After the award ceremony, Summer, which had just won two grand prizes, became the focus of media pursuit without surprise.

"Mr. Xia, do you know that you created three firsts?" the reporter asked in surprise.

"Three firsts?!" Xia Tian was stunned.

"You are not only the youngest best director in the history of the Cannes Film Festival, but also the youngest Palme d'Or, and the first person to win the Best Director and Palme d'Or. "The reporter said with great emotion, "You have created the history of the Cannes Film Festival!"

"Really?! Wow!" Xia Tian couldn't help but exclaim after hearing this. Unexpectedly, he accidentally created three "firsts", which was really glorious!

"How are you feeling at the moment?" the reporter asked curiously again.

"I feel very honored. Thank you to all the judges for your kindness and thank you to all the fans who support me! Especially thanks to Cannes, this blessed land, I will definitely come again!" Xia Tian said quickly.

The Cannes Film Festival awarded him the Palme d'Or for the first time, on the one hand, because "Mulholland Road" is indeed a fine film; on the other hand, this may not be a kind of win over him.

You should know that in history, there are not many fine films at the Cannes Film Festival, many of which are not inferior to "Mulholland Road". For example, Giuseppe Tonadore's "Paradise Cinema", Martin Scorsese's "Taxi Driver", Forko Schrondov's "Tin Drum", Francis Coppola's "Apocalypse of Modern Times", etc.

These films are definitely worthy of film and television works, and their directors are all industry giants without exception. However, the reason why they did not win two awards is that a young man in Xia Tian can gather all his favors, break the rut and win two awards in a row is naturally because Xia Tian’s identity is unique.

He is not only a Hollywood entertainment tycoon, but also a Hong Kong film giant. Such a powerful figure who has an influence in the industry must and must be won over. Otherwise, if he is angry, neither Columbia Pictures nor Hong Kong filmmakers will come, which is undoubtedly a huge loss for the Cannes Film Festival.

Therefore, it is not difficult to understand that it is tilted towards summer when evaluating awards. In order to invite Hollywood director Francis Coppola to attend the award ceremony, the Palme d'Or was granted to him before the film festival was held. Summer's influence is much stronger than Coppola, so naturally he can enjoy more preferential treatment.

As for the return of his kindness, Xia Tian naturally would not reject Cannes' kindness. Although he was very interested in winning the highest awards of the three major European film festivals, he is now ready to consolidate Cannes into his back garden first.

His plan is to win two years awards first, then become a judge, then become the chairman of the jury, and then use the power in his hands to promote a group of direct filmmakers, such as Wang Jiawei, Sophie Marceau, etc., and turn the Cannes Film Festival into its own talent training base.

Since he had this plan, he naturally had to show kindness to Cannes. So in the face of the reporter's visit, Xia Tian was not hesitant to praise the Cannes Film Festival.

A few days after the award ceremony, he did not return to Hollywood immediately, but stayed in Cannes and had a good relationship with the Film Festival Preparatory Committee.

...

He won two consecutive awards in Cannes in the summer and became the darling of the media.

However, in Hong Kong, dozens of newspapers and magazines reported on his failure to invest in Fusang Real Estate and his losses of hundreds of billions of Hong Kong dollars overnight.

These reports have data, pictures, evidence, and physical evidence. They are very informative and vivid, and have deceived many ignorant people for a time.

"It turns out that Xia Tian also invested in Fusang real estate and lost so much money. Oh my God, more than 100 billion Hong Kong dollars are simply scary!"

"Is the loss of over 100 billion Hong Kong dollars true or false? Didn't he always know how to do business? Why did such big mistakes happen?"

"I don't know if the money I invested in him has lost. No, it seems that I have to redeem the money immediately!"

Many ignorant people were affected by these fake news and began to be frightened and anxious. They wanted to get back the money they invested in summer early to avoid losing a lot.

...

"What? Some media spread rumors that I lost money when I invested in Fusang real estate, and some people wanted to redeem their investment?" Xia Tian immediately received a call from Hong Kong and learned about this.

"Yes, Mr. Xia, many people have been deceived by these false news and want to recover their investments. Now the number of people redeems exceeds 50,000, with a total amount of HK$4.2 billion." Liang Botao reported to him, "Mr. Xia, do you think you want to ban the redeem again?"

Last time, HSBC wealthy rumored that summer was suspected of money laundering, which triggered a wave of redemption among investors. At that time, in order to avoid the Tianxia Fund being hollowed out, the funds were prohibited from redemption. It was not until the incident disappeared that the redemption was opened again.

"No need, today is different from the past. Now we have a lot of funds. If anyone wants to redeem it, just redeem it." Xia Tian smiled slightly.

He is making money now, especially Fusang's stock index futures, which are like a money printing machine, making money for him continuously. Not to mention that it is just a redemption of HK$4.2 billion, even if it is HK$42 billion, he can still take it out.

If he wants to make that money after the merger of East and West Germany, even if all the customers of the World Fund redeem all the funds, he can support it.

"Those investors are too ignorant, and they lose confidence in me because of a little fake news. Since that's the case, I can't make any mistakes for them." Xia Tian said again, "Let them redeem it. Anyway, I will not regret it in the end."

"Well, I understand." Liang Botao nodded, "Mr. Xia, you are right. They are unwilling to use their brains to analyze. For their own interests, we naturally cannot consider them.

But I am only worried that more and more people will be deceived, and eventually a redemption wave will be formed, which will put a lot of pressure on our funds at that time."

"I thought of this too." Xia Tian nodded, "Well, didn't they say that I failed in my investment? Then I will make the accounts public and let them see if I lose or make a profit."

"Good idea." Liang Botao agreed.

"Also, I think this must be done by HSBC's wealthy people. They are worried that I will reveal their past, so they want to take action first and smear me before talking about it.
Chapter completed!