My American magical life
Chapter 637 - 637 108 Who Takes Him Seriously_4

637: Chapter 108: Who Takes Him Seriously?_4 637: Chapter 108: Who Takes Him Seriously?_4 Steven, to avoid trouble at first, let Eris off the hook, then almost destroyed himself, but managed to scare Eris out of his wits, to the point where he was nearly kowtowing to CEO Cheng for help.

On the surface, this seemed like a covert fight between Mi’er and Achilles, but Eris really was too insignificant.

CEO Cheng and his people could protect Gru but not necessarily him—just now, Cheng Daqi had also said he had given Gru fifty million dollars.

That’s the difference.

How much did Eris earn after all his hard work as a dog?

The biggest deal he bore all risk for earned him two thousand, and it even hadn’t hit the account yet—and Jax’s eight million hadn’t hit the account either!

It’s like fronting the money for a project, where the client freeloads every day without paying the final settlement, leaving poor Eli without even his underwear after being screwed over by CEO Cheng and the Gru bunch.

In the past, Eris played in high-stakes games, but this one was way over his head, so high that Steven, a high-level executive at Forbes, had to sabotage himself.

Eris couldn’t afford to play, much less afford to lose.

“Eris, this is as far as you go in life.

Look at you now, played like a fiddle by Gru.

But do you know what disappoints me the most?”

The words were somewhat humiliating, but Eris didn’t dare to talk back.

“Smack!

Speak!”

CEO Cheng couldn’t help but give another relieving slap as his big palms struck down.

“I…

I don’t know.” Eris’s face was swollen, and he was genuinely afraid that CEO Cheng would abandon him.

“Smack!”

Cheng Daqi grabbed Eris by the throat and pressed him against a utility pole.

“Eris, you shouldn’t have touched my money!

LCE is mine!

The money in there is mine!

Fifty thousand dollars is nothing, but I should be the one to distribute it.

I could give you twenty million, fifty million, but you had no right to collude with your brother and Chen Zihao behind my back!

What I give you is yours; what I don’t, you can’t touch!”

This also greatly perturbed Cheng Daqi’s mindset.

He never thought that Chen Zihao would dare collude with Eris, but then again, it wasn’t surprising.

The bodyguards around Chen Zihao were Gru’s men; Gru was obviously more deeply intertwined with Cheng Daqi.

Whereas Eris, who was in charge of security at the LCE Cryptocurrency trading platform, including security guards and janitors, were gang members under his command.

They seemed like a force that could cooperate.

Chen Zihao, not content to be idle, wanted to give it a try, which was understandable since he was a con artist by nature, playing with risk was in his blood.

But it also made CEO Cheng fully realize how unstable his foundations were at the moment; he couldn’t even find a reliable confidant to keep an eye on Chen Zihao.

“Yes, I shouldn’t have touched it.

I don’t want those two million anymore, Chan, this is my compensation!

I know only you can save me.

The trouble at Gru’s end is even bigger.

I’m just asking that when you deal with Gru’s problem, you take care of mine as well.”

Eris’s current state was that of a man swallowing his teeth to avoid showing pain.

He wanted to survive.

His good life had just started not long ago, and he was not willing to end it so abruptly.

The maneuvers CEO Cheng just performed were tactical, but for Eris, it was a matter of redemption or death.

Run?

Sure, he could run, and then the blame would firmly be on him.

A fight to the death?

But he had to get through the current situation first!

The bear, Riel, that psychopath had a medical record of mental illness—an illness that Eris himself had managed to get certified!!!

What a sin!

The wrongdoing was Eris’s own, and, tears and all, he had to bear it alone.

He didn’t dare to retaliate today after being slapped around by CEO Cheng, is it because he’s just good-natured?

Riel is standing not too far away!

“Huh, Eris, Gru and I have fallen out, why don’t you go find Gru, after all, you like being his dog, he’s your real master.”

Eris was shocked by CEO Cheng’s news, his first thought was whether he was set up from the beginning, wondering if Gru’s falling out was deliberate—as if he and CEO Cheng had the same idea.

The mutual trust within the Gru Group began to collapse under Gru’s tricky manipulation!

“You are, you are my master, Chan, woof!

Woof!

Woof!”

With that bark from Eris, CEO Cheng was truly taken aback.

“Ha, you were the one who threatened me every time you saw me, even wanted Riel to follow me, Eris, do you hate me that much?”

Cheng Daqi’s question was a piercing one, but Eris could withstand the pressure.

I am Eris, I came from the streets of the Balkans to the spotlight of the stage on the West Coast, if I am to keep going, I can’t crash and burn here.

What’s so bad about being a dog?

I wanted to be Wolf’s dog, and he didn’t even agree—Wolf was wary of the pushy Cheng Daqi and Mi’er, so he was cautious about Eris, whom CEO Cheng had recommended.

Of course, Cort was an exception; Wolf wasn’t the least bit wary of him because Cort was adorably dumb, stupidly conspicuous.

“No hate, Chan, I’m not a strong man, I’ve realized that long ago, so I’m willing to follow the strong.

I just couldn’t come to terms with it before, I didn’t understand, that’s why I made mistakes.

I won’t make mistakes in the future.

You’re a generous person, I messed things up, I don’t hate you.”

“What did you mess up?”

“The ABC soccer kick case, I’m now on Forbes’s radar, it could lead to even more trouble, I don’t want to run, nor do I want to die.”

“You’ve finally seen the light, Eris, you’re not stupid, but now is not the time, just go back and wait.”

“Wait for what?”

“For the change of the situation, Gru won’t be able to bear it, as long as I’m not in a hurry, he will definitely lose his patience!”

“Then I…”

“Don’t worry, Eris, I am short on people, Cort will be a congressman in the future, and Wolf will at least become the leader of a small Republican Party group, what do you want to be?”

Eris, beaten to a pulp, was silent; he now wanted to become nothing, merely to land safely and with dignity.

Before he set foot on the stage, it was all he aspired to; now, he held sway, but it was a life worse than death.

A life worse than death, the kind where even being a dog made no sense.

Wolf wouldn’t take him for real, Gru was sinking him to death, CEO Cheng kept slapping him with one big dilemma after another.

Who treated him like a human?

Gru, Jax, Cheng Daqi, Wolf, any one of them was much more formidable than him, like Wolf, CEO Cheng in particular was so powerful it left him in despair.

Wolf no longer seemed like a normal human being, and the rise of CEO Cheng was completely beyond his comprehension.

This world was not what he thought, perhaps some people are the protagonists, but not him.

His protagonist’s script had a shelf life of forty years, and it had already expired.

“Think it over, there might be a calm before the storm coming up, should be enough time for you to come up with an answer, California, huh.”