"I know this person."

"Who?" Stark leaned his head over and looked at the man standing side by side with Maya Hansen in the photo, Stark commented disdainfully: "Bad taste, tsk tsk, I guess he's the same as Justin Hansen." It's the same stylist by default."

"Can't you show some morals?" Pepper patted Stark lightly, and Pepper smiled angrily: "Well, the color matching of his suit is not right."

"The person surnamed Stark will never make mistakes in aesthetics." Stark smiled proudly, and tightened his grip on Pepper's right hand: "Doubting my aesthetics is tantamount to questioning yourself Not good enough...so, who the **** is this guy?"

"Aldrich Killian. Well...twelve or thirteen years ago, before I entered the Stark Group, I was an intern in a small company for a while, and he was one of the colleagues I met at that time .”

"When you just graduated from college?"

"Um."

Arranged in order of timeline, it was Stark who first released Aldrich Killian's pigeons at the Technology Exchange Summit, leaving a deep-rooted resentment in his heart, and then Pepper and The acquaintance of Aldrich Killian. As for Pepper being poached to join the Stark Group, Killian's creation of Avant-Garde Technology, the company called AIM, is even more backward.

It is precisely because of this order that the original Aldrich Killian was left out by Stark.

Conversely, if he had known Pepper first, he would be less likely to be ignored by Stark like that.

It's not that with Pepper's face, Killian will definitely be able to get investment from Stark. After all, that was more than ten years ago, but Pepper has only gradually become the biggest concern in Stark's heart in recent years.

Go back a few years, not to mention the time she first joined, even seven or eight years ago, Pepper was not qualified to influence Stark's will. It's just a "little assistant who is easy to use". With her weight at that time, at most, Stark can only tell the truth, instead of just talking and fooling people like in the original plot, who ignores the other's self-esteem .

It's just not to lie, and it's not even a matter of treating each other with courtesy. As for making Stark put down his posture to accept the application and reach a cooperation, that's not to mention.

"What a coincidence."

I know Maya Hansen, and Pepper knows Aldridge Killian, but these two people appear in the same photo... I am just a little surprised by this coincidence, Stark has not yet recognized the person in the photo Killian, let alone failed to match him with the extremely embarrassed figure in the memory fragments.

To be precise, he didn't even realize that he had met Killian face to face.

After all, he drank a lot of alcohol and was anxious to have **** with Maya Hansen. His mind was muddled, and his consciousness was far less clear than usual. In addition, the conversation between him and Killian was only two or three sentences, and the contact time was as short as only a few seconds...

It is not an exaggeration to say that if Killian himself did not give a reminder, and the situation at the time was very unfavorable to Stark, making him feel life-threatening, whether he could recall Killian in the original plot, he would have to fight question mark.

He didn't even remember seeing him or not, so he naturally didn't realize that he was actually regarded as an enemy by Killian. However, seeing that Pepper remembered Killian, Stark couldn't help but feel a little jealous, and couldn't help but care about it.

"What does he do? Looks like a real estate agent."

"What kind of intermediary. They are also engaged in research. If I remember correctly, they should be experts in biochemistry." Pepper shook his head: "The company I used to practice in had business cooperation with several large institutions. Although I have never been involved in research work, I have always worked in the administrative department, and because of my short qualifications, I have not been exposed to many secrets. However, I have handled some business and have some understanding of the researchers in the company. "

"Expert?" After staring at Aldridge Killiando on the photo, Stark shook his head with disdain again: "I really didn't see it."

"Okay, okay, you're the best, okay." Feeling the jealousy in Stark's words, Pepper was quite pleased. However, the good self-cultivation she has developed in ordinary times still makes her want to criticize Stark: "Don't always belittle others so low. How many times have I reminded you, don't sarcasm others at every turn, give yourself provoke the enemy."

"Anyway, it was said in my own home, and no one knew about it. What's so good...Okay, okay, you have the final say."

Did not continue to argue with Pepper, but this does not mean that Stark's jealousy has calmed down.

Plus a little bit of worry about Pepper bringing up Maya Hansen again...

Stark rolled his eyes, raised his hand and snapped his fingers: "Jarvis~lightnovelpub.net~ Can you find out the details of this guy?"

"Um?"

"Don't get me wrong, I'm just curious." Smiling at Pepper, Stark tightened his arms: "Didn't you just say that he is an expert in research? Experts, ten years have passed, There must be some achievements... Besides, as a former colleague, don't you wonder what achievements he has achieved?"

Before Pepper could give a response, Jarvis had dug out a bunch of information.

It is worth mentioning that, while arranging the information on the cut page, Jarvis also gave a report: "Sir, I found some suspicious content and some encrypted files."

In line with Jarvis' report, two rows of thumbnails were arranged in front of Stark and Pepper.

The top row is light blue. There are several edges leaking out of the folder-like icon. It seems that this corresponds to the 'suspicious content' mentioned in Jarvis's report.

The bottom row of thumbnails are all dark red. Obviously, these are secret files that need to be decrypted to open and browse.

"Really?" Stark raised his eyebrows, raised his hand and opened a folder in the row above, and smiled at Pepper: "It seems that your former colleague is indeed a little Ability. Suspicious? Haha, the projects created by ordinary researchers will not get such a high evaluation from Jarvis..."

Stark's eyes were on Pepper's face, and Stark was negligent for a while, and didn't check the contents of the folder for the first time.

then.

"Um?"

"vomit!"

There was a momentary daze, then a sudden panic, and then, before Stark could react, Pepper had already raised his hand to cover his mouth, and escaped from his arms with a retching sound.