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"Frankly, ED, I'm afraid the chef will cry if he knows that in your eyes, his carefully cooked food doesn't go into the takeout and the pizza is easier to fill up." Claude said while pressing the switch on the wall, bright lights immediately filled the simple style of the living room.

This is the villa that Claude rented on the other side of Beverly Hills. It's quite modern and well decorated from the inside to the outside. As early as he graduated from University, he moved out to live. Unlike Adrian, the former Adrian, he had nothing to do all day. After making a lot of money, he had planned to buy a villa of his own.

"Notice, crow, I'm talking about filling the stomach, not the taste of the food." Adrian corrected him. "His veal is really delicious. I've never denied that."

Speaking of this, he couldn't help but snort. Although Adrian didn't reject western food because of his small part of soul, he could also taste one, two, three and four, but he still missed Chinese food in his heart. He once ran the restaurants in Chinatown, but Have you ever seen kung pao chicken soaked in orange syrup? Fortunately, I used to cook dishes occasionally in my previous life. Thanks to my abnormal memory, I can still recall that I made some home cooked dishes for myself from time to time. In addition, there are so many Chinese restaurants in Chinatown that they are not completely westernized, so they can barely solve the problem of greedy.

"You guy, French food is meant to be tasted. It's easy to fill your stomach. Burger King's two hamburgers are enough for that." Claude shook his head to the back of the living room table and poured two whiskies.

"Kate said the same thing, but unfortunately you didn't catch the point. I didn't deny the taste of French food. I just said that it can't be used to fill the stomach. It's all true, isn't it?" Adrian takes the cup that Claude pushed over.

"Kate? The chick you got in England? Still dating? " Claude was surprised. "It's not like you, ed. you never used to be interested in a girl for more than five days."

"That was before," Adrian said disapprovingly. "I've taken her home."

"Whoa, whoa, whoa, is the end of the world coming?" Claude gestured with exaggeration, "our ED is taking the girl home! Man, this is the first time! It's amazing. Are you going to marry her? "

"Shut up, crow," Adrian gave him a white eye. "Will I give up the whole forest for a tree?"

"So you are..." Claude looked at him with interest: "I want a tree, I want a whole forest." Adrian shrugged.

Claude was a little surprised, but immediately laughed out: "it's ED, but don't you think it's a little greedy?"

"Oliver Stone has a quote in Wall Street." Adrian took a sip of his whisky.

"Greed is good." Claude then took over.

"I've changed that a little bit. Moderate greed is good." Adrian laughed. "The key is to know where my degree is. I need to make my degree bigger now."

"Well, what are you going to do? The profit this time is enough for you to get a place in those group companies? " Claude did not continue to discuss the topic, but asked about something else.

Adrian smiles, looks Claude in the eyes and says, "let's do it together, crow."

"What do you say?" Claude looked surprised, and the glass he sent to his mouth stopped in mid air.

"Remember what I told you in the cafe? I want to control Hollywood! I mean to build my own media empire, not to be a shareholder of those old companies! " Adrian clenched his fist and waved fiercely in the air, "we can do it together, crow. You have a talent I can't match in business, but I also have a place in the film that you can't match, and my vision in the overall situation is not worse than you! We're going to do well together! "

Claude was staring at Adrian. He gasped and seemed to want to laugh: "you've changed so much, ed. it's hard to imagine you were still a year ago..."

"It doesn't make sense for me to turn over the old books." Adrian chuckled.

He put down his cup and several came to Claude and looked at him closely. "Tell me, Claude, what are you hesitating about? What are you worried about? Or do you want to tell me that you're going to stay in the godfather's company, slowly dissipate your initiative and courage, and then wait for the godfather to take over when he retires? "

Claude didn't speak, just pursed his lips and looked at Adrian seriously.

"Think about it, crow, what do you want the most?" Adrian made an exaggerated gesture. "Is it to take over his father's company and follow the route they planned for themselves? Or do you start from scratch and break out a new world of your own?! We're young, crow, we have the ability, we have the opportunity! Even if we lose, we can start all over again! "

Looking at his fanatical look, Claude let out a long breath: "tell me, ED, why the media?""Why?" Adrian raised his eyebrows. He suddenly turned around and went to the French window of the living room. He opened the curtain with a crash. The bright night scene at the foot of Beverly Hills suddenly appeared in front of them.

Adrian took a deep breath and pointed to the light. "Look at this city, crow! Here is the world's largest film industry, here are the world's most dazzling stars, countless people come here to look for their dreams, always thinking that maybe one day they stand on the stage to attract the attention of the world! But they don't know, they don't know, they only see one side, the beautiful, attractive, bright side! On the other side, the dark, dirty, full of * * is hidden behind and well hidden! Why? Because what they see is just what those people want them to see! You and I know that, crow! Think about how we feel when they turn with our baton, when they blindly cheer for us? "

The fierce words echoed in the room, Claude could not help but sit up straight. Adrian, standing in front of the French window, didn't say any more. He just looked at his best friend with his bright eyes.

All of a sudden, he looked up and filled the glass. Claude stood up with an unknown light in his brown eyes.

"Well, let's do it!"

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Adrian knows how the world will develop in the next 20 years, and his own conditions and abilities are not bad - don't think copying movies is a simple thing. So if he wants to control Hollywood, it is not impossible. As long as one problem is solved, that is management and operation!

Yes, he knows what to do to make a lot of money, but after all, he was just a director in his previous life. When did he manage and run a big company? Adrian may have had a little experience before, but he had more to eat, drink and have fun. So he had to solve this problem before he could achieve everything, so he finally thought of Claude.

At the beginning, Adrian didn't realize this. He just wanted to make a start-up fund through Claude. And Claude flexible completion of the task to make him aware of the other party's great value to himself, so he put all his eggs on the futures business to his hands, the results naturally needless to say.

Adrian made up his mind to tie him and himself to everything. Claude, who was not willing to be lonely, dared to dare to break through and refused to be sheltered by his parents. In addition, his demagogic words finally agreed.

"Tell me about your plans, ED," Claude said as they sat down in the study. "Don't tell me. You don't have any plans."

"Of course there are plans, but you also know that I am not of this material, so I only have a general idea, and you need to supplement the rest." Adrian made no secret of his shortcomings.

Claude raised his hand and made a "talk and see" gesture.

"Of course, the first thing is to set up a media company. It's OK to buy a shell. We'll discuss in detail how much we invest, how to distribute the equity, and whether Bosworth film company belongs to it." What Adrian said slowly has been, "you are CEO, everything has the final say of you, I do not interfere anything."

"To put it simply, you don't care about anything, be a big shareholder at ease, and I will handle everything." Claude sighed. "It's not fair. Ed, you're too relaxed."

"That's OK. In a word, everything is up to you," Adrian ignored his jokes. "If I have any opinions or suggestions, I'll discuss them with you and ask for your consent and support."

"In this case..." Claude suddenly thought, "what if you insist on something and I still don't agree with it?"

"Then I'll be around you 24 hours a day, lobbying you, no matter what you're doing, working, eating, bathing, sleeping or even sleeping with a woman, I'll be there." Adrian said in his spare time.

"Damn it! Ed, you're disgusting Claude waved in disgust.

"No way, I can't fight with you." Adrian spread his hands.

"Well, skip that for a while, and then?" Claude shifted the subject.

"Set up a venture capital company with a focus on it." Adrian threw out the answer he had already thought of.

"Venture capital company? IT industry? " Claude raised his eyebrows somewhat unexpectedly. "I thought we were talking about the media industry."

"Yes, I know," Adrian nodded. "What can I say What do you think of this year's election? "

"This year's election?" Although Claude didn't understand why he turned to this topic, he still gave his own answer: "the Democratic Party has an advantage."

"Really?"

"Really -- and you?"

"The Democratic Party has an advantage."

"Really?""Really."

They looked at each other for a moment, and suddenly both laughed. The Ron Rees family always favors the Democratic Party, because California is the Democratic Party's territory most of the time, but the Cowell family has always been neutral, so Claude used Adrian's sentence to quibble.

"Do you know who the Democratic Party's preliminary presidential candidate was in January, crow?" Adrian asked after laughing.

"It seems to be..." Claude turned his head and thought, "William Jefferson Clinton?" (note)

(Note: in the actual US election, both parties have to wait until July and August to formally determine the candidates. Here, the plot has changed, and they have thought to modify it to conform to the reality, but the plot behind the event is a bit troublesome, so let's just forget it, let's have a look at it)

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