America's Road to Wealth

"Miss Morgenthau, you also know. In the past few days, there have been reports in the media that I change my girlfriend every day."

"But what I want to say is that they are all false."

"Those 'girlfriends', they are either models from my modeling company. Or they are actors participating in my film company."

"That's just me creating scandals and diverting attention for them."

"This is a business practice."

"but."

malibu beach,

Abel talked to Peggy Morgenthal:

"But my team thinks it's better for me to maintain a playboy persona."

"They said it would be a good cover for my aggressiveness as a financial capitalist."

"It will make ordinary Americans feel that I am a real person."

"I think this makes sense, and I have been working hard to create it before."

"The effect is pretty good."

Having said this, Abel paused and looked at Peggy Morgenthau, who was looking at him seriously.

Seeing him pause, the latter couldn't help but say:

"I don't understand why a financial capitalist. It's your nature to maintain the persona of a playboy, not the persona itself."

"Actually, I don't care about any of this. What I care more about is, what do you want? Sir." Paige said very directly.

"Ha~"

He laughed: "This question is on point."

"As you can see, Miss Morgenthau. I still want to maintain my playboy persona."

"But in order to come out to see you today, I didn't bring my female companion with me."

"Now those reporters are here. So what I want to say is, can you help me maintain my playboy persona today?"

Peggy Morgenthau's beautiful eyebrows wrinkled, and her eyes, as blue as the seawater dozens of feet away, were filled with confusion and anger.

"What do you mean, Mr. Smith?" Peggy asked.

"What I mean is very simple." Abel said with a smile:

"Be my one-day girlfriend in front of reporters or media. Help me maintain my playboy persona."

"impossible!"

Peggy Morgenthau said categorically in a firm tone: "Unless."

She looked at Abel's handsome face and tall figure.

"Unless that's the terms of your settlement."

she added.

"Deal~" Abel responded readily and directly.

"As long as you can help me today, Miss Morgenthau. Then tonight, I will ask my lawyers to withdraw the lawsuit, and this matter will end here."

"Okay." Peggy Morgenthau was not pretentious.

Mainly because of the guy opposite, although she hated him so much.

But he has a good skin that prevents her from being disgusted.

Peggy didn't mind if it was such a small price to save her grandfather from this trouble.

How dare he, Abel Smith, use force against him?

If that were the case, Peggy Morgenthau thought she would probably laugh.

Because if that's the case, then MG's branch, Morgenthau.

He will teach Abel every minute what it means to be an East Coast political powerhouse.

Since she had no such concerns, Paige readily agreed.

"OK~"

Abel gave her an OK gesture.

He lazily lay back on the recliner, thinking that this matter was not over.

But that's all it can do for now.

But he is a vengeful man.

One day when he becomes truly powerful.

And if given the right opportunity, he would never mind taking a big bite out of Morgenthau!

Until then, just pretend to be reconciled for now.

Thinking this, he turned his head and looked at Peggy Morgenthau, who was sipping lemon ice water with her head down.

Abel's heart moved, and then he said softly: "Peggy, give me some water."

Paige: "!!!!!!"

Abel pointed with his hand at the paparazzi and reporters in the distance.

He raised another finger and mouthed to her: [Girlfriend for a day! 】

Paige's beautiful eyebrows furrowed and then slowly relaxed.

She looked a little unhappy, and her tone was slightly bored, "I'm not good at doing this. If you have any requests, just say it, as long as it's not too much."

As she spoke, she picked up the glass of ice water that Abel had just drank and moved towards him.

But before she could get closer, she heard Abel say:

"Peggy, I want to ask you. Have you had a physical examination recently? Do you have any respiratory infectious diseases?"

Paige: "????"

Why did it turn to whether I have any respiratory infectious diseases and physical examination?

She looked at Abel a little confused.

"Answer me, yes or no?"

"No." She said a little puzzled and unhappy:

"I get a physical check-up every month and I'm in good health."

Her physical examination was not the same type of physical examination that Abel asked Michael Levine to do for the contracted models of Isa Company.

But the rich people in the United States are more afraid of death than the other.

Those wealthy families with a long history attach great importance to health and medical care.

On the east coast, any wealthy family will have a physical examination almost every month.

This can be regarded as a means of medical protection. If the disease is detected in advance, it can also facilitate and better prescribe the right medicine.

In order to achieve better treatment purposes.

Address diseases before they affect your health.

This is also the reason why one or two of the truly wealthy people in Europe and the United States have lived to be over ninety.

Except for sudden and violent deaths, such as Epstein who was shot eight times in the back and hanged himself in prison.

There is very little news about the top rich people in Europe and the United States dying before the age of 90.

Firstly, there is money, secondly, there is attention, and thirdly, medical technology is developed.

Morgenthau is undoubtedly a giant on the east coast and naturally has this fine tradition.

After answering by herself, Peggy saw Abel's expression of relief, and then he said to herself:

"That's good, then I'm relieved. Then, Paige, put down this glass of ice water, I want to drink the glass you drank."

A small expression of disbelief appeared on Paige's face, "I've drank this cup. I've drank it!"

"I drank only after you drank." Abel rolled his eyes at her, "Didn't you see the paparazzi over there taking pictures? Which man and woman in love don't drink from each other's cups? Do the whole show, dear Mademoiselle Morgenthau!"

"Sorry." Paige said expressionlessly, holding back her displeasure and slight nausea.

She brought over the iced lemonade that she had just taken a few sips of.

"I've never been in love. I don't know about this kind of thing."

She put the ice water in front of Abel a little stiffly and said again.

Fortunately, Abel didn't actually drink the water she drank. He just held the cup in his hand and shook it gently.

It looks like he is drinking, but he is not really drinking.

This relieved Peggy Morgenthau.

But I felt a little unhappy in my heart - what? Are you afraid that I really have an infectious disease and won’t drink it?

Just as she was thinking this, she immediately heard the other party's more excessive demands.

"That's right, Paige. This way, come here and stand behind me."

Paige was a little reluctant, but she still stood on Abel who was lying on the lounge chair.

Then she heard again: "Yes, stand still and put your hands on my shoulders."

Paige didn't do it right away this time. She asked, "Why do you do that?"

"This is an intimate contact between a man and a woman. You give me a massage. This will make it appear that we are very close and avoid our other more excessive contacts that may offend you."

Abel said, "You won't let me just hold you in my arms for the sake of acting, right?"

Between massaging him and holding him in her arms, Paige decisively chose the first one.

Reluctantly, she put her hands, which she had been using all day long to write and organize case documents, on Abel's shoulders.

She scratched it a few times perfunctorily, calling it a massage.

Put yourself in Abel’s shoes.

The daughter of a wealthy family on the east coast, the granddaughter of the apple of his eye.

Now I am giving myself a "massage", even if it is very reluctant, even if it is conditional.

It also made him feel happy now.

But people always have to look forward to Shu.

Peggy Morgenthau is so beautiful, much prettier than Ikana.

Now that the conditions are right, Abel wants to go one step further.

He was up to his tricks again.

"Don't stop your hands. Those paparazzi cameras all have telephoto lenses. They can clearly capture the movements of your palms."

"If you are so perfunctory, it will make them doubt our relationship and make the character I created today fail."

Paige had no choice but to reluctantly move her fingers and really massage Abel.

It's just that the movements are unfamiliar and there is no comfortable feeling at all, just scratching with claws.

Abel didn't mind this either. At this moment, he seemed to have discovered a great toy.

He thought Peggy Morgenthau was so interesting.

I played some today.

that's all,

Throughout the day, Peggy Morgenthau became Abel's one-day girlfriend.

Follow Abel to sunbathe and play in the water at Malibu Beach, and then follow Abel back to Beverly Hills for shopping and dining.

After dinner, I went to the cinema as usual in the afternoon.

After watching the movie, the two of them went to bed at three o'clock in the afternoon, which was obviously not the time to go to bed.

We went into a luxury hotel on the roadside together and didn't come out until five o'clock.

After coming out, we went to a Michelin-starred restaurant in downtown Los Angeles for dinner.

When dinner was almost finished, under the gaze of Paige's beautiful blue eyes.

Abel smiled and took out his mobile phone.

He made a phone call.

"David. I had a great time getting along with Miss Peggy Morgenthal today."

Paige frowned. She knew the other person was calling David Mellon.

But why use this sentence in the opening sentence?

Are you happy with me?

I'm not happy at all, okay? !

Thinking of what happened all day today, Paige felt unhappy.

But at the same time, I still feel something strange deep in my heart.

These are the things ordinary women do today when they are in love.

This was the first time Paige had experienced it.

In fact, some of them are quite interesting.

For example, go to the movies, play at the beach, or go shopping.

Fortunately, what Abel said later was something Peggy was happy to hear.

"Let Ms. Caroline, notify those attorneys and attorneys. Withdraw the lawsuit."

"Yes, that's right. We reconciled. Robert sent his granddaughter here. She is so beautiful, what can I do?"

Peggy didn't like hearing the next sentence.

She felt that this was a bit treating herself as an object and a bit belittling her grandfather.

"My grandfather didn't send me here! Mr. Smith, please be careful what you say. I have fulfilled your request and I hope you won't talk nonsense." Peggy was a little angry.

Abel, who was still answering the phone, smiled and waved to her, and continued to brag with David Mellon.

"Ah~ yes, yes, Paige is still with me. We are still in the hotel. She is a little angry, that's it, David, don't forget what you asked Ms. Caroline to do."

"OK OK~ It will take about a week. I will go back to New York in a week."

"That's it, I'm going to have dinner with Peggy."

Under the gaze of Peggy Morgenthal's slightly angry blue eyes, Abel finally hung up the phone.

Then he opened his hands to Peggy Morgenthal:

"Paige, look. I kept my word and made our deal."

Peggy Morgenthau, who had endured and been unhappy for a day, finally breathed a sigh of relief.

She immediately stood up and said with a slightly disgusted look:

"In that case, I'm leaving."

"Goodbye, Peggy." Abel didn't stand up, smiled and waved to her.

"goodbye!"

Paige left these words, turned around and left directly.

Not long after she walked out of the restaurant.

David Jones walked in from outside carrying a folder.

David came to Abel and handed the folder to Abel.

"BOSS, these are the photos taken by those reporters." David said softly.

Abel nodded and took it, opened the folder and found at least one or two hundred developed photos inside.

He randomly pulled out a few pictures, and the hero and heroine in them were indeed himself and Peggy Morgenthau.

Many of these photos.

Because of the angle and his own deliberate guidance.

It seems that the two of them are very close, and no one would believe that they are not boyfriend and girlfriend.

Abel nodded with satisfaction and stuffed these photos into the folder.

"Choose a dozen photos. Don't go too far, but it should also show that I am closer to her. Then return these photos to the reporters."

"It's up to you to control how you report tomorrow's news."

After listening to the boss's instructions, David Jones was a little confused.

It's up to them to control this strength, which is a bit difficult to control.

The other party is also a political powerhouse on the East Coast, if that's too much.

If you really get angry and fight back, your boss may think it's nothing.

But those of them who are doing things will always fall short of their boss.

It's just that the boss obviously didn't have any intention of telling him to do it to a certain extent.

David Jones also knows that it is difficult to ask questions.

Doesn't it appear that they are incapable of doing things and that the boss needs personal guidance on everything?

He had no choice but to nod his head and go out with the folder. He planned to discuss it with the team.

the next day,

October 30th.

Ikana took her father's private jet from New York to Los Angeles on business.

Free newspapers and newspapers in the VIP lounge of the airport.

She had seen a lot of news reports about the new girlfriend of ultra-rich Abel Smith.

Regarding these reports,

Ikana had seen it many times before.

She even received a call from Abel himself to "explain" to her.

With the previous mental preparation and Abel's explanation.

When Ikana saw this, she didn't have any big reaction at first, but she felt a little unhappy.

After all, the two of them were in an ambiguous stage at best, not even boyfriend and girlfriend.

Not even holding hands yet.

When she endured her displeasure, she picked up one of the Los Angeles Times and read it.

She discovered that the heroine was having an affair with Abel this time.

The name is Peggy Morgenthau.

Ikana is no longer so calm.

Abel had no idea what the name Peggy Morgenthau meant in East Coast social circles.

Because this name has never appeared in newspapers in New York and the East Coast.

But for people like Ikana and others in this circle.

The name Peggy Morgenthau was not unfamiliar to them at all.

Not to mention thunderous, he is also extremely famous.

Ikana's label of "other people's children" still has a bit of bragging factor in it.

Peggy Morgenthau is in the circle of New York's rich and powerful, and their circle of socialites.

That is really "someone else's child", the kind that has no bragging factor at all.

This is a man who finished high school at the age of eight, entered Harvard at the age of nine, went to Yale Law School at the age of eleven, and became a law professor at the age of fourteen.

She has been a talented girl like Peggy, the heroine in the American TV series "Young Sheldon" that had not yet appeared since she was a child.

The key is her background, which is much more powerful than Peggy played by McKenna Grace.

The only difference is that Peggy Morgenthau studied law and the legal profession.

The complex legal provisions and legal research in the United States are not inferior to any natural science discipline in the world.

With Paige's genius, entering this field, all she can do is to be better than other geniuses in memory and comprehension.

Such a person is almost at the highest level in the food chain of the East Coast socialite circle.

There was actually a scandal with Abel. Ikana didn't believe it at first, and then she felt a sense of crisis in her heart.

She immediately started reading eagerly.

After reading this newspaper, she frowned and read several related reports from other newspapers.

It's okay not to look at it, but the more I look at it, the more irritated I feel.

Because if we go by what these newspapers say.

Abe Smith and Paige Morgenthau are getting married tomorrow!

This made Ikana very irritated.

Even if she knew that the reports in these newspapers were actually exaggerations and 99% of them were false.

Because Abel and other rumored girlfriends were reported in this way by these newspapers.

Face to face with those models, actors, and even Amanda Hearst, who had appeared at the New York banquet before and was an intern at Abel Company for a week.

Ikana doesn't have any special feelings.

Just a chicken and a dog!

Vulnerable.

However, this time it was Peggy Morgenthau, the real "other people's child."

No matter in terms of family, background, or IQ, Peggy Morgenthau crushes her.

Ikana felt a little guilty.

The result of her guilty conscience was to make her a little irritable.

Let her now, can't wait to see Abel.

Even though she came to Los Angeles this time, it was ostensibly for "YKM" business.

According to the scheduled schedule, she would also meet with several YKM store managers in Los Angeles and San Francisco at noon.

Now, she decided to ignore it for the time being.

Let’s go find Abel first and see if Peggy Morgenthau is really with him.

In the VIP waiting room of the airport, she put the newspapers back where they belonged.

Ikana dragged her suitcase and hurriedly left the airport accompanied by her assistant.