Inside the restaurant of the hilltop villa south of Park City.

The time is January 22.

Sunday.

In the early morning, it was not until the waitresses had set up breakfast and had been hiding in the guest bedroom where she had not slept last night that Grace came to the dining room after being reminded by Girl A.

Simon was already sitting at the table with Celia Miller.

Said good morning and glanced at the little man who was casually discussing Ukrainian affairs with Celia in a black OL suit, Grace hesitated slightly, but took the initiative to sit down next to Simon, but she didn't dare to look at Celia opposite.

Bryce Levison was missing from the restaurant.

However, the woman who is pampered on weekdays obviously does not have the habit of getting up early.

Among the three women, whether it is age or appearance, she can't be compared with the other two women, but her feelings for the little man have penetrated into her bones, and she is willing to give everything for him, even if it is to die.

Therefore, although the little man didn't mean to wronged her last night, she took the initiative to join in.

In fact, I was jealous and wanted to fight.

Grace discovered something else. It is always rumored in the circle that he likes other people's wives, however, this seems to be just a façade, and the truth is ...... It seems even more hateful.

Ridiculous little bastard.

But......

Anyway.

As long as you can be by his side so occasionally, anything will do.

After taking a small bite of breakfast and gradually calming down, Grace began to pay attention to the discussion between the little man next to her and Celia opposite.

As for overseas investment, Simon has never been naïve enough to think that he has money and is willing to spend money to open up markets in other countries, so he will only become a fat sheep to be slaughtered. Therefore, a country will only be allowed to invest if it is sure that its foreign economic policy is sufficiently consistent and stable, or that the Westeros system has considerable influence and control over the target market.

The former is China, the latter is Ukraine.

Moreover, the Ukrainian side is limited to Rivne Oblast for the time being.

The Kyiv authorities' previous concessions on the removal of the governor of Rivne Oblast have made Simon determined to further invest in the region.

Simon intends to turn Ukraine, or the Rivne region to be precise, into a sprawling 'European factory'.

Perhaps the most attractive resources for Ukraine for overseas capital in general are agriculture supported by fertile black soil and a vast industrial system inherited from the Soviet Union.

However, in Simon's view, Ukraine's most abundant resource is manpower.

At this stage, Ukraine has 52 million people, and the average salary is less than $30, which is comparable to China across the ocean.

20 years later, China's economy has taken off, and Ukraine, which has been in turmoil for a long time, still has a per capita income of only two or three hundred US dollars, which is still an absolutely inflated figure in official statistics.

The country's economic collapse has caused more than 9 million people across Ukraine to flee their homes and work in a variety of lowest-level occupations in European countries in order to survive, accounting for 20% of the country's total population, which can only be matched by the Middle Eastern countries that have had to flee their homes for many days of war.

Let's not talk about it in the future.

Simon's current plan is to take advantage of Ukraine's low human resource costs to turn the Rivne region into a small 'European factory', attracting companies and capital from inside and outside the Westeros system to build a variety of factories in the region that require a large number of workers.

Compared with this plan, Simon's previous series of investments in the Ronoff Oblast can only be regarded as a small fight.

As Nokia becomes the world's largest manufacturer of mobile communication equipment, especially the output of mobile phones will show explosive growth in the next few years, and eventually reach the terrifying sales of hundreds of millions of mobile phones every year, the bottom assembly workers required for the production of Nokia mobile phones will also reach hundreds of thousands, and if you count various supporting industrial chains, the overall employment will reach millions of levels.

Nokia's main foundry base will be located in China.

However, due to certain concerns that eggs cannot be put in one basket, Simon plans to place part of Nokia's mobile phone production business in Ukraine.

In the near future, Nokia will build an assembly plant with an annual output of 1 million mobile phones in Rivni, which alone will bring 3,000 direct jobs and indirectly drive at least 10,000 long-term jobs.

And that's just the beginning.

Just past 1994, Nokia shipped 12.7 million mobile phone devices alone, and it is expected to reach 20 million units in 1995. After the explosion of the mobile communications industry in 1996 and 1997, this data will continue to double.

Simon's plan is to place 20 to 30 percent of Nokia's mobile phone production in Ukraine, depending on the situation.

As a result, Nokia alone will be able to create hundreds of thousands of direct and indirect jobs in the Rivne region in the future.

Nokia is certainly not the only one in the plan.

The presence of other Westeros system affiliates can also achieve this effect.

At that time, the city of Rivni, the capital of Rivne Oblast, will be more prosperous than Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, and with the deepening of economic infiltration, the control of the Westeros system over Rivne Oblast and even the whole of Ukraine will become stronger and stronger.

When millions of people's jobs are at stake, no one dares to act rashly against the interests of the Westeros system in Ukraine.

Moreover, Simon will not support the Rivne region unrestrainedly, and he has even considered how to re-simulate the wealth accumulated after the development of this region in the future, so as to avoid its industrial upgrading and get rid of the fate of the lowest OEM base.

It's actually very simple.

Real estate.

A house, a mortgage for decades, binds several families for a lifetime, and it is neat.

Murder without blood.

Therefore, in the future, if some uncontrollable change occurs, Simon can leave only real estate in the Rivne region, and it may be the last worthless real estate, and the wealth accumulated by millions of people through decades of hard work will be quietly drained and transferred by the Westeros system.

Simon will not easily inform others of these deep-seated considerations, even if Celia has had a skin-to-skin relationship with him at the table at this time, he will only let Celia implement it according to his own plan.

However, even if Simon didn't point it out, Celia was faintly aware of the huge and far-reaching layout of the little man in front of her.

Unlike a woman beside Simon who has given up on herself and can't extricate herself, Celia, who was forced to quit Washington officialdom, still pays more attention to the powerful hidden power brought to her by relying on the Westeros system.

Celia enjoys the feeling of speaking in front of many heads of state representing the Westeros system at the United Nations General Assembly, of being personally involved in the creation of a private military force, and of bargaining or even-for-tat with the president of a country.

Celia does not deny in the slightest that she is a woman of power.

Originally, I was still a little dissatisfied with helping men deal with all kinds of business and even trivial matters in life, but during this time, especially after Simon's combing in the early morning, Celia realized that men seemed to have a big chess game at their fingertips, and unconsciously laid out a huge chess game.

And she is no longer reduced to a chess piece like other sentient beings, at least she is also a fragrant red sleeve who cooks tea next to the chess player.

Towards the end of breakfast, Simon said to Celia, who had a certain sparkle in his eyes: "I'll return to Los Angeles in the morning, if there are no other arrangements, I will leave for Ukraine next Wednesday, if you don't want to go there with me in the short term, just let Emily accompany you." ”

When Celia heard this, she immediately shook her head: "No, I'll go with me." ”

Simon nodded: "It's better that way." ”

Grace didn't interject during the whole breakfast process, she knew that the little man next to her was a delicate guy, and he rarely made the people around him feel cold, and he didn't take the initiative to talk to her just now, not because he ignored it, but because he was close enough and there was no need.

Grace never took the initiative to talk, and quietly acted as an observer.

Now that the little man said that he was leaving in the morning, Grace, who had already finished her breakfast, couldn't help but look over.

Simon noticed her gaze, turned his head and smiled and asked, "When are you going back to New York?"

If it weren't for Simon, Grace wouldn't have come to Park City this weekend.

However, since she came, she couldn't leave her as soon as the man left, which was a bit too obvious, and after thinking for a while, he said: "Tomorrow morning, I will also attend the brand event of Lishkabang in the evening." ”

Simon listened to Grace's soft voice, couldn't help but reach over and grab her delicate chin and pinch it, and scraped the tip of the other party's nose when he closed his hand, watching the woman flash back and forth between himself and Celia in a panic with a strange and shy gaze, and said with a smile: "Then this place will be lent to you to live, and Zoe and they will also be left to you." ”

Grace opened her mouth to refuse, but felt the man's warm gaze that wanted to melt her away, and nodded subconsciously: "Hmm." ”

Coming from Thursday, attending the Sundance opening ceremony, quietly completing the secret meeting with Bush Sr., the premiere of "This Man Is from Earth" has been completed, some of the newcomers who should be wooed last night have also been communicated, and all the arrangements for Simon's trip to Park City have been completed.

After breakfast, without stopping too long, Simon drove straight away and headed to Salt Lake City, the capital of Utah, where he would take a private jet back to Los Angeles. Celia Miller leaves Park City with Simon, except that she will take a flight to the East Coast in Salt Lake City.

Immediately after Simon left, Grace sensed that the villa seemed to be much empty.

In fact, my heart is still empty.

couldn't help but arrange for Zoe to take care of the villa inside and out like a hostess, which gave birth to some satisfaction.

It's just that I always feel as if I've forgotten something.

It wasn't until about eleven o'clock in the morning, after finishing the 'housework', calling the two children in New York, explaining some trivial matters, and finally sitting in a living room on the second floor of the villa with a panoramic view of Park City, drinking the coffee that Zoe had just served, Grace suddenly remembered that there was another guy in the villa.

When I came to the master bedroom, a lazy woman really hadn't gotten up yet.

Shaking the other party up very unceremoniously, looking at the various marks on Bryce Levisson's white skin when she sat up in a daze, Grace even gave birth to a strange envy, people's physique is different, she is the kind of woman who is difficult to leave marks on her body, Bryce Levisson, who has been pampered since she was a child, but she is the kind of system that can get out of the water with a pinch.

Then Grace couldn't help but pinch it again.

Bryce Levison was in pain, protested dissatisfiedly, and had no choice but to start dressing at Grace's urging.

After washing up, I went downstairs and learned that Simon had left, and Grace seemed to have the intention of driving her away, and Bryce Levison didn't seem to be with her, so she immediately relied on it, and just didn't leave anyway.

After communicating with Simon yesterday, Bryce Levisson's purpose for this trip to Park City has been achieved.

The follow-up is not something she needs to care about as a housewife.

Although he didn't like the cold weather in Park City, after a day and a night, especially with such a large house and a group of maids who were more attentive than their servants, Bryce Levison thought it was actually a good place.

So plan to stay for a few days.

Don't go.

She's actually very smart.

Since the man didn't send her out when he left, and he allowed Grace to borrow it, there was no reason why she couldn't stay.

What's more, he was tossed so badly last night, which is considered compensation.

As for what his own man in Florida thinks, since he ruthlessly sent himself to 'sheep into the tiger's mouth', she should be mentally prepared, she knows her husband's temperament, and she caught up with her, a beautiful and lovely person who was ten years younger than him, and married her son, and they did not sign a prenuptial agreement.

Therefore, in order to avoid half of the family property being divided, he does not even dare to divorce now.

What's more, the man last night was still Simon Westeros. can feel that the other party is quite satisfied with her, and that is actually a very generous guy to women.

All in all, Bryce Levison doesn't feel like she has any worries.

At night, they also fought for the comfortable master bedroom, threatening Grace to let her son bully her daughter, but they didn't succeed, and finally the two shared the queen bed equally.

Grace leaves the next day.

The other party has a job, but he is not as idle as her.

Originally, I was still a little worried, but when the baby-faced waitress named Zoe left with a few others, two more waitresses and two female guards came to take over.

So I stayed in peace.

During the day, you can go to the quirky movies, go skiing, and party all kinds of things at night. Probably because of her relationship with Westeros, all the circles in Park City were open to her, and she also met some Hollywood superstars, which made Bryce feel a sense of superiority that she had not had in her previous life.

I was also accosted while skiing on Wednesday morning.

Very handsome guy.

Just starred in a film that received good reviews in Park City, chattering and talking to her about the plot of the movie, and her high-spirited appearance.

Although she likes to live a luxurious life and requires refinement in everything around her, Bryce Levison has a kind of pride in her bones when it comes to men and women, she despises the women in the circle of noble ladies who cheat on restaurant waiters or fitness instructors, and she feels very unstylish, and naturally she will not feel anything about a beautiful man's accosting.

Sensing the other party's entanglement, Bryce quickly lost patience and directly said that she was Simon Westeros's lover, and if the other party didn't disappear in front of her eyes in 10 seconds, she would let him disappear into Hollywood forever.

The two female guards who were not far from her happened to approach.

I probably heard some news, and then looked at the two menacing guard girls, and probably thought of something, the beautiful guy immediately understood that Bryce was not joking, and with an embarrassed smile on his face, he turned around and left in a hurry, because he was in too much of a hurry, and rushed all the way down to the ski resort guardrail.

Later, I heard that I broke my right leg.

Bryce just stood there gloating, and then decided to stay in Park City until Sundance closed.

The tax audit storm against the Levison Group was raised high, and then gently put down in the blink of an eye.

The day after Bryce Levison met with Simon, Francis Levison was released on bail, and the magistrate reduced the bail to $5 million on the grounds that it was defending the interests of thousands of Levison employees and many creditors, and ended up using Levisson's properties in Florida and New York as collateral.

The IRS's tax inspection of the Levison Group has also become less fanfare, and an IRS spokesman also publicly said in an interview with reporters on Monday that the Levison Group is not a big problem and that the matter will be over in two weeks.

Simon had Bryce tell Francis Levison that the audit was not his instigation. After this catastrophe, coupled with the reactions of many people inside and outside the Levison family during his detention, Francis Levison completely realized the fact that working with Simon Westeros was his best way out.

Therefore, on the afternoon of his release from prison, Francis Levison personally called Simon to discuss Westeros' acquisition of a stake in the Levison Group.

$1.5 billion, 35% stake.

Francis Levison didn't have any bargaining this time.

Faced with pressure from many creditors, shareholders who did not want Simon to enter the market have also had to compromise.

The specific agreement is subject to detailed negotiations.

And, in order to ensure that there are no unforeseen risks such as hidden debt and legal risks, Westeros will conduct a detailed audit of the Levison Group

Calculated that it would take at least a month for the deal to be completed.

Simon handed the matter over to James Raybould, the female assistant's father, and spent two more days in Los Angeles dealing with some Daenerys Entertainment Group matters. On January 25, he set off again and rushed to Ukraine.