America's Road to Wealth

Don't wait until little Laura catches the "intimate affair" between her best friend and her boyfriend.

The next day, she was called back by the Bush family.

It's almost late December.

According to the time agreed upon by both the Bush family and the Smith family.

There are almost only 10 days left before their big day.

As a woman, she has to go back there to prepare.

What's more, it's almost late December now.

Many students in many universities here in the United States have left. Those who remain in school are generally only really good students and graduate students who need to continue their advancement.

Ordinary American college students are already on vacation.

Little Laura left the day after Abel returned to New York and went back to Texas.

She didn't know that as soon as she left, her best friend also left the school.

It's just that she's not going back to Han State, or going to live with her second sister Li Xuxian.

December 18, 2001.

No. 138 East 65th Street, Upper East Side, Manhattan, New York. This is a building with quite a sense of history.

This townhouse was built in 1900 and has 4 floors. It has 5 bedrooms and 6 bathrooms. The property tax is $7,708 per month.

It is one of the investments of New Starting Real Estate Company in New York.

But now, it joins many other New Start Properties properties.

Became one of someone's new golden houses.

Little Laura had left New York only a few hours ago.

Her best friend Li Xinyu came to live here with some of her clothes and luggage.

It’s noon this day.

When Li Xinyu opened her eyes and woke up in the unfamiliar bedroom.

What this young lady from the largest plutocrat in the Han Kingdom saw was a white and unfamiliar ceiling.

"ha--"

Li Xinyu breathed a sigh of relief and sat up from Simmons.

The warm, comfortable and close-fitting velvet brocade quilt fell on her body, revealing her beautiful body without a strand of clothing.

Li Xinyu never liked sleeping on the fruit before.

But recently, whenever she rested with someone, she had to sleep.

Because that guy loves her baby so much.

If you put it on, you have to take it off anyway, so why not not wear it at all...

As always, Li Xinyu, like Abel's other women, did not see him around when she woke up.

Li Xinyu knew that he must have gone out very early again.

She was already familiar with Abel, and she knew that her man had incredible physical strength.

Even though he doesn't have much of a workaholic attitude toward work.

But because he has enough energy, he also has enough time to deal with work.

Finally, he is obviously not a workaholic, but he does the workload of a workaholic.

On Simmons, Li Xinyu sat in a daze for a few minutes.

After the blood oxygen replenishes the hazy head, he wakes up completely.

Li Xinyu just got off Simmons, and her beautiful eyes scanned the ground——

Sure enough, I found the lampshade that had been taken off last night on the ground.

Forget it, after lying on the carpet overnight, it's probably dirty.

Li Xinyu looked through Simmons and found a new set of specially made, high-end lampshades for Elizabeth's back garden in the cabinet next to her.

The reason for using a special model is because her figure is very unconventional.

It has the exaggerated quantity of white or black women, and the quality unique to Asian women.

The result is that if she wants to dress comfortably.

It can only be customized according to her special shape.

Fortunately, it does not matter whether it is the financial resources of the Li family or the financial resources of the man she is following.

It is common for her to customize a comfortable and close-fitting lampshade.

If it were a girl from an ordinary family with a figure like hers.

In this regard, it is estimated that you will be in a rather distressing situation.

After getting dressed, I went to the bathroom to wash up.

Li Xinyu walked out of the master bedroom on the fourth floor.

This townhouse is on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. The real estate company is offering a price of around US$20 million.

It has 4 floors in total, with an average of over 3,000 square feet per floor.

In conversion, the first floor is about 300 square meters, and the four floors total about 1,300 square meters.

The entire fourth floor has a huge master bedroom, a master living room, and a large study room.

Li Xinyu walked out of the room and saw the female bodyguard Jin Minshan in the corridor outside.

Jin Minshan is a female member of the Asian bodyguards specially recruited by Rock Security.

Just by looking at her name, you can tell that she is from Han.

Since Li Xinyu was also from the Han Kingdom, she was assigned to be Li Xinyu's special bodyguard, a personal bodyguard.

Just like Doni next to Abel, Jane next to Ikana, Jinna next to Anne Hathaway, and Mary next to Jessica Alba.

"Miss Li."

Seeing Li Xinyu coming out, Jin Minshan quickly greeted her respectfully in a low voice.

These female bodyguards also have different names for the women around Abel.

Some are called Madam, like Ikana. Ever since she became pregnant, she likes her bodyguards to call her Madam.

It was as if in this way, she really became Abel's wife.

There are those called miss, like Li Xinyu and Anni.

There are also people called ma'am, like Li Fuzhen.

Abel didn't force it. What the female bodyguards called them was entirely based on their hobbies and habits.

Li Xinyu's bodyguards all call her Miss Li.

"Minshan." Li Xinyu spoke directly in Korean, "Bring me some food. I'm almost starving. Well...it's already almost noon."

"Okay. Miss, do you want to eat Korean food or something else?"

"What kind of Korean food? If you don't want to eat it, just follow the normal lunch standards." Li Xinyu said. "Let's go eat in the outdoor garden on the third floor."

During the construction and design process, half of the third floor of the villa was vacated and a beautiful indoor sky garden was created.

There are some flowers, plants and some low trees planted inside, and the decoration is very beautiful, in the Florentine style from Italy.

In New York, where snowstorms often occur, it is designed in a Florentine style where it rarely snows.

All I can say is that rich people are good.

Li Xinyu likes this small courtyard in the air very much and wants to have lunch there today.

"But it's snowing today." Jin Minshan advised, "It's very cold outside now."

"Uh... forget it then." Li Xinyu said, "Go directly to the restaurant to eat."

The restaurant is also on the third floor.

The entire third floor of this townhouse has been turned into a functional area.

The restaurant, small sky courtyard garden, leisure room, medical room, etc. are all on this floor.

On the second floor are some guest bedrooms and a small living room.

The first floor is the large living room and reception area.

Li Xinyu walked down from the fourth floor. The restaurant on the third floor was spacious and comfortable, with high ceilings and excellent indoor lighting.

Outside the restaurant, in the private courtyard separated by thick thermal insulation glass, even if it snows, you can still see lush vegetation and comfortable leisure tables and chairs.

It is blocked by buildings, and there is no snow accumulation except for some wind and snow blowing in through the open design opening.

Besides, it didn't snow very much last night, but the temperature dropped quite a bit.

This villa is in a great location with easy access to Central Park, Madison Avenue and other shopping and dining areas.

It only takes ten minutes to walk to both places.

On the third floor, Li Xinyu sat at the main seat of the beautiful and huge Italian Byzantine-style dining table in the restaurant.

Byzantine style is a style of Italian furniture that can be regarded as furniture design in the early Renaissance.

It is famous for its elegance, simplicity, solemnity and majesty in styling design, with pure and beautiful lines and appropriate classical proportions.

The previous owner of this house was either Italian or a crazy Italian style lover.

The decoration of the entire house is a fusion of various Italian styles.

Li Xinyu, who has always had a petty-bourgeois sentiment and was born in a plutocratic family but is somewhat of a literary youth, loves this style the most.

She likes it here.

While waiting for the maid to prepare the food, Li Xinyu found a stack of newspapers next to her.

She knew this should be her man and looked at it while having breakfast this morning.

Imagine this morning, when I was still sleeping soundly in Simmons.

My man came out of the room, leaving me exhausted by him last night.

I sat in this position, eating breakfast and reading the newspaper, and spent a fulfilling morning.

Subconsciously, Li Xinyu also picked up the newspaper and imitated what her man might do in the morning.

She even pretended to read it, and the newspaper she picked up happened to be a "Wall Street Journal" with today's top headlines——

【Abel Smith and the Future】

I saw my man’s name in the title.

Li Xinyu, who was just pretending to be a man, immediately started reading with interest.

News that can be used as a front-page headline by the Wall Street Journal is certainly not too simple.

In this news report, although Abel Smith is used in the title.

But most of the news content inside is related to the "2001 New York Financiers Charity Christmas Reception" held yesterday at the Hilton Hotel in midtown Manhattan.

The New York Financiers Charity Christmas Reception is a well-known party in New York and the American financial circles.

It is said that in the early days, it was a public wine event initiated by the Morgen family.

It mainly invites elites from the financial circles in New York or the United States to gather together, have a meal and talk about their vision for the industry in the next year.

developed over decades.

This has become a super small "Davos Forum" similar to the New York financial circle or even the American financial circle.

However, as time went by, after Morgan, Rockefeller and others gradually faded away from the stage.

This cocktail party for financiers is becoming more and more "civilian".

The guests who participated in it have gradually become middle- and high-level people on Wall Street from all financial tycoons back then.

Later, it even became similar to other well-known social drinking parties in New York.

Just like the famous "Metropolitan" cocktail party.

Most of the financial tycoons did not come to participate.

The people attending this public reception were mainly middle- and high-level people in the financial circle and people from outside the circle.

But because of the organizer of the reception, some big names in the industry are still invited to attend every year.

These big guys also attract a large number of financial elites to pay fees to participate every year.

This allowed the style of the reception to be barely maintained.

In addition, the cost per participant is US$6,500, excluding alcohol expenses.

The rest will be donated as charity donations. The word "charity" in the reception is reflected here.

The entry fee of $6,500 is high no matter how you look at it.

But most of the time, tickets sell very well, and sometimes there are even scalpers who increase the price several times.

When this happens, usually a really top boss will participate, which will have this effect.

Like this year's event, it was originally scheduled to be held on the evening of December 17, hosted by the New York Times.

The organizer of this reception is not fixed. Every few years, the organizer changes.

Well-known local newspapers in New York such as the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the New York Post, and the New York Daily News have all held it.

Usually no one grabs it, because if you can't invite the big guys to attend, holding this kind of cocktail party is a bit thankless.

Many times you will even lose money, or at least lose some favors.

After all, it’s not that easy to invite big guys to participate.

The result was on the 16th.

This year's organizer, The New York Times, suddenly announced that the reception would be hosted by the New York Observer.

Dylan, the editor-in-chief of the New York Observer, quickly acknowledged the news and announced that the meeting would be held at his home in the Hilton Hotel on the evening of the 17th.

There are a total of 1,000 attendees, and other terms are almost the same as the previous reception.

After noon on the 16th, the New York Observer published the list of invitees from the organizer of the reception on its official website.

The arrangement of names in the United States has always been based on the arrangement of the first letter of the name in the English alphabet.

So those who are interested discovered that the first one on this list is Abel Smith.

Abel is Abel in English, and the first letter is A.

It’s so normal to be ranked first.

Then after the first guest Abel Smith, the names of Warren Buffett and George Soros were also among them.

Even more exaggerated, there are names like Leo Melamed, David Rene Rothschild, and Alan Greenspan.

Even names like David Rockefeller and John Chris Morgan appeared.

Almost immediately after the news was announced.

This has always been the case. But she is often regarded as a socialite and an outsider, enjoying the hot New York social receptions on Wall Street and financial circles.

Its level of attention and popularity increased infinitely in an instant.

Almost to the point of a reception at the White House.

From noon on the 16th to noon on the 17th.

There are countless people in New York and even across the United States who originally only needed $6,500 to get this.

Now that it has increased tenfold, you may not even be able to get a place to participate in the reception, so you have to go around to fight for it.

Yesterday morning and yesterday at noon.

Someone even called Li Xinyu.

I want to trouble her and get an invitation or two.

Li Xinyu was bold enough to mention it to Abel.

Abel conveniently gave her 5 places.

This made Li Xinyu feel very happy, she felt very proud, and felt that she had received great attention from him.

She, who had always been very passive in this matter, took the rare initiative last night.

And now the newspaper Li Xinyu is reading contains the content reported in it.

This is a summary of the speeches of the big guys who participated in the cocktail party last night.

The Wall Street Journal directly listed Abel's name first and reported it as a front-page headline.

It can only be said that in order to attract traffic and sales, these media companies all know whose names Americans like to see nowadays.

Li Xinyu read the whole article and only noticed her boyfriend's speech at the cocktail party last night. She didn't bother to read the others.

The Wall Street Journal claimed that at the cocktail party last night, Abel Smith was very optimistic about China’s development.

He said he would support and urge the White House to grant China permanent normal trading country status.

Statements in this regard are common on Wall Street and in the international financial community.

Because since the 1990s, too many big figures on Wall Street have said similar things.

The fact that capital has no borders is itself the best portrayal of Wall Street.

China can make Wall Street make money and capitalists make money.

It would be too easy for the capitalists to say a few good words about China in newspapers and media.

But again, as long as it hinders your own interests. The capitalists block certain countries in various aspects without blinking an eye.

When capitalists say nice things about certain countries, most of them do it for profit.

The same is true in reverse.

In addition to this aspect, at this public reception, Abel also said that in the next few years at least, the real estate industry in the United States will stabilize and improve.

Li Xinyu, who was not very interested in these, glanced through them briefly and put down the newspaper.

At this time, her lunch happened to be served.

Li Xinyu started to eat lunch, which was mainly organic vegetable salad, a small portion of grilled steak, milk, eggs, and bread.

From vitamins to carbohydrates and sugars, from high protein to certain fats and oils, everything is included.

While ensuring the taste, it can also achieve comprehensive nutrition.

This is the result of the collaboration between the personal nutritionists hired by the wealthy and top personal chefs.

After lunch, it was snowing outside.

Little Laura was away and had no company. Li Xinyu didn't want to go out.

She decided to just stay at home and watch TV or read a book.

The very spacious and huge study upstairs contains more than 2,000 books.

It is said that some of them are unique copies and are treasured by their original owners.

After the villa was purchased by New Starting Point Real Estate, these solitary books became the selling points of the villa and were not taken away.

Li Xinyu went upstairs and casually looked for books to read in the study.

As a standard literary young woman, she could spend a whole day like this most of the time.

Because I heard that many of the books in this collection are unique.

When Li Xinyu was looking for books inside, she tried her best to find these legendary unique copies.

Choose the ones that look older and have older outer covers.

She searched and searched on the bookshelf, and randomly pulled out a thick book that seemed to be a unique one.

Li Xinyu took it out and found that it looked thick but was very light.

She opened it at random and found that it was not a book, but a photo album that clearly looked like it had history.

The photos above are all in black and white and may be from decades ago.

Dong Dong——

Just when she was about to take a closer look, there was a gentle knock on the door of the study.

It was personal bodyguard Jin Minshan. She was holding Li Xinyu's mobile phone, "Ms. Li, this is your phone number..."

"oh……"

Li Xinyu agreed, put the photo album in her hand on the desk next to her, and walked over to take the mobile phone handed over by Jin Minshan.

Before answering, Li Xinyu looked at it and found that it was actually the call from her second sister Li Xuxian.

There are three sisters in the Li family. The eldest sister and the second sister have always had a normal relationship.

The younger sister Li Xinyu has a better relationship with her two older sisters.

Li Xinyu often talked to Li Xuxian on the phone, so she picked up the call.

"Ah, second sister?"

When talking to her family, the language Li Xinyu used changed to Korean again.

She took her mobile phone and walked out from the study room, laughing and talking on the phone with Li Xuxian.

On the phone, Li Xuxian, who is still studying in New York but studying fashion design at Parsons School of Design, said she was already on vacation.

She plans to return to Han to celebrate the New Year and then come to New York to study.

Ask Li Xinyu if she wants to go back.

"I just returned to Han Kingdom not long ago. It's not like you don't know, second sister," Li Xinyu said.

Li Xinyu doesn't want to go back to Hanguo now, and she is a little reluctant to leave this house.

Well, mostly because I like the house, not because of any one person.

Li Xuxian then said that she would come over to accompany Li Xinyu. The two sisters had met for dinner. It had been more than two months since they had gotten together.

If Li Xinyu doesn't return to Han Kingdom after two days, Li Xuxian will go back by himself.

Of course, Li Xinyu couldn't refuse this little request from her biological sister.

Besides, she also wanted to see her sister.

Just like Li Xuxian said, the two sisters, who have a good relationship, have not seen each other for two months.

Then let’s meet.

Li Xinyu agreed, reported the address and asked the second sister to come over.

She wanted her second sister to see such a beautiful house.

After all, the second sister is the only designer in the family.

A fashion designer is also a designer.