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

Unbeknownst to Lin Bufan, Liu Yifei made several phone calls while he was flying to Weizhou Island.

Half an hour later, Liu Yifei, Dong Xuan, Fan Bingbing, Gao Yuanyuan, An Yixuan, and Shu Chang appeared at the entrance of the five-courtyard house near Andingmen.

"Sister Xuan!"

"Sissi!"

Liu Yifei got out of the car, and Dong Xuan had already arrived before her, so she put on a smile and quickly walked over to greet her.

Since their long talk last time, she has now chosen to side with Liu Yifei.

Among Lin Bufan's many women, there are those who don't compete or fight, and naturally there are those who want to compete.

Liu Yifei, Fan Bingbing, Gao Yuanyuan, and Yang Mi, who was filming in Hollywood at the time, were all naturally among the latter, and were the ones who wanted to compete for the position.

The others, naturally, did not want to compete, or rather, felt that they could not win even if they did.

For example, Lin Chih-ling is not the kind of woman who seems indifferent to everything on the surface; in fact, she is very shrewd and resourceful.

However, she knew very well her own limitations. It wouldn't matter if it were someone else, but when it came to competing with Liu Yifei and the others, she had absolutely no chance of winning.

Naturally, she could only retreat to the sidelines of non-competition.

These women are basically divided into four groups: Liu Yifei, Fan Bingbing, Gao Yuanyuan, and Yang Mi.

Because Liu Yifei acted first, Dong Xuan has already chosen to side with Liu Yifei. On the other hand, Gao Yuanyuan, Fan Bingbing, and Yang Mi have not yet had a chance to make a move.

Fan Bingbing and Gao Yuanyuan are still pregnant. For them, the most important thing right now is to give birth to their babies; everything else is secondary.

Yang Mi is still in Hollywood, and even if she wanted to exert her influence, she couldn't.

Among so many women, besides those who chose to take sides, there were also those who remained neutral and didn't take sides with anyone, such as Vivian Chow and Jessica Alba.

"Sister Sissi!"

Just as Liu Yifei and Dong Xuan were chatting, An Yixuan drove up and drove straight to them.

The relationship between Liu Yifei and An Yixuan dates back to the time when they filmed "Chinese Paladin". Liu Yifei played Zhao Ling'er, while An Yixuan played Lin Yueru.

However, at that time, their relationship was not bad, but rather just average.

Later, because everyone became Lin Bufan's women, and An Yixuan realized that her position in Lin Bufan's heart was not actually that high, she had no right to compete for it.

She had also considered remaining neutral.

However, Lin Bufan had too many women, and she worried that if she remained neutral, Lin Bufan would gradually forget about her.

She couldn't remember the last time Lin Bufan spent time alone with her.

After much deliberation, An Yixuan took the initiative to approach Liu Yifei and chose to take sides.

Her decision was right.

Just two days ago, when Lin Bufan returned, Liu Yifei mentioned An Yixuan to him, reminding Lin Bufan of An Yixuan's existence.

To be honest, you can't really blame Lin Bufan.

With so many women around her, sometimes he couldn't even remember which women he hadn't seen in a long time.

As for treating everyone equally?

Stop dreaming. Even parents with many children can't treat them all equally, let alone the relationship between men and women.

So, at Liu Yifei's suggestion and with her intentional matchmaking, Lin Bufan spent several hours with An Yixuan.

Since that incident, An Yixuan has become even more certain that he should side with Liu Yifei.

"Baby, you're here!"

Liu Yifei smiled when she saw An Yixuan approaching.

Despite her young age, she is well-read. Although she is still a bit naive in her methods of winning people over, Lin Bufan dotes on her.

With Lin Bufan's doting affection, she naturally had many more opportunities to try and make mistakes.

"Um!"

An Yixuan walked to Liu Yifei's side, his cheeks slightly flushed.

She blushed not because of anything else, but because Liu Yifei called her by her nickname "Doll".

It's mainly Lin Bufan's fault; he was the one who called her by her nickname at that particular time, and Liu Yifei overheard it.

"Sissi!"

Next up was Shu Chang.

Shu Chang, Liu Yifei's little follower, was already best friends and sisters with Lin Bufan before they met.

Now that they've become true sisters, it's natural for Shu Chang to side with Liu Yifei.

"Sissi, Sister Xuan!"

Less than five minutes later, Fan Bingbing arrived in her car, a black Mercedes-Benz G-Class. She got out of the car, a smile on her face, and walked over, supporting her back.

"Bingbing, be careful."

Liu Yifei rushed forward and helped Fan Bingbing up, saying, "Sister Bingbing, you're pregnant now, so you have to be careful with everything."

Although the girls were competing, it was a healthy competition.

They have no ulterior motives when it comes to children.

Regarding this, Lin Bufan has said to all of them that the Lin family will establish a family trust fund in the future. Those who are capable will be supported to start their own businesses, while those who are not capable will have to rely on the family trust fund for their livelihood.

If a family wants to prosper and avoid decline, it cannot act on personal feelings.

It's not accurate to say that just because he prefers a certain woman, he should give more inheritance to the children she bore.

Moreover, once it comes to dividing the family property, the entire Lin family will be completely broken up, and no matter how much wealth he has built up, it will be meaningless.

The division of family property was like a decree of grace.

To give a simple example, if the family property were not divided, the Lin family would have assets worth trillions, and they would be extremely powerful in terms of both capital and connections.

With such a large fortune backing them up, it would be difficult for the Lin family to decline.

However, if the family property were to be divided, given that he has many children—he already has eight, and who knows how many more there will be in the future—then the family would be in dire need of such a large number.

If we take 20 children as an example, even if they are divided equally, each child would have a family fortune of 50 billion.

Five hundred billion is no match for a trillion in terms of capital, connections, or status.

Therefore, Lin Bufan never considered dividing the family property. His only point was that any capable members of the Lin family could go into business or politics and take over the family business.

If you're incompetent, you'll just be wasting your life.

With a family trust fund providing ten million a year for living expenses, becoming extremely wealthy is impossible, but a comfortable and normal life is certainly achievable.

In this way, even if Lin Bufan had more than a hundred children, the annual living expenses of the family fund would only be a little over a billion.

For the Lin family's future trillion-dollar fortune, an annual expenditure of a few billion is nothing more than a drop in the ocean.

Knowing this, they were very clear that they could compete, but there had to be a bottom line, and the Lin family's offspring were that bottom line.

If you want to achieve more, educate your children to be ambitious.