One afternoon, Zhou Yuwen ran back and forth over a dozen times, not only delivering SIM cards to junior girls but sometimes to junior boys as well, after all, there was money to be made, with no cause to shiver from the cold.
Even so, Zhou Yuwen only registered thirty students interested in getting a SIM card.
This just wouldn't do. For someone like Zhou Yuwen with no experience or connections, having only thirty students interested in getting cards would at most qualify him for a lower-level agency, let alone attract any attention from the general agency.
At this point, Zhou Yuwen thought of his high school classmates group.
Upon opening it, as expected, the group chat was bustling with excitement. These were people going to college in another city for the first time, so excited that they didn't know who else to share with apart from in their group, posting photos and exclaiming, "This is our dormitory!"
"This is our cafeteria, look, we even have mini hot-pots!"
"Damn, food at our cafeteria is so expensive, a bowl of duck blood vermicelli soup costs eight yuan!"
"Prices in Jinling are steep, home is so much better!"
Oh right, students from Xu Huai like Zhou Yuwen would mostly study in Jinling, with a small portion going to cities like Suzhou, Wuxi, and Changzhou, and only two or three choosing to study out of the province.
Zhou Yuwen scrolled through the group's chat history and then mentioned everyone:
@Everyone, any classmates in Jinling who need a SIM card, I have a relative working at a network operator's store. Now you can get a local campus SIM card for just 130 yuan, with 30GB of data each month, plus a free smartphone and campus broadband, available for all students in the Jinling university town.
As soon as this message was sent, it aroused the interest of many lurking students.
"Damn! Brother Zhou, you're really a lifesaver! How did you know I needed a SIM card!"
"Brother Zhou, where are you? I'm coming right now to get one!"
Compared to the girls, the boys actually had a greater demand for SIM cards because they needed to play online games, and with no internet in the dormitory, they were unable to do so. However, the campus SIM cards provided by the school were mostly priced between 150-200 yuan.
Zhou Yuwen's offer at 130 was truly a conscientious price!
Another thing is that everyone has a subconscious belief that it's easier to get things done through someone they know.
It's because Zhou Yuwen has relatives working at the network operator's store, it's Brother Zhou taking care of us!
After all, high school classmates are reliable!
Take, for example, a dormitory right now discussing what SIM plan to get.
A broadband card for the dormitory: four people using it, each person pays forty yuan, with the excess counted as call credit.
"But there's also a monthly fee of 79 yuan, internet fees in Jinling are really expensive!"
"Liu Shuo, what do you think? Should we each fork out forty and get the SIM card first?" The roommates asked Liu Shuo, who was on his bed playing with his phone.
Liu Shuo sat up, "Forget it. I won't get one from the school. A friend of mine has connections at the network operator's store, getting it through him only costs 130."
"That cheap?"
"Yeah, my friend said this is the price for secondary agents, he's giving us this rate so we become his agents. If we help others get a card, it's still 150, so we make a 20 yuan commission for every card we sell," Liu Shuo explained.
"Wow, Brother Shuo, didn't expect you to have friends with such wide reach!"
"Heh! Of course I do!"
Zhou Yuwen indeed had given them the secondary agent's price. The fees for handling campus cards were fixed. Zhou Yuwen, having been reborn, certainly knew the rules; but since high school classmates were acquaintances, and now they were dispersed across various colleges in the university town, it was fair to use the 130 rate to serve them and recruit them as secondary agents.
Before long, more than a dozen people got in touch with Zhou Yuwen to get a card, and even if they didn't want one for themselves, they would contact Zhou Yuwen saying, "My roommate wants to get a campus card, is it also one hundred and thirty?"
That's when Zhou Yuwen said, "As long as they're referred by you guys, the price is one hundred and thirty, but how much you charge others is your business, I won't ask."
With that, everyone grew fond of Zhou Yuwen.
"Impressive, never thought Brother Zhou was so capable."
"We're basking in Brother Zhou's glow (grinning)."
"Brother Zhou, I just asked around, and six people in our class want to get a card!"
"Brother Zhou, there are two in our dorm who want a card!"
Soon, classmates in the group chat responded eagerly.
Zhou Yuwen said, "Record the names of the students who want cards, send them to me by tonight, and I'll summarize and arrange for someone to go directly to your schools to process them."
"Okay, CEO Zhou (smug)."
"Got it, got it!"
Just as Zhou Yuwen was recruiting a new batch of secondary agents, his phone suddenly beeped twice.
A girl's avatar flickered twice.
Li Shiqi: "Zhou Yuwen, are the SIM cards you're offering from China Mobile or China Unicom?"
Zhou Yuwen almost forgot who Li Shiqi was, the memories of high school were too distant.
Li Shiqi was the beauty of Zhou Yuwen's high school class, pretty and academically strong. In high school, the teachers would always hold her up as an example, repeatedly saying, "Look at Li Shiqi."
Zhou Yuwen's impression of Li Shiqi was that of a diligent student who only knew how to study, always wearing a ponytail.
Pretty she was.
But such a girl and Zhou Yuwen were really from two different worlds.
After graduating, Li Shiqi lived up to expectations by getting into Jinling University, which ranks among the top in the nation. Although it was just a stone's throw from Zhou Yuwen's university.
But the two had no interactions during their four years of university. Even if they saw each other, it would only be a brief encounter on the street, not even exchanging greetings, so Zhou Yuwen's impression of Li Shiqi was indeed vague.
He would see Li Shiqi again only on TV, celebrated as the most beautiful diplomat.