With fifty dollars in his pocket, Victor stood in the palatial foyer of the Woolworth Building with a cower, and the porter called to check Victor's identity before letting him go.

Victor pressed the elevator button, secretly thinking about when he would be able to live in this building, sighing that this was just a pipe dream, and he didn't know how to pay back the fifty dollars he borrowed. The life of a rich man and his life are simply heaven and hell, and he is in his early thirties.

His three-year-old daughter and wife live in an unheated attic, and they sacrifice their youth for the most artistic pursuit, but they are poor. Although he has a handsome and chic appearance, his acting skills are mediocre, and he belongs to the role of a trickster in the troupe. In Hamlet, he plays the role of the prince's retinue.

The elevator stopped on the thirty-eighth floor in his remorse, and the uniformed butler welcomed him into the apartment. Bright and spacious living room with plush carpets on the floor. He hesitated, fearing that his dusty shoes would stain the clean carpet.

"Mr. Victor, come in quickly." Helen appears in the drawing room.

The ceiling fan on the roof of the parlor was whirring, Victor's eyes were a little straight, and Helen was wearing a pale yellow summer dress with the chain of stars on her hands. Graceful and luxurious, like a fairy standing on a thirty-eight-story high cloud.

Carefully sit on the leather sofa and hold your hands tightly together. Observing the furnishings of the reception room, almost half of them were furnishings that he had never seen.

"Mr. Victor has brought us tickets, thank you very much." Helen sat down across from him and leaned over to him.

"It's my honor that you can watch my performance, these are two tickets for tomorrow night, and you will be seated in the front row according to your request." Victor said crampedly, taking out two tickets from his pocket.

After talking for a while, Victor forgot what he had said about inviting Helen and Marina to dinner, and was ready to leave.

"Mr. Victor, you can't just leave like this, Marina and I have specially prepared dinner for your visit, please stay and enjoy it." Helen got up and stayed.

"Marina, you can come out, don't be in the kitchen, Mr. Victor is about to leave." As Helen's words fell, Marina ran out of the inner chamber like a whirlwind.

"Mr. Victor, you really can't go, I made an apple salad in the kitchen today, you must try my handiwork." Marina held a sharp knife for chopping vegetables in her hand.

"Marina, what do you think you're in a hurry? He ran out with a knife. ”

"I'm not afraid that Mr. Victor will leave." Marina said with a playful wink.

Victor remembered to invite the two of them to dinner, and was shocked by the opulent abode and forgot to mention it.

"Miss Helen and Miss Marina, I'll invite you to dinner together, I promised you before."

Helen reproached, "Mr. Victor, don't be so polite, we have ready dinner, and we should eat at home." You see, for your arrival, Marina made a special salad. ”

"Alright then, I'll treat you to dinner when the show is over tomorrow." Victor had to say that.

A sumptuous dinner, with a dozen dishes piled on top of the table, Helen and Marina couldn't stop persuading him to drink, and Victor was the first to experience such a dinner for such a big time.

Before leaving, Helen took out two large gift boxes from the room and handed them to Victor.

"Mr. Victor, this is a gift for your daughter, this is a gift for your wife, please help bring it back and give it to them, thank them for having such a wonderful husband and a good father."

Victor had to carry the gift box and was about to leave, and the butler hurriedly came up to help him carry it.

"Sir, Miss told me to drive you home."

Victor pushed open the attic door, and his wife and daughter sat around the dining table, one knitting a sweater and the other holding a comic strip in their hands. Seeing Victor holding two large gift boxes in his hands, he hurriedly put down the sweater and comic book in his hand.

"Dad, what did you buy?"

"It's from a friend, one for your mother, and one for you." Victor proudly placed the gift box on the table.

His wife looked at him in disbelief, because she knew that Victor had few friends, and even one or two friends were poor, so how could Jingle Bell give him gifts.

"Mary, it's true that two rich people like to watch comedy, let me give two tickets." Victor didn't explain much either.

The daughter had already opened a gift box, which contained boxes of chocolates and pastries, as well as toy trains and Barbie dolls.

"Dad, I like it so much, I've always wanted this doll, Dad loves you to death." The daughter's wet little mouth reached his cheek and kissed and kissed.

The wife opened another box, which contained a set of cosmetics and several pieces of fashion jewelry. His wife's eyes immediately lit up, this set of cosmetics was a series of cosmetics sold in a famous store on Fifth Avenue, and she could only look at it and never dreamed that she would have it. Jewelry is also a well-known store, although it is not a gold product, but it is at least worth dozens of dollars.

There was also a custom-made suit coupon in the gift box, and Victor estimated that the two gift boxes were worth at least two hundred dollars. Looking at the happy mother and daughter, he finally had a sense of accomplishment.

A week later, Victor walked into Dahlia Fabrics in a bespoke suit, and he was appointed by Helen as the administrative director of Dahlia Silk Fabrics, responsible for the company's Nissan administration.

Helen's training for Victor is mainly about conversation and appearance, and in Helen's words, you must let the other party see at a glance that you are a successful person and a superior person. Every pause in a word, every manners to be done, was in place, and for this Helen spent two hundred dollars a week hiring an etiquette teacher for him.

The interval between each puff of a cigarette must be as required, and Victor is a quick learner, and he is a drama actor himself who is easy to use conversation. He was not as timid and timid as he had been earlier, but he began to see that he was multifaceted and self-confident, and that five hundred dollars a month in cash allowed him to provide a good life for his wife and daughter.

He himself began to laugh at the staff in the company, who was arrogant but not at all unpleasant, only more assured, calmer, gentler, and more composed.

Helen was very satisfied that Victor was moving in the right direction, and Dahlia Textiles started to run several silk businesses in a short period of time, and the business was carried out under the leadership of Helen, who was already very proficient.

Towards August, Helen said to Victor: "Victor, the company is going to invest 10 million dollars in Los Angeles and Australia to build two large factories, this is the renderings and materials, you take it back to the office first, and tomorrow you will come forward to hold a press conference to announce the company's intentions." ”

"And the board of directors appoints you as the general manager of the company from today."

Victor didn't expect his position to rise so quickly, and he calculated that the position of general manager would be a thousand dollars a month in salary and car service. He could talk to the fashionable-looking girls in his beautiful riding jacket and trousers, who wore black hats and yellow gloves, dragged black riding skirts, and played with short whips that resembled dexterous canes. He knew it would take him to the pinnacle of social honor.

"Thank you Miss Helen for your appreciation, I will do my best to do my duty as General Manager." He bowed his head in allegiance.

Since he met Helen and Marina, he has grown a lot of experience and understood a lot of things, and the key is that he is reluctant to lose all this --- the beauty and pleasure of urban life.

He returned to his office, where two wide, high windows with windproof window frames reached from the floor to the ceiling, overlooking the Hudson River to the west. Outside, there is a small stone balcony, big enough for four chairs. Here you can see the beautiful, cool scenery of the avenue. The balcony is covered by a canopy and is nine stories above the ground.

Victor was overjoyed and very satisfied. The first step he took was to call the stenographer into the office and ask the stenographer to write on the letterhead with the company's name that he had asked the advertising design company to set up the venue for the press conference this afternoon. Ask the printing company to print beautiful promotional materials.

To tell the truth, Victor's talent in this era is obviously higher than that of ordinary company leaders, he is a very good professional manager, Helen also admires his resolute spirit from the bottom of her heart, his ability to get to work, and his straightforward attitude of accepting responsibility, so gradually, she likes Vic more than ever.

The press conference of Dahlia Textile Company was a great success, and dozens of peers came to participate, as well as many extra-large enterprises also sent people to participate. All the guests knew that behind Dahlia Textiles was the No. 1 Textile Company, and since the cotton shortage in the United States, many companies and financial institutions have plunged headlong into cotton futures.

The cotton contract continued to rise, and Helen began to sell step by step after making a profit of 18 percent. First Textiles' reputation in the U.S. textile industry is thunderous, and it is hard to underestimate Dahlia Fabrics' previous deals.

The handsome and chic, well-spoken Victor can easily make people have a sense of trust in his words, and even Helen in the audience has ripples in her heart, which can attract the opposite sex and make people have a sense of admiration for him.

Victor became the center of the conference throughout the conference, and his professional smile did not rush to any difficult questions, and answered them patiently and calmly in an orderly manner. Explaining the company's strategic intentions by a different person is likely to be suspicious, but Victor's presence creates a sense of identification.

At the dinner after the press conference, Victor was surrounded by many guests, and he talked left and right, not leaving any of the guests in the cold.

"Mr. Victor, does the construction of a large silk spinning factory mean that your company will buy a large amount of raw silk?"

"I think that's for sure."

"Your company has to invest tens of millions of dollars to build a factory, how can there be so much money to buy raw silk, as far as I know, the price of raw silk has risen a lot this year."

"Thank you for your concern, my company has introduced a large consortium to invest in the capital, there should be no problem, the price, my company believes that the price of cotton fabrics is higher, and there is no reason to think that raw silk does not rise."