On the weekend, at a party in the penthouse of the Hampshire Building.

Sif couldn't see any mustard on her face when she was put together by Jamie and Serena last time, and brought her boyfriend Nat, who she dated in college, to the appointment.

When they met, Jamie recognized this Nat as the "male junior" who was disconnected from Sif Lotus in the plot of the Future Succession War, and silently sympathized with Sif Sif's future cuckold husband Tom for a few seconds.

The two sides chatted for a few words, and the topic naturally came to the unpublished novel "Weakness".

Because the Taussy family is also at the party, Big Michael's burly height and size, even if he is very shy standing in the corner of the party, it is difficult for people to ignore his presence.

Not to mention, he was the only black man at the party.

The only thing that Jamie didn't expect was that the first person to bring up the topic turned out to be Sif Nat's boyfriend.

He said he had acquaintances in the New York publishing industry who had learned the story of the Taussy family and Big Michael in advance.

Nat is curious to see where Jamie's novel is now.

Unexpectedly, Jamie said goodbye and walked over to call Dan, who was talking to the Taussy family.

"This is my good friend Dan, "Weakness" was co-created by him and me, I actually just put up a name, the real author is him, you can ask him any questions you want."

Unaware that he was Jamie's shield, Dan shook hands with Nat and Siv warmly.

Nat had no choice but to pretend to be very interested and chatted with Dan.

Seeing that Jamie was about to leave, Sif immediately left her boyfriend and chased after her.

This time she didn't pretend anymore, and she had a showdown when she came up, wanting to talk to Jamie alone.

The two came to the small reception room next door and sat down, and Jamie taunted Sif straight to the point, how could he still have the face to come to him.

Sif certainly knew where Jamie's grievances were coming from, but it was her father Logan's decision, and she couldn't change anything.

In front of Jamie, Sif could only pretend to be very innocent and explain:

"Yes, when we signed the contract, we promised that we would promote the film and television process of "Percy Jackson" as soon as possible, in fact, this project has passed the green light review of Westar Pictures, but several directors we contacted have different requirements for the script, and the screenwriter has been changing back and forth, which has seriously slowed down the progress of the project."

Of course, this is just an excuse made up by Sif Shif, and the real reason is that Logan instructed the executives of Weststar Pictures to suspend the film project of "Percy Jackson".

Wait until the second or even third novel of "Percy Jackson" is published, and the popularity of the novel is maximized before starting filming.

To put it bluntly, I don't want to take too many risks, and at the same time, I want to take advantage of the popularity of the novel during the filming of the movie.

Sif also knew that his explanation would not satisfy Jamie, so he simply stopped mentioning it and talked about another promise made before the signing.

Help WeHouse attract local tycoon customers in the Middle East and Asia.

This time, Sif simply threw the pot on his brother Kendall and brother Roman.

"The two of them are dissatisfied with their father for entrusting me with such an important matter as signing a contract with you, so they deliberately did not do anything in this matter, I am deeply sorry for this, and I will definitely let my father urge the two of them to fulfill their previous agreement when I go back."

Sif has no problem acting skills, but unfortunately Jamie doesn't buy it.

He directly told Sif that Nate had already used his grandfather's family connections to get rid of those tycoon customers in the Middle East and Asia.

Sif congratulates Jamie on the surface, but is depressed in her heart.

There is less bargaining chips in the negotiation, which means that the probability of success has become lower.

"Okay, I'll admit that we both had some misunderstandings in the last collaboration, but at least we both got what we wanted, didn't we?"

"I'm here today to talk to you about another collaboration, Westar Pictures is very interested in the novel "Weakness", and we are willing to pay $1 million plus some additional conditions to buy the film rights of the novel."

$1 million is definitely a very fair price relative to an unpublished novel.

More importantly, Sif mentions additional conditions.

Although she didn't say it explicitly, it is not difficult to guess that it must have something to do with the promotion of the novel.

After all, with a mouthpiece like Westar News, it is only natural for the novel to help report on the story of the Taussy family and Big Michael when the novel is published.

Of course, Westar News didn't really help kindly, and they actually did it to build momentum for the filming in advance.

It is foreseeable that once the film rights of "Weakness" are obtained, Weststar Pictures will definitely give the green light all the way and immediately launch the project.

After all, it is a movie that will be used to impact the Oscars, and it will definitely not drag on like "Percy Jackson", as if it was a difficult birth.

Unfortunately, Jamie's response to this was not very enthusiastic.

Although at the end of the conversation, Jamie promised to give priority to working with Westar Pictures on equal terms, Sif strongly suspected that this was actually Jackie's revenge.

The last time they worked together, Westar Pictures also promised to push the start of filming of the "Percy Jackson" movie as quickly as possible, plus the promise of Kendall and Roman, the two idiots, to Jamie.

None of these commitments have been fulfilled so far.

As Logan Sr. said, as long as it's not written into the contract, all promises are like farts.

Although Sif disagrees with many of her father's practices, she strongly agrees with this statement.

Even at this point, Sif hasn't given up.

She felt that what happened last time did not mean that Jamie would refuse to continue working with Weststar Pictures.

However, when she returned to the party scene and watched the party hostess Serena leading a middle-aged man towards Jamie, Sif instantly sank to the bottom.

"Who is he?"

Her boyfriend next to her asked by raising her glass of champagne and drinking champagne.

Sif clenched the wine glass in his hand, stared at the middle-aged man who was shaking hands with Jamie and greeted him, and replied expressionlessly:

"Rob Reiner."

Feeling unfamiliar with the name, Nat frowned and asked:

"Is he famous?"

"He's a director, and Tom Cruise starred in "The Heroes of the Righteous Sea", but you just need to know that he has another more noteworthy identity, the president of Warner's Castle Stone Pictures."

Seeing that her boyfriend still didn't react after hearing the name Castle Stone, Sif reminded angrily:

"Castle Rock is the film company that filmed and produced "The Shawshank Redemption", it is said that Rob Reiner even planned to invite Tom Cruise to star in this movie, although it was not successful, but the year before last they invited another famous Tom in Hollywood to shoot "Miracle in the Green Mile".

Even if he doesn't know much about Hollywood, Nat knows both films.

At this time, he finally realized that Rob Reiner, like them, was here for "Weakness".