In the early morning, Simon escaped from the arms of Janet who was whining and wanting to stay in bed with him. While dressing, he was chased and kicked by a small foot on the bed, accompanied by another woman's chuckle. Janet teased again in a lazy tone: "Erin... was all eaten by you last night. You can feed little Noah by yourself later."
Then there was another kick.
Unfortunately, Simon caught him this time, followed the clues, and tidied him up fiercely. Finally, he put the two women together on the bed and continued sleeping, and Simon was able to escape.
Today is October 24th, Friday.
I came to New York yesterday, and when I returned from work in the afternoon, Janet brought Irene Lauder and little Noah, mother and son, over. When Simon was entertaining guests at the cocktail party last night, the two women did not show up, and they were surrounded by someone very close. They are cute little dots and all kinds of treasures.
It can be seen that Janet is more inclined to Irene Lauder than Grace or the two women in Boston.
the reason is simple.
The two women have similar backgrounds, both are eldest, both have a privileged upbringing, and both are relatively young. At least Janet must think so, so they will have more topics in common.
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People are divided into groups and cannot be forced.
After dressing and washing, he went next door to take a look at the little guy. He was sleeping soundly. The two waitresses also dutifully stayed by his side. After listening to a few reports, Simon went to the gym.
Janet and Irene didn't stay in bed for too long. Simon sat in the restaurant at seven o'clock. It only took a moment for the two women to come in together, followed by a waitress holding a little girl in her arms. From this detail, it can be seen that the two women Another thing they have in common is that it's hard work. Even though they definitely love little Noah, they are so tired holding him.
After sitting down, Irene took the child from the waitress. Janet, who was rare, did not sit next to Simon, but leaned next to Irene, chatting quietly, while watching Irene lift the clothes for the child. Breastfeeding, looking at someone for a while, he glanced at someone again, and then looked back and poked the little guy on the face. He didn't know who he was teasing: "What a glutton!"
Erin laughed again.
Simon was so thick-skinned that he just pretended not to hear and continued to eat his breakfast.
After Irene laughed a few times, she talked to Simon first: "Jenny said, the movie "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" that has been discussed by many media recently was also your idea?"
Simon nodded: "Yeah, what do you think?"
The new "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" was officially released on October 17, one week after the release of iPad-10, on both physical and online channels. Under the deliberate promotion of the Westeros system, coupled with the third The gimmick of a novel being released online and physically at the same time quickly attracted a lot of attention and became one of the rare novels that directly topped the New York Times bestseller list with sales of 160,000 copies in its first week without word-of-mouth fermentation. .
Moreover, this is under the premise that the New York Times deliberately did not acknowledge the online sales data of 110,000 copies in the first week announced by Tinker Bayer's Tbook platform.
Not only the New York Times, but also various other traditional media bestseller lists, as if they had agreed upon it, avoided mentioning the online sales of this novel. Simon can even imagine that if the book had not been a bestseller, traditional media would have hidden information about the novel as much as possible.
As for the reason, it obviously does not require much explanation.
The publishing teams of Daenerys and Tinkerber are not dissatisfied with this, but are happy to hear about it. Recently, the debate between traditional print media and online platforms has become heated.
Opposite the dining table.
Erin tilted her head slightly and thought for a moment, then said, "It's quite interesting. I'm just curious, where do you get so many creative ideas?"
Simon smiled and raised his hand to draw a circle beside his head: "There is no way, I can't even stop it."
Then Irene rolled her eyes.
Janet also glanced over and said to Eileen: "Just wait and see, our little guys in Westeros must be very smart."
Irene nodded expectantly, looked at her son in her arms, and then started whispering to Janet again.
Simon could only hear a few words intermittently, "Naughty, don't be so fussy, blah blah, don't pursue it."
As long as we're not talking about murdering my husband.
Speaking of which, during the pregnancy, especially during the period of labor, Irene was very emotionally unstable, and Simon also thought about the possibility of separation after the child was born. However, with the birth of the little one, Erin's mood began to return to normal and she now enjoys being a mother more and more.
All Simon can say is that a woman's heart is as deep as the bottom of her heart.
Or, in response to the saying that if you are not as close as you are, you will feel resentful if you are far away. If you are not far, you will not be close. If you are far away, you will be able to live longer.
After breakfast, Erin went to prepare for flying to Miami for the weekend. Simon and Janet got together to discuss some things from last night's cocktail party and the economic situation in Asia that had ended the week.
The focus for the time being is still Hong Kong.
The news came in the morning. On the last trading day of this week, the Hang Seng Index once again fell from 11,756 points to 11,392 points with a single-day decline of 3.1%, not far from the 10,000 point mark agreed by all parties.
According to the agreement of all parties, in the three trading days next week until Wednesday afternoon before the Westeros System and Quantum Fund announce the positive news, everyone plans to slightly push the Hang Seng Index into less than 10,000 points, and finally attract a wave of short sellers. , a major reversal occurred in the last two trading days of Thursday and Friday.
There won't be any suspense.
Because upon closer inspection, this can be described as a major alliance between the top capitals of China and the United States. China wants Hong Kong's financial stability, while Wall Street pursues interests and each gets what it needs. With the combined strength of both sides, there is no chance of any opponent.
The couple made some plans for Asia. At nine o'clock, Simon left Greenwich and rushed to Manhattan to start his day's work.
Janet and Erin flew to Miami with little Noah.
Simon won't go.
His weekend was divided between Grace in New York and two women and children in Boston.
As a group of little guys were born one after another, Simon also reduced the frequency of visiting the woman and children, and could only ensure that he visited at least once a month. After all, he really didn't have that much time.
On the other hand, today happens to be the end of another movie box office week in North America. On the way to Manhattan by helicopter, Simon got the box office report for the box office week that just passed from October 17th to October 23rd on time. Recent North American movies The focus of the market is still "Ghost Story".
This is already the fourth week of release for this ultra-low-budget horror film.
In the previous third week, "The Ghost Story" earned US$33.62 million with a deep box office drop of 32%. In the fourth week that just passed, the film's box office decline narrowed to 21% again, earning another US$26.55 million.
After consecutively breaking through a series of dark horse-level box office records in the unpopular period in September and October, in a total of four weeks, the cumulative box office of "The Ghost Story" has reached 169.25 million US dollars, second only to "The Ghost Story" with 306 million US dollars so far this year. Days Alone", "Tornado" with US$278 million and "Face/Off" with US$203 million, temporarily ranked fourth on the North American box office list in 1997.
Moreover, with the box office momentum of "The Ghost Story", it will not be a big problem to surpass "Face".
As for the end of the year, although there are a lot of bombshells, in Simon's view, the only ones that can pose a clear threat to the box office ranking of "The Ghost Story" are "The Flash 2" and James Cameron's "The Flash 2" with the halo of the new DC movie universe. "Titanic", even Disney's "Terminator 2" or its own films such as "A Bug's Life" and "Contact" cannot be said to have steadily surpassed it.
This means that "The Ghost Story" is likely to eventually rank fifth on the North American box office list in 1997.
Then again, whether it ends up in fifth or tenth place, it doesn't matter to "Ghost Chronicles". With its groundbreaking genre and super high return on investment ratio, this movie has made the entire Hollywood crazy in the month since its release.
Not only Justin Lin from The Simon Project has been poached, but now Hollywood's top filmmakers seem to be planning their own pseudo-documentary projects.
The cost is 300,000, and the box office is 200 million US dollars. It is really profitable!
Therefore, Simon could only follow up.
After all, this time the genre must be completely destroyed in one wave. Daenerys Entertainment has already established a brand with "The Ghost Story", coupled with Simon's prophetic advantage. A piece of cake, no big problem.
If you don’t cut it, it won’t cut it.
After arriving in Manhattan, Simon first went to the Westeros company headquarters to discuss the recent layout in Asia with James.
Hong Kong has been finalized, and the main discussion this time is South Korea.
Then he went to AOL, which had already moved its headquarters to New York, to listen to AOL's quarterly financial summary, and paid a little attention to AOL's next cooperation with another 'China Telecom' that China was about to divest. plan.
In this cooperation to be announced next week, Soros and the Hong Kong investors who emerged some time ago will mainly provide funds. In addition to the US$1 billion investment, AOL will also provide China Telecom with related technologies in the field of network broadband. This part of the support It is also impossible to give it for free, it will also be counted as shares.
Among the three Internet giants in the Westeros system, AOL currently has the lowest market value, which has dropped to less than 200 billion US dollars. Simon believes that reaching this cooperation will hopefully push AOL's market value back to the US$200 billion range.
The afternoon was mainly about two things.
Regarding Daenerys's trivial matters, as well as Victoria's Secret, although there will be no more Victoria's Secret show this year, under the strong expectations of all parties, Victoria's Secret will also hold a large-scale Victoria's Secret show in November. Brand parties, in the name of charity, invite a large number of celebrities and superstars. Of course, the much-anticipated Victoria's Secret Angels are indispensable.
In order to accommodate Simon's schedule, the meeting at Victoria's Secret started at four o'clock in the afternoon and lasted for an hour. It was mainly to thoroughly finalize the size, location, process and partners of the party.
This is a large-scale brand marketing. The core brand is naturally only Victoria's Secret, and at most Victoria's Secret's parent company LTD Group. Other partners have a strong lineup. The television media includes Fashion TV, the print media platform is "Vanity Fair", the online platform is Igret Portal, and finally there is an Elite model agency that assists in organizing the event.
The size of the party is expected to be around 500 people, and the venue will be the familiar Lexington Avenue Armory.
Since it was in the name of charity, an auction was also arranged during the party. However, this only adds to the lively atmosphere. The main funds are the Victoria's Secret brand's guaranteed donation of US$5 million and this invitation letter. Except for a few guests invited by the organizer to support themselves, others want to get tickets, each worth US$10,000, and not everyone wants to come. Just come, you need to submit an application and be reviewed by the party team.
In the end, all donations will be deposited into a charity fund specially established by Victoria's Secret, which is mainly used to help improve medical care, education and other issues for disadvantaged female groups in third world countries.
After the meeting, Simon did not work overtime or arrange other activities in the evening. Instead, he returned to the 68th Street Apartment on Fifth Avenue with Grace Krepp, who also came to attend the meeting.
Grace's little John has been sent here during the day.
However, as soon as she entered the door, ignoring the housekeepers Angora Davis and Carmen Case who came to greet her, Grace wrapped her around softly, hugged Simon tightly, and whispered in the man's ear. : "I've been here preparing dinner for you during the day, but do you plan to eat first, or me first?"
Simon hugged the woman in front of him, feeling Grace's slender waist that quickly recovered after giving birth, and said with a smile: "I want to eat first."
Grace gently bit Simon's ear, and tightened her arms around the man's waist: "If you answer the wrong question, you will have to eat me first."
"Then I'll change my answer and eat you first."
"Um."
"Can we eat first?"
The woman's somewhat hot face rubbed against Simon's chin: "No, you told me to eat me first."
Angre, Carmen and others saw this and disappeared. Simon teased the woman a few times, but did not really disappoint her. He picked her up and walked upstairs.
This dinner took a little long.
In the end, Simon was really not very hungry anymore. As for a little guy who didn't know where he was, he definitely wasn't hungry anyway.
Grace just ate a token amount. Although it was very nutritious, she obviously didn't care if she was full. However, the woman had no intention of leaving Simon. The two of them stayed entangled until late at night. Simon was worried that Grace would collapse from hunger. After all, it was not good for her not to eat. My health was not good either, so I summoned the housekeeper to bring some food to the bedroom in the early hours of the morning.
After sharing a plate of food with Simon directly on the bed, Grace clung to the man again like a little girl.
Simon hugged the woman and lay down, patted her body, and criticized: "I came to see my son, and I haven't seen him yet. When the child grows up, he will definitely think that I am incompetent. What will I say then? , it seems that I can only tell him clearly, because his mother is too greedy and you can’t blame me. Hey, is that so, little Gray, are you too incompetent as a mother? "
Grace hugged Simon's solid arms, squinted her eyes and found a more comfortable position, rubbed her gentle chin on his shoulder, listened to the man talking for a while, and finally opened her mouth slightly, and whispered something into Simon's ear.
“…”
Could this be considered compensation
Simon quickly gave the woman another gentle slap and said with a smile: "I am very patriarchal. It is not easy to please, and one word is not enough!"