War and Smoke

In late autumn, yellow leaves swirled through the air. Kuaidi's development in Jin City and the surrounding cities was flourishing, while Didi rapidly seized roughly half the market in Jiangcheng and Yu City.

Advertising flyers were distributed everywhere, and the subsidy battle between different regions was thick with the smell of gunpowder.

In this small-scale market war, both sides seemed to have gained an advantage, yet neither seemed to have truly benefited.

However, Chen Chuanxing's reputation in the industry had clearly been rising. Throughout October, the head of SoftBank China visited Kuaidi Technology's Hangzhou headquarters several times, and Hillhouse Capital followed suit.

This showed that foreign capital was already eager to enter China's ride-hailing market, and they had all taken a liking to Kuaidi.

By contrast, Bibi had fallen into a position of weak presence within the entire ride-hailing alliance.

After all, in the eyes of capital, a startup CEO did not need to be overly steady, but they absolutely had to be decisive.

In other words, daring to think and act was more favored than hesitating over every possibility. Steadiness was something for after the market had been unified. In the current stage of commercial warfare, anyone who was not ruthless would never claim the crown.

That was why capital favored Kuaidi—or more precisely, Chen Chuanxing. This turned Cheng Wei's "steadiness" into a derogatory term.

Liu Qing felt a deep frustration toward him. She really could not understand why Cheng Wei became so cautious every time he mentioned Jiang Qin.

She was probably accustomed to the way things were done in a capitalist society. In her view, none of Jiang Qin's decisiveness in the past was worth fearing under the weight of actual money.

Then, at an investors' conference in October, Liu Qing met Jiang Qin in person and