Reborn: I'll Never Fail My Childhood Sweetheart Again

Chapter 590 - 220: Class President, I Don’t Want to Go Home Tonight (Part 2)

After sending Huang Hongbo and his family off, Su Zelin went straight to the company.

It’s always the busiest time for all big and small companies before the new year, with various year-end summaries and settlements that require time.

Some proactive companies have even started making plans for the upcoming year.

Su Zelin’s grand plan for the coming year is very clear.

In the first half of the year, the number of direct and franchise stores in the province must break three digits. In the second half, continue to deepen the roots and simultaneously start reaching out to the entire Jiang-Zhe-Lu region.

In a few months, Ah Li will be launching, and the wave of e-commerce and online shopping will soon sweep the market. Before that happens, there’s no time to slack off.

Nowadays, Ah Li has completed two rounds of financing, in 1999 and 2000, with the first round being five million US Dollars and the second round being twenty million US Dollars. According to Su Zelin, the third and fourth rounds happened in 2004, with one hundred million US Dollars in February and over eighty million US Dollars in December. By the fifth round of financing in 2005, it even reached as high as one billion US Dollars, coming from Yahoo.

The financing amounts are too large, making it difficult for the average person to enter the field. Moreover, the financiers Ah Li chooses are all big venture capitalists such as SoftBank Xia Country, GGV Capital, Fidelity Asia, KPCB, and Yahoo. If you’re a small capital, they’d ignore you.

So, Su Zelin doesn’t plan to join in. He doesn’t have the ability to play these capital games with such giants at the moment but chooses to quietly roll his own snowball in the digital industry. If he can eventually dominate in that field, it would be considered quite successful.

In the afternoon, Su Zelin felt a bit restless.

He had a driving practice date with Nanaz that evening, which would soon come to a head.

If she indeed accepted, naturally, things might happen by then.

In his past life, he indulged in romantic pursuits, not much of a newbie, and this life, he already has Song Yuwei, yet he was still excited.

This girl was someone he really liked in his past life, but afraid of ruining that rare friendship, he had to suppress those feelings and turn her into a confidante.

Once you suppress it for one lifetime, you can’t suppress it for two. This time their relationship is closer than the previous life, and Nanaz is more proactive, which is why Su Zelin made up his mind.

Turning a confidante into a lover may not necessarily be a good thing, but he still wants to try, given that Nanaz wasn’t happy in the past life either. He thought if she were with him, her life could be better than it was last time.

With such absent-mindedness, he stayed at the company until evening and then returned to the Financial Institute.

Today, only Old Feng from room 302 went home; the other five haven’t set off yet.

Hou Yongjin didn’t buy today’s ticket.

Zeng Kaiping didn’t want to go back too early.

There was no computer at home, and if he went to an internet cafe, his mom nagged him, saying she’d rather have a roast pork than have given birth to him, so he decided to leave later.

Hu Xu and Cai Wensheng stayed due to love.

One just started dating Cen Jing this semester.

The other had been with Popcorn for almost two years and hit a home run on Christmas Eve. Having tasted that joy, the young lovers were inseparable and couldn’t bear to go home so soon.

"Third bro, you’re back?"

As soon as Su Zelin entered the dorm, he encountered Cai Wensheng about to go out.

He was going on a date with Popcorn, and he probably wouldn’t be back to the dorm tonight.

"Be safe tonight, don’t get yourself into big trouble."

Su Zelin advised.

Both of the youngest ones in the dorms were a bit reckless.

He was just afraid they might accidentally cause trouble that would be hard to manage.

But then again, it seemed he himself hadn’t ever used protection either.

This always meant that every time, Song Yuwei had to wash her face and rinse her mouth afterward.

"I will, don’t worry!"

Cai Wensheng scratched his head, a bit embarrassed: "Ah Ping just gave me a box."

"That’s good then. By the way, I’ll also give you a tip for extending endurance!"

Thinking this newbie might struggle, Su Zelin planned to give some technical guidance.

After whispering a few words in Cai Wensheng’s ear, his eyes lit up, and he nodded repeatedly: "Mhm mhm, third bro, I got it. This tip is great, I’ll try it tonight, thanks!"

On the side, Zeng Kaiping, who was in the world of Legend saying "if you’re my brother, come fight me," suddenly perked his ears; this was a topic he was very interested in.

No way, does third bro have tips for this?

Then maybe I’m saved.

The spirited youth was quite excited.

He didn’t care about the game anymore and ran over, offering a cigarette to Su Zelin, then coughed lightly and lowered his voice: "Third bro, what tips did you just give Ah Sheng? Give me a couple too."

"Ah Ping, no way, you..."

Su Zelin looked surprised.

He had thought Zeng Kaiping was quite skilled.

In their past life, while playing in Shenzhen, Zeng Kaiping had taken him to a well-known club for an 16888 foreigner package, even carrying sacks for rent money.

In Hed, the tycoon ordered a dark-skinned girl, while Su Zelin was with a foreign girl, the two just happened to be in neighboring rooms, and the soundproofing was worse than at Peace Restaurant.

This life, ever since becoming an online dating aficionado, Zeng Kaiping had always held a mentor’s status in the dorm, regularly enlightening those newbies on how to utilize CPU performance optimally and how to adjust power-saving mode at the right time to extend endurance, making everyone think he was some kind of continuously variable electric motor.

But it seemed that wasn’t quite the case.

If he were really that awesome, he wouldn’t need to skulk around asking for advice.

That time in their past life, he might have even paid extra to the girl in the next room to keep up appearances for an extra hour.