Capítulo 1089: Chapter 684: Innate Lover Holy Body
“Smooch–!”
Cheng Zhu looked down, then gently patted the counselor’s perky butt and said, “I’ll go wash up first.”
“Okay.”
That night, he didn’t go ho, he spent the night with Chen Jieyu.
After both were done showering, he held the counselor and asked a question.
“Mr. Chen, do you still insist on being childfree like before, not wanting kids?”
He knew people could change.
The counselor in the past was truly an “Innate Lover Holy Body.”
She was both non-marital and childfree, you could say all the buffs were stacked up, n didn’t have to worry about any burdens at all.
But as life changed, and circumstances shifted, a person’s worldview could also alter.
Especially since Chen Jieyu was so much older than him, she wasn’t young anymore.
Upon hearing his words, the beautiful eyes under the counselor’s golden-rimd glasses were briefly startled.
She didn’t expect that Cheng Zhu would suddenly raise such a question after their intimate mont today.
That topic is indeed quite serious.
But Chen Jieyu was a smart person, she understood very well, Cheng Zhu is still so young, still in college, and his situation was unique; he wasn’t asking because he wanted kids. It was likely out of concern for her.
In essence, the counselor wasn’t soone with a particularly strong sense of security.
Their current relationship seed sweet but was in fact fragile.
If there really were a child, it would indeed tie him closer to her, and this relationship could stabilize for a lifeti because of a child.
Simply put, having a child would an Mr. Chen would beco Cheng Zhu’s concubine.
But after thinking about it, she still lay in this bad student’s arms and gently shook her head.
Cheng Zhu looked at her and just gave a slight nod without saying much more.
He respected all her decisions, and if she suddenly changed her mind later, he would respect and accept that too.
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The first day of the New Year arrived just like that.
Youuqu’s marketing efforts were still intensifying.
In addition, ByteDance also started to cooperate, throwing a combined punch with Youuqu.
Don’t forget, even though ByteDance hadn’t launched TikTok like in the previous life, the company invested in Youuqu and was still involved with the Huoshan Short Video project, a similar category to Kuai Shou.
Therefore, Huoshan now beca Cheng Zhu’s defensive line, also able to assist.
After this period of accumulation, and with Headline’s traffic shift, Huoshan was developing rapidly, also growing at a high speed.
Though there was a gap with Youuqu, it was already aiming for third place!
Yes, Paipai’s position was at risk again.
In a two-on-one scenario, Kuai Shou was struggling to cope.
Mainly because Cheng Zhu’s cunning strategies ca one after the other, although Youuqu’s big internet celebrities didn’t have the follower counts or play counts of Kuai Shou, they were making comparable amounts of money!
Isn’t that outrageous?!
This undoubtedly led people to think, “If Youuqu continues to grow, reaching Kuai Shou’s level of millions of followers…”
Damn, wouldn’t that be insanely profitable?!
On the other hand, Kuai Shou was also experiencing internal problems.
At this ti, one couldn’t help but ntion the old friend—Baidu!
How to put it, Baidu remained consistently stable this ti as well.
Before Kuai Shou had gained montum, Baidu invested heavily, using this as a step into the short video field.
Baidu played a significant role in Kuai Shou’s rapid early growth!
Does that feeling of familiarity strike you right away?
Yes, Baidu had entered the trending field early, gaining early advantages!
But before long, Baidu went through a wave of personnel adjustnts internally.
The people responsible for Kuai Shou were either reassigned to other departnts or had left.
More critically, last year, Baidu and Kuai Shou developed a disagreent.
Baidu had once hoped to jointly develop short videos with Kuai Shou, carrying out strategic tie-ins.
However, when Kuai Shou tried comrcializing, it chose live streaming over advertisents as the primary way to monetize, reducing its strategic alignnt with Baidu.
A similar story happened between Baidu and Didi, when Baidu gave up on investing in Didi due to the lack of strategic coordination between search and ride-hailing.
From Baidu’s perspective, taking the advertising route was surely better since that was its old expertise.
Moreover, everyone knew how outrageous and bottom-barrel many of Baidu’s ads were.
But, making money was truly their thing!
From Baidu’s viewpoint, if [search] and [short video] could combine, making money from ads, wouldn’t they be invincible in the ad domain?
But sadly, cooperation in strategy was impossible.
Su Hua and Chen Yixiao were determined to push forward with live streaming.
They didn’t see a significant advantage for Kuai Shou in running ads, especially as they targeted the lower-tier market.
And in this era, consumption was still upgrading.
This made the board’s internal visions incompatible, and Baidu, one of the BAT giants, had no plans to continue backing Kuai Shou financially.
In fact, due to Cheng Zhu’s continuous strategic maneuvers, Kuai Shou faced hurdles again during the year-end financing last year.
The reason was simple; Kuai Shou had previously reached out to Tencent and Alibaba for investnt, hoping for support from the giants, and then… was flatly rejected!
But when Kuai Shou grew rapidly, Tencent, noticing its own unpromising Weishi, suddenly realized… why bother developing its own when investing money would be better?
During this phase, Tencent was flourishing in its investnt field!
So, last year, Tencent actively approached Kuai Shou several tis, implying investnt interest.
For Su Hua and Chen Yixiao, this was undoubtedly the best news!
“Tencent still doesn’t take Weishi seriously internally, has no plans to spend heavily on it, and chose to invest in us instead!”
“Is there a more solid, more fitting backing for us than Tencent in the country?”
“No! Absolutely not!”
Generous with money, plus social dia traffic support… Tencent, you’re like my real dad!
However, as Youuqu continued to make strides in the second half of the year, there were differing opinions within Tencent.
“Seems like… investing in Youuqu would be better!”
You know, Kuai Shou has already grown big and has gone through several rounds of financing.
For the next round of financing, if Tencent wants to lead, it would take at least over 2 billion US Dollars.
Because Baidu and Kuai Shou were in an inseparably close phase and initially, the asking price for the next round was as high as 2 billion US Dollars!
Now that the relationship is broken, even if Tencent wants to take advantage of the situation, the price can’t be low.
No way around it, their daily active users are approaching 50 million, they’ve already risen strongly!
But looking at Youuqu, the total amount of the last round of financing was only 500 million.
Tencent: “It’s not that we can’t afford to invest in Kuai Shou, but Youuqu is more cost-effective!”
Moreover, Cheng Zhu is one of us!
We have invested in Youu Tea, and he has invested in Ele and Dianping.
We have a deeply tied relationship!
That’s also why when Cheng Zhu went to ask Tencent to vigorously support cooperation with Jingdong, it went so smoothly.
“In my mory, it seems like Tencent invested nearly 3 billion US Dollars in Kuai Shou at the outset?” He vaguely rembers it this way.
“Moreover, they continued to reinvest!”
“This has to be stopped!”
For him, accepting Tencent’s investnt once is not a big issue.
Whether to continuously accept its support, that’s the question.
“I’m so good at playing won, why not play Tencent?”
“Who cares! Just keep them on a string for now!” Cheng Zhu’s playboy ntality remains steady and effective.
So, recently Youuqu and Tencent have entered a phase of flirtatious tug-of-war.
Reaching a win-win cooperation with Jingdong is Cheng Zhu’s way of sending flirtatious signals.
Now that you’re being playful with , you shouldn’t be indecisive with Kuai Shou.
You know, I’m more cost-effective than Kuai Shou.
In terms of product positioning and profit models, Tencent actually favors Youuqu more.
After all, when it cos to live streaming profitability, Tencent already has its own investnt projects.
Little Ma also greatly appreciates Cheng Zhu as a person.
In this way, Kuai Shou also embarked on a different path than Cheng Zhu’s previous life.
The support was gone overnight!
The BAT triad, lost two!
Even more fatal is the fact that Cheng Zhu, as a reborn, knows very well that Alibaba won’t extend an olive branch to Kuai Shou for the ti being.
Because currently, Old Yu, who was the president of Alibaba’s big entertainnt division and a mber of Alibaba’s investnt decision committee, is extrely pessimistic about short videos.
When Cai Chongxin strongly recomnded Kuai Shou, Old Yu rejected it.
Later, when Youku under Alibaba wanted to dabble in short videos, Old Yu dismissed it too.
Anyway, Old Yu seems to have a feud with short videos.
Cheng Zhu: “With you around, I’m at ease.”
The final result was that the conflict between Old Cai and Old Yu gradually escalated.
Old Yu left Alibaba’s big entertainnt division.
But the impact he caused was that Alibaba didn’t gain much in the investnt track of short videos and community products.
That is to say, for the BAT triad, the current Kuai Shou can’t rely on any of them!
This is also one of the reasons Cheng Zhu dares to challenge it at the current stage!
At the mont, facing any one of the BAT triad on his own, he would struggle a lot.
The capital crush would shatter him into pieces!
But if it’s Kuai Shou without any backing…
Then, why not have a showdown!
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Ti passed, and the Spring Festival went by like this.
The increase of Youuqu t Cheng Zhu’s expectations, reaching an increase of 15 million daily active users.
On the Kuai Shou side, it also increased by over 8 million, with the peak DAU reaching a terrifying 60 million.
However, it was only ahead of Youuqu by 16 million now.
Only at this ti did Yue Dongyi and others realize why Cheng Zhu was urgently pushing Youuqu’s comrcialization.
“This kid probably guessed long ago that he would need a lot of money this year, and he would need a substantial amount of financing!”
“And if comrcialization hadn’t been promoted, the capital market wouldn’t possibly invest too much in this round of financing!”
Before it achieved comrcialization, investors were like “circling vultures,” observing, hesitating, wavering;
After achieving profitability, investors’ concerns greatly diminish!
No choice, they see the at!
Youuqu, relying on its algorithm, truly has a huge advantage in advertising.
According to the platform’s released data, just during the Spring Festival, the platform’s advertising revenue reached a staggering 300 million!
Moreover, anyone with a keen eye can see that Cheng Zhu intentionally controls the number of ads, still valuing user experience, otherwise, this figure could at least double.
You know, this is still a developing platform!
Youuqu’s new round of financing is thus initiated.
The entire capital market stretches their necks to watch, as the majority of them don’t qualify for a ticket.
Everyone feels this round of financing will bring about an astronomical figure beyond everyone’s expectations!
“This ti, how much money will Cheng Zhu actually raise?”
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