Volume 8 Final Chapter Chapter 1098 I Love You, Another Year
“There is no new work behind.”
"Would you like to hear a story?"
"uh-huh."
With such a good performance in front of her, Winslet expressed her anticipation.
Nan Yi took a sip of wine to moisten his throat, and then told the story he had conceived on the way.
"In 1997, on Rosarito Beach, the crew of Titanic stopped working for a day because the director had to fight for the budget with the investors. The lead actress Kate happened to have time to take a walk on the beach..."
Winslet smiled knowingly.
"As she was walking, she suddenly saw a bottle lying on the beach. Out of curiosity, she picked up the bottle and poured out two pieces of writing paper. She unfolded them and saw square words on the paper. She recognized that they were Chinese, but she didn't know the meaning of any of the words.
Coincidentally, a man and a woman appeared on the beach..." Nan Yi pointed at Bellucci, "It was her and me. So Kate asked me if I could understand Chinese, and I said yes... I will skip the details later, can you follow?"
Winslet nodded.
"OK, the content on the letter paper is divided into two parts. The first part is an introductory text. We are the Feilong Internet Cafe Pen Pal Club. You can send your letter to us. Just indicate your gender and we will randomly forward your letter to other pen pals of the opposite sex.
Dear pen pal, the letter you see was left by a sad male pen pal. He asked us not to send it, so we put the letter in a bottle and let it drift to the depths of the sea with the ocean current, hoping that a destined pen pal will pick it up.
Dear pen pal, if you are interested in communicating with this sad male pen pal, please mail the letter to Beijing Feilong Internet Cafe Pen Pal Club, PO Box 1977.
Nan Yi pursed his lips and continued, "The second part reads: Jie, I came to your city, walked the road you often walked, took the photo you sent me, found the Feilong Internet Cafe you often visited on the familiar street, sat in the seat you sat in, and used three days to upgrade your account to diamond in the qualifying competition.
Jie, these days I have been ordering takeout from Zhang Sheng Malatang, the restaurant you like, on Huangdou. I ordered all your favorite dishes, such as winter melon, mushrooms, egg rolls, fried dough sticks, and marinated pork steak. You said that the taste of that restaurant is different from that of other restaurants. Actually, I think it is the same, but different, and it has your taste in it.
clean……"
Nan Yi used "洁" twelve times in a row and stuffed fifteen advertisements into it.
Bellucci gave Nan Yi an expression that said, "As expected." Winslet frowned, but did not refute Nan Yi's behavior of inserting advertisements. Instead, she asked, "Adam, can you write so much on a piece of letter paper?"
"The content of the letter can be changed later."
Changes are definitely necessary. The more advertisements there are, the better. The key is to make them easy for moviegoers to remember.
"Uh-huh, what is Soybean? A food delivery company?"
"It's like this. The name of the film is "Untouchable Lovers". Kate and the male protagonist Dongchu are not in the same time and space. Kate's time and space is 1997, and Dongchu's time and space is 2012. In his time and space, technology is more advanced. Mobile phones have been combined with PDAs and can install many software. Huangdou is an app for ordering takeout..."
Nan Yi explained the functions of the food delivery software to Winslet in detail, and introduced the time and space of 2012 that he "constructed".
It was Nan Yi's idea a long time ago to make a movie about the future, but he had never realized it. When he was thinking about riding on the popularity of the movie, Nan Yi thought of the movie "Unforgettable" and imitated its creativity to connect the present and the future.
Nan Yi’s goal for this film is to create a series of coincidences, including food delivery platforms, games, computer hardware equipment, chat software, mobile phone brands and operating systems, real online, etc. Nan’s products related to technology and the Internet will be included in the film as much as possible.
If possible, real estate, agricultural products, snacks, etc. will also be considered for inclusion. Of course, ensuring that the film is exciting is the top priority. If the film is not exciting and fails to attract audiences, everything will be meaningless.
"Kate wrote a letter to the Feilong Internet Cafe Pen Pal Club, and the letter successfully reached Dongchu's hands. The two of them began to correspond. As the letters went back and forth, they knew each other was in another time and space. Kate did not ask Dongchu about the winning numbers of the lottery, nor did she ask about the stock and futures market. She was very satisfied with her life and did not want to cheat.
But one day, Kate's beloved dog Monica fell ill with a disease that could not be cured in her time and space. She confided in Dongchu, and Dongchu told her that this disease could be easily cured in his time and space, and that it only required taking a few pills.
Dong Chu tried to mail medicine to Kate, but his medicine was not sent out. The space-time channel through which he and Kate communicated could only pass through letters, and other items could not pass through.
Dong Chu is just an ordinary office worker with a decent income, but not enough for him to buy a pharmaceutical company or a drug formula..."
"Adam, the patent can be checked," Winslet reminded.
"The pharmaceutical company has not registered a patent." Nan Yi smiled mysteriously, "Moreover, this pharmaceutical company is in London, and the drug Kate needs was developed in 1997. What's more, the person who developed this drug and Kate often have breakfast in the same coffee shop.
Ah, I forgot to mention that the heroine's name is Kate, which is just a joke. It doesn't refer to you. Her character is a not-so-successful little actress with little savings and no ability to make a lot of money."
Winslet spread his hands to show that he didn't care, and then said, "Adam, you want to tell not just a simple love story, but also explore human nature?"
"Maybe, in fact, the story only has a rough framework, and the details have not been conceived yet. If you are willing to play the leading role, I hope you can participate in the creation, and some dialogues and plots can be tailored for you."
Winslet hesitated and said, "I need to think about it."
"Of course, you can take your time to think about it." Nan Yi said, raising the glass in his hand again, "I hope we can cooperate."
"Cheers!"
After finishing the serious business, the three chatted about some meaningless things, drank two or three cups, and then talked about love issues.
Bellucci asked Nan Yi directly, "Adam, will you marry Sophie?"
"No, I'm married and I have no plans to divorce."
Winslet asked curiously, "You love two people at the same time?"
"Yes, I have the romance of the French and the strong curiosity of the Italians. I am always easily attracted by attractive things. When I see a beautiful person of the opposite sex, I will not stop even if I am married. But I will not be a pacifist and will not hide anything from my partner."
Winslet shook his head, "Adam, I don't agree with your view on love."
"Well, I respect your right to disagree with me." Nan Yi shook the wine glass in his hand, "In fact, I don't quite agree with my own view of love, because I don't think what I did is right, just like I don't agree with Jack and Rose's love."
"Why, don't you think their love is beautiful?"
"It's beautiful only because they are on a journey, in the closed space of the cruise ship. Their love is pure because they don't have to think about life. If there hadn't been a shipwreck accident and they had successfully arrived in the United States, what would have happened after that?"
Winslet looked at Nan Yi intently, his eyes sparkling, waiting for him to continue.
The same is true for Bellucci.
Nan Yi continued, "In the script, Ruth was born into a noble family and had no worries about food and clothing since childhood, but she seems to have fallen into poverty and needs to marry another noble to maintain her previous standard of living. Jack is just a craftsman who can sketch, and even needs to win money from playing cards to afford a third-class ship ticket.
If the two of them arrive in the United States, overcome obstacles, and live together smoothly, then what?
Can Jack meet Rose's daily needs? Can Rose endure a life of poverty? No luxury cosmetics, no afternoon tea, and even starvation?
Not only that, without money they can only live in slums, with no toilets, no washrooms, dark and damp, quilts and clothes are always damp, cockroaches and rats crawl everywhere on the table and bed, and even crawl into the quilt. Can Ruth tolerate this?"
The dirty scene created by Nan Yi made the two women frown.
"Will the handsome Jack always be loyal to Rose? When he can't make money, will he sell Rose's jewelry to buy food? Rent? Alcohol? Or even lose it at the gambling table?
There are always wins and losses in gambling. No gambler can be lucky all his life. Perhaps winning that third-class ticket has used up Jack's gambling luck for a lifetime.
Losing money, drinking, no food or clothing, and possibly being retaliated by Ruth's fiancé, disfigured? Losing an arm or a leg?
Would all this make Jack angry? Would he vent his anger on Ruth? Would he beat her up?
When all of Ruth's jewelry is sold out, will Jack do something even more shameless?
A young lady of noble birth will definitely be very popular with men. By selling her body for money, Ruth and Jack will not have to worry about food and drink. Although they live a humble life, they can still survive.
But all this is premised on Jack not going to the gambling table, not owing gambling debts, and not being framed by others. A young lady of noble birth can make a lot of money by selling herself, and there will always be evil forces tempted to control her in their hands.
What I said is just speculation, but the probability of it happening is very high, so Jack can only die at sea, so that their love will always come to a perfect end and will always be pure and flawless.
All love stories are the same, discard the ugly parts and only keep the beautiful parts to write about. "
Winslet seemed to be thinking about himself and Stephen, and sighed and said, "Yes, in fact, time and disease are the biggest enemies of love, and people are always fickle."
Nan Yi added: "In fact, in the world of love, most people are very ordinary. There are not too many thrilling moments, nor are there any unbearable memories. They are just ordinary and bland. They may have a few confidantes, or a few lovers, and a few marriages, and walk through them together, leaving behind some warm and cold memories; or they may always keep him or her in their hearts. Even if they are loyal until death, as time passes and they sink with age, everything will become indifferent."
As he spoke, he also sighed, "Perhaps it is precisely because we are ordinary that the passionate, selfless and flawless love in love stories and love movies makes us envy and yearn for it, because it is something that many people yearn for but cannot grasp in their lifetime."
Winslet and Bellucci's beautiful eyes lit up, and Nan Yi's words touched their hearts.
It’s okay for Winslet. She has a first love boyfriend who loves her very much, and this is her first contact with Nan Yi, so how could she develop a crush on him so easily?
Bellucci had a little regret of missing out. Since meeting Nan Yi in Cannes, he had a good impression of Nan Yi. He was strong, rich, talented, and mature beyond his age. He was a perfect man. But Nan Yi never showed her any intention of pursuing her, so there was no chance for the story of Jack and Rose to happen between them.
Yes, Bellucci felt that even if something happened between her and Nan Yi, it could only be a short love story and never a long one. Love only requires lust at first sight, and living together requires similar values and mutual compromise. She did not think that there was such a tacit understanding between her and Nan Yi. After all, she also possessed the typical Italian romanticism.
Regardless of whether she has feelings for Nan Yi or not, she has no intention of having a story with Nan Yi for the time being. She just got a French boyfriend and is in passionate love with him. Her body is already filled with romance and she does not need to seek romance from the outside for the time being.
So, even though the three of them went into the water with only their body covering themselves, no erotic scenes appeared.
Nan Yi had had some feelings for Bellucci before, but it was never a coincidence each time. Either Sophie Marceau was around or he was busy with something. Now that she is so close to Sophie Marceau, he doesn't have much interest in her anymore. He doesn't have much romantic factor in him, so he might as well leave it for Sophie Marceau.
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The hotel restaurant was booked by Nan Yi. Sophie Marceau sat in the best seat in the center, holding her chin with both hands, her eyes narrowed, one on her eyelashes and the other on Nan Yi's face.
Nan Yi stood opposite Sophie Marceau, with a guitar hanging around his neck. His fingers floated over the strings, pretending to plucking them. His mouth was close to the microphone, humming "My Name is Sophie", which was adapted from "My Name is Elaine".
"Sophie, my name is Sophie, I am a girl, like other girls; Sophie, I have my joys and sorrows, this is my life, just like yours; I want to find love, just want to find love; Sophie..."
That year, Nan Yi was 21 years old and Sophie Marceau was 17 years old. They met on Hollywood Boulevard. This year, Nan Yi was 34 years old and Sophie Marceau was 30 years old. They had been together for 13 years.
Sophie Marceau is a freedom-loving person at heart and doesn't want to be shackled, so Nan Yi has never asked too much of her, just don't cause trouble and don't cheat on him.
However, he didn't give much, only wealth. Love, companionship, support, and much, much more, but he didn't give them. He owed her something.
Alas, I owe more than just this one person!
After one song, Nan Yi sang another song "Everything I Do".
"Look into my eyes and you'll know what you mean to me. Search in your heart, search in your soul, and when you find me, you'll have to search no more. Don't tell me it's not worth a try. You can't tell me it's not worth dying for. You know it's true. Everything I do, I do for you..."
After singing another song, Nan Yi looked at Sophie Marceau's face with burning eyes and said affectionately: "Sophie, I love you!"
Sophie Marceau's eyes were blurred. She stood up and swooped down to pounce on Nan Yi. When she got close, she jumped up on the spot, clamped her legs around Nan Yi's waist, and before she covered Nan Yi's mouth with hers, she said, "Adam, I love you!"
That night, the two of them were almost crazy.
That night, they destroyed the bathroom mirror, toilet lid, shower head, bed sheets, quilt covers, pillowcases, sofas, carpets, and a chair.
That night, explosion, burning, and destruction!
Regardless of everything!
In Rosarito, for three days, everything revolved around "love", the subject, predicate, object, adjectives, verbs, as if they had just fallen in love, and everything was irrigated with love.
After leaving Rosarito, Nan Yi and Sophie Marceau stayed in Los Angeles for another two days, mainly for fun and to assign the script task of "The Unreachable Lovers". The 2012 time and space background of this script had to be structured by Nan Yi himself. He could grasp the balance between what should be true and what should be false.
Nan Yi stayed in New York until the eve of the Spring Festival in 1997, when he met Nan Ruoqiong in Xiangkeng. After that, Nan Yi arranged for her to be an assistant to Grandma Fang Mengyin.
Grandma Fang Mengyin is due to retire in the next one or two years, and she will be replaced by someone from the strategy team. Nan Ruoqiong will go through a long internship period, and when her age, qualifications, and prestige are sufficient, she can take over the Fang Group. If that is never enough, she will never have the opportunity to take charge on her own.
Xianghe will go to Shanghai after the New Year to be responsible for the renovation of Fang Mansion. As the leaves return to their roots, Grandma Fang Mengyin still hopes that the last stop of her life will be at the place where her most youthful and beautiful years took place.
After discussing with Nan Yi, Grandma Fang Mengyin went to the Zhao family in person, both to send New Year's greetings and to handle the transfer of shares. She transferred her personal shares in the Fang Group and some of the shares held on behalf of others to "Zhao Jiatong". Before she came of age, Zhao Shixian held the shares on her behalf, and the dividends also belonged to Zhao Shixian.
In addition, Grandma Fang Mengyin also gave more than a dozen properties that belonged to her to Zhao Shixian. Nan Yi divided the diamonds and gems in the vault of Fang's Manor into two parts. He only kept a few fine pieces for himself. As for the rest, 30% was given to Zhao Shixian and 70% to "Zhao Jiatong".
This was Grandma Fang Mengyin and Nan Yi expressing their recognition of Zhao Shixian. In addition to the status, they gave him everything they could, including the surname of the Nan family's bloodline.
Recognition was given to Zhao Shixian, and time naturally had to be given to Ruan Mei. During the few days he stayed in Xiangkeng, Nan Yi accompanied Ruan Mei. One of the days he even played mahjong with his mother-in-law. It was a very exciting business mahjong. Not only did he want his mother-in-law to win, but he also had to win in a thrilling way, making his mother-in-law feel like a gambling god.
While accompanying Ruan Mei, Nan Yi secretly met with Jin Que'er. In order to welcome her return, Peacock TV is going to shoot a documentary "Reunion". It is claimed that it will be shot for seven seasons, with seven episodes in each season. In fact, only the first season "Shennong" food episode will be shot for the time being. If the ratings and income from copyright transactions are good, they will consider shooting the second season.
On the day of the Little New Year in the North, Nan Yi and Ruan Mei went to Central.
Huang Saner made a lot of money running a bowling alley. One day, she suddenly contacted Nan Yi and talked about changing Feilong Internet Cafe into a chain model, which would not only open branches in other places in Beijing, but also in other cities.
Nan Yi adopted a laissez-faire attitude towards Feilong Internet Cafe. He just wanted to find a place for himself to play. Although he was not used to Huang Saner being so ambitious, he was happy to see it happen. Besides, now was a good time to open an Internet cafe and it would be difficult to make a loss. So he decided to expand. With each person contributing 500 more, he could open branches.
As soon as the additional capital was in place in April last year, Huang Saner put aside other things and devoted himself to the expansion of Feilong Internet Cafe. He went all the way south from Beijing, conquering cities along the Beijing-Guangzhou Line, and leaving no major city along the way untouched. When his troops arrived in Shenzhen, he still had some energy left, so he simply broke through the checkpoints and opened another one in Central.
During the expansion of Feilong Internet Cafe, many historical precedents were set.
Ten million is only enough to buy more than a thousand computers. Logically, the branch should stop when it reaches Shanghai, but in fact it did not. This is because most of the computers in Feilong Internet Cafe are purchased on installment basis with a payment period of one and a half years. The agreed selling price is increased by 15%, and the monthly repayment cannot be less than 5%.
Huayi and the dealer each bear half of the computer's deposit, and the price markup is also split 50-50.
This operation inspired Huayi. Wen Wan went to the bank to discuss cooperation in which credit card users could "overdraft" in installments to purchase Huayi computers. The public relations had been almost done, and news of its implementation would be heard in the near future.
After a few months of operation, the business of Feilong Internet Cafe in Central has gradually improved, and the residents of Hong Kong have gradually accepted this new high-tech thing. Just like when karaoke first appeared in Hong Kong, many people were willing to come in and experience it.
Because of Nan Yi's butterfly effect, "Weigate", which should have been the first Internet cafe in China, had to come in second, and it was a very unfair second place. Feilong had already opened branches all over the country, and Weigate only opened its first one in Shanghai. The customer support and media coverage that it should have enjoyed were all contracted to Feilong .
Moreover, the word "Internet cafe" may not appear again. The starting point is an Internet cafe, and the operating threshold has also been raised.
In the eyes of people today, Internet cafes are not places to play games, but high-tech holy places for learning computers and searching for information.
At a time when the average wage per person is only a few hundred yuan, Feilong Internet Cafe charges 15 yuan per hour and is often packed during the day, with parents often sending their children to the cafe to surf the Internet.
It is true that there is not much to watch on the Internet nowadays, but most of it is essential. You can really learn a lot on the Internet, especially if you are good at English. If you visit more foreign websites, you may find a business model that can be copied in China.
The Feilong Internet Cafe in Central does not have a strong learning atmosphere. Most netizens just hang out on forums and play games. It is like a new type of entertainment venue.
Following repeated suggestions from netizens, Feilong Internet Cafe has undergone an upgrade and renovation, adding many partitions and transforming the open hall into separate compartments. Couples' rooms are the most expensive, and if you want to open one, you will be charged based on two computers. Single rooms are second, and those with three or five computers are third. Seven or eight computers are the cheapest, and a tiered charging standard is implemented.
Nan Yi and the other person sat next to the cashier counter so they could see any new customers coming.
"Network administrator, please give me a private room and a cup of Soul Coffee." A female white-collar worker walked into the Internet cafe carrying her bag and shouted.
"Okay, follow me." The waiter said with a smile.
The female office worker followed the waiter to the private room, and soon the coffee was served. She sat in front of the computer, drinking coffee while posting and upvoting posts in the forum, and browsing various information on the web.
This is the new petty-bourgeois lifestyle that is becoming popular in Hong Kong nowadays. Young middle-class people who pursue new trends often spend the entire weekend afternoon in Internet cafes.
In order to cater to the mood of these white-collar workers, loud noises are strictly prohibited in Internet cafes. There are also smoking and non-smoking areas, and the two areas are separated by a wall so that they will never disturb each other.
Feilong Internet Cafe has put a lot of thought into fire prevention and circuit design. Once a fire occurs, it can be extinguished quickly, and the special circuit design will not burn a whole area.
On the left side of Nan Yi's computer screen, there is a SouthPlayer playback window, which is playing a random movie. On the right side of the screen, there is a TTM chat window, and Nan Yi is adding people who are online.
Ruan Mei sat next to Nan Yi, listening to the music played by EasyBoyMusic, a software wholly developed by Yizai Fund under Nantianmen. Similarly, a TTM window was displayed on the screen, and she was chatting with an unknown man or woman, who might not even be a human netizen.
At a time when copyright is not taken seriously, Feilong Internet Cafe has its own copyright department. It purchases music copyrights from music companies and obtains film and television copyrights from Yidianyi. Each store has a multimedia server so that customers can listen to music and watch movies on their computers.
Nan Yi added six or seven female friends whose profiles showed they were friends, and began to send messages like "Are you there?" to them one by one. In his previous life, when he first started using the Internet, he would chat all night long, but when he counted the words he had sent, the total was less than three hundred.
While waiting for his girlfriend's reply, Nan Yi also opened the cache area of the computer to check if there were any abnormalities in the cache files of the pop-up window. Nan Tianmen released free/open source software one after another. Now the main source of income is pop-up ads, which are very meager. If pop-ups are restricted, it will directly affect Nan Tianmen's income.
As for why the files of pop-up ads are in the computer's cache area, it is mainly due to bandwidth limitations. The traffic required by several pop-up ads may block the network.
It is true that one's thinking is determined by one's butt. In his previous life, Nan Yi was annoyed by pop-up ads, but now he feels extremely familiar with them.
After checking the cache area and finding no problems, he opened the chat window again and sent another message to the friends who had replied. The words were still meaningless and not aggressive. He did not want to engage in an online romance, nor did he want to pollute the still pure online environment.
In Nan Yi's memory, the Internet was quite sincere in the beginning. Netizens would express and resonate with each other when chatting. The forums were also very pure. Some people would ask questions sincerely, and some would answer seriously, and one could learn a lot from it.
Later, there were more angry young people who had only enthusiasm but no brains, or illiterate argumentative people who could only speak foul language. The wise men who had great ambitions and knowledge either disappeared or created small circles that did not allow strangers to easily squeeze in. All kinds of masters came on stage, using one trick after another, and the scammers fought and despised each other, competing for the few remaining leeks with food left in their pockets.
Halfway through the film, Nan Yi closed the player, opened "Diablo", selected a warrior character, entered the game level and started playing.
They played so much that it was dark and sleepy. He ignored Ruan Mei when she called for food. Ruan Mei had no choice but to go out and pack some food for Nan Yi, and then feed it to him mouthful by mouthful.
He entered the Internet cafe at ten in the morning and left at ten in the evening. If he hadn't developed the habit of going to bed early and getting up early over the past ten years, Nan Yi would not stop until he finished the game.
After spending the Southern New Year's Eve in Xiangkeng, Nan Yi embarked on the journey back to Beijing. However, he did not take a straight line, but took a detour to Nanchen Village, mainly to discuss the matter of Nanchen wine.
Since 1994, the domestic liquor industry has flourished. By 1995, liquor production reached a record high of 7.9 million tons, consuming 21 million tons of grain, showing an abnormal expansion trend. It was also in this year that the relevant departments had already hinted that they would issue a document to limit the growth of liquor production and impose restrictions on the intensive advertising of liquor companies in major media.
With Yanjiu and Qinchi winning the bid, domestic liquor companies of all sizes have set up shop on the market one after another, and all kinds of liquor advertisements have flooded the media. It can be said that the whole country is drunk, and the air is filled with the smell of alcohol, which has aroused public disgust. The liquor industry has become a target of public criticism.
At the end of last year, Qin Chi won the bid with a sum of 321.2118 million yuan. It is said that this number is the telephone number of Qin Chi’s CEO. This has caused a big sensation. If they don’t take action, they will not be able to explain to the people of the whole country.
Sitting in the ancestral hall, I muttered to myself, and came up with three strategies:
First, consolidate the grain import channels. Try to import grain from abroad this year. It would be best to import it in the form of barter, exchanging wine for grain from abroad.
Second, increase the scale of exports, preferably real sales. If sales cannot be increased too much, then stockpile a batch overseas to create some sales.
As for baijiu, only Chinese people like to drink it. There are very few foreigners who like baijiu. If you see news that foreigners drink baijiu every day and cannot live without it, you can only say that the person who fabricated the news is overreacting.
Even the Chinese community does not consume too much liquor. The main purpose of Nanchen Liquor's export business is to create news, but also to stand out and become an export-oriented liquor company that stands out from the crowd.
Third, it was announced that production would be reduced in the next two years, and most of the wine produced would be stored in wine storage caves on the back mountain where Nanchen Winery is located to be stored in the cellar for ten or twenty years of aging, further reducing the supply to the market.
In fact, Nanchen Liquor Industry has made some technological breakthroughs and can already simulate the taste of aged wine through technology. It will be ready to launch it into the market in a few years.
At the same time, Nanchen Wine Industry began to formulate a listing plan, planning to go public in 2001, and to further clarify its equity this year.
