Regardless of whether Lehman Brothers followed suit, it did not have much impact on Simon's operation in the stock index futures market. Noah Scott came all the way from Chicago to repair the relationship, and Simon would naturally not turn away people.

In this country, if Simon wants to go further next, it is simply impossible to get rid of his connection with investment banks. Although he still does not trust Noah Scott and Lehman Brothers too much, compared with other companies now

The investment banker remained silent, and the information just revealed by Noah Scott already seemed sincere.

After dinner, Simon and Janet parted ways with Noah Scott, just after eight o'clock in the evening.

In the presidential suite on the top floor of the Plaza Hotel.

Janet hung their coats on the hangers and came to the study. Seeing that the man had sat down by the window with his usual hard-cover notebook, she leaned over and leaned on the back of the sofa and asked: "Simon, what are you going to do?"

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Simon held a 16-karat notebook that was still bound by hand, used a pencil to draw musical lines on the white paper, and filled in the notes nonchalantly.

Madonna's new album will be released next month. It is a dance-style album called "You-can-dance". Simon has already given the other party a song that fits the style of this album. At this time

What he is currently writing is another song, which Simon plans to use as the ending theme of "Pulp Fiction".

However, Simon's current thoughts are not here, he just wants to find something to do.

Although he was reminded by Noah Scott that his operation in the stock index futures market had been exposed, Simon found that there was nothing he could do to prevent this matter from being exposed.

Hearing Janet's question, Simon turned his head and smiled helplessly at the woman, saying: "There is nothing you can do, Simon Westeros is going to be famous again."

Janet smiled, turned around on the sofa, leaned over and sat down next to Simon.

In front of the two of them was a floor-to-ceiling glass window overlooking the entire Central Park. At this time, it was dark outside the window, with only the bright lights on the buildings on both sides of the park.

Holding the man's arm and watching him fill in the notes on the music score, Janet added after a moment: "Actually, it doesn't matter if it's exposed. You didn't do anything illegal."

Simon shook his head and said: "A nineteen-year-old young man has made more than a billion U.S. dollars in just a few months. Isn't this enough of a violation?"

"Haha, that only shows that my little man is so awesome," Janet came over and kissed Simon on the face, then changed the subject and said: "Simon, since we can't change it, let's not think about it. Watch today

What do you think of those houses?"

Simon also tried his best to put aside the feeling of powerlessness in his heart, and continued Janet's topic: "It's not that good."

Janet said with some expectation: "I think the penthouse duplex on 68th Street is good. It's a three-story structure with a total area of ​​more than 1,200 square meters, facing Central Park. Although the price of 15 million US dollars is a bit high, it's Fifth Avenue.

The value of your house will definitely increase in the future. Even if you don’t like the Baroque style inside, we can redecorate it.”

Following Janet's description, Simon recalled the luxurious Fifth Avenue apartment he had seen during the day.

The top three floors of a 15-story light gray building built around the 1950s have a total of 26 rooms, 3 living rooms, 2 kitchens, 6 bedrooms and 7 bathrooms. It also comes with facilities such as a gym, a wine cellar and a private screening room. Janet noticed that she was unconsciously

Using the metric system, he smiled and said: "Call the real estate agent tomorrow and we will buy this house."

The price of such an Upper East Side apartment next to Central Park would have easily exceeded 100 million in the era before Simon was reborn.

At 15 million US dollars, Simon actually didn’t think it was expensive at all.

Of course, now in 1987, 15 million US dollars is definitely a sky-high price, especially with the recent collapse of the North American stock market, and the U.S. real estate market will definitely plummet in the future. In Simon's memory, the famous Empire State Building two years later,

The entire building is sold for only $42 million.

Seeing that Simon had agreed, Janet showed a hesitant expression on her face and said, "If you don't like it, let's take another look."

"Buy it," Simon turned and kissed the woman on the cheek and said, "Actually, I don't like the whole house in Manhattan very much. Since I want to buy it, one of us must be satisfied."

Janet's eyes flashed a few times: "What kind of house do you like?"

"You know, modern, minimalist, and naturally if it's the highest floor, I hope I can stand by the window and all the other buildings in my field of vision are at my feet." Simon said, suddenly his heart moved, and he put the hand in his hand.

He turned over a page in his notebook, picked up a pencil and started drawing quickly, while saying slowly: "Probably, that's it."

Janet came over curiously.

After waiting quietly for a while, I saw a building that was probably a fiberglass structure appearing on the manuscript paper.

The building was tapered as a whole, but there was a terrace on the uppermost floors. Then, Simon also marked a letter on the side. It seemed to be 'A' at first. Well, it probably wasn't finished yet, and he quickly changed it.

became 'W'.

‘W’ is obviously ‘Westeros’.

Westeros Towers.

Simon's painting skills can be seen from the original draft of "Run Lola Run". A few minutes later, he randomly traced the silhouettes of some high-rise buildings around the building. One tower standing majestically on Manhattan Island is even taller than the Empire State Building and the Twin Towers.

Taller buildings will appear on the paper.

Janet waited for Simon to finish drawing, and couldn't help but take the notebook in his hand, blinked a few times, and pointed to the platform at the top of the building: "What is this?"

Simon explained: "Helipad."

"Then," Janet paused and said, "approximately how high is it?"

"If I don't want to see the Empire State Building outside my bedroom," Simon thought for a while and said, "it should be more than 500 meters."

Janet briefly imagined living in a penthouse apartment in a building over 500 meters high. She slowly turned to look at Simon and said, "Can this really be built?"

"Since I have earned more than one billion U.S. dollars in just over five months, it is no problem to build another building," Simon said. After thinking for a moment, he said: "If we start preparing now, maybe it will take three years."

Construction can start soon. For such a building, including all expenses such as land, 500 million US dollars should be enough. Of course, the expenses for various internal facilities will definitely be very large, and there will also be future maintenance costs.

However, as long as such a building can be built, it doesn’t matter even if it costs $1 billion.”

Janet's expression was still a little dull. She put the notebook back into Simon's hand, hugged the man's arm and rubbed it like a kitten, and said: "You little bastard, I want to live in it now."

Simon used a pencil to carefully draw the 'W' letter that had just been temporarily changed. Fortunately, he didn't finish the 'A', otherwise the 'Avengers Tower' would have been exposed. The Avengers Tower in the Marvel Universe series of movies in his memory was probably

It is only as high as the Empire State Building. However, since it is going to be built, Simon will naturally follow his own preferences.

After drawing a few strokes again, Simon heard what Janet said, pointed to the part above the apron on the top of the building, and said: "By then, all the top ten floors will be Westeros families."

"Yeah, yeah," Janet nodded a few times and said, "I will change my husband's surname in the future."

Simon smiled, tilted his head and touched the woman's head, and joked: "It's just to live in a big house, it's so spineless."

"Haha," Janet smiled, then pointed to the part below the platform and said, "Where are these?"

"Since it is the Westeros Building," Simon said, "it should naturally be the headquarters of the Westeros Company below. Of course, it must be planned carefully, and this needs to be left to professionals."

Janet asked again: "Where are you going to build this house?"

Simon pointed to the right side of the window and said: "The corner next to it is good. If Fifth Avenue doesn't work, then move it further east and build it next to Madison Avenue, so that you still have Central Park at your feet."

The two discussed in a low voice for a few more words before Janet turned back to the present and asked: "In this case, little bastard, do we still buy a house now?

"Of course, where else would you live?" Simon nodded and said, "Just the one you just mentioned. The building in the drawing will be planned for a few years and built for a few more years. Maybe it will be ready by the time you move in.

It will be seven or eight years later. There is no way we will not have a house to live in for seven or eight years."

"In this case, I will try to lower the price again. I estimate that I can get it for US$12 million. Now that the stock market has crashed, housing prices will definitely fall sharply. US$15 million is the price before the crash," Janet said.

Then he said, "Little bastard, when the building in the drawing is completed, do you plan to move to New York?"

Simon shook his head and said: "Of course we can live wherever we want. In the future, if we have a private jet, it will be no problem even if we fly from New York to Los Angeles for work every day."

Janet patted Simon gently and said, "I don't want to go through such trouble."

Simon smiled and said: "Then I will go to work every day and you will be the housewife."

Janet immediately shook her head again: "No, I don't want to be a housewife."

Simon nodded nonchalantly: "Well, you can do whatever you want."

The two chatted for a while, and Janet took the drawing in front of Simon again, looked at it, and said: "You little bastard, actually, I still think it's a little impossible."

"You just have to stand by and watch me build it," Simon said, and then added: "But I will definitely have to work hard to make money next."

Janet couldn't help but said: "Who said just now that earning more than one billion US dollars at the age of 19 is already against the rules?"

Simon thought for a while and said: "Since it has been known to many people, there is no need to hide it anymore. Perhaps, this should be considered a good thing."

Before this, Simon did a lot of things and always subconsciously made his behavior look less conspicuous. Although the results were often a bit dazzling, he never gave up this behavior that might be a bit deceptive.

Now, if the operation of the stock index futures market is exposed, whatever unexpected things Simon does next will no longer seem so shocking.

You know, one billion US dollars is definitely very valuable in this era.

"Forbes" magazine just started to compile the list of the world's richest people a few years ago. According to this year's latest data, the world's richest people are only those oil families in the Middle East. There are only three families with a wealth of more than 10 billion US dollars. Ranked fourth.

The family wealth of the Newhouse family, a media family, has dropped to US$8.7 billion, and the threshold for the top ten richest people is only US$5.4 billion.

Even if all taxes are removed, Simon is now within the top 100 of the Forbes rich list.

In 1987, the global population officially exceeded 5 billion. Simon is one of the 100 richest people among these 5 billion people. As you can imagine, he is now definitely among the people at the top of the pyramid.

In just one year, an 18-year-old boy suddenly went from poverty to the list of the 100 richest people in the world. As long as this status is accepted by the outside world, Simon will do anything that is beyond the imagination of the outside world.

It probably won't be too obtrusive.

Simon stayed in New York for another day and then returned to Los Angeles again, but Janet stayed in New York and continued to work on the house.

On October 30, Simon returned to Los Angeles, and the first-week box office of "Dead Man" has been released. It took in 18.16 million US dollars in seven days. Both Fox internal and external media generally predict that the film's final North American box office will break through.

$60 million.

Although it is far from comparable to "Run Lola Run" and "The Butterfly Effect", within one year, two movies were in the top ten at the North American box office, and one was in the top fifteen at the North American box office. Simon's reputation as a blockbuster filmmaker is so great

It was finally consolidated.

During the few days in New York, Simon also found time to complete the script for "Basic Instinct" in his free time. After returning to Los Angeles, he handed the script to Jonathan Friedman and asked him and Amy to negotiate a new film with Fox.

Three consecutive movies have been hugely successful. This time, Simon will naturally strive for more benefits.

On the other side, after Noah Scott personally visited Simon that day, the two parties still maintained contact in the following days, and Simon also heard news related to him on Wall Street from time to time.

This continued until November. Although it had been anticipated, Simon was still a little unprepared when the incident broke out.

The trigger was with Lehman Brothers, and it was also related to Soros, whom Simon had been paying close attention to.

As the broker of the Quantum Fund, Lehman Brothers suffered heavy losses during the sell-off on October 22 due to the early leakage of the news, which caused the S&P 500 Index to plummet. As a result, the Quantum Fund suffered heavy losses. After a period of brewing, Soros officially sold Lehman
Chapter completed!