February 13, Berlin Airport.

"Zhimo, to be honest, did you deliberately not want to spend Valentine's Day with me before going back?" Zhang Ziyi stared at Lin Zhimo with two bright eyes and asked.

"How is that possible? How could I have that kind of thought? It was really the crew who asked me to hurry back to filming. Lin Zhimo said with an oath.

"Really?" Zhang Ziyi was still a little skeptical.

"Really, more real than real gold." Lin Zhimo swore again.

"Well, I'll forgive you this time...... But next time you're going to have to spend Valentine's Day with me, I've booked it. Zhang Ziyi hugged Lin Zhimo's arm and shook it gently.

"Yes, yes, I promise?" Lin Zhimo said this but didn't care about it in his heart, after all, as an actor, Lin Zhimo knew that if the two of them were really busy, I am afraid that they would forget what day Valentine's Day was, let alone get together.

Zhang Ziyi didn't find that Lin Zhimo's mouth was wrong, she gently kissed Lin Zhimo's lips and said, "Okay, hurry up and get on the plane, don't delay time." ”

Lin Zhimo and Zhang Ziyi waved goodbye and started the security check, and Zhang Ziyi did not turn around and leave until Lin Zhimo's figure disappeared into the passage.

This is the difference between Zhang Ziyi and Lin Xinru, Lin Xin and Lin Zhimo are both unwilling to see the separate scenes, so they generally do not go to the airport to see off, but Zhang Ziyi is different, she thinks that since the two are friends, they must fulfill their duties as friends and make friends feel their hearts.

The two ways of dealing with it completely show the difference between the surnames of the two women.

Lin Zhimo didn't have any special likes and dislikes in his heart, although he hated to see the farewell scene, but Zhang Ziyi was able to squeeze out time to give himself a ride in his busy activities, how could Lin Zhimo not be moved in his heart?

……

"Sesame, how is it, was it an eye-opener at the Berlin Film Festival?"

As soon as Lin Zhimo returned to the crew, Li Binbin couldn't wait to ask about the Berlin Film Festival.

Actresses from all over the world have a strong curiosity about the three major European film festivals, and Li Binbin is naturally no exception. In fact, for Li Binbin, the feeling in her heart is more complicated, because of her age. Li Binbin is 27 years old this year, this number may not be big for an ordinary woman, but for an actress, the meaning is completely different.

Zhang Ailing once said: "It's better to be famous as soon as possible." ”

This sentence is frequently used in the actress industry, because the golden period of every actress's life is from 25 to 35 in the decade, if it is before 25, it would be better, but once you are over 35 years old, your skin begins to sag, your complexion begins to darken, and your eyes are far less bright than when you were young, then what follows is a sharp decrease in notices, a decline in income, and a decrease in exposure, which in turn makes her fame decline, and then there are fewer notices......

Under the cycle of evil surnames, in short, if an actress is still not famous before the age of 35, then her acting career can basically be declared over.

It is precisely because of this psychology that Li Binbin's attention to the film festival is more urgent than others, not that she will be of any help after paying attention to the film festival, this is just a subconscious comparison, wanting to know what those actresses who are more successful than themselves are.

(It's like a writer who hits the street with a certain bit of fiction will always subconsciously click on the works of those great gods, even if he can memorize those novels, he may not be able to improve his writing level, but he will always click involuntarily...... Hachi admits that I'm laughing at myself. ）

Lin Zhimo also knows more or less about Li Binbin's psychology, in fact, let alone her, even Lin Zhimo himself is a little jealous of Zhang Ziyi, after all, not every actor can cooperate with a big director of Zhang Yimou and Li An in his first work.

"It's really eye-opening, but it's more envy, jealousy and hatred, look at those big stars are real international superstars, we are just small people, we can't be compared with others." Lin Zhimo said that in the end, he remembered that he was despised by a small model, and he also felt a little touched in his heart, and said with embarrassment.

"You are not a small person, now in the minds of college students, your appeal is one of the top people, if not the strongest." Ren Quan didn't know when he came to Lin Zhimo's side and said.

"What do you mean by Brother Ren?" Lin Zhimo called Ren Quan's nickname.

"It's your 'I believe' song, which is now very popular with students, and it is said that every university event will have the sound of this song." Ren Quan saw that Lin Zhimo really didn't understand, so he explained.

"Really?" Lin Zhimo was overjoyed, and he was still happy that his songs could be liked by everyone.

"Yes, otherwise Director Hu will ask you to compose the theme song for the TV series?"

"Write a theme song?" Lin Zhimo was stunned.

"You don't know?" Ren Quan was also stunned.

"I don't know, it's the first time I've heard you say this." Lin Zhimo spread his hands.

At this moment, Hu Mingkai beckoned Lin Zhimo: "Zhimo, come here!" ”

Ren Quan said: "Look, I must be discussing the theme song with you." ”

Sure enough, as Ren Quan said, Hu Mingkai was going to discuss the theme song with Lin Zhimo.

"Zhimo, I know that your musical talent is not much worse than your acting skills, so you still need to pick up this burden." Hu Mingkai said to Lin Zhimo in a serious tone, but the expression on his face was like "I just rely on you, what can you do with me".

Lin Zhimo naturally knew that if he created the theme song of the TV series, it would play a good role in promoting both himself and the TV series, so he did not pretend to prevaricate, and after thinking about it, he agreed directly.

……

On this day, Lin Zhimo was told that someone was visiting the class as soon as he finished filming his scene, because there were always reporters who came to visit during the previous filming, so director Hu Mingkai banned any non-staff from entering the filming site in order to prevent outsiders from taking advantage of the fact that the well-known tour of the visiting class was snooping.

Lin Zhimo changed his clothes only to find that it was none other than Lin Xinru who came to visit the class.

The two didn't hide it, after all, this is a film and television shooting base, and they can often see various stars walking on the street, so they entered a teahouse so generously.

"Xinru, did you have a decision in your heart?" Lin Zhi asked silently after the two of them sat down.

"Well, in fact, I've always had the idea of changing jobs before, but it hasn't been done for various reasons, if you can really provide those termination payments now......" Speaking of this, Lin Xinru's pretty face still showed a hint of struggle, hesitated for a moment and continued: "...... If you really have that money, then I'll sign it to Sister Wen. ”

Lin Zhimo snapped his fingers and said with a smile: "That's right!" Rest assured, there is absolutely no problem with the financial aspect. ”

Lin Xinru suddenly said again: "Zhimo, can I let Amy continue to be my agent?" ”

"Huh?"

Lin Zhimo didn't expect Lin Xinru to suddenly make this request, but this decision Lin Zhimo couldn't make the decision for Huo Xiwen, so he said: "In that case, I'll ask Sister Wen first." ”

After speaking, Lin Zhimo took out his mobile phone, but he suddenly stopped again, and asked with some hesitation: "Xinru, ...... the TV series?"

Lin Xinru was slightly stunned, and then understood that what Lin Zhimo said was "deep love and rain", she didn't know that Lin Zhimo was jealous at this time, and said directly: "Naturally, I will continue to film, and I will terminate the contract after filming this drama." ”

Lin Zhimo looked at Lin Xinru with a deserved expression and couldn't help asking, "Since you have decided to terminate the contract, why do you continue to shoot?" ”

"Of course, it's to repay the favor!" Lin Xinru didn't understand why Lin Zhimo asked this, "After all, if it weren't for Aunt Qiong Yao, I wouldn't be where I am today, even if it's the last drama I shoot for her." ”

Hearing Lin Xinru's reason, Lin Zhimo suddenly didn't know how to refute it, did he want Lin Xinru not to shoot for the sake of his own careful thoughts, Lin Zhimo couldn't say it himself.

Lin Xinru looked at Lin Zhimo's hesitant appearance, and knew Lin Zhimo's thoughts as soon as her mind turned, Lin Xinru was not angry in her heart, on the contrary, it was a little sweet, so she said softly: "Don't worry, Zhimo, I will try my best to communicate with the director, if I can't shoot a kiss scene, I will never shoot it, even if I have to shoot it, I have to borrow a position to shoot, how about it?" ”

Lin Zhimo was not embarrassed at all when Lin Xinru saw through his thoughts, so he said inch by inch: "That Xinru, either it will be like this in the future, or simply don't take this kind of drama." ”

Lin Xinru glared, slapped the table lightly, and scolded: "Lin Zhimo! I haven't said anything about the kind of scene you and Zhang Ziyi filming! ”

Lin Zhimo's figure suddenly became shorter, and Lin Zhimo was very weak about this, without the slightest awareness of hard mouth, and coughed twice and said, "That's okay, I'll call Sister Wen." ”

Lin Xinru smiled faintly, picked up the teacup on the table and took a sip of tea, well, it tastes very good.

There is no resistance to Lin Xinru's request from Huo Xiwen, but Huo Xiwen is not unconditional at all, she asked Amy to share her network resources with Xiwen's agency after joining the company.

Lin Xinru immediately agreed on behalf of Amy, after all, the resources that Amy has accumulated are still unknown how useful they will be after she leaves Qiong Yao's company, and every manager of the company probably doesn't want people in his company to have the desire to read, so Huo Xiwen's request is very normal, and Lin Xinru believes that Amy will also understand.

After discussing this matter, Lin Xinru said to Lin Zhimo: "Can't you really join the crew of deep love and rain?" ”

Lin Zhimo smiled bitterly and said: "If this sentence was a few days ago, I could have said that I could participate, even if I didn't want to be paid, I would have joined, but when I was in Germany, I had already promised Director Wang Xiaoshuai to participate in his new film, which would conflict with the filming time of deep love." ”

"Yes...... Lin Xinru sighed, "Zhimo, did you say that we will have the opportunity to shoot a movie together in the future?" ”

"Yes, there will be! In the future, we will both be artists of the same company, as long as there is a new script, we will choose a couple to act together. ”

Lin Xinru said shyly: "Phew, don't be ashamed!" Who's going to play a couple with you? ”

Lin Zhimo smiled in a low voice: "If you don't play a couple, do you want to play a husband and wife?" ”

"A dog can't spit out ivory!" Lin Xinru sighed, picked up the teacup and looked outside, but in her heart she imagined what the picture would be like when the two of them acted together as a couple in the future.

……

On March 9, 2000, Lin Zhimo received a phone call from Liu Yamin.

"Boss, I'm going to start making big deals." Liu Yamin's tone was filled with suppressed excitement.

"Okay, let's do it, as long as you can make money." Since Lin Zhimo was still filming, he didn't care much about what actions Liu Yamin would take.

"Hehe, rest assured, the money will definitely be earned, definitely!"

At this time, Lin Zhimo naturally didn't know the meaning of the word "make money" in Liu Yamin's mouth.

Founded in 1968, NASDAQ is an electronic securities trading institution in the United States, which is owned and operated by NASDAQ Stock Market Inc., and has become one of the largest stock markets in the world.

The NASDAQ index is an average stock price index that reflects the changes in the NASDAQ stock market, and the basic index is 100. Nasdaq-listed companies cover all high-tech industries, including software, computers, telecommunications, biotechnology, retail and wholesale trade, among which network technology stocks account for the vast majority.

In the 90s, new technology and networking companies ushered in the spring, and the NASDAQ finally exploded.

On July 11, 1997, the Nasdaq index exceeded 1,500 points.

On July 16, 1998, the NASDAQ index exceeded 2,000 points.

On January 29, 1999, it exceeded 2,500 points.

On November 3, 1999, it exceeded 3,000 points.

On December 29, 1999, it exceeded 4,000 points.

On March 9, 2000, it reached an unprecedented 5,000 points.

On March 10, 2000, a record high of 5,048.62 points was set, and on this day, countless Wall Street investors trumpeted the advent of the Internet age, and at the same time predicted that the Nasdaq index would reach 6,000 points within a month.

However, no one knows that the long bear journey that has lasted for more than ten years has quietly arrived.

Reality is a very ironic joke to everyone, in the NASDAQ market, Internet technology stocks account for the vast majority, biotechnology accounts for only a small part, but the direct cause of this bubble is precisely this small part of biotech stocks.

On March 13, 2000, U.S. President Clinton and Prime Minister Tony Blair suddenly announced that in order to improve the efficiency of human stem cell embryo research, biotechnology companies were obliged to publish the results of their research in this field and to allow public research institutions to use these results freely.

The announcement was nothing short of a thunderclap that smashed many biotech companies working on human stem cells.

In fact, biotech companies that study human embryonic stem cells account for a small fraction of even the entire NASDAQ-listed biotech companies, but this news still caused a sharp drop in the entire biotech sector. Then, dot-com stocks tumbled, and no one knows why – biotech and cybertech, although both called tech, are actually very small and there is no reason to go up or down together.

But the fact in front of all investors is that in just two days from the 13th to the 15th, the Nasdaq Composite Index plummeted by more than 100 points for three consecutive days because of the collapse of a handful of biotechnology stocks, and eventually, triggered the collapse of the entire Nasdaq.

Of course, in the next few days, the market stabilized, and everything looked like it was over, but at that moment, three people jumped out.

The first is 74-year-old Alan Greenspan, who now serves as chairman of the Federal Reserve. In his view, speculation in the stock market can easily increase people's consumption demand, and coupled with the intertwining of other factors, inflation is inevitable.

In recent years, the U.S. economy has been showing a growth trend in recent years, the society is fully employed, and inflation has been in a relatively low state, which is a rare period of good operation. But Greenspan, whose mission is to curb inflation, has an unusually sharp sense of smell. He can always smell inflation from the subtle changes in the market.

Every time he smelled it, he would swing the stick of interest rate hike and ruthlessly suppress these sprouts. Since the summer of 1999, he has raised interest rates five times in a row.

On March 21, the Federal Reserve led by Greenspan once again made the decision to raise interest rates by 0.25 points.

This time, although the impact on the stock market was not great, there were still subtle changes in the flow of some funds -- the bubble-filled second- and third-rate Internet technology stocks began to be treated coldly by investors, and people began to be enthusiastic about technology blue chips and traditional industrial stocks, or crossed the "new economy" and the "old economy" at the same time to seek stability.

From this decision of Greenspan, the bubble in the NASDAQ market began to be under pressure again.

Next up is a heroine, Ms. Cohen.

Ms. Cohen is a fund manager at Goldman Sachs, a well-known investment bank in the United States, and a senior securities analyst who has long been well-known in the industry. Over the years, her investment orientation has proven to be correct, and as a result, she has been followed by other investors.

On March 28, Ms. Cohen unexpectedly lowered her portfolio share of internet technology stocks by 5 percent, keeping it at 65 percent, and raised her cash share to 5 percent. As soon as the news of her reduction in shares spread, it immediately caused a "seismic" effect in the market. Psychologically, other investors have greatly reduced their confidence in online technology stocks, and have followed in the footsteps of such stocks and sold such stocks aggressively, resulting in the Nasdaq stock market always being under the pressure of selling, making the decline of Internet technology stocks even heavier.

The third person on the stage was Mr. Jackson, a U.S. federal attorney who served as the presiding judge in the Justice Department v. Microsoft Monopoly case.

On April 3, after a wheel war-like court investigation and hearing, he resolutely made a verdict, ruling that Microsoft's monopoly operation was established and that it must stop its practice of bundling Internet Explorer browsers on the operating system.

Jackson's verdict shocked the world and led to a loss of confidence in Microsoft, one of the leading technology stocks, among investors in the stock market. It doesn't matter if there is a loss of confidence in Microsoft, but the important thing is that this loss of confidence quickly spreads to the entire technology and Internet stocks.

As a result, with the fall of Microsoft's stock, the entire Nasdaq market plunged headlong on the long journey to a bear market, and never looked back.

However, because Lin Zhimo has been busy filming during this period of time, although he has also heard about the Internet bubble in the American market, he has never taken it to heart, until Lin Xinru's love is deep and rainy, and when Lin Zhimo asked Liu Yamin for a termination fee, he knew what the concept of making money was when Liu Yamin was talking about it.

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