Elizabeth's face finally warmed up slightly, but the girl seemed to regard this confrontation as a 'war', and she sat there stubbornly, as if she was going to lose something. However, seeing that Eric didn't care about his appearance at all, the girl was not angry again: "Hey, what are you thinking?"

Eric didn't even look at her, and casually pointed to the floor-to-ceiling landscape lamp on the lawn not far away: "The lampshade over there is quite beautiful, I was thinking that when you can't help but walk away, I'll take a few stuffs from the trunk of the car and bring them back." ”

Elizabeth couldn't help but burst out laughing, but soon tightened her little face and glared at Eric fiercely: "Don't even think about it, I'll keep an eye on you." ”

"That's a shame. Eric sighed, but there was no trace of regret in his tone.

"I said, can you be serious," Elizabeth finally looked a little helpless.

Eric snuffed out the cigarette butt in his hand and threw it into the trash can next to him, before saying, "Okay, Liz, what's the matter, can you tell me straight?"

"I'm ......," Elizabeth paused, "I want to say that you don't forget to pay me a salary." ”

Eric was puzzled, "Huh?"

"Your director's assistant thing, although my father asked me to go, but you don't want me to do it for nothing, I want to do my best to achieve financial independence, so that the old man doesn't want to threaten me with freezing my credit card anymore. ”

Eric smiled, "You're really going to be an assistant director, Liz, we all know your father's purpose." But neither of us meant that. So don't make a fuss, okay? Even though you don't have any lessons. But I'd better go back to school and enjoy your last year on campus, once you're gone, you'll never find that feeling again in your life. ”

"You don't have to worry about my business!" the girl replied dissatisfiedly, and added: "I already have my own plan for my future, and I plan to be a filmmaker, so first of all, of course, I need to familiarize myself with this aspect of things." ”

"Oh? What about News Corp. Didn't you study media just to inherit your father's career?"

Hearing Eric ask, Elizabeth couldn't help but feel a little gloomy: "He's ...... Although my father didn't say it explicitly, I still knew that he wanted my brother to take over. ”

"Your dad is pretty ...... Traditional. ”

Eric didn't expect Murdoch to have patriarchal tendencies, which made Eric feel a little ...... for a moment Cordial.

"Old stubbornness is pretty much the same," Elizabeth muttered dissatisfiedly, and then said to Eric, "Well, there's something else. ”

Eric realizes that Elizabeth is down to business this time. Nodding slightly, he motioned for the girl to continue.

"I discussed it with Julia. Maybe next year, when I have gained some experience, I plan to try my hand at making my first film, and she promised me to be the heroine. ”

"And then?"

"So, I mean...... Can you ...... Sell us a script?"

Eric didn't answer immediately, and took out the cigarette case again, this time Elizabeth finally couldn't stand it anymore, and dodged the cigarette in Eric's hand and threw it directly into the trash: "Hey, don't you realize that smoking in front of a lady is a very rude thing?"

"Okay, okay, I just don't smoke," Eric raised his right hand, and then asked: "Let's not talk about the script, if you make a movie, where will your funds come from, didn't you just say that you want to be financially independent?

"These are two different things, I thought about it, I first borrowed 10 million from the old man to set up a film company, this money is enough to make a movie, Julia also agreed to use the salary to buy shares, and finally take a proportional share. ”

Elizabeth said it for granted, and it seemed to be commonplace for this kind of thing. Eric thought about it for a moment, and he understood.

This is a common way for billionaires to circumvent high inheritance taxes in order to pass on their family wealth. Give your children a sum of money in the name of borrowing money to help them establish and develop their own companies, and wait for their children's companies to develop to a certain scale, and then recover them at a high price by means of mergers and acquisitions such as share swaps, which can allow the rich to pass on their wealth to the next generation at the smallest possible cost.

Although Murdoch does not intend to let Elizabeth succeed him, if Elizabeth opens his mouth about the inheritance of wealth, Murdoch will not refuse.

Eric was thinking about it when Elizabeth suddenly interrupted his thoughts and asked, "Eric, what do you want, do you say yes?"

"Promise what?" Eric subconsciously asked, then he thought about it, showed a curious expression, and asked with a smile: "Script, then, how much money are you going to buy me a script?"

As soon as this question came out, it really stumped Elizabeth.

None of the movie scripts written by Eric himself have grossed less than $100 million, and almost every one of them has brought investors a profit of no less than $50 million. By this standard, even if it is calculated according to the price code of Hollywood's top gold medal screenwriters, it is definitely not enough.

"Look, you haven't thought of anything yet, so let's wait until you're done. ”

Eric stood up after speaking, as long as Elizabeth's comprehension was fine, he would definitely know that he was rejecting her.

It's not just about money, Eric doesn't know how many 'scripts' he has in his head, even if he takes one out and gives it to Elizabeth. But not now, although several consecutive films have achieved box office success, his strength in Hollywood has still not stabilized. If he takes out a script to toss the other party, and he can't maintain his dominant position to check the quality of the movie at all times, if he messes up, it will ruin the undefeated aura he has established through several movies. Obviously, Elizabeth's words moved Julia, but it was not enough to convince Eric that the two girls would succeed.

"Hey, Eric, you wait," Elizabeth hurriedly stopped Eric who wanted to get up, although she didn't know Eric's concerns, but after thinking for a while, Elizabeth temporarily cut off her plan to get the script from Eric, because she realized that she couldn't afford this price at all, but the girl was also quite smart, and soon thought of another idea:" Eric, you see if this will work, I won't take the script from you, Julia and I will pick the script ourselves, but when the time comes, you can help us check and see if the script has the potential to be a big hit......, right?"