Manhattan Reborn 1978

Houston, Texas.

It's approaching noon.

West of downtown, Piney Point Village in the Memorial District, 86 Pinewood Avenue.

This large bungalow covers an area of ​​more than 600 square meters. It was bought by David a few months ago for his parents to escape the cold in winter.

Now, it has become a "paradise" for women and children to relax.

In the backyard, Malkin's eldest daughter, Manqi, was playing happily with her two children and her sister Polly's two children.

The Malik sisters, who were adopted by David Sr. and his wife Sera, also stayed with Manqi to help take care of the four children.

On the other side, David's "real girlfriend" Susan, gently stroked her belly with her hand, and asked David, who was grinning beside her, "Will you be gone for a long time?"

"Don't worry, it won't take long. I'll just go back to attend a few meetings and meet a few people..."

"I also want to go back with you and check out the bar..."

"Leave the bar to Erica and the others. You can stay here with peace of mind. My mother and Cui Yingying will take you to the hospital for regular checkups."

"Oh, then I'll wait for you to come back." Susan turned her head to look at Sera's mother who had a kind smile on her face, and nodded slightly.

David felt a little guilty when he saw how considerate his girlfriend was, and said after a few seconds of silence.

"When I come back this time, your early pregnancy symptoms of sleepiness, nausea, and anorexia should have gradually disappeared. I want to take you out for a trip. How about it?"

"Okay, where are we going?"

"It's all your choice, we'll go wherever you want to go!"

"listen to me?"

"Ok!"

"Hahaha~ You're awesome!" Susan happily hugged David and kissed him.

David felt even more guilty, raised his hand and brushed her cheek with his fingertips, and said solemnly, "Wait for me! Soon!"

"Okay!" Susan grabbed David's hand and pressed it on her lower abdomen. Their foreheads rested together and they laughed happily.

. . .

Houston International Airport.

David turned around and looked at his butlers Ackleyd and Pine, who were coming to see him off, and made a phone call gesture. He then turned around and led the maid Chasida, followed the people in front of him, and walked into the special boarding channel.

About half an hour later, the plane David and his crew took took off. In the parking lot outside the airport, Pine also got into a car and prepared to return to the city.

on the way.

Pine, who was sitting in the back seat, withdrew his gaze from the window and asked the driver, Mr. Tianniu, who was sitting in the driver's seat.

"David told me that Toby Olga has returned?"

"Yes."

"Why did not I see?"

"She's hiding." Tianniu looked at Pine, who looked puzzled, through the rearview mirror and explained with a smile.

"I don't know how she knew that Miss Pamela Landy was coming to Houston on a mission..."

"So? She hid, afraid of being seen by David?" Pine smiled amusedly and asked.

"Yeah, didn't you see Zina when you came here this morning?"

"Her voice became hoarse from that day when she was with David..." Tianniu smiled with all twelve teeth showing and gave Pine a look that every man could understand.

"Hahahaha" Pine seemed to recall a certain scene, which just confirmed his guess, and he laughed out loud.

"Do you know anything about that perfume?"

"I heard."

"Is it really that powerful?"

"I haven't tried it to see how powerful it is."

"But I heard that it was a byproduct that the CIA accidentally discovered when they were secretly developing a psychedelic potion."

"More than a decade ago, someone used its high-concentration original solution to inject or orally administer to humans, and combined it with some special hypnosis techniques to conduct experiments to manipulate human thoughts and behaviors."

"Oh...what happened next?" The smile on Pine's face gradually disappeared, his eyes flickered slightly, and he stared at the longicorn in the rearview mirror.

Tianniu licked his lips, feeling that he had spoken out of turn, and with a wry smile on his face, he continued.

"Later, someone diluted it with some special solutions in a fixed ratio based on its characteristics, gave it a few names, and quietly sold it on the underground black market."

"What's it called?"

"Some people call it an angel's kiss, some call it a succubus's temptation, and some call it... a man clamp..."

"Clips?"

"Yes."

"I can understand it as... this thing has special effects on men?"

"Well... I heard that it is indeed very effective for men." While Tianniu was driving the car at high speed, a charming woman suddenly flashed through his mind, and he said thoughtfully.

"Do you remember Brotney Messier and Harris Schultz?"

"I first heard about it when I was chatting with them."

"Are you talking about Harris Schultz, the head of the FBI's New York branch and the wife of Harold Stone?" Pine frowned and asked slowly.

"Yes, that's her."

"They were just like me. They came to New York to join Audis Parker, and that's why they were noticed by the boss."

"Including Elena Mesa. She, Messia and Schultz have been friends for many years."

"Some time ago, Elena established a private jet sharing company according to her boss' instructions. Because there were not enough available manpower, she specially invited Harris Schultz, hoping that she could also have a more respectable formal job."

"Thank you, I see." Pine frowned and looked out the window, twisting his fingers lightly and whispered.

"We will go to see Audis Parker now, and then please inform Toby Olga to come to see me in the evening."

"Ok."

Longniu pursed his lips and nodded, prayed a few impious words in his heart for Mr. Parker who was about to face "disaster", and smiled silently.

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In the sky, on the plane.

After the plane took off smoothly, David temporarily stopped looking around, stood up and helped the maid Chashida unbuckle her seat belt, and helped her adjust the seat to a more comfortable angle.

When Carnes, Mr. Ryan, Mr. Batine and Grace, who were on the same plane with them, saw that David cared so much about the young maid, they all smiled in a way that was not easily noticed by others.

However, Carnes' smile was not meant to mock David. Instead, after he saw a smile on the face of Grace, who was sitting diagonally opposite him, a good idea suddenly popped up in his head, and he teased David.

"Hey~ didn't you see the curtain next to the sofa?"

"We're not tired, it's yours now"

"Whatever you do, remember to close the curtain, asshole!"

"..." David raised his middle finger to Kanes speechlessly, and his eyes swept over Mr. Ryan and Batine who were sitting in front of Kanes.

Then he looked at the small sofa placed behind Grace, thought for a moment, pulled Chashida over and let her sit down. He leaned on her legs and mocked Carnes.

"Your behavior at many times makes me doubt whether you like men?"

"Get lost~" Kanes raised his middle finger in retaliation, leaned his chair back, and said lazily while half lying down.

"If I were like you, with a bunch of women around me all day, I would definitely go crazy!"

"Hahahaha~ So what if I'm crazy?"

“How many people in this world have ever gone crazy?”

"I've seen countless crazy people in bars, and I've been crazy like them." David nudged Chasida's lower abdomen with his head, raised his hand, pointed at himself, and laughed.

"you also..?"

"Yes!"

David lowered his hand and placed it on Chasida's knee, feeling her leg muscles relax a little and sighed with a grin.

"Some of them think they are crazy, and some think others are crazy."

"Last year, Tangtang, an old friend I met in a bar, tried many times to persuade me to invest all my savings in a movie she was making."

"But I was very hesitant at the time, and everyone around me thought it was unreliable, and there was a high possibility that I would not be able to get my money back once I invested."

"What happened next? You voted? Didn't they say you were crazy?"

"Yes, I voted."

"In their eyes, I am a lunatic."

"Where's the money? Lost it all?"

"No, I made money, more than double the money!"

"Oh~ that's good!"

"I heard that nine out of ten people who invest in movies lose money..."

"You are so lucky to be able to make money."

"Yeah, I also feel very lucky." David felt the heat on Chasida's legs, half-opened his eyes, and said with emotion.

"I've seen many... fools who keep saying they have to make changes, but when they are about to take action, they keep telling themselves to wait!"

"They made me realize that lying to yourself is the stupidest lie in the world."

"If I don't do anything, don't dare to do anything, and don't want to do anything, I will never be able to step out of my comfort zone, always be stuck in the past, and never be able to make changes on my own!"

"Those so-called shackles of fate will never bind people's hands and feet. Instead, it is people who constantly magnify their own timidity, cowardice and evasion that imprison their fate!"

"..you bastard, how come you always come up with such big truths?" Kanes closed his eyes, shook his head, and muttered softly.

"Hahahaha" David laughed happily, adjusted his posture to be more relaxed, rested his head on the softest muscle on Chasida's leg, closed his eyes and talked to himself.

"When I graduated from high school and left home, I was very introverted when I first arrived in New York. I didn't like to talk and I didn't have any friends. I just kept my head down and worked hard."

"In the first few months of work, every time I got paid, I would call my mother first to tell her that I had grown up, could make money, could support myself, and that she and my father didn't need to worry about me anymore."

"During that time, I didn't have to think about what to do every day. I just had to do my job well and I would feel very satisfied and happy."

"It's dawn, I'm off work, when people are leaving their homes to go to work, I always crawl into bed with a silly smile on my face and sleep until I wake up naturally."

"Until one autumn midnight, a group of college students came to the bar to have fun, and I suddenly felt from them that I seemed to be missing something that could be very good."

"What is it?" Kanes asked in a low voice without turning back.

"University!"

“Not being able to get into college will be the biggest regret in my life in the future.”

"..." Kanes, a college dropout, went offline silently.

David did not look at him either, but turned his head, opened his eyes, looked at the quiet Chasida and asked: "Do you believe in fate?"

"..Um!"

"Do you believe in fate?"

"..Um!"

"Do you think fate is fair and predetermined?"