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Chapter 365 - 365 28 Like a Dream He Steps Forward from the Chaos

365: Chapter 28: Like a Dream, He Steps Forward from the Chaos 365: Chapter 28: Like a Dream, He Steps Forward from the Chaos “CEO Cheng, your TikTok followers have broken through the million mark!”

Xiao Cao held up his phone, excitedly telling Cheng Daqi.

“Stay calm, the video this afternoon is bound to blow up, especially since we’ve pushed it with a hundred thousand Hua yuan in promotion.”

Cheng Daqi’s success came from piling up money.

In America, his large house was bought with money, beauties gathered around him because of his wealth, and his displayed private jets and yachts were also paid for with money, as was the big sum spent on today’s video promotion.

Money spent generally has some effect, as long as it’s not deliberately squandered.

More so now in 2018, the era of short video ignorance, where the so-called rat race had not yet affected this emerging field.

The conversation between CEO Cheng and Xiao Cao was overheard by newly-signed girls, who felt nothing but immense envy.

A million followers, anyone else might have been so excited they’d be beside themselves, but what about CEO Cheng?

He didn’t even bother to crack a smile, his vision and scope far exceeding the limits of ordinary people’s understanding.

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Lisa sat beside Cheng Daqi, feeling somewhat bored.

She had come to Hua Country with CEO Cheng, but he was so busy with work today that he had to neglect her.

“Lisa, look, the data for our dance video this afternoon is doing really well.”

Just as Lisa was feeling bored, CEO Cheng finally paid attention to the blonde who had no one to play with.

“Hmm?”

Looking at the TikTok backend in Cheng Daqi’s hands, Lisa became curious.

The blonde knew that Mi’er had an account on TikTok, but she had never used this short video app from Hua Country.

“Look, 4.7 million exposures, over half a million likes.

I estimate the exposure will break through ten million tomorrow, and this video will help my account gain at least a hundred thousand followers.

You danced so well.”

Cheng Daqi said with generous praise.

“What?

So, you mean you’re going to pay me back?” The blonde finally felt justified in saying this.

For Lisa, with her somewhat ingratiating personality, it really was seizing the moment and mustering courage to blurt out these words, eyes closed.

When CEO Cheng wanted to give her a gift today, she had already hinted at him as strongly as she could.

Unfortunately, it might have been that her hints were too indirect, or maybe Cheng Daqi was too insensitive.

In any case, CEO Cheng had not mentioned paying her back.

Now, this jerk of a man admitted he gained a hundred thousand followers thanks to her.

It wouldn’t be too much to ask him to settle an old debt on this wave, right?

“What money?” CEO Cheng replied, perplexed.

“Hmm, never mind.

Your net worth is only several million dollars.

A debt of seven thousand dollars is ultimately too much!”

Lisa mocked him fiercely.

The attack in her words wasn’t strong, but the blonde had really tried her best to mock him.

However, her high standards meant her mockery sounded almost like coquetry.

Plus, her beauty was so striking that even her angry expression looked incredibly adorable.

Having harshly demanded her payback, Lisa glared at Cheng Daqi—she wanted to make this scoundrel feel ashamed!

But who was CEO Cheng?

His skin was as tough as a Gru bullet could allow!

“Ha ha ha ha, Lisa, you’re hilarious.

Ha ha, seriously, it’s been a long time since I’ve laughed this hard.”

Others didn’t know what Cheng Daqi and Lisa had discussed; they just saw CEO Cheng laughing uninhibitedly.

Cheng Daqi truly liked Lisa as a friend.

Although she had some shortcomings, compared to Mi’er, those were just like a single strand of hair.

What he admired most was that Lisa had no harmful, opportunistic inclinations—despite her kindness being somewhat calculated, she was genuinely benevolent and beautiful.

If he compared Lisa, Temir, and Ah Zhao, then Temir would be purely dark, Lisa tainted by some shadow, while Zhao stood in the light.

Looking at Cheng Daqi’s trajectory from the perspective of an outsider, his path aligned perfectly with the characteristics of these three women.

However, being in the thick of it, he couldn’t see it clearly.

His entanglement with Temir was the deepest because he, too, was someone mired in the muck.

Since his rebirth in America, he had always been so close to drowning in darkness.

He loved being with Zhao Hongjin the most because he once had an immaculate soul, a heart that was pure white.

But that heart had gradually worn to rags, hence he longed for the light on Zhao.

As for Lisa, CEO Cheng wasn’t as close to her, relative to the others, because Lisa’s colors were too vague.

She seemed to have convictions, but her positions and thoughts were blurred to the point of being indecipherable.

She was raised in a Republican family, educated in conservatism from her youth, and yet her intellect was influenced by Californian Democratic white liberals.

Moreover, because her mother grew up in a long-gone great nation, she yearned for a red world…

Lisa wasn’t a superficial soul, it was just that she always kept a slight distance from Cheng Daqi—a clear yet thin barrier born from the blonde’s upbringing, a unique social safety gap private to Lisa.

It was like Shanhaiguan; startups such as mas are best led by middle and senior management who are able to treat the company like their own business.

This was what CEO Cheng had always been cultivating—nurturing corporate culture and values, and shaping the soul of the enterprise.