At that moment, Jenny called him. "Do you need me to remind you that it's almost April?"
Luke was stumped for a moment. Having been accused by CEO Jenny so many times, he quickly thought about it and smiled. "It's just that the smartphones of other phone companies are going on the market. Are you afraid of that?"
Jenny said, "… So, it's been more than a month since Valentine's Day, but you haven't cared about me once? Sigh, a CEO might as well be a secretary. "
Luke sweated inwardly when he heard that. He hurriedly said, "Okay, I'll come see you this afternoon."
Jenny found that odd. "In the afternoon?"
Luke chuckled. "It's sunny in your office in the afternoon. The scenery in front of the floor-to-ceiling window last time wasn't bad."
Jenny spat at him. "Then one in the afternoon." She then hung up.
Luke turned off his phone and scratched his head. "It's … really early in the afternoon."
That being said, he still went.
He wouldn't spend Valentine's Day with Jenny, and he certainly wouldn't spend it with Elena.
That day would always be an ordinary day. He wouldn't be stupid enough to make a huge hole for himself, not even with the Star of Justice clone.
But Valentine's Day this year happened to be the day the Hand ninjas broke into Metropolis Hospital and were wiped out.
That night, he and Selina first stayed at the front door of the hospital, and then went to the building a little further away to keep watch.
Although the conditions weren't good, he returned with a bunch of snacks from his inventory after leaving for a few minutes. Then, he and Selina ate to their hearts' content.
So, strictly speaking, it was Selina who was spending Valentine's Day with him. Of course, they didn't mention it that night.
After thinking for a moment, Luke still went to the phone company in Nassau County after lunch.
It was inevitable that Jenny would look for him now.
Her real purpose definitely had nothing to do with Valentine's Day, or she would have called last month.
It was already late March. She had clearly called to increase her bargaining chips by saying that it was Valentine's Day and asking a certain manager who had completely washed his hands of the company to give her some peace of mind.
Luke drove the car into the garage of the phone company with his face covered and an unrelated license plate. He took the private elevator to the CEO's office, and didn't see anyone. Only the unpartitioned kitchen had a coffee set.
Luke took off his coat, rolled up his sleeves, and started to make coffee.
Compared to delicacies, he fooled around more with coffee.
In his previous life, he really liked to drink coffee, including all kinds of instant coffee from China, America, Singapore, Malaysia, and Thailand. However, it still couldn't hide his perfunctory nature of coffee.
In this life, he would also order a variety of coffee in a coffee shop to try, but he only had two comments on the taste: good, bad.
He did not care whether it was sour or bitter, or whether it was blue mountain cat poop.
He had never touched cat poop before, so he was still a bit obsessed with cleanliness.
Therefore, he had always brewed the coffee powder directly. He never had the mood to grind the coffee beans himself.
The downside of this was that it was said that the taste would be much worse, but he couldn't taste it anyway.
The good thing was that the coffee would come out faster.
By the time Ginny came out of her bedroom, the coffee was ready.
Jenny sat down on the sofa next to him and had a sip of coffee. "When will your coffee-making skills be as good as your cooking and pastry skills?"
Luke chuckled. "It'll probably be very difficult. After all, I'm not interested in studying it."
Ginny was lost for words.
She still found it hard to understand how a man who wasn't a chef could improve his cooking and pastry skills to the level of a chef, but was consistently terrible at something as simple as making coffee.
It had to be noted that the maids at her house could make Luke's coffee, but Luke's food could make the maids' food.
But she had asked Luke to come today to discuss important business, so she didn't waste any more time and went straight to the point.
After hearing her out, Luke spread out his hands. "What are you afraid of? Isn't this what we've already prepared? The phone market can't be monopolized by any one company. It's already very impressive that you can control the entry time of other people, alright? "
Jenny tapped her knee absentmindedly. "But the phone company is my blood and sweat. I'm afraid it will …"
Luke hugged her. "Hey, do you think this is a TV show? We have the technology, creativity, and entry time. You've even got a lot of capital, right? How much did you earn from Stark Industries' shares? "
Jenny came back to herself and nodded. "I didn't earn as much from Stark Industries' shares as I did last time. I even left some for sale, and the actual profit was only a little over a billion … Wait, didn't I notify you after the operation? Didn't you see it?"
In fact, even if the phone company collapsed in an instant, her position as a director of Stark Industries would still make her one of the top people in America.
Luke's expression didn't change. "I'm just reminding you not to forget that we made a fortune again."
Jenny looked at him suspiciously for a moment, but still chose to believe him. After all, being too suspicious wasn't the way to get along.
Luke secretly wiped the sweat off his forehead.
He didn't care how much money Jenny made. In any case, he was rich, and getting richer was the right thing to do.
Just like the pile of black money in his inventory, he had been happy for a while when he had stolen 20,000 dollars from the Carlos family in Mexico.
But when he went to Brazil, pried open Rio bigshot Hernan's mouth, and earned more than two hundred million dollars, he wasn't as excited as before.
All of this was because the urgent need for money was no longer there.
He wasn't Tony Stark, who didn't need to desperately experiment with cutting-edge, immature technology.
Most of the time, he was just a mover.
He just had to modify a product that suited him with the abilities and a mature plan he had obtained from the tycoon.
Tony's Mark armor was basically worth more than a hundred million dollars, while Luke's armor was only worth ten million at most. Few of them were worth more than fifty million dollars.
Thus, the tycoon's spending on armor was worlds apart from Luke's.
So far, the tycoon had invested more than five billion dollars in the research and development of armor, and Luke was still far from a billion.
It was also for the sake of saving so much money that Luke treated Tony well.
Five billion dollars was almost the actual value of the Titanium Phone Company right now. That was what Luke thought.
In the end, he heard Jenny say casually, "The company is currently valued at 50 billion. Of course, some exaggerate it to 70 billion …"
Luke was lost for words. Fine, he shouldn't think too much about business. He couldn't compare to a genius girl like Jenny, who had grown up in a money-minded family.
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