At the end of the awards ceremony, Celine Dion won two awards, both for the theme song she and Peabo Bryson sang for the Disney movie Beauty and the Beast, and Mariah Carey was not happy.

"I don't want to go to the celebration banquet, what about you?" She asked on the phone.

"I said I wouldn't go, I had to rush back to Chicago overnight, and I had classes tomorrow." He chatted with Mariah Carey for a while, and neither of them was in the mood and quickly ended the call.

"APLUS, AREN'T YOU COMING TOO? Good. ”

Motura is in high spirits, he was appointed by the management this year as the chairman and CEO of Sony Columbia Records, with a monopoly on power, and the annual salary is rumored to be as high as 10 million meters, and does not include his share of income as the manager of MJ, Mariah Carey and other stars.

"The eight million publicity costs have been spent, and before your next album starts to be announced, there will be about five million more marketing costs, which we will both bear." Motura said.

"Okay, I'll have the lawyer go to the New York headquarters and settle the four million I have to pay you."

Song Ya hung up the phone and asked Hamlin in New York to call Samur to deal with the matter together, which meant that the cash in his hand was reduced from 40 million to 36 million, and the remaining 2.5 million would be shared in the future.

It's all a small thing, and now the midterm exam is the big thing for him.

Studying is boring, and the so-called group discussions are not much better, just after showing up at the Grammy Awards the day before, the next night, he dragged his tired body back home in Highland Park after a day of intense study.

"Hallie?" He saw Halle Berry who had suddenly arrived, "Didn't you say to come at the end of the month?" Didn't get seen by reporters, right? I said that Fergie and I are now at a critical juncture before the announcement, and the scandal between you and me is not suitable for reporters to be noticed at this time. He said bluntly that if he had an entanglement with Harley before the gimmick of his girlfriend snatching her boyfriend, the explosiveness of the news would be much worse at that time.

"Isn't it the end of the month? There are only twenty-eight days in February, are you confused? ”

Hallie is still dressed in a leather jacket and short hair, "No reporter found me, I was very careful, I deliberately put on makeup before I came to Chicago, and I came in from hiding in the car just now." The reporters in Los Angeles probably didn't know I had left Los Angeles, and they rarely squatted on me now. She was very frustrated about that.

"Ugh." Song Ya walked into the study by herself, "Is there something wrong?" I'm ...... now" spread out the book and pointed to the exercises inside.

"I need your help." Hallie sat down on her desk and pressed the exercise, "Don't read the book, look at me." ”

"Well, let's talk, what's so urgent?" Song Ya had no choice but to look up at her blankly.

Hallie was unhappy with his attitude, "What's wrong with you, am I just making you so uplifted?" You went to Los Angeles for the Grammys and didn't even call me. ”

"I'm tired Hallie, I feel more tired from reading than running high-intensity publicity......"

Although he planned to distance himself from her, Song Ya did not exaggerate, "I feel that I have been a little 'mournful' recently, and I can't lift my spirits by doing anything." ”

"What is 'mourning'?" Hallie didn't understand.

"It's a state of frustration, listlessness, hopelessness...... Okay, okay, let's save some time, shall we? Hallie, what's the matter, tell me quickly. Song Ya was too lazy to explain.

"I want to leave CAA and jump to William Morris." Hallie jumped off the table and went to close the study door.

"It's a good thing, I'll help you call Donovan, and he'll be so happy to win the most beautiful black actress in Hollywood." Song Ya's hand reached for the phone.

"It's not that simple." Harley quickly pressed his hand down.

It turns out that she has not been able to get a good role since the box office of the ultimate pioneer and stealing the heart saint, CAA has a lot of packaging services every year, that is, she can control its actors to participate in their own packaged movies, and Hallie has been repeatedly excluded, in 93 she only had two small productions released, and in the movies released in 94, she still has any signs of winning any work, and she is starting to get anxious.

But as an actress who is dedicated to drilling in Hollywood, he understands the strength gap between William Morris and CAA, she avoided CAA's agent to find Song Ya, just to sign a short-term two-year contract with William Morris from 94 to put pressure on CAA, and finally she still has to return to CAA.

"You want to take advantage of ......" Song Ya understood the plan of the shrewd woman in front of her.

"The CAA was adamant that I wouldn't dare to go, so they always snubbed me." Hallie nodded, "I have to show them determination, don't think I dare not resist." ”

Song Ya couldn't help but applaud her, "Take two years to gamble? You're very daring to dare to Hallie, and I like your personality. ”

"Will you help?" Hallie asked, "I'm afraid that William Morris will take advantage of the opportunity to blackmail me, and I must be in a good position in the negotiations." ”

What is a favorable position, whether she faces CAA or William Morris alone, she has no bargaining power, and she still has to rely on her own influence, which means that she has to open her mouth to put pressure on William Morris.

"Yes, I also faced the issue of renewing my contract with William Morris in '94, but I warn you Harley, this is a double-edged sword, if I don't sign William Morris in the end, your two years there will be a lot of hardship." Song Ya put the ugly words in front, "Just like you once asked me to introduce you to David Geffen and Spielberg, I am just doing business, business is business, I have no friendship with people in Hollywood, you think about it." ”

"I've thought about it, I'm dying of anger, CAA and my agent are always in a position to eat me."

Hallie didn't hesitate.

"Well, let me remind you again, my relationship with William Morris is limited to the music department, and Donovan can help you, but he has a very average relationship with the people in the film department."

Song Ya pressed her hand on the microphone again, "Are you still insisting?" ”

"I insist."

"Okay."

Song Ya called Donovan, and the other party was very happy to learn that Halle Berry was going to switch, and she was switching from CAA, "Don't worry, APLUS, I will match her offer......"

Hallie and Donovan talked on the phone, and initial negotiations went well, with Donovan introducing a powerful agent in the film department who had a strong presence in Hollywood.

"Thank you, dear." Harley put down the phone and couldn't wait to start repaying the favor.

Song Ya gently pushed the entangled woman, "Can you wait until I finish preparing for the exam?" I'm going to have a midterm exam tomorrow......"

"You've been a bit of a problem with my attitude lately." Hallie was so smart that she naturally felt it, "You don't want to dump me, I don't care about the open relationship with you." She made it clear.

"Nope."

Song Ya temporarily made an excuse, "My physical examination report will only be available tomorrow, aren't you very worried about that disease?" ”

"You're still angry about the last time I left?" Hallie misunderstood.

"No, am I that stingy?"

"Isn't that okay, I'm not afraid of what you're afraid of!?" Hallie also fought hard.

Well, black pearls are still very tasty......

On the twenty-sixth, Song Ya refreshed himself and looked at the two white and one black who were sleeping soundly on the bed, and went out to take the exam.

After the math test in the morning, he felt very good about himself and was much happier.

He finally understood the reason why he had fallen into a 'mourning' mood these days, which was due to the ultimate fear of exams in Hua Guo's soul.

was eating in the cafeteria with Michelle's husband, and suddenly in the TV set that was hung, the noon news was temporarily cut off, "Urgent report, there was an explosion in the parking lot on the second floor of the World Trade Center in New York, and there are currently fires in many places in the building, and all the elevators have stopped, and it is not clear how the cause of the explosion and the casualties ......"

The smoke billowing from the World Trade Center Building in the picture, Song Ya looked at this scene and opened his mouth wide, he finally understood why there were no two buildings in the original MV of Empire State Of Mind......

The news kept on the air, and people or organizations around the world began to claim responsibility for the incident, which is evident from the unpopularity of the former Yugoslavia, the Middle East, Latin America, and the United States.

"The latest news says the explosion was supposed to be the work of terrorists......" the broadcast continued.

"We've got to catch those guys." Michelle's husband looked at the news and said indignantly.

"Well, of course, definitely." Song Ya agreed.

After he finished the exam in the afternoon, the two buildings of the World Trade Center were still in good shape.

"What's going on?"

But no matter what, if it doesn't fall now, it will fall later, he dialed Hayden's phone, "Hayden, put all my properties in Tribeca up for sale." ”

"Now?" Hayden was reluctant, "After the bombing, the price of a house not far away would be severely depressed, and your investment in Tribeca real estate did not outperform the overall growth of the Manhattan area." ”

"No matter, shoot!" Song Ya ordered.

"You see, if you listened to me before, you would buy it on the Upper West Side......"

"Hayden!"

"Okay, okay, you have the final say, I'll do it right away."