Chapter 114 (1/2)

The time of indulgence lasts into the night, and it will come to an end after all.

After seeing off all the guests, the staff of the party company cleaned up the mess and withdrew. It was already 12 a.m.

Janet took a bath, walked out of the bathroom barefoot in her light suspender Nightgown, and saw Simon sitting on the single sofa by the floor to ceiling window of her bedroom, wearing evening shirt and trousers, with a thick book in her hand, frowning slightly.

So he went over, curled up and huddled in a man's arms like a cat. He took a book from his hand and looked at it. This is the Oriental novel named a dream of red mansions that he talked about a few days ago, but it is the original Chinese version.

The English version of her has read only a small part now. Looking at the square characters with too many strokes, Janet felt dizzy. She threw her book beside her, put her hand around the man's neck and said, ”if you don't like it, we can rent a venue for a party in the future. We don't have to stay at home.”

So Janet's face was smiling.

Having known each other for such a long time, I can naturally realize that he is a person who cares about personal space.

Then.

The lion's territory has been ”invaded” by more than 200 of his kind all night. I can imagine how uncomfortable he will be.

”That's too insincere,” Simon said, noticing the smile on the face of the woman in his arms. He bowed his head and gave her a kiss on the lip. ”I was just thinking that maybe I could buy this place at the end of the year and use it for parties in the future.”

The end of the year.

Looking back on the recent trend of the North American stock market, Janet listened to a flaw in the man's words, but did not expose it. She nodded and said, ”good.”

Simon noticed a glint of cunning in Janet's eyes and realized something. He just laughed. There are too many secrets that are not enough for the outside world. If we guard against them all the time, they will not be able to get along with each other.

In fact, Simon occasionally consciously reveals some things to women, such as the book a dream of Red Mansions, which she just left beside. Last time he mentioned it by chance, he had someone buy a novel, an English translation for women and a Chinese original for himself.

Unfortunately, the simplified Chinese version was not found, but the traditional Chinese version. Of course, there is no barrier to reading.

Thinking about this, Simon put out his index finger and wiped it on the woman's lips, but he couldn't erase her smile, so he said, ”honey, if one day you find out I'm actually an alien, what will you do?”

Janet's eyelashes flashed, her face looked expectant and said, ”have an alien baby.”

Simon nodded with satisfaction: ”it seems that my plan to invade the earth will not be greatly hindered.”

”Ha ha,” Jeanette laughed, changed a more comfortable position in Simon's arms, and asked, ”didn't Goldberg give you a check when he left? How much?”

Simon takes the book back, finds a check in the page and hands it to Janet.

Janet took a look and said in surprise, ”a million dollars, fox is so generous.”

”Yeah, I didn't think of that either.”

After the box office of butterfly effect was released at the end of the next weekend, fox not only gave Simon $300000 to cooperate with the follow-up publicity, but also promised to pay Simon a bonus when the box office in North America exceeded 100 million.

Ronald Goldberg, the president of fox pictures, also attended the party tonight. Before leaving, he made good on his promise and left this check.

One million dollars.

It's more than Simon expected.

Ronald Goldberg's contract expires next year, and Simon sees little chance of News Corp. renewing it.

So this check is probably the result of Barry Diller's intervention.

When Ronald Goldberg leaves, Barry Diller is sure to step into the operation of fox pictures. This check is obviously to make a good relationship with Simon in advance.

Of course, after careful calculation, compared with the profits fox can make from the whole project of butterfly effect, Simon's bonus is not an exaggeration.

Fox's total production and publicity cost for the butterfly effect is only about $20 million, and the North American box office of more than $100 million is enough to bring the company a net profit of no less than $30 million.

Jeanette played with the check in her hand. A moment later, she laughed again and said, ”if fox knew that you had gained more than $30 million from the stock index futures market in just over a month, maybe you would not take out the $1 million again. Anyway, you would not care too much.”

Since Simon established 4500 S & P 500 futures long contracts in mid May, the S & P 500 index has risen from about 270 points to 287 points at the close of last Friday.

Westero's long contracts range from 270 to 275, with an average of about 272.therefore.

In more than a month, the average index of all 4500 contracts rose by 15 points, and each point of index rise means a profit of $2.25 million. The book profit of S & P 500 long contracts held by Westeros has reached $33.75 million.

33.75 million, which is just the beginning.

Even so, Simon held Janet's little hand and felt the special texture of the check paper together. He said, ”of course I care. It's a million dollars. Many people can't make so much money in their lifetime.”

Janet looked up at Simon and said, ”there's so much money already. What are you going to buy?”

Simon thought for a moment, then shook his head.

Janet said, ”what? Or are you going to make money and not spend money like Warren Buffett

According to the latest public data, Warren Buffett's wealth is only about $2 billion, which is equivalent to the wealth of the Janet family. However, relying entirely on value investment, Mr. Buffett has accumulated such a huge amount of wealth almost from scratch. His successful experience is legendary, and his reputation in North America over the years has become a household name.

Simon listened to Janet's address to Warren Buffett, but he laughed, pinched a woman's delicate face and said, ”it's not good to call someone that in private. Besides, I won't be like him, but the money in my hand is still too little. ”

”I don't call him that in private, I call him that in person, old cheapskate,” Janet said haughtily, opening Simon's hand and saying, ”too little? You're only 19 years old, little bastard. Tens of millions of dollars. How little are you? ”

”Of course,” Simon nodded, ”there's basically nothing to do.”

”What do you want to do?”

”A lot,” Simon said, looking at the woman in his arms. ”Of course, the ultimate goal must be to conquer the world.”

Janet nodded her head and said persistently, ”well, it's easier to say that something can be bought with money

”Money can buy, first of all, there must be a very good house. However, I hope that every city in the world where I may go has a house belonging to westero. Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Miami, Las Vegas, London, Paris, Berlin, Rome, Venice, Amsterdam, and so on. ”Simon counted them casually. Seeing that the woman in his arms was already staring, he added with a smile:” of course, Melbourne, Canberra, Brisbane and so on in Australia must also have them. ”

Janet heard Simon mention Australia, her long eyelashes flashed a few times, and she thought it was really rare.