Signing Miss Jin Taixi was handled directly by Tianyu Entertainment, to avoid any unnecessary gossip.

Su Yehao stopped asking about it.

After returning to his hotel, he tentatively discussed the matter with the hotel owner that evening. The other party quoted close to nine hundred million Hong Kong dollars, averaging about 3.5 million Hong Kong dollars per room.

As one of the most luxurious five-star hotels in Kenting, the Caesar Park Hotel was doing well enough just with local tourists. Since they weren't in a hurry to sell, there was no need to lower the price.

At this price, it was clear that it would be a loss. Unless the local property prices in Kenting skyrocketed, the annual profit wouldn't even compare to the interest earned by investing the nine hundred million Hong Kong dollars elsewhere.

And so.

Over the next few days, while eating, drinking, and sightseeing, Su Yehao took the time to understand the local hotel industry. He discovered that there was not only fierce competition, but also many locals running B&Bs, undercutting prices to steal customers.

The value of the land had been almost completely squeezed dry, lacking any attractive investment potential. Even if a hotel was actually built, it would only earn meager profits.

This discouraged his intention to invest locally. The excitement of traveling gradually faded. Looking at Kenting, it was just a slightly unique coastal town.

After Yin Liuli arrived from Kaohsiung with their child, taking a plane to meet him,

Su Yehao temporarily left his daughter in the care of his grandfather and the nanny, rented a few cars, and began a round-island road trip with Yin Liuli...

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Vacationing on the island in January.

Returning to Hong Kong in February, after only two months of rest, and after attending the Boao Forum for Asia held on Hainan Island in April, he continued to go on vacation.

Under the guise of doing business in Silicon Valley, he stayed for a week at Nong Qingying's N3 Ranch, and then took a trip to Las Vegas.

After indulging in a bit of gambling with Nong Qingying in Las Vegas, losing over two hundred thousand U.S. dollars, Su Yehao brought the girls together, and then stayed in Washington D.C. for some time, attending many parties and meeting new people he could talk to, paving the way in advance.

His career was uneventful, with nothing much to mention.

In mid-May, he returned to Hong Kong for a half-month rest, and at the end of the month, he ran to Japan and South Korea to watch the 2002 Korea-Japan World Cup in person. The national football team was actually there, and the game he watched was even a win, which shocked Su Yehao.

Of course.

As the host, a certain team was still corrupt as ever. Su Yehao watched more than ten games in total, until Brazil won the championship.

During that time, he also helped acquire two South Korean internet companies and one online game studio, firmly controlling the local and Japanese instant messaging business under the Yanwenzi Group, swallowing up competitors that had emerged during the winter.

Originally, Su Yehao thought that 1,400 points was the bottom of the NASDAQ index, but he didn't expect it to further drop to 1,150 points in half a year.

Fortunately, Apple's iPod sales were quite good, and Amazon also received financing from Su Yehao and successfully issued 600 million U.S. dollars in corporate bonds. The two companies helped Su Yehao earn about 300 million U.S. dollars in half a year, and the Yanwenzi Group's market value continued to return to around 12 billion U.S. dollars.

This showed that the market was polarizing.

A batch of companies continued to decline, while the better-performing large companies had stabilized and were showing signs of a slow recovery.

By early September.

Su Yehao was staying in a villa in Shenzhen's cultural tourism city. The surrounding area was still a wasteland. With the gate closed, he was surrounded by high walls. At night, there was no noise except for insects.

That night.

Nangong Tian accompanied him to watch a Lunar New Year film, *How Long Will I Love U*, which was scheduled to be released during the Spring Festival. The special effects were a bit obvious, but it was still a good movie.

The story was roughly about a time-space romance between a man and a woman, where the male lead tried his best to save the female lead who died in an accident.

In Su Yehao's opinion, it was an old routine, but in 2002, it was still relatively innovative.

She put away the disc and put it into a silver safe, telling him, "You must keep it safe when you go to bed at night. The total investment is 40 million Hong Kong dollars. If it leaks out in advance, it's over. Soon there will be a flood of pirated discs."

Su Yehao rubbed her head and smiled:

"Spider-Man was released in June, with a total cost of 130 million U.S. dollars. Now the global box office has exceeded 700 million U.S. dollars. Have you communicated with Columbia Pictures about how much we can get?"

Speaking of this, Nangong Tian immediately got excited and hurriedly said:

"I checked the original agreement and calculated that if the final box office exceeds 700 million U.S. dollars, we can get about 50 million U.S. dollars, including principal and interest. So many movies and TV series have been released, and the total profit is not as good as this one. The benefits of a huge market are really enviable."

A person's emotions are limited, and dividing them into four parts will inevitably make them smaller.

Since this year hasn't been too busy, Su Yehao often takes the time to spend time with them. Jiang Yu hasn't explicitly said that she would move to the villa in Big Wave Bay, but she has been living in the mansion in Big Wave Bay most of the time.

People are subtly no longer treating this kind of thing as news. Even if paparazzi see them shopping together, they are too lazy to report it.

Investing 20 million U.S. dollars, with such a high box office, yet only being able to recover about 50 million U.S. dollars, the rate of return is so-so.

Su Yehao told her, "The *Spider-Man* movie is so popular, and Marvel's stock price has soared. The copyrights to *Iron Man* and *Captain America* in our hands have appreciated. When the invested *X-Men* is released, we can probably earn some more."

At the beginning of the year, he successively acquired the copyrights to *Iron Man* and *Captain America*, spending 11 million U.S. dollars and 8 million U.S. dollars respectively. Marvel officials did want to buy them back, but unfortunately, their financial situation was terrible and they couldn't come up with too much money.

Su Yehao was only optimistic about those characters, and the situation of lacking money this year hasn't changed, so he only acquired these two copyrights from outside and didn't acquire Marvel Comics as a listed company.

With *Spider-Man* becoming popular all over the world, the two copyrights have certainly appreciated, but Tianyu Entertainment doesn't have any plans to start filming yet, preparing to wait until the special effects technology is more mature, and then find a few Hollywood companies to cooperate with.

Nangong Tian, wearing shorts, put her long legs on Su Yehao's lap and said, "When this money arrives, the account will be much more spacious. Your company in the mainland is burning so much money, do you want me to give it to you then?"

"Don't worry about me. The development speed of the mainland's internet is fast this year. Although the losses in the first three quarters were higher than the total loss last year, it's only about 1 billion Hong Kong dollars. It's expected that the full-year loss will be 1.4 billion Hong Kong dollars, which is not too much pressure for me. Success has been exchanged for market share, which is the real priceless treasure. Didn't you see the valuation soaring?"

Su Yehao ate a Golden Monkey candy, pinched her leg to help her massage, and asked curiously, "Why didn't Jiang Yu come with you today?"

"Her dad's construction site had its grand opening and pre-sale today, so she had to bring the Girl Emperor group to promote it. She was afraid that you would find it troublesome, so she didn't let me tell you."

"...Doesn't that mean she's only two or three kilometers away from us now?"

"Yeah, she'll be here later."

Su Yehao made a decision and said, "Let's go take a look and see how Jiang Shiye's real estate is. Start construction immediately after getting the land, and pre-sell after meeting the standards. Jiang Yu's dad has mastered the real estate routine, he's really fast..."