Becoming a Billionaire after Divorce

Chapter 795 - 302: Escaping from Yang Mi, Seeking the Heavenly Immortal

The same question, Yang Mi was pestering Sun Dasheng at home asking: "Why, though? Why is it, that even though both are micro short drama apps, their user engagement is so much better than ours?"Looking at Yang Mi’s gloating expression, Sun Dasheng pinched her cheek irritably: "Why do you care? Is this something you should be concerned about?"

"Why can’t I be concerned about them?" Yang Mi held a grudge against Tencent.

Originally, Zeng Jia, her former agent, collaborated with them to plot and kick her out of the company, backed by Tencent’s investors.

As for why they kicked her out.

After much introspection, she realized it was nothing more than the old trick of discarding the pawn after its job is done, a familiar charade.

The ancestors had already explained these things clearly.

It’s an age-old tradition to dispose of the hero after the job is done.

It was just that she hadn’t realized it while she was in the situation back then.

Because the investors felt she was getting old and her utility had come to an end.

Having taken the company public and nurtured a successor in Dilraba, they believed the value she provided had been exhausted, so why keep her?

To share the spoils of victory with herself and these others?

Do you think you’re worthy?

Is your last name Zhao?

Hearing Yang Mi’s inner monologue, Sun Dasheng was somewhat surprised, as he hadn’t delved into these specific details before.

It turns out she had such an unpleasant past.

No wonder... the first time she met him, she was... quite direct.

Clearly intending to get close.

However, Sun Dasheng didn’t reject her.

With so many female stars in the entertainment industry, each with endless scandals, Yang Mi was no different, but in her personal life, she had a pretty decent reputation, unlike other female celebrities who were constantly riddled with rumors.

This was one of the reasons Sun Dasheng accepted her.

"This time you have to help me get back at them, defeat them." Yang Mi pecked his cheek, giving him some encouragement.

Sun Dasheng, however, wiped his face in disdain: "Once again, leaving red marks all over me, can you wipe off your lipstick before kissing me?"

Yang Mi squinted her eyes smiling: "No way, without lipstick my beauty level drops immediately, I’m not doing that."

"Really? I don’t think so," Sun Dasheng found her bare face quite attractive as it was.

Mainly because her skin was well-maintained.

"I don’t believe it, everyone says I’m a bold-faced beauty, and I think so too," Yang Mi said proudly.

Just then, a baby’s cry rang out from upstairs.

She quickly scrambled up: "Oh dear, probably woke up hungry, I’ll go feed him."

"Feed him formula when he grows a bit older," Sun Dasheng said from behind her.

Yang Mi paused, glared at him fiercely, flicked her hair: "No way, the infant expert said it’s best for babies to grow up on their mother’s milk."

"That’s true, but I’m afraid he might end up draining your resources," Sun Dasheng said, gazing at her there.

"Pah! Nonsense! I’ve got plenty in store," Yang Mi replied as she made her way upstairs.

Just as she left, Sun Dasheng’s phone rang.

It was Qian Zhi.

His calls were the most frequent these past few days.

But he couldn’t ignore them, as they were matters of urgency.

"Hello! What’s the matter this time?" Sun Dasheng asked first.

"Hehe... Tencent and Kangaroo found out our secret and started copying us, sending their distributors to towns and small counties," Qian Zhi said gloatingly over the phone.

"How do you know that?" Sun Dasheng wondered.

"Because we still have some distributors locally helping them resolve after-sales issues."

Afraid he didn’t understand, he explained: "These are the faults and bugs that might appear in the app, young users naturally submit issues online, but older folks can’t operate them, so our after-sales staff addresses, reports these problems, and has our programmers fix them."

"I see, that was well done," Sun Dasheng praised.

After chatting for a while, Qian Zhi lowered his tone: "Recently they poached quite a few people from our company."

"Can’t beat us directly, so resort to outside tactics, how shameless," Qian Zhi said indignantly.

"Alright, hold back your anger, you’ll get used to these so-called tech giants’ attitudes."

"These are just appetizers; they’re capable of more shameless acts, and what can you do? At most a moral judgment, but does that matter to companies their size?"

Sun Dasheng patiently explained.

"So we just let the poaching slide?" Qian Zhi asked.

"Job-hopping is employees’ right, let them be," Sun Dasheng wasn’t planning to dwell on this.

It wasn’t worthwhile.

Even though Alima’s reputation plummeted after the 996 issue.

But he still said something quite right: employees leave for one of three reasons.

One is insufficient compensation; the other is being wronged at the company.

The third is both of the above.

After thinking, he said: "Increase the salaries of employees who remain in the company one more notch."

Qian Zhi said in surprise: "Raise them again? But when we hired, they were already the highest in the industry, isn’t raising them more inappropriate?"

"Those who left happily took high salaries elsewhere, we can’t let the devoted employees left behind earn less than them, can we? Don’t worry, just give them raises, our company can afford it, we need to show an attitude."

"What attitude? Simply that those willing to fight alongside our company won’t just hear empty slogans, they’ll receive tangible rewards."

Qian Zhi wanted to say something, but Sun Dasheng interrupted, "This time let me make a decisive call, do as I say, any shortfall, the headquarters will provide funds."