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”Awesome! This Kuai Pao app is pretty good. It really gave me a free Kawangka Milk Tea.”

Inside Baozuan Mansion, Zhou Yi returned to her desk with the milk tea, experiencing the convenience and charm of food delivery for the first time.

She’d placed the order on the app, waited half an hour, and a deliveryman in a Kuai Pao uniform had brought the milk tea to the building entrance on his little electric scooter.

”Free? Sister Zhou, are you talking about Kuai Pao Delivery?”

Seeing this, her colleague next to her asked curiously.

”Yeah. Have you used it too?”

Zhou Yi replied before asking back.

”I signed up yesterday. I bought some Zhan’s Peach Cookies, and I also used my boyfriend’s account to buy a pineapple bun from Caidie Xuan.”

her colleague answered with a smile.

When Zhou Yi heard this, she immediately had an idea: ’That’s right, I can place another order with my boyfriend’s account.’

She immediately put the thought into action.

She sat at her computer and sent her boyfriend an invitation link. Once the invited user’s first order was completed, Zhou Yi would get another 5-yuan red envelope with no spending minimum.

”Babe, I want to eat an egg tart from Caidie Xuan. Quick, buy it for me.”

Zhou Yi said, feigning a cute, pleading tone.

”What’s this link? I’ll buy it for you after I get off work.” Zhou Yi’s boyfriend, Wu Lei, agreed immediately without hesitation.

”Hee hee, but I want to get it for free. This is the registration link for the Kuai Pao app. Hurry up and download it. New users get 12 yuan off their first order, and the deliveryman can bring it to me in 30 minutes.”

Zhou Yi explained to her boyfriend.

’Kuai Pao?’

’Deliveryman?’

Although Wu Lei was full of doubt, he obediently did as he was told since it was his girlfriend’s request.

He entered his phone number, set a password, filled in the verification code, and logged into the Kuai Pao app.

The splash screen showed a small running figure, and the product slogan was ”Use Kuai Pao, Arrive on Time.”

The app then jumped to the homepage, which had a cartoonish UI design. At the very top was the new user section. Clicking on it revealed all the shops and products participating in the 12-yuan-off promotion.

Wu Lei quickly found the Caidie Xuan store near Zhou Yi’s company. He added an egg tart, a baked cheese tart, and a chicken cutlet bun to his cart. After the new user discount, it only cost 3.5 yuan.

It wasn’t until after he paid that he realized the app was actually pretty easy to use.

Besides food, there were also categories for fruit, milk tea, and flowers.

However, there weren’t many merchants on the platform yet. After a few swipes, he’d already reached the bottom of the page.

Wu Lei thought for a moment, then placed another order for a bouquet of 11 champagne roses to be sent to Zhou Yi.

Less than half an hour later, Zhou Yi got a call from a deliveryman. She ran downstairs and found two of them waiting. One was holding a bag from Caidie Xuan, and the other was holding a bouquet of roses.

”Ms. Zhou, enjoy your meal!”

”Ms. Zhou, here are your flowers!” the other deliveryman said with a smile.

Zhou Yi froze for a moment. It was only when she saw the last few digits of the orderer’s phone number that she realized it was her boyfriend’s doing.

She smiled as she accepted the pastries and flowers and walked into the building.

After more than a month of preparation, Kang Guodong and Pei Yi had established eight stations in Luyang, Shushan, and Yaohai, and had also assembled a team of over 90 deliverymen.

Including the R&D, marketing, business, and customer service staff at the Luyang District headquarters, the total number of employees reached 140.

”Old Pei! How are the numbers today?”

After finishing a meeting with the tech department, Kang Guodong walked up behind Pei Yi, clapped him on the shoulder, and asked.

”1,839 new customers, 3,578 orders, and a 7% late delivery rate. Our smart dispatch system still needs to be optimized. The delivery department is reporting that many of the recommended routes are problematic.”

Pei Yi didn’t look up, switching between reports as he spoke slowly.

The Kuai Pao deliverymen’s employment contracts weren’t with a third-party outsourcing company, but directly with Kuai Pao Technology.