Tony was kicked out of Obadiah's office in despair. Fortunately, the soundproofing effect of the office was very good, so no one knew about the bloody scolding he had received.
After he left, Obadiah began to call his cronies one by one, and began to win over, make promises, and warn them to prevent them from being divided by Tony.
Then, after much hesitation, he finally dialed another number.
"Justin, I agree to your terms. The items will be sent to you shortly. Remember your promise!"
"Don't tell me how strong Tony is. If he were still an ordinary person, it wouldn't be your turn to trade with me!"
After hanging up the phone, he stared ahead with a gloomy face and murmured to himself: "The group should belong to me, and no one can take it away!"
Tony had no idea what Obadiah had done, and only thought that his words had touched the old man's sensitive nerves.
He went to his president's office again. He decided to talk to Pepper first. After Pepper became successful in martial arts, he could set an example for Obadiah.
After opening the door and entering the secretary's room, Pepper looked up and saw him coming in, and was as surprised as Obadiah.
"Wow, the sun really came out in the west today. Who did I see in the company? It was my boss!" Pepper looked surprised.
Tony handed over a flower he pinched from the corridor and said with a smile: "Your beloved boss saw you working so hard and decided to give you a salary increase and give you a vacation."
After Pepper reached out to take the flowers, she threw them into the trash can and said with a sneer:
"Don't think that I can't recognize it. This is a flower in the corridor. Don't use the method of dealing with those little bitches to trick me. I won't accept this trick. Tell me, what other work do you want to give me? Is it difficult for you? Which woman’s belly got bigger?”
"Don't say that, Pepper, it makes me feel like a scumbag." Tony smiled and gave Pepper a hug, "What I said is true, I plan to let you take a three-month vacation."
"What? A long vacation? Or three months?" Pepper had a look of surprise on her face, wondering what Tony was up to.
Tony told Pepper what he said to Obadiah before.
"Really? Don't you want to find an excuse to drive me away and replace me with a young and beautiful female secretary?" Pepper stared at Tony with suspicion.
"Of course not. Pepper, you have done a good job and saved me a lot of time. How could I be willing to replace you?"
"Okay, I accept your compliment. Normally, you wouldn't do this, but when you have the X-worm on your head, I'm not sure." Pepper's eyes were still full of doubts.
Tony felt so wronged that he raised his hands in the air and complained helplessly: "Damn it! Why don't you all believe me when I tell the truth?"
"You? Who else have you said such things to?" Pepper was even more unbelievable.
"It's Obadiah!" Tony sat on the sofa frustrated and recounted what had just happened in Obadiah's office.
"I really want you to have a healthier body, sincerely! The benefits of practicing Ultimate Boundless Qigong are something I have personally experienced, and they are absolutely untrue. But why do you always feel that I want to take it away from you? Where’s your job?”
"Uh..." Pepper was embarrassed for a moment and said hesitantly: "Maybe it's an occupational disease? In the workplace, you will always encounter a lot of open and covert attacks. Not everyone can sit in the position of group president from birth."
"We have reached this point only after countless overt and covert battles. But at the same time, we are also facing challenges from countless latecomers, and we may lose everything at any time."
"That's true of me, and that's true of Obadiah."
Tony opened his mouth, but didn't know what to say.
This kind of experience of struggling from the bottom is too unfamiliar to him. He has no experience at all and cannot empathize with it.
"Well, I messed up everything again. Now Obadiah is throwing a tantrum in the office, and he won't believe my explanation. Maybe in his mind, I am a young lion who wants to usurp his power as the Lion King. . Maybe, he will also call me ungrateful, a thief and so on." Tony slumped on the sofa, muttering helplessly.
"Then prove to him with actual actions that you didn't mean that. You still trust him, just like your father trusted him. It hasn't changed at all." Pepper sat next to him and held his hand.
"So I came here and wanted you to go to the martial arts gym to learn martial arts first and hand over all the business of the group to Obadiah. Three months later, you come back as Superboy and show off in front of him, and he will You will know how much I care about his health." Tony grabbed Pepper's hand and said seriously.
After hearing this, Pepper's expression changed, he pulled his hand back, stood up, returned to his desk and sat down.
"So, I'm just a model, a model for display?"
"Hey, Pepper, why are you so angry?" Tony immediately realized that he had said the wrong thing, "I originally planned to let you all learn martial arts, but I just went to Uncle Obadiah first."
"The affairs of the group cannot be interrupted, so..."
Pepper interrupted Tony expressionlessly, "Okay, I understand. After I hand over the work, I will go to the martial arts gym to become a disciple. You can go and hold your party now."
"Uh..." Tony opened his mouth, not knowing how to explain, and finally had to say: "I'm afraid you have to learn Chinese first. My master's rule is that people who don't know Chinese will not be accepted."
"Okay, I understand, do you have anything else to give me?" Pepper didn't even raise her head.
"Well, no more."
"goodbye."
Tony stood up angrily and said goodbye: "Goodbye."
He walked to the door, stopped, turned around and said, "I don't have a party tonight, do you have any plans for tonight?"
"It didn't exist before, but now it does."
"Oh, okay, then...goodbye."
Tony went out in a depressed mood. Looking at the busy scene of traffic and people in front of the building, he felt extremely lonely.
He changes women frequently, but he really has no experience in love.
Tony's feelings for Pepper should be sexual first, then love, and then he will gradually get used to the other person's existence, and eventually things will come naturally.
As for Pepper's feelings for Tony, it should be love first, then sex, and then a cycle of disappointment, expectation, and disappointment again.
Everyone knew about Tony's feelings for Pepper, Pepper knew it, and Tony knew it too.
But they all have their own concerns.
Pepper had no faith in Tony's emotional durability.
Tony is seriously insecure and very cautious about relationships.
He didn't know what kind of feelings Pepper had for him, and whether they were different from those models and actresses.
When everyone was flattering him, he naturally couldn't tell who was sincere and who was fake.
Love is something that always makes people worry about gains and losses.
Even someone as smart as Tony Stark can't escape.
