"The Grand Prize! Employee 97, Employee 261, and Employee 519! Congratulations to our three winners, please co on stage to claim your prize!"
Wang Teng announced loudly, standing on the stage of the Sky Garden’s banquet hall.
"Wow! President Ye, your luck is off the charts today! Huge congratulations!"
"Wenwen, you won the grand prize!"
"Brother Bin, you have to treat us to dinner tomorrow!"
As soon as the grand prize winners were announced, the crowd erupted in cheers.
Chen Yansen glanced at Ye Qiuping. ’Her luck’s pretty good,’ he thought. ’Only three winners out of over 700 employees, and she’s one of them.’
The second person to win the 200,000 yuan grand prize was Zhou Yuwen from Orange Technology’s Custor Service Departnt. She was a freshman majoring in journalism at the School of Communication and Culture, and at this mont, her face was flushed with excitent.
To put it in perspective, four years of tuition and living expenses at Xuyuan combined wouldn’t even top 80,000 yuan.
In other words, the young woman had easily earned four years of tuition and fees tonight, and with the money left over, she could even buy a car worth over a hundred thousand yuan.
The third winner was Wu Jia Bin from the e-comrce departnt’s event operations. He was also ecstatic as he walked onto the stage with Ye Qiuping and Zhou Yuwen.
Wang Teng picked up a bundle of cash—a full twenty stacks—and handed it to Ye Qiuping with a smile.
He then turned, picked up two more bundles of cash, and stuffed them into the hands of Zhou Yuwen and Wu Jia Bin respectively.
Ye Qiuping maintained a perfectly asured smile. To her, 200,000 yuan was a lot of money, but it was still just two and a half months of her salary.
anwhile, Zhou Yuwen and Wu Jia Bin had completely lost control of their expressions. They just grinned foolishly the entire ti, their minds reeling as if they were in a dream.
"After the New Year, get in touch with the complex managent. Rent Building 9 next door as well."
Chen Yansen turned and instructed He Shuang, the administrative departnt manager.
Orange Technology’s headquarters now had over 700 employees. Building 8 was only a small-to-dium-sized office building, and as the number of staff grew, the workstations had beco increasingly cramped.
Building 9 had 1,600 square ters per floor, a ceiling height of 4.4 ters, and a total of 8 floors. It could accommodate more than 2,000 people working simultaneously, which was more than enough to support Orange Technology’s expansion needs for 2012.
"Okay, Boss," He Shuang nodded in response.
Chen Yansen raised his wrist to check the ti, said his goodbyes to Gao Weilin, Yan Peng, Zhang Cong, Zhou Ze, and the others, then left the banquet hall with ng Jie. They walked to the elevators and went straight to the guest rooms on the eighth floor.
Chen Yansen had no intention of returning to Xuyuan tonight. He would sleep until noon tomorrow, just in ti to attend Pinbei’s annual party.
「Elsewhere.」
Song Yuncheng clutched the car keys Chen Yansen had given her, sitting alone on the library steps and staring blankly at the road opposite the school.
Her mind unconsciously drifted back to the first ti she t Chen Yansen. The rain had been coming down in sheets that day, and she had been wearing a raincoat, dragging her suitcase toward the East Gate.
When Chen Yansen drove through that puddle, he splashed muddy water all over her.
’If you weren’t so good-looking, I would have smashed a brick in your face.’
At the thought, Song Yuncheng couldn’t help but let out a laugh.
She knew in her heart that if she hadn’t t Chen Yansen, she would probably still be working part-ti at the library and cafeteria, eating nothing but free seaweed and egg drop soup over rice every day just to save money.
He had pulled her out of that quagmire, taking her from a clueless workplace rookie to the Director of Major Client Investnt Attraction. This was why Song Yuncheng liked to call Chen Yansen "Master."
’Master, you’ve made so capable. Aren’t you afraid I’ll leave you one day?’
Song Yuncheng sighed and muttered under her breath.
A cold gust of wind blew, bringing Song Yuncheng back to her senses. She stood up abruptly and walked toward her dorm.
「At the sa ti.」
No. 28, Xueyuan Road, West Lake District, Hang City. Guanlan Mansion.
Cheng Weixing sat in his chair, holding a test phone and trying out version 1.0 of Fast Taxi. Since there were no drivers or custors yet, he could only run a simulation in a virtual environnt.
"President Cheng, the performance and compatibility tests have all passed. However, there are still so security vulnerabilities. I suggest we use a dual-verification model that requires both II and UUID numbers to prevent black-hats from using virtual machines and fake accounts to exploit new-user subsidies."
Xu Jianming said with a grim face, sitting across from Cheng Weixing.
According to the original developnt schedule, Fast Taxi was supposed to launch on app stores before the Spring Festival. But not long after Cheng Weixing sent the technical docunts to Chen Yansen for review, they were rejected.
"The security is full of holes. Once a black-hat organization targets it, for every 100 yuan Fast Taxi spends on marketing, 50 yuan will be siphoned off."
Chen Yansen had comnted bluntly.
Only then did Cheng Weixing realize that he had focused solely on developing basic functions like the user and driver registration and login systems, location services, hailing, order acceptance, paynt, and reviews. He had completely forgotten the most critical modules, such as user privacy protection and data transmission encryption.
After the reminder from his boss, Cheng Weixing imdiately established an anti-fraud team and a data security center. He required the team mbers to understand all kinds of fraudulent thods even better than the black-hat organizations themselves.
The goal was to ensure Fast Taxi wouldn’t make any amateur mistakes after its launch.
If a user was found modifying their GPS location, posting fake trips, or registering a large number of new accounts, their account would be frozen imdiately and handed over to the Inspection Institute for processing.
"Sharpening the axe doesn’t delay chopping wood. Our previous version really was too rough."
Cheng Weixing gave a self-deprecating laugh, secretly relieved.
"President Cheng, I’ll get back to work then," Xu Jianming said, standing up with a dry laugh.
"It’s almost 10 PM. Tell everyone to go ho. We can continue tomorrow."
Cheng Weixing glanced at the sky outside. The nearby buildings were all dark, and the streets were deserted, so he urged him to wrap things up.
"I understand, President Cheng."
Xu Jianming acknowledged, then left the conference room, carrying his laptop.
To save money, Fast Taxi’s R&D team had originally worked out of a residential apartnt. But after securing funding from Senlian Capital, they had undergone a massive upgrade, moving into a bright, clean office building.
Everyone’s salary and benefits were also adjusted. Not only did they receive a housing subsidy equal to 20% of their monthly salary, al and transportation allowances, and quarterly bonuses, but also overti pay strictly in accordance with labor laws.
As a result, Fast Taxi’s developnt progressed by leaps and bounds. It got to the point where every day, Cheng Weixing had to be the one to urge his employees to go ho.
Otherwise, this bunch of programrs would have definitely worked past midnight.
......
......
The next morning, Chen Yansen slowly opened his eyes.
He had traveled between Hu City, Luzhou, Shencheng City, and Xucheng, attending four annual parties in one go, but he didn’t feel the slightest bit of fatigue.
His superior physique and Spiritual Power negated most negative conditions.
Chen Yansen threw off the covers and walked over to the sofa to sit down.
He opened his laptop and logged into the data backend.
Orange Technology’s two new products had been on the market for six days, with cumulative sales of 3.57 million units. The Orange D1 had sold 2.56 million units and the Orange C2 had sold 1.01 million units, for a total sales revenue of 5.07 billion yuan.
However, during this period, sales of the Orange C1 began to decline sharply, with total sales over the six days at only 273,000 units.
Compared to Xiaomi, izu, and OPPO, this number was still far beyond their reach, but the downward trend was already apparent.
After all, the Orange C1 was only 700 yuan cheaper than the standard edition of the Orange C2. Users with higher standards for performance and cara quality would naturally be more willing to buy the higher-spec Orange C2.
Just then, the phone on the bedside table suddenly started vibrating.
ng Jie was quickly woken by the noise. She poked her head out from under the covers, looking groggy and bleary-eyed.
She picked it up and saw it was a call from ng Zhenguo.
In an instant, all her sleepiness vanished.
She made a shushing gesture at Chen Yansen, then pressed the answer button. "Dad, I’m not even awake yet."
"When are you coming ho? Grandma and Grandpa both miss you."
ng Zhenguo asked with a smile, sitting in his living room.
Before heading to work that morning, he thought of his daughter and couldn’t resist calling her.
"I should be ho tomorrow afternoon. You don’t need to pick up. That’s right, I’m driving back with Wang Zihao and Chen... Chen Yansen."
ng Jie replied.
The mont ng Zhenguo heard the na Chen Yansen, the smile on his face froze, and his heart filled with mixed feelings.
In terms of emotional intelligence, experience, conversation skills, and money-making ability, Chen Yansen was undoubtedly the ideal son-in-law.
But in ng Zhenguo’s eyes, his daughter simply couldn’t handle a man like that.
"Have all your roommates left? It sounds pretty quiet over there," ng Zhenguo asked again.
"Yeah, Xuyuan started its break two weeks ago. That guy, Chen Yansen, forces to prepare profit and loss statents and cash flow statents every day. If it weren’t for the company’s annual party yesterday, I would have had to work overti."
ng Jie lied without batting an eye, then continued to complain about how Chen Yansen exploited her.
The finance departnt had already prepared these reports, but Chen Yansen insisted she do them all over again, under the noble-sounding excuse of developing her independent financial analysis skills.
"Well, that kid is pretty cruel then. Have him co over during the New Year, and I’ll teach him a lesson for you."
ng Zhenguo said, deliberately putting on a stern face.
From his daughter’s brief complaints, he could tell that ng Jie was genuinely learning a lot at Orange Technology.
"Dad, I was just kidding. Chen Yansen is actually really good to ."
Hearing the serious tone in her father’s voice, ng Jie thought she might have overacted and hurriedly tried to explain.
ng Zhenguo gave a bitter smile and shook his head in resignation. ’At this rate,’ he thought, ’if Chen Yansen sold her, she’d probably still be happily helping him count the money.’
He thought for a mont, then added worriedly, "You need to be careful. That kid isn’t lacking in money or looks right now. You have to keep a close eye on him, or he’ll get snatched away by so other girl. Dad can’t bear to see you heartbroken."
"Dad, you don’t get it. He’s different from other guys." ng Jie paid no attention to her father’s words, instead jumping to Chen Yansen’s defense.
ng Zhenguo clutched his chest, taking a mont to recover. Finally, he managed, "It’s fine for you two to be dating. Your mother and I don’t object. But so things shouldn’t be rushed, understand?"
ng Jie’s cheeks turned bright red. She looked up and t Chen Yansen’s mischievous grin. She hurriedly said, "I know, I know! I’m hanging up now, I’m going to be late for work."
With that, before ng Zhenguo could react, ng Jie hung up the phone.
"Tsk, tsk. I never knew Squad Leader ng was such a good liar."
Chen Yansen teased with a smile.
"And whose fault is that?!" ng Jie shot him a look, then leaped into his arms. "So," she asked softly, her arms around his neck, "if you t a beautiful girl, would you let her lead you astray?"
"Of course not."
Chen Yansen said in a firm tone as he carried her toward the bathtub.
’Usually,’ he added inwardly, ’I’m the one who leads the beautiful girls astray... just like you.’
「At this mont.」
Far away in Yanjing, Xiaomi Headquarters was also busy preparing for its annual party.
After the Xiaomi Mobile Phone was listed on Pinbei, Jingdong, Taobao, and the Sunning e-comrce platform, they pushed through all channels, and total sales finally reached two million units.
Lei Yijun was in a great mood. Sitting in his office looking at the business reports, he felt a surge of confidence and ambition.
KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK—!
There was a knock at the door.
"Co in!" Lei Yijun’s smile vanished as he called out.
Li Wanqiang pushed the door open and walked in. He began his report before he even sat down. "President Lei, I just received news. 360 and Haier are preparing to jointly release a smartphone, targeting Xiaomi and the Orange Mobile Phone."
"Zhou Hongyi is making phones now?"
Lei Yijun was montarily stunned. Then he processed it and muttered to himself, "’Didn’t he say he wouldn’t make phones?’"
"Strictly speaking, the phone is Haier’s product. 360 is just responsible for promotion and sales,"
Li Wanqiang continued.
This kind of arrangent was common among the three major telecom operators, but it was a first for an internet company.
To put it bluntly, it was a custom-branded phone!
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