Domination in America, Starting from being a Boxing Champion

Chapter 247 The Future Richest Man

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"Fighter" premiered in its first week in 1,209 theaters across North America and earned 15.37 million US dollars in box office revenue, ranking sixth in weekly box office performance.

The box office champion was "Twilight 2," which premiered in the same period and earned 140 million US dollars in North America in its first three days, making it the third highest in history for opening week box office revenue, following "The Dark Knight" with 158 million and "Spider-Man 3" with 151 million.

The second to fifth ranks were occupied by "Weakness," "Up," "2012," and Disney's hand-drawn animation "The Princess and the Frog."

Compared to the first five films that had investments exceeding 50 million, "Fighter," with a production cost of only 18 million US dollars, managed to earn over fifteen million in its first week, which fully demonstrates the quality of this film.

Some media also believed that Link's box office appeal was getting stronger, labeling him a very commercially valuable new actor.

"Variety" described him as another top-line singer in Hollywood who had firmly established himself following Will Smith and Justin Timberlake.

December arrived.

Compared to the end of last year, when he was just a pure boxing star with not much work at year's end,

this year he had become a boxing megastar, released two bestselling albums, a popular singer, a film star, a swimming athlete, and an entrepreneur and billionaire who owned Dynasty Promotions, Link Records, Palm Beach Bay Agency, Palm Beach Films, and over one hundred million in Amazon stocks.

With more titles to his name, he was extremely busy every day by the end of the year.

First, he went to the set of "Scandal Plan" to film the soon-to-be-completed scenes, where he was "oppressed" in acting by his subordinate Emma Stone.

He decided to find an opportunity to pay her back, letting her know how dark the heart of a capitalist can be.

Before he had finished filming the movie, he took Taylor to the neighboring villa area to attend the wedding party of Scott Stuber and his supermodel girlfriend, Molly Sims.

At the wedding party, he performed a duet with Taylor on "you belong with me," with Taylor singing and him playing the piano, offering the song as a gift.

Stuber and Molly, the couple, were so excited that they wiped away tears, and the many billionaires present applauded and cheered for them.

At the party, he also encountered Elon Musk, who had come to freeload a meal.

Upon meeting this future richest man, he naturally did not miss the chance to get acquainted.

Elon Musk was also one of the people he admired.

This year, Elon, at 38, was an immigrant from South Africa and held a bachelor's degree in economics and physics from the University of Pennsylvania, having attended a Ph.D. program in physics at Stanford University.

He started a business at 24 and by 28 had become a millionaire through his self-developed online content publishing software, Zip2.

In 2002, when e-commerce was just emerging, he co-founded the digital mobile payment platform, PayPal, similar to Alipay, becoming a billionaire.

Since 2003, he had founded SpaceX, a space exploration company, studying how to reduce the cost of rocket launches and planning future human colonization of Mars to help build a spacefaring civilization.

Unfortunately, the rocket re

Link said, looking up at the sky obscured by palm leaves.

"It does sound very interesting. If I could travel in outer space, I'm sure I could find inspiration there and write a lot of great songs."

Taylor looked up with him, seeing the blue blossoms of jacaranda trees drifting down.

Link shook his head helplessly; Taylor always brought everything back to her songwriting, as if she were obsessed with it.

"Seeing Scott and Molly get married, did you feel inspired in any way?"

Link asked.

Taylor twirled a petal in her fingers and shook her head, "No, I don't know them well, what could I feel? If they were my sisters, friends, or ex-boyfriends, seeing them get married might inspire some lyrics."

"I was asking about your feelings on marriage. Usually, single people or couples who attend someone else's wedding party start to think about their own big life decisions—did you have similar thoughts or consider when you'd like to get married and have children?"

"I have thought about it!"

Taylor smiled slightly, facing him and walking backward, "Ideally in four or five years, once we are more settled in our jobs and not as busy as we are now. We could get married in a country villa in Nashville and have two kids. What do you think?"

"Sounds great!"

Link smiled and kissed her on the face.

Taylor laughed, "I've heard giving birth is very painful. Do you think it could spark creative inspiration when having a baby?"

"Definitely, many artists have written songs about childbirth and raising children during that period; Madonna and Whitney Houston have, and I think you could too. How about we have one now?"

Link said with a laugh, holding her.

"Now?"

Taylor shook her head continually, saying it was too soon. She was only twenty years old, still a big girl, not ready to be a mother.

"It won't be too difficult, trust me. Let's go home and make a baby."

"No way!"

Ignoring Taylor's protest, Link wrapped his arm around her and they headed back to the villa, spending a nice Wednesday afternoon together in the bedroom bathed in the setting sun.