Chapter 128 - 124: There’s a Fugitive in Your Car

At this moment, the Cao Cao platform, the Shen Zhou platform...All are staging similar positive stories.

Subsequently, each platform eagerly posted promotional photos of their drivers acting heroically online.

What if there aren’t any banners issued by the police commending bravery?

No big deal!

The platform issues them themselves.

Just make sure to photograph the words "bravery" intentionally, without capturing the issuing authority when taking pictures.

Each platform is brimming with confidence, relying on their meticulously crafted positive energy stories, they surely can gain some points for their platform.

However, reality is always so cruel.

"What the heck? Did heroic deeds poke a hornet’s nest in the ride-sharing platforms?"

"Wow, isn’t this a bit too deliberate? After Bibi’s heroic act went viral, other platforms couldn’t wait to roll out their own heroic drivers. It’s a bit hard to understand trying to piggyback on such hype."

"Yeah, your story is good, but the driver is too ugly, can’t compare with Bibi. Poor review!"

"Really? Do these platforms seriously think people admire bravery? We are all just looking at Bibi’s appearance, okay? It’s so ridiculous, trying to join the bandwagon without understanding the core reason."

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Seeing the netizens’ reactions, the platforms were all heartbroken.

So it turns out people admired not bravery, but found Bibi handsome!

Damn, wasn’t the set-up all for nothing?

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Yang Chen was also speechless, he didn’t want to be in the spotlight, but Bibi platform insisted on pushing him into it.

Damn, what to do if I don’t get any bad reviews in the future?

However, Yang Chen didn’t really have much to worry about.

It’s well-known that Weibo has now become a "women’s restroom," plus a gathering place for Boxer types.

Decent ordinary people usually don’t play with that thing.

So, many people do know him, but there are still many who don’t.

Also, in the internet era, trends come and go, once the heat passes, or when there’s new buzz, people will stop focusing on old topics.

However, lately Yang Chen has been quite comfortable.

Because he became the "spokesperson" for Bibi platform, the platform intentionally gave him many more orders.

As soon as one passenger got off, the system immediately assigned him new orders, and the locations were great, belonging to situations with good road conditions, long distances, and relatively high fares.

And recently, over a hundred orders Yang Chen received all had good reviews, indeed many customers upon seeing it was him, directly gave high ratings.

Soon, Weibo no longer had any buzz about Yang Chen.

His life gradually returned to normal.

Having not encountered any peculiar passengers for a long time, Yang Chen almost missed them.

Close to six o’clock in the evening, Yu Shishi called to invite Yang Chen back home for dinner.

Yang Chen was preparing to go back, but the system assigned another damn order.

He didn’t want to take it initially, but this order was along the way.

It seemed the platform system calculated he should head home for dinner, deliberately assigning him an order on the way.

Since he was going home anyway, he might as well take this order along the way.

Yang Chen picked up a female passenger in her thirties.

Soon, Yang Chen delivered her to the designated destination.

"Hello, we have arrived. Please take all your belongings, you’re welcome to choose Bibi for your next ride." Yang Chen said.

The female passenger immediately said, "Driver, please take me to the North Gate. I live there, I accidentally set the wrong destination."

However, Yang Chen had already delivered her to the destination, and the platform had settled the fare.

If Yang Chen detoured to the North Gate, this segment of the journey would be unpaid.

That wouldn’t matter much, it’s just a bit of fuel cost.

The key issue was that there was road construction here, if he detoured to the North Gate, he’d have to reverse onto the overpass, detouring about 2.8 kilometers to reach the North Gate.

If she called a separate ride, her starting fare of 3 kilometers would almost be consumed.

Wow, isn’t it obvious she’s playing mind games with Yang Chen?

She lives here, it’s impossible she doesn’t know how far it is to detour from the South Gate to the North Gate.

She deliberately set the closest South Gate as the destination, then asked the driver to take her to the North Gate, so she could save some fare.

Simply put, the small fuel cost isn’t the point, the main issue is her playing tricks.

Plus, Yang Chen was in a hurry to get home for dinner, he definitely didn’t want to drive an extra 3 kilometers to drop her off for free.

"Sorry, miss, I’ve already dropped you off at the destination specified in the order. If you need to go to the North Gate, please reorder." Yang Chen declined directly.

The female passenger replied, "Oh, calling a new ride is so troublesome. Why don’t you just take me there? It’s not far, just a two-minute detour."

"You said your home is at the North Gate, then why did you set the South Gate as your destination? If you had set it to the North Gate, I would’ve taken another route, probably saving distance. But there’s construction ongoing, so all the detours are bothersome. I’m rushing home for dinner, sorry, please order another car." Yang Chen responded.

The female passenger’s expression turned vicious, "Driver, don’t be so stubborn. I’ll be a regular customer, after I get off, I’ll ride with you again."

"No, no, no, I don’t want to keep detouring to take you to the North Gate every time. Please get off, I really need to head home for dinner." Yang Chen replied.

The female passenger let out a sarcastic laugh, saying, "Isn’t it all about the money? Fine, I’ll give you another two bucks, okay? Let’s hurry, I also have to rush home to cook."

Yang Chen stopped the engine and shook his head, "Sorry, this is a matter of principle. If you genuinely needed help, I’d certainly assist you, it’s not about the fuel money. But if you intentionally play tricks on me, I definitely won’t indulge that."

Exposed by Yang Chen regarding her true intentions, the female passenger immediately snapped, "Who are you calling trickster? I just set the wrong destination, who’s tricking you? It’s as if I can’t afford a ride. Do you still want a good review? I heard the ratings affect order priority, you wouldn’t want this order to affect your future orders either, would you?"

Damn!

Looks like she knows a lot!

Judging by her confidence, there’s no way this is her first time pulling this, she must do this often.

Other drivers might have compromised under the pressure of ratings.

Yang Chen couldn’t care less, having just run over two hundred good reviews, with Liu Xueqing internally supporting, there’s no need to fear this woman’s lousy review threat, is there?