CHAPTER 44
Author: VKBoy
last update2025-03-28 22:15:45

The next morning.

Jake suddenly woke up from sleep.

[What happened?] The system asked, yawning as if to mimic something Jake should have done. [You look like you’ve seen a ghost.]

Jake wiped the sweat off his face.

“Just had a bad dream.”

[How bad was it?]

“I was working in Blake’s, and my new girlfriend, whose face I couldn’t see, came to the shop with her friends, but she was too embarrassed to tell her friends that I was her boyfriend. The whole interaction gave me chills.

“What if it happens in real life? What if my future wife makes fun of me for having a honest job? Do I really have to become a CEO to avoid such a fate? But not all can be CEOs.”

Just then, Jake received a new mission.

[Become the CEO of a reputed company. The faster you do it, the greater the reward!]

“Huh?” Jake blinked a few times. “You’re kidding me, right? Becoming a CEO doesn’t guarantee that I’ll get a wife who appreciates what I do.”

[But the chances of her appreciating your work will definitely improve.]
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