Hollywood Hunter

Manhattan.

A black Mercedes limousine pulled up at the curb near Columbus Circle on the southwest corner of Central Park, and the ponytailed female driver with sunglasses pulled away, wishing Momo to get out of the car, taking a look at the Victoria's Guard, named Paula Kurland, and at Jill Peckett and Annie Zhao, who got out of the car from the passenger side and the other side respectively, with a very small feeling.

Even Mother Superior couldn't bring three attendants on a single trip.

Probably understanding what a certain girl who deliberately stomped on a hater's foot and went straight for two meters was thinking, Jill came forward and took her arm and pulled her into a building on the side of the road as she said, "Let's go, we're going to be late."

Annie Zhao kept up, synchronizing her 'translation', "Don't be embarrassed, be careful of being taken for a psychopath."

Zhu Momo, still walking steadily on her 12 cm heels, sniffed and glared at Annie Zhao, "Do you think I can't even understand such simple English?"

"Knowing that you understand, just what I wanted to say."

Zhu Momo threatened, "I'm going to fire you, little man."

Annie Zhao simply rolled her eyes.

The four women went to a cafe on the 12th floor of the building, said a few words to the waiter who greeted them, and were led to a position by the window of the cafe, there were already two women waiting on this side, looking at the appearance, both oriental, seeing them appear, the two women stood up together to welcome them.

The first one to speak was Annie Zhao, looking at the younger of the two women, the round-faced girl was somewhat surprised: "You fox, why are you here?"

It turns out that one of them is Li Youhu from the Guofeng Art Ensemble.

Annie Zhao previously served for the National Wind Art Troupe, although Li Youhuo was arranged by Simon to participate in the "Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon" has been living in Manhattan to learn to perform, but will often go back, plus the National Wind Art Troupe service team of Chinese waiters would have been less, it is natural to know down.

Li Youhuo equally unexpected, generous is up front and Zhao Annie hugged, smiled: "Feihong sister said to come over to see a student, someone robbed my teacher, of course, to follow to see together."

Li Youhuo said sizing up a few other people, the gaze very naturally fell on Zhu Momo.

First impression, so tall.

Then, it was some kind of instinctive same-sex repulsion, and sparks flew between sight collisions.

The two women said, next to the woman wearing a slim black dress with a very bookish appearance also took the initiative to reach out her hand towards Zhu Momo: "Hello, my surname is Yu, you are, um, you speak Chinese, right?"

Although not quite right with a certain fox at a glance, Zhumo Momo took a liking to the woman in front of her and shook hands with the other woman, "Of course, my name is Zhumo Momo."

The woman nodded and said, "My English name is Fay."

Zhu Momo was stunned and reacted, smiling, "Teacher Yu, Momo is my Chinese name, but the English name is also MoMo, the agent said it's easy to remember and has personality, and it sounds cute."

Teacher Yu was embarrassed, "Oh, sorry, I thought your English name was also MoMo, and, if you don't mind, just call me Sister Yu, you don't have to call me Teacher."

"Okay, Sister Yu," Zhu Momo agreed, and then praised, "You're so pretty, Sister Yu, I can't tell your age from your appearance at all."

"Actually, I'm not a few years older than you,"

Miss Yu said, and looked at Jill again.

Jill also offered her hand and said in a distinctly acerbic and heavily accented Chinese, "Hello, Miss Yu, I, Jill, am pleased to meet you."

"Hello."

Miss Yu shook hands with Jill, feeling very odd, this blonde in front of her, this Chinese, it was too ...... bad to evaluate, and even made her somewhat admire the other party for even being able to say it in public.

Teacher Yu didn't show too much color, but Zhu Momo didn't give Jill any face at all, almost laughing at her, "Jill, you'd better not say Chinese, it's too hard to hear."

Jill ignored her, but switched to English and explained to Teacher Yu, "Sorry, Miss Yu, I two, may have made you a little uncomfortable."

Mr. Yu was surprised.

Zhu Momo couldn't help but roll her eyes as she understood Teacher Yu's words.

This is called good?

It's only right to be miserable.

The first time I saw her, I felt something was wrong, and I didn't understand who was so whimsical as to send a girl who looked nearly two meters tall and could only be a special type of actress to her to learn acting.

It's a mess.

In contrast, if Jill, who had been learning Chinese for two days and had been brave enough to open her mouth, was the one who wanted to learn acting from her, she would have been more than happy to learn from her, as she seemed to be a very ambitious type.

Everyone greeted each other briefly, except for a guard named Paula who took the initiative to sit beside her, the remaining five women sat down around a round table and began to talk about business.

Teacher Yu only felt that the last few months had been a wonderful experience.

After graduating from university, she briefly stayed on to teach at the school, but she didn't want her life to be too uneventful, so she came to the United States to study abroad.

There is always a gap between the ideal and the reality.

He found that life in America was not as good as he thought, and he was already hesitant to return to China, but suddenly he received a special job offer to teach a girl in acting.

At first, Ms. Yu wasn't interested.

However, later the introducer revealed a little more about her, plus, the offer was too generous, so she agreed.

After joining the company, she got along with her student, who had been given a strange name by a big shot, and soon discovered that they were both very straightforward and straightforward in nature.

More than that, after getting the job, Yu found herself unwittingly entering the New York film community, not only meeting Ang Lee, a revered Chinese director, but also meeting a lot of outstanding filmmakers.

This was something that she had not been able to do in Los Angeles in the past two years.

With his own acting credentials, over the past few months, while teaching Li Youhu, Mr. Yu has also received a few offers for roles, which, although small, are much better than the ones he had in Los Angeles.

On a side note, Li Youhu is returning to China at the end of the month to make final preparations for the filming of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, and Mr. Yu is a little worried that he'll be out of work next, but he doesn't expect to have another student so soon.

Though bar.

The student seemed a bit unreliable.

And even though she hadn't met that legendary figure once in a few months and hadn't deliberately inquired about him, Teacher Yu knew, however, that these girls, it seemed, had a certain man standing behind them.

Simon Westeros.

This name was simply ubiquitous at the moment.

Teacher Yu just didn't expect that she would be able to establish some sort of connection with the other party indirectly.

Or, most likely, it was a direct connection, after all, that original employment contract, although the 'Party A' company name in the agreement had absolutely nothing to do with Westeros, but the annual salary of 100,000 dollars, there were many benefits, and, most importantly, the supervisor she needed to report to, Angelique Davis, later learned that that woman was Westeros. A steward of the House of Lowe.

Even if she didn't like to admit it, as she gradually got to know him better, Yu slowly found herself seemingly unknowingly a member of a service team around House Westeros.

And then.

Teacher Yu didn't feel anything wrong with it, but instead, she grew to like her current work and living situation.

After all, it's 100,000 dollars a year.

If you go back to China according to the previous plan and continue to teach at the Northern Film Studio, your monthly salary will only be $700 to $800, which is less than $100, even if you continue to act, compared to the high salary of $15 million in Hollywood, the Chinese actors are simply poor. Haven't seen it.

One million Hong Kong dollars, the equivalent is roughly the same as her current annual salary.

Zhu Momo may be a little proud and unruly, but in fact, emotional intelligence is not lacking at all, and a group of women quickly chatted together and gradually got to know each other.

Zhu Momo is also very clear that she is too tall to develop into an actress.

That's a very profitable gimmick in China.

So, unlike Li Youhu's fairly complete study, Zhu Momo only asked for a study plan completely tailored to the role in "Say Anything", in short, as long as it can support the film.

In the course of the conversation, Li Youhuo also gradually reveals his fox tail.

The girl is also a very motivated girl, so she kind of hopes that when she returns to China at the end of the month, Mr. Yu will follow her back and continue to guide and train her. In fact, Li Youxu also knows that if she needs to, back in China, the man at the top can still match her with a teacher, but because of the similarity of temperament, Li Youxu still hopes that Teacher Yu can teach herself.

Two years without returning to China, although very much like the current working life status, but Teacher Yu does not mind going back a few months.

On Zhu Momo's side, when she heard Li Youhuo's idea, Jill Peckert quickly moved her mind, she had hoped to go to China as soon as possible, this is a good opportunity.

Only Zhu Momo was not so happy about it.

She had just started her life in paradise, and going back to China was like going back to the United States.

The next few months, she will be given all sorts of professional training and will have the opportunity to become a Supermodel.

What's more, if you return to China, you probably won't see a man for a long time.

That's a pretty serious problem too.

What if you lose favor? Although bar, it seems like it hasn't been spoiled much.

However, after some deliberation, Zhu Momo was not a small vessel in the end, and since she was sure that going back together would be beneficial to her little gang, she eventually agreed.

The premise is of course to get someone's permission.

Once the women got together, time always flew by, and more than two hours had passed since things were settled.

There's a discussion about where to have a good lunch.

This cafe also served lunch, but, of course, there was no need to stay if you could enjoy something better, so it was decided to go to the famous St. George's nearby. The location of similar restaurants was not usually easy to book, but not a problem for the women around the Westerosi.

Jill had called to book a place, and the women were planning to go over again at twelve o'clock sharp, and were continuing their conversation when they were suddenly drawn to a conversation between two customers at the next table.

These were two white men who looked to be in their mid-thirties who had just arrived and were very much part of Manhattan's elite, and, apparently paying attention to them, the two men spoke in amplified voices, apparently to attract the attention of the ladies.

"Five rounds of inquiries and it opened at $15.50, the market is still too conservative in its expectations for this listing of Verizon, and I believe the company's market cap will break $100 billion in the last two trading days of the week."

Another man with a center parted haircut, seated facing the woman's side, happened to notice the detail of Jill looking up at them and seemed to raise his voice a little more, "So how much did you subscribe this time?"

The man with his back to this side of the table seemed to sense the hint from the center divider and said, "150,000 shares, of course I want more, but the Verizon stock is so hot that the roadshow phase is 17 times the size of the planned offering, and I'm getting 150,000 shares because my uncle has connections at Goldman Sachs."

Centerfold said, "That's exciting enough, if Verizon's market cap broke $100 billion tomorrow, you'd make two million dollars just on that one, Jim, you'll have to treat us to a Hawaiian vacation."

"Sure, a trip around the world is no problem."

"That's a lot to look forward to."

The two of them a bit of pretending, then as if they just found a table of beautiful women sitting next to them, get up together and come over, just back to this side named Jim appearance is quite handsome man came to the table, very gentlemanly appearance: "Ladies, my name is Jim, nice to meet you, soon it will be noon, how about having a meal together?"

The next middle split followed to help, "After lunch, maybe we can go out on the ocean together, Jim has a nice yacht."

Except for a certain scum, of course all of the women sitting there understood the two's invitation, and then looked at each other a few times with rather odd expressions. Sitting even the lowest face value score Zhao Annie, even if it does not reach 80 points, that pleasant round face, 75 points is still enough, after all, the looks are too mediocre is unlikely to enter the surrounding team of the Westeros family.

Since she was a beautiful woman, of course all of them had experienced pick-up lines.

It was just that the man in front of him, listening to the few words he had just said, seemed to be quite rich, but he dared to extend an invitation to their entire table of women, wasn't his appetite a little too big?

Think of yourself as Simon Westeros.

They waited for a moment, and when no one spoke to them as women, the man named Jim slowed down, "Do you speak English, ladies?"

It was only after this that Jim noticed that a woman in a black uniform with a ponytail, who had been sitting alone at the next table earlier, came over, confirmed her gaze towards Jill and the others on the table, and turned around, "Gentlemen, please do not harass these ladies."

The female guards strictly cultivated by the Westeros family all clearly carried a certain special quality that could be distinguished at a glance, and since they were all of the elite class, the man named Jim immediately noticed the joints as well, and then took another look at the clothing accessories of these ladies, and suddenly realized that he had made a fool of himself.

Not to mention, but the limited edition Vacheron Constantin lady's watch that he happened to know about was worth a whopping $120,000.

It was clearly not one of those oriental girls that he could just hook up with at random.

And looking at the wary looking female bodyguards and, the not-so-disguised playful banter in the eyes of these girls, perhaps it could be those ladies from Japanese zaibatsu families.

The kind whose fortunes were only higher, not lower, than his.

Awkwardly smiling, Jim was not stupid enough to make some kind of rich family brainless playfulness, even though Japan had been oppressed by the United States over the years, if it really was a Japanese zaibatsu, he still couldn't afford to mess with it, softly apologized, and subconsciously learned to bow slightly to the Japanese, then left with his own middle-headed dog-leg in a huff.

When the two disappeared, only then did Zhu Momo ask Annie Zhao, "What did they just say?"

Annie Zhao laughed, "They want to invite us to dinner and then go on a yacht together to sunbathe on the sea, Momo, but they have a private yacht, it's very rich, if you're willing, it's not too late to catch up."

Zhu Momo turned her eyes upside down, "Why don't you go?"

"I'm seasick."

"......"

Several of the women around them laughed.

Jill laughed out loud along with them, but, inevitably, had some thoughts and looked again at the ladies around her.

By the way, if it wasn't for the fact that some high-strung man had subliminally raised their eyes to the highest level, facing the rich boy who had just accosted them would not have given them an immediate heart attack, if not an immediate heart attack, and certainly not even enough of a sense of superiority to despise each other in front of them.

According to Newton.

They were now, the equivalent of standing on the shoulders of giants and looking down on all living beings.

The two of them slunk away, as it was nearing noon in the café where there were more customers, and the customers who had been interested in this side of the table of girls were dissuaded from their thoughts.

The girls' conversation also quickly turned to what the two guys had just been discussing.

Verizon's listing.

Jill and Annie Zhao were most concerned about this matter, involving the Westeros system, Mr. Yu and Li Youhu were also in great interest, and Zhu Momo was even more regretful when she heard that Verizon would break 100 billion market value in the next two trading days. The $1 million on their side, if they can convert it into Verizon's stock in advance, will be more than doubled in two days.

That's more than double.

Pity about such a great opportunity.

While the women here moved on to St. George's for lunch, a few miles away at the Marriott Hotel near the Nasdaq exchange headquarters, the celebratory reception for Verizon's listing opened at exactly 12:00.

This morning, the long-prepared listing of Verizon Telecom on the Nasdaq market went off without a hitch.

Based on the excellent market feedback from the roadshow phase, Verizon Telecom's final listing price was determined to be $10.75, with 500 million shares to be issued, $5.375 billion in capital raised, and an additional 75 million shares to be offered to investors under the Green Shoe mechanism, once triggered.

All of the planned shares, 300 million of which will be new shares, and the additional 75 million Green Shoe shares will be cash for the original shareholders and, once the Green Shoe mechanism is triggered, all of the additional 75 million shares will be provided directly by Westeros.

Calculating the IPO, Verizon Telecom has raised only $3.225 billion for the company's future growth. The Westeros family alone accounted for $2.6 billion of the roughly $2.9 billion in cash from the other, counting the additional green shoe issuance.

Thus, the IPO was a good way for Westeros to raise cash.

When the market opened in the morning, after five rounds of quotations, Verizon stock opened at $15.26, up 41.9%, and Verizon's market cap was thus $60.6 billion.

It's worth noting that regarding the $1.526 billion opening share price, it is no longer the lowest quoted unit of the U.S. stock market of one-eighth of a dollar in the past. The previous June, with the more mature electronic trading system, in order to promote the further liberalization of the U.S. stock market trading, to ensure the interests of investors, the federal government introduced new regulations, the minimum quotation unit of U.S. stocks from the previous one-eighth (0.125) of a dollar to $ 0.01. The opening stock price was as high as $ 15.26 billion.

The stock opened as high as $15.26, up 41.9%, and that's obviously just the beginning.