Volume 3: My days in a college fraternity Chapter 118 She Arrogantly Charged Me
On the return trip, Tommy still stingily chose a red-eye flight that took off late at night, but Sophia was no longer as resentful as when she came.
Sitting in her seat, she happily flipped through the various commemorative photos she had taken in Washington, DC, including the Potomac River, the Lincoln Memorial, the White House, and the last one was a photo of her and Delia, with each other's autographs on the back of the photo.
"You seem very happy." Tommy sat next to Sophia and asked curiously.
Sophia looked at this guy who was obviously very capable but always asked such low-IQ questions with an idiotic look:
"Tommy, shouldn't you be happy? Delia agreed to help Actor take on this business. To be honest, I thought it was impossible before I came here. You've read so much information, so you must be clear about the industry status of the White Shoes Firm. She can perfectly handle all the relevant issues of this lawsuit according to the thinking of your employer."
"Miss, could you please give me a few more pieces of chewing gum?" Tommy did not answer Sophia, but said something to the ugly stewardess who passed by.
The flight attendant looked at Tommy and said numbly, "There is no additional free food on this flight unless you choose to pay for it."
"Very good, I promise there will be extra benefits on the plane. If there is no chewing gum, I will get airsick and vomit, but I won't make it difficult for you. Go ahead, remember to prepare the broom in advance and wait for cleaning." Tommy said seriously to the flight attendant.
The flight attendant hesitated for a moment, and finally chose the latter between cleaning up the vomit and giving away chewing gum. She took out a pack of chewing gum from her pocket and handed it to Tommy: "Sir, your chewing gum is enough to chew until you get off the plane."
"I'll praise you when the airline calls back..." Tommy glanced at the nameplate on the stewardess's chest: "Ms. Viola Davis."
"No, thank you. Just don't meet me again. Go and vomit on another plane." The flight attendant shook her head and continued walking forward.
After the flight attendant left, Tommy peeled off the unpalatable strong mint-flavored gum and put it in his mouth to chew to refresh himself: "If there is a cheaper flight, I don't want to meet you. Your figure is too bad. I feel that your breasts are not as developed as Jason's."
Seeing Tommy taking advantage of even the red-eye flights, Sophia turned her head and looked at the night outside the window speechlessly: "Can't you be a normal person, a man who won't be called a bastard by a woman, Tommy?"
"Speaking of this, you won't call me an asshole, right? I let you meet your idol, and you got a photo and autograph." Tommy also turned his head and looked at the porthole next to Sophia. He winked at Sophia through the porthole and pointed to the bathroom: "Are you grateful to me? Do you want to go to the bathroom with me and give me a massage that will make you cry with gratitude?"
Sophia turned her head and looked directly at Tommy. "Tommy Hawke, I already know that you can make yourself look like a calm gentleman, just like you did in front of Ms. Delia Keyes. Believe me, that's more attractive to women."
"I messed up? You're not going to go to the bathroom with me, are you?" Tommy smiled nonchalantly and just continued to ask.
Sophia nodded unhappily, "Yes, I will help you in this case in any way I can, but I will never go to the bathroom with you, let alone give you a massage."
"That's what I've been waiting for." Tommy snapped his fingers and said to Sophia:
"Your understanding of law school is probably the same as my familiarity with the bathroom. You don't have to go to the bathroom, but you have to go back to Stanford Law School and help Actor select a team of lawyers who are Stanford alumni, mentors, or professors."
Sophia saw that Tommy didn't seem to be joking with her, so she shook her hair: "Why? You already have Ms. Delia Keyes to help you, she will..."
"She didn't help me. She took away the 400,000 yuan that belonged to me and gained a lot of reputation. I think this is not perfect. She should provide help for free. After all, I am on the side of justice." Tommy took out a cigarette, lit it, and put it in his mouth to light it:
"Superman saves countless people and fights against various evil forces, and then the lawyer who defends him charges him a high fee? Comic books don't dare to write this. We live in the United States, which is full of justice!"
In the 1980s, smoking was not yet banned on American flights, and stewardesses on these low-cost flights would still sell cigarettes in an attempt to make as much profit as possible.
"So what?" Sophia suddenly had a very bad feeling.
"I'll pay her a portion of the money and let her handle the hardest part. When the trial begins, I'll change the legal team and leave the case to Stanford alumni. I'm not going to give this opportunity to become famous to a lawyer who offered me $400,000 and has no respect for women's great cause?" Tommy was just talking about something casually.
"Alumni of Stanford Law School or visiting professors with practicing qualifications would definitely not charge poor Actor at that time. After all, Stanford is so rich, so just, and we are still a family."
Sophia looked down at the smiling herself and Delia in the photo, then looked at Tommy, whose smile was like a devil. She opened her mouth several times before finally saying weakly, "But...but Delia is just earning the pay she deserves."
"Only if I can't take the money from you." Tommy blew a puff of smoke from his nose.
"I gave her a precious opportunity. I didn't let her work for me without paying. It was already an extra favor. She actually dared to quote a fee of 400,000 yuan. You call me a capitalist all day long because of my stinginess. Capitalists are just stingy? No, there is also exploitation and oppression. In the eyes of capitalists, the money should belong to me."
Sophia took a deep breath and tried to make herself look calmer. "If you do this, I guarantee she will give you trouble later."
"Do you think I'm someone who's afraid of trouble?" Tommy heard Sophia's words, and the corner of his mouth with a cigarette in his mouth curled up, with a reckless and unruly smile:
"This opportunity was replaced halfway. Do you think she still has a place in Davis Polk or even the entire white-shoe elite law firm? Just wait to become a laughing stock in the industry and go to a country firm to rot. All the partners of Davis Polk will only give her one line: I gave you a chance but you are fucking useless! Bitch!"
"Tommy..." Suo Wei Ya's hands trembled slightly. She said weakly, "She is just making the money she deserves. She is willing to help your little-known Actor Company..."
"Stanford Law School will definitely be more willing to pay for the liquidated damages for me to temporarily change my legal team, and then bring the best team from the university to help us put a perfect end to our relationship with Lotus, and leave our names in history." Tommy flicked the ash off his cigarette, reached out and gently touched Sophia's frightened face.
"As for the white-haired girl who wanted to make four hundred thousand from me, maybe if she returns the money I paid her, I will consider leaving her a corner position in the new team. Didn't you notice that the woman was very arrogant to us? She took four hundred thousand from us and gained influence in the industry, but this white-haired girl didn't even say thank you. In the countryside of Warwick, according to the social philosophy of my father and his people, this kind of woman needs to be dealt with. If she is not allowed to experience the taste of life and death, ecstasy and death, she will not know what respect is, and she will not know who is her loving father. Don't disrespect your employer just because he is young."
"Sophia's position in the industry means that she is qualified to face her employer more forcefully. After all..."
"Although I am not well-educated, I like to teach those arrogant people to be polite in front of me." Tommy took his fingers away from Sophia's face and took the photo of Sophia and Delia to look at it:
"This woman's silver hair is very sexy. She looks a bit like the heroine in a movie called The Devil Wears Prada. I should have a long-term vision and not just focus on those blonde girls in BDP. I can also try silver hair."
Sophia didn't hear what Tommy was talking about, and she didn't pay attention to Tommy's vulgar words that maliciously blasphemed Delia, her idol. She was thinking that Delia did nothing wrong, and she weakly repeated, "Delia is just... just making the money she deserves."
She didn't understand why Delia was willing to help Actor Company take over the business, and the price she quoted was also normal.
As a lawyer, just charging normal fees is unbearable for Tommy Hawke?
What is wrong with this world?
"I just want to make money." Tommy put the photo back into Sophia's hand, looked at the ugly stewardess who was starting a new round of sales in front of him, and said:
"But this kind of thing will not affect you. On the contrary, it will be good for you. You won't have many opportunities while Delia is in charge. But after the lineup is changed, you will be a lovely angel in the eyes of the professors at Stanford Law School, and a girl doted on by all the mentors in the Stanford Lawyer Group."
Sophia's breathing became rapid. She tightly grasped the photo, staring at Tommy, and kept swallowing subconsciously because of nervousness:
"What do you mean you just want to make money?"
"Most of the well-known lawyers among Stanford alumni serve large computer companies founded by Stanford alumni in Silicon Valley. Through this cooperation, I can ask them to help talk to those companies and discuss whether we can cooperate to launch an organization like the California Software Industry Association. I can discuss whether it is possible to sell my company's shares to them and make a profit. Otherwise, what else can I do? Continue to borrow money from you when buying Torjan?" Tommy said to Sophia:
"This is business, Sophia. I help my fellow lawyers gain industry reputation, and they help me get investments from big companies."
Sophia suddenly remembered something and asked Tommy with a look of astonishment, "I originally suggested that you cooperate with the law firms founded by Stanford alumni, but you insisted on choosing female lawyers from the White Shoes Law Firm. Did you calculate this as well?"
Tommy flicked the ash off his cigarette. "If I go up and talk about cooperation with those Stanford alumni lawyers, do you think they will give me free services just because I am an alumnus? Of course not. Remember what my dad said, cheap ones are all rubbish. I am rubbish in their eyes when I deliver it to their door. But after I hired the elites from the White Shoes Firm, the situation turned around. In my eyes and even in their own hearts, they are all rubbish. But I am willing to give these rubbish a chance, so these rubbish will understand what gratitude means."
"You lack the basic moral bottom line as a human being." After hearing Tommy's answer, Sophia lowered her head and looked at the photo for a long time, and finally gently turned it over.
Tommy is no longer a bastard, he is a demon who can make a rational law student like me doubt this society.
Tommy spit out his cigarette butt and said, "What is moral bottom line? That thing shouldn't exist in America."
