Chapter 225: The End
Beverly Hills, Los Angeles.
Between Sunset Boulevard and Beverly Golf Course, there is a large area of lush greenery enclosed by a tall fence, and there is no view from the hills or from the golf course below, not even the houses.
But as everyone in Los Angeles knows, this is the house of the richest family in the world.
In the sixties, Hughes bought the nearly thirty-acre plot for $300,000 and gave it to Jonas Week.
After that, Jonas Zhou built a forest castle here based on Audrey's preferences, fulfilling Audrey's dream of becoming a princess.
It later became Audrey's stop every time she came to Los Angeles.
She later participated in the filming of world-famous films, and lived here during her stay in Los Angeles.
Every time Jonas Chou came to Los Angeles, he stayed here, so much so that it became a feng shui treasure in Beverly Hills.
Around this golf course, Hughes, including the famous Playboy Residence, has chosen to make their home here.
Until the seventies, Audrey retired from the film industry after starring in her ninth and final film, and it became mainly the residence of their children in Los Angeles.
Now, the long-term resident is not Audrey's child, but James Rose, the youngest son of Jonas Chow and Princess Marita.
James Ross is the Viscount of Linley canonized by the British royal family, and he also has a royal annuity of 170,000 pounds per year. But he never took this money, and since the age of twelve, he donated the annuity every year to the foundation under the auspices of Princess Marita for the first time.
He grew up in Switzerland and returned to England in secondary school, where he attended Oxford University with honors. However, he dropped out of his first year at university and chose to study oil painting at the Ecole SupΓ©rieure de la Installation in Paris.
His paintings incorporate the artistic conception of Eastern ink painting and the classicism of Western oil painting, and the first exhibition received a strong response, and was favored by various European royal families and wealthy merchants.
Even the Queen's reception room is hung with a picture of the Alps that he created.
However, he always believed that his success was mainly influenced by his father, and he wanted to escape the European environment.
In 95, 27-year-old James was engaged to Princess Victoria, the crown prince of Sweden, who had just turned 18. Because Victoria suffers from anorexia, both men want to escape the oppressive environment of Europe, so they choose to settle in Los Angeles.
Both families were also willing to give them a more relaxed environment in their youth without putting any pressure on them.
The marriage was not met with any reproach and was even warmly welcomed by the Swedish people.
First of all, James, who has the blood of the British royal family, is still related to Victoria, and secondly, James has the permanent beneficiary rights of the Jonas Foundation, and he also owns a sports management company across Europe, America and Asia, which is very wealthy.
James is not a tall climber at all, and even if Victoria becomes the queen of Sweden in the future, she will not be married.
The two families in this marriage have also always had a good relationship, and the princess's great-grandfather has always had a good personal relationship with James's father.
The current King Carl XVI of Sweden, although he is a family member of Jonas, was still a student of Jonas when he was young.
Their family is also the most famous oriental culture lover in Europe, including the princess, who has secretly promised this cousin who is nine years older than him since he was a child.
That's why she couldn't wait to get engaged to this cousin when she just turned eighteen.
Not only James, but the seven children of the Jonas family are all favored by all the big families.
During Arthur Rose's upbringing, the major royal families in Europe have always favored this rich and rival Earl Grams, who has the blood of the British royal family but has no royal succession.
Not to mention other royal families, even the major British nobles, as long as there are school-age girls in the family, none of them want to marry their children to Arthur.
Although Jonas Zhou did not have royal power, his status was much higher than that of most royal families. What's more, his wealth can no longer be counted, and I am afraid that even he himself does not know how much wealth he has now.
On top of that, Jonas has an extensive network of connections that spread all over the world, has made the family more and more entrenched.
Every child of such a family, any family will regard them as the best marriage partners.
As the eldest son of Jonas, Arthur Rose received the attention of the royal family when he was a teenager, and even because he still had a fight.
But in the end, the sixteenth Duke of Norfolk, the second largest family in England, the Howard family, had the last laugh, and his daughter Catherine, with her beautiful appearance and demure character, won the favor of Arthur.
Jonas II, the eldest son of Audrey, who was only a little more than a month younger than Arthur, and the heir to the British Viscount Waltham.
He married earlier than his eldest brother, married the second lady of the Spencer family, and became a brother-in-law with Charles.
In this matter, Zhou Nan also made a contribution to let Charles marry the eldest sister, instead of the silly white sweet sister, this silly white sweet sister is better to marry into the Jonas family.
The third son, Audrey's second son, Yannick, has the same name as his father's adoptive father.
He is also the most handsome of all the children in Zhou Nan, and has long been at the top of the list of the most handsome diamond kings.
However, his handsome appearance also gave him a romantic personality, and now he is in charge of the world's largest media group, and he once claimed that he would never marry.
But in '86, he met a mixed-race third generation of the famous Chan family in South China. The sixteen-year-old girl, who was still in secondary school and had come to Switzerland for a holiday, fell in love with Yannick.
Faced with Yannick's pursuit, this little girl named Chen Shiya had no resistance and quickly fell.
As a result, Chen Hanlin, her father, who became the prime minister, was so angry that he directly called his teacher to complain.
In this way, this heartthrob also entered the palace of marriage.
And his marriage also caused a lot of turmoil, because four women committed suicide because of his marriage, which caused him to suffer thousands of accusations, and made Jonas almost want to expel him from the house.
A Rolls-Royce carried Yannick, now almost forty, into the Beverly Hills villa escorted by two Land Rovers.
Both cars are owned by Volkswagen, and the Jonas family is also the majority shareholder of Volkswagen.
Nearly forty years old, Yannick still has a handsome face that is extremely charming, and a sense of maturity added to it compared to when he was young makes him even more charming.
However, the absurdity of his youth caused four lives and made him mature.
Although he now has more than a dozen TV stations and dozens of newspapers under his name, he also participates in the layout of the global Internet, and owns world-renowned Internet companies as well as Hollywood and South China film companies.
On his terms, he is in contact with endless beauties in the entertainment industry on weekdays, but now he has almost no scandals.
The one who took over his title of wanderer was his youngest brother Zhou Lixiang.
The car stopped in front of a two-story ultra-modernist building in the courtyard, and James and Victoria, dressed in casual clothes, waited at the door.
In addition to the castle that was first built in the villa area, when Yannick took over the media group, he stayed in the United States for several years and built a Swiss-style wooden house.
When James moved here, he designed and built this minimalist ultra-modernist building himself.
Thirty acres, or nearly 180,000 square meters, the villa is one of the most wooded areas in Beverly Hills. Therefore, although three villas have been built, it still has more than ninety percent of the green area.
"Third brother."
"Third brother."
Yannick hugged his brother, shook hands with his brother and sister, chatted a few words, looked at their casual clothes and asked, "Didn't I say that you should be ready, and I will visit Uncle Hughes as soon as I arrive?" β
James smiled, "Uncle Hughes came uninvited just now, so we didn't change our clothes." Let's go inside. β
As an artist, James has his own mature aesthetic and has developed his own style.
The exterior of the house is futuristic, and the interior is also furnished like a futuristic world, with white everywhere and only a few parts of it being symmetrical in black.
This also makes Hughes, who is dressed in dark clothes, and a beautiful woman in a red dress next to him stand out.
Hughes, born in 1905, is ninety-two years old this year, but he is still in good health, and he looks only sixty or seventy years old.
However, the woman next to him was only in her twenties at most, a little younger than his daughter.
Hughes married Taylor in the fifties, but after having two children, his affair became unbearable for Taylor, and he soon divorced.
After the 70s, he rarely paid attention to business anymore, and he was bent on eating and waiting for death, and he was chic in the world.
However, power is still the best medicine for him, and although his two children have now taken over his business empire, they are only puppets, and the power is still in his own hands.
This is completely different from his father. Since taking over the media company, both father and mother rarely interfere in specific affairs, except for some directional decisions, their parents basically only summarize their achievements and mistakes at the annual meeting.
"Uncle Hughes, it's enviable to see that you're still as strong as a young man."
Hughes laughed, pointed to the sofa opposite, and said, "Sit down, you don't have to envy me, neither of you two is weaker than me, and you are destined to live longer than me in the future." Victoria, would you like to take my Christina to visit your villa? β
The future queen smiled obediently: "Of course, this is my due obligation. Christina, my mother and Audrey's mother planted a rose garden here, would you like to see it? β
"Of course, it's my pleasure."
As they were about to walk out, they heard Hughes shouting again, "James, go and pour me another glass of your father's goji wine." β
Christina smiled a little humbly: "Your Royal Highness, Howard has a really good relationship with your family. β
"Yes, he was a friend of our father for more than fifty years, and at that time, even my father was just born."
Christina is of course well aware that her father is referring to the world-famous Jonas Week, and her father is her biological father.
In the room, Yannick sat next to Hughes, while James, who had little interest in business, served the two of them.
"Uncle Hughes, I had already reached an understanding with them when I left New York at noon, so there was no need for us to carry out some of the actions we had prepared on our side. Tomorrow evening, a small banquet will be arranged in Los Angeles, and I would like to express my gratitude to some of my old friends from the California Consortium and the Chicago Consortium. β
Hughes disapprovingly took the wine handed over by James, took a sip and said, "Your father is just too careful. Ever since David Rockefeller was on our side, no one has dared to oppose us openly. No one in this world can make all the money, and the richer you are, the more you care about your body. β
"My father wasn't too careful, he always liked to go with the flow, and every decision was always unstoppable in the end. But this time the decision was to buck the trend, and to make some old friends give up the fat to their mouths, so the preparation should naturally be sufficient. β
Hughes laughed, pointed at him and shook his head and said, "You eight brothers and sisters, don't let others say that your father is not good at all, he is capable, but he is not a perfect person." β
"It's a bit emotionally imperfect, but it's a perfect result so far. We have three more siblings and three more helpers. β
James laughed, "Don't count me, I didn't help much." β
Yannick shook his head and said, "No, you are actually the child that your father values the most, even more than the second. My father never really cared about business development, including politics. You see that he has lived in Nantian Palace for a long time now, and most of his energy is focused on studying ancient books and martial arts, so he should know that money has always been an external thing to him. James, you are the most talented of us, and my father has high hopes for you. Now that Victoria's anorexia has been cured, you should go back to Europe. β
James sighed and said, "Third brother, my father is like a mountain that I can never cross, do you know how frustrating this feeling is?" β
Yannick also sighed, smiled comfortingly, and said, "Who isn't? But after all, we are all his children, and we should see him as the shoulders of giants, not mountains. β
Hughes smiled: "He has been in seclusion for ten years, and this time he finally got a little bit of interest, but it was solved by your brothers in a few moments." I'm afraid that in the future, he will be silent for a long time and will not ask about the world. β
Yannick nodded and said, "Our family is already conspicuous enough, so my father had to intervene in our marriage and form a close alliance between us and the major European royal families. It's not just him, we all have to keep a low profile. β
Hughes laughed and said, "Be a low-key person and do things in a high-profile manner!" I know....... I haven't seen him for two years, so I went to him for a few more drinks while he wasn't dead. β
Yannick grabbed his vein, shouted for a moment and smiled, "Uncle Hughes, your body will have no problem living for another ten years. β