Chapter 326 Anxi's Sister

Minogue's October was pretty uneventful after Ariana's birthday party.

However, one month after this grand cocktail party ended.

Before Christmas.

The global fashion industry suddenly broke out a piece of explosive news——

LVMH, a world-class fashion boutique group, suddenly sued Victoria's Secret for "molecular cashmere technology", alleging that it plagiarized its 19th century silk jacquard patent!

Victoria's Secret, which was sued, and the Manhattan District Attorney's Office and the New York Court, which accepted the lawsuit, opened a hearing on the dispute between LVMH and Victoria's Secret at an extremely fast speed.

During the heated debate in court, Victoria's Secret's lawyer tore open an 18-micron cashmere sweater in court - the lining turned out to be woven with high-grade bulletproof fiber, which instantly triggered a tsunami of public opinion about the "civilianization of the military-industrial complex."

LVMH later admitted that it had lost the case because it was obvious that they would not have had advanced technology such as bulletproof fibers in the 19th century.

Therefore, the technology used by Victoria's Secret is just a little similar to their past patents, and it is definitely not infringement.

So the LVMH Group published an announcement in the newspaper to publicly admit that it was their fault and then apologized to Victoria's Secret.

However, everyone in the fashion industry, as well as some people in the capital world, are watching this with indifference - anyone with a discerning eye can see that, whether it is the LVMH Group or Victoria's Secret.

That's someone's property. Did the left hand suddenly sue the right hand because it disliked the right hand's strength? Of course, that's impossible.

Only by doing this can the owner of the hands gain greater benefits!

Obviously, after such a storm, Victoria's Secret, which was originally aimed at the upstart fashion technology track, has finally become widely known! Therefore, in many business schools, the LVMH Group's lawsuit against Victoria's Secret has been included as a new topic in their textbooks next year.

Because after this lawsuit that shocked the fashion industry.

It's not just Victoria's Secret, a high-end technological and fashionable clothing brand, whose sales have suddenly increased by 236% in one month.

Even LVMH's own clothing brands have seen a sales increase of around 30-40%.

After deducting several million dollars in legal fees, the net profit would be at least several billion dollars.

Isn’t this a very successful marketing? While professors and students in business schools chewed over this successful marketing case, many media people talked about it with great relish.

Christmas of 1998 was approaching.

The cold December wave in Manhattan is filled with the aroma of cinnamon and pine needles, and the neon signs on Fifth Avenue light up one by one in the twilight, like a burning diamond necklace.

In the window of Saks Fifth Avenue department store, a mechanical nutcracker is waving its gilded scepter at precise intervals of 0.5 seconds. The ice castle carved from alabaster exudes blue mist under the spotlight, attracting children wrapped in tweed coats to press their noses to the glass, and the white breath they exhale creates nebula-like spots on the window surface.

The Norway spruces at Rockefeller Center tower into the iron-gray sky, with 30,000 crystal balls and 600 pounds of gold foil wrapped around the branches. When the falling snowflakes pass over the golden stars on the treetops, it is as if God accidentally dropped a handful of broken diamonds.

A street performer in a red velvet hat played "Silent Night" on a saxophone, and the notes, along with the simulated snow falling from the roof of Macy's department store, settled onto the yellow mustard sauce on the hot dog stand.

The long line of taxis on 34th Street was blocked like a glowing earthworm, the red and green alternation of traffic lights was like an anxious conductor, and the white-collar workers in the back seat counted the Dow Jones Index scrolling on the Nasdaq screen in Times Square through the foggy car windows - those jumping green numbers shared the same exaggerated joy with the Christmas balls.

Next to the cast iron fire hydrant, a homeless man was wrapping empty wine bottles with picked-up gold foil, while the three-carat sapphire necklace in the Tiffany window watched all this silently, its cold edges reflecting two New Yorks: one overdrawing fairy tales in credit card bills, and the other chewing reality in the white smoke rising from the steam manhole cover on the street corner.

The young Anxi Liu, who was sitting in the passenger seat, couldn't help but look back again at her mother and sister who were breastfeeding her half-sister in the back of the car.

Liu Li was seen looking at the newborn baby who was drinking breast milk in her arms with a motherly love, while their car consisting of two cars was traveling on the road from Manhattan to Long Island.

To be exact, it was Liu Li coming out of her luxurious apartment on the Upper West Side.

Passing through the Chelsea district of Manhattan, I picked up my daughter who had just finished school.

The two planned to leave Manhattan together and spend the night on Long Island.

"Mom, my sister is so cute." Anxi Liu whispered.

Without even looking up, Liu Li smiled and said, "You were so cute when you were a child. But your sister is mixed-race, she is a little whiter than you."

Yes, Anxi Liuduo's mother, Liu Li, a former Chinese dancer who is almost 40 years old, gave birth to a child two years after coming to the United States.

This child is certainly not Liu Li’s ex-husband’s. The only one who can make her pregnant now is that man.

Anxi Liu is well aware of this.

Even now, they, mother and daughter, and sister Liu Anna, the baby's Chinese name, also have an English name, Pennie Liu Blackburn! Pennie means Peony, which is the name of peony in English.

Just like Lily and Rose, their names are all related to flowers.

Anna is half Chinese, half flower, so her real English name is Pennie.

The three of them are now leaving Manhattan, but are going to reunite with Pennie's biological father in Long Island.

Anxi Liu's mother had even just told Anxi why this happened.

The reason is that Pennie's biological father will not be able to stay in New York with them during Christmas in a few days.

So before Christmas, he planned to gather them together so that everyone could have a happy Christmas.

He can also fulfill his responsibilities as a father and a man.

In other words, there are more than just the mother and daughter who are heading to Long Island or are already there.

The car fell silent again. Anxi Liu, who was sitting in the passenger seat, looked out the window at the bustling streets of Manhattan, then looked at the black female driver who was driving quietly in the driver's seat.

As the small convoy of two cars drove away from the Brooklyn Bridge.

Anxi Liu noticed that her mother behind her had finished feeding her sister.

After adjusting the position so that Pennie could lie better and more comfortably.

Liu Li began to care about her eldest daughter, who had always been a dull person.

She said, "Sissi, are you going to London after the New Year? Or will you wait until the end of next year?"

Anxi Liu thought, I've told you five or six times.

But you still forgot.

It's obvious that mom is more concerned about my sister now.

Although she was a little jealous, Anxi Liu still spoke in a low voice, "I will go there after the Chinese New Year, but I won't stay for too long. The official filming will be at the end of the year. This is what my agent told me."

Yes, Anxi Liu has signed a management contract now. She is already a signed artist of Robin Star Management.

The trip to London that she just mentioned was after the live-action movie "Harry Potter" had been in preparation for nearly three years.

Paladin Films is finally planning to make it, and the shooting will probably start in the second half of next year.

And not surprisingly, Anxi Liu has been confirmed to play the Chinese-American magician Jie Qiu Zhang in the movie.

Normally speaking, Qiu Zhang will not appear until the third or fourth part.

After all, then she would become Harry Potter's girlfriend.

But this is a real-life movie, and more importantly, she was arranged to be in this movie by Pennie's biological father.

So it's different from the original Warner Harry Potter.

There will be some Qiu Zhang's plot in the Paladin version of Harry Potter and the Harry Potter series 1 and 2.

Not too many, just a few shots and a few lines to let the audience know that Harry is a face-chaser.

In the first and second grades, I often looked at the beautiful girls in school, and Qiu Zhang was the best among them.

It is an important background board, but the majority of the plot still respects the original work.

Anxi Liu is the designated actress to play Qiu Zhang and will go to London twice next year.

"That's good. I'll listen to my agent in everything." Liu Li nodded casually.

Women are very complex creatures. They are affected by their own hormones more directly and strongly than men.

Let me give you a typical example.

There was a pregnant woman. During her prenatal checkup, the doctor told her that it would be better not to give birth to the baby in her belly.

Giving birth to the child would bring trouble to her and the entire family.

After comprehensive consideration, her husband and family decided to follow the doctor's advice.

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But the pregnant woman refused to agree. The hormones in her body that protected the fetus made her decide to give birth to the child, even though it would be useless to the whole family.

Finally the child was born.

Three months later, she ran away because she was no longer pregnant and the remaining hormonal changes in her body could not withstand the harsh reality.

Liu Li's reality is certainly not harsh, so she is more seriously affected by the hormones of a woman who has just given birth.

This is reflected in her life, where she is obviously more concerned about and pays more attention to the younger ones, and has somewhat neglected her older daughter.

Of course, it also has something to do with the fact that the younger daughter’s biological father and the older daughter’s biological father have different statuses to her.

The carriage fell silent again.

Looking at my mother who was fully alert and almost completely focused on my sleeping sister.

Anxi Liu felt very upset.

How can I regain my mother's attention?

Anxi Liu secretly glanced at her sister in her mother's arms.

It's all her fault.

But she is only a few months old.

Should I blame my mother? Anxi Liu felt that she could never blame her mother.

Then... blame him.

That's a... Anxi Liu thought, what a pervert! He was the one who made her mother pregnant, even though she was already old.

And...Anxi Liu was nervous again, and at the same time a little shy and scared.

And he seemed to want to make me pregnant! It was just that I was still young, but it had already been predetermined.

Not only did my mother agree, she also came and talked to me many times. I cried and was scared, but in the end I tacitly agreed.

Thinking of this, Anxi Liu suddenly realized.

In a few years, when I grow up a little.

Would he also let himself get pregnant? Let himself bear his child like his mother did?

I knew the answer almost instantly.

Anxi Liu suddenly fell into another kind of panic.

But before she could panic for long, their small convoy arrived at its destination.

Located in Great Neck, Long Island, this huge manor house is not far from the beach, but is blocked by hills from the cold seaside air.

Through the car window, Anxi Liu saw the wrought-iron porch wrapped with wreaths of holly and red berries, and the gold-rimmed reindeer sculptures cast long amber shadows on the snow.

After verifying their identities, the convoy drove into the main road of the manor.

The French street lamps on the main road dyed the snowflakes into champagne bubbles, the marble fountain froze into an ice crystal crown, and the wishing coins scattered at the bottom of the pool sparkled like scattered platinum fragments under the blue spotlights.

Inside the glass dome of the greenhouse, 100,000 Ecuadorian red camellias and white tulips bloom in the constant temperature system. The steam condenses into beads and rolls across the rose windows, like Satan's tears of honey for Christmas.

Light from the Baccarat crystal chandelier leaked through the ebony door. With the naked eye, one could see many mistletoe branches covered with canary diamonds. The sound of laughter and harps permeated the falling snow.

Passing by the helipad in the back garden, a helicopter happened to land. The wind created by the rotor lifted the snow on the roof of the stretched Lincoln, revealing the "Nol" written in white truffle sauce on the bulletproof glass - the Christmas lights of the slums 20 kilometers away were now reflected in the cracks in the silver paint of this letter "".

Who is that? Who got off the helicopter? Anxi Liu looked carefully and found that it was almost the top female star in Hollywood, Catherine Zeta-Jones from the UK.

Anxi Liu didn't pay attention to these things before.

But later, when she was ready to become a part of Hollywood, she also began to pay attention quietly.

For example, she is very clear that the British actress Zeta-Jones has starred in two works, "Angels and Demons" and "The Da Vinci Code".

She has starred in a series of hit or well-received movies such as "Fast and Furious", "Jurassic World", and "L.A. Confidential".

In just a few years, she has become a top-tier Hollywood actress and has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for three consecutive years.

The number of its fans on ITK Wall Likes, the hottest Internet product today, has reached over 50 million.

She is currently the most followed female celebrity on the ITK wall, so she won the "Most Popular Actress of the Year Award" and ranked second in the "100 Most Popular Female Celebrities in the World" jointly awarded by Yahoo and ITK not long ago, which is a good result.

It can be said that in terms of popularity and fame, there are not many people in Hollywood who can compare with Zeta-Jones.

But now, Anxi Liu looked at the British female star with a big belly who got off the helicopter carefully with some surprise.

When? Anxi Liu was a little confused, she had never heard that Zeta-Jones was pregnant.

There was no news about her getting married or having a boyfriend. Whose child was she carrying? The gossip-seeking heart was ignited in an instant, but it was also extinguished in an instant.

Without even thinking about it, Anxi Liu immediately came up with the answer.

This Hollywood A-list actress has been involved in numerous scandals with someone ever since she became famous.

All the movies she starred in were invested by that person's film company.

Now Zeta-Jones appears here with such a big belly, she must be pregnant.

Then whose baby could the baby in her belly be?

Anxi Liu might be naive and a little slow to react, but she is not stupid.

So…who else got pregnant and gave birth to a child for him? For some reason, Anxi Liu was actually looking forward to meeting those people later.

(End of this chapter)