I am the only one who practices magic: I practice magic in the city

Chapter 257: Blessings of Middle Age (First Update)
Central Park, Manhattan.

A black bird-like aircraft was quietly hovering over Central Park. As soon as the hatch opened, Fang Yu stepped out and put the "Falcon" that was hovering in the air and remained invisible into the Unbounded Messenger.

West Fifty-seventh Street, Eighth Avenue, Hearst Tower, yes, that's it.

How dare you call a building less than 50 stories high a tower?
Once I have gained full authority over the Lorraine Tower, I will lower it to Manhattan and let you see it for yourself.

Unlike the Hearst Tower in San Francisco, Hearst Tower is the real headquarters building of the Hearst Group. There are more than a dozen newspapers and magazines in the building, all of which are properties of the Hearst Group.

The ELLE editorial office is also here.

This building was first built by the Hearst family a hundred years ago. It originally had only six floors. Later, they wanted to expand it but the New York City Hall did not agree. Then, forty years ago, they simply designated this building as a protected landmark building in New York and required the Hearst family not to change the building's facade.

How could the Hearst family tolerate this? You have a plan, but I have a ladder. You don't allow me to modify the exterior wall, so I can just raise it higher.

The Hearst Group only kept the outer wall of the original building, re-pile the interior, rebuilt most of the structure, and raised it to 48 floors...

As a result, the building became a strange combination of the lower eight floors being in a pure 19th century style and the upper forty floors being all glass curtain walls.

However, the most famous thing here is not these, but Spider-Man.

Many people believe that Peter Parker acquired his super powers after being bitten by a spider here, and the Daily Bugle is also here.

The comic fans in Mai Country are much crazier than those in Da Zhou. There are comic fans coming here for pilgrimage every day.

"Robbie, are you sure you want to put the company office here? Won't it cause trouble here?" Fang Yu scratched his head and looked at the floor sign on the 39th floor. Upstairs was Robbie Myers' old employer ELLE.

I didn't expect Robbie Myers to be so vengeful.

"The property of this building belongs to the William Randolph Hearst Foundation, not the Hearst Group. The foundation is managed by Mr. William III himself. It won't be easy for that despicable Steven Swartz to cause trouble."

Robbie Myers is full of fighting spirit.

Fang Yu came to New York this time for an interview.

Robbie Myers has been running ELLE for 16 years. All 236 employees of the magazine were discovered and promoted by her. She knows very well who can do the job and who cannot.

This time, she wanted to poach those fashion editors, makeup artists and public relations personnel who maintained good relationships with many wealthy businessmen and celebrities.

11 people in total.

In fact, many people here did not want to go with Robbie Myers when they received the call. Most of them were still reluctant to give up their job at ELLE.

After all, these people's basic annual income is between 10 and 30 Malaysian dollars, which is above the median level even in Manhattan.

Last year, in 3061, the median household income in Manhattan was $.

Manhattan is one of the few areas where the median household income is lower than the average income, which was $12 last year.

This inversion shows that a small group of people with high salaries have extremely high salaries.

Fashion editors seem to have a glamorous life, but their actual income is ridiculous. Many of them look glamorous on the outside, but actually live in the basement.

Of course, Robbie Myers certainly wasn't recruiting the interns that were luring in large numbers, but rather a group of people who had truly established themselves in this industry. Their income was actually quite good, so most people cherished them.

But when Robbie Myers showed them the effects of Wangshu Tears and described the income prospects, almost no one gave up the opportunity and all agreed to participate in the interview.

During the interview, Robbie Myers' former handsome assistant Seth Plattner's face turned green when he saw Fang Yu.

He had been pretending to be gay for several years, but he didn't expect that Fang Yu would expose him that day.

Fang Yu's interview was very simple. He only asked one question: What is something in your past work that you are proud of? What was your role in handling this matter? What specific work did you do?

In interviews with non-technical personnel, many people don’t know how to interview people. There are many applicants who have good eloquence, but after they are actually hired, it is discovered that they are just good at talking and are never satisfied with anything they do.

Therefore, for the recruitment of non-technical personnel, this question is the most practical question, which can comprehensively examine a person's work ability.

The things a person is proud of must be things that make him feel accomplished and successful.

If he can clearly explain what specific work he did in this matter and make it logically consistent with his previous answers, it at least guarantees the lower limit of this person's ability.

However, if a person talks big at the beginning but just glosses over what he did when it comes to specific things, or cannot justify himself when asked by the interviewer, then it means that this person is a big liar and should never be hired.

There is certainly no problem with this for the people Robbie Myers wants to bring over. The reason why Fang Yu insisted on interviewing them in person is not only to use malicious detection to see if these people have any ill intentions towards Lorraine, but also to establish control over the company in front of the employees.

After all, this company will be run by Robbie Myers in the future, and it could easily become a situation where the tail is too big to be managed, so we must nip it in the bud.

Another very important reason is to use an alliance contract to sign a work contract and a confidentiality agreement with these people.

After everything was done, it was already six o'clock in the afternoon. Fang Yu invited all the employees who had signed their work contracts today to have a meal at the nearby Per Se.

"Oh my god, how could they agree to have so many of us come to dine today? Reservations here must be made at least a month and a half in advance."

Robbie Myers couldn't understand why Fang Yu had just a few words with the restaurant manager Dave Widom and then agreed to add tables for so many people to come in for dinner.

They also vacated three tables originally reserved for them to sit at, and added three tables near the porch with reservation signs placed on them.

This is Per Se, a Michelin three-star restaurant!

Trump, who is running for president, has to make reservations even for meals!

Even though she was familiar with Per Se's owner, Thomas Keller, and its chef, Chad Plagi, the best they could do was occasionally make last-minute arrangements for her and her husband.

Don’t even think about coming here for a surprise group dinner like this. “This kind of restaurant always has a plan for when they have guests they can’t refuse.”

Faced with Robbie Myers' questioning, Fang Yu just smiled and did not comment.

What does it matter if a few more tables are added? If the king of New York, Viscount Astor, comes, the restaurant will have to be cleared out.

I haven't seen this restaurant fail to explain to any customer.

Per Se does not require ordering, but rather a daily menu prepared by the chef, which is divided into vegetarian and non-vegetarian options. Both menus are 355 Malaysian dollars each, plus the drink and service charge, the cost per person starts at at least 500 Malaysian dollars.

There were a lot of fashion-conscious pretentious people, four or five of whom were so-called vegetarians. It was unclear whether they were real vegetarians or fake vegetarians, and Fang Yu was too lazy to bother choosing a restaurant with vegetarian options for these pretentious people. So he simply used a charm human to get the manager of Per Se restaurant, which already had a vegetarian menu, to agree to add a temporary table.

By the way, show off in front of this group of professional show-offs.

Sure enough, when the restaurant waiter skillfully put the three tables together, not only the other young pretentious people, but even Robbie Myers' eyes changed when he looked at Fang Yu.

This Fang must be the heir of some family.

Maybe the names are all fake.

Fang Yu was very happy while eating this meal, not because the yellowtail with golden Masoro caviar and slow-cooked Hudson Valley foie gras were so delicious, but because he finally succeeded in pretending to be cool.

Or he's just showing off in front of those professional show-offs.

It's simply double the happiness.

After dinner, Fang Yu went to Scarlett Johansson's home in New York.

The distance is so close that you don’t even need to fly, you can just walk over.

Scarlett had already given the security card and keys to Fang Yu, and had also specifically notified the property manager.

This apartment is a typical white glove apartment. Scarlett paid 210 million dollars to buy this penthouse apartment, which is not expensive in Manhattan where every inch of land is valuable. What is really expensive are the property fees and property taxes.

The property tax rate in New York is relatively high, with monthly property fees of more than $1,000 and annual property taxes of more than $20,000. Many people with generous savings and inheritances can afford to buy a house, but they may not be able to afford to live there.

And if you want to buy it, you have to pass the condo qualification review.

Most apartments in Manhattan are co-ops. An apartment building is a cooperative. From a legal perspective, buying a house is essentially buying shares in the cooperative. Therefore, if you want to buy or sell, you need the review and approval of the homeowners' committee.

A bunch of things need to be submitted, such as recommendation letters, work certificates, income certificates, self-residence declarations, etc.

But correspondingly, the service in this type of apartment will be better. The reason why it is called a white glove apartment is because the doormen all wear white gloves.

After entering the room, Fang Yu was a little surprised.

Scarlett's house in Manhattan isn't that great either.

Fang Yu walked around the house and felt that it was only a little over 100 square meters.

There are two bedrooms, one of which has a baby crib, and two bathrooms. The decoration is very ordinary, not much different from many ordinary families.

There is no dedicated assistant room, and doesn't her life assistant live at home?

However, the few times I saw her, it seemed that there was indeed no assistant around her. She must be hiding well behind the scenes and only appears at work.

But this large terrace is quite interesting.

Scarlett's 8th floor is the top floor, with a large terrace and a good view of the Manhattan skyline.

Fang Yu picked up a half-drunk bottle of champagne from Scarlett's house, found some food, and sat on a lounge chair on the terrace to drink by himself.

The portions of Per Se’s dishes were not small, but Fang Yu had a big appetite now, and what he had just eaten was digested in half an hour.

I happened to look down and saw Scarlett getting out of the car.

Oh, was he sent back? The man looked quite decent. Although there was a red light when detecting malicious intent, it was much less than Scarlett's.

He looks familiar. After checking, I found out his name is Colin Jost. He's a talk show host. He's neutral, kind, and law-abiding. Well, his stance is okay.

Judging from this surging desire and belief, he should be a pursuer.

But why does this faith taste a bit sour?
Look up, are you looking at me? Then say hello.

Fang Yu raised his glass to Colin Jost and smiled kindly.

Oh my god, how come the red light suddenly rose? You don't know what's good for you, do you?

Fang Yu pointed his finger and cast a "middle-aged blessing" on Colin Jost.

This spell was a desire spell he had just created. It could only work on men. The effect was that the target would continue to receive the "blessings of middle-aged people" within a week, just like a geoduck that had spit out water, a boiled sea cucumber, or a rotten onion.

Just focus on your work this week, maybe your career will reach new heights.

I took my child to the hospital, so I was delayed today. I will try to post the second update later. Sorry.

I will try to make up for the 1000 words I owed the day before yesterday tomorrow. I always feel that the amount I owe is getting bigger and bigger.

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(End of this chapter)