Across America, Starting with the Boxing Champion

Chapter 317 The Beautiful Cook

 The Woolvo Building is a classic Gothic building on 47th Street in Midtown Manhattan.

 Originally, it was the headquarters of Woolworth Trading Company. In the 1990s, it was converted into a five-star hotel, Park Hyatt International Hotel. It operates hotel business below the 45th floor, and the 46th to 70th floors were converted into high-rise apartments, with a total of 23 units.

 In the early 1990s, each unit sold for US$8 million, and now the price per unit is more than 15 million.

Ivaca's apartment is located 212 meters above New York City. It occupies the 64th-66th floors of the building and has a total area of ​​860 square meters. It has two floors, with a ceiling above 4 meters. There are 8 bedrooms and a fitness room inside. Center, library, large and small restaurant kitchens, collection rooms, small home theaters, cloakrooms, etc.

It also includes four open-air viewing platforms of more than 20 square meters, 46 windows facing the surrounding blocks, 32 doors, etc.

 Paintings and sculptures can be found everywhere in your home.

Every time Link comes to Iwaka's apartment, he will be impacted and baptized by the rich life. He feels that although he is worth hundreds of millions of dollars, he is still a poor person in terms of life style, taste and way, and there is still huge improvement. space.

 “Sit wherever you want, I’ll go change my clothes.”

Ivaca said hello and clicked into the cloakroom on her high heels.

 Link walked around the small living room and saw a vinyl record player on the reading shelf. There were many vinyl records stacked up. He picked a song "Stairway to Heaven" released by Led Zeppelin in 1971.

While cooking, Ivaca stood in the middle of the kitchen holding a cookbook, constantly giving instructions to several chefs, telling them what to cook first and what flavor, just like giving orders to employees in a company.

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 “Do you like Led Zeppelin?”

But strictly speaking, she did cook and did what she was good at. For a rich young lady, it is not bad to be able to do this, and she cannot ask for too much.

Link smiled lightly, picked up a piece of crystal clear blue lobster meat, dipped it in the lemon juice, and put it into his mouth.

"How about it?"

After a while, Ivaca changed into a cotton dress and walked out. She **** her long blond hair, revealing her white swan neck. She also wore a custom-made apron. Even with the apron, she could not hide her plump breasts. Breasts, and heavy hips.

 “Have a taste, this plate is made by myself.”

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The lobster is very fresh, and the chefs have processed the shrimp meat very cleanly. The meat is smooth and tender, as if it is alive on the tongue. When paired with the sauce, the taste is refreshing and sweet.

"Do you need help?"

Just as he was talking, the helpers invited by Ivaca arrived, including a seafood chef, a pastry chef, a cold dish chef, three assistants, and four waiters. A group of ten people walked into the apartment.

“Then you continue to listen to the music here while I cook seafood.”

 “Oh, no, I hired help.”

The ingredients are also prepared in advance, including ten portions of Alaskan king crab, ten portions of Canadian geoduck, ten portions of Australian blue lobster, twenty portions of French Peron oysters, twenty portions of Southern California red abalone, etc. When opening the package, all Lively and in good condition.

The chef in the building is very good at cooking and very fast. In less than two hours, he prepared eight seafood dishes, four pastries and four cold dishes, and filled the table.

One of the lobster sashimi dishes was made by Ivaca herself. Well, she just cut a lemon.

 “I learned this song when I was practicing guitar.”

Link saw her look and didn't know how to complain. He had heard her talk about cooking by herself before, so he thought she would cook with a kitchen knife and shovel, but in reality, she hired a group of chefs as assistants, and she coordinated and directed.

At the dinner table, Ivaca pointed at the plate of lobster sashimi and said excitedly.

Originally, when she wore business clothes, she looked noble and cool, but when she put on an apron, she had some charm and gentleness of a housewife.

They are all chefs from the hotel in the building, and they came with various cooking tools.

Ivaca crossed her fingers and asked expectantly.

 “Great!”

“This is my first time cooking seafood. If you like it, how about I cook it for you often in the future?”

Iwaka smiled slightly.

Link nodded repeatedly, regardless of whether it was for work or emotional reasons, as long as it was not harmful to him, he would accept it.

 During the meal, the two chatted about the company.

Ivaca told him that after the sales of his new album and the albums of three of his singers, the five major records and a number of Wall Street financial investment institutions once again proposed a financing plan to Link Music. Wall Street also pushed the market value of Link Music to 4 It reached a height of US$420 million, nearly double the level at the end of last year.

　　When speaking of this number, Ivaca held up the wine glass, her cool cheeks flushed, and her voice trembled slightly with excitement.

 Link was also a little excited after hearing this. He and Iwaka own 85% of the shares of Link Music and 95% of the controlling stake. The market value of Link Music has reached 400 million US dollars. The two of them can become billionaires just by relying on this part of the shares.

 In 2008, the two invested only 10 million in Link Music Company, which increased forty times in two years, and will be even higher in the future.

 This is indeed an exciting achievement.

Link asked her if she wanted to accept financing.

Iwaka believes that it is not necessary for the time being. First of all, Link Music currently does not lack funds. After several of his and Lana's albums were sold well, Link Music has sufficient liquidity on its books and does not need to accept investment from others.

Secondly, the company is not short of talents. At the beginning of the year, the company recruited more than ten management and top musicians through competitive recruitment. After in-depth cooperation with SB Entertainment, the company is full of talents and is currently developing smoothly.

 Accepting foreign investment will affect the company's development.

Link nodded and remembered the dynasty promotion financing plan mentioned by Franco.

Different from Link Music, Dynasty Promotions has only one profitable boxer: him, and is short of funds in all aspects. In terms of management capabilities, Franco is also worse than Ivaca. The company has fewer talents and its development is not stable enough.

This is one of the reasons why Dynasty promotion requires financing, but Link Music does not. Ivaca also told him something. Yesterday, the total sales volume of "The Woman I Love" in the United States officially exceeded 4 million copies. Eleven weeks after its release, 4 million copies were sold in the United States. This is the fastest sales volume of 4 million copies in the United States in the past eight years. record.

 This is a remarkable achievement.

 The company is planning to hold a celebration reception.

Invite the company's partners, dealers from all over the country, as well as Paris Hilton, Amanda Hearst, Georgia Bloomberg, Kim Kardashian and others, who have participated in 'Falling Down' Showing off one's wealth' hype also contributed to the album's sales.

Ivaca asked him who he wanted to invite. He could draw up a list and the company would send the invitation.

Link mentioned that he was going to Paris to film a movie and would not have time to attend the cocktail party this week.

  Iwaka said it could be placed next week.

Link agreed and talked to her about the incident of "falling down to show off wealth".

 His original plan was to find a few famous models to pose, which would cost less and arouse public controversy.

But Ivaca persuaded her sister Tiffany, Paris Hilton, Kim Kardashian and other celebrities to participate, amplifying the influence of the event a hundred times. It was not easy for several top celebrities to actively participate in the promotion. thing.

Link expressed appreciation for Ivaca’s organizational and scheduling abilities.

Evaka told him that at first she only wanted help from Paris Hilton and the Kim Kardashian sisters.

After hearing about it, her sister Tiffany found it very interesting and jumped out to post the photo first, followed by Paris, the Kardashian sisters, Amanda Hearst, and Georgia Bloomberg.

The people who posted the photos later were actively imitating them and were not the people she found.

“Actually, Paris and Amanda agreed to help, and they have something to do with you.”

 Ivaka picked up the wine glass and took a sip.

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"Yes, they are very interested in you. I heard that they want to help you promote your album. They took the initiative to join without me saying anything else."

 “So, I also want to thank them?”

Link was eating Belon oysters, one bite at a time, and his mouth was filled with fragrance.

This kind of oyster lives in the deep sea waters of France. It has plump flesh and a crisp texture. It has a unique metallic taste in the mouth, and the tip of the tongue is accompanied by an electric tingling sensation. After the metallic taste, there will be a rich hazelnut flavor, which is very rich.

"No need. The incident of falling down and showing off their wealth not only helped us sell more records, but also allowed them to gain public attention in recent news reports and become trend leaders. This way of becoming famous is better than relying on **** photos. , leaking private tapes is more advanced, it is mutually beneficial.”

Ivaca smiled faintly.

 “That’s not bad. Favor debts are the hardest to repay.”

He didn’t stop moving his hands while he was talking. He had a mouthful of oysters and a mouthful of red abalone. It felt great.

In the past, in order to save money, I would cook delicious food by myself, but no matter how good I make it, it can't compare to the skills of the chefs in star hotels, and the ingredients I buy are not as high-end as those bought by Iwaka. .

 He suddenly felt that living here would not be a bad idea.

 With chefs cooking, waiters doing laundry, shopping, cleaning, walking dogs and cats, etc., you can save more time for training.

Moreover, I live in a building several hundred meters high every day, watching all the living beings running around like ants below.

 Over time, you may be able to develop an aura of awe.

 “Are there any vacant apartments for sale in the building? I want to buy one too.”

Link said while eating crab legs.

 “Wouldn’t it be nice to live here with me?”

Ivaca put down her fork and wiped the corners of her lips elegantly with a napkin.

Link smiled softly, threw the crab leg shell on the plate, took a sip of pure water and said, "We are an agreed couple. If I live here, if others find out, they will think that I am being kept by you."

"A man's self-esteem? I understand, if living here for free will hurt your self-esteem, then you can pay rent, how about 100,000 US dollars per month?"

Ivaca batted her eyelashes and smiled.

 “100,000 US dollars? Why don’t you grab it? Five thousand!”

“No, you can only stay at the Park Hyatt Hotel downstairs for three days for five thousand U.S. dollars, at least eighty thousand U.S. dollars, and you can use all the items in the apartment.”

 “Ten thousand dollars, this is my bottom line.”

Link said seriously.

 “Fifty thousand US dollars is my bottom line.”

Ivaca shook her wine glass and smiled.

 After several rounds of bargaining, the two parties reached an agreement on US$25,000. Link paid a monthly rent of US$25,000 and obtained the right to live here.

 Equivalent to 800 US dollars per day, which is really too expensive.

 (End of this chapter)