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Tony Stark shrugged. Even though someone complained to his face that he was jealous, he managed to get the result he wanted.
"That's fine."
Lai Mu grabbed the hands of the two men and put them together. The CP leader finally breathed a sigh of relief.
As a friend of both parties, he would offer his heartfelt blessings.
Pepper subconsciously held Stark's hand tightly, but still insisted on rejecting Lai Mu's stock gift.
"Lai Mu, I want to thank you. But you should take back the shares. I don't think I can accept it."
Lai Mu smiled faintly, his calm attitude revealed an unchangeable firmness, "Okay, stop talking, you have no right to choose in this matter. If you must say it, I also have the patience to listen to your nagging all day long."
"Anyway, I will never take it back. If you really don't want it, just find someone on the street to give it to you."
"Perhaps you think this is very valuable, but it is nothing to me. There is a saying in my hometown that a drop of water should be repaid with a spring of water."
"And you have the ability to control this wealth, otherwise I wouldn't give you so much. Wealth that cannot be controlled will only bring disaster most of the time."
"Now I want to tell you something else. I plan to build a villa and move in. It should be within the next few months."
"I'm moving out."
The whole place was silent, and Lai Mu repeated it again.
Stark and Pepper looked at each other, and they both spoke at the same time, but their reactions were different.
Pepper subconsciously denied it, a little anxious, "No! It's not safe for you to live alone!"
Stark was so happy that he cheered and almost jumped up. "Wow! That's great! When are you going to leave? I'll see you off."
After spending half a year together and going through all these battles together, Stark already trusted the alien in front of him. Instead, he wished that he would go away as soon as possible and not disturb the world of two people that was about to begin.
Moreover, the time Laimu could leave freely was agreed to be when Laimu received the gifted steel armor. Although he had designed the ghost armor himself, the time was roughly the same.
Pepper glanced at Stark with a hint of complaint, "How could you agree to let a minor live out on his own? This is too unsafe!"
“This is not responsible behavior!”
Stark was confused and stunned. He looked at Pepper, unable to understand her train of thought.
"The minor you mentioned just gave you at least a billion worth of stocks and sent Obadiah to hell... I think it's someone else who's in danger."
"I don't think so! Anyway..."
……
Lai Mu held his forehead helplessly and sighed, why...
"Alright, alright, stop arguing. The place where I plan to build my villa is not far away, in Malibu, across a mountain. You can come over anytime you are free. It takes at most twenty minutes to drive here, and it only takes a few dozen seconds to fly over in armor."
Lai Mu really liked the scenery there, and there was no better place to build a villa nearby.
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The front desk of the press conference.
After Rhodey briefly explained the situation, he introduced Stark's appearance, "Now, Mr. Stark has prepared a statement. He will not answer any questions. Thank you for your cooperation."
The reporters below the stage were talking quietly, creating a low, chaotic sound wave. At the back of the venue was a row of guns and cannons, with camera flashes flashing continuously.
Sitting in the first row was a beautiful career woman, Christine. She was a reporter for Vanity Fair magazine and an old acquaintance of Stark, a very close one.
Roddy gave up the middle position.
Stark walked onto the stage with great grace, and even the action of taking out a piece of paper from his pocket looked quite cool.
He waved his hand and cleared his throat twice, "I haven't spoken like this for a while, so I can only read it as it is."
There were laughters of understanding and agreement from the audience.
Stark looked at the note and said seriously, "Someone suspects that I am related to..."
"Excuse me, Mr. Stark. Do you think we really believe that the armor is your bodyguard?"
Christine's sharp voice interrupted Stark's emotionless reading impatiently.
She looked at the stage with a smile on her face, hoping that Stark would be embarrassed.
Stark looked at her in surprise. "It's one thing to question the official explanation, but it's another to insinuate that I'm a superhero and condemn me."
"I didn't say you were a superhero."
"No? Good... because that thought is weird and ridiculous."
Stark was stunned for a second, feeling a little embarrassed. Am I being overly sentimental?
He sighed uncomfortably, not knowing what to say, "I... I'm obviously not cut out to be a hero. I have many shortcomings... I've made many blatant mistakes..."
Colonel Rody leaned close to his ear and whispered, "Read from the script."
"it is good……"
Stark responded, but he felt unhappy in his heart - no one cares anyway, so why do you care what I say.
"In fact...I am Iron Man."
…The whole place was silent, as if no one really cared.
Chapter 42. I am Iron Man!!!
"In fact...I am Iron Man."
The whole place was silent, as if no one cared at all.
There was silence for three or four seconds.
At a certain moment... cheers came suddenly, boiling like a tsunami!
Everyone stood up and cheered, asked questions, screamed, and the sound of cameras clicking filled the air.
Colonel Roddy watched all this, cursing in his heart but trying to keep a smile on his face.
Did Stark just say 'yes'?
Forget it, get used to it.
Stark, standing on the stage, stared blankly, with the corners of his mouth gradually curving up.
——Actually, I’m not being too sentimental, right?
No!
There was only one person still sitting in the audience, who was out of tune with everyone else. Christine gritted her teeth, her livid face and bright red lips, as if she had eaten a stale corpse.
She had never expected that things would turn out like this. Did she end up helping Stark by deliberately adding fuel to the fire?
Seeing that everyone in the audience was chasing after that playboy, anger was rising in her heart.
She couldn't accept it! She couldn't balance it!
But she knew clearly that she could do nothing and nothing she did would be of any use.
——It’s so frustrating! Ah——!
At this moment, she felt like there were ten thousand groundhogs screaming in her heart.
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In the backstage room.
Lai Mu watched the live broadcast on the big screen. When he heard the words "I'm iron man", he couldn't help but smile knowingly, and his slender fingers tapped a short and cheerful rhythm on the table.
It’s stable, billions of dollars have been successfully deposited into the account.
Next, Stark Industries' stock will rise rapidly until it reaches the height of Mount Everest, and only when public enthusiasm levels off will it slowly fall back.
'Great Sage, withdraw one billion in cash, and we should build a house of our own.'
'Yes, I understand.'
In fact, tens of millions of dollars are enough to build a villa like Stark's.
But Lai Mu plans to buy the entire mountain and the surrounding forest land, so that he can plant trees and bamboos and raise pets. At current prices, it is estimated that it will cost 200 to 400 million.
In addition, they needed to purchase various research instruments and manufacturing equipment. Lei Mu didn't want to have to borrow equipment from Stark to fiddle with the armor in the future. This part of the expenditure was estimated to be higher than buying the entire mountain.
Pepper used a clip to crack open a macadamia nut with great effort and handed it to Lai Mu.
Her face was full of helplessness and a wry smile, but there was no surprise, because she had already been mentally prepared.
After so many years of living together day and night, no one knows Stark better than her. He always does something unexpected - if this thing can make a big splash, he will most likely do it.
In addition, he is a very arrogant person. If someone looks down on him or doesn't care about him, he will have to prove it to you.
"Don't learn from him. He is just good at causing trouble. Other than that, he has no other advantages."
Pepper wanted to warn Lai Mu, but was stopped by Lai Mu's words with a smile.
"Then...why would the beautiful and generous Miss Pepper Potts be attracted to him?"
After a while, the door was opened.
Stark and Rhodey came in after finishing the press conference.
They were very close, Rody was dancing around Stark, and the faint sound of his voice reached Lemu's ears.
"Do you have a lot of those armors? If there's a chance, let me try them out? You know your armors are so cool, they call you Iron Man! No one can look at them without being moved..."
"Of course, it's super cool! You think so too, right? ... But no, we can't lend it out for personal customization..."
Stark agreed excitedly, then changed the subject, sending Roddy into a deep emotional state.
……
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