Chen Xiaoxu: "This is my humble work; I humbly request your kind critique, Ms. Chen."

"You wrote this? A friend recommended this book!" Chen Xiaoxu was quite surprised.

This brings them closer; it's not just a conversation between entrepreneurs, but a dialogue between art lovers and writers.

Chen Guiliang led her to the computer and gave a brief introduction to Renren.com, then proceeded to introduce Kaixin.com in detail: "On this website, you can communicate with many strangers. You can upload your photos, and you can also write articles. You can write book reviews, or simply record your feelings..."

Chen Guiliang specifically clicked on the homepages of some cultural figures and tricked Chen Xiaoxu into registering an account.

Chen Xiaoxu indeed became interested, and even sat down in front of the computer to browse the articles by those cultural figures. She read Li Ao's articles carefully.

Chen Guiliang thought to himself: With more and more celebrities and entrepreneurs being invited, the name Kaixin.com is a bit low-class. It would be better to change it to HaiNei.com in advance.

There is a confidant in the sea, and the world is close to each other.

Moreover, you can tell from the name that it's a sister website to Renren.com.

You can't change it all at once. You can change it to "Kaixin.com (Hainei.com)" first, and then change it back to "Hainei.com (Kaixin.com)" after a while. Finally, remove the three characters "Kaixin.com".

"How do I register an account?" Chen Xiaoxu asked.

Chen Guiliang pointed to the computer screen: "Click here... If celebrities want to verify their identity, they must bind their mobile phone number... The personal homepage can be customized, and there's also an electronic home, a feature we launched last year. In the electronic home, you can furnish it with furniture, appliances, and pets, and you can also invite friends over..."

Chen Xiaoxu definitely had a girlish heart. She completely forgot that she had other things to do in the morning and forgot to pay attention to cultural celebrities. She focused all her attention on decorating her electronic home.

"Do I need to top up my account to buy this electronic sofa?"

"I'll activate it for you right away."

"No need, no need, I can recharge myself."

"..."

Chen Guiliang added, "There are other mini-games as well. Here's 'Happy Farm,' where you can plant and steal crops. Here's 'Parking Wars,' with all sorts of luxury cars... and there's 'Happy Shop,' where you can run your own shop..."

After learning all the functions, Chen Xiaoxu exclaimed, "This is completely another world on the internet. You can have another life without leaving home!"

Perhaps, if she became an "internet addict," she would have a little more attachment to this world.

"You can also open a mobile Weibo account, where followers can reach you via SMS..."

After obtaining Chen Xiaoxu's consent, Chen Guiliang took a photo with her using his mobile phone and then posted it on Weibo, saying: "Today I am honored to have invited Teacher Chen Xiaoxu to join Kaixin.com."

Chen Xiaoxu had a lot of fans.

A large number of Chinese entrepreneurs are her fans to varying degrees.

Please visit the website where Chen Xiaoxu has joined Kaixin001. I estimate that many entrepreneurs will come and register accounts themselves!
(End of this chapter)