Across the dining table, Simon, who had just picked up the knife and fork, raised his head in confusion: "What's the purpose?"
After Irene Lauder opened her mouth, she already felt that her idea was very untenable. Faced with the man's gaze, she still said: "I think you deliberately seduced me?"
Simon looked at the girl's blushing face, smiled and nodded: "Yes."
Actually, admitted it
Irene Lauder opened her eyes slightly, but noticed the smile on the corner of a certain guy's mouth, and soon realized that he was teasing her. She avoided the man's gaze and refused to admit defeat: "You... bad guy."
Coming from the Lauder family, many things that are unattainable for ordinary people are not a problem for Irene Lauder. The reason why she had a strange idea was mainly because the experience of the past weekend had brought a lot to her. touch.
The key is still because of a certain guy.
Suddenly, she was abducted to the wilderness thousands of miles away. She could easily carry a big, rough gun that was difficult for her to carry, and vividly displayed the wild side of the male. After the picnic, she randomly picked up a piece of charcoal that had not yet burned out and helped her draw a lifelike charcoal portrait in the vast world. He can bully her until she faints when camping at night, and he can also considerately carry her tired on his back while hiking and hunting in the wilderness and continue moving forward.
All in all, the past weekend was definitely the most special memory in her twenty-five years of life.
Not because of the incident itself, just because of a person.
Did he seduce himself
Of course!
Just the name Simon Westeros is enough to make too many women lose their resistance at the moment, let alone a little woman like her who has fallen into the trap of the aura around him.
Thinking of something, Irene Lauder looked up again and asked cautiously and tentatively: "Hey, I found that you have been in New York recently?"
Simon said: "Yes, I had a quarrel with my wife. Now, this is your chance, so perform well."
"Liar," seeing what he said so casually, I didn't believe it at all. However, I couldn't help but have some expectations: "Well, I've been living here lately, okay?"
"Okay, but I have to go back to Manhattan to work. I'll be living on the Upper East Side for the next few days."
Eileen Lauder stopped eating again, mustered up the courage to take the initiative: "Then I will also go to the Upper East Side and help you prepare breakfast, lunch, and dinner every day."
"There's also midnight snack."
"Yeah, yeah."
"no."
"Liar, betrayal, playboy."
“…”
Irene Lauder suddenly slowed down her tone again and said pitifully: "Simon, I have fallen in love with you, you have to be responsible for me."
"How about I kick you out now? There is an idiom in the East, which is that long-term pain is worse than short-term pain."
"asshole."
Seeing that the girl opposite was still glaring at him angrily, Simon stopped his joking expression, put down the tableware and motioned towards the opposite side: "Come here."
Irene Lauder struggled a little, but got up, turned around the dining table and walked to Simon. The man put his arms around him and sat on his lap.
Simon turned his head and kissed the girl in his arms on the face, and said: "You are a good girl, Irene. However, you have to know that there will definitely not be the result between us that you expect. I only hope that we can get along well." It can become a pretty good memory in your life. If you want more, unfortunately, I can’t give it to you.”
Leaning in Simon's arms, feeling the man's breath, Irene Lauder found that the resentment she had just felt had completely melted away. After hearing the man's words, she still felt a little uncomfortable, but she was reluctant to leave, so she just turned around. , took the initiative to kiss him.
You definitely can't let him go so easily.
As a result, the two did not leave the manor in the northern suburbs of Greenwich until after nine o'clock in the morning.
Estee Lauder's headquarters is located at the intersection of Fifth Avenue and East 59th Street, close to the Upper East Side, a prime location in Manhattan. At ten o'clock, when Eileen Lauder entered the company building, her assistant Jessica hurriedly greeted her and reminded her Her father, Ronald Lauder, was dissatisfied with her failure to attend the 9 o'clock regular company meeting on time and asked her to go to his office immediately after work.
In the past, she was afraid of her father's scolding, but since she last called a guy to ask him to help solve the trouble with Estee Lauder's IPO operation, her family members probably guessed that she and Simon were together, although she never said it explicitly. relationship, I felt somewhat confident.
After instructing some assistants to help her prepare a picture frame, Irene Lauder rushed to her father's office.
Ronald Lauder, who was buried in a pile of documents behind his desk, saw his daughter coming in. He didn't mean to scold her at all. Instead, he kindly asked her how her weekend was.
This couldn't be said directly. Irene Lauder was perfunctory and took the initiative to bring the topic to the work she was responsible for. Ronald Lauder didn't care that his daughter deliberately changed the topic. The father and daughter chatted for a while, and Irene When Lauder stood up to leave, Ronald Lauder saw that his daughter still seemed to be clueless and asked proactively: "Have you read the latest issue of Forbes magazine that was just released today?"
Irene Lauder was stunned for a moment, shook her head and said: "No, how..."
Just as he was about to ask, he suddenly came to his senses.
I happened to read in the newspaper some time ago that "Forbes" magazine will publish the new annual Forbes 400 list of the richest Americans at the end of this month. My father said this, and it is obviously today.
In fact, he doesn't really care how much money he has now.
She could only look up anyway.
Um.
A certain guy's favorite pose... Bad guy.
Ronald Lauder didn't notice his daughter's sudden distraction. Hearing what she said, he took the initiative to hand over a magazine next to him: "I happen to have one here, you can take a look."
"Thank you, Dad."
Irene Lauder stepped forward to take the magazine, checked with her eyes that her father had nothing else to do, turned and left his office. As soon as she left the house, she curiously glanced at the Forbes magazine in her hand. The eye-catching numbers on the cover directly gave her the answer she cared about most.
$700 billion!
Tsk.
That’s a lot of money.
He sighed in his heart, and couldn't help but calculate how many Estee Lauder stocks in his name were equivalent to one-tenth of his personal net worth. Then, the difference was so huge that he couldn't calculate it.
While walking, she flipped through the "Forbes" magazine in her hand. When she returned to her office, the female assistant Jessica had already found a picture frame for her. Seeing the magazine in her hand, she took the initiative to find a topic and said: "Erin, you too I was reading Forbes, and I have to say, it’s really an exaggeration, $700 billion, everyone is talking about this.”
Irene Lauder put down the magazine, took the picture frame that the female assistant had found, carefully took out a page of sketches from her satchel, and seriously began to frame it herself, while asking with great interest: "Jesse, what do you think of 700 billion?" Is it too much?"
Jessica shook her head and said, "No, I just think this is another negotiated figure between Westeros and Forbes Group, just like last year's $300 billion."
This was the first time Irene Lauder heard this statement, and she was curious: "What does it mean?"
Jessica is a top Harvard student personally selected by Irene Lauder's father, Ronald Lauder, for his daughter. He wants her to be his daughter's right-hand assistant, and of course not just a simple vase assistant. When Irene asked about it, Explained: "Just round up a round number, 300 billion, 700 billion, which can reduce the sensitivity of public opinion. Think about it, the number 700 billion US dollars, and, um, for example, 712.5 billion, which two numbers can make people Produce a more precise feel?”
Irene Lauder roughly understood it, but she smiled and said: "But I think 700 billion is easier to remember."
Jessica nodded with a smile and said: "It is easier to remember, and it is easier to be ignored and forgotten. This involves some psychological knowledge. Therefore, 700 billion and last year's 300 billion should both be West A public opinion strategy customized for him by the team around Luo."
After hearing what Jessica said, Irene Lauder had already put the charcoal sketch into the frame, raised it to look at it, and retorted: "Why can't it be a strategy that Westeros came up with on its own? I have met him several times, he is a very powerful guy, definitely more powerful than you think."
"That's for sure. Hehe, some of my friends also speculated that Westeros might be a vampire. There are too many strange things about him."
"Aren't you talking about psychics, but also aliens?"
"Obviously it's also a smoke bomb," Jessica saw Eileen Lauder's enthusiastic look and chatted with her: "Erin, if you have seen the video of Westeros boxing in an underground boxing ring in Australia, and , Well, in the movie "The Man from Earth" at the beginning of the year, it is said that the bow shooting scene in the movie was done by Westeros himself. Ordinary people can't draw such a bow at all. This shows that his physical ability is different from ordinary people. At the same time, he is not yet 30 years old, and he possesses talents in all aspects that others would be hard-pressed to accumulate in a lifetime. According to various rumors and records, only vampires meet the requirements."
"Well, psychics don't count, so why not aliens?"
Jessica smiled and said: "Because Westeros is married and has children. It is not easy for aliens to do that."
When Irene Lauder heard her female assistant talk about a certain guy getting married and having children, she subconsciously couldn't help but retort: "Can a vampire do that?"
Jessica noticed that there was a hint of quarrel in her boss's tone. She didn't know the reason, but she didn't want to confront her. She changed the topic without leaving any trace. She looked at the charcoal sketch in Irene Lauder's hand and praised: "Wow. , this painting is so... cool, Erin, is this you?"
"certainly."
Irene Lauder said with some pride, turned around and went to the wall on the side of the desk, took down a painting by Andy Warhol, and carefully hung the charcoal painting up.
Jessica really felt that the charcoal drawing in front of her was great, so she stepped forward and looked at it carefully. Although the handwriting was slightly rough, every line seemed to reveal the artist's profound skills, and the composition and layout of the painting had a master's feel. With the special beauty of a super movie lens, she could easily tell that the background of the painting was a vast ancient wasteland, and it was obviously Eileen Lauder's girl sitting on a fallen dead tree, holding an exaggerated large hand in her arms. The gun was held on the gun body with one hand and his chin supported, with a smile on his face.
Irene Lauder waited for Jessica to admire it for a moment before asking again: "How is it?"
Jessica glanced at Erin and said, "I feel like you in the painting are looking at your lover, very happy, like a little girl in love."
Aileen Lauder was a little surprised: "Huh?"
Jessica looked at Irene's expression and smiled: "It seems that I guessed it right."
As he said this, he looked at the painting again, and noticed a line of small scrawled words in the lower right corner. He couldn't help but move forward, trying to distinguish it.
Irene Lauder suddenly reacted, and just as she was about to stop her, Jessica had already read out: "To Irene, Simon. Ha, it turns out it's called Simon."
Seeing that Jessica had no special reaction, just a little teasing, Irene Lauder also reacted.
Simon.
This name is too common, but in the Estee Lauder headquarters building where they are located, you can easily find a bunch of guys named Simon, which is not special at all. Jessica can confirm at a glance that this Simon is Simon Westeros. That’s what the hell happened.
So he calmed down, chatted with Jessica for a few more words, and took the initiative to start the day's work.
After graduating from college, after several years of accumulation, Irene Lauder is now in charge of a marketing team under her own company. Except for being late today, she has always been very responsible, and the team's achievements have been recognized by the company's management. The two spent half an hour discussing today's work schedule and sent Jessica to convene the team for a meeting. Irene Lauder finally picked up the Forbes magazine again.
There is still work to be done.
However, I can't help but think of a certain guy.
I quickly browsed a special article about someone's net worth of 700 billion US dollars. After hesitating for a moment, I took out my phone, considered it, and dialed a text message with some clumsiness. Verizon Telecom had already sent it two years ago. I started to try to launch a text message service, but because of the performance limitations of current mobile phones, the experience was not very good. Irene Lauder rarely used it in the past. She finished editing and checked it carefully before sending it.
There is only one sentence: "Congratulations, Mr. 700 billion."
Seeing that the message was sent successfully on the screen, I thought that he must be very busy and would not reply immediately, so he put the latest Nokia next to him.
But he couldn't help but look forward to the sound of the text message prompt ringing immediately.
However, until Jessica came to inform her that everyone had gathered and the phone didn't ring, she couldn't help but muttered something bad in her heart and wanted to put the phone in the office to avoid being distracted later, so she got up and turned to the office I couldn't help but grab the table.
Then, then, then.
It was not until almost one o'clock in the afternoon, when lunch time was almost over, that Irene Lauder, who had been scratched by the kitten for a long time, finally received a reply from someone: "Thank you."
So perfunctory!
I stared at the text message with a slight grin on my face for a while, then took the initiative to find a reason for him. He was so busy, it would be great if he could reply to me, so I hurriedly fiddled with it again, trying to ask him to have dinner with me in the evening. However, after editing the text message, it was not sent out in the end. He had been with him for a weekend, so he couldn't be too greedy.
otherwise.
Well.
Maybe he will really let himself suffer "long-term pain is worse than short-term pain".
I won’t let you succeed!
After being pushed back by a certain girl during breakfast, Simon arrived in Manhattan and had to start work in a hurry.
Not only that, the "Forbes" list of America's 400 richest people released today also kept Simon busy all morning. Moreover, in addition to the "Forbes" list, out of similar thoughts to the latest "US$700 billion" wealth figure, Iger Ritter also released its single-quarter financial report for the third quarter of 1995 on the same day.
Simon had just finished the video conference with San Francisco when he had time to reply to Irene Lauder's text message near one o'clock in the afternoon.