Domination in America, Starting from being a Boxing Champion

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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 research workload was enormous, and after three consecutive rocket launch failures, the company was in a financial crisis; he then shifted his focus to the electric vehicle industry, took over Tesla Motors in 2005, and became the chairman of the company.

Tesla Motors’ research was not going smoothly, with their first electric car, the Roadster, only launching in October 2008 at a high price of 110,000 US dollars. Due to its high price and numerous issues, the Roadster had dismal sales in the car market.

Also affected by the financial crisis, both SpaceX and Tesla Motors were in trouble, and the media frequently reported that Musk was about to go bankrupt and both companies were on the verge of bankruptcy.

It was not until September when Musk sold 10% of Tesla’s shares to Daimler for 70 million US dollars and obtained a 460 million low-interest loan from the US Department of Energy that he successfully weathered the crisis.

However, there were reports that Musk’s crisis was not over.

Due to the high research costs of Tesla cars and another rocket launch failure by SpaceX, Tesla Motors was still short of money. For this reason, Musk was planning to take Tesla public on NASDAQ to overcome the current difficulties.

When Link met him, he did not initiate any discussion about investing in Tesla.

He was not knowledgeable about financial investments and car research, so discussing such matters with Musk would not lead anywhere. Thus, the two of them only talked about music, boxing, and movies.

Musk had founded a movie company in 2003, produced three films, including this year’s "Iron Man 2," and had made cameo appearances in several movies. His current girlfriend, Talulah Riley, was also an actress.

Musk was also a boxing enthusiast, claiming to be a fan who had watched all his matches and had even posted a boxing video on YouTube’s boxing channel.

Link had not seen that video but expressed interest in training together sometime, and Musk even took the initiative to exchange contact information with him.

"Dear, you seem to be very interested in Elon Musk."

"Why do you say that?"

After the party, Link and Taylor walked hand in hand along the small path outside the villa, flanked by a lush botanical garden. Even in the winter of the northern hemisphere, many trees remained densely foliated, especially the tall palm trees lining the path, which never changed color all year round.

"You were talking with him for over an hour, and you were so engaged. I’ve never seen you so enthusiastic with anyone before,"

Taylor said, swinging their linked hands.

"It’s different; Elon is a great genius, like Edison and such people. Talking with him broadens my insights, so I chatted with him a bit longer."

Link shrugged his shoulders; he remembered that Ivanka’s dad had used those words to describe Elon.

"Is that so? Well, then I’m reassured,"

Taylor patted her chest and exaggeratedly let out a sigh of relief.

"Reassured? What do you mean?"

Taylor smiled slightly, pointing to his eyes, "I saw your eyes light up when you looked at him, like you were looking at a beautiful woman. He also had a very passionate look when he looked at you. Talulah and I thought you two were going to come out."

"What? What nonsense are you talking about?"

Link looked at her frustratingly and said while holding her waist, "With a hot girlfriend like you, how could I possibly become that kind of man?"

Taylor covered her mouth and laughed, "So you mean if it weren’t for me, you would come out?"

"Of course not; I am a straight as an arrow, my orientation is perfectly normal. I am just interested in Elon’s space colonization plan. If he succeeds, in the future we will just need to buy a ship ticket to travel in outer space aboard a SpaceX spacecraft. Do you want to travel in space?"

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.

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