After finishing the day's course and sending the resumes to a few selected law firms, Li Jie hurried to the café where he worked on his second-hand bicycle.

Located on Hamilton Street on the Upper East Side, right between the famous Central Park and Broadway, this café called DTuT is home to countless wealthy people. Everywhere you can see uniformed porters hailing taxis for the owners of the mansions, and women dressed in noble makeup gracefully leading well-groomed dogs.

The reason why Li Jie was able to do odd jobs at this café, receiving a salary of up to "ten dollars" an hour and a lot of tips, was entirely because the owner of the shop was a Hong Kong immigrant and took care of Chinese Americans.

Of course, Li Jie's handsome appearance and strong bookish atmosphere also added a lot of points to him, and his type is still quite popular with those noblewomen. The only thing to worry about is that it is far away from the school, and it takes more than an hour to ride a bicycle back and forth every day, but in order to reduce the burden, I can only grit my teeth and endure it.

After changing his clothes with his hands and feet, Li Jie went to the back of the bar to say hello to the manager and skillfully started the work of making coffee.

Not long after, a beautiful girl in a waiter costume came over with a tray: "Li Jie, I'm late today." ”

The beautiful woman in front of me, who speaks fluent Chinese, has a face that is biased towards Westerners, with long light brown hair hanging down naturally, a high nose bridge, and blue eyes that make people can't help but fall into it, and the skin as white as clotted fat has no flaws.

"Yes, I was delayed for a while in sending cover letters to several law firms after class." Seeing the other party's face, Li Jie was a little dazed, but quickly responded with a smile.

Rachel Sellers (Rachel_cyrus), a girl who grew up in China but has a Western face, is one-quarter Chinese and three-quarters French.

Although she herself has a Chinese name called Deng Ruiqi, Li Jie always calls her Rachel, and he thinks the name is as beautiful as herself. Of course, he also hid his love in the bottom of his heart and didn't dare to show it, for fear of destroying the friendship between the two.

"Oh, yes, come on!" Rachel smiled sweetly, pinched her pink fist to make a gesture of cheering, put the coffee on the bar on the tray and turned away, leaving a faint fragrance lingering in the air.

Rachel, like Li Jie, is a student at New York University, but Rachel attended Tisk College of the Arts. This academy may not sound familiar to many people, but its subordinate film school has produced well-known directors such as Martin Scorsese, Spike Lee, and Ang Lee, and is known as the best film school in the United States along with the University of Southern California (USC) and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

And Rachel studied in the acting department of the film school, which shows the excellence of this beauty.

Speaking of which, Li Jie's temporary job was also introduced to him by Rachel.

"Pick up your eyeballs, man. Rachel is already far away! ”

A tall man next to him wiped the glass in his hand, smiling with a wink. The Hispanic guy named Harrington Rupert is quite familiar with Lee, and as a top student at Columbia Business School, his future is much brighter than Rig's, at least he has no problem mixing in the middle class.

"Don't talk nonsense, Harrington."

Li Jiejun's face flushed, and he hurriedly lowered his head and pretended to clean up the bar, not realizing that this place was tidy enough, so he could only subconsciously move all kinds of cups and miscellaneous items to hide his embarrassment.

"Come on, Bruce! This is the great beauty Rachel, there is nothing to be ashamed of! Who doesn't love her, I was conquered by her the first time I saw her! Harrington Rupert made an exaggerated look of drooling with his hands in his hands, and that funny expression made Li Jie roll his eyes unbearably.

"I heard it, and I'm sure Vera will find out soon." Rachel, who was busy, happened to pass by the bar again and glared at Harrington demonstratively. This funny guy quickly begs for mercy, Vera is his girlfriend at school, and often comes to the café to play. We were all young people and we were very familiar with each other.

Unfortunately, there were not many opportunities for such pleasant chats and jokes, and the business of the café was still very good, and Li Jie soon joined the busy team.

"Good afternoon, Mrs. Murphy, your coffee."

"Good afternoon, dear Bruce, have you been busy with schoolwork lately?"

A lady with heavy makeup flashed a strange light in her eyes, greeted Li Jie warmly, and at the same time stuffed a ten-dollar bill into Li Jie's hand, and gently caressed the back of his hand with her palm.

Li Jie forcibly withstood the nausea and withdrew his hand, barely said a few perfunctory words, and fled in the woman's exaggerated laughter.

He had encountered many such things, and Manhattan had these empty and lonely ladies who looked like hungry wolves and wanted to swallow a young man like him.

It's just that Mrs. Murphy is especially fond of him, but it's a pity that the wrinkles and huge eye bags that can't be covered up by heavy makeup really make Li Jie a little sick to his stomach.

"Mrs. Murphy is said to be in her fifties, older than my mother......" Li Jie thought helplessly, he could only put such a thought in his stomach, although he was a little humiliated, but the poor life made him have to endure it.

Most people still pay more attention to the image, he can only comfort himself like this, last time there was an ugly old woman like a fat pig who actually shouted for him, Li Jie struggled to hold back, otherwise I am afraid that the whole cup of coffee will be spilled on her head as big as a tray.

Alas, it's a pity that the embarrassing situation makes me really unconfident.

A busy and exhausting night passed quickly, and it was time for the café to close. Li Jie greeted his departing colleagues and looked forward to going home early.

"Hey! Congratulations, guys! I'm graduating, I'm going to Los Angeles! ”

Rachel jumped over happily like a blooming rose, and she had already found an agent when she was about to graduate. Yesterday, the agent called and said that she had won a role, but there were several lines, which was already very good for a newcomer like her.

"Oh! Great! Gotta celebrate! Harrington and several other young people who knew each other were all surprised and laughed.

"Of course! Today's beer is mine! Rachel clapped her palms excitedly and graciously invited everyone to join in the celebration, smiling like a flower and unable to suppress the joy in her heart.

DTuT Cafe not only serves coffee, but also sells beer and snacks, so these young people are also toasting from the local ingredients.

"It seems that we have to sign a few more names with our big stars in advance!"

"Hope to be able to see Rachel's movie soon!"

"To Hollywood!"

"Wow! Hollywood! ”

A group of young people were giggling and laughing, which could be regarded as seeing off Rachel.

Looking at Rachel looking forward to a glorious tomorrow, Li Jie is also very happy for his friend, but he is inevitably a little disappointed in his heart.

Rachel also knew him well, and leaned over with a wine glass: "Little Lizi, you're about to separate, don't you bless me?" ”

"Of course, of course! My Queen, you're going to be a big star. ”

She spoke in Chinese, which was a joke that only the two of them could understand. Li Jie rolled his eyes, smiled, and touched his glass with her.

"Hey! Listen to me, you are very good, you will definitely succeed, come on! Rachel put down her glass and graciously gave her hug.

"That's right, we all have to work hard, and soon I'll be a barrister!"

With the warm fragrant nephrite in his arms, Li Jie was also a little excited in his heart, and encouraged himself.

"Wow! Our great beauty Rachel can't favor one over the other, let's have a parting hug! The sharp-eyed Harrington came over excitedly, interrupting the brief warmth between the two and receiving a big roll of the eyes, but Rachel still hugged everyone one by one and said goodbye.

The excitement in the café didn't clear until midnight, and Rachel was clamoring for a change of place for the second half. But Li Jie was already feeling very tired, and there was still class to go to tomorrow, so he could only pack up and say goodbye to his friends and go back alone.

It's been a long bike ride from Hamilton Street to school, but he's used to it. There are not many pedestrians on the road, and Li Jie's thoughts are particularly messy today, thinking about the separation from Rachel in his mind, and thinking about his uncertain future for a while. Friends have bright futures, Rachel won't talk about it, and Harrington won't be far behind.

Students like Columbia University have no worries about coming out, just look at the awesome alumni of Harrington: current US President Barack Obama, stock market god Warren Buffett, nBa President David Stein......

You must know that in the United States, such qualifications and connections are also ubiquitous, not to mention that he is still an authentic American, unlike himself who has to face the problem of nationality.

Thinking wildly, it was not far from the school, and it was only after passing through a few alleys. Li Jie is already familiar with this kind of shortcut, and he can ride it almost with his eyes closed.

Suddenly, he noticed a misty yellow light appearing out of thin air not far ahead, and he couldn't help but brake and stop in some surprise.

However, I only had time to see that it was a yellow light cluster with a diameter of about half a meter, and the changes occurred suddenly! I saw that the brightness of the light cluster increased at an extremely fast speed, and soon the eyes of the people could not be opened.

Li Jie only felt that his eyes were stinged by the light and were about to cry, so he hurriedly blocked his eyes with his hands and closed them. At the same time, a pungent and unpleasant smell filled the air, making people feel itchy and coughing.

But Li Jie, who was blocking his eyes, didn't see it, and didn't have time to react, the surging light flew straight towards him and drilled into his body. In an instant, it seemed that countless information flooded into his mind, almost tearing Li Jie's brain apart, and he couldn't stand the churning in his brain, and he was exhausted, and he fell to the ground with people and cars.

“Rakkas~soranaman~nagasraka……”

I don't know how long, Li Jie seemed to only hear a profound and incomprehensible language ringing in his head, and the voice carried a certain indescribable vastness, as if the whole world was turned upside down in front of him, and it seemed that there was a majestic god looking down on the clouds, which made people unable to resist at all.

In a drowsy state, Li Jie's mind flashed a tall figure that was difficult to see standing on the ground, countless lights and shadows and flames enveloped his body, and then he completely lost consciousness.