Hollywood Tycoon [US Entertainment + Business War]

Jed Sherman didn't know why he was so worried about the death of the Shermans. After all, his heart was completely occupied by Lin Xiangyu.However, he has an extremely deep resentment towards the Mitsui consortium that killed the Shermans.The winter in New York is not good, only the cold wind whistling through the gray concrete forest.

Jed found a fairly clean stool and sat down, his mind full of revenge plans.Mitsui Consortium, one of the four major chaebols in Japan.It can be said unceremoniously that since the Meiji Restoration, the four major chaebols are Japan, and Japan is the four major chaebols.Especially after the failure of World War II, in order to allow Japan to survive, the four chaebols paid a lot of wealth to keep Japan.Of course, most of this money comes from the war wealth they plundered from China, but it is this bloody money that allowed a butcher to survive, and he lived a better life than the victim. I really don’t know what the world’s police, the United States, think of.

Although the four major chaebols lost a lot of property in the early days of World War II, as the United States began to support Japan in order to resist the Soviet Union and China, the four major chaebols quickly made back all their losses here.More importantly, their political control over Japan is getting stricter, and the chaebol and Japan are almost completely merged into one.At this time, Japan is an important ally of the United States and one of the most important economic entities in the world. For the Mitsui consortium in Japan, it is as ridiculous as if you want to single out the Morgan family in the United States.Perhaps it would be a little more realistic to single out the Morgan family in the United States, at least they are willing to abide by the minimum rules, but the Japanese chaebol can kill innocent people for money.

Compared with the aloof Mitsui consortium, the current Jed Sherman is just an ant looking up at an elephant.Thinking of this, Jed couldn't help shaking his head, he really wanted revenge, but it seemed that he was too far away from the qualifications for revenge.

"Uncle, let me treat you to coffee!" Just when Jed was feeling down, a cup of Starbucks coffee appeared in front of him.Jed raised his head, only to see a Chinese boy standing in front of him.The winter sun was projecting from his side face, the contours of his face were very beautiful, and his short, refreshing hair trembled slightly in the wind.As a playboy with countless men, Jed could tell immediately that this young man must be a monstrously handsome guy when he grows up.Although Jed is very interested in "taking" such a handsome guy, he is not interested in attacking a young man yet, not to mention that the young man plans to buy him a cup of coffee.

"Why did you buy me coffee?" Jed looked at the boy curiously.

An impatient expression appeared on the boy's face, and he said with some disgust: "I just feel sorry for you! It's such a cold day, sitting alone in the wind in a daze. In order not to see you freezing to death in tomorrow's newspaper news, so I invite you to drink."

Jed's face twitched a little, thinking that this damn child's mouth is too poisonous!Although I looked a bit down and out because of my mood problems, I was still well-dressed, how could I look like a homeless poor man?Jed looked at the big bag that the boy was carrying, and saw that what he was drinking was just a glass of water, so he smiled and said, "A tennis player?"

"Yo, uncle, you've seen it all." The boy laughed, "Yeah, New York just happened to be holding the National Youth Tennis Championship, and I came to participate in the competition."

Although Jed is a playboy, he is still very good at sports, especially high-society sports such as tennis and golf.He thought for a while, and said: "The skill is good! It's already the main draw. If we can reach today, is it the top sixteen? Or the top eight?"

"Fighter!" The boy's smile became wider, and there was a hint of pride in his eyes.Although he showed his sharpness, he was a young man after all, so Jed would not say that he was not good because of this.

"It's rare to see Asian kids playing tennis well. Wouldn't your parents go berserk because you didn't get an 'A+'?" Jed remembered a joke that teased Asian kids in later generations, so he took it. Come out to tease, "Did you know that my roommate in college committed suicide three times, twice because he didn't get an 'A+' grade, and once because he joined the sports club." After finishing speaking, Jed thought smugly Laughed out loud.

But the boy didn't laugh, but said seriously: "Uncle, it's very impolite for you to label others like this."

Jed was taken aback for a moment. Indeed, the joke he just made had some "racial discrimination" in it.If you are also Chinese, it is not appropriate to make this joke with an Asian.But the problem is that I have been reborn as a white American, and now it is too much to make this inappropriate joke on an Asian teenager.Jed hurriedly said seriously: "I'm sorry."

"It's okay!" The boy waved his hand quite generously, "I won't care about an uncle like you."

Jed could only smile at the boy's actions.The two talked for a long time on the side of the street, when suddenly the young man seemed to remember something, and took out a ticket from his bag. "Come and see me play tomorrow, the position is very good."

Jed looked at the tickets, which should be used by the organizing committee for the players to entertain their relatives and friends. "This is too expensive, you should invite your parents to watch your game, they will be proud of you."

"They won't be proud of me!" The teenager was a little angry, "They will only be proud of me getting an A in math, or being admitted to Hopkins University like my brother. They are very proud of my career plan. There are lawyers, accountants and doctors, even fashion designers included, but just forget the athletes. Even this competition I sneaked out of.”

"Uh, are you sixteen?" Jed asked nervously.If you know that the other party is under the age of 17 and is a teenager who sneaked out and does not call the police, that is also illegal.Although Jed has a team of lawyers, he doesn't want to cause trouble.

"Don't worry, I'm already 17 years old. Otherwise, the organizing committee wouldn't allow me to sign up alone." The young man suddenly felt a little frustrated, "If I don't make it to the semi-finals, then I'm dead as a professional player. You know, the WTA gave the top four players in the over-16 category of this tournament the qualification to enter the play-offs of the Australian Open, and I need this opportunity."

Originally, Jed would not talk to a child who was not yet full, but for the sake of treating him to Starbucks, Jed could only comfort him: "Since we have entered the quarterfinals, why are we afraid of the semifinals? I believe in you."

"You don't understand, my player tomorrow is the No. [-] seed player in this competition. The purpose of the game is to recommend him to the semi-finals, so there are not many strong opponents in his opponent area. At first I wondered why the players in this area It’s so weak that I found out later that we were studying with others.” The young man said dejectedly, “I guess I should go home tomorrow and prepare for the SAT.”

For some reason, Jed suddenly thought of himself.The self in that life actually hated economics very much, but just to make his parents proud of him, so he forced himself to study economics.In fact, what he didn't tell his parents was that when he was admitted to the School of Economics and Management of Peking University, the editor under the banyan tree had already invited him to publish a book.This is the person who made a series of writers such as Annie Baby popular.But for the dream of his parents, he gave up his dream.Jed stood up suddenly, looked at the boy who was a head shorter than himself, and said angrily: "Hey! What are you talking about? Do you know what a dream is? A dream is that you give everything, even if you get nothing. You will not regret anything! Do you know where you are standing? You are standing in the place where dreams are most easily realized in the world! This is New York, where countless dreams are born every day! Look, your dream is just ahead That corner place, you can’t just go back home! You know, if you give up now, you’ll regret it for the rest of your life! You don’t want to wait until you’re old to talk about your dreams with your little grandson who doesn’t understand anything, do you? "

Perhaps because Jed's voice was a little louder, the police were quickly called in.A fierce white American male and a pathetic Asian boy, the police quickly felt that something was going on here. "Sir, please keep a distance from that child and don't do anything that makes us nervous, okay?"

"It's okay, Mr. Police, it's okay." The boy hurriedly said, "He's my uncle. I just ran away from home and was caught by him."

It was heard that it was just a small family conflict, and the police just registered the names of the two and gave some instructions before leaving.

"Look, I helped you again." The teenager smiled slyly, "The crime of sexually harassing a minor is not light."

"I'm too lazy to care about you!" Jed suddenly felt that this young man had a tendency to evolve into a little devil, so he waved his hand and said, "Forget it, you go back early, I'm going back to the hotel to rest. If I have time tomorrow, I will Go to your game."

"What you have agreed must be done." The boy said, "Otherwise I will call the police and say that you sexually assaulted me!"

Jed has black lines all over his head, and he really likes to "fuck" men, but this kind of kid who doesn't even grow hair is not included.But finally Jed said something, "Okay, I see, I will go to your game tomorrow."

On the second day, Jed was in a much better mood. Although he was busy with work, Jed decided to watch the game of the boy he met yesterday.The U.S. Junior Tennis Championship is also considered a very important tennis event in the United States, so the organizing committee arranged the main draw at the venue of the U.S. Open—the Arthur Ashe Stadium in Flushing Meadows Park.Jed took a special look at the matchup table. It turned out that the boy he met yesterday was called Nicholas Zhou, and it seemed that he should be of Chinese descent.Since the No. 17 seed appeared in this game, the attendance rate was not bad, and even several New York local TV media came to report.Although the game has not started yet, the live DJ has already begun to warm up the field.In addition to the DJ's music, there are some commentators like commentators commenting on the game.Nicholas Zhou is not favored by everyone. As a youth game, he is a bit too old.Although male professional players are generally much older than female players, they have at least participated in the main draws of the four major open tournaments by the time they are 22 years old. Unlike Nicholas Zhou, not only has no experience in the four major open tournaments, There is also no record of participating in the three major ATP rounds, and he has not even participated in the Hope and Challenge. The only competition experience is in the satellite competition in California.Professional tennis competitions are divided into ATP (Professional Tennis Federation) events and ITF (International Tennis Federation) events, of which ITF is only in charge of the four major Grand Slam events (Australian Open, Wimbledon, French Open and US Open), and the Masters Cup jointly with ATP (i.e. the ATP Professional Tour Finals). There are relatively many ATP events, and there are three levels for high-level professional players: Professional Master Tour, Gold Tour and International Tour. Although all three events have the opportunity to get tickets to the finals, generally speaking, the Master Tournament players will take up two-thirds of the quota, Gold Tour players will take the remaining third, and only occasionally will it be the turn of International Tour players.It takes at least three years for professional players to go from the third-level international tour to the master tour.If you thought that the International Tour was already an entry-level event for professional players, then you are wrong.The entry event for professional players is called the Challenger Tournament, which is a springboard for low-level players to enter the three major tours.In addition to the challenge, ATP also opened up a hope match for players under the age of 17, which means that young players have two opportunities to enter the three major tours.At the same time, in order to prevent low-level players or amateur players from having no matches to play, the ITF also authorizes national tennis associations to organize satellite matches, which can be regarded as peripheral qualifying matches for challenge matches and satellite matches.Generally speaking, male players will start playing satellite tournaments when they are thirteen or fourteen years old. If they have a little talent, they can play hopeful tournaments in the second year, and enter the third-level tour in the third year.If the tour performs well, it will be able to get the outer qualifying rounds of the four Grand Slam tournaments.Generally speaking, it is considered a success for a male player to qualify for the main draws of the four Grand Slams, so it is already a miracle that Zhang Depei won the French Open at the age of 17.But for female players, if they can't win a Grand Slam at the age of 17, it's basically useless.Although 17-year-old male players who can win the Grand Slam are almost rare, it is a bit sad that [-]-year-old male players are still playing in the Youth Cup and do not have any appearance records in the three major tours.Jed, who is familiar with tennis, also feels sorry for the boy yesterday. No matter whether he is talented or not, at least being able to score such a cup against the opposition of his parents is enough to prove his hard work.Thinking of this, Jed began to search for words to comfort the boy.

The start of the game was as everyone expected. The seeded players easily won the first set 6:0, and the second set quickly allowed the seeded players to get the match point.You must know that this game adopts the "three-set two-win system", which means that if you win another game, you can eliminate Nicholas Zhou.Maybe he also knew it was the key point, so Zhou himself called a timeout.Only then did Jed realize that not only did the boy in front of him not have the support of his parents, he didn't even have a coach.Fortunately, his seat was not far from the boy, Jed yelled a few words, and the boy quickly saw him.Of course, Jed's actions also attracted the attention of the staff, and they came over immediately to invite Jed out.But the teenager shouted: "Wait, he's my uncle."

The staff member was taken aback, and then let go of his hand.After all, he was about to lose, so it would be nice to have an uncle cheering him on.Jed didn't care what the staff were thinking, he just rushed over and said to him: "Remember what I said yesterday! What is hope? Now you haven't lost, and no matter how hard you try, you won't have a chance to win. ——I know you will say that I What qualifications do you have to say about you, I think you know Jed Sherman? That's me, I brought the Sherman family back to normal after the car accident, so I'm qualified to teach you a lesson! Kid, just kill the other side A kid younger than you, you have a chance to step on the stage of the Australian Open next year."

Perhaps because Jed's words had some effect, the eyes of the depressed boy suddenly lit up. "Uncle, what qualifications do you have to teach me a lesson? You were a down-and-out uncle who asked me to treat you to coffee yesterday!"

Jed choked with anger at Zhou's words, but then comforted himself not to be angry with the brat.Zhou You, who played again, was like a god, not only reversing the match point to win the second set, but even reaching the "tie-break" in the third set.Although the number one seed player is famous, the audience still liked the "big reversal" drama, so they began to applaud Zhou one after another.It's a pity that at the last minute, the goddess of luck was not on Zhou's side, and Zhou still lost the most critical score in the tie-break.Although the game did not have the magical result as everyone expected, all the audience still stood up and applauded the two teenagers.A teenager is struggling to come back in the face of adversity, and the other is persevering in the face of the opponent's persecution. There is no loser in this game, and both of them are worthy of encouragement.

After watching Zhou shake hands with his opponent, Jed walked off the field. "I'm sorry, didn't expect..."

"What is there to be sorry for?" The boy blinked his eyes, "I plan to formally participate in the professional competition in the second half of the year. As long as the main players who enter this cup competition can join the professional competition halfway? But the hope of upgrading this year is very slim .”