America 1982

Accompanied by her exclusive butler and Page, Otilia walked into the King's Ocean View Suite at the Betsy Hotel.

The Betsy Hotel opened in 1942. Since its opening, it has always dominated the rankings of Miami luxury hotels. It is selected as one of the best wedding venues in the United States by Brides magazine every year. It has the most beautiful private beach in Miami.

Otilia did not take a closer look at this room where even the sheepskin books on the bookshelf were genuine. Instead, she sent the housekeeper away with low interest but very gentleness, and then showed a speechless smile to Page: "So, Tang Mi didn't have time to pick me up, but he thoughtfully helped me book the most difficult room in Miami with the most beautiful sea view despite his busy schedule?"

"That's what he said, Miss Farrell." Page replied expressionlessly.

Otilia let out a depressed breath: "Well, he is always so busy. I'm used to it. It doesn't matter. It's a very beautiful room."

After saying that, he responded with a bright smile to Tommy, his trusted old bodyguard: "Thank you, Paige, I want to take a rest."

However, Page didn't seem to understand Otilia's implicit farewell words. He stood there without moving, with an unlit wooden pipe in his mouth. Otilia looked at Page in confusion, not understanding. Why didn't Paige, who was always smart around Tommy, understand her own words today? She asked, "Is there anything else I need to know?"

"...Miss Farrell, I think before you take a rest, you can go to the balcony to enjoy the scenery. Tommy has been busy with this for a long time, or in other words, many people have been busy with this for a long time." Page glanced towards the balcony, reminded Otilia with a smile in her eyes.

Otilia glanced at the balcony suspiciously, then at Page, then walked through the entire living room and walked to the balcony. He held the guardrail with both hands and looked down. After seeing the situation below clearly, he immediately said: A cry of surprise.

Below the balcony, it should have been the exclusive beach of Bessie Hotel, but at this moment, the beach was covered with a sea of ​​purple flowers. The big boy Tommy, who told her that he was too busy to pick her up from the airport, was standing in the sea of ​​flowers at this moment. Among them, she was wearing casual clothes, with her hands in her trouser pockets, and she was looking proudly at the balcony where she was.

No woman can resist romance, no woman can resist flowers, and no woman can ignore surprises.

"I think you can now understand how heavy my work is in Miami, Ottilia?" Tommy lowered his head and looked at the sea of ​​purple flowers that took away the limelight from the real ocean: "I originally I wanted to cover it with violets, the state flower of Rhode Island, but there aren’t that many violets in Miami, so I ended up adding purple irises from Tennessee and purple cornflowers from Texas to make up the number.”

After Otilia came back to her senses, she showed a happy smile and was about to turn around and run downstairs from the third floor balcony to meet Tommy, but Tommy immediately made a Stop gesture to signal Otilia to stop. Ya stood on the balcony and didn't understand why Tommy wouldn't let her go down to see him, but then she discovered that Tommy walked through the flowers and climbed up to her balcony nimbly along a ladder that had been prepared. Just like those poor boys in fairy tales who are eager to have a tryst with the princess.

The subsequent development was indeed like those fairy tales. The princess was blinded by the damn poor boy with flowers. Without much dialogue, Otilia was picked up by Tommy and walked towards the big bed in the bedroom.

Page walked out of the guest room with a pipe in his mouth, closed the door, took out the electric shock device skillfully, put down Martin's half-brother who was walking towards Tommy and was about to pay Tommy for flowers before settling the bill, and then picked the other man's collar. , drag this guy who ruined the atmosphere into the elevator room, leaving the romance to the man and woman reunited after a long separation in the guest room.

After a long time, Otilia lay lazily on the big bed, held up her chin with both hands, and carefully looked at her little boyfriend, whom she hadn't seen for a while: "They said that you gave yourself a holiday. My father has not been here until now. I don’t even believe it, he insists it’s a rumor, you can’t let yourself be free.”

Otilia has not been left with any trace by time, or the expensive high-end skin care products have resisted the erosion of time on this woman, and she is still as bright and moving as when Tommy first met her.

On the contrary, Tommy's face has become more and more mature. This is also something that troubles Tommy. American men's hair grows at an alarming rate. When he was 27 years old in his previous life, if he didn't shave or get a haircut for a month, he would just look at it. He looks a little haggard and sad. If he doesn't shave for a week, doesn't take care of his hair, doesn't take care of his chest and leg hair, etc., he will look like a sloppy homeless man in his thirties or forties. When he goes out and says he is Oti Maybe some people believe Leah’s father. No wonder hair removal products have been selling well in the United States.

"It's not just me." Tommy lazily brushed Otilia's long blond hair with his hands and said to her with a smile.

"I know, and Jason, Martin..." Otilia said the news she got from Page who was picking her up on the way to the airport.

Tommy shook his head slightly: "No, and you, otherwise why do you think you suddenly appeared in Miami as a director of the New Century Foundation to attend the cocktail party held by Mr. and Mrs. Bill?"

"Impossible." Otilia said: "This is a normal event arrangement of the New Century Foundation. It is a small cocktail party held by Bill on environmental issues."

"If I call you directly and say Otilia, honey, ignore those poor black people in Africa, let's come to Miami and have sex, how can you refuse me? So now Diane is begging you to come see me, If you have sex with me, you can get an invitation letter, and the air tickets can be reimbursed by the foundation." Tommy said to Otilia with a smile.

"You mean you were responsible for the reception? That's totally unnecessary, Tommy..." Otilia was stunned for a moment, staring at Tommy with her pretty eyes, and after more than ten seconds, she spoke uncertainly: "You're kidding, right?"

"Of course I'm joking, how could I do that, but you really need to take a vacation. The KeyBank board of directors will make some adjustments in the near future. Others will take over your previous African projects... Jim because of this problem, and I argued several times and insisted..." Tommy looked at Otilia: "I want to say that the work at KeyBank will end in the near future, and you will have a long vacation."

When Otilia heard Tommy say that she wanted to end her work in Africa, she immediately turned over and sat up, looking at Tommy very seriously: "Hey, Tommy, you can't decide everything for me, this is very serious. question, you disrespect me very much by doing this, you should at least ask my opinion first, I have always..."

"Calm down, honey, I'm not making this decision for you, can you hear me out? Jim and I have had several serious arguments, and he feels that you should continue to work as you are now, even more forcefully than you are at the moment, because The board thinks you're doing a really good job, it's me, and I just feel like now there's a job that will allow you to help more women and children in Africa while having more time in the United States and allowing me to see you more often." Tommy He also sat up, hugged Otilia from behind, put his head on her smooth shoulder, and soothed Otilia's little dissatisfaction:

“Jim had previously dealt with some United Nations organizations because of KeyBank’s overseas projects. When he chatted with me on the phone, he told me some so-called interesting things. I didn’t think those interesting things were very interesting. I felt very miserable, so I thought of giving They bring clean water, medicine, toilets and more importantly."

"What did Jim say?" Otilia asked after hearing Tommy's seriousness.

"Women's rights, underage marriage, child abuse, human trafficking and other issues, Jim said that he heard a United Nations official personally say that in some African countries, a second-hand AK47 assault rifle sells for only $5, and comes with ten rounds of ammunition. It is the second-ranked cheap product in that country. What is the number-one cheap product? A girl. You only need to pay the girl's parents three dollars to buy a girl." Tommy said to Otilia:

"That bastard Jim said that at this price, his annual salary plus dividends can buy all the women in that country. This is an interesting thing, but I thought of another question, the popularity of laws in those countries in Africa. There are many countries in Africa The laws are very unsound. After all, those places are very backward, both in terms of civilization and material aspects, and the laws on women's rights and children's protection are almost zero. It is better to expect France to reoccupy them if they expect their country to issue relevant laws on the protection of women and children. .”

"You are a law graduate. You are a professional. You should use your familiar professional knowledge to help those people. You have promoted many public welfare projects in Africa over the years. You understand how barbaric those African countries are. For this reason, I I think you should compile what you know into a report and submit it to the United Nations Association for the Protection of Women’s Rights. Use your legal knowledge to do something for them, such as helping those backward countries to supplement some laws on women and children. I think This is a truly great cause. If it is feasible, you may need to cooperate with well-known jurists, judges, and lawyers in the United States and even other developed countries to promote the development of their laws based on the actual conditions of those countries."

"Leave it to white trash men like Jim to deliver water to Africans and build toilets." Tommy put his mouth to Otilia's earlobe and whispered:

"The most important thing is that this great job allows you to spend more time in the United States and no longer has to fly overseas for long periods of time."

Otilia thought about it seriously, then shook his head: "This is of course a greater cause, but it is not feasible. Tommy, those countries are independent, and they cannot accept other countries to help them revise their laws, like that This behavior interferes with national sovereignty and will only arouse resentment from the country’s government.”

"Our purpose is to help more people, not to make more countries hate us, right?" Tommy nodded in understanding and asked.

Otilia nodded and forgave the guy who made the decision for himself without authorization: "Yes, although you suspended my work, I think you are really kind, Tommy, I mean, you can pass Jim's Ridiculously, if you think about this kind of question, it means you are a kind person."

"The question of whether I am kind or not can be discussed later. First of all, it was just a bargaining bid. If those countries cannot accept the United Nations' interference in their legal issues, or organizations such as the United Nations Association for the Protection of Women's Rights and the United Nations Association for the Protection of Children's Rights will also If you know that it is not feasible and refuse to push it, then we can give a more moderate suggestion. For example, you can come forward and unite some legal scholars, judges, and lawyers to write one or more books on the litigation procedures in African countries. It should not be too cumbersome and complicated. It is easier to understand. For example, if a woman is domestically abused, as long as she can read or find someone to read her the contents of your book, she will know how to use the law to solve the difficulties she encounters in that country. This kind of Books are not sold, but distributed for free, which requires a lot of effort, because you need to unite like-minded scholars, study the legal provisions of those countries, translate them, and express those provisions in clearer and more straightforward words, and you also need to We need to raise funds for this project. Of course, as your boyfriend, I will be the first to donate to this project, and I will also provide some help as much as possible." Tommy seemed to know that Otilia would say the first thing This suggestion was not feasible, so he immediately told what he really thought.

Otilia, an American social activist who graduated from law school and has been doing charity work in Africa for many years, issued a report to the United Nations Association for the Protection of Women, and then used the name given by the United Nations to take the lead in raising funds, and then used the raised funds to find some well-known Jurists, judges, and lawyers collaborated to write popular legal books on legal procedures in African countries and distributed them free of charge in those countries, so that women and children in those countries no longer think that the law is too far away from them.

"After listening, what do you think? Do I understand you better, or does that bastard Jim understand you better?" Tommy asked Otilia with a smile.

Otilia looked at Tommy steadily, and after a while, she hugged Tommy and gently leaned her head on Tommy's chest: "Tommy, your mother must be a real angel, so she taught you How can you be so kind, gentle yet unwavering in your current situation, confronting the suffering of this world and working hard to change it?"

This was the Tommy she knew. He had never changed. In high school, he led a group of children to help the country of St. Vincent and get back their funds for that country. In college, he led his classmates to help many poor Americans. Breaking the shackles of expensive technology, giving hardworking poor people a chance to change their destiny.

Now, he looked at himself, with a smile on his face, and told himself gently but forcefully that he wanted to change the tragic fate of women and children in that distant African continent, so that they would no longer be sold as commodities by their families.

"Perhaps, there is no suffering in this world and it is always beautiful." Tommy said with a smile: "So, you think my proposal is good?"

"Of course, of course." Otilia said seriously.

Tommy knew that Otilia could not refuse his proposal. She was a kind woman. She had witnessed many problems faced by women and children in those countries in Africa. She repaired toilets, delivered water, donated medicines, etc. Tilia can go, and so can others, but Otilia is a law major. If there is an opportunity for her to use her major to help more people, she will not refuse, because doing so will make her more A sense of accomplishment.

And Tommy didn't care whether he was regarded as an angel or not, nor did he care how miserable life was in Africa. He just helped his chosen wife make a life plan when he successfully pursued Otilia.

First of all, through KeyBank, we have engaged in many public welfare projects overseas, dealt with many United Nations organizations, gained popularity and some awards, and obtained the status of an international social activist. Now, this step has been completed. No surprises, if history does not change, wait for Bill If elected, she will receive a Presidential Medal of Freedom in recognition of her contributions as an international activist over the years.

Then, what Tommy was telling her at this moment was that he had transformed from a social activist into a legal expert. In the name of the United Nations, he was engaged in international legal academic research with other well-known jurists to promote the legal development process in some African countries. With academic research, It will probably take a few years to find a law school in the United States or other countries to teach, and at the same time serve as a legal consultant for some women's organizations, and participate in some typical cases. Not surprisingly, it will rely on the experience and experience of previous social activists. It is not impossible to win the Presidential Medal of Freedom, plus various international awards, including the Nobel Peace Prize.

Finally, in the later stages of Bill's presidential career, he received the presidential nomination and found a circuit court where a judge had retired to serve as an associate judge. Then he slowly began to gain seniority and waited for more than ten or twenty years in the circuit court to become the Supreme Court. If a position emerges, Tommy will use the television media he controls and the Internet resources he will surely control in the future to make a deal with the president in office at the time, in exchange for the president nominating Otilia and sending her to the throne of the Supreme Court.

This is Tommy's life plan for Otilia. He doesn't need Otilia to know her life path, he only needs Otilia to listen to him and do the right thing.