In the next few years, Xiang Nan and Xiaoping's lives got better and better.
Although according to the regulations that the country will introduce in the future, active duty military personnel are not allowed to do business, speculate in stocks, participate in for-profit theatrical performances, accept commercial advertisements, image endorsements, etc., which caused Xiang Nan to sell all the stocks he had bought before.
However, Xiang Nan is still a gentleman who loves money and gets it wisely.
He can also make a lot of money by buying and selling buildings, antiques, calligraphy and paintings, etc.
In particular, in the early 1990s, he acquired a large number of paintings by contemporary artists at low prices. For example, Zeng Fanzhi, Zhang Xiaogang, Yue Minjun, Zhou Chunxi, Fang Liyun, etc.
At that time, their paintings were very cheap. You can buy one for a few hundred yuan, one or two thousand.
In 1998, Zeng Fanzhi's painting was auctioned at Christie's, but the bid failed to sell for US$8,000. By 2006, one of his paintings had sold for 5.6 million yuan. In 2007, the price exceeded tens of millions. In 2013, the huge oil painting "The Last Supper" created by him was auctioned for a sky-high price of 180 million Hong Kong dollars.
Relying on these investments, Xiang Nan's assets had expanded to RMB 1.5 billion by the new century, making him a truly top-tier rich man.
However, because he has always believed in keeping his wealth private, no one knows exactly how much money he has.
Even Xiaoping thought that he could earn tens of millions at most from writing books in those years. He had no idea that he had done so many businesses and made so much money over the years.
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With so much money, Xiang Nan's family's living standard is naturally top-notch.
She lives in a single-family villa in Central District, drives a Rolls-Royce Maybach, eats green vegetables and meat, and wears well-known luxury brands. Even when Liu Hao went to middle school, he went to a bilingual school.
And he received careful training from Xiang Nan and Xiaoping since he was a child. When he grew up, he also had excellent grades and was versatile. Therefore, when he took the art exam at the age of eighteen, he was admitted to the Yanjing Film Academy with top scores in both professional and cultural courses, and became classmates with Liu Yifei, Jiang Yiyan, Zhu Yawen, Huang Bo and others.
Because his parents are both big celebrities, especially Xiang Nan, who attends the Spring Festival Gala every year, makes movies every year, and plays an important role in the mainland entertainment industry, Liu Hao is also taken seriously in school and is a powerful influencer.
During my sophomore year, I started to take roles outside, including "The Young Emperor", "Dragon", "Blood Romance", "My Brothers and Sisters", "A World Without Thieves"...
Xiang Nan is friends with Ma Weidu, Wang Tie, Feng Xiaogang, Ye Jing, Zhao Baogang, Zheng Xiaolong, etc. He also has a good relationship with Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige, Jiang Wen, and Ying Tu. Teng Huatao, Lu Xuechang, and Guan Hu are all juniors to him. .
Xiang Nan is good at writing and has various scripts at his fingertips. In addition, he has plenty of money, capital, and courage. Feng Xiaogang, Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige, Jiang Wen, Zhao Baogang and others made many films and TV series, but failed to attract investment, so Xiang Nan came to rescue them.
So he has a very high status in this circle. With a father like him to protect him, Liu Hao's development will naturally be smooth sailing.
In 2003, he became a blockbuster with his starring role in "The Young Emperor", followed by Duan Yu in "Dragon", Ning Wei in "Blood Romance", Bai Yang in "Happiness is Like a Flower", "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" Yang Guo in "Golden Wedding", Tong Sibo in "Golden Wedding", Xiang Nan in "Struggle", Zhu Chuanwu in "Enter Guandong", Xiaobei in "Snail House", Takeda in "The Wind", Yi Xiaochuan in "The Myth", The eighth prince in "The Palace Lock Scheme", Wang Xiaojian in "Thirty-three Days of Love"...
Good scripts and good roles, one after another, have made Liu Hao's reputation rise steadily, firmly occupying the first-line niche in the entertainment industry.
In 12 years, Liu Hao married a girl outside the circle. The girl's name is Mo Yuxin, her father is a venture capital investor, and his net worth is around 8 billion, which is slightly lower than Xiang Nan.
After getting married, the couple became very loving and gave Xiang Nan a grandchild every two years. Fortunately, Xiang Nan plays with the children at home every day.
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In 13 years, Xiang Nan and Xiaoping officially retired.
However, despite retreating, Xiang Nan is even busier than before.
I used to be an active military member and couldn't do many things. Now that I have retired from the service, there are no constraints and I can do a lot of things.
For example, starting a company, speculating in stocks, venture capital, investing in film and television, etc. After all, no one will be dissatisfied with their lack of money.
Since his retirement in 2013, Xiang Nan has successively invested in Bytedance, Meituan, Didi Dache, Pinduoduo, Kuaishou, Zhihu, etc., and he has not let go of Bitcoin and blockchain.
A few years later, when these companies were listed one after another, Xiang Nan's investment received returns of dozens or hundreds of times.
And after getting rich, Xiang Nan did not spend it lavishly.
To be honest, at his age, materialistic desires are already very small. He didn't have much to eat, drink or live in, so he donated most of the money he earned.
A large part of it was donated to the families of soldiers who died in the war.
Xiang Nan personally participated in that war and knew how cruel it was. He also felt great respect for those comrades who had sacrificed their lives, so he wanted to do something for them.
This donation was evenly distributed to each family. Although it was only a few tens of thousands of yuan, it was still considered as his sincerity.
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The older we get, the more nostalgic we become.
After retiring, Xiang Nan held a gathering of the art troupe basically every year to get together with his comrades.
As written in the original book, after Hao Shuwen's husband became rich, he disliked her old age and divorced her at the beginning of the new century, and then found a girl thirty years younger than her.
After Xiao Suizi went abroad, she met a charming man in the United States. Under his passionate pursuit, she finally agreed to marry him. After getting married, I gave birth to twins. Now I have become an American citizen and can be considered an overseas Chinese.
The political commissar passed away in 2002. After changing his career, he returned to his hometown and worked as the deputy director of a machinery factory. At the end of the 1990s, the machinery factory collapsed due to the impact of the market. The political commissar became depressed and became ill as a result, drinking every day to relieve his boredom. As a result, he developed cirrhosis of the liver within a few years and died from it.
Zhu Ke is possessed by the god of decline. He was sentenced to five years in prison for assault in 1975. After he was released from prison in 1979, he was sentenced to another ten years for hooliganism because of his disorderly life. He was only released in 1992.
In 1993, he was sentenced to two years for selling pirated video tapes. After entering, he was sentenced to an additional year for participating in a prison fight, and was released in 1996.
After he was released, he discovered that the factories he worked in had closed down and he no longer had a serious job. I had no choice but to rely on a little money from my family to open a restaurant by myself.
As a result, just two days after the restaurant opened, a gangster came looking for trouble. As soon as he took action, he was sentenced to affray and intentional injury. Because he was a repeat offender, the sentence was increased and he was sentenced to three years.
After he came out again, his parents were dead and his brothers and sisters were unwilling to care about him. Zhu Ke had no other way to survive, so he had to follow others' tricks. As a result, I didn't make a good decision the first time, so I got under someone's car and suffered a comminuted fracture on the spot.
Although they lost some money, Zhu Ke was also disabled and died within two years of lying in bed. For most of my life, I have not lived well.
