The entertainment empire began with Liu Yifei's premarital pregnancy.

After several days of communication and negotiation, Zhewei Capital finally acquired 7% of Tencent's shares from MIH for US$3 million. With this 7% stake, Xu Hongfei negotiated and granted 5% of the voting rights in Tencent.

The entire acquisition process was not very smooth.

According to the agreement between MIH and Tencent, if MIH sells Tencent shares, Tencent's founders and shareholders have the right of first refusal.

However, this applies only when prices are equal, and only those with priority have that right.

There is only one reason why Zhewei Capital was able to acquire 7% of Tencent's shares from MIH: it spent a lot of money.

Since Tencent is listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, its market capitalization is calculated in Hong Kong dollars. Currently, Tencent's market capitalization is HK$308 billion.

Since 83, the exchange rate between the Hong Kong dollar and the US dollar has remained at approximately 7.8 Hong Kong dollars to 1 US dollar.

HK$308 billion is equivalent to US$39.5 billion.

Based on this market capitalization, 7% of Tencent's shares would be worth approximately US$2.765 million.

Normally speaking, MIH is considered a long-time shareholder of Tencent. If MIH were to easily announce a reduction in its Tencent stock holdings, it would definitely have a certain impact on Tencent's market value.

Therefore, when MIH takes action, it will first target Tencent's shareholders, and only then will it consider outsiders.

Normally, these 7% of shares would not be sold at their normal market value; they would typically be sold at a price 5%-10% lower.

That is, between US$2.4885 million and US$2.62675 million.

Under Lin Bufan's "no-holds-barred" orders, Xu Hongfei's side had to ask for 300 million US dollars, which was almost an extra 40 million US dollars, before finally acquiring Tencent's 7% stake.

Forty million US dollars is an incredibly good deal for Lin Bufan.

Considering Tencent's market value in the future, compared to tens of billions of US dollars, what is forty million US dollars?

"By the way, boss, Mr. Ma from Tencent has invited you to Shenzhen in three days to attend an internal Tencent meeting," Xu Hongfei reported at the end.

Currently, the public only knows Lin Bufan by his identities as "Kyoto Entertainment" and "Oscar-winning director".

People generally don't even know about companies like Zhewei Capital.

Even many people within the industry are unaware of this matter.

The reason why Tencent's CEO, Jack Ma, knew about this was because after Zhewei Capital acquired 7% of Tencent's shares, he sent people to thoroughly investigate Zhewei Capital.

Only then did they learn that the mastermind behind Zhewei Capital was none other than Lin Bufan, the Oscar-winning director.

In fact, when Zhewei Capital invested in JD.com, it held a press conference, but most of the attendees were financial journalists.

Furthermore, since JD.com doesn't have much of a reputation right now, it's not receiving much attention from people inside or outside the industry.

Tencent is different; if the news were to get out, it would definitely shock some people.

"Shenzhen..."

"Please tell Mr. Ma for me that I will come in person in three days!"

Lin Bufan thought about it and did not refuse Tencent's offer.

"Yes, boss!"

After hanging up the phone, Lin Bufan took out the script for "Lust, Caution".

Lin Bufan was aiming for awards with this movie, and after much consideration, he decided to reduce the number of scenes in the three hand-to-hand combat scenes.

Later, Lin Bufan watched the original version of "Lust, Caution," and it can be said that those three fight scenes had a great impact on him at the time.

It's no exaggeration to say that if these three hand-to-hand combat scenes were taken out individually and edited together, they could almost rival some movies.

He likes watching it, but he doesn't like filming this kind of storyline.

Compared to Li An's preference for using this kind of camera work to express his thoughts, Lin Bufan prefers to delve deeper into the aspects of 'human nature'.

For example, why did Wang Jiazhi ultimately choose to betray and let Mr. Yi go?

What do a few hand-to-hand combat scenes represent?

Especially in those scenes, Tony Leung's expression hardly changed; he was too stiff.

Just as Lin Bufan was conceiving the plot of "Lust, Caution" and considering how to delve deeper into human nature, a knock sounded on the door.

"Enter!"

"Boss!"

Lin Bufan looked up and saw Yang Tianzhen walking in with a document in her hand. Not only that, he also saw a hint of urgency and tension in Yang Tianzhen's expression.

"What happened?"

Lin Bufan put down his pen and paper and calmly looked at Yang Tianzhen.

Since the crisis communication team was established, Yang Tianzhen would never come to see me in such a hurry unless it was something important.

"Boss, someone is spreading rumors online about you, Ms. Liu Yifei, and her mother..."

Yang Tianzhen gritted her teeth, placed the laptop in front of Lin Bufan, opened the page, and reported to Lin Bufan.

"rumor……"

Lin Bufan frowned slightly and looked at the computer screen.

The scene shows Lin Bufan, Liu Yifei, and her mother Liu Xiaoli chatting and laughing happily.

Most importantly, there was something off about the way Liu Xiaoli looked at Lin Bufan in the video.

"These dog reporters..."

Looking at the photo, Lin Bufan gritted his teeth.

In the photo, it seems that Liu's mother is looking at him strangely, but in fact, the photo was not taken in its entirety. The actual situation was that Liu's mother was looking at her two children.

As it turned out, her two children were not in the photo at all, so from the angle, it looked like Liu's mother was looking at her.

"Can we suppress it?"

Lin Bufan took a deep breath and looked at Yang Tianzhen.

He could imagine the enormous impact this photo would have on him and Liu's mother once it was circulated.

No matter how he explains it, people may not believe him.

After all, people have always been most concerned about sex scandals, especially those involving this particular situation.

"Boss, all I can say is that I'll do my best."

Yang Tianzhen gave a wry smile.

The power of this "rumor" was so great that even though Yang Tianzhen had many tricks up his sleeve, he couldn't think of a way to break it for a while.

"No matter what, try your best to suppress it."

At this moment, Lin Bufan felt a pang of nostalgia for the days when the internet was so advanced.

Any negative comments can be easily quelled by spending money. Unfortunately, we haven't reached the era of smartphones yet, so the development of mobile internet is practically nonexistent, or rather, stagnant.

When the Apple phone is launched and revolutionizes the mobile phone industry, it will gradually become the world of smartphones.

"Boss, I want to build an online troll army..."

Yang Tianzhen thought for a moment and looked at Lin Bufan.

At this point, if Yang Tianzhen had her own online army, she would be 8% confident that she could suppress the news.

However, while building an online army sounds simple, it is actually quite expensive.