Reborn Capital Empire

Chapter 35: Racked Explanation

Chapter 35 Racked Explanation

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The concept of “Fisherman’s Wharf” comes from the Fisherman’s Wharf in San Francisco, which used to be a port for fishermen to go fishing. Located at the intersection of Jefferson Street and Taylor Street, it is one of the symbols of San Francisco.

There are a lot of shopping centers here, the sellers of “San Francisco Crab” are lined up on the street, and the performances of musicians and artists on the street are also one after another. Fisherman’s Wharf has become a popular tourist attraction in San Francisco.

For most locals, sightseeing comes second, with the delicious Dungeness crab and clam soup being the main reason they come here again and again.

Guo Shouyun had heard about this place for a long time. However, he doesn’t have a unique hobby for seafood, so he doesn’t come here often.

“here!”

Looking at Catherine beckoning, Guo Shouyun hurried over.

“Don’t you know it’s rude to make a lady wait more than twenty minutes?”

Before I could sit down, the voice of complaining was already ringing in my ears.

“I don’t want to, but who made me run into a traffic jam so unlucky!” Guo Shouyun shrugged helplessly, “By the way, did you order food?”

“How could I order food if you didn’t come! However, in order to punish you for being late, you will pay for this meal!”

“OK, no problem!”

The two grew up together and knew each other’s preferences very well, and they didn’t need those hypocritical courtesy, and they quickly ordered the food they wanted to eat.

“Tell me, what’s going on with the $20 million and Phoenix Capital?” Catherine went straight to the point.

“Can we finish our meal before we talk about this?” Guo Shouyun said helplessly.

“No. If you don’t make it clear, do you think I had a good meal?” Catherine, who was stubborn, unceremoniously dismissed Guo Shouyun’s idea of procrastinating.

“Okay, okay! Since you want to know so much, then I’ll tell you.” After organizing the language, Guo Shouyun took out the pretext he thought up in advance.

“Catherine, you know. I love studying numbers and computers, and I love playing basketball…!”

“Hey, if it wasn’t that playing basketball would make you look handsome and cool, and then attract those brainless and big-breasted women to give him a hug, would you play basketball?” Catherine, who knew Guo Shouyun well, said with unceremonious contempt.

“Cough cough!”

By coughing, Guo Shouyun concealed his embarrassment. From what he seems to have inherited from Bruce Guo, the original intention of his joining the basketball team was really this.

“Catherine, everyone is young and ignorant, right? Also, do you still want to hear me continue?”

Seeing Guo Shouyun’s tendency to become angry, Catherine pouted and made a continuing gesture.

After finally passing this period, Guo Shouyun also continued: “When I was bored some time ago, I developed a statistical software about the wins and scores of the NCAA basketball finals each year, and it also has a certain analysis function. Later, I went to visit Rowling in the UK. …”

“Wait, you went to England to visit Rowling? Didn’t you say you were traveling to England to relax?”

“Uh!”

Guo Shouyun touched his nose a little embarrassedly, but he really said that at the time. Otherwise, if he told the truth, with Catherine’s temperament, she would never let herself go without asking clearly. At that time, time was pressing. For his original capital accumulation plan and his long-term goal of winning Rowling, Guo Shouyun made up a random reason why he needed to relax after a breakup, and went to the UK.

“You dare lie to me?”

Looking at the woman with wide-eyed glaring eyes on the opposite side, many bad memories of childhood immediately emerged in his mind, Guo Shouyun waved his hand almost subconsciously.

“Catherine, listen to my explanation. I can’t help it either. I wrote a fantasy novel related to “Harry Potter”, and I want to get J.K. Rowling’s authorization. But I’m not sure I can succeed. Everything is fine. If I don’t succeed and you laugh at me, it will make me lose face, so I’ll just make up a reason to prevaricate it!”

After looking at Guo Shouyun for nearly two minutes with straight eyes, Catherine nodded slowly.

“This reason is barely acceptable.”

Hearing this, Guo Shouyun couldn’t help but breathe a sigh of relief. Affected by those memories of Bruce Guo, he is now also a little afraid of this violent woman with a black belt in Taekwondo.

“But if you lie to me again in the future, no matter what the reason is, you will never be forgiven.”

“OK, no problem!”

Guo Shouyun immediately assured.

“Okay, now let’s talk about your novel? Listen to your tone just now, did it work?” Catherine, who transformed from a lioness to a Persian cat, leaned back on the chair lazily, staring at Guo Shouyun and asked.

“Hmm! It will be published in three days!”

He glanced at Fa Xiao opposite him in surprise, “Really?”

“of course, I…!”

Guo Shouyun, who was about to say, “When did I lie?” suddenly remembered that he seemed to have just lied to the violent woman in front of him, so he stopped. Fortunately, Catherine’s attention has been shifted to the book he wrote, so she didn’t pay attention to this slip of the tongue.

“I didn’t expect you to have a talent for writing!?”

After looking at Guo Shouyun with great interest, Catherine nodded slightly. In contrast, she is more accepting of this. After all, Guo Shouyun has been wearing the halo of ‘genius’ since he was a child. Whether it is academics, hobbies, or extracurricular activities, they are the best among their peers.

This peer is not aimed at ordinary peers, but Huck Middle School in the top 50 in the United States. In Catherine’s memory, Guo Shouyun has always been the top person in the school.

“By the way, what’s the name of your new book?”

“Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, it’s a series, and now I just finished the first part, and I haven’t even started the second part yet!”

“Remember to give me a copy after publication! Let me appreciate your masterpiece too!” Catherine nodded and said.

“no problem!”

“Now continue talking about the 20 million?”

Guo Shouyun nodded, he also knew that this topic could not be avoided.

“After arriving in the UK, through her agent, I met J.K. Rowling herself. In addition to asking her for some writing questions, I continued to improve the outline and details of “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them”. When I have free time, it is inevitable Check the news, or go out for a walk. You know, in Europe, especially in the UK, the most popular sport is football. Plus it was close to the Champions League final, so anywhere in the UK, you could read about Its content. When I was bored, I tried to feed the collected information into the statistical analysis software I edited. It turned out to be some very interesting findings!”

“What did you find?” Catherine raised her eyebrows.

“For the previous European Champions Cup, the probability of the dark horse winning the game is only 10.28%. In terms of the number of goals, the probability of 1:0 is the highest at 38.74%. The next is 2:1, which is 31.29%. Then it is not 0:0. And 3:1, but 3:0, accounting for 18.31%! In addition, in the previous Champions League, 56.4% of the teams that lost three to zero were those dark horse teams; and more than 72.49% were in the semi-finals I encountered a strong team and fought all the way to the dark horse team that finally won the final! Therefore, I came to two conclusions: First, in this Champions League final, Real Madrid’s winning rate is close to 90%, and the number of goals is 3:0. The odds are over 50%!… Catherine, this is an exciting find! If everything is correct, it means that as long as I put down $2 million in the lottery, after the game, I will get nearly 4x income!”

“Aren’t you afraid of losing?” Catherine frowned.

“Of course I’m afraid, but the probability of losing is less than 30%. Take a step back, even if I lose! I still have a chance to flop!”

“what chance?”

“Of course it’s Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them! I think it’s going to be a big hit, and I’ll get a huge amount of royalties!”

“You really have confidence in yourself!” After giving him a blank look, “So all the $4 million you borrowed from the farm left by Grandpa Guo was put on this football lottery?”

“Hmm! Plus, I borrowed £2 million from Christopher?”

“Who is Christopher?”

“My agent is also J.K. Rowling’s agent!”

Catherine nodded knowingly.

“Okay, I have explained everything that should be explained. Can we eat now?”

After nodding, Catherine’s face became more solemn, “Bruce, of course you won the game this time. But the risk involved is too great. Try not to do the same thing again in the future.”

Feeling the concern revealed in the exhortation, Guo Shouyun couldn’t help smiling and comforting, “Don’t worry, Catherine. Any decision I make is based on rational thinking. I will never really gamble for the sake of gambling! ”

“Hmm! … Right?” Catherine, who was about to nod her head, suddenly raised her brows.

“What’s wrong?” Guo Shouyun, who had just picked up the spoon, trembled subconsciously.

“The last time you bought York Farm, you told me again and again. The time to pay the cash is two months later, why must it be two months later? … Now you should give me the answer, right?”

Guo Shouyun felt a headache.

“A shrewd woman is really hard to deal with!”

Fortunately, he was smart enough, and he thought of the reasons in advance.

“Because of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. What I was thinking at the time was to use the book’s future earnings as collateral, issue an ABS asset-backed securities, and raise 20 to 30 million yuan!”

As a top student in the Harvard Economics Department, Catherine certainly knew the meaning of the ABS securities.

“You’re so sure that Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them will be a hit? What if it hits the market?”

“I have confidence in my book. UU reading www.uukanshu.com, of course, if the response is mediocre, it’s fine! At most, the acquisition of York Farm failed and I lost a deposit! … Katherine, I’m only nineteen years old, I have a family A fast-growing internet company, a $7 million agricultural company, and I’m a Stanford grad with three degrees. With me, there’s enough fault tolerance to try different possibilities!”

Looking at the man in front of him who was talking freely and confident in his words, Catherine scrutinized for a while, “Bruce, you have really changed!”

“Changed? Where has it changed? I’m still me!”

Guo Shouyun’s heart jumped.

“No, you have become more confident. Also, the desire to succeed has become stronger than ever!”

After listening to this, Guo Shouyun, who was relieved, smiled and said, “Isn’t this normal! Catherine, we are no longer children in the ivory tower. When we step into society, we will inevitably be rubbed off by society and changed. Must be mature. As for the desire for success…!” Guo Shouyun sighed, “If people don’t have ideals, what’s the difference with ‘salted fish’?”

“Ideal? Have you never heard of it before?” Katherine asked after nodding.

“I didn’t before. But after graduating from Stanford, my ideal has become ‘change the world’!” Guo Shouyun said with a smile.

Although Katherine studied at Harvard, she also knows that Stanford University and Silicon Valley elites often talk about it, and often learn chicken soup from the success of “changing the world” promoted by the media.

“Only a fool would believe this!” Catherine curled her lips.

“Only persistent fools and bigots can succeed!”

Guo Shouyun said a lot.