Chapter 1216 People Are Divided Into Groups
In the early morning, Simon escaped from Janet's arms, who was moaning and trying to stay in bed with him. When he was getting dressed, a little foot chased him and kicked him on the bed. With the laughter of another woman, Janet teased him lazily, "You ate all of Irene last night. You can feed little Noah later."
Then there was another kick.
Unfortunately, Simon caught him this time. He followed the clues and beat him up. Finally, he put the two women together on the bed and continued to sleep. Simon was able to escape.
Today is October 24, Friday.
Yesterday, I came to New York. When I returned from a day's work in the afternoon, Janet also brought Irene Lauder and little Noah to me. When Simon was entertaining guests at the cocktail party last night, the two women did not show up, and they were surrounded by a very cute little thing and all kinds of treasures.
It can be seen that Janet prefers Irene Lauder to Grace or the two women in Boston.
The reason is very simple.
The two women had similar backgrounds. They were both young ladies with a privileged upbringing. They were both relatively young, at least Janet thought so. Therefore, they would have more common topics.
People are divided into groups, and they cannot be forced.
After getting dressed and washing up, he went to the next room to see the little guy, who was sleeping soundly. The two maids also kept watch by his side. After listening to a few reports, Simon went to the gym.
Janet and Irene did not stay in bed for too long. Simon sat in the restaurant at seven o'clock. After a moment, the two women came in together, followed by a maid holding a little kid. From this detail, we can also see another common point between the two women. The upper one is laborious. Even though they must love little Noah, it is so tiring to hold him by yourself.
After sitting down, Irene took the child from the waitress. Janet rarely stayed beside Simon, but stayed beside Irene, chatting quietly. She watched Irene lift her clothes to feed the child. After a moment, she glanced at someone, then looked away and poked the little guy's face, teasing someone: "You are so greedy!"
Irene laughed again.
Simon was thick-skinned enough to pretend that he didn't hear and continued to eat his breakfast.
After Erin laughed a few times, she started to talk to Simon first: "Jenny said that the Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, which has been discussed by many media recently, was also your idea?"
Simon nodded: "Yes, what do you think?"
The new Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone was officially released on both physical and online channels on October 17, one week after the release of the iPad-10. With the deliberate promotion of the Westeros system, coupled with the gimmick of the first online and physical release, it quickly attracted a lot of attention and became one of the few books that directly ranked first on the New York Times bestseller list with sales of 160,000 copies in the first week without word-of-mouth fermentation.
Moreover, this is under the premise that the New York Times deliberately did not recognize the online sales data of 110,000 copies released by the tbook platform under Tincobail in the first week.
Not only the New York Times, but also the bestseller lists of various traditional media, as if they had agreed to avoid talking about the online sales of this book. Simon can even imagine that if this book is not a bestseller, traditional media will even hide the relevant information of this book as much as possible.
As for the reason, it obviously does not need too much explanation.
Daenerys and Tinkobail's publishing team are not only not dissatisfied with this, but also happy to see it. The recent debate between traditional paper media and online platforms caused by this has become so heated.
Across the dining table.
Eileen tilted her head slightly and thought for a while, and 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's no way, I can't stop it."
Then Eileen rolled her eyes.
Janet also glanced over and said to Eileen: "Just wait and see, our Westeros kids must be very smart."
Eileen nodded expectantly, looked at her son in her arms, and then whispered to Janet again.
Simon could only hear a few words intermittently, naughty, don't be so fickle, blah blah, and didn't pursue it.
As long as they are not discussing murdering their husbands, it's fine.
Speaking of which, during pregnancy, especially during the period of labor, Eileen's mood was very unstable, and Simon even thought that they might separate after the child was born. However, with the birth of the little guy, Irene's mood began to return to normal, and now she enjoys being a mother more and more.
Simon can only say that women's hearts are like needles in the sea.
Or, it also fulfills the saying that if you are close, you will complain if you are far away. If you are neither far nor close, you can last longer.
After breakfast, Irene went to prepare for the next flight to Miami for the weekend. Simon and Janet got together to discuss some things about last night's cocktail party and the economic situation in Asia that has ended in the past week.
The focus is still Hong Kong for the time being.
The news came in the morning that on the last trading day of this week, the Hang Seng Index fell again from 11756 points to 11392 points with a single-day drop of 3.1, which is not far from the tacit 10,000-point mark of all parties.
According to the agreement of all parties, before the Westeros system and Quantum Fund announce good news next week, for three trading days until Wednesday afternoon, everyone plans to slightly push the Hang Seng Index below 10,000 points, and finally attract a wave of shorts to enter the pit, and then make a big reversal in the last two trading days of Thursday and Friday.
There won't be any suspense.
Because if you look closely, this is a big alliance between the top capitals of China and the United States. China wants Hong Kong
financial stability, while Wall Street pursues interests, each taking what it needs. With the combined strength of the two sides, there is no way there is any opponent.
The couple made some plans for Asia. At nine o'clock, Simon left Greenwich and rushed to Manhattan to start a day's work.
Janet and Irene took little Noah to Miami.
Simon didn't go.
His weekend will be divided between Grace in New York and the two women and children in Boston.
As a group of little guys were born one after another, Simon also reduced the frequency of visiting women and children, and could only guarantee at least once a month. After all, there is really not that much time.
On the other hand, today happened to be the end of a North American movie box office week. On the way to Manhattan by helicopter, Simon got the box office report for the box office week from October 17 to October 23 on time. The focus of the North American movie market recently is still "Paranormal Activity".
This is the fourth week of the release of this ultra-low-cost phenomenal horror film.
In the previous third week, Paranormal Activity earned $33.62 million with a deep box office drop of 32%. In the fourth week just passed, the box office drop narrowed to 21 again, earning another $26.55 million.
After breaking a series of weekly box office records in September and October, the total box office of Paranormal Activity has reached $169.25 million in four weeks, second only to the $306 million of "One Day at the End", the $278 million of "Twister" and the $203 million of "Face/Off" so far this year, temporarily ranking fourth in the 1997 North American box office list.
Moreover, with the box office momentum of "Paranormal Activity", it will not be a problem to surpass "Face/Off" next.
As for the end of the year, although there are many blockbusters, in Simon's opinion, the only ones that can pose a clear threat to the box office ranking of "Paranormal Activity" are "The Flash 2" and James Cameron's "Titanic", which are new films in the DC movie universe. Even Disney's "Terminator 2" or its own "A Bug's Life" and "Contact" dare not say that they can surpass it steadily.
This means that "Paranormal Activity" is likely to rank fifth in the 1997 North American box office list.
Then again, whether it is fifth or tenth in the end, it is no longer important for "Paranormal Activity". This movie, with its groundbreaking genre and super high return on investment, has made the whole Hollywood crazy in the past month since its release.
Not only was Justin Lin poached as planned by Simon, but now Hollywood's top filmmakers seem to be planning their own pseudo-documentary projects.
300,000 cost and 200 million US dollars box office, it is really too profitable!
Simon can only follow up.
After all, this time, they will definitely play this type of game until it is exhausted. Daenerys Entertainment has already made a brand with "Paranormal Activity". With Simon's advantage of foresight, it is not a big problem to cut off a large piece of the cake before it is exhausted.
It is a waste if you don't cut it.
After arriving in Manhattan, Simon first went to the headquarters of Westeros Company 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 America Online, which has moved its headquarters to New York, to listen to America Online's quarterly financial summary, and paid a little attention to America Online's next cooperation plan with another "China Telecom" that is about to be divested from China.
This cooperation, which will be announced next week, will mainly provide funds from Soros and the additional Hong Kong investors some time ago. In addition to the $1 billion investment, America Online will also provide China Telecom with relevant technologies in the field of network broadband. This part of support will also not be given for free and will be counted as shares.
Among the three Internet giants in the Westeros system, AOL currently has the lowest market value, which has fallen back to less than 200 billion US dollars. Simon believes that this cooperation is very likely to push AOL's market value back to the 200 billion US dollar range.
There are two main things in the afternoon.
Some trivial matters on Daenerys' side, and Victoria's Secret. Although there will be no Victoria's Secret show this year, under the strong expectations of all parties, Victoria's Secret will also hold a large Victoria's Secret brand party in November, in the name of charity, inviting a large number of celebrities and superstars. Of course, the much-anticipated Victoria's Secret Angels are indispensable.
In order to adapt to Simon's schedule, the meeting on Victoria's Secret's side started at 4 pm and lasted for an hour. The main purpose was to thoroughly finalize the scale, location, process and partners of the party.
This is a large-scale brand marketing, and the core brand is naturally only Victoria's Secret, and at most Victoria's Secret's parent company Ltd Group. The other partners are a strong lineup, including fashion TV, Vanity Fair, Igret portal, and Elite Model Agency, which is also assisting in the event.
The party is expected to have about 500 people, and the venue is the familiar Lexington Avenue Arsenal.
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 will be mainly used to help improve the medical treatment and medical treatment for disadvantaged women in third world countries.
Education and other issues.
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 waist that quickly regained its slenderness 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 certain 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 I can’t blame him. 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. One word is not enough!"