American Entertainment: Taylor Swift wrote a song for the beginning

Chapter 228 Bluffing, the Battle to Defend the Daughter
Ryan and Don and his daughter walked into the Spanish Colonial style building. There was a huge banquet hall inside the Mar-a-Lago Club. Don took Ryan to a more private meeting room.

"I want to hear your plan." Old Tang invited Ryan to sit down and started talking impatiently.

As for Ivanka, she was unhappy at the moment. She was not happy that her father excluded her right from the start.

"The entire nightclub brand is operated along two lines. You are responsible for finding suitable shops in business districts of major cities, ranging from 5000 square feet to 10000 square feet. Larger nightclubs are not considered for the time being. I will be responsible for launching the brand, contacting suppliers, and signing franchise contracts..." Ryan talked about his plans.

"Absolutely not. I must get involved in the specific operations, otherwise there is no way to discuss this matter." Old Tang directly rejected Ryan's proposal.

Having been in the business world for many years, he doesn't want to make things difficult for this young man.

"Let me propose a more reliable cooperation plan..." Old Tang thought for a moment: "I will be responsible for the store, and you will be responsible for the suppliers. You and I will jointly promote the brand, and I will also be responsible for signing the franchise. Both parties will invest together, and you will hold a 20% stake."

Sky-high asking price!

Ryan sneered, thinking that Old Tang was a little too confident.

"Ryan, your business is too small. To be honest, I don't think highly of it. My idea is to launch a global entertainment brand. I have investments and commercial real estate in more than a dozen countries around the world. My show has tens of millions of viewers. My popularity is no worse than yours. And I'm a businessman. What are you? You're a star. Professionals do professional things."

"Tens of millions of viewers? I asked about the ratings of your "The Apprentice" before. The average ratings last season were only 700 million, right?" Ryan did not hesitate to expose the other party's lie.

"That was just last season. I was telling you the total audience numbers." Old Tang shrugged.

“People trust me, a businessman who knows how to make money, more than you, a young boy. So the whole thing should be led by me. And only I can do it because I am famous enough and have deep roots in the entertainment industry. I have handprints on the Avenue of Stars. Do you have handprints? I can have my models as guests and have Miss Universe participate in nightclub activities. No one else can do these. No one is more suitable than me.” Old Tang began to play the accordion.

"Can Miss Universe twerk? I don't think so. This is a nightclub, it's electronic music, it's something new, you don't understand these things." Ryan shook his head.

"It's just old wine in new bottles." Old Tang disagreed.

"You don't understand anything at all."

"When your mother was still in school, I was suing the federal government. There is nothing new under the sun." Old Tang smiled.

"Then the negotiation is over." Ryan shook his head.

"Young man, this business is dispensable to me, but it's different for you. You make a living from this. Of course, since you took the initiative to find me, I can give you an extra 10%. Just consider it as making a friend. This is my bottom line. Go back and think about it carefully."

"I won't consider it. There are more than one real estate company like yours." Ryan refused directly.

The first company he thought of was APG, but this company had too deep a background. In comparison, Old Tang was more of a profit-seeking businessman and was more controllable.

But he is not in a hurry and can wait until he finds a suitable partner before pushing the project forward.

"Dad, this is so unfair to Ryan!" Ivanka couldn't help but say at this time.

"Don't interrupt me when I'm talking about something." Old Tang immediately admonished.

"Why can't I interrupt? There would be no cooperation without me!" Ivanka muttered.

"I said, shut up!" Old Tang was a little unhappy.

"Dad, we need this project. We can borrow money from the bank to ease liquidity pressure. Do you want to file for bankruptcy for the sixth time?" Ivanka couldn't help but say. She felt that her father was a little aggressive, not only to her, but also to Ryan. She didn't understand where this hostility came from.

Filing for bankruptcy is not a way to escape debt. If you can get rid of debts by filing for bankruptcy, all businessmen will keep filing for bankruptcy. In fact, filing for bankruptcy is like cutting off one's own arm and entering the liquidation process of the subsidiary. In the previous bankruptcies of Lao Tang, the relevant initial investment was wasted, leaving a lot of bad debts and also leading to the loss of ownership of many properties.

"Sixth bankruptcy?" Ryan suddenly discovered the key information.

Old Tang is already standing on the edge of the cliff. His so-called self-confidence is just bluffing, and this indifferent attitude is just another manifestation of being strong on the outside but weak on the inside.

"It's just some bad debts. In fact, it's just the subsidiary that went bankrupt. Other businesses are not affected. I have already earned the money that I should have earned, and I have also transferred what should have been transferred," Old Tang shook his head, trying his best to show that this matter had no effect on him at all.

"Then let's terminate the cooperation. The risk of cooperating with you is too high." Ryan realized that there was no need to cooperate with Lao Tang anymore.

"I don't want to wake up and find out that the joint venture belongs to your creditors," Ryan added.

Old Tang glared at Ivanka. This time his daughter had caused big trouble.

"What you are worried about does not exist at all. My various businesses are independent of each other. Even if all other projects fail, it will not affect the cooperation between you and me." Old Tang grinned.

"When the nest is overturned, no eggs will be left intact. I understand this principle." Ryan said calmly.

"No one knows more about bankruptcy than me." Old Tang couldn't play the accordion anymore, and his smile became a little forced.

Ryan slowly put forward his conditions: "Considering future development, the new company must be controlled by me."

"No way." Old Tang shook his head: "You never thought about cooperating with me. You like my daughter, you want to seduce her, and you harass her. I found out a long time ago!"

"Dad, what are you talking about? Ryan is already engaged to Taylor!" Ivanka thought her father was crazy. She glanced at Ryan and felt a little embarrassed.

"You make me very angry! I can reveal your affairs to the media and your public image will be ruined." Old Tang further threatened.

"It's not me who's finished, it's your daughter." Ryan didn't mind at all.

"Really? Then you have to pay attention to what appears in tomorrow's newspaper. I have many friends at NBC, and your news will spread across the country overnight!" Old Tang sneered.

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When Ryan left, Ivanka wanted to see him off, but was stopped by her father.

"This kid has bad intentions, haven't you seen that? You must stay away from him! You disappointed me so much today. I would have let this kid go without you! You made me lose a lot of money in vain!" Old Tang grabbed his daughter's arm and whispered to her.

"So in order to make more money, you have to use your own daughter as a weapon to throw dirty water on him, right? And it was your daughter who took the initiative to introduce you to him!" Ivanka was like a female leopard with its fur exploded.

"This is not called throwing dirty water, I just said what he was thinking."

"I say it again, he has no idea about me!"

"Whatever you do, don't let me see you with him!"

"Who are you to interfere with me? Why don't you take care of yourself? How many women have you played with? Real estate tycoon!" Ivanka sneered: "You are this kind of person, so you think other men are the same as you."

"You don't know anything. I was so good to you before. You disappoint me. Look at what other people's children are doing. They are taking over their fathers' companies and exploring new territories! What are you doing? Dreaming about being a designer! You are messing with your father. I also want to retire, but none of you are capable. You are all a bunch of trash!" Old Tang was furious.

"Yes, your children have their own ideas, but you always stop them and say we are trash! I should ignore you like my brother did before, because you are a scumbag from beginning to end!" Ivanka gritted his teeth, and the next second, he was slapped in the face by Old Tang, and a slap mark immediately appeared on his cheek.

"Get out!"

"I didn't want to come in the first place!" Ivanka turned and left.

After taking only two steps, she suddenly stopped and turned back: "Thank you for your concern. I will not follow your arrangements anymore."

"Don't ask me for help." Old Tang sneered. "Also, it's my freedom to be with whoever I want."

As the door of the conference room slammed shut, Old Tang held his forehead and called the waiter in: "Send the doctor over, and get some blood pressure medicine!"

Old Tang always likes to brag about his good health, which is indeed much better than Old Bideng, but he is not Superman, otherwise he would not have ordered three of his men to snatch the physical examination report from the doctor in the White House.

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At the same time, Ryan got on the nanny car and went straight back to the bad room. As soon as he returned to the office, Theresa followed him in.

"Where did you go this morning?" Theresa asked as she poured Ryan coffee.

"Talked to someone about a new project."

"New project?" Teresa was a little surprised.

"McDonald's," Ryan shrugged, talking about the idea of the Spirit Club.

"I found an old Tang as a partner, and his daughter acted as a matchmaker."

"Then he should have agreed?"

"No, he's being aggressive and putting pressure on me." Ryan laughed.

"Will you agree to him?"

"Of course not. This is just his trick. He will call me tomorrow night at the latest and agree to my terms." Ryan said.

Ryan had used Old Tang's tricks before, such as when he won the Winter Music Conference, but it was obvious that Old Tang used them more skillfully, which Ryan felt he should learn from him.

Ryan didn't wait until the next night. In fact, Old Tang called Ryan that very night.

"Ryan, this is your last chance. Whether we cooperate or become enemies depends entirely on your decision." Old Tang was still putting pressure on us.

"Forget it. I know what you want to do. I must have controlling stake." Ryan responded calmly.

Controlling the company means absolute control. Ryan can arrange things however he wants, and Old Tang will be completely passive.

There was silence on the other end of the phone for three seconds:
"Ok, you win, brat! You're lucky to have won at the right time. If you had gone to a different time, the situation would have been completely different."

“I will set up a subsidiary company, and the Spirit Club must sign a property cooperation agreement with this subsidiary company for a period of ten years, and the subsidiary company will be the only property partner.”

"Want to use this company and bank to get money?"

"No, no, no. The details are very complicated. Anyway, just do it this way." Old Tang never exposes his weaknesses to anyone.

"The second point is what I said before. My daughter must not get involved in any way."

"I've said before that it's up to you to decide who comes forward, but the situation is different now, so I can't give you any guarantees in terms of personnel," Ryan said.

The only thing to blame is Old Tang being too greedy. If he had just cooperated honestly with Ryan from the beginning, none of these things would have happened later.

"There's nothing wrong with letting her go and gain some experience." Old Tang changed his mind again.

Then, Old Tang expressed the hope that Ryan could start the entire project as soon as possible, preferably to announce it to the public this month. It was obvious that he was very anxious. Ryan also understood the principle that the longer the night, the more dreams there are, and it was indeed in his own interest to do so.

"That's it." Inside the Haihu Club, Old Tang hung up the phone.

At this moment, he was standing alone in the corridor, with the vast ocean outside the window.

Old Tang didn't go back, but made another call: "Jared? Didn't I bother you?"

"Nothing much, I just wanted to ask about your recent situation. Ivanka always mentioned you to me. Yes, that's right, I'm not kidding."

"So you just met... Real estate development in Miami, need money? Why didn't you call me earlier? Uncle can help with this."

"Ivanka is not young anymore, you have to hurry up too. Do you want me to teach you how to please girls? If you want to come and see me, no problem."

For a long time, there was not much communication between Old Tang and Jared. It was not that he did not want to intervene, but he felt that it was his daughter's own business.

But the situation is completely different now. If they don't intervene, the cabbages in their garden will really be taken away by wild wolves. In comparison, Old Don likes Jared more and more. In the best case scenario, Ryan will give up. In the worst case scenario, Old Don will force Ivanka to marry Jared and will never let Ryan succeed.

He wants to fight a battle to protect his daughter!

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At the same time, three female guests came into the bad room. These three female guests were much taller than ordinary women and wore high heels. They stood out from the crowd and were dressed very fashionably. As soon as they appeared, they immediately attracted the attention of the men around them. On the way to the box led by the waiter, several men came over to chat with them.

"Sorry, my husband will be here soon." Anna Vyalitina shook her head and gave up the other party's idea of chatting her up.

"Real husband or fake husband, if you don't mind, I can also make a guest appearance tonight." The young man grinned and said confidently.

"Really?" Anna narrowed her eyes and looked him up and down. "The total amount of your clothes is no more than five hundred dollars, and the Rolex on your wrist is also fake. I guess you are still a student at the University of Florida? Have you paid off your student loan? You are just imitating others to pick up girls!"

“I…” The other person’s smile was stiff. I don’t know how Anna could tell.

"I've met more men than the women in your hard drive. Don't waste your energy." Anna teased.

That condescending temperament instantly made the young male college student lose his confidence, and he had to leave in shame.

"How did you know?" Karlie Kloss couldn't help but ask after the other person left.

"The ones looking over from a distance are his friends. One of them is wearing a University of Florida cap." Anna crossed her arms and said casually.

Rosie on the side smiled slightly and was not surprised.

"We encounter hundreds of flies like this every year. Do you know what the easiest way to deal with a man is? To strike at his self-esteem. Young girl, you still have a lot to learn." Anna shook her head.

Three models of this person have walked into the box.

"So, the three of us just wait here?" Carly knew nothing about the next plan.

"How can that be? Call Ryan and tell him you're in the bad room and want to see him." Anna's high heels stepped on the edge of the table, and her long legs stretched out, which made the waiter stunned. She dressed up deliberately today, and with her straight legs, she naturally attracted attention.

"Is he busy at this time?" Carly asked a little unconfidently.

"Then we'll just wait. He'll come eventually." Anna said confidently.

(End of this chapter)