My Lord, you need to stand up!

Chapter 762 Cherishing Life Like Gold
Of course, for someone as rough as Wei Dong, the only word to describe it is "burning".

Qin Yuye casually styled himself in the fitting room of a fashion store, and even his hairstyle changed.

Relying on her exceptional talent for being a wife, she tied her hair up and struck a languid pose, like a lazy young woman.

She's only twenty years old, yet she can make a colorful bodycon skirt look incredibly stylish.

It was originally supposed to be a loose-fitting European style, with a halter neck that revealed quite a bit of the chest.

She then wore a fashionable white shirt over it, unbuttoned, just tied in a knot at the waist.

That elegant yet subtly sexy, yet dignified, socialite style is vividly portrayed.

Wearing large sunglasses and a slanted sun hat, Wei Dong definitely looks like a wealthy man with considerable assets.

The two of them were quite eye-catching walking on Beverly Boulevard, a street frequented by celebrities.

Having always been accustomed to walking along the walls since he started selling cured meat, Wei Dong was truly unaccustomed to this feeling of being the center of attention.

Yet, there was indeed a strange sense of vanity that made me feel elated.

You would never do this in China. I'm just treating it as an experience. I even got a pair of sunglasses to observe my surroundings, which is quite novel.

It was indeed a bit different. Whether they went to the gun shop to complete the formalities, or to the offices of the trading company and software company they registered, or to the meetings with their financial, tax, and legal advisors, they were treated as Asian nouveau riche, or even thought to be some kind of lord, Datuk, or prince.

Even the Japanese businessmen who clamored to buy Citibank a couple of years ago don't see such young tycoons.

Not to mention people of Chinese descent.

They are not to be underestimated.

Even during the evening's game, he unintentionally became an eye-catching presence on the sidelines.

Even the most prestigious tickets are only available in two places; other tickets, including regular admission tickets, are extremely difficult to obtain at this point.

The huge parking area outside the stadium was filled with all kinds of vehicles and people.

Everywhere people were holding up signs and tickets.

After leaving the driver and Taoist priests in the car, Qin Yuye entered the venue amidst envious glances, having changed into a pink tracksuit.

It's a pretty fitting style for the occasion, but it's a bit too tight and thin, making it look alluring and perky.

Walking through the basketball stadium stands, which are filled with a masculine atmosphere, she stands out from the crowd. Foreigners passing by are asking each other if she is some new Chinese-American female celebrity.

Wei Dong refrained from exposing her little scheme of playing the role of the mistress of the house. Even Shen Laosan could see through her little scheme, so how could those Taoist priests, who were at the advanced level, not see through her at a glance?

Of course, he was also overwhelmed by the sheer number of things to see.

I watched two games when I came to Los Angeles for a press conference two years ago, just for fun.

Only now am I starting to understand the intricacies.

When he visited luxury stores before, his purchases included several expensive "point-and-shoot" phones.

With the same palm-sized dimensions, the X camera costs only a dozen dollars to produce and sells for less than thirty dollars, equivalent to just a few US dollars.

A Pentax PC35 fully automatic point-and-shoot camera from Japan can sell for hundreds of dollars.

Compared to the Zeiss lens and titanium alloy body of the Contax T, it's nothing. This thing sells for eight hundred dollars, and if you add a dedicated flash, it will cost over a thousand!

Wei Dong was quite taken aback when he bought them all; he would definitely take them back to the Xishan factory to figure out for himself.

But it certainly won't follow the path of "expensive, high-end electronic, film cameras".

It's just to show them what the world's most advanced products of its kind have already achieved.

Now he's using this fancy point-and-shoot camera that even Western celebrities love to carry around to show off, taking pictures and documenting everything.

The stadium can accommodate 18,000 people, with colorful lighting, tiered seating, and staff constantly serving drinks and food.

Qin Yuye watched him follow the beverage girls in hot bikinis with his camera lens and teased him with a bit of annoyance: "You like this type?"

It means I'll wear it when I get home and show it to you.

Wei Dong retorted irritably, "Do you think there's any chance of getting anywhere dressed like this at the Hong Kong Coliseum?"

It was only then that his wife realized she had also taken a picture to record the scene; her composition was far more tasteful than Wei Dong's.

So the couple, escorted by the burly stadium security guards to their seats in the VIP front row, were incredibly eye-catching.

He looked like a country bumpkin, a typical nouveau riche from the East, taking pictures in all directions with his camera.

They even took pictures of the ice buckets, water dispensers, and towels on the team's bench.

Hollywood stars usually like to pose and show off at the Lakers' sidelines, but none of them can compare to the eye-catching couple.

Many reporters and camera lenses frequently focused on them.

Seeing them gives me a sense of superiority, like I'm part of a superpower.

So much so that before the game even started, when all the lights in the stadium finally focused on the championship contenders entering the field, these two had already taken several rolls of film.

Wei Dong was so angry that he yelled, "If you had said you wanted to shoot, you should have brought your own film! You're stealing mine, we won't have enough later!" His wife, though scolded, smiled and encouraged him, "Yes, that's how you should be natural. Don't try to be all polite with me... Smile!"

Having his face photographed so closely, Wei Dong could only disdainfully turn his attention back to the players.

Sitting in the first row right next to the stadium to watch the game is a completely different experience.

Especially since the champion might be decided today, nearly 20,000 people at the scene were cheering and shouting their support.

Qin Yuye was also infected by this, realizing that his family's involvement in basketball in Hong Kong would definitely be a big business.

Wei Dong looked on thoughtfully: "The reason why the atmosphere is so good is because the entire market is the world's largest. What can Hong Kong do? It's a tiny place where weaklings fight each other. Apart from deliberately sweeping Southeast Asia to attract attention, they have to make a fuss about competing in Guangdong and Hong Kong, or even challenging other provinces in mainland China... Go and ask about the Harlem Globetrotters basketball team."

Most veteran fans in China probably know this name. They once thought this team, which mainly relied on acrobatics, was even more powerful than the NBA.

Later, as my horizons broadened, I realized that it was just a street-style freestyle basketball team, touring around and performing, which was completely different from competitive basketball.

But right now, it seems like Hong Kong basketball can take this path.

Therefore, Wei Dong didn't care who won or lost on the field. Instead, he focused on observing how the referee skillfully controlled the rhythm and even the outcome of the match.

When giants over two meters tall rampage through the crowd and lose control of their momentum, he doesn't hesitate to kick his wife away, then scrambles away himself, using the recoil to dodge!

The most famous player in the stadium was slammed hard into an empty seat.

This caused the entire stadium to fall silent for a moment, before erupting into wild laughter that nearly burst through the roof!

When the other players were laughing so hard they were bent over, and reached out to help the disheveled Eastern woman, this old lady dramatically dodged and avoided them.

She is more like a feudal woman from the East with bound feet.

The laughter intensified, and even the on-site announcer joined in with a drawn-out, teasing remark.

The scene seemed to pause for a moment, with everyone's attention focused on this.

After telling Wei Dong to stay away, he took photos and instructions to the staff to mop the floor and change the seats. He then carefully wiped the floor with a towel before allowing Qin Yuye to sit down with him.

The wife was somewhat touched: "I was stunned when it hit me, otherwise I would definitely have been injured, right?"

All that could make Wei Dong keep thinking "Damn it," was that the guy later got AIDS, and who knows if the incubation period had started by then.

In short, it seems that the whole world only learned about this little-known fact, known as the incurable disease of the century, starting with him.

I heard that after he was announced to be infected, the players were afraid to touch him during matches, which forced him to retire.

Regardless of the actual route of infection, Wei Dong now regards them with disdain and avoids them: "Change all your clothes later and throw them away... I'll throw mine away too. These guys are very unclean, their private lives are very messy..."

Qin Yuye just said "Oh, oh."

So, after the home team lost the game, which was reportedly watched by 20 to 30 million television viewers, many shots showed the Eastern couple sitting on the sidelines, and many home team fans called the TV station to yell at the couple for affecting their concentration on the game.

Damn it, a bunch of idiots.

The basketball court is right next to the international airport. A couple who changed their clothes at a shop in the airport and were waiting for their flight with three Taoist priests saw a hanging TV discussing this matter, and they even took out footage of the two of them and played it repeatedly...

Qin Yuye felt utterly defeated and sent the Taoist nun to buy two more baseball caps.

Wei Dong, on the contrary, took off his sunglasses and watched with great interest. Anyway, there was no live broadcast or rebroadcast in China, and the news probably wouldn't even get through, so what was there to be afraid of?

He's concerned with whether this popularity can bring any benefits.

It's still an instinctive reaction in the era of short videos and live streaming traffic.

Sure enough, when they arrived in San Francisco and were picked up at their hotel, Lin Wangfu was beaming: "My God, you guys just went to watch a basketball game, how did you almost steal the show!"

Wei Dong looked at the press conference schedule: "Should we buy that outfit again and deliberately sit in the front row at the press conference tomorrow? It'll be broadcast live nationwide, right?"

Qin Yuye still had some pride, so he quickly covered his face and said, "I thought you were very reserved and had a high moral standard. You'd disregard everything for the sake of doing business?"

Wei Dong found this puzzling; what did this have to do with morality?

In the end, we decided against it, not wanting to cause any trouble at such a crucial time as Apple's product launch event.

If it brings any negative effects, the influence of a listed company is real money, which is much more ruthless than the public opinion surrounding a football team.

He Yuzhu seems to have adapted to his work at Citibank, having already sorted out 200,000 sound cards and speakers and distributed them to various locations via air transport through Apple's sales channels in different states.

Meanwhile, domestic sound card manufacturers have already started working 24/7, while speaker manufacturers are slower due to issues with casing injection molding: "They might only be able to solve the problem with headphones..."

Wei Dong and Lin Wangfu exchanged a glance, clearly having thought of this detail at the same time: "Right, why don't we make the headphones and sell them at the same time?"

The 3.5mm headphone jack actually evolved from the large audio jack used by telephone operators.

It was a product of miniaturization of Japanese electronics after the popularization of integrated circuits, and it only began to appear in Walkmans in the late 1970s.

There are only a very few headphones on the market that have wire headbands with two sponge tips, and earbud-style headphones.

This untapped, blue ocean market for high-fidelity headphones is perfectly suited for Lin Wangfu's business development and for OEM manufacturing in mainland China.

(End of this chapter)