June 20th, 2002, six days before the NBA draft.
New York, Manha Underground City, Chinatown.
"Jin Kingdom, please help."
In the small supermarket, a blonde woman was arranging the shelves. When he carried a box of goods up the elevator, it was inconvenient for him to move it alone, so he greeted the middle-aged Chinese man who was watching the news on TV with great interest at the cashier.
The middle-aged man obviously heard the greeting. Although he was a little reluctant to leave the news, he still walked out of the cashier with a bright smile on his face.
"Coming, Vanessa."
"I've told you many times. My name is Du Jianguo, not Jin Kingdom.”
"If you really can't pronounce it clearly, please call me Bruce. I've always had an English name.”
The man walked toward the blonde woman while repeating his name with a smile.
"Got it, Jin Kingdom!"
The blonde woman rolled her eyes and looked like she understood. However, she still refused to change her mind.
"You really know how to joke, Vanessa!”
Du Jianguo didn't mind. His smile didn't change. When he reached the goods elevator, he helped to hold the cardboard box and let Vanessa Ebley put the bottles of shampoo into the purchase price.
Du Jianguo felt a little embarrassed when he saw the sweat on Vanessa's forehead because she was busy." Vanessa, I can actually do these things myself.”
"You don't have to come here to help with these things during your rare break time.”
"It's precisely because it's a rest day that I have time to help you. Usually, you won't be able to find me.”Vanessa smiled at Du Jianguo with infinite tenderness.
She looked like she was about 35 years old. Perhaps it was because she had been busy all year round, but there were obvious crow's feet at the corners of her eyes. However, when she smiled, she still showed the super-good-looking appearance of her peak age.
She had a delicate and pretty face with an oriental aesthetic. Her soft, light blonde hair was casually combed back, and she looked beautiful when she smiled.
Du Jianguo's heart skipped a beat. He did not dare to look at her for too long and hurriedly looked away.
Seeing that he was avoiding her, Vanessa felt a little sad, but she quickly calmed down and sighed in her heart.
Compared to Vanessa's mixed-blood, Du Jianguo was also a handsome man when he was young. In university, his looks could be ranked at the top of the school, not inferior to any movie star.
Unfortunately, because of his long years of hard work, his forehead was full of fine lines.
He did not look like he had just celebrated his forty-second birthday.
The woman had passed her thirties, and the man had just entered the No Doubts State. However, the contact between the two of them was like a teenager and a girl who had just experienced love. They were hesitant and hesitant! But not too young.
Just as Vanessa revealed a bitter smile, a crisp voice suddenly came from outside the door.
"Old Du, I'm back!"
As soon as this voice came out, it immediately broke the awkward atmosphere between the two of them.
Du Jianguo, in particular, put down the empty cardboard box like the wind and fled the scene. He rushed to the door of the shop and sized up the tall young man who entered the shop with a scrutinizing gaze.
"What are you looking at?"
Duke saw his father frowning and staring at him, but he didn't mind. He carried his suitcase and walked in.
At the end of the corridor was the father and son's nest. There were two rooms and one living room upstairs, so they had to take the stairs inside.
"Brat, you still know how to come back?"
"You left New York without saying a word.”
"Do you know how worried I am about you?”
Du Jianguo was very dissatisfied with his son leaving home without saying goodbye for more than half a month. He groaned and looked at his son's back.
The two of them spoke Chinese fluently. They didn't look like Chinese people who had left their motherland for many years.
As if he hadn't heard her, Duke turned to look at Vanessa, who was standing between the two rows of shelves in the store. He immediately smiled symbolically and switched to English to greet her."Vanessa, are you here to see the blockhead from the Jin Kingdom again?”
"Blockhead?"
Vanessa Ebley smiled in response and nodded in agreement." He is indeed a blockhead.”
Du Jianguo gritted his teeth as he glared at Duke. He was displeased and gritted his teeth.
Seeing her come down from the elevator, Duke turned to look at his father in dissatisfaction." Old Du, why do you keep making Vanessa busy with your own shop?”
This time, he switched back to Chinese.
However, Vanessa seemed to understand and quickly explained in half-baked Chinese,""Duke, it's okay. I'm bored at home.”
"Since you're here, what about Lena? Where did that little beauty go?" Duke asked curiously.
"Her?" At the mention of her daughter, whom she depended on for survival, Vanessa replied unhappily,""She's on a road trip with her classmates. She might have already arrived in Los Angeles by now.”
It wasn't a short trip from New York to Los Angeles. It was almost across the entire United States. For a sixteen-year-old female high school student, it was not an easy trip.
"Oh."
Duke nodded and didn't say anything else. He walked into the cubicle with his suitcase and went upstairs.
After entering his room, he shook his head in disdain at the relationship between his father and Vanessa.
Cowardly Old Du, when will you be able to stand up?
(Does anyone read the new book? The collection was so miserable, and the other data was also terrible! So pitiful!)
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