Chapter 984
Summer Promotion
The grand summer promotion of the "Century Series" has arrived.
On this day, the penguins started to exert their influence.
Zhongguancun Chaoyang Internet Cafe!
While drinking his cola, Liu Mingzheng, the internet cafe manager, glanced around, his eyes like AK laser eyes, specifically targeting the pale thighs and calves under the skirts of the young girls who came to use the internet cafe.
He is a college student working a summer job.
I studied computer science.
Because his major was a perfect match, he was spotted by the internet cafe owner in Zhongguancun.
They promised to pay him his summer wages for the two months as if he were a full-time employee.
Of course, in return, if the computer had any problems during work hours, as long as it wasn't a major hardware issue, he, as the temporary network administrator, would also be responsible for repairing minor issues.
Suddenly, at that moment, his eyes were fixed on the monitor in front of him.
This is his work computer.
This is the main server for the entire internet cafe, housing over forty computers.
Logically speaking, pop-up ads shouldn't appear.
But now, right in front of him, a huge, brightly lit pop-up ad appeared, taking up a quarter of the entire screen.
"Century Electronics City Summer Mega Sale! From July 19th to August 19th, all Century series electronic consumer products are 12% off, excluding special offer items."
In addition, we are launching a coupon promotion: spend 500 and get a 50 coupon, spend 1000 and get a 100 coupon, and so on, with no upper limit. The coupons are valid for all items and can be stacked without any restrictions.
The products are as follows:
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Century Electronics City nationwide addresses:
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Welcome new and returning customers! Century Electronics City wishes you a pleasant shopping experience!
My goodness!
It turned out to be a huge pop-up advertisement.
Liu Ming immediately pounced on it, dragged the mouse, and quickly closed the large pop-up window.
After doing all this.
He then quickly clicked on the firewall to check the logs.
Is the main server being compromised by a virus?
No!
No intrusion record found.
He looked up blankly, and just then, a burst of intense, vulgar insults suddenly erupted from the computer section opposite him.
"What the hell is this pop-up ad? I was just about to pop it up and blow their head off."
A player who was playing Counter-Strike started swearing!
In front of him, on the monitor screen, a pop-up window that looked exactly like the ad interface that Liu Ming had just clicked the "X" occupied a quarter of the bottom right corner of his game screen, obscuring his game character in an extremely unsightly way.
"boom!"
Just as the foreigners finished their insults, before they could even click the "X" on the pop-up ad...
"KO!"
He died.
"Damn it, network administrator, what's going on? Is the computer infected with a virus?"
"Mine is the same!"
"Yes, mine has it too. It just popped up out of nowhere."
"It seems like everyone's is the same, could it be that they've been infected with a virus?"
"I know, it's Penguin. Is everyone's Penguin Messenger app logged in and running in the background? I just opened it and found that the background image at the top of the Penguin Contacts app has changed, and it's exactly the same as the pop-up ad we just clicked off, all promoting this Century Electronics City's summer mega sale."
"Holy crap, who's doing this? Such a big sale! Century Electronics City? Is it far from Zhongguancun? Looks like the discounts are pretty good. I just found out they have Xiaotiancai computers for sale, 12% off, plus coupons. It's a pretty good deal. You can save at least 300-500 yuan on a computer. Anyone interested in checking it out together?"
"I'm not going. You guys go. They just ruined my character's head. I'm already being generous by not making them pay compensation. Bah! I'd rather die than go."
"But I heard they also have the latest Waterdrop MP3 player for sale, which is also 12% off, and you can stack coupons. Didn't you say you were going to give your girlfriend a Waterdrop MP3 player for her birthday next month? You said you were short a few hundred and were saving up. At lunch today, you only ate two steamed buns and didn't even order a single cold dish. Isn't this a great opportunity?"
"Let's go, let's go, this is no fun anymore. If you all leave, I can't beat them. Let's go together."
"Didn't you say you'd rather die than go?"
"Yeah, if they can't kill me, I'll definitely go!"
A pop-up ad for Tencent (a Chinese instant messaging platform) turned the entire internet cafe into a chaotic mess. And because the discounts were so attractive, and the store was so close, a large section of the internet cafe quickly emptied out, filled with university students from nearby Zhongguancun on holiday.
They're students.
I don't have much money in my pocket.
When you come across such a great deal, and you happen to have something you like that you want, you definitely shouldn't miss it. Even if you're just going to join in the fun, it's better than not joining in at all.
Actually, aside from the penguin's pop-up ads.
The banner on NetEase's main website also promotes Century Electric's summer promotional activities.
However, due to the difference in scale, the impact is not yet visible.
Unlike Tencent, which only needed a single, zero-second pop-up to successfully expand the reach of Century Electronics City's summer promotion.
. . .
Pengcheng!
Century Building, Chairman's Office.
"Dong dong dong..."
A knock came at the door.
"Please come in!"
Lu Yang twirled the pen, his office chair slowly turning from back to the door to facing the floor-to-ceiling window, then back to face the door.
Lu Nini pushed open the door, carrying a document in her arms. She walked in on her high heels and placed the document on Lu Yang's desk.
He said softly, "Chairman, this is the sales data you requested for the past three days from all the top stores across the country in Century Electronics City, which is under the group."
Lu Yang nodded and reached out to open the document.
I glanced at it.
Then a satisfied smile appeared on his face.
This summer sale looks set to be a great success.
Because the data from just the first three days has already exceeded the sales of each store nationwide for nearly half a month.
In just three days, it can be equivalent to half a month before.
This shows that the number of customers visiting stores nationwide due to this event has exceeded expectations, and is at least five times the usual number of customers!
What else is there to worry about?
Although the event will continue for nearly another month.
But Lu Yang was completely relieved.
He closed the file and handed it to Lu Nini, who was standing across the desk.
"Take it down and file it for future reference. Thank you for your hard work."
Lu Nini took the documents and shook her head, saying, "It's not hard work. The data is all readily available. I'm just a porter."
Just as she was about to leave.
Lu Yang called her back, "By the way, I just looked at the sales data of stores across the country for the summer promotion over the past three days, and I found that several products are selling exceptionally well, like Xiaotiancai computers. Since it's summer vacation now, many college students who have just finished the college entrance examination generally have a need for them, unless their family's financial situation really doesn't allow it."
Another product is the Waterdrop MP3 player, which consistently ranks among the top three in sales across stores nationwide.
Also, Century Electronics' newly launched DVD/VCD 2-in-1 player is selling well; some stores are even out of stock. Could you please urge them to speed up production so as not to affect subsequent sales? With this promotion going well, sales will only get better and better over the next month.”
Lu Nini nodded again.
"Understood, Chairman. I will inform them immediately."
"Well, let's go!"
Lu Yang smiled, opened the door for her, and walked out the moment he did.
He waved to the departing figure.
Although they are cousins, Lu Nini always kept to herself at the company and addressed him only by his job title.
That's why he especially likes this girl.
He's better than his brother!
So tactful and sensible!
When Lu Yang thought of Dajun, he couldn't help but think of Dajun's wife, Xiaoxiao. Xiaoxiao should be almost thirty-eight weeks pregnant by now, right?
She's about to give birth.
"This kid is about to become a father again, he's so happy."
Lu Yang cursed under his breath.
Then, he thought of Wei Shu, the group's president, who was currently on leave to prepare for pregnancy.
Spurred on by Dajun and his wife, the couple decided to have a second child after returning home.
However, Sister Wei Shu is getting on in years, and she often works overtime late into the night. She is a true workaholic, otherwise she wouldn't be known as the "Iron Lady" by everyone in the company. Her reputation has spread to the outside world, throughout the country, and even made it into the newspapers.
Suddenly, because I wanted to have a healthy baby, I had to change my lifestyle, which was quite difficult to adapt to.
Lu Yang heard about it later.
I simply granted both of them leave so they could go home and recuperate.
Whether you consult a traditional Chinese medicine doctor or a Western doctor, the goal is to get the man to conceive the woman.
I can't get pregnant!
No cancellations allowed!
You are not allowed to come back to work!
Why else would you think Lu Yang is so diligent?
If Sister Wei Shu were at the group headquarters, he wouldn't want to come to the company. He'd rather stay home every day fishing, tending to his flowers, spending time with his son and daughter, and spending the rest of his time with his wife. Ah, that's life.
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Shanghai!
Sifei Media Mainland Headquarters.
The CEO's office.
Xu Siqi looked calmly at her mother, whose face was contorted with rage.
Du Yuanyuan looked at her daughter with a face full of disappointment and said, "I've talked until my saliva is dry, and you're still unmoved? Don't you know how to fight for yourself and for your daughter?"
It turns out that Lu Yang's recent series of actions have finally reached Shanghai and into the ears of his cheap mother-in-law.
Lu Yang made amends to his wife of many years and to his two children.
This was to compensate Du Lingling and her illegitimate son Lu An in Gangcheng.
Even Qian Youyou and her son Qian Xiaohao were present.
But she didn't think of her daughter at all.
She was naturally dissatisfied with all of this, but she didn't dare to cause trouble for Lu Yang.
He could only vent his anger on his daughter first.
In her opinion, it must be because her daughter was not good enough, either because she didn't know how to fight for her own interests, or because she had offended that little bastard surnamed Lu.
Otherwise, why would everyone else have one, but her daughter and granddaughter don't?
Doesn't she realize that Lu Yang has already given Xu Siqi and her daughter enough compensation?
The establishment of Sifei Media was his birth gift to his youngest daughter, Lu Feifei.
Back then, no one else spent a single penny; it was all paid for by Lu Yang himself.
Today, this company has become a well-known film and television media company throughout Asia.
They are only one step away from choosing to list on the A-share market or the Hong Kong stock market.
However, Lu Yang personally does not own even a single share of this company!
Such a generous gift was something that none of Lu Yang's other women and children had ever received before.
It was Lu Yang's way of making up for Xu Siqi's misery in giving birth to his children in Singapore, a place he knew no one, even though she was heavily pregnant.
Now, he simply remembers that he has other women and other children, and he wants to make up for all the things he owed in the past.
This drew criticism from Du Yuanyuan, who nearly broke down in anger.
Fortunately, the accusation wasn't directed at Lu Yang directly, but rather at her own daughter, Xu Siqi, first.
Otherwise, Lu Yang wouldn't tolerate her bad habits.
Xu Siqi frowned, looking at her mother who had been hysterical the whole time.
Finally, things quieted down a bit.
He rubbed his temples.
He said earnestly, "Mom, can you please stop making a scene? This is between him and me. We haven't had any relationship problems. The reason he didn't give Feifei and me extra compensation this time is because we had already received compensation from him before. Now you're making a scene here, and I won't point out your mistakes, but if word gets out and reaches his ears, what will he think? Will he think we're greedy?"
Hearing his daughter speak so seriously...
"this,"
Du Yuanyuan hesitated.
After considering for a moment, she said, "Don't lie to Mom. Is there really no problem in your relationship? Then why hasn't he come to see you? And this time, is he really just trying to be fair to both of you, without any other motives?"
Xu Siqi fell silent.
But soon, she silently shook her head.
I can't let Mom find out.
Yes, that guy hasn't come to see her and her daughter in a long time.
Last time or the last time!
She had already given in.
They also apologized!
but,
"Am I wrong?"
She now regrets it a bit; she shouldn't have chosen to move the company headquarters from Singapore to Shanghai in order to make the company bigger and stronger.
The company has now grown.
But it seems that her relationship with him can never go back to what it was before.
She had promised him that.
He didn't want to appear in front of his wife and disturb them, so he chose to go to a foreign country and go to Singapore, a strange city, to give birth, all by himself while heavily pregnant.
She won his heart because of this.
The birth of my daughter and the establishment of Sifei Media are the best proof of this.
Unfortunately, she was too greedy.
So that they could be closer to him, their daughter could also be closer to him.
She broke her promise.
Looking back now, her biggest mistake wasn't bringing her daughter back to China, but rather settling in Shanghai.
Even if they had settled in the capital back then.
Even though the northern capital city is farther from the southernmost city of Shenzhen.
The two may meet more often.
She had considered that Lu Yang might dislike his sister-in-law, and might not like the city of Shanghai because of her old classmate, Yin Mingzhu. But she never imagined that Lu Yang would be so averse to it. Just because Yin Mingzhu was in Shanghai, he even chose to take a detour when passing through by plane and making a stopover at Hongqiao Airport for refueling.
"Then... Mom will trust you one more time?"
Du Yuanyuan scrutinized her daughter across from her with a suspicious look in her eyes.
"Don't lie to Mom!"
"You two are really going to have a fight."
You have to tell Mom the truth.
“You’re still young and your skills in winning over men are still a bit clumsy. Mom is different. Mom has experience. If you two really have a conflict, tell Mom the reason for the conflict and Mom will give you some advice.”
Xu Siqi frowned.
His expression suddenly darkened. "Mom, I'm sleepy. I'd like to take a nap later, so I won't keep you any longer."
The order to leave has been issued!
That's what she dislikes most about her mother.
But the mother was oblivious to her own ignorance and continued to flaunt her self-righteous charm.
They've probably forgotten about it!
Mom, you abandoned your husband and daughter back then. I saw with my own eyes that you didn't want my dad or me. Now that your private life is so chaotic, do you want me to follow your example?
I'm ashamed to learn your tricks.
Du Yuanyuan touched her lips together, opened her mouth, and said timidly, "Then...then Mom, I'll go first. You get some rest, and Mom will come to see you again next time."
She realized she had just said the wrong thing.
Unfortunately, what's done is done. Alas, we can only wait for another opportunity. (End of Chapter)