What is badass? What counts as badass?
There are many pretentious words for it, like having significant clout, being a pillar of the community, standing out from the crowd, possessing brilliant talents, having the capability to swallow mountains and rivers, and so on.
But in the end, it's just an abstract feeling, much like how 'elegance' is hard to describe.
CEO Cheng's answer was to lay the groundwork from the sidelines, a continuous, dense, and collective effort to pave the way from the sidelines.
And when all the groundwork reached a climax, CEO Cheng even designed a scenario where 'Sun Dongxin was late and stood up the meeting'—defying expectations to lower audience morale.
This feeling, when the climax of an eagerly anticipated event suddenly doesn't materialize, is extremely effective in provoking the audience's rebellious psychology. Thus, before Sun Dongxin appeared, many bullet comments started mocking CEO Cheng for being meticulous but ending up stood up.