Chapter 999 Your Father Is Mine Now

After breakfast, head to Manhattan again. Today's main agenda is related to a series of investment or cooperation projects of the Westeros system in China.

The focus is on the last session of the morning, on China Telecom's IPO.

The team from First Boston, a subsidiary of Credit Suisse, and Apollo Management, a subsidiary of Cersei Capital, participated together, and also connected the Chinese team. The main purpose of the meeting was to speed up the process of promoting China Telecom's overseas listing.

According to previous memory, Simon previously believed that China Telecom's overseas listing could be completed only in the first half of next year, because the second half of the year was the Southeast Asian financial crisis. Once the crisis broke out, even under the Westeros system, the IPO would still be successfully completed and the financing would be completed successfully. The amount will inevitably shrink sharply, and it will also affect the subsequent stock price trend.

The official listing date initially set was around May next year.

Now, Simon personally decided to advance this deadline by five months, requiring the IPO operation to be completed by the end of this year.

The listing of large state-owned telecommunications companies has been preceded by cases such as Japan Telecom and Deutsche Telekom. The IPO process of these companies once took several years. For China, the initial plan to formally sign the contract when Simon visited China in April was in May next year. Listing, originally only one year.

It was suddenly shortened to 7 months, and all parties were caught off guard.

Simon is also forced.

With the momentum of the current wave of new technology, Simon judges that the Nasdaq index will last at most until the end of the year. It just so happens that the overseas IPO ideas designed for China Telecom by the Westeros system are largely gimmicks with new technology concepts. Attract investment. In this case, once China Telecom conducts an IPO after the burst of the new tech bubble, the results can be imagined.

Simon did not publicly finalize the reason for the decision in the conference room, but all parties actually knew it.

At the end of the meeting, Simon had another phone call with the person in charge of the Chinese side at noon, and finally reached an agreement. Compared with the procrastination of the West, Simon is actually very confident in the efficiency of China's affairs. In the past few months, the reorganization of China Telecom's assets under the support of the Apollo management team has progressed much faster than initially expected.

This is also a Chinese characteristic.

Decision-making is very slow, sometimes it is not impossible to drag on for ten or eight years, but once the decision is made, the execution efficiency will be very high.

In addition, at the end of the morning meeting, Simon personally drove the teams of First Boston and Apollo Management Company to board the plane to China. There were two girls, Chen Qing, who rushed to China together. Simon hoped that they would personally participate in the next step. A few months of the entire Chinese IPO process, not only to accumulate more experience, but also to further expand the network.

At the same time, it also acts as Simon's 'eye'.

China Telecom is the first attempt of a large Chinese state-owned enterprise to go public overseas, and it is also a test of overseas financing for many large state-owned enterprises in China. It is very important to China, and it is very important for China to undertake the financial cake of the overseas listing of more Chinese state-owned enterprises in the future. It is also crucial to the Westeros system.

So there is no room for loss.

In the evening, an investor from Verizon hosted a reception. Simon didn't stay at the reception for too long. He arrived at eight o'clock. He simply said hello to some important guests, and then left early after half an hour.

Rush to an apartment in Greenwich, this is Jerry Hall's house.

After knocking on the door a few times, the door opened, and a little girl who became more and more slim jumped out and threw herself on Simon with a sweet mouth: "Dad."

Simon entered the door with Jerry Hall's eldest daughter Elizabeth, only to find that there was also a party here, and it was a very relaxed family party, the kind that brought home.

It is clear at a glance that this is Jerry Hall's social circle, fashion industry, "Vogue" editor-in-chief Anna Wintour, etc.; TV circle, Fashion TV female president Anna Coleman Or Kathy Hilton and Kris Jenner, the heroines of the Lovely Wife series; in the music industry, Jane Wenner, editor-in-chief of Rolling Stone magazine, and so on.

Because most of the memories of previous lives are known.

Of course, many of them are just acquaintances. Even if they had more than ten identities, they could only look up to the top of these pyramids. This time, Simon was definitely looked up to.

Because it was some unscrupulous little girl who probably got news or instructions from her mother, she called and invited Simon over at noon. I didn't expect it to be a party. Even though he was busy for a week and didn't want to socialize anymore, Simon didn't feel anything about women's thoughts.

After throwing the grinning goblin on a sofa in the living room, Simon turned to Jerry Hall, who was approaching him.

Jerry Hall carefully looked at Simon's expression and confirmed that the man didn't mind, before he felt relieved, stepped forward and hugged Simon, took his arm and walked towards the crowd.

Many sharp-eyed guests also came over at the first time.

Jerry Hall's large flat-floor apartment that Simon bought at the beginning has a total area of ​​more than 700 square meters, occupying an entire floor of the apartment building, which is equivalent to six or seven large-scale flats in ordinary people's apartments. If you are not careful, you may get lost. To such an extent, the more than 100 guests scattered tonight were not crowded at all.

"For the closure of Victoria's Secret, this is really a big loss for the fashion industry, Simon, are you really not going to think about it again?"

In the corner of the living room, Anna Wintour said so regretfully, and the few people around who were able to come over also agreed. For this circle, the most recent hot topic is that the Victoria's Secret show is about to take place this year.

It was discontinued later. After all, the influence accumulated by the fashion industry Super Bowl in the past few years is too great.

Simon hugged the slender waist of the tall woman beside him, smiled and shook his head: "This is a decision that has been made, and it is not permanently suspended. Unlike the Super Bowl and the Oscars, the model of the Victoria's Secret Show is difficult to give every year. The audience was pleasantly surprised, so I hope it can be paused when it still has the best memories, and it will definitely restart at the right time in the future."

Everyone nodded in understanding.

To be able to meet this young man with more and more power and wealth tonight, it is a pleasant surprise, no one would be stupid enough to deliberately pick on.

Anna Wintour also had an understanding expression, and added: "Simon, speaking of it, we have finalized the most important "Vogue" September issue of this year to do a Victoria's Secret feature, as the creator of the Victoria's Secret show, you can Take time for a brief interview?"

This time Simon just smiled and shook his head.

I don't want to take the limelight.

Anna Wintour didn't bother, and Jane Winner, editor-in-chief of "Rolling Stone" magazine, interjected at this time: "Simon, I am most concerned about music, even in the last issue, everyone is very much looking forward to your providing a few more songs. BGM's?"

"This, as long as there is inspiration, I will definitely do it."

Simon said this, and he couldn't help thinking of "Love Shift" a few days ago. Janet's idea was to make a new single of Simon Westero's 'For Jane' for public release. Simon thought the more wrong, In the end, I gave up under firm opposition. After all, this song, not to mention Chinese, the lyrics... As a Westerner, Janet is not as profound as Simon.

It's simply not appropriate to go public in Simon's name.

In the end, it was only decided to continue to promote related projects related to movies and music in China, and Simon did not intend to sign at all.

Janet pretended to be angry, and put it down in a blink of an eye.

In this Victoria's Secret show, if you want, Simon can easily come up with a few classic BGMs, but there is no such plan. Facing Jane Wenner's inquiries, she just plays Tai Chi.

After socializing for a while, Simon left temporarily, went to the bathroom, and came out again, and saw Kris Jenner in a black deep V dress walking through the corridor and came here. It was very accidental. Seeing Simon, With just the right surprise expression, he greeted again: "Simon, I... um, go over there."

For this woman, every time she sees it, Simon doesn't have any thoughts of going to bed, but he always has the urge to play with it.

He casually pushed open a door next to him, ignored the woman's little excuse, and said directly, "Come on."

Kris Jenner hesitated for a moment, then looked behind her subconsciously, and made sure no one was paying attention, then quickly stepped into the room, closed the door with her backhand, and turned to look at it. This is a simple-style study with a lounge area on the side by the window. , The man was already leaning on the sofa. Seeing her turn around, he raised his hand with a smirk and made a downward movement.

There have been several similar encounters, and every time I think of the power status of this little man not far away, Kris Jenner, who is submissive to the power in her bones, can't give birth to any resistance, more just instinctively surrender. Feeling leaned down, with a pleasing expression on his face, he slowly crawled towards the man.

The party is still lively.

Adults have circles of adults, and children have circles of children.

Elizabeth took Paris Hilton and Kardashian sisters and other friends to hide in her room to show (xuan) show (yao) the beautiful cherry blossom kimono that she bought when she went to Japan with her mother on vacation some time ago, and frolic for a while, I remembered the geisha doll I brought back from Japan. I forgot where it was, and ran out to ask my mother. I happened to see Simon coming out of the corridor on the other side, said hello, and brought Kim Ka, who had developed into a follower by himself. Daishan turned to the other hallway.

Simon looked at the direction where the two girls ran, paused, didn't say anything, and didn't seem to have time to say anything.

Elizabeth pushed open the door of the study where Simon had just been in and out, walked straight to the bookshelf, and pointed to a row of five or six exquisite geisha dolls about 20 centimeters in height: "Look, this is it, let's show it to Yini and the others. Look."

Kim Kardashian was about to help when she sniffed suddenly and said, "Liz, here... does it seem to smell?"

Elizabeth wondered: "What?"

He also sniffed as he spoke.

Then the two girl and puppy seekers came to the sofa, sniffed at the obvious wet spot on the expensive Persian rug in front of the couch, and Kim Kardashian looked odd: "Lizzy, you have dogs in your house. already?"

"No," Elizabeth's expression changed a bit when she understood what it was, and she suddenly became angry again: "It's really... so unethical, this was brought back from Iran by my mother on purpose." The girl said that she had already Covering his nose and taking two steps back, he became even more angry: "If I find out who it is, I'll never want to step into our door again."

After Kim Kardashian was drawn over from Paris by Elizabeth, although she has been conscientiously being a girl's little root, how could she be willing to do so.

Seeing that Elizabeth was almost jumping up in anger, she didn't dare to say anything on the surface, but she couldn't help but gloat over the misfortune. She pretended to have no intention of saying, "Then, how did you find who it was?"

Elizabeth turned her head around, stepped forward a little, then backed away immediately, even forgot to take the geisha doll, and ran out, intending to complain to her mother.

Kim Kardashian was a little behind and followed up. She thought about it when she went out, and simply left the door of this study room open, so that others would find out, hum, it's not ashamed to see your family, maybe it will be Think

The Halls have quirks and like to be on the rug... tsk tsk.

However, as soon as Kim Kardashian left, the door of the study was inexplicably refitted. The people in the room were a little fortunate, but fortunately, the two girls didn't come forward and noticed the back of the sofa. However, I then thought of it again, obviously I can't stay here any longer.

They found their mother and Simon again, chatting with supermodel Cindy Crawford and her fiancé Rand Jaber, as well as Stephanie Seymour and her billionaire husband Peter Brandt.

The girl in front of the adults has always been very ladylike, and she waited obediently for a moment before whispering in her mother's ear.

Jerry Hall heard the words, thought for a while, and beckoned to call a maid, and asked Elizabeth to take the other party over to watch it. Cindy and the others had already left, and the girl didn't want to go there any more, so she immediately hung up on Simon. Jerry Hall was helpless and had to deal with it himself.

When her mother left, Elizabeth immediately pulled Simon: "Dad, let's go to my place and show you my kimono, it's very beautiful."

Simon roughly guessed what Elizabeth had just said to her mother, and she was calm on the surface, but only when she saw Kim Kardashian quietly following her, her expression flashed a little weird.

She was quickly dragged by Elizabeth to the girl's bedroom. There were girls in the room, and there were boys at the party. Obviously, she couldn't get into the girls' circle.

Simon entered the door and happened to see a tall girl who was also familiar in memory trying on a blue floral kimono, and, after seeing this, Elizabeth immediately began to laugh: "Yini, you are so fat, you are not at all. Appropriate, haha, so ugly."

No woman, not even a girl, wants to hear someone say she is fat.

Seeing Elizabeth say this, Ivanka, the daughter of a golden retriever real estate developer, was immediately unhappy: "I'm just better and taller than you," the girl said. Chest: "Hairtail."

With fish?

The lethality was a bit too powerful. The girl immediately released Simon and rushed towards Ivanka beside the bed. The slender body directly threw the girl who was obviously a bit taller than her on the bed, still half-truthed. .

Simon came to see the fun, of course he didn't help.

When they came to the sofa against the wall, the girls who had seen Simon with little stars in their eyes immediately gave him their seats.

Simon sat down in the seat that Paris Hilton had given up, and patted his knee with some playfulness. The girl didn't hesitate at all, she sat down directly on Simon's lap, and put her arms around his neck affectionately. Ivanka's playful Elizabeth said: "Liz, your father is mine now."