Volume 4: White Devil Chapter 199: Apologies in Advance
Tommy looked as if he had seen a ghost. He spread his hands to Sandra Bullock. "How could he die? An army schoolmate of mine who served in Germany mentioned three days ago that he was an adjutant and accompanied his superior to drink with your father at the Free Night Club in Germany and enjoy songs..."
"So, you know better than me whether he is okay." After seeing the other party's reaction, Sandra Bullock interrupted Tommy with a hint of sarcasm in her eyes.
Tommy seemed to be caught off guard by her interruption, with a hint of surprise on his face. He even turned his head to look at the decorative painting on the wall of the studio. A bunch of messy colors and lines were embedded in the wall, with a line of small words below: "Girl Eating Pancakes".
"Can you tell which color represents the girl? And where is the damn muffin?" Tommy stared at the decorative painting for two seconds, then turned his head and spoke to the black-haired German girl.
Sandra said bluntly: "I guess if my father really died, I wouldn't get the role?"
"Don't doubt it. You have to have confidence in yourself. I promise that even if your father dies, you will definitely get this role." Tommy frowned and said to Sandra Bullock very seriously:
"After all, your grandfather is still helping the Americans build rockets at NASA. I always have great respect for scientists, and this respect is even great enough to include his family. Just like the Pentagon has great respect for your grandfather, it also extends its respect to your father, Mr. Block, giving your father the contractor's business in exchange for him persuading your father-in-law to become an American citizen instead of running off to help the French research rockets."
Sandra Bullock's eyes were filled with anger, like a cat that was irritated. Her gaze gradually became sharper. "Don't tell me that you want me to introduce you to him. Maybe as an actor, I don't have many opportunities to prove myself, but I can use a dozen reasons to reject you, because I reject disgusting men like you a dozen times a year."
As she spoke, Sandra was ready to stand up and leave. She didn't care whether she could get the role or not.
"Your acting skills are actually pretty good. At least now, you've fully demonstrated the rudeness and arrogance of Americans." Tommy didn't stop the other person from getting up. He just sat there and looked at him with a smile.
"Are you sure that as a media practitioner, I need you to help me get your father to give me a business opportunity? What kind of business? Arrange a batch of customized short films for American soldiers at overseas bases? Or launch a special season of "Searching for Daddy America" for the hundreds of thousands of overseas women who gave birth to illegitimate children for American soldiers?"
"So, why don't you be honest and tell me why I'm here." Sandra stood still and looked down at Tommy. "You can't have any intentions against me, right? Your high school teacher girlfriend is right next to you."
Tommy shrugged. "I think no matter how narcissistic you are, you can't say that you are prettier than her. Let me put it this way, I insisted on pursuing Otilia because having her as my girlfriend can help me resist many temptations of beauty, such as arranging high-class girls to comfort me much less often."
"I've seen photos of my father's first girlfriend. She was prettier than my mother, but that didn't stop her from eventually marrying my father." Sandra said to Tommy with a cold face.
"Your father was a poor man at that time, but I wasn't." Tommy looked at Sandra Bullock and said with a smile, "Sit down. Don't think of me as so utilitarian, girl. I am the former president of SSD Stanford University. I know and care about your father. Since we belong to the same fraternity, if I need to cooperate with him, I can ask the alumni of the fraternity to introduce him to me, right? Why should I go through you?"
In the distance, Matt Dillon came back from the bathroom. Tommy waved at him. Matt wisely sat in another seat, while Tommy still looked back at Sandra Bullock with a smile.
"If I insist on leaving..." Although Sandra said she insisted on leaving, after hearing the reason given by Tommy, she still sat down obediently.
Indeed, as Tommy said, if he needed to contact his father, he could do so through his alumni network, without having to go through himself specifically.
Seeing the other person sitting back, Tommy smiled even more. He pointed at Zoe and said to Sandra, "Zoe is a reporter. You already know that, right? She works for me. She will decide..."
"I can refuse this role..." Thinking that Tommy was going to try to seduce her with this role again, Sandra interrupted Tommy coldly.
"You won't refuse." Tommy smiled at Sandra, but the next second, he frowned and leaned forward. Although his voice was very low, it was full of coercion: "If you leave now, I will let Zoe investigate your father's scandal. I have been eyeing your father for a long time and have a lot of information about him. I can use a reporter to exchange your father for losing all his contracting business. One reporter is not enough, so I will use two. In America, there are no fewer young and passionate reporters who are eager to become famous overnight than actors."
Sandra was shocked by what Tommy said and her face changed.
Tommy immediately laughed, pulled back his upper body and said with a smile, "You really should look at your expression, Sandra. It's exactly the same as the expression I had when I heard you talk about your father's death. How does it feel to be shocked? Why don't you turn your head and look at the painting? Now tell me the answer, which color block is the girl and where is the muffin."
"Your tone just now didn't sound like a joke." Sandra came to her senses and realized that Tommy was joking and trying to scare her, but she still said with a cold face and dissatisfaction.
"It wasn't like that when you talked about your father's death. You believed that everything I did was for you to introduce me to your father, just like you believed that I would really frame your father. Don't you think they are equally ridiculous? Come on, how is that possible?" Tommy said, and even turned his head with a bright smile, and shouted to Zoe who was chatting with Ottilia not far away:
"Hey, Zoe, I want you, a reporter with a strong sense of justice, to find some dirt to frame Miss Sandra Bullock's father. I can pay you a lot of money."
"Do you always make inappropriate and totally unfunny jokes like this when you chat up women? Didn't Ottilia teach you how to grow up?" Zoe glanced at Tommy with disdain and said disdainfully.
Tommy turned his head and looked at Sandra Bullock. "Did you hear that? No one would take it seriously except you. I just want to say that Zoe is a reporter and you are going to play her. Your father and I are both alumni of SSD. This is a wonderful fate. That's all. Maybe the four of us can sit down and talk. By the way, let Zoe help your father do a character interview. Because Zoe works at the German news station of my news network, and your father has also been in Germany for many years. Now the business is also concentrated in Germany. He knows Germany very well. From the dual identities of an American businessman and a former American soldier, talk about the recent situation in Germany and give Zoe some ideas. That's all. What do you think? I asked Zoe to interview your father, Mr. Bullock, and talk about the night he met your mother that year?"
"You investigated my father, and you told me the first time my father and my mother met..." Sandra sensitively caught Tommy's last words.
"Page 33. " Tommy interrupted Sandra Bullock. "Go back and tell your father about this page. He will know why I know it. There is nothing hidden between SSD brothers."
Sandra looked at Tommy suspiciously: "What did he say?"
"Isn't it time to give Sandra back to me? She should play me, not Tommy Hawke." Zoe also sat over from not far away and said to Tommy with a smile: "Ottilia is watching you right next to you, Tommy, I'm doing this for your own good. Your lame jokes will only make the conversation worse and worse."
Tommy ignored Zoe and gave Sandra the answer: "He said in the article that your mother fell in love with him at first sight that night, but he had a girlfriend in China, so he ignored her and even avoided her the whole night until your mother found an opportunity to get him drunk. After that, she unexpectedly became pregnant. As a responsible young officer, what else could your father do? He took her back to China and married her."
"You really tell everything to your schoolmates?" Sandra's expression eased a little when she heard Tommy talk about how his parents met. "Including each other's family life?"
"I mention it occasionally, but it's not the point. So, does it sound more reasonable now that I ask after your father? You and Zoe, your father and I, have a wonderful fate. And Zoe is about to start working at the German press station. As an elder, I ask him who is familiar with Germany to take care of my friend. After all, Germany is not very peaceful, and the profession of journalist is extremely risky. And I will reward him. I said, I will let Zoe do a publicity-oriented interview for him. I know you have been accustomed to the filth in the film industry in New York and Los Angeles for the past two years, and you are used to being wary of people. I understand, but I have no intentions towards you at all." Tommy explained to Sandra again.
He tried to use a sincere tone to make Sandra believe that he only had friendship for her father as a schoolmate and had no reason to ask him for help. It was just a coincidence. Then he hoped that Zoe, who was about to work at the German press station, could learn about the situation in Berlin from him.
"What can I get if I introduce you two?" After careful analysis, Sandra felt that it was unlikely that Tommy would have much in common with her father. This guy made movies and ran a TV station, and he didn't look like he would have any connection with the military. He also had a beautiful girlfriend, and it didn't seem like he had any intentions towards her.
"It seems like I should be the one to be on high alert." Tommy laughed after hearing Sandra's words:
"What should I say? You can get this role? She originally belonged to you. So, I actually invested in a movie that has a chance to win an Oscar. If you are interested, I will let the director talk to you when he has time."
"Wow, a movie that's going to win an Oscar? This is a great offer that I can't refuse." Sandra stared at Tommy suspiciously:
"Before you and your girlfriend came, Mr. Stephen Bean introduced your TV station, saying that it was full of all kinds of vulgar programs and made some negative descriptions of your character, so I doubt your words."
"Stephen must not have told you that this vulgar and shameless guy he mentioned could make him willing to help me borrow 200 million from his uncles and uncles, and he would be the guarantor." Tommy heard this girl slandering his TV station's taste, slowly restrained his smile, and said in a slow tone:
"That idiot Stephen can say that I am vulgar and shameless, but that doesn't mean you can. With all due respect, your father is not even qualified. I respect SSD, so I respect your father. Because I respect your father, I am very polite to you, Miss Bullock, but I hope that you will also respect me. Respect is mutual, right?"
"Maybe I'll do that when I think you deserve respect, but not today." After saying that, Sandra stood up and walked towards the bathroom.
"This girl looks smart, but actually she's silly, right? Just like our Queen Catherine." After the other party left, Tommy asked Zoe who came over.
Zoe looked at Tommy as if he were an idiot. "Except for Otilia, are all women worthy of being verbally humiliated by you? Don't you realize that what you said just now was a bit too much?"
"Too much? Don't be ridiculous. Compared to her father, I'm as civilized as a pure-blood gentleman." Tommy smiled and took a sip of coffee, saying disapprovingly.
Zoe stood up and walked towards the bathroom, ready to comfort the angry Sandra. She liked this actress named Sandra very much. During their previous chat, she found that this girl was very opinionated and acted in a very cool style. She tried to be independent early on, but her independence was not very thorough. She had several credit cards given to her by her mother.
Stephen came over and said to Tommy, "I just pricked up my ears and eavesdropped. Is this the inside information of SSD you mentioned? It sounds like his father is a good person and has a strong sense of responsibility."
"Review the touching love story I just told you, Stephen. This girl's mother was performing an opera in a club, and her father took a fancy to her and forced her to get drunk and take her to bed. The only surprise was that he later discovered that she actually had a father who was a German rocket expert. If she had no use value, what do you think is the difference between this girl named Sandra and the more than 60,000 illegitimate children raised by single mothers who were raped by American soldiers in the Federal Republic of Germany?" Tommy patted Stephen's shoulder:
"American soldiers in Germany have everything except a sense of responsibility."
"How do you know? I guess it wasn't published in the magazine by his father. No one would talk about such a thing, not even a trusted brother." Stephen was not too shocked after hearing this, but just asked curiously.
Tommy picked up the mobile phone and said while dialing: "No, although I don't have many contacts in the army. By the way, Stephen, I want to apologize to you first."
"Why apologize?" Stephen looked at Tommy puzzled.
Tommy listened to the sound of the phone dialing and said, "You will soon know why I have to apologize. Because you said I was vulgar and shameless in front of Sandra, so I am going to say that you are lecherous in front of her father. The wording may be a little exaggerated, so I apologize in advance."
