Chen Yiran is here on vacation, so negotiations will naturally be handled by her subordinates.

Ted is still under a non-compete agreement, so it was Wang Zhiwu who led Datong's team to conduct the negotiations with the other party.

While the two teams were engaged in a heated debate, the current island owner, David Murdoch, warmly visited the island and met with Chen Yiran.

Chen Yiran has to say that for an 88-year-old man, David Murdoch is in very good condition.

He also proudly shared some beauty tips with Chen Yiran, which, in short, involved paying attention to diet.

He eats more than 20 kinds of fruits and vegetables every day, and also includes seafood protein, beans and dried fruits. He drinks 2 to 3 cups of fruit and vegetable juice containing orange peel, believing that it is essential to fill the body with fiber and vitamins.

It is also necessary to strictly control the intake of dairy products, red meat, poultry, alcohol, sugar, and salt.

He has maintained this diet for decades, and he has almost no memory of being sick. In his old age, he has never suffered from common back pain, headaches, or blood diseases.

This old man is quite interesting. He even gives his employees weight loss rewards, once giving an overweight employee $100,000 as a reward for successfully losing weight.

Chen Yiran initially thought the old man was doing these vanity projects to promote his Dole company's agricultural products. However, after chatting with him, he discovered that the guy used the money he made from real estate to buy Dole company because he liked to eat healthy food. Everything he did was for health, and his goal was to live to 125 years old.

Before leaving, the old man gave me a handwritten note listing the most fun activities on Lanai Island.

Chen Yiran felt that the two of them were likely to cooperate in the future, since he would be returning to China after his vacation to make acquisitions and would definitely be in contact with various agricultural companies.

He believed the old man's note and started playing the game based on the arrangement on it.

The first day was at Hurop Bay, an arc-shaped bay on the southern coast of Lanai that is half a mile long. It has pearly white sand beaches that feel strange underfoot and make a squeaking sound.

The bay is flanked by volcanic cliffs on both sides, and beyond that lies the Manele Marine Reserve.

Chen Yiran is actually quite afraid of water. She's usually fine in the pool, but Mocha and Latte, as well-trained guard dogs, know how to rescue people from the water.

Chen Yiran had even pretended to drown a while ago, filmed the test, and posted the video on Apple's newly launched duck video platform.

After being retweeted on Twitter, it helped the duckling video attract many new users.

Olsen and his two assistants were quite daring; they wore bikinis and snorkeling masks and took many photos underwater with a special camera.

Several of the photos showed dozens of yellow butterflyfish clinging to the coral in the shallows. Chen Yiran promptly stole them and posted them on his Twitter account, pretending that he had taken them himself.

He was ridiculed by a crowd, but luckily, Pidan was there to keep him company.

Pidan was very clever; if he wasn't given a life jacket, he wouldn't dare go into the water.

Only after putting on a life jacket did he dare to splash around in the shallow water. He would even go ashore and deliberately approach a few bodyguards to shake off the water.

The bodyguards dared not speak out, after all, Chen Yiran had told them in private that if anything went wrong, Chen Yiran would be the first target to be evacuated, and the second target would be Pidan.

He can disregard his temporary girlfriend Olsen, as well as his two assistants, Han Ji-eun and Houston Sage, and doesn't even need to spend manpower to protect them.

But nature has a rather wicked sense of humor; suddenly a huge wave crashed onto the egg's beak.

Pidan immediately chickened out and ran back to the shore, barking wildly at the sea from Chen Yiran's feet, no longer daring to go into the water.

The bodyguard next to him wanted to laugh but dared not.

The next day, the group went to the shipwreck beach, where a World War II oil barge was stranded a few hundred meters from the shore, covered in black and red rust, and half of its superstructure had collapsed.

Continuing north, you'll reach the Garden of the Gods, a red, Martian-like landscape covered with weathered rock pillars and rubble.

Hawaiian indigenous priests burned down all the vegetation on this land in a contest to control fire. Standing on the rocks, you can see the cliffs of Molokai stretching into the distance as a long line of mist.

Of course, the most interesting time is at dusk, when the setting sun casts red and purple hues on the rocks, which is very beautiful.

The hotel staff who came along set up a grill and prepared a unique Hawaiian grilled snapper.

On the third day, the group climbed the Koloic Ridge. Pidan was very annoying. At first, we didn't want to take him, but he kept making a fuss. After climbing for a short while, he started to act like a spoiled child.

Fortunately, Chen Yiran was prepared. Several bodyguards took turns carrying Pidan to the top of the mountain like they were carrying an old man. There was a 360-degree viewing platform there, where you could see the Haleakala volcano on Maui in the distance.

For the next two days, Chen Yiran felt completely drained, probably because the three beautiful women were too enthusiastic and exhausted him. He only went to Sweetheart Rock, which was not far from the villa, for a look.

This rock doesn't look particularly special, but it's said that a warrior from Lanai Island once buried his drowned wife on the top of this rock before committing suicide.

Then we went to see the nearby cat sanctuary, which is a major tourist attraction on the island; it basically houses hundreds of cats.

After playing for two days and resting for two days, ten days later, after some back and forth, Chen Yiran finally instructed Wang Zhiwu to sign the contract, and the final transaction price was 4.3 million US dollars.

Although it was an island that was purchased, and an island that was equivalent to five Manhattans in size, it was a full 0.006 times the size of Tongliao.

However, because it was acquired indirectly through the acquisition of a company that holds the land, and no property transfer form was signed, the actual procedures were less than those for buying a house.

After Chen Yiran deposited the money into the First Bank of Hawaii and completed the trust agreement, David Murdoch handed over all the equity documents of the company he held on Lanai Island, and on the same day, he filed a change of company controller at the Honolulu Deeds Registry.

After paying several hundred thousand yuan in company transfer tax and filing fees, Chen Yiran received a receipt from the Honolulu Land Registry a few days later.

From that moment on, Chen Yiran officially became an island owner!

All the properties on the island belong to him, including hotels, roads, and even the water, electricity, and gas companies.

Chen Yiran did not immediately announce the closure of the island, after all, there are still some tourist attractions on the island, and closing it off right away would have a bad impact.

Even though he is the island owner, he still has to be mindful of the impact.

He had seen the news in his later years; the island's owner, Ellison, had once been on this island and was fined by the police for speeding.

Chen Yiran led his team directly to Shenzhen, where there was a company that wasn't very prominent yet, and he had to acquire it as soon as possible.

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