Chen Yue spent three years delivering takeout, collecting three thousand bad reviews, and finally died because of one of them.
When he opened his eyes again, he was back three years in the past, on the day he took his first order. A line appeared on his phone screen:
[Bad Review Backlash System activated]
[Every bad review triggers backlash against the reviewer]
[Every bad review can become a boost to your strength]
The office worker who maliciously reported him had the whole company listening to her complaint recording the next day. A rival who stole his orders had his account banned overnight. The station manager who docked his pay for late deliveries was exposed by a head-office audit and fired on the spot. A platform executive who had humiliated him had all his shady dealings exposed in front of everyone at the annual meeting.
But in this life, he wasn't content to be just a delivery rider people feared.
Starting at the worst station in the entire district, he used a hand-drawn route map, a shift schedule, and a mutual-aid board to lead twenty-nine riders in transforming the place into a model station and crushing the station manager beneath his heel. Then he moved up to the regional office, took a seat in the boardroom, went toe-to-toe with the regional director, and turned one rival after another into stepping stones.
The platform thought he was just a difficult rider. Meanwhile, he was quietly acquiring supply chains, building his own platform, and rewriting the algorithm. When the giants waged a price war, he fought with capital. When they tried to acquire him, he turned around and acquired them instead.
From rider to station manager, executive, founder of his own platform, and king of the industry.
They said the algorithm was the standard. He said, "People should be the ones to set the standards."
Chen Yue smiled. "It's time for this industry to have a new master."
