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Chapter 296 Roadshow

He took Shen Bi to the study room, served tea, and then got down to business.

"The main thing is that the 'Correctional Education Company' is already preparing to conduct a road show before going public." Shen Bi put down his tea cup and said.

"Oh, what do you need me to do?" Sean asked aloud.

"I'm giving a speech at a road show. It's such a big deal. If you, as the boss of the company, don't give a speech, how can I still attend?"

"No problem, I'm good at giving speeches!" Sean agreed immediately.

"The only thing left is that you need to sign some documents. I have almost taken care of all the messy properties under your name." Shen Bi sorted out his thoughts and gave a rough summary.

"According to future plans, the logistics side will be retained, and other buildings, building materials, daily chemicals, etc. will be disposed of."

"Mainly on the Japanese Chemical side, which is a heavy asset, including the factory in Cartagena, all the shares were disposed of. Gilbert organized an exchange meeting with people from the New Jersey consortium to discuss the shares of the Japanese Chemical side. I exchanged it with several companies that make daily chemicals."

"We exchanged part of the New Jersey port terminals and container yards."

"In addition, according to your idea, we have acquired several supermarkets in New Jersey and are currently integrating them."

"This matter will be very cumbersome, especially the game with suppliers."

Shen Bi carefully explained the backlog of things that needed to be dealt with during this period.

"Okay, I'll go to the company to handle the signing tomorrow. Is there anything else?"

"There's nothing else." Shen Bi stood up and walked out. When he opened the study door, he said intentionally or unintentionally: "By the way, when are you going to Chinatown in New York."

Sean's lips twitched, "Don't worry, I will definitely take this matter to heart. I'll call it the 'Xiongfeng Project'!"

Shen Bi's old face turned red and his waist straightened up instantly!

Even though we are old, our semen is still hot!

…

Yurimai strode into the villa, and the maid in JK clothes came up and took the coat.

He walked to the sofa and sat down, picked up the hot tea in front of Sean and drank a gulp... Poof!

Yuri squirted out the whole thing in one gulp, opening his mouth wide and gasping like a dog.

"Fake, why is it so hot?"

Sean looked at Yuri as if he were an idiot, "You must have lost your mind. I always drink more hot water."

"Fake, didn't I forget?" Yuri quickly asked Sean's maid to give him a cup of iced coffee, "I just came back from Colombia. It's very hot over there, and suddenly I'm not used to it."

After getting a cup of iced coffee and drinking it down, Yuri calmed down and started talking about business.

"I have already sent the training team. The team leader is a lieutenant colonel. He is Hispanic. Communication is not a problem at all. In the past month, it has been mainly about tactical literacy training."

"What about material supply?" Sean asked.

"No problem, medicines are all shipped from the United States, and food and other daily necessities are shipped directly from Cartagena. At present, the supplies are very abundant." Yuri paused and continued: "In addition, communication equipment, command The systems and so on have also been shipped, and now we are just missing weapons. You said on the phone before that it was best not to use American equipment, what did you think about it?"

"After all, I support the rebels. I live in Cartagena and Bolivar State. Supporting the rebels is not a good reputation. You have to consider the feelings of the local people in Colombia." Sean nodded.

"Then what should we do? The weapons must be fully equipped. The action will start in a month at most. There will be tactical training ahead, but you also need to be familiar with firearms and equipment." Yuri spread his hands.

Sean thought about it and said, "It's not a big problem. I'm going to get a batch of weapons from Rabbit. The anti-government forces in Colombia are basically using Soviet-style equipment, which can be seamlessly integrated with Rabbit's."

"When the time comes, our company will enter La Guajira Province for large-scale development, and we will be able to distance ourselves from the relationship based on our performance."

"It's useful. No one will be able to tell that you are supporting me then." Yuri curled his lips.

"If there is no substantial evidence, then it is slander!" Sean snorted coldly, "If anyone dares to slander me, I will ask the protective umbrella to come and question him!"

Yuri was amused and said, "That's it, I'll wait for you to deliver the goods."

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Manhattan, New York.

Today is the first road show before the Correctional Education Company goes public, and Sean is going to give a speech.

The so-called road show is a large-scale promotion meeting to provide investors with information so that when the stock is listed, it will be sought after by investors and the stock price will soar.

Sean is full of confidence in this.

The underwriters this time were Morgan and Lehman Brothers.

The person present today from Morgan's side is Bertram Carlyle, a vice president, and the person from Lehman Brothers is Richard Fuld.

As soon as Sean, a newly rising rich man, arrived at the scene, he immediately attracted everyone's attention.

Shen Bi was beside Sean to introduce everyone who arrived today, and Sean had to shake hands, say hello, and greet everyone one by one.

Touching the hands of dozens of men in a short period of time...

Hands must be disinfected well!

Everyone present was a Wall Street elite. Of course, Sean didn't know anyone except Jordan Belfort, the Wolf of Wall Street.

When meeting Belfort, who has worked with him many times, Sean gave him a hug.

After all, he is the man who helped him transfer tens of millions.

Last time, we jointly speculated on oil futures, and we didn't make a lot of money, just over 30 million.

It’s a small breath of blood...

It's just that there are too few opportunities to make a profit without losing money.

Normally, Sean would never touch stocks or futures like this. This thing is too weird.

There is obviously a way to make sure profits without losing money, so why do you want to play with this kind of heartbeat?

That is to say, Shen Bi joined his team, otherwise, he would not even bother to go public.

After meeting Belfort, a square-faced man with blond hair walked up to Sean with open arms and gave Sean a big hug.

It’s Jianguo!

The last group of people who came over were all Sean's "friends of the president," including Jianguo, Xiaobu, and others.

Sean's first company is preparing to go public, so naturally they will come to support it.

I didn’t say much to everyone, but there were a lot of things going on during today’s road show.

After meeting a circle of people, the host in charge of this road show handed the speech to Sean.

There is still half an hour before the road show starts. Sean needs to familiarize himself with it in advance. Wouldn’t it be ugly to stumble when he reads it for a while?

After all, he is a professional writer. The manuscript looks detailed, promising, humorous, and impassioned.

Smelly and long...

After only watching half of it, Sean couldn't stand it anymore.

It’s not that the writing is not good, this is not the kind of interesting and colorful literary work...

I resisted and watched it again. The official road show over there had already begun.

Sean sighed, looked at Norris walking over, picked up the manuscript, stood up and walked over.

The host thanked all the guests present today on the stage, and after introducing today's theme, he looked at Sean, raised his hand and shouted in a passionate voice: "Now, welcome our youngest and newest Personalized, representative of the new generation of the American dream, founder of the world's largest private security consulting company, founder of the world's largest cable television media company, the best screenwriter among the rich, the richest among screenwriters, and the Rockefeller family Genius of a generation, Sean Rockefeller!!!”

"Bang" "Bang" "Bang" "Bang"

Amidst a series of fireworks and cheers from the crowd, Sean walked onto the stage with steps that he didn't recognize.

Turning around to face the audience below, Sean had a confident smile on his face. He opened his arms and raised his hands to the crowd, indicating that the cheers should be louder!

Everyone also cooperated, especially Sean's 'friends of the president', who started crying like ghosts.

Shen Bi and a group of people stood in the audience and couldn't help laughing when they saw Sean's appearance. This boss of his could really make a living.

After a long time, the cheers of the crowd finally died down, and Sean coughed lightly, put the manuscript of his speech on the table, and began to speak.

"As we all know, the United States is a country that attaches great importance to the construction of the legal system. The country's annual legal expenditures are the highest in the world!"

"This has also led to an increase in the proportion of prisoners in prisons. Each state has built a large number of prisons. In order to maintain the normal operation of prisons, each state has to bear huge government expenses."

“At the same time, because the government is not proficient in commercial development, prisons in various states have become a huge burden on state governments. This is why correctional education companies have emerged.”

"Currently, our correctional education company has..., spanning six states..."

At this point, Sean raised his head, pursed his lips and looked around everyone.

Everyone in the audience was in a daze, why they stopped here while talking.

It's not that everyone is eager to hear it, all these information are known to those who are interested.

Just when everyone was wondering, Sean shrugged, picked up the speech and patted it in his hand a few times, "This damn manuscript is so long, damn, I don't know how long I'm going to read it!"

Sean suddenly got into a situation. Not only the audience below were confused, but Shen Bi and others were also dumbfounded for an instant.

Shen Bi slapped his forehead hard, Damn, I shouldn't have let this guy come. Sure enough, it's not this guy's character to follow the rules.

Unless something happens, this guy will feel uncomfortable all over.

Sean held up the manuscript and shook it, "I want to ask everyone whether you know the data I mentioned."

"I know!" The first person to react was Brother Jianguo, who howled several times in excitement.

This guy is a guy who really likes to cause trouble. When this happens, no one is more excited than him.

Xiaobu, Jianguo's brother, Hayden, Dolan, Sean's cheap sister Anna, and a large group of familiar people also started to boo.

"To hell with these damn statistics, we want to hear something different!"

The two underwriters of Morgan and Lehman Brothers were completely dumbfounded, damn, what the hell is going on!!

Sean pointed at Jianguo and others with a cool expression, "As you wish!"

After saying that, "Tilla" and "Tilla" tore the speech into pieces in front of everyone and held it high.

Debris was flying down from the sky.

At this time, more Wall Street elites also became excited. These guys were also playing the craziest way. Isn’t this the fucking feeling coming!

"Okay, now we can talk about something interesting!" With that, Sean walked around to the side of the podium and leaned towards the front of the podium, "Let me know, I remember there is a Guohui here, ah,

found it!"

Sean stretched out his hand to clasp the bald eagle Guohui stuck on the front, put his foot on the podium, and pulled hard with both hands.

With a click, Guohui Shengsheng let Sean pull it off, and there was still a large piece of brown paint from the podium on it.

"Oooooo..." There was another burst of cheers at the scene, although no one knew what Sean was going to do.

But, this is interesting, isn’t it!

Americans have such an entertaining spirit, even when the president is delivering a speech, there is constant fun and laughter.

Walking back to the front of the podium, Sean held Guohui in his hand and flashed it to everyone, "Come on, tell me loudly, what is this!?"

"Guohui!" the crowd shouted loudly.

"Yes, this Guohui represents the United States of America and the White House!" Sean said, raised his hand, grabbed Guohui and slapped it hard on the podium with a 'bang' sound, "Can this thing make money?"

!”

For a while, everyone couldn't understand what Sean meant, and they were a little embarrassed.

Sean didn't wait for anyone to talk to him and said to himself: "I tell you, you can make money!"

"In order to establish a punishment company, New Jersey passed a series of laws to ensure the profit base of the punishment company. So, with the ability of everyone here, can you lobby for the passage of this law!" With that, Sean grabbed Guohui again.

Bright, bright.

"Yes!!" Everyone immediately understood what Sean meant and shouted in unison.

Isn't it just money? As long as it goes public and raises capital, the company will have plenty of money. Lobbying for a white house is not easy.

This is not a matter of principle related to the elephant party or the donkey party. The chance of passing is 100%.

Sean put Guohui on the table and reached behind his waist to touch it. When he reappeared, everyone saw Sean holding a pistol.

"Bang!" Sean slammed the pistol on the podium again, "Can you make money from this!"

"You can earn it!" Jianguo was the first to shout in cooperation.

This guy is so excited now. He has seen road shows too many times, and this is the first time that it is so interesting.

Sean is indeed my brother Jianguo, he is capable!

"Based on the Umbrella Company, it can perfectly control all prisons. I don't care what kind of felons or murderers they are. If they enter my prison, even if they are Iron Man, they have to stay with me. They are the future.

Soldiers also need to be guarded by me, and everyone must fucking obey me!"

"Either spend a lot of money to enjoy prison life, or work honestly for me to make money!"

Waves of cheers erupted from the scene again. Sean’s tough attitude was really inspiring!

In fact, what many people fear most is that they cannot manage serious criminals and gangsters.

The people present are all engaged in serious business, whether they are Morgan or Lehman Brothers, they are world-class, but you can't fight with shit.

It would be disgusting to have a hand in winning or losing.

It's not worth it for the little residual value of the gangsters.

After all, the systems are different...

But no matter what, the gangsters will never challenge the military... The same goes for umbrella companies.

This is a professional question!

Sean grabbed Guohui with his left hand and waved the gun at everyone with his right hand. "We have law in our left hand and weapons in our right hand. I ask, who can stop us from making money!?"

"No one!!" Everyone in the audience cheered loudly.

Sean raised his head and burst into laughter, showing his arrogance and arrogance!

The atmosphere at the scene became more lively.

Americans love this!

People from Lehman Brothers and Morgan were also applauding vigorously. This speech was so inspiring.

All investors are confident, with one hand of law and the other of weapons, why can’t they make money!?

Sean waited until everyone had shouted enough, then raised his hand and said: "The last thing I want to say is, if, if any of you accidentally go to jail one day, I guarantee that you will get the best treatment. After all,

, this is our prison."

As he said that, Sean winked at our Wolf of Wall Street.

There was a burst of laughter again.

Seeing the end, Sean walked down from the top with a smile. Shen Bi immediately came up to him and punched Sean in the chest, "Fuck, I almost thought you were going to screw up."

"Are you kidding!" Sean laughed, "I, Sean, have never seen any big scenes!"

Sean raised his hand and grabbed the air hard, "It's just a road show, if you can get it, capture it!"

Shen Bi sneered, "Bullshit, you know how to do those violent things!"

"How new! Prison is not a violent institution, why is it a fucking charity!"

"Okay, I guess you're right!" Shen Bi rolled his eyes.

After the speech, Shen Bi also arranged a banquet, and everyone was busy raising money. During this period, people from Morgan and Lehman Brothers approached Sean and wanted to invest in the umbrella for some unknown reason.

Sean thought for a while and did not refuse immediately. Instead, he gave an ambiguous answer, "The current umbrella company does not have a stable profit method, and I have not encountered any financial problems for the time being."

"If I plan to absorb funds in the future, I will notify you two as soon as possible."

The representatives from both families smiled and nodded without getting too entangled.

Firstly, the current private army has indeed been around for a short time, and secondly, Sean not only represents Sean, but also Rockefeller behind him, and they cannot ask for a forced shareholding.

Of course, Sean does have the idea of ​​introducing some powerful shareholders in the future.

Sean has taken care of the road show, and the rest is left to Shen Bi. Sean will wait for the bell to ring and get the money after a while.

When leaving, Xiaobu, Jianguo and the others followed them. They hadn't seen each other for a while, so we took this opportunity to get together and have fun.

Now when it comes to fun, it must be to go to Sean’s Peace Hotel. Now in New York, the Peace Hotel has become the first choice for wealthy people to go out and spend money.

Open 24 hours a day, safe, hidden, open-minded, everything you can think of is available!

Sean brought Akina Nakamori over, and when he introduced her, Akina Nakamori looked silly.

The one who came up was the son of the Vice President of the United States, the one who came up was a son of the Rockefeller family, the one who came up was from a senator's family, the one who came up was the son of a governor, a general...

Let’s take a look around and the worst people are all billionaires.

Throughout the whole process, Akina Nakamori was stupid.

Although I have accepted that Sean is a big shot and that he is unimaginable, Akina Nakamori really doesn't have a more specific concept.

Today I have experienced it.

This circle of friends is simply...

With Xiaobu's status, even the Prime Minister must be trembling with trepidation.

Standing in front of such a group of people, Nakamori Akina felt like a little rabbit exposed to the cold wind, and she wanted to shiver.

Looking at Akina Nakamori standing a little stiffly next to Sean, Anna curled her lips, this guy is so lustful and aboveboard.

Watching, watching, Anna narrowed her eyes slightly, reached out and touched her chin, and a bold idea came to her mind!

After drinking and playing around for a while, Xiao Bu found an opportunity to take Sean alone and asked: "How are you doing with the Colombian incident?"

"You don't have to worry about this. Everything is going well. If nothing unexpected happens, we can start investing in a month." Sean elbowed Xiao Bu, "Instead of worrying about this, you should think about where to start.

Get more money out."

"Let me tell you, I won't give you much discount when investing."

Xiaobu patted his chest and said, "Don't worry, the problem is not... wrong. How much money are you prepared to invest?"

"Initially it's 100 million." Sean said calmly.

"Pfft!" Xiao Bu was shocked by this number on the spot, "No, it's just a coal mine. You're crazy to invest so much money!"

"I checked the information and there is an open-pit coal field in El Cerrejon. There is no need to invest such a large amount of money to develop it!"

"The El Cerrejón coalfield in Guajira Province is known to have 55 coal-bearing seams, 40 of which are more than 1 meter thick, and the thickest coal seam is 26 meters thick. Its average composition is 8% ash, containing

With 0.6% sulfur and 9% volatile content, the total coal reserves of this coalfield reach 3.8 billion tons." Sean knows this data well.

"Once, I really just wanted to develop an ordinary large-scale coal mine." Sean turned to look at Xiao Bu and continued: "But, now I have changed my mind."

"What do you mean?" Xiaobu frowned.

"I have arranged for people to start working in Guajira Province." Sean whispered: "Since we have achieved such great results, why do I only develop one coal mine?"

Sean spread his hands and said, "Cerejon's coal resources alone are worth close to 20 billion U.S. dollars, and as time goes by, its value will only be higher, not lower."

"With the vigorous development of this coalfield, the entire Guajira province will receive huge development, so I am ready to increase investment."

"I don't object to your statement, but it's not like the starting price is 100 million!" Xiaobu twitched the corner of his mouth, "How can you digest such a large output?"

"I am ready to spend money to acquire power plants in the provinces of Bolivar, Guajira, Atlântico and Magdalena."

A long series of... question marks slowly floated over Xiaobu's head.

???

He really couldn't figure out when Sean's business policy started to engage in energy!

But no matter what Sean thinks about it, Xiao Bu will definitely choose to follow up.

In fact, it’s not necessarily a bad thing if Sean invests heavily. If you invest heavily, you’ll get long-term benefits, earn more, and get more points!

However, Qian Xiaobu definitely can't mobilize that many, but he can think of other ways...

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On the third day after returning from New York, Sean was going to take Akina Nakamori to Hollywood.

After all, I am in the entertainment industry. When I come to the United States, it is always unsatisfactory if I don't visit Hollywood.

Coincidentally, several movies are currently being filmed, and Sean just happened to pay attention to the progress and solve some of the troubles they encountered.

In addition, the post-editing work of "Goodfellas" has also been completed. This movie uses almost no special effects, and the release and filming issues also need to be solved.

Besides, Sean also misses Le Huizhen, Maggie Cheung, and the Australian white girls...

I also took Akina Nakamori to meet those sisters.

It's just that plans don't always change quickly...

One day before Sean was about to leave, Bear Harris came to his door.

Bell Harris was hired by Sean from a steel plant controlled by the Rockefeller family foundation and is now in charge of the electric furnace steelmaking plant built by Sean.

According to Shen Bi's suggestion, this steel plant has no technical advantages, no resource advantages, and no labor advantages. It is a completely unnecessary factory and should be sold immediately!

However, Sean still refused after thinking about it.

Of course, this does not mean that there is anything wrong with Shen Bi's suggestion.

According to the current steel development in the United States, due to the rapid development of the steel industry in Europe and Japan, the United States has changed from a net export of steel to a net import since the 1960s.

This shows that American crude steel has lost its price advantage and cannot be traded!

In fact, the steel industry is shrinking significantly, and there is no price advantage compared to imported crude steel.

Therefore, Shen Bi's suggestion is right.

But Sean considered that due to the advocacy of environmental protection organizations, traditional steel companies with high energy consumption and high pollution will increasingly decline, and electric furnace steelmaking will gradually become the mainstream.

In the future, electric furnace steelmaking will account for more than 80% of steelmaking in the United States and will exceed 40% globally.

Maybe there is really no money prospect in the steel industry in the United States, but there is definitely a huge money prospect in the research and development of electric furnace technology.

This is in line with the future direction of the United States, which will focus on developing high value-added technologies.

This electric furnace steelmaking plant will focus on developing technology in the future. Since the investment is not very large, Sean chose to keep it.

The reason why Bell Harris came to our door this time was because of the electric furnace steelmaking plant.

"Boss, our scrap steel is piling up more and more, which cannot be digested by an electric furnace plant. If this continues, our place will be completely filled with scrap steel!"

"How is that possible!?" Sean didn't react for a moment.

"The business of the environmental protection company has continued to expand, and more and more cities' waste disposal business has been taken over by this company. This has also resulted in more and more recyclable scrap metal, which is far beyond our digestion capacity." Bell.

Harris said with a serious face.

Sean patted his forehead lightly, he had really forgotten about this.

So much scrap steel really needs a place to be digested. Sean looked eastward. Rabbit had a huge demand for steel, so he could consider selling it to them.

However, there is no rush for this matter. We will handle it together when we go to Asia.

After sending away Bear Harris, Sean took Akina Nakamori to the Sky Palace, and this time Lorraine followed.

The golden Sky Palace docks at Los Angeles Airport.

When they arrived in Los Angeles, Sean's first thing to consider was work. The group went straight to the eighth largest film company in Hollywood, Sean Pictures.

Jeffrey Katzenberg stood at the door of the rented building and greeted him personally. He knew that Sean liked pomp and circumstance.

Today's work has been decided. Sean is coming to see the rough cut of "Goodfellas". The entire creative team is here.

When I heard that Sean was coming, the Australian white girl also ran over.

7 cars, first 15 bodyguards, then several entourages, and finally the figures of Sean, Akina Nakamori and Lorraine.

Jeffrey Katzenberg took another look at Akina Nakamori, who was holding Sean's arm, and there was another beauty he had never seen before.

Tsk tsk, Boss City knows how to play!

The Australian white girl's eyes suddenly became sharp, and Akina Nakamori felt her sharp eyes immediately. Looking at the menacing woman, Akina Nakamori was at a loss.

As soon as the group entered their office area, Nicole Kidman came up forcefully, grabbed Sean's other arm, and looked at Akina Nakamori demonstratively.

"Okay." Sean pushed the big white girl's big white rabbit with his arm, "This is Akina Nakamori, she only comes to the United States occasionally to play."

After hearing what Sean said, Nicole's attitude softened immediately.

The rough cut of the film was 150 minutes long. Sean felt sleepy after just watching it for a while. The plot of the rough cut of the film was not compact enough and it was really not interesting.

Paying some attention to the big screen, Sean's hand slowly moved towards the big white girl's legs.

The big white girl twisted her body slightly, leaned towards Sean, and consciously opened her legs wider.

It was as if he was afraid that Sean would be inconvenienced.

The corner of Sean's mouth slowly turned up, and he felt playfully with his other hand towards Akina Nakamori's waist, found a gap, and stuck it in.

Akina Nakamori was obviously different from the big white girl. Her body stiffened and her legs tightened.

hetui!

Lorraine next to her glanced at her and secretly spat, "You are so shameless!"

After watching the movie, Sean wiped his hands on their clothes and turned on the lights in the screening room.

The rough plot is based on Sean's impressions, and it should be almost the same after fine editing.

After chatting with Katzenberg about the release, the Christmas schedule was definitely out of the question, and the spring schedule was not a good time, so the two decided to schedule it to the beginning of the summer schedule.

Now it is one of the top eight. Regardless of whether the portion is a bit lacking, you can definitely be picky about the film schedule.

Once the general situation is discussed, Sean will leave it alone.

"Harvey has contacted me and wants to meet you." After we got down to business, Katzenberg suddenly said.

"Him?" Sean smiled contemptuously, "I said before that I wanted to buy out his crappy film company, but he still didn't agree."

"Now that he is no longer needed in the North American channel, he is here again."

"Let him go away."

"I understand." Katzenberg nodded.

If it was before, Katzenberg and Harvey were equal at most, but now...

Before leaving, Katzenberg took a few more invitations and handed them to Sean.

Sean took a look and saw invitations from the Grammys, the Golden Globes, and the Oscars, all of which were in response to Sean's invitations.

Whether it is the identity of one of the top eight bosses or the identity of the boss of New Century Media, it is enough for the three major awards to come to your door.

Sean didn't care, but Akina Nakamori and Dabai Niu suddenly became interested.

Normally, they wouldn't get the invitation.

You can only buy tickets to see it yourself. Akina Nakamori wants to broaden her horizons, while Dabai Niu wants to walk on the red carpet.

Seeing that the two of them were interested, Sean nodded and agreed. We will discuss the details later.

I originally planned to go find Le Huizhen and Maggie Cheung today and spend a pleasant evening together.

But now that the big white girl is getting involved, Sean has no choice but to do it.

We went shopping together and found a three-star Michelin restaurant for a big meal. Sean took the slightly excited Da Bai Niu and the blushing Nakamori Akina towards Santa Monica.

As soon as they got home, when Sean was about to drag the two of them to take a shower, Lorraine came over with a look of gloating, "The phone number is from Sri Lanka!"

Sean:!!!

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(PS: Today is Children’s Day, and I want to take my children out to play... I will update as many fireworks as possible)