Inside the shopping mall in Shanghai, Cheng Zhu was chatting with the leasing manager.
This leasing manager's last name was Zhao, someone Cheng Zhu had contacted by phone.
The reason the two of them were able to meet so smoothly was mainly that Cheng Zhu had bought a new mobile phone number some time ago, to use as his work number.
He had spent quite a bit of money—the last four digits of the phone number were four eights.
What's more, he bought one of those old numbers instead of a new number with the higher starting digits.
In a few years, due to policy reasons, good phone numbers would actually start to lose their value.
But in these few years, both good phone numbers and good car license plate numbers were not cheap.
Some people's phone numbers were much more expensive than the iPhone in their hands.
Some cars' license plate numbers might also be worth as much as the cars themselves.
