Manhattan Reborn 1978

new York.

night~

In front of the Blue Crystal Hotel in Manhattan.

Giovanni, the driver who brought David to the dinner, parked the car, got out and looked around. He soon found Mike Bai, who was also wearing a neat suit, and waved to him with a smile.

"Hey~ let's go in!"

"Where are One-Eyed Andres and the others?"

"I asked them to go to the bar at the corner first."

"Come on, I'll take you to meet some beauties!" Bai Mike raised his hand and touched the buttons on his collar, teasing with raised eyebrows.

"Are you talking about... the beautiful waitress?"

"Of course, what do you think?"

"Can I introduce you to a few more rich girls?"

"Stop dreaming!"

"Haha~" Giovanni quickly followed Bai Mike, laughing in a slightly obscene manner and did not respond.

When Mike Bai walked to the front door of the hotel and saw the familiar doorman, he suddenly remembered something. He turned around, pulled Giovanni to a deserted place nearby, and asked in a low voice.

"Did your wife Jin Ji say anything to you after she came home these days?"

"Jin Ji? No... What's wrong?" Giovanni thought about it in a daze and asked back.

"nothing."

Bai Mike forced out a wide-eyed expression, put his arm around Giovanni's shoulders, and explained earnestly.

"You are David's full-time driver now, and many people have seen you, so there are many things you are not suitable to do."

"David pays for so many people. If you have to handle even these small matters, what are they for?"

"understand?"

"Ah... I understand!" Giovanni tilted his head, looked into Bai Mike's eyes, and nodded slightly.

Bai Mike patted his shoulder gently and walked into the hotel with him smiling.

. . .

at the same time.

Blue Crystal Hotel, second floor banquet hall.

As soon as David walked out of the elevator, he saw Lilith standing in the corridor and asked with a smile.

"Why did you come out on your own?"

"To wait for you!"

Lilith took David's arm, pulled him aside and whispered to him about the special circumstances of tonight's "family dinner".

After listening to this, David asked with a slightly surprised expression: "Are you saying that there are some relatives from the family tonight?"

"Yes, Uncle Julie's son, Mr. and Mrs. Hippo, are also here tonight."

"Then... I..." David pointed at himself, feeling something was wrong, as all kinds of thoughts flashed through his mind.

Lilith guessed what he was worried about, smiled and hugged his arms: "You have already met them at our engagement ceremony."

"They might ask some questions later, just respond accordingly."

"OK!" David looked at Lilith who was comforting him from a close distance, and suddenly a word popped up in his head - Since I'm here, what am I afraid of!

. . .

A few minutes later, David and Lilith appeared in the dining room of the "Family Dinner".

At this time, more than a dozen people sitting on both sides of the long dining table turned their heads to look at the two of them.

Giles and Pine, who had been silently watching the door, stood up and walked over, inviting David to sit next to them first.

Old Morgan and "Mediterranean Bad Old Man" Julie were sitting at one end of the long table. Seeing David sitting between Giles and Pine, Lilith returned to sit next to Laura. Although her expression was calm and she said nothing, the emotions that flashed in her eyes were keenly "captured" by her husband, Old Morgan.

So, Old Morgan looked at Lilith and Laura who were talking and laughing in low voices, frowned slightly, and asked David.

"The dress you are wearing today looks familiar. Is it the one you wore at your engagement ceremony?"

"Yes."

David raised his arm and looked at the suit on his body, shrugged and smiled: "I didn't choose it on purpose, I just picked the best suit in the closet."

"It wasn't until I sat in the car that I realized... it was the same outfit I wore at my engagement ceremony..."

"..." Old Morgan raised the corner of his mouth slightly and glanced at everyone.

"Hehe~" Julie saw that everyone at the table was looking at David with a hint of teasing in their eyes. She deliberately laughed dryly twice, raised her glass and said.

"Welcome our new family member, David Coleman."

"To David!"

"Cheers to David..." After Julie raised her glass, old Morgan and his wife Nereia also raised their glasses.

Old Morgan's eldest sons Panaris and Elder, eldest daughter Cheryl, son-in-law and Grace, second sons Giles and Pine, and youngest daughters Laura and Lilith, all raised their glasses and looked at the remaining Hippo couple.

Soon, everyone at the table raised their glasses to David and took a sip of the wine with different thoughts.

After seeing all of this, David felt that he had a general understanding of what was going on tonight. He picked up the cutlery with a more relaxed look, raised his voice a little, and told Giles about the DA data center development plan that he and Bloomer had discussed.

Ding-ding-ding-ding-ding~

David's voice was particularly clear amid the subtle clinking of cutlery on the dining table.

No one talked to each other. They just enjoyed their dinner quietly and listened attentively to David and Giles's conversation and laughter as if they were alone.

Lilith accidentally glanced at Nereya and saw that her expression was a little strange, so she quietly kicked Laura under the table. The two of them exchanged glances and understood each other's meaning tacitly.

Then, Laura put down her cutlery and spoke openly while David and Giles were chatting.

"David, my school is going to be on holiday at the end of the month."

"We're going back to Boston for Easter. Are you coming?"

"I am sorry!"

David looked at Old Morgan and Neria with an apologetic look on his face and explained, "I haven't spent Easter with my parents in the past few years."

“I don’t want to miss it again this year.”

"Are you going to Houston? Or are they coming back to New York for the holidays?" Nereya asked, nodding slightly in understanding.

"I come over."

"Oh."

Nereya turned her head and glanced at her husband, Old Morgan: "I've made an appointment for a follow-up checkup for you before the holidays."

"Once you've finished your follow-up appointment, let's go on vacation to Houston as well."

"Okay." Old Morgan picked up the napkin and wiped the corners of his mouth. He waved his hand to let the waiters standing by the wall go out, and said to the people on both sides of the table.

"Didn't you have a problem just now?"

"Now that he's here, what are you waiting for?"

"..."

When David heard old Morgan speak, he also put down his cutlery, picked up the glass of white wine beside him, and looked at the somewhat silent "stranger".

"Then let me go first!" Hippo, a middle-aged man who looked to be over 40 years old, raised his glass to him and asked with a smile.

"I heard that you are very optimistic about the trend of gold. How long do you think it can continue to rise? To what price?"