"Cocktail party, when? Okay, I will definitely be there to congratulate!"

Lin Zitan was very happy to receive a call from Louis, an old Jewish friend who had been on the West Coast for many years in order to develop the family business, and this time he said that he would never leave.

Lin Zitan has been in the United States for so many years, in addition to his career partners, he has not made many bosom friends, and Louis is one of them.

Although the two of them are not very related to each other in the industry, and there is no business relationship, when Lin Zitan was financing loans in the early years, Louis's father, who was an executive at Chase, more or less helped Lin Zitan, which made him really grateful.

If he hadn't known that his father had a close relationship with Elsa's father, Lin Zitan might have taken the initiative to maintain this relationship, but as his career got better and better, and there were nobles around him to help him, there was no need to deliberately maintain this relationship.

But the friendship between Lin Zitan and Louis did not fade with the passage of time, on the contrary, it was this kind of friendship that did not want anything from each other that lasted longer.

In recent years, whenever Louis returned to New York, they would get together, sometimes with his wife, sometimes simply over a drink and a chat.

This time, Lin Zitan attended with Emma in full costume, because most of the people present were Louis's father's relatives or partners, and the purpose of their reception was only to introduce Louis to all the guests who came and went to introduce Louis to the new head of their family business.

"Daniel, Emma, you're here, I've been shopping around the door for a while!"

Louis saw Lin Zitan and his wife enter the banquet hall, and immediately walked through the crowd towards them.

"Hey, good brother, long time no see!"

Lin Zitan was also very happy to see Louis, and the two old friends shook their fists and hugged each other tightly.

"I'm really glad to see you so soon~"

Louis pleasantly authentic.

"Me too, welcome back to New York. ”

Lin Zitan withdrew his body and reached out to shake Luis's hand.

"Hi Julia~"

"Long time no see, Emma~"

Seeing their husbands hugging so warmly, the two ladies also greeted each other very kindly, and watched their husbands greet each other with a smile on their faces.

"By the way, Julia, are you sure the Smiths won't be coming?"

After Louis and Lin Zitan separated, he turned his head and asked his wife who was standing aside.

"Probably not, didn't I hear my mother say that they were getting a divorce?"

Julia said immediately.

"I hope so, I don't want my old friend to have a bad time here, let's go, let's go, please, what do you want to drink?"

As he spoke, Louis leaned sideways and led Lin Zitan and his wife to the bar in the banquet hall.

Lin Zi called the new bodyguard to wait outside, so he didn't rule out a little wine tonight, just be careful not to get drunk and make a fool of himself, so he naturally ordered a glass of Chivas Regal.

"How do you feel like you two haven't changed anything over the years?"

Louis asked Julia to greet the other guests, and he asked for a glass of wine and touched Lin Zi with a clang, and said in admiration.

The children are all in their teens, and we are all middle-aged. ”

Lin Zitan took a sip of the wine glass in one hand, and gently squeezed Emma's hand with the other and said with a smile.

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"Yes, we'll be middle-aged in a blink of an eye! It feels like someone has stolen the days, and I remember the first time I dealt with you was on my 18th birthday. ”

Louis sighed.

"You and Julia really don't seem to have changed! ”

Lin Zitan smiled and complimented.

Louis got married a little earlier than Lin Zitan, and the child is a year or two older than Lin Zitan, and Julia's figure has always been very good, just because the wrinkles at the corners of her eyes are more obvious, but the age of foreigners is sometimes difficult to guess, so it looks like she is thirty or forty years old, but the specific age is really difficult for outsiders to determine.

"Haha, you're less here, you see my hair is a little gray, where is it like when I was in college!"

Louis said this, but it was clear that he was in a rather happy mood when he was said to be young.

"Emma, you only met Danile later, you don't know how hard he worked when he was in school, I shared a dormitory with him in my freshman year, he was studying every day, and he didn't have any entertainment projects, and I later learned that he was going to change his major.

In our school, it was not easy to transfer from other majors to Stern Business School, let alone applying in the freshman year, and it was even rarer to change at one time, but Daniel did it, and I admired him very much!"

Louis sipped the wine in his hand while recalling the glorious history of Lin Zitan with great interest.

"It's a pity that I couldn't share a school with you, I was at Columbia University at the time, and I already knew that I would apply for NYU, maybe I could have met you earlier~"

Emma held a glass of pink cocktail, with a burgundy silk dress on her body, which looked particularly elegant and generous, but when she said these words, she revealed some little shyness, in Lin Zitan's eyes and ears, all of which made his man's self-esteem inexplicably satisfied.

He even imagined how wonderful his life would have been if he had met Emma so early!

"Louis, Mr. Smith is here, would you like to go over and say hello?"

Just then, Julia hurried over and whispered in Louis's ear.

"Didn't you say they shouldn't come?"

Louis frowned slightly.

"Mr. and Mrs. Old Smith didn't come, probably because they were afraid of gossiping, but you don't know that little Mr. Louis, Elsa can't persuade them, and they said that they came to shut up the people who talked about them, and I was also drunk~"

Julia couldn't help but roll her eyes as she spoke, but she quickly adjusted her hostess posture again, and smiled nobly and decently.

"Daniel, I'll come when I go~"

Louis gave Lin Zi a wink, making it clear that he didn't like the guests.

"Go get busy, and talk about it when you have time. ”

Lin Zitan immediately smiled and patted Louis on the shoulder.

In the following time, everyone was scattered around the banquet hall, and the people they knew greeted each other politely, many of them were business partners, and Lin Zitan also met several acquaintances in the business field, some of them were in the real estate industry, and some of them were met through Eric or Eddie.

Some people saw that Lin Zitan was the only Asian face at the banquet, and they were full of curiosity about Lin Zitan's identity and background, and even some gossipy people privately inquired about people who had greeted Lin Zitan and his wife.

Lin Zitan didn't know how Louis arranged it, anyway, after the whole banquet, he and Emma didn't meet the Smith couple who had obviously low emotional intelligence, probably both sides intended to avoid it, anyway, Lin Zitan was happy to have no trouble, but after going through so much, he also completely learned not to be afraid of trouble.

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Soon after the banquet, Louis and Lin Zitan had a private meeting again, this time only their two good brothers, choosing a fashionable and high-end bar on the Upper East Side, and the two seemed to have endless words to talk about as soon as they met.

Louis, in particular, seemed to finish all the gossip that he hadn't said in the past few years, and danced on the ground while talking, making Lin Zi laugh and laugh with joy.

"By the way, I forgot to say the gossip in the finale!"

After Louis finished speaking, he took a sip of wine mysteriously, and waited for Lin Zitan to ask questions.

"You're not trying to tell me that Elsa and Smith are divorced, are you?"

Lin Zitan's words are authentic.

"How do you know?"