The two goblets gently touch each other, making a crisp and pleasant sound.

Under a giant parasol, Lin Youlun and Thomas lie side by side on beach chairs, with a bucket filled with ice cubes and two bottles of champagne in the middle.

This is Hawaii's most famous beach in Waikiki, and Thomas returned to the United States from Hong Kong to continue his vacation, and Lin Youlun was his guest.

Thomas pulled out a bottle of champagne from the ice bucket and filled both Lin and his own glasses, "I think it must have been very interesting, John Lasseter and Joe Larenft were all impressed by what you said, Jobs must have been in a bad mood, right?" ”

Lin Youlun shrugged, "He looked a little depressed, but he didn't completely give up his efforts. ”

Thomas nodded and smiled: "Jobs is indeed a guy who won't give up easily, but it's a pity that he met you, so he can only blame himself for his bad luck." ”

After obtaining the approval of John Lasseter and Joe Larenft, Lin Youlun's acquisition of Pixar Animation Studios is no longer in suspense.

Jobs couldn't give a higher purchase price than Lin Youlun, and since Lucas decided to sell the animation department, he naturally hoped to sell it at a good price, Lin Youlun's offer made him very satisfied, and the two sides only took less than three days from the beginning of contact negotiations to the formal signing, and even Thomas joked that this is probably the fastest acquisition in the United States in recent years.

Lin Youlun held the wine glass, looked at the blue sky in the distance, and closed his eyes leisurely.

The main reason why this acquisition of Pixar Studios can go so smoothly is because Lucas is now short of money!

Research on special effects production is a very expensive investment, although the Star Wars copyright revenue continues to support the operation of ILM. However, Industrial Light & Magic "eats" a lot. Every time I finished a movie, I ran to Lucas. "Shoot another Star Wars, we need money." Lucas's decision to sell the animation division was due to the fact that he was not very optimistic about the development of animated films, and also because he wanted to obtain a sum of money to ease the financial pressure.

Lin Youlun brought a total of 100 million US dollars on his trip to the United States, and 50 million was spent on the acquisition of Pierce Studio, and the remaining 50 million was also left in the company account of Pixar Studio.

According to the agreement with John Lassett and Joe Larnft, Lin Youlun has an 80% stake in Pixar Studios. John Lassett and Joe Larenft each hold 7.5%, with the remaining 5% set aside for equity awards to outstanding animators.

As for the $50 million in Pierce's studio account, Lin Youlun didn't leave it to them to do research on 3D animation techniques, he left a script called "Kung Fu Panda" and a story idea called "Toy Story" before leaving.

The script for "Toy Story" was not directly given because Lin Youlun did not want to erase the collective imagination of the members of Pierce's studio, because Pixar's later series of animated films were derived on the basis of this film.

"Kung Fu Panda" is the task given to Pixar Studio by Lin Youlun, and it is not abrupt to come up with such a script as him, and the content of this story also makes the members of Pixar Studio very interested. However, John Lasseter also made it clear to Lin Youlun that this movie can't be made without three or two years.

The biggest problem with 3D animated films is that the production cycle is too long. It can easily take several years, unless there is the support of a large consortium behind it, otherwise it is really not something that ordinary film companies can afford.

"Mr. Lin?"

A slightly surprised voice sounded, Lin Youlun opened his eyes, and found that a few steps away from him on the beach, there was a young and beautiful woman, with long eyebrows and weak shoulders, a slender figure, a moon-like light on her pretty face, thick and black eyebrows, long and soft eyelashes, and blackberry-like eyes filled with a bright brilliance rippling from her heart.

After recognizing the person, Lin Youlun looked a little surprised.

"Miss Li, what a coincidence!"

Li Jiaxin's red lips were pursed, but she couldn't control the spilling nervousness. Obviously, she felt a little apprehensive about waking Lin Youlun up abruptly.

Lin Youlun withdrew his gaze from Li Jiaxin's delicate face, and then noticed that she was wrapped in a water-red gauze scarf around her waist, covering the area above the knee, wearing only a bikini swimsuit on her upper body, revealing a slender willow waist and smooth lower abdomen, wearing a beige sunhat on her head, and the blue sky and sea behind her set off her body beautifully.

"I'm here to shoot an advertisement."

Lin Youlun nodded, thinking that the company looking for Li Jiaxin to shoot an advertisement should be very powerful, otherwise there would be no need to go to Hawaii so extravagantly to shoot an advertisement.

"Oh my God, isn't this Miss Reis?" Thomas left for a while, and when he came back, he saw Lin Youlun really talking to a beautiful woman, and when he got closer, he found that he also knew this beauty.

The Miss Hong Kong beauty pageant is an annual city-wide event in Hong Kong, and Li Jiaxin is called the most beautiful Hong Kong sister by the media.

Seeing Li Jiaxin's surprised face, Lin Youlun introduced her and said: "This is Mr. Thomas, the president of United Arts Asia Pacific. ”

Li Jiaxin shook hands with Thomas reservedly, and Thomas turned back to Lin Youlun and said, "It seems that it is not the right time for me to come back." ”

Thomas was joking with Lin Youlun when Big Brother's mobile phone suddenly rang under the sun umbrella.

"Sorry for the mistake!" Thomas stepped aside to answer the phone.

Lin Youlun opened a chair under the sun umbrella, invited Li Jiaxin to sit down, took out an empty wine glass, and was pouring champagne into it, but Thomas walked back with a depressed face.

"Board, these goddamn stupid pigs, my vacation is in the soup again!"

Lin Youlun stopped what he was doing and looked at Thomas curiously, "What happened?" ”

"Headquarters told me to rush back immediately." Thomas explained to Lin Youlun as he packed up his things.

"So it's time for me to go." Lin Youlun was invited by Thomas, and now that Thomas has something to leave early, Lin Youlun has no need to continue to stay.

"Oh, no, no!" Thomas lifted his glasses, "I have already booked the hotel for Mr. Lin, you can continue to enjoy the sun and the sea comfortably here...... Besides, isn't there still Miss Li? ”

When he turned his back to Li Jiaxin, Thomas winked at Lin Youlun, then lifted his bag and left.

Lin Youlun handed the poured champagne to Li Jiaxin, "Mr. Thomas likes to joke, you don't have to take those words seriously just now." ”

"Mr. Lin is here for a vacation?" Li Jiaxin tried to ask.

"I came to the United States to deal with some things, and I was invited by the way." Lin Youlun leaned back in the chair and looked at Li Jiaxin with his hands folded, "What about you, you will step down as Sister Hong Kong in half a year, what are your plans next?" ”

Li Jiaxin lowered her head, her eyes couldn't stop being confused.

Since she ran for Miss Hong Kong, her experience in the next six months has actually been designed a long time ago, but she herself has been kept in the dark until the end of the Miss Hong Kong beauty pageant, and her agent Miss Liu told her the truth of the matter.

After learning that Lin Youlun was the behind-the-scenes operator of all this, Li Jiaxin was secretly happy for a while, because she knew that as long as Lin Youlun helped, the next star road would definitely be a smooth road.

In this flashy era where being a junior can be justified, Li Jiaxin doesn't feel that it is ambiguous to play with Lin Youlun. What's wrong with being his lover directly, this is the true portrayal of the Hong Kong entertainment industry, not her but someone else, sooner or later, she will exchange her youth for the Qingyun Road to fame.

At the beginning, things were indeed going according to Li Jiaxin's vision, she was successfully elected as Sister Hong Kong, and then became the heroine of TVB's annual drama "Zhu Xian", but the "plot" behind it began to deviate from the normal track.

Lin Youlun started filming one movie after another on his hand, but he seemed to have forgotten about it, except for a "Zhu Xian" that I don't know when Lu Dao would start filming, there was no other TV series arranged.

The imaginary film appointments and advertisements did not appear, but because of the passage of time, the halo of Sister Hong Kong above her head began to slowly lose its dazzling color.

If this continues, Li Jiaxin feels that she will soon be forgotten by everyone.

Because she was unwilling, Li Jiaxin began to put down her previous arrogant posture and took the initiative to contact some advertisers and filmmakers, and it was at this time that the gossip tabloids in Hong Kong began to spread the news that she was dating a certain wealthy businessman for dinner.

Although these news are fake, what Li Jiaxin wants is such an effect. In addition to not wanting to fall like a meteor in the bizarre vanity fair of the entertainment industry, Li Jiaxin also wants to remind someone not to forget himself.

She didn't know that someone rarely reads the news published in the Hong Kong gossip media, and even the "Ming Pao Weekly" under his name is usually too lazy to read it.

It's not that Lin Youlun really forgot about Li Jiaxin, but that he didn't have a suitable role for Li Jiaxin for a while.

Other female stars became famous, more or less for some other reasons, but Li Jiaxin completely relied on the word "beautiful", how many years later, everyone still remembered that she was born in a beauty pageant of Miss Hong Kong, and the title of the most beautiful Sister Hong Kong has always been firmly worn on her head.

At the same time, Li Jiaxin's beauty evaluation was accompanied by everyone's criticism of her acting skills, and some filmmakers even bluntly said that she was "beautiful and beautiful, without a soul".

It's not Li Jiaxin's fault that she looks beautiful, but having no acting skills makes people a little headache! (To be continued......)