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

Jiahe's market value has grown from just a few hundred million yuan at the beginning to 21 billion yuan now.

It is expected that the market value will rise again after the release of "Overheard".

Lin Bufan had already handed over the film scripts for Hong Kong films to Shi Nansheng, letting him handle the process himself.

One point to note is that these films were primarily produced by Golden Harvest, which held a 50% investment share, while the remaining 50% was given to Emperor Entertainment and the Heung brothers for them to divide among themselves.

No matter where you are, it is not advisable to eat alone.

Doing business is the same as doing XX: you need to make as many friends as possible and as few enemies as possible. If you do that, it will be hard for you not to succeed.

Don't talk about a society based on personal connections. It's not just in China; it's a society based on personal connections both domestically and internationally.

Some people say that foreign countries are not societies based on personal connections, but that's because you don't have the right to use personal connections.

Can you believe that some Ivy League schools, such as Harvard, Princeton, and Stanford, require recommendation letters for admission?

In China, if you were to say that you need a recommendation letter to get into Tsinghua or Peking University, it would have caused a public outcry long ago. So you're saying that foreign countries, where you need a recommendation letter to get into university, have no human touch?

However, these large colonies won't have many more years of good life. In less than twenty years, there will be no more fertile ground for them to survive in the country.

……

Shi Nansheng was in charge of Jiahe, and all of its businesses were doing very well. After Lin Bufan took a look around, he turned and left.

On his way to the hospital, Lin Bufan suddenly remembered something.

In fact, the first listed company in the Chinese entertainment industry was not Huayi Brothers, but Orange Sky Entertainment, which went public in 08, a year earlier than Huayi Brothers.

However, the most fundamental difference between Orange Sky and Huayi Brothers is that Huayi Brothers went public on the main board through an IPO, while Orange Sky Entertainment went public through a reverse takeover of Golden Harvest after acquiring Golden Harvest.

Now that Golden Harvest has been acquired by itself, how does Orange Sky plan to go public?

Lin Bufan was a little curious, but he only thought about it casually. He could list the company however he wanted; it had nothing to do with him.

In later years, Huayi Brothers went public in October 2009, just in time for the Shenzhen Stock Exchange to launch the ChiNext board, so Huayi Brothers was listed on the ChiNext board of the Shenzhen Stock Exchange.

According to Lin Bufan's idea, if the listing is to be done ahead of schedule, it will need to be listed on the main board.

"Never mind, I'll leave it to the professionals then..."

Lin Bufan shook his head slightly. He only had a general understanding of the listing process and was not very clear about the specific details. However, he remembered that some people in later generations had discussed that listing during this period was much easier than later.

However, he couldn't recall whether that was the case.

He only needs to remember one thing: as long as there are no problems with the finances, going public will be easy.

Fortunately for Lin Bufan, finance was the simplest thing. The subsidiaries that were spun off from the group had independent finances, so there were no problems with them, and there were no issues with their profitability.

From the very beginning, Kyoto Group spun off its departments in preparation for the company's IPO.

No one will complain about having too little money. Making movies and earning box office revenue is how much money you can make now. The real game for capital is when the movie is released and the stock market soars.

The stock market is about buying expectations.

Just like Golden Harvest today, except that the main entity has become Kyoto Animation, so Golden Harvest has been revived. Although it has produced a few blockbuster movies, the biggest impact on Golden Harvest is that it was acquired by Kyoto Animation.

It is precisely for this reason that Golden Harvest's market value has increased several times over.

For example, before the release of "Ne Zha 2", Enlight Media's market value was only over 270 billion yuan. However, after the release of "Ne Zha 2", its market value quadrupled, directly breaking the 4 billion yuan mark.

Although "Ne Zha 2" grossed over 10 billion yuan at the box office, it only made a maximum of 3 billion yuan for Enlight Media.

However, this one movie directly earned Enlight Media over 70 billion yuan in market value.

Even if the market value drops after the movie's release, it doesn't matter. Old Wang had already cashed out at the peak and will repurchase the shares after the market value drops to a certain level.

This inflow and outflow resulted in billions of dollars in revenue, far exceeding the profits from simple movie box office earnings.

Just as Lin Bufan was lost in thought, the car stopped in the parking lot of the Sanatorium & Hospital.

……

"Amin, Director Lin has arrived!"

Inside the ward, Zhang Min sat on the sofa, looking at Zhou Huimin, who was half-lying opposite him.

The treatment in private hospitals in Hong Kong is very good, especially in top-tier hospitals. The room where Vivian Chow stayed is like staying in a five-star hotel, the most luxurious presidential suite at the Hong Kong Sanatorium & Hospital.

When the nurses came to check on me, they were very dedicated and responsible, just like the doctors.

Of course, everything comes down to price.

This ward costs as much as HK$2.5 per day. Of course, this is not the most expensive in Hong Kong. The most expensive is actually at Union Hospital, where the highest price for the Prime Minister's Suite is HK$4.5 per day.

The price above is just the basic price for the room. Zhou Huimin's presidential suite, plus other expenses such as nursing fees, would cost an average of about 3.5 yuan per day.

Even in Hong Kong, a place where land is incredibly valuable and the wealthy congregate, not everyone has the funds and resources to stay in such expensive rooms.

HK$35,000 a day, that's HK$350,000 in 10 days.

The cost of the child Zhou Huimin gave birth to, not even including other expenses, is estimated at 150 million just for the room.

Lin Bufan had already made arrangements with the hospital so that the baby would stay in the hospital after birth, complete the postpartum period, and be discharged. The nursing staff was also arranged through a professional team contacted by the hospital.

Preliminary calculations indicate that all expenses will total approximately 200 million.

"Okay, I understand!"

Zhou Huimin nodded. She had already seen the news of Lin Bufan's arrival in Hong Kong on the internet.

She also knew that Lin Bufan had gone to Jiahe first and would probably be here soon.

Since Zhou Huimin became pregnant, Lin Bufan has visited her less often, and he didn't even show up when she was about to give birth. During this time, the paparazzi in Hong Kong have been mocking Zhou Huimin quite a bit.

They said some very unpleasant things, such as that she was trying to marry into the Lin family as an "illegitimate child".

However, with Lin Bufan's arrival in Hong Kong, all the unpleasant rumors and gossip vanished instantly.

"Seriously, Ah Min, have you really thought about what you're going to do after the baby is born?" Zhang Min looked at Zhou Huimin and asked seriously.

We can't let things stay the same after the baby is born.