novelraw Chapter 78 : What a Coincidence
Chapter 78 : What a Coincidence
Chapter 78: What a Coincidence
Chen Fan's efficiency was very high.
The location for the second internet cafe was decided very quickly.
It was on that street in the university town.
There were several universities nearby, so there was no worry about customers.
And this time, Chen Fan didn't rent, he directly bought a street-front store with full payment.
Over 150 square meters, paying around 300,000 yuan in full.
It sounds a bit expensive, but for Chen Fan, it was ridiculously cheap.
With this location, he just needed to hold onto it for a few years, and when he sells it later, doubling the price would be easy.
After the transfer procedures were completed, Chen Fan contacted the previous construction team, and the renovation began rapidly.
This time, not worrying about funds, so the renovation progressed extremely fast, almost a different look each day.
Besides this, Chen Fan also contacted computer manufacturers and bought 100 high-end configured computers.
Just the expense for computers used 500,000 to 600,000 yuan.
Adding the cost of buying the property and renovation, Chen Fan's spending on this second internet cafe had exceeded 1 million yuan.
However, Chen Fan didn't feel regretful, it was all worth it.
As long as the internet cafe opens, he was confident he could replicate the brilliant success of Starry Sky Internet Cafe.
While Chen Fan was busy overseeing the renovation every day, the situation on the boys' dorm side had finally progressed to moving.
The cleaning in the newly built boys' dorm building was done, it was said that everyone could move out of the girls' dorm building next month.
When this news came out, quite a few boys lamented endlessly.
At night standing on the balcony shouting that they couldn't bear leaving the gentle, caring, and understanding senior sisters behind.
During this period, there was also a small incident that occurred.
The class monitor of Chen Fan's class actually got together with a third-year senior sister from Building 8.
But this guy was playing both sides, and got caught red-handed by the senior sister.
The senior sister made a huge fuss in the dorm, and even showed the hospital proof of having an abortion for him.
This incident then blew up, and in the end the college had to step in, giving the class monitor a major demerit.
The class monitor position could no longer be held by him.
The counselor announced that next week they would re-elect a new class monitor, Wu Di who had joined the college student union was very interested in this position, and had been liaising with various dorms to gain favor and solicit votes these days.
Because Wu Di's family conditions weren't particularly good, his living expense was almost all used for dating.
So Ma Xiaoshuai sponsored 500 yuan for Wu Di to establish connections with other dorm mates.
Using Ma Xiaoshuai's original words, to solicit votes you can't just talk about feelings, there has to be some benefits.
Chen Fan only found out about this incident later.
He privately found Wu Di and also sponsored 500 yuan.
Wu Di wanted to decline, but Chen Fan just waved his hand smiling.
"I'm not giving you this money for free, this is called investing in the future for me."
"You can see that I'm not interested in studying, I often skip classes."
"When you become the class monitor in the future, you'll have to cover for me."
Hearing this, Wu Di smiled.
He patted Chen Fan's shoulder.
"If you put it that way, I'll accept this money."
"Rest assured. In the future, I'll cover for you openly and aboveboard."
Chen Fan asked if he was confident, but Wu Di just smiled.
His main competition now was Gao Bo from the neighboring dorm, that guy's temper wasn't great, and he didn't have as good a reputation in the class as Wu Di.
"Plus he'll just shout slogans and make empty promises, I estimate he has a very small chance of being elected."
Chen Fan smiled.
"Alright then. Once you're elected, our dorm will also have someone who's made it onto the official path, don't forget to treat us."
Wu Di made an OK gesture.
"Just wait for the good news."
The business at Starry Sky Internet Cafe was getting better and better.
Originally Chen Fan thought everyone was just following the trend, the craze would only be temporary, and the passion would die down after some time.
But who could have imagined, after over a month, not only did the students' passion not diminish, it rose even higher instead.
Chen Fan had the employees conduct a small survey privately, of the students who came to Starry Sky Internet Cafe to surf the internet, over 80 percent would purchase a membership card.
And those customers who had purchased membership cards would 100% choose to continue coming to Starry Sky to surf the internet afterwards.
Only if there were no available computers at Starry Sky would they have to reluctantly go to other internet cafes.
Regarding this phenomenon, Chen Fan had also privately interviewed a few brothers from the dorm.
Asking them what their impression of Starry Sky Internet Cafe was.
Good environment, makes one's mood pleasant, good service, can order food.
There are private rooms, especially the female private rooms and couples rooms, which are the most popular areas.
And for girls surfing the internet, the computer configurations can be a bit lower, a good environment is the priority.
Order a milk tea or coffee, and they can play for a long time.
Over time, rumors that there were many beautiful girls at Starry Sky Internet Cafe began spreading between the various campuses in the university town.
So in order to see the beauties, quite a few guys also chose to come running here.
Who knows, maybe they could encounter their destiny.
Regarding these survey results, Chen Fan was somewhat bemused.
When did internet cafes also rely on the beautiful girl effect?
Although Chen Fan himself had developed the cashier system for the internet cafe, where customers only needed to top up their membership cards with money.
But the large amounts of cash that came in still needed to be periodically consolidated and taken to the bank to deposit.
Initially, Chen Fan thought going to deposit once a month would be enough.
But it turned out Chen Fan had underestimated Starry Sky Internet Cafe's earning speed.
In the end, he found that going to the bank to deposit money once a week was about right.
This time, Chen Fan was carrying a bag of loose change to the bank again.
The female staff Zhou Xiuna from last time recognized Chen Fan and proactively came over to greet him.
"Mr. Chen, are you here to handle a deposit?"
Chen Fan nodded.
"Please follow me."
Zhou Xiuna gave a faint smile, wearing a black professional uniform as she slightly turned sideways to lead the way.
Chen Fan's gaze swept over her back view, noticing her slender and fair legs were straight and long.
Sitting at the counter, Chen Fan opened the black plastic bag, pouring out the money inside.
Bundle after bundle were loose change that had been counted and rolled up.
Zhou Xiuna's gaze moved from this pile of loose change in front of her up to Chen Fan's face.
Nowadays, it was really quite rare to see someone depositing money in a plastic bag.
"A total of 87,632 yuan."
"Here is your deposit slip. Please keep it safe."
Zhou Xiuna was very polite, and did not look down on Chen Fan for his young age.
Seeing Chen Fan get up to leave, Zhou Xiuna quickly spoke up.
"Mr. Chen, would you like to apply for a VIP membership?"
"After becoming a VIP, the next time you come to handle any business you can enjoy dedicated staff service."
Chen Fan recalled what this woman had said last time.
Thinking that in the future he would likely have to deal with the bank for a long period of time.
And getting a VIP membership would indeed benefit him.
So he sat back down.
"Alright, I'll get one then."
Zhou Xiuna's expression brightened, and she quickly got up from behind the counter.
"Mr. Chen, please follow me."
She led Chen Fan to a rest room in the back.
"Mr. Chen, please have a seat. Did you bring your ID card?"
Chen Fan took out his ID card and handed it to her. Zhou Xiuna did not immediately leave, but went over to pour Chen Fan a cup of tea.
"Mr. Chen, please wait a moment, it will be ready soon."
After saying that, she took the ID card to go print.
Zhou Xiuna's work efficiency was very quick.
Not long after, she returned.
"Mr. Chen, here is your VIP card and ID card. Please keep them safe."
"Thank you again for becoming a VIP member of our bank."
Chen Fan nodded, and stood up.
"Well then, I'll take my leave first."
"I'll see you out."
As he exited the VIP rest room, just as Chen Fan was about to leave, he unexpectedly discovered there were people arguing in the lobby.
His gaze curiously swept over, and to his surprise he saw a familiar face.
Chen Fan hesitated for a moment, turned to Zhou Xiuna and smiled.
"I see a friend over there."
After saying that, he walked over in that direction.