At this time, Ginny took the initiative to call: "Do you need me to remind you that it's almost April?"
Luke was stunned. The experience of being criticized by President Ginny many times made him think quickly and laughed: "Isn't it just that other mobile phone companies' smartphones are about to be fully launched? Are you still afraid of this?"
Ginny: "… So, Valentine's Day has been over a month ago, and you haven't cared about me once? Alas, this CEO is worse than a secretary."
Hearing this, Luke broke out in a sweat and quickly said, "OK, I'll come to see you this afternoon."
Ginny was puzzled: "Afternoon?"
Luke chuckled: "It's sunny in your office this afternoon. The view from the French windows there last time was pretty nice."
Ginny just pouted at him and said, "Then one o'clock in the afternoon." Then she hung up the phone.
Luke turned off his phone and scratched his head with the corner of it: "This afternoon... it's really early."
Having said that, he went anyway.
He would not spend Valentine's Day with Ginny, and certainly not with Elena.
That day would always be just an ordinary day, and he would not be stupid enough to dig a big hole to hurt himself, even now with the Justice Star clone.
However, this year's Valentine's Day happened to be the day when the Hand ninjas rushed into the Metropolitan Hospital and were wiped out.
That night, he and Selena first watched from the front door of the hospital, and then went to a building a little further away to keep watch all night.
Although the conditions were not good, he left for a while and returned with a lot of snacks from the storage space a few minutes later. Then he and Selena had a good meal.
So, strictly speaking, it was Selena who spent Valentine's Day with him, although of course neither of them mentioned it that night.
After thinking for a while, Luke finished his lunch before going out alone to the cell phone company in Nassau County.
It was inevitable that Ginny would look for him now.
The real purpose has absolutely nothing to do with Valentine's Day, otherwise the call should have been made at least last month.
It was already late March, and she called to talk about Valentine's Day. It was obvious that she was raising the stakes and getting a boss who had completely given up on the company to give her some reassurance.
The car with its face covered and irrelevant license plate still entered the mobile phone company's garage, the exclusive elevator still led directly to the president's office, and the treatment of not being seen after entering the door was still the same. Only the kitchen without partitions had ready-made coffee cups.
Luke took off his coat, rolled up his sleeves a little, took out the coffee powder and started to make coffee.
Compared to food, he messed around more with coffee.
In his previous life, he loved drinking coffee, including all kinds of instant coffee from China, the United States, Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand, but it still couldn't hide his perfunctory attitude towards coffee.
In this life, he would also order different kinds of coffee in coffee shops to try, but there were only two evaluations on the taste: delicious or not.
He doesn't care about things like sourness or bitterness, or blue mountain cat poop.
He has never even touched cat feces, but he still has some cleanliness obsession.
Therefore, he always brews coffee directly with coffee powder and has absolutely no intention of grinding the coffee beans himself.
The downside to this is that it's said to taste a lot worse, but he can't taste it anyway.
The good thing is that the coffee comes out faster.
By the time Ginny emerged from her bedroom, the coffee was ready.
Ginny sat next to him on the chic double sofa and took a sip of coffee. "When will your coffee-making skills be as good as your cooking and pastry skills?"
Luke chuckled: "I guess it's difficult. After all, I'm not interested in studying this."
Ginny was speechless.
She still found it hard to understand how a man who was not a chef could improve his cooking and pastry skills to the same level as a chef, but remain consistently bad at something as simple as making coffee.
You know, the maid in her house can make coffee much better than Luke, but the food Luke cooks is much better than the maid.
But she asked Luke to come today because she had important business to discuss, so she didn't waste any more time and got straight to the point.
After hearing her general situation, Luke spread his hands and said, "What are you afraid of? Haven't we prepared for this a long time ago? The mobile phone market will never be monopolized by any one company. If you can slightly control the entry time of others, you will be very powerful, okay?"
Ginny drummed her hands on her knees, distracted. "But the cell phone company is my life, and I'm afraid it will..."
Luke hugged her and said, "Hey, are you treating this like a TV show? We have all the advantages in technology, creativity, and entry time. You've also got a lot of money, right? How much did you make from Stark Group's stocks?"
Ginny came back to her senses after hearing this and nodded: "This time I didn't make as much money from the Stark Group's stock operation as last time. I left some of it unsold, so the actual profit was only over 1 billion... Wait, didn't I send you a notification after the operation was completed? Didn't you read it?"
In fact, even if the mobile phone company collapsed instantly, her position as a director of the Stark Group would still allow her to stand among the top people in the United States.
Luke's expression remained calm: "I'm just reminding you, don't forget that we made another fortune."
Ginny looked at him suspiciously for a moment, but still chose to trust someone. After all, being too suspicious was not the way for two people to get along.
Luke secretly wiped the sweat off his face.
He never cared how much money Ginny made. Anyway, he was rich and getting richer.
Just like the large pile of black money in the storage space, when he first went to Mexico, he was very happy when he stole 20,000 US dollars from the Carlos family.
But when he went to Brazil, pried open the mouth of Rio gangster Hernan, and harvested more than 200 million US dollars in black money, he didn't feel excited at all.
All this is simply because the urgency of the need for money is no longer there.
He is not Tony Stark, who can afford everything, and he does not need to desperately experiment with cutting-edge and unformed technologies.
Most of the time, he is just a porter.
Just use the capabilities and mature solutions borrowed from Da Shao to modify a product that suits you.
The cost of Tony's Mark armor is basically over 100 million US dollars, and Luke's armor is at most in the tens of millions, and very few of them cost more than 50 million.
Therefore, the cost of making the armor between the young master and him was a world of difference.
The young master has invested more than 5 billion US dollars in the research and development and manufacturing of armor so far, and Luke is still far from even 10 billion.
Because he saved so much money, Luke treated Tony well.
Five billion US dollars, that's almost the actual value of Titanium Mobile Phone Company at present, he muttered in his heart.
As a result, Ginny casually said, "The company is currently generally valued at 50 billion by the outside world, of course there are exaggerated valuations of 70 billion..."
Luke: ... Well, don't think too much about business. You can't compare with a genius like Ginny who grew up in a money-grubbing family.