Although Thales is an ordinary housewife with little opinion, she is not stupid, and from Eric's brief eye contact with her daughter, she can roughly see some clues.

However, since Eric agreed to come down in person, she felt that such a big man, well, although he was too young, would not lie to them.

Now that Eric had promised Miranda to sign with Disney, Thales asked about another thing he was most concerned about.

"So, Eric, about Miranda's stay in the United States?"

Eric said, "Ms. Kerr, if you don't worry, you can stay in the United States and take care of Miranda." ”

Thales shook his head and said, "That's not good, I have my own job in Brisbane, and my husband and son can't do without me." What John and I meant was that we wanted Miranda to be able to go to boarding school full-time and stay in school as long as she wasn't filming. ”

"Mom, I don't want to go to boarding school," Eric was about to nod his head, but Miranda had already called out, and her parents hadn't discussed it with her beforehand. And, what a joke, if you go to boarding school, what's the difference between that and going to jail.

Thales was not angry because of her daughter's resistance, and said in a gentle tone: "Baby, you are still underage, you don't go to boarding school, and your father and I are not at ease to leave you alone in the United States." ”

"Isn't it possible to find a temporary guardian so I can go to a regular middle school," Miranda said, turning her head to look at Eric.

Noticing Miranda's gaze, Thales immediately shook her head.

"No," Thales raised her voice a little, but felt that the reaction was a bit rude, as if she didn't trust Eric, well, although it was true.

After a pause, Thales made up for it and said, "You're lucky to get the job of an actor, we can't trouble Eric anymore." ”

Eric also shook his head at this time and said with a smile: "According to federal regulations, I probably don't meet the conditions to be your temporary guardian, I'm a bachelor now." ”

Hearing Eric's refusal, Thales relieved himself and said to his daughter, "Ah, you heard me. ”

"But I don't want to go to boarding school, and if I have to, I'd rather ...... I'd rather ......" stumbled twice, Miranda Kerr didn't say that she would rather go back to Australia after all, and turned her head to look at Eric, and said, "Eric, even if you can't be my temporary guardian, you can always help me find a suitable host family, right?"

Eric shrugged his shoulders slightly and said, "That's fine, but you have to agree with your parents." ”

Miranda Kerr immediately got up from Eric's side, walked towards Thales, and said coquettishly, "Mom......"

Eric looked at Thales' helpless look, got up and said, "I'll go see if dinner is ready, you can discuss it." ”

I don't know how the mother and daughter communicated, but during dinner, Thales still said that she still wanted her husband's consent, but her attitude had completely softened.

Miranda Kerr was also very excited, like a wish-fulfilled little magpie, chattering with Eric at the dinner table about all sorts of inconsequential things, from falling off a horse on her grandmother's farm a few years ago to shooting the cover of "DOLLY" magazine not long ago. Although she is not very old, her ability to observe words and emotions surpasses that of her mother, and she feels that Eric is not disgusted with her showing off her character at all, but is full of interest, so she does not deliberately restrain herself.

Eric has seen many cases of one generation being strong and one generation being weaker, and he has personally experienced the Murdoch family. At this time, it is the first time to see the counterexample of a generation of weak and a strong generation, and it is also interesting to see that Miranda Kerr is full of assertiveness and is unusually precocious, but her mother Thales has very soft ears and does not insist on it.

After dinner, because during the dinner, because she heard Eric talk about the private screening room in the villa, the girl pestered Eric to go in and have a look, and after Eric agreed, Miranda Kerr left her mother alone in the small living room to watch TV, and pulled Eric out of the room.

After watching a movie, I found that the time was already more than ten o'clock in the middle of the night.

The hotel where the mother and daughter live is in Burbank, near the headquarters of the Firefly Group, and the straight-line distance from Jianjiao Manor is more than 40 kilometers.

Eric opened his mouth to keep the guest, and although Thales felt that it was very inappropriate, he immediately agreed when he saw his daughter, so he did not insist.

After arranging the rooms for the two of them, Eric went back to his bedroom, took a shower, and leaned back on the bedside to read the latest project plan for the paid cable station that he brought back from the studio today.

Several of the cooperative toll cable stations are tentatively named FFM, which is the initials of Firefly-Fox-MGM. If there is no more suitable name in the future, it will not be changed.

HBO's current number of subscribers is close to 10 million, although it has not reached the peak of more than 30 million users in Eric's memory, but according to the current monthly subscription fee of $9.99, HBO's annual turnover has exceeded $1 billion.

In this case, there is not much time left for FFM TV to catch up, Eric's original plan was to imitate the money-burning strategy of the emerging Internet companies later, spend huge sums of money to produce self-made dramas with sensational effects and strong topics, and spare no effort to carry out marketing and promotion, and quickly accumulate a user base by completely sacrificing profits in the early stage of the development of the TV station, so as to achieve the purpose of competing with HBO.

However, in the course of repeated discussions among the heads of several companies, the shortcomings of Eric's plan were quickly revealed.

The pay-per-fee cable station under the remote communications company that the three major companies plan to take over has only 1.5 million subscribers, which is only about one-seventh of HBO's.

After all, paid cable stations are different from basic cable stations, just like Lifetime TV station, although the original ratings were also miserable, most of the program viewers were only one million or even 100,000 level, but it has a total user base of 30 or 40 million, "American Supermodel Competition" and "Flyover Pride" were born, and the audience only needs to pick up the remote control to change the channel if they want to watch, so the ratings immediately skyrocketed.

Paid cable subscribers are usually only a few million, even if it is HBO, the number of subscribers has not exceeded 10 million, because of the high subscription fees and hardware constraints, the number of subscribers can not be said to grow as growing, usually, this requires a long-term accumulation process, HBO's current subscribers of less than 10 million are also the result of more than 20 years of operation.

Since the first step of FFM is to expand the number of users as much as possible, the experienced Murdoch quickly came up with a simple but very practical proposal, M&A!

The Fox television network, which has covered the entire United States, is the result of a series of frantic mergers and acquisitions of News Corp. in the 80s.

In addition to HBO, there are many small pay-per-view cable stations throughout North America that broadcast similar content.

These second- and third-tier premium cable stations are basically subsidiaries of cable operators, and with the convenient channel resources of the parent company, these paid cable stations can also get a piece of the pay TV market by relying on relatively low subscription prices.

Although the price charged is low, these TV stations have high-quality paying subscribers in their hands. Acquiring several at once and merging them, the user accumulation speed is definitely much faster than the method proposed by Eric at the beginning.

Reading the information in his hand, Eric casually picked up the remote control and turned on the wall-mounted TV opposite the bed, wanting to see what the TV station called 'Solo Movie Channel', the operator mentioned in the document, was like, Cablevision had intended to sell the paid cable station with 900,000 subscribers, but the offer was as high as $315 million, and there must be a tug of war when negotiating.

Found the Duli Movie Channel, Eric casually glanced at the plot of a movie that was playing, and shook his head tastelessly, in the TV screen, two not too beautiful blonde girls with exaggerated expressions on their upper bodies and running wildly under the pursuit of the murderer, this is obviously an ultra-low-budget thriller movie. Eric could probably guess that the plot was in "Scream" mode just by looking at it a few times.

The proportion of bad movies in Hollywood is still very high, because the huge market is here, and the solo production company has scraped together tens of millions of dollars to shoot some films, even if it can't be released in theaters, but first release a round of videotapes, and then sell the broadcast rights to TV stations such as independent film channels, and overseas copyright sales can also recover a little.

Losing interest, Eric was about to change the channel when he heard something coming.

Knock Knock Knock –

Eric froze, and it wasn't until his voice sounded again that he was sure it wasn't his hallucination.

I looked at my watch, and before I knew it, it was half past eleven.

Finding a pair of beach pants from a nearby cabinet to put on, Eric went to open the door, and each of them took the initiative to speak, quietly looking at Miranda Kerr in the hallway, who was pretending to be shy and fiddling with her fingers.

Glancing at Eric, who was only wearing beach pants, the girl's face was flushed, but she didn't flinch, and plucked up her courage and said, "Eric, I can't sleep, can I talk to you?"

Eric laughed, "If your mother knew that you secretly came to 'chat' with me in the middle of the night, she would definitely be crazy." ”

"My mom usually sleeps so deeply that she doesn't know it," Miranda said, squeezing forward, and Eric had to get out of the way, and the girl walked in unceremoniously.

Before Eric could change the channel, Miranda walked into the bedroom, she heard a scream on the TV, and glanced at the TV screen a few times, and the girl turned her head and said with a little sly: "Eric, so you like to watch this kind of movie." ”

Eric didn't bother to explain to her, closed the door with his hand, walked to the bedside, and put the materials he had just read into a locked drawer, although he liked to get along with all kinds of women, Eric was not stupid enough to be completely defenseless against women.

Locking the drawer, Eric picked up a copy of Stephen King's horror novels on the bedside table for bedtime and leaned against the head of the bed, looking at the girl who was wandering curiously in the bedroom.

Since then, Miranda has been barefoot, not even wearing socks, and her steps are as light as a cat, but she is still wearing the original thin sweater and jeans, and the thin clothing wraps the already well-developed body exquisitely.

Lying on the north side of the window and looking at the lights of downtown Malibu late at night for a while, Miranda whispered a few words, turned around and walked towards Eric, sat down on the edge of the bed very naturally, tilted her body to try to feel it, and said, "Eric, why is this bed so big?"

Eric glanced up at her and 'threatened', "This can sleep a lot of women." ”

Miranda smiled, climbed directly into bed even more boldly, lay down beside Eric, raised her face, and said, "Are you trying to drive me away?"

Eric didn't bother to look up this time, casually flipped a page of the book, and asked, "Why do you say that?"

"Hehe, you know it yourself. ”

Eric said, "You've been thrown out by now, if I wanted to." ”

Miranda Kerr laughed again, and after a moment she said, "Eric, I want to take a bath." ”

Eric wanted to know what the little goblin could make of it, so he nodded, "Well, go ahead, Yumuro is over there." ”

"But I don't have pajamas. ”

"You can wear mine. ”

"You're not wearing pajamas either," Miranda said, reaching out and tapping lightly on Eric's chest, her fingertips cold.

Eric scooped up the white shirt he wore during the day, "Now, let's wear this later." ”

Miranda Kerr took it, shook it twice in her hand, looked up at Eric, saw that he didn't care, his little nose wrinkled slightly, and got out of bed and walked towards Yumuro.

Eric heard the sound of Yumuro's door shut, looked up, and shrugged.

Over the years, he has experienced too many women and has different attitudes towards him, and Miranda's behavior did not surprise him too much, a certain leprechaun was so tirelessly pestering him back then.

Thinking of Drew, Eric unconsciously recalled the experience of being reborn over the years.

Step by step, Eric has forgotten how many women have appeared around him, and his mentality has changed step by step, from the beginning of his high spirits to the current game life.

I used to always want to take every woman I liked by my side, but now this kind of thinking is gradually fading.

Eric found that he was not suitable for the days when Playboy founder Hugh Hefner was surrounded by women all the time, he was even a relatively lonely person in his bones, he liked to be quiet, and he didn't need more women around him, just one or two, and he didn't like to look good, and when he was light-hearted, he left separately.

Perhaps, Drew is the one who knows him best, although the girl wants to be tired of being by his side all the time, but she never does this, just helps him take care of everything in life like a little housekeeper. (To be continued.) )