Brilliant Years 1991

Chapter 107 The commercial is on air!
An unexpected, yet completely normal, hunt for love.

This was the first time in Cao Yukun's two lifetimes that he felt qualified to use the word "hunting for beauty."

Please, is beauty so easy to hunt?

You either have to be incredibly handsome, or rich enough to just throw money at people, or you can be funny and flirty - in your previous life, you weren't qualified at all, okay?

In fact, even this time, he didn't feel that he was really hunting for beauty. Maybe it was the other party who "hunted" him.

In fact, he has never been able to flirt in his life.

When having dinner with Zhou Aimin, he repeatedly emphasized that his business might fail and he might go bankrupt at any time, saying that he was not actually that rich. But who would have thought that this girl was still so stupid - she actually said, if you go bankrupt, I can support you!
This made Cao Yukun feel a little uncomfortable.

However, the comparison of his experiences in the two lives made him realize very clearly that this had nothing to do with his inner self, or his soul, such as his knowledge, ability, conversation, interests, and cultivation.

What the other person likes and is obsessed with is just this face of yours, which belongs to the Red Hare among horses!
It is naturally impossible for ordinary people to have such a split cognition, but as a time traveler, Cao Yukun does.

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"Are you awake? Go wash up, and you can eat in a while!"

"Wow, Akunni can cook?"

"Ha, your boyfriend is not good at telling lies, but everything else is not top-notch?"

"Fart!"

When I woke up in the morning, I unexpectedly got a breakfast from this man.

And it is obviously made very carefully, the taste and flavor are not bad...

This made Zhou Aimin's hurried feeling that something was wrong from last night until now suddenly dissipate. "Actually, I'm also good at cooking. I'll cook for you in the future!"

"Okay! That's great! Actually, I was just bragging. My cooking skills are just that good!"

She smiled sweetly and couldn't help staring at him again, laughing as she looked at him.

What a handsome guy!

Moreover, he is not the kind of person who is ordinary except for his handsome face. He has a very unique temperament. Although he is young, he has a kind of indifference and casualness that has seen through the world. That is a kind of feeling that only very smart and successful people will give when they are about middle-aged. It is a kind of specialness that is almost unseen in the entertainment industry and ordinary people. Only when you occasionally see those big shots talking about business from a distance can you vaguely perceive it.

In her heart, she thought that this thing was called calmness and composure.

It seems like they can handle anything with ease.

It's so fascinating.

"How much do you rent this room for a month?"

"Fifty-five thousand Hong Kong dollars a year. How's that? Do you think it's okay?"

"It's okay! But... Ah Kun, I actually bought a house. I used all the money I earned during these years of debut to buy a house, in addition to subsidizing my family. My house is a little bigger than yours, it's nearly 1,200 square feet. If you're willing, you can actually give this place up..."

"Hahaha, you really want me to be a gigolo? I don't want to! Wait until my business goes bankrupt!"

"Pfft! Nonsense! You won't go bankrupt! That's not what I meant! I meant that you're wasting money renting here. You can save a lot of money if you live with me! When your business gets a little better, you can take out some money for the down payment. If you buy a house in Hongkong, you can pay 30% as a down payment, and then you can move in and pay off the loan slowly. Your annual rent of 55,000 yuan is almost enough to pay off several months of loans, so of course you shouldn't use it to help others pay off their loans!"

Cao Yukun was moved. He put down his chopsticks and raised his hand to touch her face across the table. After a while, he took his hand back and continued eating. Seeing that she was a little puzzled, he asked her, "You also took out a loan? Are you still paying it back?"

"Yes! Houses are so expensive. I finally made two million last year, so I rushed to buy one. When I bought it, the price was not bad, 4450 yuan per square foot, a total of 550 million. Now it has risen to 5000 yuan per square foot!"

Cao Yukun did some mental calculations and figured out that the price was more than 48000 yuan per square meter when he bought it, and now it is more than 54000 yuan!
It seems that the location is good.

The down payment was two million, and the loan was 350 million, assuming the loan was for thirty years. When I went to the agency to look at the house that day, the agent told me that the current mortgage loan seemed to be... Forget it, why bother!

Can you still get a bargain from real estate developers and banks?

To be honest, this is the reality. Before the huge mainland market truly rises and becomes rich, even though Hongkong Entertainment Circle is currently the most trend-setting in East Asia and Southeast Asia, and is extremely popular throughout Asia, the people in the circle, even those celebrities who are popular to a certain extent, are not that rich!

It is understandable that the red-hot stars like to speculate in real estate and wait for appreciation in value.

Alas, it is a pity that this is a completely artificially created scarcity, and precisely because of the high housing prices, it has basically sucked away the creativity of two or three generations...

To be honest, Hongkong during this period was full of vitality economically and backed by the mainland, making it one of the world's top financial centers. No matter what it wanted to do, it had no shortage of capital. So, in fact, it could have done a lot of things - but the experience of the previous life ultimately showed that Hongkong chose industrial hollowing out.

The ready-made garment manufacturing of the past is gone.

The once small-scale shipbuilding industry is gone.

The electronics industry, which had a strong foundation in the whole of Asia, is gone.

Even re-export trade is shrinking year by year as the mainland opens up more and more.

The rest are basically just finance, tourism and shopping centers.

It is said that just after the return, the Hong Kong government once proposed a series of future prospects such as the Internet development plan and the chip manufacturing plan. In fact, looking back at history, these ideas are very good. Even considering the various technological blockades of the mainland by America at that time, if Hong Kong could have really stepped in in the late 1990s, it might have really become powerful...but later, without exception, all of them failed.

What is the reason? It is hard to say.

Future generations can only make their own analysis based on various clues. The real reason must be extremely complicated, at least it should not be caused by a single situation.

"Then you made money! Wow, you made a lot of money buying buildings!"

“So, if your business is successful and you make money, remember to buy a property as soon as possible!”

"it is good!"

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Fang Lijing didn't come again that day.

The next day, she still didn't come.

Zhou Aimin moved directly into Cao Yukun's home. She even wore sunglasses and went shopping with Cao Yukun. She bought a lot of ingredients and showed off her cooking skills. Fortunately, perhaps because there were not many celebrities staying in this area, the only time they went out, they did not encounter the paparazzi who were quite arrogant in the red sky.

In the meantime, Cao Yukun actually went out alone to various supermarkets, shopping malls, and street retail stores to check the distribution of his beverages. Fortunately, the streets he checked had already started to stock the products, but obviously, no one bought them, and no one even asked about them. There were only a few bottles scattered in the corner.

Apart from that, he and Zhou Aimin lived together in a rented house, leading a sweet life as a couple - cooking, eating, and doing sports that they both liked.

This place is just rented as a temporary home. There is no TV, no stereo, and not even any books.

It seemed that there was really nothing else to do except the daily intimacy, so they did it once when they were in the mood. By the next day, she couldn't stand it anymore and started begging.

I had to use both my hands and feet.

Later, I was surprised to hear Cao Yukun's suggestion of using mouth.

It was not her first time, which was a big regret, but Cao Yukun did not mind it too much - just kidding, this was only in this life, the two girls he met before were both his first time, and in his previous life, among the several relationships he had had, only the first one was his first, and later when he was going on blind dates and considering marriage, it can be said without a doubt that every girl he met on blind dates must have been his first time!
As a man, of course he hopes that his women are all first-hand.

But if it's just a temporary relationship, it doesn't matter how good the other person is.

And...she is really a very traditional girl, very virtuous, can cook, loves to cook, and is particularly willing to clean the house. In this respect, among the girls Cao Yukun has known and understood in his life, she is particularly similar to Huang Jiaying. Even if there is only a small and shabby room, even if it is only a dozen square meters, she must keep it clean and tidy.

People like Hu Zihong are a little lacking in this respect.

Perhaps because she has a feeling of being a drifter and feels like she might leave at any time, she prefers to simply tidy up the place where she lives and keep it as clean as possible.

The next day, Cao Yukun couldn't help but run out again and bought a TV.

So the two of them had another entertainment activity: watching TV. Obviously, she had a TV at home. In the red sky these days, a TV that cost several thousand yuan was only one month's salary at most. The penetration rate was already very high, but she still looked particularly happy when she saw the picture on the newly bought TV.

So I curled up on the sofa and watched TV.

At that time, there was a saying about Hongkong, or Wutai Mountain, but in fact there were only two TV stations. One was Wireless, which was still famous until later on, TVB, and the other was Rediffusion Television. As for Jiayi Television, which was once in Wutai Mountain, it had already closed down. The other two were radio stations.

The first batch of Cao Yukun's advertisements were mainly placed in TVB, Jin Yong's Ming Pao, Nanyang Zaobao, and Weekly, which is very popular in Hong Kong nowadays and is loved by young people and perverts, but is deeply hated by the entertainment and business circles.

The focus is definitely on the wireless station’s advertisements.

In the Internet media, to be precise, before the emergence of 4G network, television was undoubtedly the number one media, and television advertising was the undisputed king of traffic!
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Living in a house of about 80 square meters, the two of them spent two or three days together without realizing it, so that Cao Yukun gradually began to get used to it, adapt to it, and even like the feeling of living in a world of two with her.

During this period, he occasionally received calls from home and Shanghai, and Cao Yukun did not deliberately hide them from her. She seemed to have discovered something, but Cao Yukun did not deliberately explain, and she did not ask. She seemed to think that the person on the other end was just Cao Yukun's business friend. The key point was... living here with Cao Yukun seemed to make her quite happy, even obsessed - she should have liked this kind of family life.

Before we knew it, June 6th had arrived.

She turned on the TV after getting up in the morning and never turned it off. Even when she was doing housework, she would turn her head to look at the TV from time to time, and repeatedly confirmed with Cao Yukun the time when the TV commercials would premiere.

It seems that he cares about this matter more than Cao Yukun.

Finally, a little after 6:30 in the evening, which was also the time when most families in Hongkong had dinner, Cao Yukun called her out of the kitchen two minutes early, and the two of them sat on the sofa waiting for the commercial.

Sure enough, Andy Lau showed up soon.

He looked like he had just finished exercising and was a little sweaty. In the bright light, a friend seemed to have thrown him a bottle of drink in the distance. The outer packaging was very round and delicate, but he looked puzzled and took a look. "Plum juice? I've never had it... What is that?"

But he still unscrewed it and put it to his lips - the camera immediately cut to a medium close-up of his facial expression. On the entire TV, his face and the drink bottle that was brought to his lips occupied the absolute center of vision.

After just one sip, he immediately showed an incredible look and then held the bottle up a little higher.

goo go go go...

After drinking it in one breath, he let out a long breath with a look of satisfaction on his face.

Then, he pushed the empty bottle closer so that half of the screen was occupied by the bottle, "A mouthful of sour and sweet plum, delicious!"

Ten seconds later, the ad was over.

But immediately, Zhou Aimin opened the refrigerator from behind, and the camera cut to her face, frowning in confusion, "Qinyuan brand plum juice? What is that?" Then, without even turning her head, "Mom, you bought a new drink!"

The camera then shows her taking out a can of drink from the refrigerator.

Pull it open, take a sip - almost identical expressions of surprise and disbelief.

But compared to King Liu, her expression had more of a little girl's secret joy - she shot this scene six times before Cao Yukun and Huang Zhan were finally satisfied.

Now it seems that the results are quite good.

Gulp, gulp, and he drank it all in one gulp.

After she finished drinking it, she said with a look of surprise, "A mouthful of sour and sweet plum!"

"Mom, this sour plum juice is delicious!"

Another ten-second ad.

But then, the background sound started, and it was actually King Liu's voice, "Qinyuan brand plum juice, wow, delicious! The taste is so unique, I want you to drink a bottle in one gulp!"

Then, King Liu held a plastic bottle in his hand, while Zhou Aimin held a can, both of which were already opened. When the drinks in their hands touched, some of them splashed out. They raised their drinks together and said to the TV audience outside the screen, "Qinyuan brand plum juice, sour and sweet... plum!"

The picture shows the two of them drinking drinks back to back, with a background voice saying, "Qinyuan brand plum juice, unique flavor, so good that you can't stop drinking! New product on the market, there are prizes for opening the lid, and another bottle event! Welcome to taste it!" - The two big stars added, "You must try it!"

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Thirty seconds, three commercials in a row, and then it was over.

Zhou Aimin was stunned for a long time before turning to look at Cao Yukun. "Wow, so that's how it is! It's broadcast three times in a row? And what does another bottle mean? Will they buy one bottle and get one free?"

Cao Yukun laughed out loud. He was very satisfied with the final effect of the advertisement, so he smiled and replied to Zhou Aimin, "Of course it's not buy one get one free, I would lose a lot of money if I did that! But if you buy a box of 16 bottles, you will probably get at least two bottles for free. As for whether you will continue to win prizes in the future... it depends on your luck!"

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