Across America, Starting with the Boxing Champion Chapter 302

Chapter 302 Another new song

After April, the weather in Los Angeles became hotter and hotter. I sat under the awning and read dozens of pages of a book, and I felt the heat waves attacking my skin. The cicada noise in the surrounding woods also hit my eardrums. It's rare to find peace.

“Hey, Link!”

Link put away his books and was about to go back to the villa to take a nap when he heard someone saying hello in front of him.

Looking back, I saw Elon Musk riding a bicycle on the driveway in front of the villa, wearing a sun hat, a blue and white beach shirt, shorts, and big slippers. His arms and neck were red from the sun. Not unlike the young people on the beach.

“Hi! Elon!”

Link responded and invited Elon Musk to sit in the pavilion.

Elon Musk brought him an invitation letter. Tesla is currently preparing for its listing. Over the weekend, Musk is planning to hold a cocktail party to invite partners to prepare for the first round of public offering IPO.

Elon Musk asked him if he had time and said that he would hire him as a global spokesperson after Tesla goes public.

Link was not interested in being a spokesperson. He asked Musk when Tesla would be launched.

Ailon told him that it would be around June, and that the company was not short of money for the time being. If it did not receive a higher evaluation from Wall Street, the listing plan would be postponed for two to three months.

Link nodded.

After discussions between him and Cathy Wood in January, Cathy contacted Elon Musk through Pioneer Asset Management and proposed investing in Tesla.

Tesla was short of money for research and development. When he heard that someone wanted to invest, Musk personally went to Wall Street to interview Cathy.

The two parties talked several times, and Cathy used 52 million U.S. dollars to get 5% of Tesla shares from Musk, promising not to throw them away within three years and continue to support Tesla in technology research and development.

This investment brought Tesla's market value back to 1 billion.

It also makes Musk more confident when preparing for Tesla's listing.

Link told Musk that he still had a sum of funds in hand, about 50 million U.S. dollars, which was boxing match prize money and record company dividends. He was going to subscribe for some more Tesla stocks and asked how much he could buy.

Musk thought for a while and said that if he was willing to hold it for a long time and serve as Tesla's global image spokesperson, he could sell him 5.2% of Tesla shares at $10 per share.

Link agreed after thinking about it.

He remembered that when Tesla went public, its market capitalization was only US$1.7 billion and its IPO price was US$17 per share.

In 2013, Tesla's market value exceeded 10 billion, and it will exceed 1 trillion US dollars in 2021.

Investing in Tesla this year is more cost-effective than investing in Facebook and Amazon.

“Link, do you live alone?”

After talking about business, Musk turned to look at the villa and asked.

“Yes! I am a single man now.”

Link shrugged his shoulders and smiled.

“You and Taylor haven't reconciled yet?”

“Have you seen these news too?”

Link said helplessly.

“Haha, of course, you are a big star, the news is on the headlines every day, it's hard not to notice.”

Musk laughed.

Link shook his head, "Do you have a girlfriend now?"

“I don't have a regular girlfriend.”

Musk smiled and said that he had a model girlfriend and asked if he would like to introduce some to him.

Link said no, the models he knew were more beautiful than the ones he knew.

After chatting for a few more words, Musk said he still had work to deal with and said goodbye and left.

Link also put away the book and returned to the villa.

Looking at the empty room, there is a clear echo when walking.

He suddenly felt that he should have accepted Musk's proposal and invited a few models to stay at home temporarily. Whether they could go to bed or not, it would be more lively in the villa with a few more people.

While passing by the piano room, he seemed to hear the sound of a piano. He opened the door and took a look inside the room. No one was playing the piano. There was a room full of musical instruments, but it was empty as never before.

Unlike when I passed by the piano room before, sometimes through the crack in the door, I could see Taylor lying on the carpet, sitting in front of the piano, or sitting on the windowsill, playing the piano and ruffling his long blond hair for new songs.

It's a pity that there is nothing now. Link began to reflect on his past behavior. If he had pushed away Amy Adams, Beyoncé, and Emma Watson, and stopped flirting with women outside, would everything have been different?

After much deliberation, I don't have much certainty.

Taylor is a singer and an artistic young man. This type of person is more free and easy emotionally than ordinary people, at least more free and easy than himself.

Compared to Taylor, I am really not a scumbag.

He sat in front of the piano, pressing his fingers on the black and white keys, and played for a while, when a song suddenly appeared in his mind, Dylan Matthew's sad pop song "Loveis Gone" released in 2019.

Don'tgotonight

Please don't leave tonight

Stayhereonemoretime

Stay for me one more time

Remindmewhatit'slike

Always remind me of the beauty of the past

ˆ Andlet'sfallinloveonemoretime

After playing a few times, Link stopped, took out a camera and tripod, placed them next to the piano, and clicked to take pictures.

“Link has released a new song again.”

At around 2 pm Los Angeles time, a singing video went viral on the Internet.

The video was posted on Link's personal YouTube account.

Less than two hours, the number of views exceeded 1 million, and it became popular on the Internet at an extremely fast speed.

At the beginning of the video, Link was wearing a loose shirt and casual trousers, sitting in front of the piano. Sunlight shone into the room through the arched windows. There were two vases on the windowsill. The tulips in the vases drooped, almost to the point of falling. Withered.

The sun also shines on Link. His hair is a bit longer than last year. He forgot to comb it. He has a new hairstyle. His hair is messy, but paired with his angular profile, he looks even more handsome. , like a work of art in a museum.

“So handsome. A person like Link can become a big star with just his face, but he is also a world boxing champion and sings so beautifully. It's amazing.”

"Link is so good, how could Taylor be willing to break up with him?"

"Link cheated. Men who cheat are poisonous. Break up early and get rid of him early. Taylor is right."

“It doesn't matter if he cheats. Which man doesn't cheat? If Link were my boyfriend, I wouldn't care about him if he cheated every day.”

Netizens were watching the video and discussing it in the comment area.

Dong dong dong! Boom, boom, boom!

In the video, Link finished playing the intro to "LoveisGone" and began to sing into the microphone on the piano cover.

Don'tgotonight

Please don't leave tonight

Stayhereonemoretime

Stop for me one more time

ˆIneedyounowbymyside

I need your company at this moment

Ittearsmeupwhenyouturnmedown

Your rejection breaks my heart

I'mbeggingplease, juststickaround

I beg you, please don't leave

“Link's song is great, Catherine, have you heard it?”

On the set, Emma Stone walked up to Catherine with a tablet and handed it over to her for a look.

Catherine listened for a while and said, "I haven't heard it before. It's probably a new song."

Emma Stone blinked and stared at Link playing the piano in the video, "Catherine, Link wrote a breakup song. Did he and Taylor really break up?"

"I don't know either."

Catherine thought for a while, took out her cell phone and called Link to ask about his situation.

ˆ I'msorry, don'tleaveme, Iwantyouherewithme

Sorry, please don't leave me, I just want you to stay with me at this moment

Iknowthatyourloveisgone

Even though I understand that your love has disappeared

ˆIcan'tbreathe,I'msoweak,Iknowthisisn'teasy

I can't breathe, I'm so fragile, I know how hard it is to accept the truth

Don'ttellmethatyourloveisgone

“This song is not bad, it's just too sad.”

In the recording studio, Katy Perry said while wiping tears with a tissue.

In the video, Link is alone, with a low and sad voice, singing I'msorry, don'tleaveme over and over again, which feels very sad.

“Why are you sad? Link and Taylor's breakup is a good opportunity for you. Shouldn't you be happy?”

Rihanna said while chewing gum.

“Hey, it seems like this.”

Katy Perry immediately turned from sadness to joy. She took out her mobile phone and sent a message to Link, saying that she had written a new song and planned to use it as the lead single of the album, but she was not sure about it and wanted to ask him to listen to it and give some advice.

In addition to Katy Perry, acquaintances such as Emma Roberts, Lana Del Rey, Doutzen Kroes and others sent messages to congratulate him on writing another good song after seeing this video, and made insidious inquiries about his relationship status.

While Link was replying to the message, an uninvited guest came to the villa, Taylor Swift.

If it was a few hours ago, he would be very happy to see Taylor return to the villa, but after receiving those text messages, he knew more about Taylor and knew that even if she came back, it would be impossible for the two of them. Reconciled.

(End of this chapter)

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