The car is running in the bright lights at midnight, about New York, Cheng Xiaoyu's most memory is the song "EmpireStateofMind" (BGM: "EmpireStateofMind" AliciaKeys), whenever the music sounds, he can always think of the rows of skyscrapers in his mind, the lights that compete with the stars all night long, that used to be a place that he could not reach in his memory. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

And Cheng Xiaoyu is now in the world's most influential metropolis for inexplicable reasons, and when the car crosses the Manhattan Bridge, he remembers the Statue of Liberty seen countless times in TV and movies, Manhattan, Central Park, Times Square, Wall Street, Fifth Avenue, and the Brooklyn Bridge not far away...... When all these places appeared in front of him in one day, Cheng Xiaoyu felt strange and familiar.

In fact, every first-time visitor to New York may not be able to hide their disappointment. When he sees the narrow and crowded streets and the facades of buildings that have fallen into disrepair, he will ask himself, is this really the legendary New York? Maybe it's because American movies have brainwashed everyone for too long, maybe everyone's expectations for New York are too high, when faced with New York, a utopia that is pinned on all their ideals and dreams, many people are speechless, the reality is always so cruel.

Although the night in New York is still so shocking, the bustle of New York is still brilliant against the backdrop of neon lights, and the bustling streets and brightly lit buildings are a testament to the city's vitality.

Cheng Xiaoyu looked out the window at the drunken night in Manhattan's financial district, McDowell beside him had not woken up yet, muttering something, and soon Cheng Xiaoyu and McDowell were pulled back to the intersection of 36th Avenue and Lexington Avenue by the two big men who sent them over.

As a liar, McDowell has always adhered to the principle of never letting himself get drunk, so he rarely drinks alcohol, and even if he must drink, he will control his own amount, so in fact, his amount of alcohol is not good, and today he is forced to drink so much, which has far exceeded the boundaries he has demarcated, and he was helped out of the car by Cheng Xiaoyu and was still a little dizzy, this situation will definitely not be able to drive.

McDowell shook his head, sat down on the side of the road with a crooked ass, and waved his hand to Cheng Xiaoyu and said, "Wait, rain, let me rest." Cheng Xiaoyu was also a little drunk, and sat on the edge of the road with McDowell, letting the wind of the New York night wake him up.

Cheng Xiaoyu was inconvenient to ask in the car just now, so he took out his mobile phone and typed and asked: "What is the origin of this Konstantin, why are you so afraid of him?" ”

McDowell took the phone, glanced at it, and replied with a wry smile: "Do you know the famous Russian Interros Group? The company was founded by Mr. Konstantin in 1996, at the height of Russia's denationalization reforms, and his first pot of gold was earned in 1992 when he opened the Unieximbank with $10,000 of his own funds. At that time, in the early stages of Russia's denationalization reforms, he was brokered by Berezovsky to get the help of Wall Street tycoon George Brown. Johnson later partnered with Morgan Stanley to acquire a 25 percent stake in Svyazinvest, Russia's state-owned telecommunications company, a monopoly in the telecommunications industry. This was also brokered by Berezovsky, and you can imagine how close Konstantin and Berezovsky were......."

"Do you know who Berezovsky is? He was close to the Boris Nikolayevich family, the first president of Russia, who dissolved the Soviet Union, and was called "the most powerful man in Russia" or "the spokesman of the robber aristocracy", and the magazine Forbes also called him "the godfather of the criminal organization of Russian Jews" and the mastermind behind the Russian gangsters in the United States........ "McDowell shuddered.

Most of the members of the Russian gangs are ethnic Russians who sought refuge in the United States after the third wave of immigration and the collapse of the Soviet Union, and most of them are former KGB members, corrupt officials, and ruffians and hooligans released from Soviet prisons.

In the United States, Russian gangsters are known for being ruthless and ruthless, but in recent years, under the severe crackdown of the US Government, Russian gangsters are gradually getting rid of the traditional mode of using knives and guns, "bleaching" the business they operate, and engaging in port trade, banking, and other transactions, and devoting more energy to collusion between officials and businessmen and behind-the-scenes transactions.

Therefore, to say that Konstantin has nothing to do with the Russian gangsters, McDowell believes it at all, he does not doubt it at all, in case he angers Konstantin, every minute is the rhythm of being played to death.

McDowell turned his head to look at Cheng Xiaoyu, and said with a bitter expression: "And just now, the person in front of us is Konstantin, who is close to Berezovsky, in addition to being a major shareholder of MFK Bank, United Export-Import Bank, Sidan Oil Company, Norriysk Nickel Mine Company, Gazprom, Russian State-owned Telecommunications Company and other enterprises, he is also the Russian media king after Gusinsky, and he owns shares in many newspapers such as "Izvestia" and "Komsomolskaya Pravda". This doesn't seem intuitive enough, after all, you are a Chinese and not engaged in finance, so you may not know these companies......"

"To put it bluntly, the Russian billionaire we just met with financial beginnings, who began building a business empire of industrial companies, banks and media in 1990 at the age of Chinese New Year's Eve, now earns more than $16 billion a year and has total assets of $38 billion. He was named to the Forbes oligarchs list in 1998 at the age of Chinese New Year's Eve, and was the first Russian to enter the Forbes list. ”

"Now that Konstantin has merged MFK Bank with Renaissance Capital, an investment bank co-funded by American and European investors, I don't know what kind of revival they want to lead. But I know that among the funders of the 'Capital Renaissance Company' are Credit Suisse, First Boston, Salomon Brothers, Morgan Stanley, BNP Paribas........ Almost all well-known financial institutions in Western countries participated........ Ha ha! Now you should know what kind of character that bald head was just now, right? ”

Cheng Xiaoyu was a little speechless when he heard this brilliant resume, this kind of big man is much better than his own person with a golden finger, but Cheng Xiaoyu felt that Konstantin was still a reasonable person, except for politely intimidating them just now, there was no special excess, so he hesitated and typed and asked, "But ....... That's not why you're afraid of him, is it? All men are created equal...... Besides, if I look at him, I won't have to put you to death just because Catherine likes you, right? ”

McDowell was a little drunk, he staggered at Cheng Xiaoyu's mobile phone screen, his heart was mixed, looking at the cars whizzing by in the middle of the road, for the first time he regretted that he chose to be a liar, he smiled "hehe", and said with some sadness: "If I am really a Columbia Business School student as I appear, with luxury cars and mansions, and some identity backgrounds, then what am I afraid of........ The point is that I'm not! ”

The reason why he dared to say what was in his heart to Cheng Xiaoyu, a stranger, was perhaps because Cheng Xiaoyu, a stranger, was too harmless to him and was unlikely to affect his life at all, of course, more because he was already drunk, and McDowell cried silently after finishing speaking, more or less he liked Catherine who was beautiful and really loved him well, but for a liar, it was too luxurious to love this kind of thing.

In real life, if a poor boy pretends to be rich and is found to be in love with a girl, most of the girls will break up angrily, saying: 'I can't accept a liar!' ’

But if a rich boy pretends to be a poor boy and is caught in love with a girl, most of the girls will continue, saying: 'I love his person, not his family background!' ’”

In the love story, only the prince who was cursed to turn into a monster suddenly became handsome after getting love, and then everyone lived happily ever after. But you try to make a monster who was cursed to become a prince disappear and suddenly become ugly after getting love?

And then...... There is no then.

McDowell's handsome face was full of painful tears, he lowered his head, the golden hairline and transparent tears stuck to his well-defined face, there was a kind of morbid beauty against the street lamp, he ripped off the piece of Omega that the owner of the money had just given him and threw it out, the silver watch body drew a rapid straight line, fell in the middle of the road, and then was crushed by the speeding car and fell apart, McDowell said a little sadly: "I'm just a poor liar........ I approached you with bad intentions and wanted to see what opportunities you had to make money......... I'm just a shameless liar....... How could I not be afraid......."

Cheng Xiaoyu was shocked by McDowell's sudden revelation, he didn't doubt McDowell's identity at all, even if McDowell himself said that he was a liar at this moment, and his real identity was not a student at Columbia Business School, Cheng Xiaoyu still didn't believe it....... He was still wondering if McDowell was drunk, but looking at McDowell's emotional tears, he still accepted the news that surprised him, which shocked Cheng Xiaoyu more than Konstantin's identity........

But Cheng Xiaoyu felt that McDowell was not a bad person, from this day's contact, he was confident that he could judge this, he looked McDowell up and down, in fact, he was a very valuable person, in Huaxia dialect, he was a piece of jade, he was handsome in appearance, a young man's face was very deceptive, he had a smart mind, otherwise he couldn't be mixed in the real Columbia elite, he could speak well, and his acting skills were extraordinary, which Cheng Xiaoyu deeply experienced in this day, at this time Cheng Xiaoyu had already made a conclusion, McDowell is a rare talent.......

Cheng Xiaoyu was silent for a moment, patted McDowell on the shoulder, and in the dim light revealed by the colorful neon lights and the empty office around him, he reached out and took off his wig, put the wig on his knees, then took off his sunglasses, and then wiped off the lipstick with a tissue, revealing a handsome and elegant face, and he said in a rounded Oxford accent: "Hey! Mike...... I think deception is a lot of the last resort...... In fact, it is not terrible to deceive others, as long as we do not deceive ourselves, because we always want to use deception to change other people's perception of us, and refuse to change our true self......... Make yourself think that I really am ..........." (To be continued.) )