Since we are both reborn, of course I would choose the rich woman!

Chapter 334 Lin Yongzhen, Don't You Recognize Me? (6k Subscription Request)

As Lü Yao's various businesses proceeded smoothly, time quietly slipped by.

With the support of online games and Jian Xiaojie and Monia's overseas businesses, even though Lü Yao's coffers had almost burst before, he managed to weather the storm thanks to the return of credit and funds during this period of operation.

Rong Nianqing's family was in the financial industry, so she also created a financial risk monitoring model for the people around her. After Lü Yao's financial situation turned out of danger, Rong Nianqing specially invited Lü Yao, Jian Xiaojie, Wang Shu and others to have a meal together.

Even on the MCN side, the internet career path that Lü Yao planned for Zhou Bella was steadily improving, allowing Zhou Bella's status in the company to rise continuously.

Even the atmosphere within the MCN company has been changing recently, especially after Lü Yao eliminated Yao Xinjie, Liu Huihui, and other hidden pests within the company. The sinister atmosphere within the MCN company has immediately lessened considerably, and even the gossip has decreased significantly.

In fact, Lü Yao doesn't dislike gossip at all; in fact, he himself is quite enthusiastic about eating melons or gossiping about others behind their backs with those around him. Among these people are, but not limited to, Wang Shu, Jian Xiaojie, Gan Xiaoxi, and even Rong Nianqing...

Yao Qiguang, Feng Ji, Yang Qi, and Zhang Jingwen were also unable to escape Lü Yao's cricket chirping.

On one occasion, after chatting with Lü Yao and talking about other people... or rather, mainly listening to Lü Yao talk about other people, Feng Ji even posted a message on his WeChat Moments: "Being careful with words and actions should be a lifelong practice."

After seeing this post on WeChat Moments, Lü Yao knew that Feng Ji was referring to him, but Lü Yao didn't care at all. He believed that if you care too much about other people's feelings, you will suffer your own feelings. This was a lesson Lü Yao had only learned many years after graduating from school while studying abroad.

Then Lü Yao gave Feng Ji a thumbs up.

This put Feng Ji in a bit of a bind, caught between a rock and a hard place. "Hey boss! Why did you give me a like? Just because I liked it doesn't mean you'll listen to me! You're making things really difficult for me."

Then Feng Ji saw that in his overlapping work and social circles with Lü Yao, one familiar name after another started liking his posts.

Yao Qiguang liked your post on WeChat Moments.

Zhang Jingwen liked your post on WeChat Moments.

Chen Li liked your post on WeChat Moments.
Yang Qi even privately messaged Feng Ji: "Brother, you're really something, so outspoken."

Feng Ji was completely dumbfounded. "Damn, wasn't I tactful enough?"

He posed a profound question to Yang Qi, but Yang Qi didn't want to pay attention to Feng Ji; silence was the only word on their WeChat messages that night.

of course.

Lu Yao didn't do anything to Feng Ji. Although Feng Ji usually looks quite refined and quiet with his glasses, he's actually a goofball. Back when he was still in the Dou Zhan Shen project team, Feng Ji started making abstract short videos because he was being pressured to update.

So although this guy is very talented, he has a bit of a goofy side to him.

Recently, as Guang'an's "Honor of Kings" has gradually stabilized and the technical and planning teams have become more and more integrated, Feng Ji and Yang Qi have also been eager to get started. However, Lu Yao did not see any signs of this and instead gave them his full support, allowing them to freely pursue their own ideas for creating a single-player game.

in contrast.

Whenever Feng Ji and Yang Qi expressed similar ideas, Lü Yao would maintain a neutral stance and then start putting pressure on them, asking whether what they wanted to do had a market and how difficult it would be to achieve. Although Guang'an Company could invest in them, the company's investments were based on a return on investment.

Of course, the company can afford to lose money, but are you going to invest your own money in what you want to do? Can you afford to lose? Are you prepared to risk everything you have to see it through?

Faced with Lü Yao's repeated soul-searching, Feng Ji would always appear very worried.

In contrast, Yang Qi was much more taciturn, and each time Lü Yao tortured him, Yang Qi became even more silent. But Lü Yao could sense that a flame was burning in Yang Qi's heart, a flame that refused to admit defeat and wanted to be challenged.

The flames were like a slow, surging mass beneath the earth's crust, constantly accumulating, as if they were an underwater volcano about to erupt at any moment.

Lü Yao deliberately tortured them like this.

Because he discovered that Feng Ji and Yang Qi were a combination of two people: one was far-sighted and good at preparation, and the other, although taciturn, was actually a person who would stick to his decision once he made it up.

Under each of Lü Yao's tortures, Feng Ji's restless thoughts would always subside, but Yang Qi would remain silent, ponder, and continuously accumulate strength.

When they finally couldn't bear Lü Yao's torture any longer, they were sure to unleash amazing creativity.

That's their characteristic.

In fact, Lü Yao was also very afraid, fearing that Feng Ji and Yang Qi would not be able to make "Black Myth". At the same time, Lü Yao also hoped that "Black Myth" could appear on players' computers in a more complete form.

When Lü Yao was studying abroad, Black Myth had just been released, and game streamers across the internet were all playing it. To be fair, the game's storyline and combat system were indeed excellent, but the last two chapters were really anticlimactic and completely lacked substance.

Although DLC was promised later, players were still dissatisfied when they encountered unfinished, almost rudimentary chapters.

Even if it means Monkey King isn't in such a rush to collect equipment.

this time.

With more funding, more technical personnel, and even more funding, hopefully Feng Ji and his team can create even more substantial storylines.

……

August passed quietly, and even September flew by very quickly.

Amid the attention and anticipation of Lü Yao and countless Apple fans, Apple's new product launch event finally began in the early hours of September 16th, a night destined to be sleepless for many.

The scalpers in Shenzhen's Huaqiangbei, the digital bloggers in the internet circle, and the men and women from various circles who are looking to make money are all poised to strike.

The scalping and resale industries are truly top-notch inventions in the digital industry. When Apple was all the rage, people were scrambling to buy Apple products everywhere, and the rare colors and sweet spot configurations were priced at insane premiums.

When Lu Yao initially wanted to switch to 14pm, she held off because there was no stock and the wait would be long. However, a girl she knew insisted on paying an extra 4000 to buy the Apple HeartScheme...

A machine that costs around 10,000 yuan can be resold by scalpers for an extra 4,000 yuan in an instant, with the extra amount being pure profit.

and so.

People who scalped digital products during this period should be making a lot of money. In fact, backpacking has become a mainstream profession in Huaqiangbei.

Lu Yao isn't really obsessed with digital products. He wouldn't change his phone unless it was really lagging. So the generation gap between each of his main phones is quite large, unlike some people who change their phones every time Apple releases a new one.

But this time, Lü Yao paid more attention to Apple's launch event than anyone else.

However, after this year's tech industry gala ended, Lü Yao felt the same way he did when he was studying abroad: it was unremarkable and uninteresting.

Aside from being larger and thicker, and having some hardware and camera upgrades, the seventh-generation iPhone is really not much different from its predecessor.

Even before 2020, when remote farming technology was most advanced abroad, and even with so many devout followers in the apple ecosystem, some voices still dared to speak the truth and criticize apples online.

"What's the difference between this mediocre product and the previous generation?"

"Indeed, Steve Jobs was the soul of Apple. After he passed away, Apple's phones really have become worse and worse."

"Samsung already has curved screens, and domestic manufacturers are also trying out full-screen displays, but what is Apple doing? It's still resting on its laurels!!"

However, these criticisms are not the mainstream at present. With the praise of countless digital bloggers, longer battery life, better photo effects, and even the ancestral "smoother operation experience" are still the powerful features they tirelessly talk about.

As for the latest technologies emerging in the tech world, Apple fans say that those technologies are immature and that products using them feel cheap and not high-end at all, as if the word "high-end" was created specifically for Apple.

Some Apple fans even said that those technologies were not mature, so it's not that Apple doesn't have those technologies, but that they don't want to use them and don't want to sell users garbage products made up of immature technologies and rip them off.

Looking at the various comments online after Apple's new product launch event, he couldn't help but turn off his computer and start rubbing his temples.

Information is toxic, especially as more and more users connect to the internet, the "stupidity resonance effect" becomes more and more obvious, and the high-speed internet should have been a leap forward for human civilization as a whole.

But now, even ten years from now, the biggest role of the internet will still be advertising, whether for money or fame.

On this night, dubbed the "Spring Festival Gala of the Tech World," Lü Yao witnessed the chaotic dance of humanity on the information level: those who touted, those who smeared, those who incited conflict, and those who mindlessly begged for gifts... This was hardly a "Spring Festival Gala of the Tech World."

This is clearly a "conference of demons in the tech world".

However, seeing that the seventh-generation Apple phone was almost no different from its predecessors, Lü Yao was relieved. Although he, this reborn butterfly, had changed many things and even started to enter the mobile phone industry, he had not stirred up a big enough storm. At least, tech giants like Apple were not affected by Lü Yao.

Or rather, someone like Lü Yao, a nobody, didn't even qualify to be considered. Even knowing that Apple would decline in the future, Apple was still invincible at this moment. And this feeling of constantly strategizing behind the tides and trends of the times was quite enjoyable. This feeling of fighting the big boss from a god's-eye view reminded Lü Yao of a question that had once appeared online:
"Why didn't the Soul Emperor kill Xiao Yan when Xiao Yan was still weak?"

Thinking about this now, Lü Yao almost burst out laughing. The Human Soul Heavenly Emperor had no idea who Xiao Yan was in the first place, just like Apple doesn't know about Lü Yao and Geek Phone now.

2016 was an absolute "phone manufacturing boom," much like the later "car manufacturing boom." Any company with a bit of ideas, strength, and spare cash would make phones, such as Gree phones, BBK phones, Little Pepper phones, Nietzsche phones, and so on.

In the future, we will also see the emergence of strange brands such as WM Motor, Zotye, and Jinyu Electric Vehicles. Some of these brands are indeed trying to gain a foothold in the new era, but others are clearly just dabbling in it.

Especially Gree...

Back then, the Gree phone she made could deliver a critical hit upon startup, and to this day, Lü Yao still doesn't know who is actually buying Gree phones. After making a fool of herself earlier, Gree will now announce its entry into the car manufacturing industry in a high-profile manner... As for the outcome, Xiaomi has the most say.

Therefore, a joke later appeared online: "It's hard to say when Gree cars will be released or even if they will be released at all, but Xiaomi is really going to gain a foothold in the air conditioning market."

of course.

Jokes are jokes.

Gree's decision to enter the mobile phone market or later the car manufacturing industry is not something one person can decide, but it's very easy for them to mess things up. The intricacies involved are very complex, and even Gree's subsequent lackluster performance in various areas wasn't because Gree was incompetent.

Rather, it's because Gree Electric's largest shareholder has become Hillhouse Capital.

Therefore, in such a chaotic era, one bizarre mobile phone brand after another continues to emerge in the market. Some are products of competition, some are schemes, and some are simply impulsive decisions made without thinking.

In such an era of emerging talents, how could Apple possibly notice Lu Yao, or this newly emerged "junior" Geek Phone? Lu Yao anticipated that even after its release, Geek Phone's sales wouldn't be too explosive, and he didn't even make many plans for capacity expansion.

He is waiting.

Following Apple's iPhone launch event, Lu Yao's new phone launch event is also in full swing. Unlike Lu Yao's laid-back and indifferent attitude, this phone launch event has captured the attention of many people.

Lei Jun, CEO of Xiaomi Group, Liang Yusheng, CEO of ByteDance, Zhang Xiaonan, the current head of Douyin, and even Rong Nianqing are all paying close attention to this incident. Lü Yao doesn't understand why they are so nervous.

……

A week before the launch of Geek Phone's first-generation phone, everything was ready, a sudden gust of wind swept into Shangnan's business community.

Lu Yao generally doesn't care much about the old president of the Shangnan Chamber of Commerce stepping down and the new president taking the stage. After all, he is only an honorary president of the Shangnan Chamber of Commerce, and there are probably twenty or thirty such "presidents" in honorary and prestigious positions.

The outgoing president also serves as the honorary president of the Shangnan Chamber of Commerce.

Although the president has a high reputation and considerable influence within the Shangnan Chamber of Commerce, the Shangnan Chamber of Commerce is somewhat unique. The Shangnan Chamber of Commerce Executive Management Committee is the one that truly gets things done and has the most power. The general manager of the Executive Management Committee is the real decision-maker of the Shangnan Chamber of Commerce.

Generally speaking, the president of the Shangnan Chamber of Commerce and the president of the executive management committee of the Shangnan Chamber of Commerce are both the same person, as was the case with the previous president.

However, this time, the positions of president of the Shangnan Chamber of Commerce and president of the executive management committee, which should have been held by one person, were split into two and given to two different people.

This is a very interesting signal.

But these matters actually have nothing to do with Lü Yao. All the affairs of the Shangnan Chamber of Commerce are handled by Lü Yao's current secretary, Lin Yongzhen, who used to be mysterious and powerful in Shangnan.

So when the email from the Shangnan Chamber of Commerce was sent to Lü Yao's company, Lin Yongzhen, as usual, sent her congratulations and gifts. That was how things should have been handled, and that should have ended there. Everyone could have exchanged pleasantries and agreed to integrate resources whenever needed in the future.

But just two days after Lin Yongzhen finished dealing with the matter, two people came to the foot of Lu Yao's company building.

He was a young man wearing a sharp gray suit and sporting a trendy yet presentable hairstyle. Behind him was someone who looked like a secretary.

When the young man arrived, he didn't go to the front desk. Instead, his secretary went to the front desk, introduced herself, and said, "Hello, I am the secretary of the director of the Membership Affairs Office of the Shangnan Chamber of Commerce. Our director would like to meet with your company's boss."

The receptionist was professionally trained. Hearing the other party mention such a prestigious name, she felt a chill run down her spine, but immediately put on a sweet and charming smile and said, "Hello, do you have an appointment?"

The secretary frowned slightly: "No, but our director has a very important matter to discuss with your boss."

The receptionist nodded: "Okay, please wait a moment, this needs to be done..."

Before the receptionist could finish speaking, the young man who had been waiting impatiently went over and said, "What's going on? Why are you dawdling?"

The director's secretary immediately said respectfully, "We don't have an appointment with General Manager Lü, so you may have to wait a little while."

The young man immediately laughed: "Wow, what a big shot! Is Mr. Lü so busy? I even came to his door in person, and he hasn't heard a word yet? Interesting."

As he spoke, the young man's voice grew louder and more impatient.

The receptionist immediately said, "Sir, you can rest in our waiting area for a while, and I will contact our General Manager Lü for you right away."

But the young man protested: "Why should I wait for your General Manager Lü? Isn't my time valuable?!"

As he spoke, the young man impatiently slammed his hand on the front desk, making a loud thud.

The receptionist immediately realized that this wasn't a business meeting, but rather a trip to cause trouble. So, while keeping a smile on her face, she pressed the red emergency button under the desk. This was a button that Lin Yongzhen had specially set up for Lü Yao's assistant team after she became Lü Yao's secretary.

Once this button is pressed, all of Lü Yao's assistants will receive an emergency notification, and the highest-ranking member of the assistant team within the company will step in to resolve the matter.

It's quite a coincidence that Lin Yongzhen is at the company today.

So when the emergency alert light came on, Lin Yongzhen immediately sent a message to Lü Yao's secretary group saying, "I'll handle it."

The group Lin Yongzhen sends messages to is specifically for handling emergencies and crisis public relations. However, due to Lü Yao's outstanding personal marketing skills and the fact that no one in Shangnan dares to mess with Lü Yao after he gained power, this group is usually very quiet.

The group was so quiet that you could easily find the system notification when it was created online.

Even the button that Lin Yongzhen advocated for was activated for the first time in so long.

So when Lin Yongzhen said she would handle the matter, the chat box in the group was immediately pushed to the top of the list, which prompted Lü Yao to send a message in the group saying, "What? You'll handle it? I'm back at the company."

Lin Yongzhen immediately sent a message in the group: "President Lü, please step aside for a moment. There may be a problem with the company. I will report back to you after I have confirmed the situation."

Lu Yao, who had already arrived at the company entrance, laughed. "We've known each other for so long, why act like strangers?"

However, this was a work group, and Lü Yao understood.

As he put away his phone and was about to turn and leave the company building, he suddenly heard a hurried shout from the company receptionist: "President Lü? President Lü!"

Lu Yao turned around and saw a person push open the door of the company's lobby and come over quickly. When the person saw Lu Yao, he looked like he had caught something fun and said with a smile, "Mr. Lu, it's a pleasure to meet you."

Lu Yao, who was already planning to leave, felt it would be disrespectful to run away after being caught in the act, so he turned around and greeted the other person: "Hello, hello, who are you?"

Before the other party could introduce himself, Lin Yongzhen, slightly out of breath, rushed out of the company and arrived at the front desk. Through the glass window of the lobby, Lin Yongzhen saw that Lü Yao was already in contact with someone. Lin Yongzhen quickly looked at the receptionist, and from the receptionist's anxious nodding expression, Lin Yongzhen got the answer.

Lin Yongzhen quickly pushed open the glass door of the company lobby and said gently and politely from afar, "President Lü, President Rong just called and said he has something very important to discuss with you."

She said this to get Lü Yao away, then shield him from the trouble and give him time to think.

The young man, annoyed by the interruption during his self-introduction, paused for a moment when he turned to see Lin Yongzhen, then raised an eyebrow, revealing a surprised expression.

So the young man suppressed his anger and said with a playful smile, "Mr. Lü, I am Li Huisheng, the newly appointed director of the Membership Affairs Department of the Shangnan Chamber of Commerce. I am here today to discuss something very important with you."

Lin Yongzhen frowned slightly upon hearing the name.

She vaguely recognized the name, but couldn't quite place it. However, judging from the receptionist pressing the emergency response button, the other party seemed hostile, so she opened her mouth to interrupt their conversation: "Mr. Lü..."

Before Lin Yongzhen could finish speaking, Li Huisheng suddenly turned to look at her and said, "Miss Lin, don't you recognize me?"

talking.

Li Huisheng's gaze lingered on Lin Yongzhen as he swept her from top to bottom.

(End of this chapter)