hollywood billionaire

Chapter 32 Walter Wang

Truly perfect sleep is dreamless.

When Han Yi opened his eyes, he didn't know how much time had passed. In the quiet private theater at No. 864 Stella Della Road, there was no external light that could penetrate the room, so he couldn't tell the time.

Han Yi, who had a sore neck, turned his head to the left, just in time to see Xu Yiru who was sitting upright not far away, combing his hair.

"Did we sleep like this yesterday?" Han Yi yawned involuntarily, "Should I say it or not, this theater is more comfortable than the bedroom."

"Yeah, I should have fallen asleep first... I'm not sure."

Xu Yiru tied her hair behind her head and tied it into a ponytail. This action raised her arms, which well covered her face that was gradually starting to heat up.

Just sleep like this?
certainly not.

When she woke up leisurely, she was leaning on Han Yi's chest.

The smell on his body can't be said to be very good, but there is absolutely no peculiar smell.There is a little fragrance left by the shampoo, the baby-like milky fragrance that seems to be absent, and the strong and rich fragrance like oil, which is modulated by the naturally emitted male hormones, which is unforgettable.

The three are mixed together in an indescribably wonderful ratio, shocking Xu Yiru's senses, making her...

The frightened Xiaoru got up in a panic, almost waking him up. Fortunately, Han Yi was known for his high quality of sleep, so it was difficult to wake him up with the sound of getting up without directly slapping him on the face.

I have never held hands once, but I have experienced it first when sleeping together.

Very strange!

"It's not even eight o'clock." Han Yi, who didn't know what happened, grabbed his phone and turned on the screen. "It feels like I've slept all day, full of energy."

"That's why I told you to go to bed early." Xu Yiru stood up, glared at Han Yi, and preached earnestly, "The effect of resting at a normal time is different from going to bed after staying up late. It takes ten more hours to make up for it." Not coming back."

"Going to bed early won't cause acne." Han Yi pointed at his forehead and blinked narrowly.

Xiaoru hurriedly covered her forehead and rubbed it carefully, it was as smooth as a marble surface, and there was no sign of acne anywhere.

"You really hate it." Xu Yiru kicked Han Yi's calf angrily, "Get up, pretend to be Maitreya Buddha."

After dawdling for two or three minutes, the velvet-wrapped door of the private theater was finally pushed open, and the dazzling sunshine of Los Angeles poured in unreservedly. The two had to squint their eyes to barely get used to it.

"Good morning, Mr. Han and Miss Xu." Corey McIntosh in the front hall bowed slightly, "I hope you all had a good rest last night."

"It can't be any better, Corey." Han Yi stretched his waist, "If this continues, we can consider moving the bed to a private theater."

"Or we can move the big screen to the master bedroom." Corey responded as a joke, and didn't make too many articles in the casual article, "Breakfast is ready for you... oh, yes Yes, Mr. Han, the press release from Douglas Le Pen, you asked me to remind you to review and approve. Also, we received a warming gift from our neighbors this morning."

"Really?" Mentioning this topic, Han Yi became interested, "Where do they all come from?"

"900 Stella Della Road..."

Corey McIntosh led the two to the tea table in the rest area, where there were a variety of gift boxes.

"A mirror grass, from Mr. Michael Bay."

The gift from Michael Bay, who lives alone, is the most respected cash cow in Chinese culture.

The director, whose in-depth cooperation with Paramount Pictures is coming to an end, has obviously done some background checks.In fact, most of the properties on this street are managed by Williams & Williams, and even if it remains anonymous, there will always be something in the inner circle.

More importantly, the real-name and open registration of house ownership in Los Angeles County can avoid the attention of others unless a limited liability company is used or the house is purchased in the name of an associated person.This means that Han Yi, who purchased the house in his own name, does not have the luxury of concealing his identity.

Of course, there is no need for this.

In fact, Han Yi just wanted his neighbors to get familiar with this Chinese name as soon as possible.

They will have a lot of dealings in the future.

"846 Stella Della Road, Kaufman family, a box of homemade baked cookies."

"Roy D. Kaufman is a business manager and one of the co-founders of Kaufman + Bernstein. He manages the wealth of Hollywood stars. The current assets under management are about 3.2 million U.S. dollars."

While Han Yi was taking a break, Corey McIntosh, who had received the gift, had already done enough homework to make it easier for the employer to judge the method and degree of the gift.

"clear."

Han Yi nodded. For this level of business managers, he is not interested in making friends in depth. The financial manager he needs must be at least a role with tens of billions of dollars in assets under management.

"No. 911 Tione, just around the corner. The owner is also a Chinese entrepreneur. He is not currently in Los Angeles. The property manager sent a welcome letter and a piece of porcelain."

"Trevor Noah, 833 Stella Della Road, sent a set of fragrance gift boxes that are said to be from South Africa."

"The "Daily Show" host?" Xu Yiru asked in surprise.

"Yes, Ms. Xu, he personally sent a gift when he ran at night last night. He is a very friendly person." Corey smiled. The feeling of returning to the top social circle made him very happy, and this is One of the driving forces behind his desire to become a property manager for luxury real estate.

"And the owner of 824, Nicolas Cage's manager, Gerald Harrington. The owner of 755, Mark Salami, co-founder of Def Jam predecessor Priority Records. Even...Errol Ms. Jennifer Aniston, number 900, also sent a bouquet of flowers and a handwritten welcome letter."

Jennifer Aniston.

When this name echoed in the mansion, Xu Yiru couldn't help but fell into a shocking emotion.Although she had known for a long time that this was a neighborhood that belonged to billionaires and top Hollywood figures, but when a handwritten letter with wet ink was placed in front of her, when a name that would only appear in newspapers and magazines became a footnote in daily conversations, this kind of For the first time, the sense of unreal dream emerges.

Is this the world Han Yi will enter in the future?
Xu Yiru stared at her best friend beside her, who just woke up from his arms 15 minutes ago, as if they were inseparable, but at this moment, she felt that there was an insurmountable gap between them.

She is a junior at the University of Southern California who wants to study hard and graduate in the shortest possible time so that she can work as soon as possible and take care of her mother.

And Han Yi, who is he?

Who is he going to be?
Xu Yiru began to feel a little afraid in the heart of the strangeness that came with wealth and power.

As the owner himself, Han Yi seemed quite calm.In fact, before buying this mansion, he made a detailed investigation of the surrounding communities, which celebrities live where, whether they have a place in his plan, and what role they should appear in. They were all deliberated by Han Yi in dozens of late nights.

Closed residential communities in the United States are far less common than in hometowns, and even those Gated Communities are far from reaching the domestic scale, but the concept of community and neighborhood is still quite strong.

In big cities like New York and Chicago, where there are many high-rise buildings, every decent high-rise apartment will have a self-organized owner's committee.If you want to live in the apartment, whether it is renting or buying, you must not only make a sufficiently convincing quotation, but also participate in the interview of the owner committee after the quotation is passed, and obtain the unanimous consent of the committee members before you can move in smoothly.

Although there is no interview system in open blocks, residents of the same community will still vote with their wallets and feet.Each community has its own cultural imprint, such as Little Armenia in Los Angeles, Little Ethiopia, Little Bengal, Little Tokyo, and Croatian reservation. The existence of these place names and nicknames is precisely because a large number of immigrants of the same origin gather in one place.If a large number of outsiders who do not belong to this specific group are moved into the community, the original residents will move to another place and find another settlement.

The gentrification movement that began to appear in the 60s and intensified after the arrival of the new millennium, Gentrification, is a concrete manifestation of this community culture.Take Oakland as an example. This African-American city is now occupied by a large number of middle-class whites, and the aborigines have to relocate further afield and continue to live in settlements.

The United States is formed by such communities one after another that do not blend in with each other and struggle to coexist in contradictions and conflicts.

Beverly Hills, and Bel Air in particular, naturally has its community culture.

Unlike normal communities, though, there's no owners' committee here, and members don't vote with their feet.As long as you can buy here, you have passed the test.

Bel Air's standard is not race, culture, or nationality.

There is only one assessment condition, wealth.

And this happened to be a resource that Han Yi would never lack.

The transaction price of $3950 million, even in Bel-Air, is a jaw-dropping figure.It is no exaggeration to say that the transaction of 864 Stella Della Road can definitely occupy a place in the top five of the Beverly Hills real estate transaction price list in 2016.Take the road where the Han Zhai is located as an example. The transaction price of most of the properties is below 1000 million US dollars, and it is not uncommon for real estate with a relatively small area to even have a listed price of 300 to 2000 million US dollars.There are only two or three top luxury houses that can exceed US$[-] million.

Not everyone, even the most accomplished Hollywood star, can afford the sky-high $3950 million.Kim Kardashian and her husband Kanye West's real estate is worth $2150 million, and Elon Musk's Bel-Air estate is only sold for $2020 million until 2900.And at the corner of the intersection, the real estate of Ms. Aniston who sent the handwritten letter is only 2010 million US dollars.

In fact, some clues can be seen only from the opponent who bid with Han Yi at that time.Those who are qualified and confident to come and go with Han Yi in the range of 3000 million US dollars are all heads of large capital management groups like Howard Shore.

Therefore, when this rich Chinese man with a mysterious background came to Bel-Air, it was only natural for the neighbors to send home-warming gifts expressing goodwill and welcome.Of course, these millionaires and even billionaires will not come to visit with red wine and baked pie like ordinary people, but the necessary etiquette must not be less.

In the United States, the culture of gift-giving is not based on expensiveness. Even among close friends, it is normal to give shopping cards worth tens of hundreds of dollars on birthdays.Even in Bel-Air, a rich community, warming gifts are nothing more than delicate small items of life.

"I will give you the gift list later for your review. Every gift is recorded in the book, including the specific information of the gift giver."

"Thank you very much, Corey. One question, besides the owner of 911 Tione, are there other people of Chinese descent?"

Han Yi glanced at the various gifts on the tea table, but he didn't find the family he cared about most.

"Yes, Mr. Han."

Corey pointed to his feet.

"A Chinese couple sent a whole Chinese-style handmade carpet. I have asked Fiamu and Kiffin to put it in the storage room of the garage first, and wait for you to decide whether to use it and where to put it."

"Walter and Shirley-Wong, right?"

Han Yi didn't have the slightest interest in the gift itself, so he asked urgently.

"Ah... that's right, Mr. Han, it's Walter and Shirley-Wang." Corey, who was not surprised at all, was also a little surprised, "Are you an old acquaintance with them?"

"It's not an old acquaintance, but someone I want to meet." Han Yi breathed a sigh of relief, with a relaxed smile on his face.The Wangs took the initiative to give gifts, which will make the next plan go forward more smoothly.He touched Xu Yiru's shoulder, blinked his eyes, "Xiao Xu, this couple is from your hometown."

"It's from Taipei too?"

"Formosa Plastics Group, have you heard of it?"

"Formosa Plastics, Wang Yongqing..." Xu Yiru's eyes widened as he pondered, "They are..."

"The youngest son of Wang Yongqing's second room, Walter Wang, his Chinese name is Wang Wenxiang."

Although the name is Formosa Plastics Group, this chemical consortium co-founded by Wang Yongqing and his younger brother Wang Yongzai actually has many industries in Taiwan, Taiwan, Southeast Asia and the other side of the ocean. It is the most profitable in Taiwan. Enterprise group, none of them. The after-tax net profit in 2008 reached a staggering US$71.83 billion.

The Wang family is not only very clear-headed in business management, the second-generation family members are basically required to quit the front-line management positions of the Formosa Plastics Group and hire professional managers to operate, so as to avoid the group from falling into traditional family struggles and achieve sustainability. operate.

In addition, Wang Yongqing and Wang Yongzai understood the importance of spreading branches and leaves early on, and cultivated a large number of assets in each region where the group is located.Take Wang Yongqing as an example. After his death, the estate declared in Taiwan was only US$17 billion, Hong Kong accounted for US$40 billion, and North America accounted for at least US$160 billion.

A family of this level will never be confined to one city and one place.Every offspring cultivated painstakingly has their unique mission.

The main house Wang Guo Yuelan has no heirs, and the second house Yang Jiao's eldest son Wang Wenyang founded the Hongren Group, betting heavily on the booming commercial market in the Mainland.The second son, Wang Guiyun, stayed on the island and managed Prestige International, which is the largest film distributor in the whole island.

The elder Wang Xueling and her husband co-founded the Volkswagen Computer Group, and their son Jian Minyi is also extraordinary. The music streaming media KKBOX built by his parents is the largest music playback platform in Southeast Asia.Queen Xuehong has the most prosperous career, and she is known as the richest woman in Baodao, and she is the co-founder of the famous HTC.The classic phrase "HTC is a brand of Huaguo people...to create a world-class international brand for Huaguo people" was spoken by her.

Four of the five second-generation family members are active in Asia, striving for greater development space for the Wang family, while the youngest son, Wang Wenxiang, takes on the mission of managing the family's assets in the United States.

Although there are several PVC companies operating in North America under his name, Wang Wenxiang's task is not to accumulate wealth, but to defend it.Wang Wenxiang has no position in Formosa Plastics, and he has no right to intervene in the group's projects in North America.

Wang Wenxiang has only one task, which is to enhance the status and recognition of the Wang family in the upper class of the United States, thereby ensuring the safe existence of the family's assets in North America.

In 1990, Wang Wenxiang, who graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, married his wife who was a UCLA bachelor and a Columbia master. Three months later, he went to the United States to develop under the instruction of his father.Since then, Wang Wenxiang has been active in charity circles and international organizations, winning a series of important seats as a descendant of a famous family.

An important member of the Committee of [-], the North American Chinese elite organization founded by IM Pei, the main organizer of the North American region of the World Economic Forum, and also serves as the Los Angeles Police Fund, the Aaron Diamond AIDS Center, the US Drug Enforcement Administration Education Fund, and the Huaguo Overseas Exchange Association, He is even a board member of the Boao Forum.Wang Wenxiang, who has been deeply cultivated in the Western world, has long since become a great philanthropist Walter Wang, and has become one of the core hubs of business and social exchanges between the Chinese and Western worlds.

Speaking of the Chinese developing in Los Angeles, Walter Wang and Shirley Wang Qian said that they are second, and who should take the first place will be a matter of endless debate.

The simplest proof is that the couple served as trustees of the United States Olympic Committee at the same time. In the long list, there are only three Chinese surnames, they and Yang Youming.As for the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee, which is actively operating the 2028 Summer Olympics, the two are even more crucial board members.

This is the rich and powerful family Xu's parents dreamed of. Even Xu Yiru, whose reputation reached the peak of Treasure Island in the last life, has nothing to do with these wealthy Chinese who hang high in the sky.

And now, they have become a key step in Han Yi's plan.

If he wants to make a name for himself in the United States where the population is mixed, in Beverly where celebrities gather, and in Hollywood where tyrants and tigers dominate, Han Yi must not rely solely on the power of money. The party tickets he needs can only be Issued by predecessors of the same root and origin.

The so-called racial discrimination and stereotypes are sociological concepts invented by human beings after entering the modern age. However, finding the same ethnic group in an unfamiliar environment and forming a joint force for common development is the survival instinct endowed to human beings by millions of years of evolutionary history.

After all, if non-me can be trusted, we should still be seeing Neanderthals and Denisovans by now, right?

In a country with a single nation, the phenomenon of grouping will appear among people of different subcultures.But in a dark forest like the United States where all the people are immigrants, the aggregation of countries and even civilizations has become the norm.

Tyler Perry only shoots stories about black people, and Michael Bay's leading actor for the "Transformers" series is Shia LaBeouf, who can't be more Jewish in terms of appearance and name.The rise of K-Pop in North America is also the result of the rapid growth of Asian capital and Asian discourse power.

What Han Yi needs is such a power group that can accept him as a new force.He doesn't need practical help. In fact, with the blessing of advanced information, he doesn't even need business opportunities and relationship introductions.As long as the outside world feels that he belongs to an elite group with deep roots and rapid rise in power, it is enough to make the opponents who are about to face head-to-head fearful.

Of course, if a justice of the peace like Walter Wang can mediate at critical moments, maybe the opponent can also become a partner.

In the business field, the interests are the greatest, and there are not so many life-and-death situations in the first place.With a few words, old enemies can become allies.

"So, the gift you asked me to bring is for them?"

Xu Yiru suddenly remembered Han Yi's repeated entrustment before he returned to Treasure Island. After a long time of acquaintance, this was the first time that Han Yi asked him to help bring gifts.I thought it was a bit weird at first, but now it all makes sense.

"Yeah, so you deserve the most credit, Xiao Xu."

Han Yi nodded with a smile.

Ever since he saw two familiar surnames while searching for neighbors and investigated their backgrounds, Han Yi has been planning how to interact with them.Now, everything is going in the direction he expected, and he is of course in a good mood.

"Cory, please sort out the gift list and send appropriate gifts to the friends on the list."

"As for the Wang family, please send the bag of things in the bar locker...they will like it."

　Thanks to Shen Yanqian for the reward, I am even more moved for him
　　
　
(End of this chapter)