Chapter 96: Double Success in Career

To Su Yun, the young man in the white shirt passing by outside was actually not as attractive as the Donkey brand suitcase he was carrying.

After all, when material life is abundant, people will subconsciously want to pursue spiritual enjoyment.

Because of the incident in which her small suitcase was knocked over and scattered all over the floor, and Alain Delon ended up getting the script notebook by mistake, she wanted to buy a Donkey brand suitcase before returning to Hong Kong. It is said that there was a suitcase of this brand among the suitcases salvaged from the Titanic. After years of erosion by sea water, even though the outside of the suitcase had been deformed and worn, not a drop of water had seeped into the inside!

Very good, firm skin, she likes it!

As for those famous brands, Su Yun, a programmer who was once treated like a man in the industry, actually has only a vague understanding of them. The brands she knows are just a few that are familiar to her. In the popular graphic of graphics card models vs. lipstick models, Su Yun only knew the graphics card models on the left...

As for cosmetics and skin care products, I use them from time to time, so I have a better knowledge of them.

After weighing the Donkey bags in the store, Su Yun, who was deeply influenced by the Hong Kong street kung fu that uses whatever is at hand as a weapon, became more determined to get some Donkey bags: let alone boxes, the weight of an empty bag is heavier than other bags, comparable to a brick after makeup - if she carried such a bag that day, would he still want Zha Lan's face? Haha.

The only regret is that luxury goods are not something you can buy whenever you want. The suitcase that Su Yun liked was out of stock, so she had to buy a few bags, then pay for the reservation and wait to pick it up the next time the suitcase arrived.

There are definitely no Donkey brand stores or counters in Hong Kong these days, and I guess the boy in the white shirt must have flown abroad to buy it: in a middle school of São Paulo's level, most of the students are from the middle and upper classes, so it's not uncommon to see them wearing all branded clothes.

Putting this little episode behind her, Su Yun performed "Scarborough Fair" perfectly in front of the female teacher.

After the music exam was over, Su Yun followed the female teacher to the principal's office.

After a round of negotiations, Su Yun will confirm that she will enter São Paulo University as a transfer student in the new semester after this summer vacation.

The way of studying is similar to that in the Xinhui Chamber of Commerce. She must attend the beginning and final exams of each semester. She comes to pick up textbooks and other things at the beginning of the semester, and takes the final exams to confirm her academic level. As for the rest of the time, she is expected to squeeze out time to come back for classes after work.

When she was in Form 9 or so, St. Paul's would contact the middle schools in the United States that were on good terms with it and send Su Yun to study abroad - this was a standard route for studying abroad at that time.

In view of her awards and box office success, the school gave her the opportunity to take the exam; and to make her study more convenient, Su Yun promised to donate a five-story music teaching building to St. Paul's in the name of Grandma Su.

The price of buildings in Hong Kong has not taken off sharply yet, and the economy is in a downturn after the stock market crash, which has driven down wages. Besides, the land originally belonged to São Paulo, so Su Yun's donation of this building would cost about 1 million yuan excluding interior decoration - of course, Su Yun also promised to continue investing in the future so that the school can purchase more musical instruments, tables, chairs and other interior decorations.

The proposed name for the teaching building is "Qingyin Building", which is a combination of Su's mother's name Su Qing and Su's sister's name Su Yin. It can also be regarded as a small commemoration that Su Yun and Grandma Su can do for them.

When I got home and told Grandma Su about this, she burst into tears and sighed: "Okay, I'll do as you say. I'll go to the school with you to sign tomorrow."

Because of this generous donation of a building, Su Yun and Grandma Su were even reported in the newspaper.

Of course, there are also some tabloids that secretly calculated the current wealth of the Su family: "The Perfect Match" was the debut work of the Su family as a major shareholder. The pure box office profit was not much, and the total profit from several places might not exceed 1 million, but the subsequent foreign market copyright fees and videotape fees were definitely more than that, and the Su family had already made several million from "Grandma Su's stock trading"...

As for the three overseas movies "Artificial Intelligence", "Memoirs of a Geisha" and "The Sixth Sense", they were all box office hits. The Su family received mostly US dollars and Japanese yen this time. According to the exchange rate, their estimated net worth in Hong Kong may exceed 100 million!

What does over 100 million mean?

Inspector Lei, who was forced to flee by ICAC last year, had a net worth of 500 million. The Su family made one-fifth of the inspector's net worth by relying on their years in the film industry!

Although a large part of the Su family's assets are real estate and profits that will take a long time to arrive, it is already a miraculous speed to have been able to move from a housing estate to Kowloon Tong in just a few years!

With this wealth, they can easily live in a luxury house in Mid-Levels in Central and Western District. So why do the Su family still stay in Kowloon Tong and live in a small house like ordinary rich people? In addition to the fact that most of their relatives and friends live there, is it also because the way the nouveau riche made their fortune does not easily blend in with the Mid-Levels class?

After all, a person with over 100 million is considered a super-rich person in the eyes of ordinary people like them, but to the real wealthy families and clans in Mid-Levels, he is just a nouveau riche who got lucky.

Moreover, Su Yun has been developing abroad basically in the past two years. The only people left at home are the old woman Su, the Filipino maids and the bodyguards.

With the protection of Lu Shaolong's fame in the underworld, the care of Zou Yunhua, and the watchful eyes of the neighboring Wang family, nothing major has happened in these years: famous societies rely on "face" to develop, and unless they are at the end of their rope and have no shame, they will not associate with idol-level figures and their direct disciples.

Given Lu Shaolong's status in the underworld, once a large society intends to take action, it will inevitably be despised by the entire society - even if the top leaders do not really condemn it and will only feel that they are a step slow, the middle and low-level society members who rely on "loyalty" to maintain their status will be really angry about it.

In this situation of multi-party confrontation, it is actually a good thing for the Lu and Su families, making them less likely to be persecuted.

However, in this world, it is always easier to dodge an open attack than to guard against an arrow from the dark; similarly, it is easier to guard against a "gentleman" than a villain. Those small societies and small individuals who forget their principles for the sake of money are the biggest headaches for emerging wealthy families like the Su family.

Therefore, when Su Yun returned to Hong Kong from time to time to stay temporarily, she would increase her efforts to hire bodyguards to patrol and build additional garden defense measures.

In addition to strengthening defenses in a legitimate way, they also have to ask Zou Yunhua in private to help send gifts to the large society that Jiahe secretly cooperates with as "protection fees". These superficial efforts are also helpless but must be done.

If the water is too clear, there will be no fish. No matter what period, gray is the eternal theme and it is impossible to completely distinguish between black and white.

At the suggestion of the social groups, the tabloids' records of flattery soon disappeared: since the anti-corruption storm began, Hong Kong's social groups have followed the actions of Taiwan's social groups and began to invade the entertainment industry.

But compared to the situation in Taiwan where politics, the underworld, and the entertainment industry are almost closely interdependent and difficult to separate, in Hong Kong in the mid-1970s, the underworld only regarded the entertainment industry as a way to make a little money - the Zhao family was the only one in Hong Kong, and Chia Ho had deep connections with Taiwan; the underworld did not control the cinema chain, and did not have the connections to sell to other places, so investing in filming would end in failure. The cost of copying videotapes was almost the same as the money from selling pirated copies, and if the sales were not good, they would lose money...

Therefore, only those martial artists who are involved in the entertainment industry and have a gang background can get some protection fees.

But how much can the protection fee be? They have to disperse their members to collect it everywhere. When it is difficult to collect, they even lose manpower. After all, the Royal Police are no longer the "good brothers" who used to work together with them, but are specially used to deal with their mortal enemies.

You can't make much money from making movies, so you resort to prostitution, gambling, and drug trafficking...which one wouldn't be more appealing?

As for the time when the society entered the entertainment industry on a large scale, it was actually from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s after the movie box office began to exceed tens of millions and the Hong Kong film industry successfully created stars.

With the new dubbing technology, it is possible to do a pirated videotape business that is guaranteed to make a profit. Popular stars can be forced to make movies and then sell them in foreign markets by relying on their popularity... This multi-channel money laundering is the fundamental reason why gangs were rampant in the entertainment industry during that period.

Sufficient profits are enough to make people take risks.

But now, the entertainment industry is just a side road for social groups to make money. Once it is exposed in the tabloids, they will simply shut it down to prevent more interested people from getting involved.

After resolving the issues in Hong Kong, on the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, Su Yun hurriedly took a plane to Kyoto, Japan, and went to Nintendo's headquarters building.

After receiving two Game&Watch models from Gunpei Yokoi, the head of the First Development Department, Su Yunduan was very satisfied.

The affordable version, priced at 5,800 yen, is still like the first-generation handheld game console in Su Yun's memory, with only a ball catching game called "Ball" and a clock mode time display; but the upgraded version, priced at 8,800 yen, has been completely upgraded, with two more classic mini-games, "Snake" and "Tetris".

This was also the last time Su Yun came to Japan to film a movie. Nintendo contacted her and said that the game design of "Super Mario" was too advanced and too technically demanding, so it could not be used on handheld consoles for the time being. Su Yun then submitted the design plan for "Tetris" again. At that time, Kurosawa Akira was filming "Memoirs of a Geisha" while preparing for the filming of the Russian-language drama "Delsu Uzara". Su Yun took the opportunity to study Russian with him, and thus naturally created the classic game "Tetris".

"After the finished product came out, I took the two versions to the Shinkansen a few times. A lot of people came up to me and asked where to buy it and the price, so I came up with the current price." Yokoi Gunpei thought for a moment, then looked at Su Yun and said, "By the way, who do you think I met on the Shinkansen?"

"Who?" Su Yun asked casually, holding the two versions of the game consoles in her hands with reluctance.

"Your defeated general, the young master of Bus Calculator Company." Yokoi Gunpei sighed, "But with the decline of Bus Calculator Company, he must have had a very hard time. If he hadn't been caught because of his sneaky behavior and had to prove his identity, I would have almost failed to recognize him."

"People and things that cannot adapt to the development of the times will inevitably be abandoned by the times." Those who lag behind will be beaten. Su Yun, who was born in China, knows this very well.

Only by constantly innovating and keeping pace with the development of the times can we remain invincible forever.

Compared to the entertainment industry where cashing out is difficult, the level and speed of money-making in electronic technology, especially game consoles, is much more powerful.

Su Yun, who had already decided to lose money in order to gain publicity (and it was only in later generations that the publicity and praise were gradually proven), was very concerned about the development and sales of Game&Watch: "The loss of "Leon: The Professional" in the future will be made up by you, my good brother!"