Chapter 124 Solid Backing
“Haha, hahaha.”
Looking at Anson’s heartless smile, Lucas felt a little more at ease. It seems that Hollywood has Life has not made my brother endure hardships. He is still the same as in his memory, and he even seems to be more cheerful.
Perhaps, casting is not a bad idea.
While Lucas's thoughts were surging, Anson stuffed two more potato chips into his mouth. Seeing that the bag of potato chips was about to bottom out, just when he was regretful, Lucas unexpectedly took another one from his hand. He took out a package from his briefcase.
Seeing the surprised expression on Anson's face, Lucas only said one sentence, "The last pack."
He warned with his eyes, but still opened the potato chips and handed them over.
The smile in Anson's eyes overflowed, "So, why did you suddenly show up?"
Lucas' face darkened, "You're still asking me? You didn't even come to San Francisco. Give me a call. If Uncle Darren hadn’t mentioned this incident by accident, would you have continued diving? It’s okay if you don’t even make a phone call. You haven’t even met her in town. You don’t know what your mother would say.”
"If I don't show up, I guess you're going to sneak back to Los Angeles, right?"
"Image! Luca, image." Seeing that Lucas was about to start talking, Anson quickly reminded him, but after all, he did not stop and stuffed two more potato chips into his mouth. His expression of watching the show was completely undisguised.
Lucas was speechless for a while, "You think I am you, and you are always paying attention to my image."
Despite this, Lucas took a deep breath and controlled himself .
After a pause, Lucas looked at Anson again. After all, he still couldn't control his worries, "Is the money still enough?"
Lucas Wood, 20 this year Four years old, he works for a venture capital company in Silicon Valley with outstanding abilities. He was just promoted to venture capital director at the beginning of the year. However, it is obvious that Lucas is not prepared to work under others all the time. He is currently just accumulating in the early stage and is ready to start his own business while waiting for the opportunity.
Although he was worried about Anson's impulsive desire to challenge actors, Lucas didn't say much and paid money into Anson's account every now and then.
In Lucas's view, Anson has had no phone calls or news in the recent period. The reason is very simple. It is simply that the actor's work is not going well, his self-confidence has been hit, and he is too embarrassed to confess to his family.
So, we simply stopped contacting him.
It was only half an hour's drive from Silicon Valley to San Francisco. It was so close, but Anson came to San Francisco for work and didn't call Lucas for a whole week. It was beyond imagination.
No, Lucas just killed him himself.
In this regard, Anson said——
Thank God.
Originally, Anson was worried that he would be exposed. After all, the core in the skin has been changed. Darren and his roommates were not that familiar after all, but family members were another matter.
Anson thought, waiting for himself to fully adapt, waiting for his memory to be completely integrated, waiting for himself to be completely accustomed to those habits, before contacting his family to avoid arousing their suspicions, and then he would have to come up with a series of excuses. cover.
Or, it’s okay to just keep some distance and be distant. After all, deep down in his soul, he doesn’t think they are his family.
Unexpectedly, Lucas came to the door first.
But now it seems that Lucas did not notice anything unusual during the short meeting. The buffering and adaptation during this period of time helped a lot.
And Anson himself is the same. After actually meeting Lucas, that sense of intimacy and familiarity naturally merged with his soul.
He could feel that the relationship between the original owner and his family was very close.
What I was originally worried about did not happen.
At this time, upon hearing Lucas's words, Anson's first reaction was:
Yes, not enough, of course the more the better.
But the words that come out naturally from deep in the soul are another matter.
"Didn't you listen to Uncle Darren? This is already my second job."
Anson was surprised, surprised by his own words, and surprised by his own naturalness , some of the habits of brothers getting along were seamlessly integrated into conditioned reflexes, which gave Anson a hint of helplessness in the smile at the corner of his mouth. But the amazing thing is, it feels... not bad.
Lucas nodded, "Yeah, I heard about it. Uncle Darren said you did a good job." He paused and continued, "So, is it enough?"
Anson He was stunned for a moment, and a faint warmth slowly filled his chest, like cotton candy.
Caught off guard, at a moment that I didn’t expect, the layered fortress cracked open like a thin crack.
In his previous life, he was used to being alone.
He has long been accustomed to working alone, eating alone, living alone, carrying loads alone, and carrying everything alone.
At the age of twenty-five, his life was completely overturned.
My father's booming business suddenly exploded, and it was revealed that it was actually a "Ponzi scheme." The victims collectively joined forces to file a lawsuit to take their father to court; but they did not expect that before the trial, his father fled and disappeared.
It was not until that time that his mother told him that although they had divorced a few years ago, all the fixed assets of the family had been mortgaged by his father in the bank. His mother also believed that his father only needed business and did not have much. ask.
The family that everyone once envied collapsed overnight, and nothing was left. He also saw the bank seals he saw on TV for the first time.
Before that, he was also a popular figure on campus who was proud of himself and had a bright future. He laughed wildly in the sun and ran with all his strength. After graduation, he entered a TV station and started his own life.
In one night, everything was overturned.
Because the culprit escaped, the victims targeted him. Even though the father and mother divorced seven years ago, in the eyes of the victims, the divorce was just a cover-up. They blamed him as the father. an accomplice, condemning him for helping his father escape legal sanctions, and condemning him as a devil who used the victims' hard-earned money.
Thousands of people point to it.
He doesn’t know.
Really, he knew nothing, absolutely nothing about his father.
However, this is not important.
He could not refute or refute, he could only bear it silently.
After suffering severe online violence, the TV station fired him under pressure.
He left like a lost dog.
In the past, he had seen those plots in TV series where rotten eggs, rotten tomatoes, and vegetables were thrown out, and he always felt that they were too ridiculous and exaggerated, and could not happen in real life.
It was not until he experienced it himself that he realized that artistic creation all comes from life, and he could not resist, had no position, and was not qualified to resist. Looking at the pictures twisted with anger and despair, The faces of broken victims, and he couldn't blame them.
He needs to bear the weight of life.
Mother?
My mother didn’t understand either. She had never worked and had no skills, but now she had to leave home and go to the construction site to cook for the workers, rebuilding their lives from scratch.
Regardless of whether he wanted to or not, when his father escaped, the invisible and heavy guilt was the shadow that he had to bear to move forward.
Grow up overnight.
From that time on, he became accustomed to being alone and relying entirely on himself.
More than once, for a brief moment, he looked up at the sky in the gaps between high-rise buildings and wondered if everything could be overturned and have a new beginning, but he did not expect that all this would really happen. happened.
Fifth update.
(End of this chapter)