Chapter 512 - 272: We Must Poach Chen Jincheng
As Tiao Yin held a meeting about Chen Jincheng, Kuaishou’s Chen Yixiao was doing the same with his management team.
In their conference room, they were also playing clips of Chen Jincheng’s videos, along with his e-commerce order data and total sales figures.
Everyone from Kuaishou’s various departments was stunned as they looked at the 5 billion in sales.
And that figure was only going to get higher.
"This is incredible. I never thought Tiao Yin would roll out such a game-changing feature!"
"Five billion in sales... Tiao Yin is going to ride this wave and take off."
"This will have a huge impact on our upcoming plans."
"Yeah, how could Tiao Yin launch such a formidable feature at such a critical moment?"
"..."
Chen Yixiao, however, spoke up. "Tiao Yin’s new feature is indeed powerful. It could become one of the mainstream monetization methods for short videos. Our top priority, then, is to immediately start developing our own shopping cart feature."
"The tech department needs to move fast. Arrange for three shifts. If you don’t have enough people, hire more."
"Yes, President Chen." The tech department representative nodded immediately.
Chen Yixiao immediately added, "The data analysis department has already looked into it. The actual effectiveness of Tiao Yin’s shopping cart feature isn’t as terrifying as we imagined."
"The truly formidable one is Chen Jincheng. He’s the only one who has produced such staggering numbers. Even if you exclude him, four of the top five sellers on the e-commerce leaderboard are from his company."
His words were met with immediate agreement.
"That’s true. If you take out Chen Jincheng’s data, it doesn’t seem nearly as impactful."
"That Chen Jincheng really is incredible. He even managed to get Lei Xiaojun to do a livestream with him."
"You’ve all seen his phone ad, right? It’s probably better than any other phone commercial ever made in the country!"
"..."
Seeing that everyone was on the same page, Chen Yixiao said, "Since that’s the case, we need to find a way to bring Chen Jincheng over. We’ll put all our effort into poaching him. Once we get him, and our shopping cart feature is online, Chen Jincheng will become our sharpest weapon against Tiao Yin."
This made the eyes of the department heads light up.
One of the managers said, "Exactly! If we poach Chen Jincheng, by the time our shopping cart goes live, it’ll be like Tiao Yin did all the work for us."
"With our new data algorithm also going live, this two-pronged attack will make it even harder for Tiao Yin to defend. That will be our moment to defeat them."
Chen Yixiao immediately gave the order: "Poach Chen Jincheng with everything you’ve got. At the same time, start poaching Tiao Yin’s other top influencers on a massive scale. It’s time to make our move on Tiao Yin."
No one knew that the two short video platforms were about to engage in a true head-to-head battle, each determined to defeat the other.
Both sides knew that only by defeating their rival could they seize the opportunity to leap ahead and become a unicorn-level traffic behemoth like Penguin.
...
「Time passed.」
The purpose of Chen Jincheng’s trip to Beijing had been to shoot the ad for the Rice Phone. With the commercial filmed and the Rice Phone successfully promoted and sold via his video, he had accomplished his goal perfectly.
However, the final sales data from the video wouldn’t be available until its popularity had waned.
Furthermore, his commission would only be paid out half a month after the final data was confirmed.
Naturally, Chen Jincheng didn’t linger in Beijing. After saying goodbye to Lei Xiaojun the next day, he bought a plane ticket back to Coastal City.
The airport in Beijing was much more crowded than the one in Coastal City.
After passing through the ticket check, Chen Jincheng was surprised to see that an advertising screen inside the terminal was playing the commercial for the Rice 8.
It was the very one he had filmed for Rice Group.
Sister Feiye’s performance in the ad was excellent, so it was attracting a lot of onlookers.
Luckily, like him, Sister Feiye was wearing a baseball cap and a mask. Otherwise, the people around them would have definitely recognized her as the female lead from the commercial.
"Rice Group is rolling out their ads so fast," Sister Feiye said in surprise. But then again, it made sense. For the launch of the Rice 8, besides the boss’s own e-commerce video, there was a vast market to reach through various channels. Of course they would be running ads everywhere.
This made her very happy. The more Rice Group advertised, the better it was for her own fame. Thinking this, she proactively linked her arm with Chen Jincheng’s and leaned against him intimately.
Chen Jincheng glanced at her and said, "Be more careful when we get back to Coastal City. Don’t get carried away."
"I won’t be clingy once we’re back," Sister Feiye said, rolling her eyes at him speechlessly.
’But she knew that a man like him would never marry her. She couldn’t handle him anyway.’
’Since this trip was just for the Rice Phone ad, she wouldn’t ask for anything more.’
"We can still grab dinner occasionally. Mmm, just dinner!" Chen Jincheng said with a very serious expression.
"Like I’d believe it’s *just* dinner!" Sister Feiye rolled her eyes at him again.
’She wasn’t some naive girl; how could she not understand what he meant?’
But surprisingly, she tacitly agreed.
’Because he had really fucked her good while they were in Beijing.’
’Getting fucked by him occasionally after she went back would be pretty nice too.’
’After all, he was handsome, had a great body, and could help her make money and get famous.’
’This was probably what they called getting a taste for it.’
When they reached the departure lounge, just as Chen Jincheng and Sister Feiye were about to find a place to sit, a beautiful girl caught his attention.
It was hard not to notice. There was a wide-open swath of empty seats right next to her, and it was obvious that quite a few other guys were staring at her with lecherous eyes.
But the girl was so beautiful that apparently none of these pervs even had the courage to sit next to her.