America 1982

At twelve o'clock in the morning, Sophia yawned, with a small trolley suitcase in front of her. She stood on the roadside outside her graduate dormitory and kept looking around. She looked like a young girl preparing to elope.

Tommy Hawke drove the shabby Stingray slowly from a distance, finally stopped in front of her, lowered the window and greeted Sophia: "Good evening, Sophia, it seems that it is not possible to meet the idol. To cheer you up.”

"The main reason why I can't cheer up is that you chose the red-eye flight to save money." Sophia opened the trunk angrily, put her trolley suitcase in, then sat in the co-pilot's seat and looked at the stingy and unscrupulous person next to her. Tommy Hawke:

"Can't you fly there during the day, stay in a hotel for one night, and meet that Ms. Delia Keys the next day? The red-eye flights have very strict requirements on what passengers can carry. I can't even bring a few extra sets." clothing."

I thought that this bastard should be as sleepy as myself, but at this moment, Tommy looked energetic, with a sharp face, paired with a monotonous black suit, white shirt, and dark blue tie, making him look... There was a very cold feeling, and even with that blond hair, Sophia still couldn't feel Tommy's sunny temperament at all.

"Fortunately, you are still alive." Sophia put her finger in front of Tommy's nose to feel his breathing, and then shook the small cross hanging on the car at Tommy to make sure that Tommy had no abnormal reaction, and then Fasten your seat belt and breathe a sigh of relief:

"The Exorcist was replayed on TV recently. The way you were dressed late at night made me think you were possessed by a demon."

After helping this guy do some part-time work related to legal affairs during this period, Sophia has noticed that this guy named Tommy Hawke has many faces, and the face he wears changes at any time according to the different environments he is in.

When he faced the ordinary people in Florida in front of the camera, he was like a friendly country boy. The bastard even deliberately amplified his Northeastern accent when he was selling software, just to increase the intimacy.

When he needs to accompany him to consult with his teachers at the law school, this bastard will turn into a gentleman who is eager for knowledge and pays attention to politeness. He will add honorifics to every word the teacher speaks.

Facing his fellow SSD fraternity brothers, he looked like an idiot letting himself go.

If she hadn't seen the other side of him, Sophia would not have believed that this guy could do the stupid thing of placing an inflatable swimming pool in the front yard of the fraternity house, and then he and a group of fools would dive into it crazily from the second-floor terrace one after another.

The purpose of diving is not to participate in the Olympics, but to deliberately splash large waves to wet the clothes of the girls who come to participate in small charity exchange meetings, so that the shirts of those girls will be wet, and stage a wet temptation, even if they are chased and pranked by a group of girls , he just really laughed like an idiot, completely unable to see that underneath the idiotic appearance, there was a careerist soul who wanted to overthrow Lotus.

When getting along with Holly, this guy always deliberately acts smarter than Holly, so that Holly always wants to win the game not to be outdone.

When getting along with Susan, he is like Susan's father or brother, tolerating all the mistakes of that woman and making Susan work harder in guilt.

When dealing with Mark, he is more like an instigator, constantly encouraging Mark to complete some potentially illegal data collection work for him that he would never do himself.

Getting along with Jason... Probably the relationship between these two guys is a bit complicated. They are each other's father and each other's son. They hate each other extremely, and at the same time, they think of each other immediately when they need help.

When dealing with himself, Tommy, a bastard, vividly illustrates the face of a capitalist who deserves to be sent to the gallows, that is, absolute stinginess.

This bastard could even end up having a meeting with himself, because he had to rush to go on a date with his girlfriend, and he had no change in his pocket. He borrowed money from himself, who already owed his salary, to buy Torjan, and then defaulted on the debt as if nothing had happened. He was obviously very stupid. Angry, but that bastard can always find all kinds of gimmicks to attract him, so that he can continue to help him.

"I think you look like the White House bodyguard from the Secret Service in the movie. Are you going to meet Delia Keys or Ronald Reagan?" Sophia pushed the black-framed glasses on the bridge of her nose. , asked Tommy who was driving.

"Do you know what is the most important thing about meeting a lawyer? Frankly speaking, when many people meet a lawyer for the first time, because they feel that the lawyer is a stranger in their hearts, they habitually pretend to say things that I don't know or don't understand, and then The lawyer earned his consulting fee, went around and around to investigate, and found that the evidence pointed to him clearly. It took a long time, and finally returned to the situation when he and the lawyer first met. Only this time did he say, yes , I have done it." Tommy Hawke turned off the car radio, without asking Sophia's plans at all, and directly lit a cigarette:

"I dress so simply and plainly because of my attitude. I don't want to waste my time and money, only to get the price in the lawyer's mind that the employer is a fool."

Sophia leaned her head on the back of the chair and looked at the night view of Stanford outside the window: "Do you think you are really sure to convince Ms. Delia Keys to take your order? As far as I know, those large white-shoe firms , rarely accept business that has no reputation, such as a small company like Actor, which has no reputation."

"Miss, everyone at Actor Company except Susan thought it was impossible for me to sell a set of software in Florida, but now in just the past two weeks, 8,000 sets have been sold. The poor man's money is the best. "Earning, what's the next sentence?" Tommy held the steering wheel and asked.

Sophia replied casually: "The rich have the hardest time making money?"

"No, I would rather change it. The lawyer's heart is the most greedy. It may be difficult to make money from the lawyer, but it can satisfy her inner greed. Asking her for a favor is not difficult. It is nothing more than a one-time encounter with a liar. It's a completely different conversation." Tommy said calmly:

"A process of filling each other's inner desires."

Davis Polk Law Firm is headquartered in New York, but has twelve offices in the United States, and it has two offices exclusively in California, a land full of wealthy people, allowing wealthy people to choose nearby.

The Northern California office is located in San Francisco, and the Southern California office is located in Los Angeles. However, Tommy did not choose these two offices. Instead, he and Sophia flew to Washington because the partner named Delia Keys The person is not in California, but in Washington, DC.

After Holly initially communicated with her, Delia Keyes expressed some interest in this business, but hoped to chat in person. However, for a little guy like Tommy, she wanted to count on a white-shoe lawyer. For the partners of the firm to condescend to fly here to chat with him is tantamount to wishful thinking. The best way is not to regard yourself as a potential employer, but as a small role player who wants to beg others, and fly to Washington obediently.

So Tommy thoughtfully chose a cheap red-eye flight that took off late at night for himself and Sophia, so that he could sleep for five or six hours in the economy class of the plane. He landed in Washington at dawn and went to the K Street office at nine o'clock to meet with Dee Meet Leah Keys.

When the two of them boarded the plane and took their seats, Sophia was so sleepy that she could hardly open her eyes. She looked out the dark window, then looked at Tommy who was sitting next to her, who was thinking about something, and asked:

"What are you thinking about?"

"Aren't you sleepy, Miss Sophia?" Tommy turned his head and looked at the brown-haired girl who looked a bit like Otilia, and asked with a smile.

He didn't understand why women like Sophia and Otilia, who seemed so silly that they were cute, would go to study boring law. It seemed that such women had absolutely no chance of becoming successful litigants in court. At most, they were just someone. Become a clerk or a law clerk in a court one day.

"Not too sleepy. If you want to talk about what to pay attention to after arriving in Washington, I have no problem." Sophia tried hard to drive away sleepiness and said to Tommy with a smile, but she actually had another plan in her heart. Chatting with Tommy was just for her. Paving the way for another thing.

But Tommy didn't give her any chance to pave the way. The guy simply took out the blindfold and put it on his head, and said sincerely to Sophia:

"I'm almost sleepy. If you're not sleepy, can I lend you your shoulder to sleep on? The back of the seat on this plane is too hard. My cervical spine is not good. You don't want me to see Delia either. When he tilted his neck, he looked less like the founder of the company and more like the victim of some kind of case."

"You are such a bastard, Tommy Hawke. You successfully said the lines I originally wanted to say." Sophia's voice was so desperate that she was about to cry:

"I originally wanted to listen to you perfunctorily for a few words, and then politely asked if the back of the chair was too hard, so I could sleep on your shoulder for a while. You knew early on that I was going to do that, so you deliberately said it first, right? "

"Next time, remember to be more direct when talking to country people. Although I don't have money to pay you, I don't mind being a gentleman." Tommy reached out and took off the glasses on Sophia's face, and then took off his own blindfold. Help the other person put it on carefully, make sure the eye mask covers the other person's eyes so that they will no longer be stimulated by the light, and gently place the other person's head on your shoulder:

"Good night, Miss Sophia."

Just one update tonight, three updates tomorrow... Please bear with me.

It’s not that I’m being lazy, it’s just that I’m going to work hard to look up some details of legal information and information on the software industry later. After all, deceiving lawyers is different from deceiving ordinary people, so what I say must be true.