New York, Manhattan, RAND Group Headquarters, Penthouse, Chairman's Office.

"I'm just saying we're in big trouble when people find out he's Danny." Joey stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling window, his back to Ward, his face worried.

"Even if that's the case, we can't admit that it's him." Ward shook his head slightly, his position was always adhered to, he took the coffee in his hand, walked up to Joey, and said with a serious face: "We have to unite in this matter, okay, Joey?" ”

"Wouldn't it be easier for us to mediate with him?" Joey never understood why Ward was just reluctant to change his mind.

Ward shook his head and said coldly to Joey, "Do you really want to negotiate with someone who obviously has mental problems?" ”

"No, but we have to do the right thing." Joey couldn't help but continue to persuade Ward, she didn't want to see this matter go to extremes.

"We did the right thing." Ward took a deep breath, put the coffee cup down in his hand, and then pressed Joey's shoulder and said, "I don't want to negotiate with him, but I'm thinking about a generous, effective, and mutually beneficial approach right now." Trust me, we'll talk about it when all the documents are ready. Besides, I have something else to think about, a dock deal with Raj Patel. ”

"Are you kidding?" Joey frowned slightly, pondered for a moment, and then asked, "Why do we care about that broken dock?" ”

"You're ...... Just help me, please! Ward was visibly embarrassed, as if there was something hidden in it that was difficult for anyone to know.

"Huh!" Joey couldn't help but shake his head helplessly, laughed, and said, "When we were young, you would often come to my room and beg me to do your homework for you with this sentence, and now you use this set again." ”

"It was because of you that I was able to pass calculus in the first place." Ward laughed too, memories are always so happy, he looked at Joey hopefully, and asked in a low voice, "How's it going?" ”

"Okay, send the damn file to my mailbox." Joey nodded helplessly, and left Ward's office.

After she left, Ward's face faded away, and he picked up his coffee cup and drank it all in one gulp.

In the evening, when Joey returned to his house, he found Daniel Rand, whom Ward had been looking for, sitting calmly in front of her apartment, and on both sides of the apartment door, there were all kinds of flowers that looked like they had been picked from the park, but they were beautifully placed.

Joey stopped, smiled softly, and said, "You know, maybe in other realities, it would make me feel romantic. ”

Daniel smiled faintly and said, "If it were in any other reality, you wouldn't have drugged me and sent me to a mental hospital." ”

"Well, fair enough." Joey lowered her head apologetically, her eyes fell on a document in her handbag, she glanced at Daniel Rand secretly, put her right hand in her coat pocket, and quietly rang a phone number on the phone in her pocket.

Daniel Rand didn't notice Joey's small movements, but said comfortingly: "We are friends, maybe we can get along like friends." ”

"So you're here to show peace, through these flowers from the park?" As he spoke, Joey couldn't help but laugh.

Daniel Rand laughed as well, and the tension between the two of them disappeared at once, and he explained slightly: "This is a Buddhist tradition, and it is meant to remind you of our feelings, like those jelly beans you gave me. ”

Those jelly beans, Joey sighed slightly in his heart, stepped forward, sat down next to Daniel Rand, looked him up and down seriously, and then asked, "Daniel, what have you been through all these years?" Why are you coming back? ”

Daniel Rand had a wry smile on his face and whispered, "It's hard to put into words, every time I want to tell my story, people get scared, but you and Ward, you are the only connection I have to the past, and that gives me motivation in a very difficult environment." It may sound ridiculous, but that's all I have, and only you can make me feel like I'm the most real being. ”

"I can understand, really, it's not ridiculous at all." Joey pursed his lips tightly, with a sad smile on his face, and said with deep feeling: "When my father died, I was only 13 years old, and I hadn't recovered from the loss of you and your parents. ”

Speaking of this, Joey subconsciously curled up and smiled reluctantly, before continuing: "In the dream I was a child, back to school, at the end of each day, I would see my father standing by the fence waiting for me, I would run to him, the moment I rushed out of the door, he would hold my hand, and then the dream would be over." But his smile was deeply imprinted in my mind, and I must have done that dream more than a hundred times. ”

Hearing what Joey said, Daniel Rand's hand couldn't help but pause slightly, his face changed slightly, and at the same time said: "I also dreamed of him, just a few days ago, when I was in the hospital. At first I thought he was a hungry ghost, because the people in that place I stayed in thought that these ghosts were wandering the world because they were ignored by their families. I know it sounds weird, they gave me a large dose of medicine, which was most likely a hallucination. ”

"I think so, Danny." Joey smiled wryly on his somewhat pale face and nodded.

However, Daniel Rand reached out and grabbed Joey's wrist and said with a serious face: "But the smell on his body is the same, CK's cologne?" ”

"No, it's Mark Jacobs." The look on Joey's face began to turn cold, she broke free of Daniel's hand holding her wrist, then grabbed the bag in her hand, and said as she stood up, "Can we go into the house?" ”

"Okay!" Daniel Rand didn't notice Joey's strange look and stood up, after which Joey opened the door and walked in, the first time he had entered Joey's apartment in the open.

After entering the door, you will be greeted by a round table with pink roses and a pale yellow handmade pottery, and in the depths of the room, there is a two-meter-high glass tree, which is full of various colored glass pieces, which is very eye-catching.

"You're going to have to be fair to you, Danny, and you're going to be fair to us." Joey took off his coat and motioned for Daniel Rand to sit down, pulling out a document from his bag and saying, "When my dad died, I took on a lot of responsibilities, our dad created something amazing, and my job is to sustain it and make it strong." This is our offer for your shares, and I think it's already very generous! ”

Daniel Rand took the document with some confusion and began to read every clause on the document carefully, he was surprised: "100 million dollars? ”

"Ward originally only wanted to give you 40 million, but I asked him to increase the price!" Joey looked at Danny seriously and said in a deep voice: "Think about it, how much you can do with this money, you can do whatever you want." ”

"But I'll have to change my name." Daniel Rand's face turned blue at this moment, of course he understood the meaning of this document, as long as he signed this document, then the RAND Group, the company founded by his father, had nothing to do with him.

Joey had long expected but there might be a reaction, you know, the market value of the entire Lande Group is tens of billions, even if considering the contribution of the Meacham family over the years, the shares that Daniel Rand needs to inherit have shrunk a little, but it will be more than 50%, far from 100 million US dollars.

However, Joey and they also have a last resort, 100 million US dollars is already the maximum amount of cash that their brother and sister can use in private, and if it is more, it must be explained to the company's board of directors, once the news spreads, it will inevitably affect the stock price of the RAND Group, which is unacceptable to them.

So Joey stepped forward and said to Daniel Rand: "The whole world thinks Daniel Rand is dead, and we think that we should not change this." You can pick a name you like, and you can start over, and that would be nice. ”

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