Simon had taken a shower and had breakfast with the two girls. It was already eight o'clock in the morning.
A sunny day with great sunshine.
After hearing from Girl A about some important matters in the Westeros system that he needed to know, he also asked Alison to communicate with Los Angeles about the "Sleepy Hollow" project that came to mind last night. At 8:30, he left the shore of Lake Ontario by car. mansion and rushed to a post-production center belonging to Daenerys Entertainment in downtown Toronto.
After the two girls acted coquettishly, they also brought him over.
Today I'm going to review the completed dailies of "The Man from Earth" with Brett Ratner and discuss the post-production details. By the way, Ratner will personally teach him about his film concept as one of the creative backbones specially selected for the Agent movie universe. , Simon can be considered as investing enough energy.
As for the conversation with Eve after the morning exercise, it wasn't a joke, but it wasn't taken too seriously either.
Work must still come first.
Inside the villa.
After Simon left, it was breakfast time for the Wei family's maids.
Emily Joplin noticed that Eve was missing from the dinner table. Thinking that she had not asked about it with her boss, she asked.
"She's upstairs," Girl A replied. Seeing Emily about to get up, she stopped her and said, "I'll take care of it later."
Emily probably realized something and didn't say anything more. She was just curious when her boss would eat another one, and he was so eaten that he couldn't even get out of bed.
However, when I think about that night a few months ago, I feel relieved, and I can't help but have some aftertaste and anticipation. Looking around again, this villa is like a mini harem. Except for a certain guy, all the others are women, and they all want what they want from him. I really have no competitiveness.
After breakfast, the girls went about their own business.
Alison first went back to her temporary office in the villa, and quickly brought some documents to the second floor. She found Eve's bedroom, knocked twice, pushed the door open, and saw that the big bed was wrapped in a quilt. The figure in the room couldn't help but express a hint of teasing in his tone: "You are really obedient."
The girl lying on her side with her back to the door obviously moved, but she did not respond.
Alison pulled the chair next to the dressing table and walked all the way to the other side of the big bed, facing Eve. After thinking for a while, she walked over and opened the curtains. The weak but still bright sunshine in winter was shining on this place. inside a bedroom.
Feeling the bright light falling on her body, Alison sat down on the chair just now, opened a document in her hand, and read: "Eve Besonoskova, 21 years old, was born in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine. His father, Alexander Besonoskov, 51, is a former engineer at the Kyiv Arsenal Arsenal and is currently unemployed; his mother, Maria Besonoskova, 52, is a nurse at the Kiev Third Hospital; his brother, Vladimir Bay Sonoskov, 25 years old, served in the army of the former Soviet Union, retired two years ago and is unemployed; his sister Lyudmila Besonoskova, 16 years old, dropped out of school and is unemployed. I started practicing basketball at the age of 8. He participated in many youth basketball competitions with excellent results and was selected for the former Soviet Union national team at the age of 18."
After reading this, Alison paused and continued: "In the same year, the Soviet Union disintegrated. At the age of 19, he represented the Commonwealth of Independent States in the Barcelona Olympics. He retired at the age of 20. In April this year, he was recruited by the Westeros family female guard team. In July After completing the training, among the 60 trainees in the same period, he ranked 6th in overall performance and was transferred to the villa in the south of Rivni City to serve as a bodyguard."
After Alison read Eve's brief resume, she looked up and saw that the girl on the bed still had her eyes closed and did not move. However, a line of tears appeared in the corner of her eyes and fell on the pillow, making it wet.
Seeing this scene, Alison sighed secretly, and her tone couldn't help but soften a little: "As long as you remain loyal to the Westeros family, your salary alone is enough for your family to live a good life. Eve, you have one last chance, you can still leave now."
Eve finally opened her eyes, looked at Girl A, and asked in obviously stiff English: "Why do you want me to leave so much?"
Alison didn't hide it either: "Because I am also the boss's woman, of course I hope there are as few other women around him as possible."
"Won't he be angry if you make your own decisions?"
"Maybe, maybe not. The boss has already gone to work, so you see, he doesn't care about you that much."
"What if I don't leave?"
"I will respect your wishes."
Eve looked at her for another moment, and finally repeated the words she said in the gym that morning firmly: "I won't leave."
Girl A was not surprised by this and pulled out another piece of information from the folder: "This is an agreement, you need to sign it. There is a lot of content, but it can be summed up very simply. There are only two words, loyalty and confidentiality. . The boss will not own you for a long time, so, at least for one year, after one year, if you want to get rid of this life, you only need to tell me, and you will be free."
Eve stretched out a smooth arm from the quilt, took the thick document, looked at Girl A, and asked, "Why is it one year?"
Alison said: "Because the boss has many women, and you are just one of them. One year is enough for a person to be completely forgotten."
"Is this the same year for you?"
"Yes."
"You lied to me."
"I kid you not, I can be free at any time."
"But you didn't do that."
“…”
"Why don't you leave him?"
"This is my own business and I don't need to explain it to you."
Eve retracted her gaze, sat up, and ignored the quilt slipping off her body. Because she was too tall, she directly looked down at Alison. She lowered her head and turned over the agreement in her hand, and said to Alison: "These are I don’t understand English very well.”
"You just need to sign."
"Shouldn't there be two agreements?"
"Only this one."
Eve nodded, asked for a pen from Alison, followed her instructions, and patiently signed her name on each page.
After all the dozens of pages of the agreement were signed and the agreement and pen were handed back to Girl A, Eve's eyes flashed and she asked: "What should I do next?"
"The boss doesn't like people who do nothing, so your job remains the same. Moreover, if you slack off due to your change of status, you may be abandoned in less than a year. In addition, it's what I just said, loyalty and confidentiality. .”
Eve nodded, bit her lip, and finally asked after a moment: "What can I get?"
Alison carefully checked every page of the agreement to make sure nothing was missed, and said: "Your annual salary will be increased to 200,000 US dollars, and there will be additional medical, equipment, maintenance, transportation and other benefits. You can ask Zuo for these details. Yi and Isabel, in addition, you can also choose a house."
$200,000? !
Upon hearing this number, Eve felt a faint sense of suffocation.
After the man said a few words in the morning, she obediently took off her clothes and waited for him on the bed, because she did not want to dare and could not lose her current bodyguard job with a monthly salary of 1,000 US dollars and various benefits. The average monthly salary was less than 30 US dollars. This job in Ukraine is enough for her to support the entire Besonoskov family who is in trouble, and she even has some relatives who need help.
Now, with an annual salary of US$200,000, she couldn't figure it out for a while.
I don’t quite know how to spend it.
Just know that for such a sum of money, selling yourself is completely worth it.
Alison waited for a moment and saw that she didn't speak, so she said, "If you don't have any other questions, I'll go down first."
Eve reacted and called out to Alison. She was a little unsure but insisted: "Um, about the house?"
Alison said: "Perhaps you have heard that the boss will sometimes be very generous and give millions of dollars' worth of properties to the women around him, but it depends on your luck. The house here is just a kind of welfare, and the location In the city of Rivni where you work for a long time, the property rights do not belong to you, but as long as you do not give up the agreement you just signed, you can probably live there forever."
Eve was slightly disappointed, but nodded quickly.
Alison seemed to read her thoughts and said: "You have to understand, Miss Besonoskova, everything you get requires a corresponding sacrifice. Moreover, the more you get, the more you have to pay. Betrayal The cost will be higher.”
Eve woke up, looked at Alison, and said solemnly: "I know."
"Then, that's it for the time being." Alison stood up directly this time, looked at the girl on the bed, and said: "Your skin is pretty good, but it can be better. Pay attention to taking care of it in the future. In addition, maybe you have Yes, but I will arrange a comprehensive physical examination for you tomorrow."
After Alison finished speaking, she walked around the big bed and walked out.
The tall girl named Eve Besonoskova stayed in a daze on the big bed for a while in the bright morning sunshine, and finally got dressed and went downstairs.
As Simon's first assistant, Alison has a lot of work to do.
Just checking the work emails accumulated from yesterday to now took a whole morning. In the afternoon, I sorted out the documents that my boss needed to know, and then started to deal with the things Simon had told me.
Before I knew it, the day had passed.
At five o'clock in the afternoon, I hung up the last phone call with MGM head Shirley Lansing about the casting of the latest 007 film, and finally finished the day's work.
The office on the first floor of the villa also has a good view. Outside the floor-to-ceiling window, the sunset covers Lake Ontario, which is brilliant and magnificent.
Picking up a copy of "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" that someone had bought during the day, she flipped through a few pages quietly, looked at the time, and planned to tell Zoe and the others to prepare dinner. She left the office, only to find that Zoe and Isabel were no longer there, but they came from The two little goblins from Ukraine came back at some point, looking unhappy.
After asking, he learned that he would stay in the villa next to Red River Park tonight, and Zoe and Isabel had already gone over to serve him.
Loss is inevitable, but I have already become accustomed to him taking everything for granted.
This is his own king.
Red River Park in the eastern suburbs of Scarborough.
The villa where the buffet party was held last night was not so lively tonight.
Apart from the Wei family maid in the main villa and the bodyguards in the annex, there were only two people, Simon and Grace Spott who came from New York to visit.
As Qu Si Gauff's manager, one of his artists was filming in Toronto, so he came to visit her on the weekend for a very legitimate reason.
Of course, the real reason is that some guy just happened to be here.
Grace never thought that she would unknowingly fall in love with a man so much younger than herself, and even have a lingering feeling of love, and occasionally face her husband and two people who still live under the same roof. As a child, it is inevitable to have a strong sense of betrayal, but it is always difficult to control it.
Privately, I unreasonably put the responsibility on a certain little man, secretly thinking that he might be a devil.
Stealing a woman's heart quietly.
Do all the bad things.
Not responsible yet.
In the afternoon, he came over pretending to be a visiting customer, but he didn't even say a few words to his client. Then he came over and found two small vases next to him that were so tender that they were dripping with water, and he was still in the mood to eat them.
Fortunately, he finally did not disappoint her.
Offer to have dinner together.
I deliberately hesitated for a while before agreeing. At that time I noticed the hateful smile on his face and wanted to go up and pinch him.
It’s cold at night in Toronto.
The atmosphere of the dinner was very warm. It was deliberately chosen in the living room with a fireplace, reflecting the light of the fire, and candles were lit. The red wine was mellow and the food was delicious enough. The only flaw is that the waitress is a little too pretty. However, considering that he likes everything around him to be beautiful and exquisite, if the waitress is not good-looking enough, it will probably greatly affect the atmosphere.
Sitting opposite each other, sipping red wine, looking at the handsome face of the young man opposite, randomly looking for topics: "I... went to see "Suicide Squad" last night."
The whole family went together, which is not the right thing to say.
The other person asked: "How do you feel?"
"It's great. People who bought tickets are starting to line up. It will definitely be a big seller this time. Congratulations."
"Thank you," Simon smiled and looked at the woman opposite who had become more and more beautiful at some point: "You have become beautiful again recently."
"How do you like it?"
"certainly."
"At my age, it's very hard to maintain, but I still took advantage of you. If the maintenance items at that club on the Upper East Side weren't free, I wouldn't be able to afford it."
"Actually, I've been thinking recently about whether to invest in researching technologies such as immortality, which can at least keep people young forever."
"I know this. Many people in high positions like to do this. However, it seems that no one has succeeded yet. There are many people who have died accidentally."
"That was in the past. In ancient times, people knew too little about in-depth biological knowledge and could only pursue immortality in an eccentric way, which would naturally lead to failure. It is different now. We can already understand the origin of life from the genetic level, so there are Opportunity to make fundamental changes.”
"I don't know if I can wait until that day."
"From now on, if we invest regardless of the cost, I think there should be results in 20 to 30 years."
"Thirty years," Grace touched her still smooth face with some melancholy: "I think it would be better to die by then."
Simon smiled and said: "Perhaps we can rejuvenate ourselves."
"You're lying to the little girl. All things rise and fall. Maybe you can delay this process indefinitely, but it will definitely be irreversible, just like time." After saying this, Grace asked again: "Are you afraid of death?"
"Don't be afraid. I'm over five hundred years old. I've lived so much longer than you. It wouldn't be a loss if I died immediately."
"You're talking nonsense again."
"Do you think I'm talking nonsense?"
Grace carefully studied Simon's expression for a moment, shook her head and said, "I can't tell the difference."
"It seems that some women have this instinct, or it should be called a sixth sense, and can easily tell whether others are lying."
"It's a pity that I don't have this ability, so you can lie to me at will," Grace said with a little regret on her face, and then asked with a smile: "Actually, I have always been curious about a question, can you really see it? A ghost?"