"Boss, did my credentials pass muster?"
Agent 26, or rather, Jiali, gave a seductive smile, a trace of innocence playing at the corners of her lips.
If an ordinary girl had a man look her up and down in open admiration, her first reaction would probably have been anger, followed by warily keeping her distance from the creep.
But as an agent facing her future boss, Jiali naturally felt no anger.
Besides, she was no ordinary girl.
"Jiali, twenty-six, a doctorate in law from the University of Pennsylvania? A doctorate in financial management? Two doctorates. All right, not bad." Tony's gaze never left the young, beautiful Jiali.
Although Tony Stark had been through quite a few things and his thoughts on the meaning of life had changed, strictly speaking, the crises he had faced were not enough to transform him completely.
His playboy tendencies had yet to fade entirely.
He simply wasn't as unrestrained as before.
With the explosive expansion of the Stark Energy Group, Tony Stark naturally needed more managers.
As president of the Energy Group, Pepper was indispensable to matters both large and small.
So Tony needed a few new secretaries and assistants.
Of course, Tony also intended to assign Krillin an assistant.
"Mm-hmm?" Jiali watched Tony attentively.
She waited for him to continue and tell her what came next.
Jiali was one of Nick Fury's most trusted confidantes among the agents he had recruited.
In a sense, he trusted Jiali more than Natasha.
Although Jiali's rank within S.H.I.E.L.D. was not particularly high-she was only a Level Four Agent, having graduated not long ago.
In reality, however, she had begun receiving agent training much earlier.
Nick Fury's orders were for her to embed herself at Tony's side and monitor the direction of his research.
If an opportunity arose,