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

Chapter 377 Lü Rong's Love (6k views, please subscribe)

After Rong Nianqing made a resounding guarantee, she began to announce a series of measures and assured that the progress of these measures and related financials would be available in Huasheng Holdings' annual financial reports.

These measures include not only domestic mobile phone accessory manufacturers that Huasheng Holdings independently invests in and develops, but also domestic accessory manufacturers that are doing well in their respective fields.

Huasheng Life will engage in in-depth cooperation with manufacturers of mobile phone screen panels, motherboards, camera modules, batteries, and more.

Based on the PPT slides shown by Rong Nianqing, the audience felt that this was not a press conference for Guang'an, but rather a press conference held by Guang'an to support its peers. Some savvy investors had even begun to buy large amounts of these companies' stocks or seek investment plans.

The latest research results of these domestic manufacturers can also be found in Huasheng Holdings' annual company report.

After most of the professional investment and development content was explained, the audience realized that Rong Nianqing's announced plan was a long-term plan with an annual investment of over 200 billion yuan and a time span of five years.

The amount of money and resources required for this project far exceeds what ordinary people can imagine, so most ordinary people are indifferent, only thinking that Rong Nianqing is so cool! So magnanimous! Love him!
Meanwhile, the invited business representatives in the audience all looked thoughtful.

An annual investment of over 200 billion yuan, even if spread across several industries, is still a considerable sum.

Some people were filled with unease, while others were wondering if they could cooperate.

Others are wondering if they can profit from this grand plan.

This kind of thing is not uncommon in business circles around the world. After all, who wouldn't be tempted by such a large pool of funds? And how could the controller possibly oversee everything in such a grand investment and development plan?
Rong Nianqing knew, of course, that different companies and people in the market would have different ideas after the investment and development plan was announced.

But Rong Nianqing didn't care.

This whole thing wasn't meant for domestic companies.

After introducing Huasheng Holdings' main investment and development directions for the next few years, Rong Nianqing announced the end of the press conference.

As the live broadcast ended, Rong Nianqing stepped down from the stage and walked straight toward Lü Yao. As for the company representatives who wanted to talk to Rong Nianqing, they were all turned away by Rong Nianqing's secretary and assistant.

Approaching Lü Yao, Rong Nianqing asked with a smile, "How are you feeling?"

Lu Yao gave a thumbs up: "Just like I said before, very steady, great job."

Rong Nianqing couldn't help but raise her eyebrows and let out a long sigh: "You know what, it was the first time I'd stood on stage for so long, and the pressure was quite immense. Towards the end, I almost couldn't hold back anymore."

Lü Yao laughed and said, "You'll get used to it after going on stage a few more times."

Of course, this was just something Lü Yao said to comfort people. In reality, speaking on camera and on stage is a great test of a speaker's psychological qualities. As for being able to draw the audience into one's own emotions and atmosphere, and lead the audience's emotions and thoughts to follow one's expression, that is an extremely difficult thing.

Lei Jun has cultivated several potential successors, but the results have been less than satisfactory.

After finishing his sentence, Lü Yao looked towards the side stage and saw a large crowd gathered there. He said, "Now that Huasheng Holdings has finalized its investment and development direction for the next few years, many people want to get a piece of the pie. Don't you want to go and take a look?"

Rong Nianqing chuckled, "What are you looking at? Didn't you already list all the manufacturers you need to cooperate with?"

In his development plan to promote the localization of high-performance mobile phones, Lü Yao listed chip manufacturers, chip design companies, camera manufacturers, and screen manufacturers.

Among these, screens and chips are areas that Lü Yao and Rong Nianqing have already begun investing in.

The domestically produced HiSilicon chips have reached an internationally leading level in the field of chip design. These companies are the key targets that Huasheng Holdings needs to contact in its investment and development plan. However, the main purpose of Lü Yao and Rong Nianqing is actually to build a brand-new mobile software ecosystem.

This is the most important plan hidden beneath this flamboyant marketing.

Therefore, Rong Nianqing had no intention of contacting those companies outside. She put on her coat and said, "It's rare that I've ended the press conference so successfully. Why don't we find a place to have a few drinks to celebrate?"

Lü Yao also picked up the clothes: "Okay."

The two chatted and laughed as they left the press conference side by side.

……

After having a drink with Rong Nianqing, Lü Yao returned to the villa to rest.

To prepare for today's press conference, Lü Yao had been on edge for far too long. Unlike Alibaba's CEO, who makes grand pronouncements outside while countless employees work tirelessly behind the scenes to make things happen, Lü Yao's business practices are quite different.

Many of Alibaba's internal problems, especially the issue of product recommendation weighting on the website, stem from this. However, since Taobao is essentially just a large "internet marketplace," its internal chaos goes unnoticed.

No matter how successful an "internet marketplace platform" becomes, its influence is limited. That's why Mr. Yun has been continuously expanding his position in the financial sector over the years.

This foreshadowed his later decline.

Lü Yao is different.

The industries he is involved in are all related to the fate of Dongguo, which is the real "foundation" that allows him to put Lü Yao on the dinner table.

Before going to bed, Lü Yao browsed the trending news online for a while.

Undoubtedly, the press conference held by Lü Yao topped the trending lists on major media platforms, and there were also many clips of Rong Nianqing's appearance on Douyin. Rong Nianqing's image began to become popular on the Internet.

But beyond this welcome buzz, other forms of attention are also trying to piggyback on Rong Nianqing and Lü Yao's meticulously crafted press conference—

That is, during the time when Lü Yao and Rong Nianqing were having a drink and celebrating, a considerable number of novels featuring strong female protagonists began to appear on the Internet.

This is how successful women should be!

Women can also be a man's support!

To become a successful woman, you must learn how to manage men!

In 2016, the prevailing trend was that everyone was using positive examples to guide public opinion, unlike later when Xiao Wunv only needed to throw out a "outrageous theory" to suppress the crowd.

Lu Yao disliked this group of female protagonists who were trying to ride the coattails of a trending topic, but this time their attempts were not particularly problematic. Fortunately, their attempts to gain attention did not have much impact on the development of the event, so Lu Yao let them be.

Lu Yao put down his phone and went to rest.

After Lü Yao fell asleep, the bustling internet never rested; or rather, for many niche circles, the truly exciting life had only just begun.

There is such a small circle on the internet.

People in this circle really like to create couples online, breaking up original couples in TV dramas, pairing up popular characters or those with high-profile interactions, or even pairing up celebrities in the entertainment industry. In this circle, the most orthodox pairings are male-female couples.

However, there are some heretical practitioners who like to form male-male couples, female-female couples, and even non-human couples.

In 2017, more and more user-friendly video editing software emerged, or some accomplished young people began to participate in online activities in their own way.

These tech-savvy artists are very good at using "montage" editing to create pairings, such as the famous Shield Soldier and Winter Soldier pairing from Marvel Studios, the Shield Soldier and Iron Man pairing, and even the Red Skull and Shield Soldier pairing. Oh, strictly speaking, Shield Soldier and Red Skull are the real, officially recognized pairing.

But the most bizarre thing is mixing and matching characters from different movies and TV shows.

Therefore, there is a saying that often circulates on the Internet: "Times have changed, and people will cut whatever they like themselves."

This is a popular way of spreading culture during this period, but it is still a niche culture, with the largest audience being niche cultural circles like Bilibili.

Although Bilibili is a niche community of anime and manga culture, it is undeniable that there are many talented bloggers in this community. After these bloggers joined Douyin, they were able to build their accounts and gain followers much faster than the average person.

In the CP (couple) mashup community on Bilibili, there is a master artist named "Mio".

This person has extremely strong video editing skills. They make excellent beat-synced videos and mashup videos. The famous "Shield and Winter's Love" video on Bilibili was made by this master.

And this Mio is a complete homebody.

Because of her narrow social circle, she really enjoys fulfilling her romantic fantasies by forming couples. It might also be because she's such a homebody that her interests have become a bit skewed.

Normal romantic fantasies no longer satisfy her, so the works she edits are either sadomasochistic like "The Shield and the Winter Soldier" or bizarre sadomasochistic like "Snape and Voldemort".

But on the fifth day of the Lunar New Year!

Mio discovered a whole new world!

Normal, human, traditional! Romantic fantasy!

Mio, a homebody, is naturally a heavy mobile game enthusiast, so she also owns a geek phone. The geek phone has a great design and a good user experience. Although it is an Android system, the system's permission settings are designed to be very user-friendly.

Overall, the user experience of this phone is very good.

Because of his excellent sense of geeky phones and his own experience as a user of Guang'an Games, Mio paid close attention to Guang'an's activities and naturally watched the entire live stream.

During this live stream, Mio didn't care about Huasheng Holdings' investment and development plans, nor did she care about the ecosystem of domestic mobile phones. She was just bored and was doing something while looking for videos to use as background noise.

But when she glanced over casually, she saw Lü Yao inviting Rong Nianqing onto the stage, saw Lü Yao wearing a white shirt and black suit pants, his sleeves rolled up, looking up at Rong Nianqing under the spotlight from below the stage, and saw the two chatting and laughing as they walked side by side out of the studio...

That moment!

Mrs. Mio felt her brain was on fire, and images of countless strong men and women joining forces to overcome difficulties kept flashing through her mind.

"Holy crap!! This is so good to cough on!"

For artists, when inspiration strikes, nothing can stop their creative process. So, Mrs. Mio put aside her work and immediately began searching the internet for information about Lü Yao and Rong Nianqing. What she found shocked her for an entire day!

The story of Lü Yao's rise from humble beginnings to success, his assistance to Rong Nianqing in guiding her business, their joint efforts in overcoming the difficulties encountered in the early days of Huasheng Life, and even the blurry footage of Lü Yao leaving Shangnan by helicopter...

One romantic drama after another began to flash wildly through Mrs. Mio's mind!
Mrs. Mio felt her brain was numb, and in this completely numb state, she began editing the video almost frantically.

Three hours later, at 1:30 a.m., Mio was mesmerized by the edited version of "The Love of Lü Rong".

wonderful!
That’s wonderful!

Mrs. Mio was almost moved to tears as she admired her masterpiece.

This piece, "The Love of Lü and Rong," which she created out of inspiration, uses montage editing techniques to portray Lü Yao and Rong Nianqing as a couple with somewhat tragic fates. Lü Yao, who is talented but comes from a poor background, gradually rises to prominence with the help of Rong Nianqing.

With Rong Nianqing's help, Lu Yao, a talented man from a poor family, and Rong Nianqing, a wealthy heiress, gradually develop feelings for each other, and thus begin to share a life together.

But such a relationship was ultimately not allowed by the wealthy heiress's family. To the accompaniment of mournful background music, Lu Yao suddenly knelt down in the darkness. As the gradually exposed and blurred images came into view, the smile on Lu Yao's face, which had originally been tinged with joy, turned into one that was extremely desolate.

The video montage ends with the content of tonight's press conference.

The two, dressed equally smartly, were on stage and off stage, one looking at the camera and the other looking at her. In the director's shot, Mio precisely found the best camera angle for the video screenshot. With several flashbacks, the sense of fate of unrequited love almost burst out of the screen!

In the dimly lit room, Mrs. Mio couldn't help but applaud herself, and then uploaded the video.
After a passionate creative process, Mrs. Mio was exhausted, so she went to sleep contentedly. As for commissioning articles?
drag!
Although the creator of "The Love of Lü Rong" is asleep, the internet will never be asleep.

Countless users of Bilibili, especially those with nothing to do at the end of the year, were having trouble sleeping late at night. They were idly refreshing the site's content when they discovered that the video editing master Mio, whom they followed, had released a new video.

When they clicked in, they discovered that the montage wasn't from a movie or TV show, but rather featured real people.

Lü Yao is already quite well-known online, but Rong Nianqing's fame hasn't really taken off yet, so everyone wants to see what's going on.

This sight was quite remarkable; many people with romantic dreams were immediately captivated by Mrs. Mio's skills.

nice!
powerful!
awful!
Who understands this feeling!
Countless netizens began leaving comments under the video, forwarding and rebroadcasting Mrs. Mio's video, and even recording it for secondary creation, reposting it to Weibo, Douyin, WeChat Moments, official accounts and even Xiaohongshu and other online media platforms.

In the quiet night, these netizens in the CP (couple pairing) circle are like dandelions blown by the wind, sending dandelion seeds to every corner of the internet.

then.

The dandelion seeds began to sprout, grow, and then continue to spread.

……

The next day, early in the morning.

Lu Yao woke up in his room in the villa. After the press conference, most things had come to an end, so Lu Yao was able to sleep in for once today.

Lu Yao was still a little dazed after waking up in bed.

It was only the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, but Lü Yao already felt very much like a teacher.

After sitting alone on the bed for a while, Lü Yao went downstairs in his pajamas as if he had lost his soul and made himself a cup of coffee at the water bar in the lobby.

The weather in Shangnan was lovely today. Lü Yao carried a freshly made coffee to the French windows of the villa, leisurely reclined in a lounge chair, and basked in the warm, gentle winter sun of Shangnan. He took out his phone, opened it, and leisurely scrolled through his screen while savoring his coffee.

Come!
Let's see what kind of fun things are happening on the internet today!

Ok?
"The Love of Lü Rong"?
What the hell?

Out of curiosity, Lü Yao clicked on the video, but by the time he realized what was going on inside, it was too late!
"puff!"

Lu Yao spat out all the coffee in his mouth, but he didn't care about the carpet and clothes that were stained. He suddenly stood up, his facial muscles contorted: "Who the hell did this?!"

"This is practically trying to kill me!!"

……

At the same time, Rong Nianqing was at home scrolling through her phone, and on the screen was "The Love of Lü Rong," which Mrs. Mio had passionately worked on the previous night.

Gan Xiaoxi was also at home at the same time.

Watching Rong Nianqing reread "The Love of Lü Rong" over and over again, Gan Xiaoxi narrowed her eyes and grinned mischievously: "Oh dear, could it be that someone has really fallen for that scumbag?"

Rong Nianqing was not affected by Gan Xiaoxi's words. She continued to scroll through videos as she pleased and said calmly, "I just think this video is quite interesting. It's amazing that the creator was able to cut and splice together so many unrelated scenes and videos into a story that makes people think a lot. This creator is very talented."

Gan Xiaoxi sneered, "You better be right! Who was it that told me not to get involved with that sugarcane guy? If you do, I'll really look down on you."

Rong Nianqing smiled helplessly and said, "I've already made myself very clear."

Gan Xiaoxi said nonchalantly, "That's what you say, but those who see this video may not think that way, especially when it comes to things related to gossip. The more you explain, the worse it gets."

As she spoke, Gan Xiaoxi leaned close to Rong Nianqing's face and said with a mischievous smile, "What if some of your elders feel that such rumors are damaging to your reputation, or that Lü Yao is in the way... guess what will happen?"

Rong Nianqing said confidently, "They no longer have the right to question me like this."

Gan Xiaoxi smiled and said, "What if it's Aunt Meng?"

"To put it another way, what if Aunt Meng uses this incident to pressure you into getting engaged sooner?"

This time, Rong Nianqing frowned.

Just as Rong Nianqing was frowning in thought, Lü Yao called. Gan Xiaoxi couldn't help but smile mischievously when she saw that it was Lü Yao calling. Leaving Rong Nianqing alone, she went to eat some snacks by herself.

Rong Nianqing answered the phone and said bluntly, "It seems you've also noticed the video online."

Lu Yao's voice sounded anxious on the phone: "President Rong, I swear to God, I absolutely did not instruct anyone to do this! I traced it back, and this video was originally uploaded by a user named Mio on Bilibili. She probably thought it was funny and edited it."

As he spoke, Lü Yao's voice on the phone became indignant: "Nonsense! Nonsense! This user is simply absurd! Don't worry, President Rong, I will definitely find a way to suppress this trend."

Lü Yao was originally a shareholder of Douyin, and Douyin itself is a decentralized full-screen information flow short video platform, which can increase or decrease some exposure through human control of the algorithm.

As for Weibo and Bilibili, Lü Yao could probably manage to get them through some connections.

The most difficult thing to deal with is the Penguin-affiliated social media platforms. Lü Yao and Penguin can't be said to be mortal enemies, but they are at least sworn enemies. Even if he tries to find connections, he can't control the fermentation of public opinion on that side.

Hearing Lu Yao's anxious voice on the phone, Rong Nianqing chuckled to herself, "Isn't it unnecessary? Look how anxious you are."

Lu Yao, however, spoke with a stern face on the other end of the phone: “This is very important. You are my boss, and I will not allow anyone to smear the reputation of my most respected boss. I will definitely deal with this matter seriously!”

This is also an important principle for getting along with your boss in the workplace.

No matter how close you are to your boss, never think that you can be disrespectful to them. Even if your boss seems very amiable, you must always show respect and admiration for them. Make sure to report on any tasks assigned to you so that your boss feels respected.

This way, when your boss gets promoted, you'll have a better chance to advance further.

On the contrary, those non-direct superiors can act more dignified and respectful. Even if those non-direct superiors are petty and unhappy, they will still give your leader face, and your dignified and respectful demeanor will make your leader feel proud.

To be honest, Rong Nianqing is very beautiful, a kind of beauty that is completely different from that of a charming and delicate woman.

Coupled with Rong Nianqing's illustrious family background, it is indeed tempting for many people.

However, Lü Yao had a very clear understanding of his own position. Rong Nianqing was good in every way, but if he ever had even the slightest thought, there would be people lining up to throw him into the river.

Hearing the extremely serious words in Lü Yao's eyes on the phone, Rong Nianqing couldn't help but sigh inwardly. She composed herself and replied with a smile, "I understand your thoughts. Then I'll leave this matter to you."

Lü Yao: "Okay!"

After ending the call with Rong Nianqing, Lü Yao looked at his legal team: "This lawyer's letter needs to be delivered to that 'Mio' today, and she needs to publish an apology online."

A lawyer took the lawyer's letter from Lü Yao: "Definitely."

The lawyer stated definitively, "I will have the other party release a public apology statement before the lawyer's letter is even sent."

Lü Yao nodded: "Go ahead."

Watching the legal team leave the villa, Lü Yao couldn't help but rub his temples.

After Wang Shu saw that Lü Yao had finished his work, he thoughtfully served him hot tea and sat down not far from Lü Yao, comforting him, "It's alright, we've already found out. No one was trying to harm you; it was just an accidental incident."

But Lü Yao didn't dare to be so optimistic. He took the hot tea and forced a smile: "An accident is the kind of knife that kills without leaving a trace."

The awkward thing now is...

If Lü Yao doesn't address this matter, his stance will be problematic.

However, handling this matter in such a hasty manner exposed his weakness.

(End of this chapter)