Hollywood Hunter

Chapter 332 The war has never changed

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When he noticed that the man beside him was getting bright, he quietly got up.

Did not wake up.

I don’t know how long it took, but the sky in the gap between the curtains was still not as bright as it should have been in the early morning. I was completely drowsy. I groped to put on my underwear, got out of bed barefooted and went to the window to open the curtains of the floor-to-ceiling windows. There was a drizzle in front of me. Gloomy scene.

The sky, the lake and the city buildings on the opposite bank are all shrouded in this gloom.

The mood did not become gloomy, but rather enjoyed the feeling.

Chill hits.

Facing this cold breath, he walked out of the bedroom, leaned on the balcony railing and looked around, not worried about being seen.

This is a villa on Mercer Island in the middle of Lake Washington, located in Seattle, a mansion of more than two acres, surrounded by green trees, and the urban area on the other side of the Great Lakes is still covered by rain at this time.

When I was in college, I majored in advertising and art. I haven't started writing for a long time. At this time, I have an urge to draw the surrounding scenery.

It doesn't belong to you after all.

The 33-year-old woman does not feel like she is getting old, but now she feels a sense of frustration.

It would be great to have such a house of your own.

Just like the fantasy when you just left campus, create your own advertising agency, own a beautiful house, have no physical constraints, and be free.

Then there is the gap between ideal and reality.

At school, she was the cheerleader, she was the queen of homecoming, she was the envy of girls, and she was the target of boys' admiration and pursuit.

Entering society, suddenly it is nothing.

Thinking back to yesterday afternoon, when I heard the little man's so natural invitation, I felt that he was too domineering, but he couldn't give birth to much resistance.

There should be some yearning.

Longing for a world that I have never touched before.

So, after finishing work, she went home and changed her clothes, waited for a car to pick her up, and sat on it resignedly, imagining what the next night would be like.

The result was beyond her imagination.

Having dinner on his Boeing 767 was a never-before-seen experience that even felt a little fantastical.

A very luxurious plane.

But I didn't feel much show off from him.

Or, that young man who is already shrouded in too much aura really doesn't need to show off any more.

Just a natural.

Like, well, he takes it for granted when he 'invites' himself.

As if all of Hollywood was his.

He is king.

Ask for everything.

For such an inconspicuous little woman, facing the king's demands, she didn't even have the courage to hold back.

After dinner, the plane has landed in Seattle at night.

The airport is located in the city of Langton on the south bank of the Great Lake. After leaving the airport, you board a nearby speedboat to cross Lake Washington, and then enter this mansion.

It was even a bit like coming home from get off work.

However, it is not the kind of car that struggles to move for two hours on a congested road and comes home exhausted.

Very smooth.

Although.

Well, here is indeed thousands of miles away from Los Angeles.

Thinking endlessly, a thick cotton bathrobe suddenly wrapped around her.

Turning around, it was the man's genial smile.

Allowing her entire body to be wrapped in a bathrobe, and wrapped around her waist by him, she hesitated, she leaned back slightly and leaned forward, kissed the man's lips lightly, and said, "Morning."

"Morning," Simon looked at the woman whose brown hair had been soaked by rain, and said, "I really don't want to disturb your view of the scenery, but trust me, the feeling of a cold is not good at all."

"It's so beautiful here." She replied, not knowing if it was an explanation or something, she paused, looked into the man's eyes, and said, "So, what are our plans for today?"

"Have breakfast first, then go back to Los Angeles."

"what?"

Simon said patiently: "It's a pity, but I'm very busy, I'm afraid I can't accompany you here for the weekend."

I would love to say that I can spend the weekend here by myself.

However, this seems a bit abrupt.

Just nodded obediently.

Simon looked at the woman's wet hair again and said, "Let's take a shower first, don't really catch a cold, I'll wait for you downstairs."

He was pulled away from the terrace by the man and entered the bathroom. When he closed the door, he finally gathered up his courage and invited, "Do you want to come together?"

Simon smiled and shook his head, reaching out to help the woman close the bathroom door.

More than half an hour later, Sheila Ward walked out of the bedroom, already wearing the black coat and corset skirt from yesterday, showing her figure.

A woman who wears black is easy to put off men. Yesterday, she deliberately wore black.

It had no effect on him, the man seemed to like it very much.

Caressing the handrail of the stairs, he slowly walked downstairs and looked around curiously.

When I came downstairs, I saw a young girl in a light blue professional suit arranging the arrangements on the sofa in the living room. When I noticed her appearance, the girl greeted her politely with a touch of alienation, "Good morning, Ward. Miss."

As if nothing had happened, he retracted his hand, nodded and replied, "Morning, b."

This is one of the flight attendants on his private jet, blond, tall, young, he calls her 'b', and the other is 'a', which the man casually introduced last night, it's actually Betsy and Alison, he seems I like this simpler name.

I don't know if there are still 'c' and 'd'.

There should be.

Own.

Well, it should be 's'.

However, he didn't call himself that, and he didn't even like to shout his name, and he didn't use intimate words like 'honey'. Just speak when he speaks, and then, she knows he is talking to her.

The girl in front of her was obviously indifferent and hostile towards her, as well as her undisguised envy.

Of course know why.

They were younger and more beautiful, but he was more interested in her.

Suddenly she was a little proud, and calling her 'b' after him was intentional.

I enjoyed this sense of superiority that I rarely felt after leaving the campus, so I raised my chin slightly and asked the girl in front of me, "Where's Simon?"

Seeing her like this, Becky's tone was obviously colder, but she still said professionally: "In the restaurant, Ms. Ward, please come with me."

Simon is reading the newspaper at the dinner table.

Seeing her come in, the man greeted her and signaled that Betsy, who had followed up, could bring her breakfast.

Sheila Ward sat down opposite Simon, raised her chin naturally, and asked, "Is there any interesting news today?"

Simon glanced at the "New York Times" in his hand again and said: "Saddam Hussein called for the Middle East countries to unite at the meeting of the member states of the Arab Cooperation Council yesterday, using their unparalleled energy advantages to build a A community of interests that rivals North America."

Sheila Ward blinked a few times, showing a bit of resentment in her expression, and said, "Do men become so perfunctory after they succeed?"

Simon nodded with a "heavy" expression: "Yes, it's a cruel reality."

Sheila Ward wanted to catch something and threw it over. She glanced at the clean table and had to give up, and simply asked "self-defeatingly", "Is there anything special about this news?"

Simon said lightly: "It's going to be a war."

Sheila Ward wondered: "Why, just because the Middle East countries want to establish an energy alliance? The Soviet Union has been fighting with us for so many years, and they have not fought."

"This is different," Simon shook his head and explained: "The federal army may not be able to beat the Soviet Union, but it is still very easy to beat the Middle East countries, not to mention that there is oil there."

Sheila Ward frowned slightly and said after a while, "Simon, do you want to fight?"

"No, I'm a staunch anti-war."

"In this case, Simon, you can try to use your influence to prevent the war from happening."

"I think self-destruction is the doomed end of mankind, so I will not try to stop this kind of thing, because it is inevitable," Simon shook his head, his eyes fell on the newspaper in front of him, thinking of something, and said softly: "War, War never changes."

Sheila Ward was a little stunned, and the young man on the opposite side murmured a few words, which made her feel an inexplicable despair and desolation.

There should be a long, long story behind this sentence.

But she had never heard of it.

Alison and Betsy brought breakfast, Simon closed the newspaper, smiling again on his face, seemingly forgetting the topic just now, and said to the woman: "Look, you like this place very much, otherwise, you can spend time here. On the weekend, I'll have someone pick you up tomorrow afternoon."

I had thought about it, but after hearing the man's suggestion, she subconsciously shook her head and said, "I don't want it anymore. I'm here alone, and I don't know where to go."

"There are so many places to go, the Space Needle, the University of Washington, Olympic National Park, yes, I heard that there is a chewing gum wall in Pike Place Market, you can go and see it and stick a piece on it yourself."

Sheila Ward picked up the cutlery that Alison handed over, smiled and shook her head: "It's disgusting to think about. Besides, it's raining outside, I'd better go back to Los Angeles with you."

After breakfast, the group left Mercer Island in the center of the lake by speedboat, came to the Langton Municipal Airport on the south bank, and boarded the plane to return to Los Angeles.

It took less than two hours to go from the rain in Seattle to the sunshine in Los Angeles.

Sheila Ward got off the plane at Los Angeles International Airport and found that Simon did not intend to leave the airport with her, only to find out that he had other plans.

Taking the car that the man specially called to take her off the airport, Sheila Ward watched another plane roaring into the sky at the airport, and suddenly there was a feeling that the pumpkin cart and the crystal slipper had all disappeared.

Cinderella can still wait for her prince.

She is probably just a passerby to him.

Damn man!

From Seattle to Los Angeles, and from Los Angeles to New York, Simon did not waste more than six hours of flight time, reading various materials prepared by Cersei Capital along the way.

After this period of negotiations, Cersei Capital and Blackstone Group reached an agreement to acquire a 50% stake in Blackstone Financial Management for $75 million. Owned by Cersei Capital.

In addition, Janet has re-planned the subsidiaries of Cersei Capital. The three subsidiaries that have been confirmed to be established are Cersei Capital.

Xi Fund Management Company, Apollo Management Company and Black Rock Asset Management Company, Cersei Fund Management Company is naturally the most direct descendant of Cersei Capital, and the other two companies are names given by Simon based on the information in his memory.

Naturally, it goes without saying that the Apollo Management Company also existed in the original time and space.

In terms of shareholding structure, the three subsidiaries are all jointly owned by the parent company Cersei Capital and the operation team, and each has its own business focus.

Cersei Fund Management Company is mainly engaged in financial hedging business, Apollo Management Company is responsible for alternative investments such as leveraged mergers and acquisitions and Condor Investments, and Black Rock Asset Management Company is engaged in mainstream securities, stocks and fixed income and other low-risk investment businesses.

After the establishment of the three subsidiaries, sub-funds No. 6 to 10 will be fully controlled by Cersei Capital again, and funds will be allocated to each subsidiary according to the actual situation.

The biggest advantage of this is that the funds raised by Cersei Capital are still nominally held by sub-funds 6 to 10, and each subsidiary team is only responsible for taking care of it.

In the event of a loss or other situation with a subsidiary team, Cersei Capital has the flexibility to withdraw funds before the situation continues to deteriorate.

Going a step further, it is even possible to directly dissolve the subsidiary team and write off the subsidiary. At the same time, funds will not be lost due to the turmoil of subsidiaries.

This adjustment was actually inspired by Janet's acquisition of Blackstone Financial Management.

The funds of the Blackstone Financial Management Company were raised separately. Lawrence Fink’s team wanted to change jobs collectively. It was difficult for the Blackstone Group to withdraw from the bottom line. It could only choose to compromise and sell the company’s shares.

Wall Street has paid close attention to a series of recent moves by Cersei Capital, and the investment intentions of various investors are also very active. Obviously, many people expect Cersei Capital to continue to create the profit miracle of Simon's financial operations in recent years.

Facing the expectations in the circle, Simon did not have much pressure.

Because Simon knows very well that Cersei Capital does not need to continue to create miracles. As long as the company produces a performance that exceeds most of its peers on Wall Street, it will continue to grow in the future.

With the prophetic advantage and the management of a team of outstanding talents for the next two decades, Simon is still very confident in achieving this goal.

In addition to the two teams of Cersei Fund Management Company and Black Rock Asset Management Company, Janet has also poached the other's M\u0026A business team from De Chong Securities, which filed for bankruptcy in early January, to form the team of Apollo Management Company. The leader of the team is Leon Black. After receiving an invitation from Cersei Capital and a 30% equity commitment, Black quickly gave up the original plan to go it alone and lead the team to join Cersei Capital.

Everyone is smart. If they work alone, it is difficult for Black's team to get too much money from investors in the short term because of the work experience of De Chong Securities, which has just gone bankrupt.

In contrast, Cersei Capital directly promised Leon Black $1 billion in starting working capital, and has already prepared their next phase of work: Vulture against the still-volatile U.S. junk bond market invest.

A large part of the total size of the $200 billion junk bond market in the United States is still very repayment guaranteed.

However, as the overall bond market situation continued to deteriorate, the prices of many solvency bonds also plummeted. As long as this part of the bonds can be found and bought at a price far below the book value, when the economic situation improves and the company recovers, investors can get very rich returns in the process of paying off the bonds.

Looking for valuable assets from a pile of financial ruins that seem to be wiped out, this is the basic idea of ​​​​condor investing.

Janet did a lot of research on the U.S. junk bond market last year and accumulated a lot of information, so she and Lawrence Fink specifically talked about Condor Investments at a reception at Raybould’s house some time ago.

However, if it is said that the understanding of the US junk bond market, probably no one can match the team of De Chong Securities.

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