Shenzhen University, Department Leadership Office.

Yang Xiao, his class teacher Yuan Qizhizi, and his counselor Xu Lian walked out together.

After a moment of silence, Yuan Qizhi spoke at this time, with a serious look on his face, and said:

"Although you have a large business now and are involved in many companies, I would like to say that the knowledge you learned in college is still quite useful, especially for sociology majors. It may also be of great benefit to the management of your company and your future life. So I hope you can stay in school as much as possible to learn and improve yourself."

"I see. Thank you for your concern, Mr. Yuan. I just wanted to give the school leaders a heads-up. My main career is in Shenzhen. I will try my best to go back to school in the future. I will definitely not drop out."

"Ah That's good."

This was the second day after school started. Yang Xiao took time out and, together with his class teacher and counselor, was invited by the department head and several school leaders to express the school's concern for him as an "outstanding alumnus."

After all, they all knew throughout the holiday that this student from their school had become the center of attention after being exposed on the Internet, so they couldn't wait to find Yang Xiao for a talk.

These leaders are all old hands, and all they do is try to get close to them and ask irrelevant questions.

For example, "How has the scale of WIFI Master Key developed?" and "What other industries are involved in the company?" He even said that he would introduce the famous alumnus of Shenzhen University, "Senior Ma Huateng", to Yang Xiao.

Hearing this, Yang Xiao rolled his eyes inwardly.

As far as he knew, the leader who was speaking didn't seem to have any relationship with him. He was indeed from the Computer Science Department, but they had only met a few times.

Now that Senior Ma is almost becoming the richest man, why would anyone want to hang him?
If it was replaced by a heavyweight leader like the principal, or someone with rich experience and some teacher-student relationship with Xiao Ma, it would probably be more or less the same.

However, this conversation is very necessary.

Yang Xiao mainly conveyed one idea to this group of department leaders, that is, they will be very busy in their future careers and may not have much time to stay in school.

The meaning is very clear, which is that I will often miss classes in the future.

After hearing this, all the leaders immediately expressed their opinions and told Yang Xiao to focus on his career. They would take care of him here. As long as he could come for the final exam, they would definitely guarantee that he would pass and graduate.

Of course, this is an inevitable routine.

With Yang Xiao's current status, there will be no problem for him to be specially recruited to Peking University or Tsinghua University. The Shenzhen University authorities must want to keep Yang Xiao in the school. This will also be an honor in the future, right?
And as Yang Xiao said before, he would not skip classes recklessly. His career base is rooted in Shenzhen. When there is something to do, he will go there to take care of it. When he has nothing to do, he will of course stay in school to attend classes and study.

But from now on he won’t have to spend money to hire a substitute teacher.

This resulted in the players who had previously been his substitute teachers losing their "high-paying part-time jobs".

There is no way, this is also forced by the situation.

With his current identity being exposed and him becoming a public figure, once the matter of "paying someone to substitute for him" is brought to the surface, it will have some bad influence after all. This "bad habit" that is detrimental to him should be avoided.

On the contrary, he would rather miss classes than make a big deal, and the public can understand this kind of thing.

Damn, he has billions of dollars in assets, but instead of busying himself with business, he comes to your school to attend classes. That’s good enough!

If it were someone else, they would have dropped out of school long ago, right?
On the contrary, to the outside world, this is a manifestation of "hard work and love of learning".

"Yang Xiao, do the current public opinions in school bother you at all?"

At this time, counselor Xu Lian at the side asked him with concern, there have been a lot of topics about Yang Xiao in the forum these days. There is no way, who can help it, because he has many identities, including the identity of an Internet celebrity.

Xu Lian is also a surfer and has seen a lot of related discussions, including some speculations about his conspiracy theories. After seeing this, she felt a little worried about Yang Xiao, fearing that he might have poor psychological recognition ability.

"It's okay. It's normal to have public opinion. It will be fine after the storm passes in the next two days."

Yang Xiao shook his head slightly, signaling the counselor to rest assured.

Since the school officially started, there have been all kinds of rumors, but Yang Xiao ignored them all.

What scene has he not seen before?

Once anything is posted online, there will be voices of opposition and criticism.

Since he started posting on Tieba, he has been criticized by many people. Even after he became an internet celebrity on Weibo, he received many malicious private messages insulting Yang Xiao.

But he always just laughed it off. If he had a fragile heart, he would just die.

He felt extremely balanced when he thought that in a few years there would still be internet celebrities who specialized in "making money by playing clowns and getting scolded".

Where has he gotten to now?
So every time he put himself in other people's shoes, he felt extremely relieved.

In addition, when it comes to manipulating public opinion, he is the ancestor of this group of people. He has planned many online marketing campaigns and even has a large number of internet internet influencers under his command.

These small-scale discussions in school could not cause any negative impact on him, so he didn't care at all.

But in general, Yang Xiao’s reputation is mostly positive.

The largest portion of bad reviews are just vented online.

The main reason is that Yang Xiao is too popular with women. He has a huge group of female fans, which makes many boys who have no feelings for him feel envious and jealous.

But no matter what, there were no blind people, or some so-called "crazy guys", who came to Yang Xiao specifically to find the scene.

Life at school went by quickly and nothing unexpected happened.

In the blink of an eye, more than a month has passed.

One day on the weekend, Wang Juntao came to Yang Xiao again and brought him a piece of news.

"Brother Xiao, our Huiduotuan.com can no longer hold on, and we are preparing to accept the acquisition by Meituan."

"Oh? How much is the offer?"

"700 million!"

Speaking of this price, Wang Juntao also looked disheartened.

The original purchase price was 800 million a month ago, but the longer it dragged on, the more they would be unable to afford it.

At the same time, all parties were maliciously lowering the price, and they could not drag it out any longer.

"Brother Tao, I think it's good enough to get some money back. Are you really willing to lose it all? Besides, you should have no cash flow, right? In the current situation, being acquired is the best option. If you drag it on, you will only die faster." Yang Xiao said with a smile.

"Alas, our [Huiduotuan.com] has always been just a small-scale operation. We can't play the game of capital."

Wang Juntao sighed, his tone showing a resigned tone.

A bunch of them have been working on this for several months and invested nearly 20 to 30 million yuan, but now they are facing the situation of being acquired at a low price.

In terms of his personal investment ratio, he invested more than 6 million, and now he is going to lose nearly 5 million!
Upon hearing this, Yang Xiao looked at him in surprise.

Yang Xiao didn't expect that Wang Juntao, a rich second-generation who only knew how to play games, would start a business this time. Although he lost most of his wealth in a few months, he did not gain nothing. At least he learned a lesson and gained experience, and these cognitions can be regarded as an alternative kind of wealth.

"Brother Xiao, I came here this time because I remembered what you said last time. You said you also wanted to join the game? If you want to take over, I can help you negotiate with you if you offer a suitable price."

Wang Juntao then talked about the main purpose of his trip. In his opinion, instead of selling to Meituan, it would be better to ask Yang Xiao if he was willing to take over. Yang Xiao also became serious when he heard this: "How much group buying of merchants in your company's catering business do you do?
Wang Juntao answered truthfully: "There are quite a lot. There are still several hundred restaurants on our [Huiduotuan.com], but they are also on other platforms. The sales are not very good, and most of them are small stores."

“Then how many salespeople are there who are out there doing business with merchants?”

"Including several surrounding cities, there are probably more than a hundred of them."

"What about Shencheng alone?"

"More than sixty people."

“How is your business ability?”

"Some are strong and some are weak, but generally speaking, they are all experienced. There are no rookies at the moment. Even I have been out doing sales for a while."

Wang Juntao was very confident. He heard that Yang Xiao did seem to have some intentions, and then he said a little embarrassedly, "And to be honest, we have withheld the salaries of our employees for half a month. If you take over, you will have to pay their salaries."

Yang Xiao asked several more key data questions, and Wang Juntao answered them all fluently, which showed that he had put in some effort and was not just wasting time.

Then he thought about it for a moment and finally agreed to his request.

"Okay, I'll have someone do a detailed evaluation on the price, but the price won't be much higher than Meituan's. You can make your own decision when the time comes. Also, Brother Tao, do you want to start an e-sports club or continue to stay in group buying? To be honest with you, except for the sales staff and technicians who run the business, I will clear out all the other shareholders."

"Brother Xiao, are you really going to make a big splash in the group-buying market? If so, I'd like to stay here and even be a sales manager. I'm not really interested in the e-sports club."

Wang Juntao also understood what Yang Xiao meant, but he was still not optimistic about the club's prospects. What's more, his first entrepreneurial venture ended in failure, so he still had the determination to get up from where he fell.

He also figured out a lot of things, and even used metaphysical terms to explain that when it comes to starting a business, the right time, the right place, and the right people are all essential.

They don't have any of these three things.

If Yang Xiao were to take over now, at least in terms of "harmony among people", there should be no problem.

Yang Xiao said: "As for group buying, I will continue to do it, but I don't plan to make it my main business. On the contrary, I will streamline it and change the market direction."

"Ah? Change the market direction? What direction?"

"You'll know then."

After sending Wang Juntao back, Yang Xiao entrusted the acquisition matters to his assistant Zhao Qian.

As for the 700 million mentioned by Wang Juntao, whether it is worth it is still a question mark. Professionals will evaluate and verify the follow-up matters.

In any case, Yang Xiao did intend to try it out, but he didn't want to join the group buying battlefield.

It’s not without reason that I specifically asked about some business entry data for the catering business.

He plans to specialize in group buying in the catering industry and specialize in that direction.

And, most importantly, he wants to open up a new business, which is food delivery!
The group buying market is now a red ocean, so he has no interest in fighting in it. No one is competing with him for the takeaway cake!

Ele.me has already appeared at this time, but it is still just a small company. It is currently operating in the Magic City. The market in Shenzhen is completely blank!
A few days later.

Yang Xiao received a call from Zhao Qian.

"Mr. Yang, the last valuation of Huiduotuan.com was 650 million, but their current situation is very serious. The truth is that Meituan and other group buying websites are just leaving them alone and have no real intention of acquiring them. Maybe we can lower the price by waiting."

"No need, let's just go with 650 million, this price is about right, and I may not be the one to pick up the bargain by then."

"Okay, we'll do it right away."

Two days later, after Yang Xiao received the official news of the acquisition, he called Wang Juntao again.

"Brother Tao, are you sure you want to continue staying at [Huiduotuan.com]?"

"Well, I'm going to follow you this time!"

"How about this, you can just transfer all your shares in SG E-sports Club to me, and I will not return your shares in Huiduotuan.com. How about converting the two together and giving you 15% of the shares?"

"Isn't that too much? I have no problem with the gaming club, but you're at a disadvantage."

According to the current acquisition price, he is worth at most 10%. He only invested a few hundred thousand in the shares of SG e-sports club. In his eyes, how can he have an extra 5%?

However, Yang Xiao does want to keep him here for now.

After the acquisition, except for the technical staff and sales staff, all other shareholders were dismissed by him. He needed to keep a company veteran like Wang Juntao to continue to be in charge, which could help stabilize people's hearts.

Secondly, Wang Juntao has accumulated some experience in this industry, so there is no problem in keeping him here.

"You gather the management staff together tomorrow and I will hold a meeting."

"Row."

After explaining a few things, Yang Xiao hung up the phone, then flipped through his address book, found a number, and called it.

"Senior Zhang, are you free?"

It happened to be Saturday that day, and Zhang Yang, the head of the Student Union, was playing games in the dormitory. He was startled when he saw the incoming call. Zhang Yang said he never expected that Yang Xiao would actually call him on his own initiative. This was the first time in history!
So he quickly quit the game and concentrated on returning Yang Xiao's call.

"Yang Xiao? I'm free, what can I do for you?"

"I have an entrepreneurial project here. Are you interested in joining in?" Yang Xiao said.

Hearing this, Zhang Yang responded excitedly: "Yes, yes, yes! Your project, needless to say, is exactly what I want!"

"Okay, then why don't you just come to the Shenzhen Science and Technology Building at 2:30. I'll wait for you at the cafe downstairs and tell you in detail when you get there."

"Okay, I'll be right there."

Zhang Yang was a smart man. He knew it was not a good idea to ask too many questions on the phone. After hanging up, he quickly changed his slippers and prepared to go out.

Although it was only noon and there was still a long time until 2:30 in the afternoon, he couldn't wait any longer.

His roommate complained at this time: "No, fuck you, we were playing well, why the hell did you quit!"

"Sorry, I have something urgent to do and I have to go!" Zhang Yang said with a smile.

"What's wrong? Your girlfriend wants to break up with you?" the roommate teased.

"My girlfriend is nothing! I'm going to be extremely rich!"

After he finished speaking, Zhang Yang left in a hurry.

Then, in the corridor of the dormitory building, his excited and cheerful singing voice echoed -

"I have waited for so long and finally waited until today~
I have dreamed for a long time and finally realized my dream.

(End of this chapter)