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

The profits from news programs are negligible.

It's not that the news channel doesn't have sponsors, but rather that the sponsorship fees are not high, and the brand aspect also needs to be strictly controlled.

However, if ATV International News Channel becomes deeply ingrained in the public consciousness and gains widespread trust, it can still secure extremely high GG sponsorship fees.

For example, CCTV in China.

When a brand appears on CCTV, the first thought that comes to mind is, "If CCTV recognizes this brand, then there must be no problem with it."

However, ATV will need time to accumulate experience before it can reach that level; it won't reach that level for at least ten years.

For a news channel, ten years would mean burning through at least 200-300 million a year, totaling 2-3 billion over ten years, which is two to three times higher than the valuation of ATV.

Capital that prioritizes profit rarely does this kind of thing.

Unless the goal is to get ATV listed, but Lin Bufan has no such idea. For him, two or three hundred million a year is still a lot to burn.

If ATV News were to truly become the benchmark for news in the Asia-Pacific region, its value would be immeasurable by money.

Sometimes, having the power to speak is more important than having money.

"Mr. Lin, should the Miss Asia pageant continue?"

After listening to Lin Bufan's plan for the entire ATV, Wang Weiya looked at Lin Bufan for instructions.

"Pause!"

Lin Bufan immediately rejected the idea.

The current Miss Asia pageant has a terrible reputation, especially the swimsuit segment, which makes it seem like some kind of Miss X exhibition.

Selling meat is really too low-end.

The Miss Asia pageant will definitely be held again in the future, but it will definitely take a high-end approach, focusing on the whole of Asia, rather than just Hong Kong.

Lin Bufan even had an idea: to rely on ATV to host the Asian International Film Festival and Television Festival.

However, to hold these two festivals, Lin Bufan must first have a strong appeal; otherwise, if you hold a film festival or a television festival and no one comes to participate, it will become a joke.

After setting the tone for them, Lin Bufan left.

ATV will need to undergo a painful reform before it can be revitalized. Lin Bufan doesn't have that much time to stay in Hong Kong and just run ATV.

……

Lin Bufan didn't even go to ATV; he went straight back to the mainland.

As for what might happen in Hong Kong because of the layoffs, Lin Bufan didn't care.

For him, ATV was just another move; it would be better if it succeeded, but it wouldn't matter if it didn't, as it wouldn't have a significant impact on him.

After returning, Lin Bufan received a phone call.

The call was from Jiang Qinqin. There was only one thing on her mind: the TV series "The Ming Dynasty: Emperor Yongle" would premiere tonight on CCTV-8.

Jiang Qinqin invited Lin Bufan over to wait with her for the premiere.

After thinking for a moment, Lin Bufan drove directly to Jiang Qinqin's villa.

"You've finally arrived!"

Jiang Qinqin opened the door, saw Lin Bufan, and immediately pulled him into the room.

"No, slow down, wait a moment..."

"No, I can't wait..."

Then, music began to play in the room and continued for more than two hours until Jiang Qinqin was too exhausted to continue.

"What kind of pose is that?"

Lin Bufan looked at the man lying on the bed with his legs upside down and was speechless.

What do you think?

Jiang Qinqin gave Lin Bufan a disgruntled look.

She's working so hard because she wants a child with Lin Bufan.

Since it was already destined that she couldn't marry him, she accepted it, but she still had to have a child first.

"Let me remind you, once you have the baby, you'll have to move in with us. You can't live outside. You'd better think it over!" Lin Bufan said to Jiang Qinqin after taking a drag of his cigarette.

Lin Bufan had already discussed this matter with the women.

They can have children if they want, but there's a condition: after having the child, they have to move in together. The five-courtyard house where Lin Bufan checked in last time is under construction.

Later, considering that there might not be enough room for more people, Lin Bufan bought the two adjacent courtyard houses, spending nearly 80 million yuan.

It can only be said that at this time, the price of a courtyard house was not too high.

According to the real estate agent, the owners of the two courtyard houses were preparing to start a business, but due to insufficient funds, they had to sell the courtyard houses to raise money.

Lin Bufan got a good deal; otherwise, a five-courtyard house like that within the second ring road of Beijing wouldn't be so easy to buy.

Of course, these two five-courtyard houses, although not small, are still much smaller than Lin Bufan's, which has an additional courtyard.

Lin Bufan had already made an appointment with the other party to sign the contract tomorrow and then transfer the money directly.

At the same time, he also called the people from the decoration company, because these three courtyard houses were definitely going to be combined together.

"Is it okay if we don't live together?"

Upon hearing this, Jiang Qinqin felt somewhat resistant.

Lin Bufan might not come to her often, but whenever he did, she felt a sense of belonging to him.

However, he was rather promiscuous and had other women outside of his marriage, using this excuse to comfort himself.

However, living together would be too difficult for most people to accept.

"Of course, but..."

Lin Bufan said, glancing at Jiang Qinqin's outfit, "It's your decision!"

In short, the Lin family bloodline will not grow up outside. If he were an ordinary person, he would naturally not have so many rules.

However, Lin Bufan, who built the Lin family empire from scratch, did not want any internal strife among his brothers to occur in the future.

Therefore, from the very beginning, all the members of the Lin family had to live together.

As Lin Bufan said, you can choose not to live together, but you can't get pregnant and have children.

"Alright, think about it again. Let's go outside first. It's the premiere of the TV series; aren't you going to watch it?"

Lin Bufan took the initiative to change the subject.

He knew that Jiang Qinqin would have a hard time accepting it at first, but just like Lin Bufan's idea, if she could accept it, she would have the baby; if she couldn't, she wouldn't.

If she really can't accept it and chooses to leave, Lin Bufan won't stop her.

"Um!"

Jiang Qinqin nodded.

Indeed, she really needs to think carefully about what she truly wants.