After breakfast, we will head to Manhattan again, and the main agenda of the day is related to a series of investment or cooperation projects of the Westeros system in China.

The focus was on the last session of the morning, on the IPO of China Telecom.

The First Boston team from Credit Suisse and Apollo Management from Cersei Capital participated in the meeting, as well as the Chinese team, and the main purpose of the meeting was to accelerate the process of China Telecom's overseas listing.

According to the memory, Simon previously believed that China Telecom's overseas listing could be completed in the first half of next year, because the second half of the year was the Southeast Asian financial crisis.

The official listing date was tentatively set around May next year.

Now, Simon has personally decided to advance this deadline by five months, requiring the IPO operation to be completed by the end of this year.

The IPO process of large state-owned telecommunications companies has taken several years, and for China, the initial plan to be listed in May next year, when Simon visited China in April, when the contract was officially signed, was originally planned to be listed in May.

Suddenly shortened to 7 months, all parties were caught off guard.

Simon was also forced to do so.

With the momentum of the current wave of new technology, Simon judged that the Nasdaq index would last until the end of the year at most, and it happened that the overseas IPO idea designed by the Westeros system for China Telecom was to a large extent also a gimmick of new technology concepts to attract investment. In this case, once China Telecom goes to IPO after the new tech bubble bursts, the results can be imagined.

Simon didn't publicly finalize the reasons for the decision in the conference room, but everyone knew it.

At the end of the meeting, Simon personally had a phone call with the person in charge of the Chinese side at noon, and finally reached an agreement. Compared with the procrastination of the West, Simon is actually very confident in the efficiency of the Chinese side, and in the past few months, the restructuring of China Telecom's assets supported by the Apollo management team has progressed much faster than initially expected.

This is also a Chinese characteristic.

Decision-making is slow, sometimes it is not impossible to drag on for ten or eight years, but once the decision is made, the implementation will be very efficient.

In addition, at the end of the morning meeting, Simon personally drove the teams from First Boston and Apollo Management directly to board the plane to China, along with Chen Qing and his daughter, who he hoped would personally participate in the entire Chinese IPO process in the next few months, so that they could not only accumulate more experience, but also further expand their network.

At the same time, it also acts as Simon's 'eyes'.

China Telecom's first attempt to list a large Chinese state-owned enterprise overseas, and it is also a test of overseas financing for many large Chinese state-owned enterprises, which is very important for China, and it is also crucial for the Westeros system to be able to undertake the financial cake of more Chinese state-owned enterprises to list overseas in the future.

Therefore, there is no room for error.

In the evening, it was a reception for an investor of Verizon Telecom, Simon did not stay too long at the reception, arrived at eight o'clock, just simply greeted some important guests, exchanged pleasantries, and left early after half an hour.

Rush to an apartment in Greenwich, home to Jerry Hall.

Just knocked on the door a few times, the door opened, and a little girl who was more and more slim jumped out and pounced on Simon, with a sweet mouth: "Dad." ”

Simon walked in with Jerry Hall's eldest daughter, Elizabeth, only to find that there was also a party going on here, and it was a very relaxed family party, the kind that dragged the family with the family.

At a glance, it is generally clear that this is Jerry Hall's social circle, in the fashion industry, Anna Wintour, the female editor-in-chief of "Vogue", etc., in the television industry, Anna Coleman, the female president of Fashion TV, or Cathy Hilton and Chrissy Jenner, the heroines of the "Wife series", etc., and in the music industry, Jane Wenner, the editor-in-chief of "Rolling Stone" magazine, etc.

Because of the memories of past lives, most of them are recognized.

Of course, many of them are just acquaintances, and once even if there were more than ten identities, they could often only look up to the top of these various pyramids, but this time, Simon was the absolute one to look up to.

Because it was a certain little girl who had no discipline, she probably got the news or instructions from her mother, and called Simon at noon to invite Simon over, but she didn't expect it to be a party here. Even if he was busy for a week and didn't want to socialize anymore, Simon didn't feel anything about women's careful thinking.

Throwing the grinning goblin directly on a sofa in the living room, Simon turned to Jerry Hall, who was coming over.

Jerry Hall carefully examined Simon's expression and confirmed that the man didn't mind, so he put his mind at ease, stepped forward and hugged Simon, and took his arm and walked towards the crowd.

Many sharp-eyed guests also came over for the first time.

Jerry Hall's large flat-story apartment, which was originally purchased by Simon, has a total area of more than 700 square meters, occupying an entire floor of the apartment building, which is equivalent to six or seven large flats in the size of ordinary apartments.

"For the closure of Victoria's Secret, this is really a big loss for the fashion industry, Simon, don't you really want to think about it again?"

In the corner of the living room, Anna Wintour said with regret on her face, and the few people around her who were able to come together also agreed. For this circle, the recent hot topic is that the Victoria's Secret show will be discontinued after this year, after all, the influence accumulated by the Super Bowl in the fashion industry in the past few years is too great.

Simon hugged the slender waist of the tall woman beside him, shook his head with a smile, and said, "This is a decision that has been made, and it is not a permanent closure. Unlike the Super Bowl and the Oscars, it's hard to surprise audiences every year, so I hope it can be paused when it still leaves the best memories for people, and it will definitely be restarted at the right time in the future. ”

Everyone nodded in understanding.

It was a surprise to be able to meet this young man with more and more power and wealth tonight, and no one would be stupid enough to deliberately provoke a thorn.

Anna Wintour also had an expression of understanding, and said: "Simon, speaking of which, we have finalized the most important September issue of Vogue this year to do a Victoria's Secret feature, as the creator of the Victoria's Secret show, can you take the time to give a short interview?"

This time Simon just smiled and shook his head.

Don't want to risk that kind of limelight.

Anna Wintour didn't dwell either, and Jane Wenner, the editor-in-chief of "Rolling Stone" magazine next to her, interjected at this time: "Simon, I'm still most concerned about music, even if it's the last issue, everyone is very much looking forward to how many BGMs you can provide?"

"This, as long as I'm inspired, I definitely will. ”

Simon said this, I couldn't help but think of "Love Transfer" a few days ago, Janet's idea was to make a Simon Westeros 'To Jenny' latest single released, Simon was the more he thought about it, the more wrong it became, and finally gave up under the resolute opposition, after all, this song, not to mention Chinese, the lyrics...... Janet as a Westerner is not as profound as Simon in the end.

It is not at all appropriate to be published in Simon's name.

In the end, it was only decided to continue to push forward with film and music-related projects in China, and Simon did not intend to sign it at all.

Janet pretended to be angry, and in a blink of an eye, she let go.

This time at the Victoria's Secret show, if you want, Simon can easily come up with a few classic BGMs, but he doesn't have this intention, and in the face of Jane Wenner's inquiry, he just plays Tai Chi.

After a while, Simon left temporarily, went to the bathroom, and came out again, and saw Chrissy Jenner in a black deep V dress coming here through the corridor, very accidentally, seeing Simon, he once again greeted with just the right surprise expression: "Simon, I'm ...... Well, go over there. ”

For this woman, every time I see it, Simon doesn't have any thoughts of going to bed, but he always inevitably has some impulses to tease.

casually pushed open a door next to him, ignored the woman's small excuse, and said directly: "Come." ”

Chrissy Jenner hesitated slightly, and subconsciously looked behind her, to make sure that no one was paying attention, and then hurriedly stepped into the room, closed the door with her backhand, and turned around to look, this is a simple style study, one side by the window is the rest area, the man has leaned on the sofa, seeing her turn around, he raised his hand with a wicked smile and made a downward motion.

There have been several similar encounters, and every time she thinks of the powerful position of this little man not far away, Chrissy Jenner, who admires power in her bones, can't resist anything, but just instinctively surrenders, and unconsciously bends down, with a flattering expression on her face, and slowly crawls towards the man.

The party is still buzzing.

Adults have circles of adults, and children have circles of children.

Elizabeth pulled the Paris Hilton sisters and the Kardashian sisters to hide in their rooms to show the beautiful cherry blossom kimonos they bought when they went to Japan with their mother for a vacation some time ago, frolicking and playing for a while, and remembered the geisha dolls brought back from Japan, forgot where they were for a while, ran out to ask their mother, and happened to see Simon coming out of the corridor on the other side, said hello, and took Kim Kardashian, who had been developed into a fart by herself, to the other side of the corridor.

Simon looked in the direction the two girls were running, paused, didn't say anything, and didn't seem to have time to say anything.

Elizabeth pushed open the door of the study where Simon had just entered, walked straight to the bookshelf, and pointed to a whole row of exquisite geisha dolls about five or six 20 centimeters high: "Look, this is it, let's show it to Ini." ”

Kim Kardashian was about to help, when she suddenly sniffled and said, "Liz, here...... What does it smell like?"

Elizabeth wondered, "What?"

He sniffled as he spoke.

Then the two girl puppy seekers came to the couch, looked at the obvious wet stain on the expensive Persian carpet in front of the couch, and sniffled again, Kim Kardashian looked strange: "Leeds, do you have a dog?"

"No," Elizabeth's expression, who understood what it was, changed a few times, and suddenly became angry again: "Really...... It's so immoral, but my mother specially asked her to bring it back from Iran. The girl covered her nose and took two steps back, even more angry: "If I find out who it is, I will never want to set foot in our door again." ”

After Kim Kardashian was co-opted by Elizabeth from Paris, although she has been working hard to be a girl's little root, how could she be willing to do so in her heart.

Seeing that Elizabeth was so angry that she almost jumped up, she didn't dare to say anything on the surface, but she inevitably gloated a little, and pretended to be unintentional: "Then, how are you looking for who?"

Elizabeth turned her little brain, stepped forward a little, and immediately stepped back, forgetting to take the geisha doll, and ran straight out, intending to complain to her mother.

Kim Kardashian followed up a little behind, and when she went out, she thought about it, and simply left the door of this study open, and then found by others, hum, see that your family is not ashamed, maybe you will think that the Hall family has a quirk and likes to be on the carpet...... Gee.

It's just that as soon as Kim Kardashian left, the door of the study was inexplicably resuited. The people in the room were still a little lucky, fortunately, just now the two girls didn't come forward again, and noticed the back of the sofa. However, then it occurred to me that I obviously couldn't stay here for long.

Find her mother and Simon again, chatting with supermodel Cindy Crawford and her fiancé Rand Gerbert and Stephanie Seymour with their billionaire husband, Peter Brandt.

The girl has always been very ladylike in front of adults, and she waited obediently for a moment before whispering in her mother's ear.

When Jerry Hall heard this, he thought about it, beckoned a waitress, and asked Elizabeth to take the other party over to watch it, Cindy They had already walked away, and the girl didn't want to go over again, so she immediately hung on Simon. Jerry Hall had no choice but to deal with it himself.

When the mother walked away, Elizabeth immediately pulled Simon: "Dad, let's go to my place and show you my kimono, it's beautiful." ”

Simon roughly guessed what Elizabeth had just said to his mother, and he was silent on the surface, but when he saw Kim Kardashian who came over quietly, his expression flashed a little strange.

Soon Elizabeth was dragged to the girl's bedroom, there was a room of girls here, and there were boys at the party, obviously unable to enter the girls' circle.

When Simon entered the door, he happened to see a tall girl who was also familiar with him trying on a blue flower kimono, and when Elizabeth saw it, she immediately began to laugh: "Ini, you are so fat, you are not suitable at all, haha, it is so ugly." ”

No woman, not even a girl, wants to hear someone say she's fat.

Seeing Elizabeth say this, Ivanka, the daughter of a golden retriever real estate developer, was suddenly unhappy: "I'm just better developed and taller than you," the girl said, straightened her waist, and then leaned at Elizabeth's chest very destructively: "Bring fish." ”

Hairtail?

This lethality is really a bit big, the girl immediately let go of Simon, and pounced on Ivanka on the side of the bed, and her slender little body directly threw the girl who was obviously taller than her on the bed, still scuffling half-truthfully.

Simon came to see the excitement, and of course he didn't help.

When he came to the sofa against the wall, the girls who had seen Simon with little stars in their eyes immediately gave him their seats.

Simon sat down in the place that Paris Hilton had given up, patted his knee with some teasing, the girl didn't squirm at all, sat down directly on Simon's lap, and put her arms around his neck affectionately, and said to Elizabeth, who was playing with Ivanka: "Lez, your dad is mine." ”