Li Du's trip to New York was fruitless, and Carlston wanted to play dumb. However, the latter was different from other opponents Li Du had met. He was not hostile.
After talking to President Cole, he walked out of the Harry Winston group. Carlston's car, also a Rolls-Royce, drove up.
Li Du looked at him coldly, trying to see what tricks he was playing.
In the end, Carlston gave him a smile, a smile that looked very sincere. "Li, it's getting late. Why don't you come to my house? Yesterday was my wedding anniversary with my wife. We have some unique views on the relationship between husband and wife. "
Americans attached great importance to marriage anniversaries. They had given names to each wedding anniversary, such as paper wedding for one year, cloth wedding for two years, tin wedding for ten years, and gold wedding for fifty years.
Porcelain wedding was a synonym for the 20th anniversary of a wedding. Perhaps in Chinese eyes, the name of a wedding anniversary seemed fragile, but in American culture, it was not so.
The porcelain in American porcelain wedding was not the same concept that Chinese people always thought that porcelain would break when it was dropped. In the West, especially in the past, when wedding anniversaries were named, porcelain was a very precious thing. Even if it was broken, it would be picked up and mended again.
Therefore, porcelain wedding, like golden wedding and silver wedding, was a state of marriage at a certain age.
Carlston's words surprised Li Du. He did not expect his marriage to go so smoothly for 20 years. It was amazing.
However, when he thought about it, Carlston's children were already in their twenties. Their marriage was only a porcelain wedding, which was quite unusual.
If Carlston had used other reasons to invite Li Du, Li Du would have refused. He did not have a good impression of Carlston.
However, he could not refuse this reason because Li Du was about to be engaged to his fiancée. He envied those couples who held hands together for a lifetime. Like other young men who were about to enter marriage, he wanted to learn from these people.
Li Du was silent for a moment and got into the car with Brother Wolf.
Carlston had shown friendship, and he had to accept it for the time being. In the American business world, this was the way to conduct oneself.
In the car, Carlston chatted with him like an old friend.
He was a master of conversation and could easily find a topic to talk about with Li Du. Calston did not mention jewelry, diamonds, or the dispute between them. Instead, he first congratulated Li Du on his upcoming engagement, and then reminisced about his and his wife's youth.
Li Du had to admit that this successfully attracted him. Li Du was curious about life in the United States twenty years ago, and then Carlston interspersed the interesting story of his relationship with his wife, which made it impossible for him to feel disgusted.
When he got out of the car, Li Du could already joke with Carlston.
If it wasn't for the hundreds of millions of profits, he might have become friends with Carlston right now.
Li Du could not handle this kind of opponent. He was good at dealing with people who liked to fight head-on, such as Frank and York, Dog Ears Rick, and Princeps.
The opponents he had encountered in the past liked to stare at him and bite him like a mad dog. Li Du was able to counter their moves and retaliate with more powerful means.
Carlston was seen as an opponent by him, but the other party's spring breeze and rain made Li Du's heart weak.
But he also knew that it was unwise to compare Carlston with those people. Carlston's net worth was not lower than his, and he was also a billionaire with billions of dollars.
At their level, there was only profit, no enemies, and no killing.
Carlston initially suppressed Li Du because Li Du was a newcomer to Cole's faction. When Li Du developed into a giant and was likely to be a three-legged tripod with him and Cole, Carlston changed his attitude.
He now saw Li Du as a super potential stock, a powerful stock. There was no doubt that this kind of person was not suitable to be an opponent, but a friend.
Carlston's house was on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, a well-known wealthy area in the United States.
To Li Du's surprise, he did not live in a villa, but in an apartment building. When Carlston mentioned it on the road, Li Du thought it was a bit too simple.
But when he arrived downstairs, he didn't think so. Carlston's house was called 432 Park Ave, a tall building that reached a height of 426 meters.
Li Du knew this building. It was the second tallest building in New York after the new World Trade Center, and the third tallest building in the United States. But unlike the top two tall buildings, it was not a commercial office building, it was a residential building.
The tallest residential building in the world!
Carlston lived on the 92nd floor. From the bottom to the top of the building, the level of luxury increased in sequence. The bottom floor had two flights of four units, and further up, there were two units on each flight. Around the 50th floor, and further up, it was all one unit per floor!
The elevator went directly from the underground garage to Carlston's house. When the elevator door opened, there was a living room of about 20 square meters. This was the front hall, not the 'home.'
After passing through two more doors, they were finally in Carlston's house.
In the elevator, Li Du and Carlston talked about the house. The house was 8,255 square feet, or 767 square meters, with a total of eight bedrooms, seven bathrooms, six living rooms …
As for the price, Carlston said lightly, "I'm not sure. It should be about 80 million. I don't pay attention to housing prices, I don't play in real estate."
How much would an 80-million-dollar mansion be converted into RMB? Five hundred million!
No wonder he didn't want to live in his villa in Phoenix. How much was the villa there worth? Only two or three million.
Carlston's wife was already waiting in the living room. She was a woman with a gentle smile. She looked older than Carlston, with long hair and an indifferent temperament.
His wife greeted Li Du in a friendly manner and went to the kitchen. Carlston tidied up a few things and let Li Du wander around.
There were only two people and a nanny in the big house. Li Du stood in the living room and looked out. The first thing he saw was the famous New York Central Park.
432 Park Ave was in the southeast corner of Central Park. For many Americans, Central Park was a tourist attraction, but for people like Carlston, it was just a back garden.
The glass on the wall of the living room was ten square meters, and the house was four meters high. There were large floor-to-ceiling windows all around, giving a 360-degree view of New York.
The Big Apple, at this moment, was under Li Du's feet. He was like an emperor overlooking the city known as the heart of the world. Inevitably, a sense of pride appeared in his heart.
Taking a deep breath, Li Du decided to buy a house. He had money now, and he also wanted to buy a big house like this.
It was not how it looked or lived, but living in a place like this was a great help to one's vision, mind, and career.
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