I Treat You as My Sister, But You Want to be My Wife?!
Chapter 473 Acquaintance Effect_1

Chapter 473: Chapter 473 Acquaintance Effect_1

The door on the other side of the van was locked; the kidnapper would definitely have to open this side to pull something.

Just as Shen Dong had settled in, the door was yanked open.

A man with a sock over his head, brandishing a knife and pressing a hand on Shen Dong’s shoulder, looked at Kang Yue, "Hey, pretty girl, come on, give grandpa a smile."

"Talk, how much money do you want?"

"Cut the crap, get out of the car."

At that moment, a person in black approached.

"Mr. Shen, our boss has a banquet at Dihao and invites Mr. Shen to join."

Who is that?

Shen Dong was perplexed, feeling that everything seemed very odd.

"It won’t work, I need to go back and deliver the teapot." Shen Dong was about to make an excuse, but Xue Liu had already been shooed away by the man in the black suit.

The woman in the black trench coat spoke again, "I’ll arrange for someone to deliver Mr. Shen’s treasure to Babamentai. Please, Mr. Shen, get in the car."

Then, a flashy stretch Lincoln pulled up alongside the van.

Seeing how things were, Shen Dong knew he couldn’t resist, so he pulled Kang Yue out of the van and casually asked, "Who’s your boss?"

"You’ll know when you get there." The woman in the trench coat laughed beautifully, without arrogance, and politeness, which inexplicably gave Shen Dong a sense of security.

He got into the stretch Lincoln and sped away, leaving the ’ruthless’ kidnappers crying without tears.

"Brother Liu, we’re screwed."

Xue Liu, covering his face, backhandedly slapped his brother across the face, "Stop blabbering. Just take the money and leave; that would’ve been the end of it!"

"Bro, I didn’t see this coming... who knew..."

"Forget it." Xue Liu never imagined that a robbery, which had never failed before, would encounter such a Waterloo.

Having grown up in the antique street, he understood one thing well: if it’s valuable, it’s like an antique—heartbreaking even with a chipped corner. They’d give up money for their lives.

Xue Liu was greedy but smart; he only extorted two to three hundred thousand at a time. Those rich people didn’t care about such amounts, so they wouldn’t pursue it.

Watching the car disappear into the street, Xue Liu’s eyes swiveled around, "Hey, do you think he’s onto me?"

"Hard to say."

A glint of light flashed in Xue Liu’s eyes. He still had a chance to get close to Shen Dong; those hundred-plus sets of teapots still needed to be shipped.

Thinking this, Xue Liu took fifty thousand in cash from the car, pulled out ten thousand, and handed the rest to his brothers, "Just in case, you guys split this money and go back home, okay?"

"What about you?"

Pfft!

Xue Liu grabbed his brother’s knife and jabbed himself in the stomach. Drops of sweat the size of beans fell from his forehead, yet he forced a smile and said, "If brother makes it big, I’ll definitely bring you guys along."

Meanwhile, Shen Dong had arrived at Dihao.

Zhao Wenliang was as anxious as an ant on a hot pan, pacing chaotically in the Dihao hall. As soon as he saw Shen Dong enter, he ran over like a shot, "Little brother, why didn’t you answer your phone, oh man, you had me worried to death!"

Huh?

Shen Dong couldn’t help but laugh out. So it was Zhao Wenliang.

He had deliberately ignored Zhao Wenliang’s texts and calls, just to make him anxious.

Who would’ve thought that this guy would chase after him to Min Province, and even end up saving him.

"You called me?" Shen Dong pretended to be unaware, pulling his phone out of his pocket to see over three hundred missed call alerts.

Shen Dong could almost imagine Zhao Wenliang’s anxiety. Secretly laughing to himself, he complained about his phone, "How did this damn phone get set to silent? Ah! What did you want to talk about?"

"I wanted to talk to you about..."

"Yo!" Before Zhao Wenliang could speak, Shen Dong suddenly exclaimed in surprise.

As if a thought had struck him, he looked at Zhao Wenliang with the attitude of someone who had a narrow escape from disaster, "If it weren’t for your timely help, I would have been robbed today!"

"Of course, let’s go upstairs..."

"No way." Shen Dong was doing it on purpose, keeping Zhao Wenliang on tenterhooks. He turned to Kang Yue and said, "That thing, bring me two of the treasures I bought back to give to Mr. Zhao, to properly thank him."

Zhao Wenliang’s scheming mind was completely forgotten in a flash, and he didn’t dare to dally, getting straight to the point, "None of that matters, what really matters is whether that order of tens of millions is real or not. This investment amounts to billions; it’s no joke."

"Of course, it’s no joke."

Shen Dong felt like he had the upper hand, and his step became more confident. Still sizing up Zhao Wenliang, he said while walking, "Prince wouldn’t be trying to swindle me, would he? The billions won’t be invested all at once; I reckon the first phase alone could earn back the principal."

"Then, are you daring enough to sign the contract?"

Shen Dong grinned, "Why wouldn’t I be?"

"I’m just afraid Prince might not be."

"What is there for Prince to be afraid of? The price is set in stone, in black and white!"

When Zhao Wenliang said this, his eyes shone with excitement.

Shen Dong wanted him to be excited.

To turn a normal person into a cripple, you only need to give him a wheelchair; a billion smartphones is much more than a wheelchair, hundreds of billions in profits are enough to push anyone to the pinnacle in this era!

Who wouldn’t want to dominate the rise and fall of fortune in this vast land?

Zhao Wenliang was going mad, perhaps Prince was too. In the following month, a continuous stream of smartphones was shipped to Hai City for testing and then sent non-stop to Penguin and Liuqiu.

The workers of the Empire, the mightiest in the world, no doubt about that.

Orders that would take a foreign enterprise a year to fill could be completed in three months in the Empire.

Prince’s influence was not to be underestimated either. It was said he almost had a monopoly on all the mobile phone component processing factories in the country, offering high compensation to workers, stimulating production, sales, and ensuring quality.

Utilizing smartphones, Mr. Ma from Penguin combined Shen Dong’s suggestion for functional apps to indefinitely expand on Penguin’s existing services.

He also heeded Shen Dong’s advice to only run the platform, not the business.

Take the food delivery service, for example.

Penguin, with its massive online empire and the widest user base, instantly became the overlord of the food delivery segment.

Partners owned all the profits and only had to pay Mr. Ma from Penguin a platform service fee.

The value of traffic quickly became evident.

Projects that tapped into Penguin’s platform swept the market with the speed of a whirlwind sweeping away fallen leaves.

One by one, the failures dropped out of the game. Their capabilities, their operations, were no less than that of the brands under Penguin, yet they lost so badly, bloodied and battered, and finally, a term that wasn’t particularly fashionable emerged on the internet, called "network effect."

Penguin wasn’t the first to enter the online market, but its influence was the greatest at present.

Penguin launching a product was like a recommendation from a familiar person to another; the acceptance speed was incredibly fast, likewise.

Penguin had a huge user base; their word-of-mouth marketing needed no advertisements, no endorsements, just a pop-up...

Compared with them, the newcomers had too low a starting point.

...

Behind every failure lay Penguin’s leadership in merger after merger. The first to show its power was the logistics of today, encompassing life delivery, bulk goods delivery, and more... a colossal industrial chain.

"I wonder how Tang Yuchan is doing?"

"Never mind her, as long as our direction is right."

As he spoke, Shen Dong opened the latest version of Penguin on the computer screen.