Chapter 441: FAANG is actually C

In 2011, the 48th Golden Horse Awards ceremony in Taiwan was held on November 26th at a memorial hall in Taipei.

This was the first time in three years since 2008 that the Golden Horse Awards had moved the ceremony from December to November.

In June, when the Golden Horse Awards Organizing Committee announced this news, the media with rich imagination focused their attention on "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1" which was about to be released in December this year.

Otherwise, there was no other reason. What was it for, to facilitate those artists who were busy at the end of the year to attend the Golden Horse Awards? Besides this person, who else could receive this treatment?

According to those Hollywood tabloids, as the finale of the whole series, someone who hadn't participated in Twilight promotion since the premiere of the first part would participate in the global roadshow of the last two parts this time.

Could the decision to change the date be because of this schedule conflict?

Does this mean Golden Horse is bowing to someone?

And can someone who abandoned the award and left last year let go of last year's unpleasantness and appear on the red carpet of the Golden Horse Awards with the "Let the Bullets Fly" crew?

It could be said that in the month before the opening of the Golden Horse, this was the biggest suspense of this Golden Horse Award.

However, in the end, the movie fans and media in Taiwan and even across the strait were all disappointed.

From the beginning to the end of the red carpet, let alone the person, not even a shadow was seen. When asked about others in the "Let the Bullets Fly" crew, they all said they had things to do. Only Jiang Wen said, "He is in a bad mood."

Consequently, they didn't wait for the next day at all. As soon as the red carpet ceremony ended, many entertainment media reported this matter on the internet.

"Chen Nuo is 'in a bad mood' and draws a line with the Golden Horse Awards," "Will last year's Golden Horse be the last Golden Horse Chen Nuo attends?", "When will the forgotten trophy wait for its owner?", "When the Golden Horse is abandoned like a pair of worn-out shoes, how far can it run?", and other articles spread across the entire internet shortly after the awards ceremony began.

It also caused dissatisfaction among many netizens in Taiwan, especially those Taiwanese who became fans of Ethan Juan because of "Monga" last year.

"Damn it, if you don't come, you don't come. Who cares."

"The Golden Horse Award is unique, okay? So what if he is awesome."

"If he doesn't come to the Golden Horse, where else can he receive awards in the future? Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers? The miserable state of this year's Shanghai Film Festival, no one in the world went. Laughing and crying."

"If he doesn't want it, why not donate the trophy?"

"Taiwanese artists shouldn't go to next year's Shanghai Film Festival either, let him continue to be in a bad mood."

On Weibo.

The hot search entry "Chen Nuo absent from Golden Horse Awards" occupied the first place on the hot search list for a full 3 hours that night. In contrast, whether it was "Andy Lau won Best Actor" or "Seediq Bale won Best Picture," it could be said that there was no heat at all.

Only after 11 o'clock, when the Golden Horse Awards ended, Sina Entertainment's ridicule of "Let the Bullets Fly only won five technical awards, and nothing for Best Director or Actor" caused another round of condemnation from mainland netizens against the unfairness of the Golden Horse Awards, which squeezed it down.

Actually, for Chen Nuo, the person involved, the Golden Horse Award had long been a thing of the past. He never had any intention of attending this year's Golden Horse Awards from beginning to end.

The Golden Horse Awards Organizing Committee had known about this for a long time. Ang Lee called him three times before. From the initial polite refusal to the end, he was too lazy to be perfunctory and directly said no.

On this day, November 26th, when his name was hung on Sina's hot search list because of the Golden Horse Awards, and he was attacked by Taiwanese netizens on the other side of the strait, Chen Nuo was completely unaware and didn't care.

Saying it out might make many Taiwanese netizens break their defense, he even forgot that this day was the Golden Horse Awards.

Because what he was doing was much more important to him than any Golden Horse Award.

The night was like a curtain, and only a warm yellow desk lamp was lit in the small two-bedroom apartment. The dim light spilled onto the messy bed, the bedding piled up in a heap, and the lingering warmth of the affair remained in the air.

Everything that had just ended made Chen Nuo a little tired.

He found an excuse tonight, saying he wanted to live at Pan Chengrong's place, to get rid of someone's entanglement. In order to avoid suspicion, he changed three cars halfway, and under the cover of Guli Nazha and Linghu, he quietly sneaked in here.

That hot and lingering moment just now, I have to say, was indeed worth the trip—she was still the most moist one among his many women, and her postures were the most varied. The sense of conquest she brought him at the last moment was almost overflowing.

After finishing the "business," he turned his head to check the time: 9:50 PM, just the time for "work."

Chen Nuo reached out from under the pillow to take out his phone. A missed call was lit on the screen, an unknown number. He glanced at it and swiped it away, as if he hadn't seen it at all, and then clicked on a familiar app.

"What are you doing? Is someone looking for you?"

Tong Liya's voice came softly from the side. At this moment, she didn't even have the strength to move a finger. The electric current-like pleasure just now made her almost lose control, and she almost made a fool of herself in front of him.

But the man picked up the phone right after finishing. She was suddenly a little nervous, propped herself up slightly, leaned on Chen Nuo's shoulder, and asked softly.

Chen Nuo looked down at her, only to see a piece of delicate and smooth skin exposed at her shoulder, long black hair scattered like a waterfall, setting off her clear and beautiful side profile, a pair of almond eyes opened round, and her eyelashes were still trembling.

He smiled: "No one. Even if there is, I won't leave. I'm not going anywhere today, I'm staying here. I finally managed to sneak in after much difficulty, I'd be crazy to leave now."

Tong Liya felt relieved after hearing this, couldn't help but laugh, revealing two sharp tiger teeth, and asked curiously: "Then what are you doing? It looks quite urgent."

"Look for yourself." Chen Nuo's fingers slid across the screen.

Tong Liya leaned over to take a look. She didn't understand at first glance, thinking it was some game software or computer program—the interface was full of English and numbers, and only "buy" and "sell" could she recognize.

Tong Liya asked curiously: "What is this?"

"Stock account, ever seen one?"

"Ah?" Tong Liya was a little surprised, "You are speculating in stocks."

"No, I don't speculate, I just buy stocks. Have you bought any?"

The operation was smooth and decisive, without a trace of hesitation.

Although there was some delay in the market at this time, he never placed limit orders, always raising the price by a few cents and trading at the market price.

Any professional trader who saw his operation method would definitely identify him as a god-man born with an awesome attribute from his mother's womb, which is the legendary "fetus god."

Of course, Chen Nuo himself knew he was "fetus," but he really had no intention of caring about the rise and fall of those few cents.

Does it make sense?

Tesla is less than 30 USD, what can a few cents more or less do?

"Speculating in stocks, buying stocks, is there a difference?"

"Of course there is. Speculating in stocks is buying and selling, so you will lose money, but I only buy and don't sell, so I won't lose money."

"Ah? There is such a thing." Tong Liya really didn't understand, listening to his nonsense, she really believed it, and asked curiously: "............ Why is yours in English?"

"Because I bought US stocks."

"US stocks?"

"Hmm."

"Why not buy Chinese ones?"

"Because..."

Speaking of this, Chen Nuo couldn't help but think of some unhappy things.

Damn Han Sanping, it's just that he drank a little wine and said one more sentence, and now it's known to everyone.

Just like facing Tong Liya's question now, it was impossible for him to tell those big shots in the financial circle that if Huanxin really went public in the future, he didn't want to go public in China either.

This is the same reason as not speculating in A-shares.

It's just that when he still had a choice, he didn't really want to cut the leeks of his own people.

In his view, the stock market is a zero-sum game.

After more than ten years, everyone is rolling all the way, grabbing food and fighting internally in a limited pool, and everyone is so uncomfortable. If there is another rebirth-level big sickle like him on top, one knife down, maybe a middle-class family will be gone. Thinking about it, he really can't bear it.

Hearing Tong Liya's question, he paused, avoided the important and focused on the trivial, and perfunctorily said half-truth and half-false: "Because the salary I earned from Inception is in US dollars, I'm too lazy to exchange it into RMB, so I just bought US stocks."

"Wait..." Tong Liya froze for a moment, looking at the rows of numbers on the screen, and suddenly reacted, counting: "One, ten, hundred, thousand, ten thousand, hundred thousand... hundred million... this, is more than 200 million?!"

"Haha, yeah." Chen Nuo responded with a smile.

Tong Liya was not illiterate, although it was difficult to read, but after staring at Chen Nuo's stock account interface for a while, she barely understood some. Especially the "USD" marked in the parentheses made her whole person stunned.

The man wasn't joking.

At this moment, she felt that the string of numbers suddenly magnified infinitely, occupying her entire field of vision, and even the air became thin. She swallowed subconsciously, and although she had regained some strength, she felt her legs go weak again, and she wanted to pee a little.

Subsequently, she saw Chen Nuo's slender index finger tap lightly on the screen, the total assets in the upper right corner of the phone decreased a little, and the "TSLA" stock column at the bottom of the screen changed from 140,000 shares to 160,000 shares, and the stock price jumped from 29.5 to 29.7. The man sighed.

Tong Liya was startled and asked hurriedly: "What's wrong? Is there a problem!?"

Chen Nuo sighed: "There is no problem, it's just too troublesome."

Tong Liya blinked, not understanding and asked: "What do you mean?"

Anyway, there was nothing shameful, so Chen Nuo patiently explained to her: "I have a lot of money, so in order not to attract attention, I have to split the amount of buying stocks to operate. I can only buy 20,000 shares at a time, and no more than 100,000 shares a day. I also have to watch the price, and can't let the stock price rise too suddenly. Look, just bought 20,000 shares, and the stock price rose by 0.2 USD. I calculated it, if it goes on like this, I have to operate continuously for about a month... just thinking about it is annoying."

"A month? You still have to operate like this for a month?"

Chen Nuo nodded and said hmm.

Tong Liya swallowed again, her breathing became heavy, and she saw Chen Nuo open the interface of another stock, placed an order on this stock named NVDA, and finally a total of 600,000 USD disappeared instantly, becoming 40,000 shares of stock at a unit price of 15.03 USD.

Tong Liya asked stammeringly: "Then finally, how much money are you... preparing to buy?"

Chen Nuo hadn't finished yet, but hearing her tone was a bit interesting, he couldn't help but glance at her.

Seeing the girl's eyes round, looking extremely cute, not at all like a 28-year-old woman, with a kind of innocent girl flavor, no wonder she called herself late-maturing, he couldn't help but laugh and ask: "Of course, buy it all. Otherwise, why would I transfer so much in?"

"You..............."

Tong Liya was completely speechless, just thinking about how much RMB 200 million USD was made her feel dizzy.

"Are you... afraid that these companies have problems?"

"Afraid." Chen Nuo replied as a matter of course, "So you didn't see me diversifying my investments?"

"Diversify? How to diversify."

"It's just buying tens of millions in each company."

Tong Liya was completely speechless, only able to blink mechanically.

Chen Nuo became interested and continued: "This is absolutely my exclusive secret, I tell you, I didn't say it no matter how people questioned me before. Do you know what FAANG is..."

Well, someone who lost money like a dog in the US stock market in his previous life can now lecture others with certainty.

For Tong Liya, Chen Nuo was still patient, unlike when he was perfunctory to Theron.

Unfortunately, Tong Liya's understanding was obviously not as good as that South African woman's. She was still confused after talking for a long time, half-understanding, and her sensitivity to numbers was almost zero. By the end, Chen Nuo could only sigh and give up.

—Three days ago, Huanxin Film completed its annual dividend, and Chen Nuo received about 350 million USD. Because he didn't transfer it back to China to exchange for RMB for the time being, he didn't pay taxes, of course, he would definitely have to make up for it later, just like Qi Yuntian, how much it should be, absolutely not vague.

He was a person with low material desires, so he only planned to keep 50 million USD in his foreign account as a reserve, including daily expenses in the US. The remaining 300 million USD was quietly bought into stocks through several accounts.

With Tesla's current market value of only 3 billion USD and a daily trading volume of no more than 300 million, in order not to attract outside attention, he set a low-key position-building plan for himself for a month.

In the end, 100 million USD was allocated to Tesla, and the remaining funds flowed into Google, Netflix, Nvidia, and Microsoft. Except for Amazon, which he didn't like, he bought 40 million USD each for the others to build a preliminary position.

Among them, he also planned to buy 40 million more for Netflix, totaling 80 million USD. The reason was simple, he was about to cooperate, wasn't he? He had to meet tomorrow. He had to cheer for President Ha, express his attitude, raise the stock price, and give President Ha a meeting gift.

In this way, plus the 50 shares of Berkshire Hathaway Class A stock he originally held, 1.8 million shares of Apple stock, and that 2% of Facebook shares, Chen Nuo felt—if even this level of configuration would lose money when he sold it all before July 2024?

That can only mean that the United States of America has perished. If that day really comes, he doesn't care.

That's right, Chen Nuo didn't plan to hold these stocks forever for now. Most of them were prepared to be sold before July 2024. Because after that, the fog of the world would cover his eyes again, and he didn't plan to take risks for the time being. Of course, whether to sell or not, he would have to see when the time comes.

Tong Liya couldn't understand these words, and Chen Nuo was too lazy to say more.

For the next hour, he completed the day's operations step by step on his phone. Tong Liya also lay quietly beside him. Although the process was boring to death, she watched with relish, like a child seeing an adult go to work for the first time.

"Okay, done."

After buying the last Tesla, Chen Nuo breathed a sigh of relief and turned his head: "By the way, I haven't asked you yet, what date is your "Beijing Love Story" airing? It's so busy recently, is it coming soon?"

Tong Liya came back to her senses and nodded: "Yes, soon."

"When?"

"Next month, after New Year's Day."

"Haha, nervous?"

"Still, okay."

Chen Nuo didn't quite believe it: "Really?"

Tong Liya said seriously: "Really."

"Beijing Love Story" would premiere on Zhejiang Satellite TV on January 2nd next year. For Tong Liya, this was the first time in her life she had served as the female lead in a TV series.

In fact, she had been nervous about this—after all, once the broadcast effect was poor and the audience didn't buy it, the reputation she had painstakingly built in the circle might collapse overnight.

As the female lead, she had basically not rested since mid-November. Platform interviews, press conferences, meet-and-greets, one after another, her schedule was packed. Being able to take a whole night off like tonight was a rare luxury for her.

Originally, she planned to pour out her grievances to him during this meeting, after all, there were many things she really couldn't find anyone else to talk to.

But, now she didn't know what was going on, she suddenly felt that there was actually nothing to say. Whether the ratings were good or bad, so what? Just like what Gu Xuan said to her...

By the way, her period was coming soon. These days, she was really tossing and turning, unable to sleep. Sometimes she dreamed of strange things, and when she woke up in the morning, she would find her hand reaching into her underwear, cold and cool.

If she didn't seize the time now, she didn't know when the next meeting would be.

However, Xibe ethnic women were always shy, and she didn't know how to start if she wanted to take the initiative. Tong Liya could only learn the tricks from the movies, sliding her slender fingers on Chen Nuo's slightly protruding ribs, pretending to ask casually: "Anyway, it's finished shooting, leave it to fate. Hey, I feel like you've lost weight again, you don't shoot movies anymore, why are you still losing weight? You have to take care of your body..."

"Come, let me see how fat you are?"

Tong Liya's voice was sticky, and it didn't sound like a serious voice at all. Chen Nuo was not polite, and after replying, he started to move.

Before long, Tong Liya was panting from his touch, urging him non-stop.

Chen Nuo teased her for a while, then satisfied her wish, pressed the weak and pitiful Yaya under him, and started a new round of weight-loss exercise amidst Tong Liya's satisfied sigh.

He was going to act in "Eagle Catches Chicken," and the character inside also needed him to lose weight. At least he needed to drop from the current 150-plus jin to about 130 to fit the character's bottom-level temperament.

Therefore, he was determined to exercise more and sweat more that night.

Early the next morning, before dawn, Chen Nuo got up.

His schedule today was actually quite full. In the morning, he had to go to the hospital to visit a chairman who had suddenly suffered a stroke for no reason, and in the afternoon, he had to meet a group of impatient guests from the US. In order to avoid suspicion, he had to leave early, quietly leaving in the cold of the morning.

Tong Liya seemed to have been "tossed" by him quite hard last night, and she was sleeping exceptionally soundly at the moment.

He didn't wake her up, just tidied up his things lightly, took a bank card out of his bag, pulled out a piece of paper, bent down and wrote a few lines on the coffee table: "Password is 6 zeros, buy something good to eat, too thin."

After writing, he put the card and the note side by side, and then quietly went out.

More than half an hour later, the bedroom door opened gently. Tong Liya walked out, rubbing her sleepy eyes.

She looked at the bathroom in a daze, glanced at the kitchen, and even looked at the balcony unwillingly—as if the man might suddenly jump out from some corner.

Finally, she sat on the sofa in the living room with her phone, stayed in a daze for a while, and finally sighed, putting the phone back on the coffee table.

At this time, she noticed the bank card and the small note on the table...

The words on the paper were not many, not very good-looking, and even a bit sloppy, but she looked at them for a long, long time.

After a while, Tong Liya suddenly curled her lips, and said dissatisfiedly with a nasal sound: "Where is it thin, it's clearly a C."

PS:

Late, late!

Sorry everyone.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 442 =====