After the Divorce, I Could Hear the Voice of the Future

The crowd boiled, the sound waves shook the sky.

As soon as Taylor appeared, the cheers in the venue instantly surpassed the previous few veterans.

"Lu, if you like her, I'm afraid you'll have to put in some effort." Flannery lowered the binoculars in his hand and smiled at Lu Liang.

Taylor Swift, only 29 years old, holds 11 Grammy Awards, 32 American Music Awards, 41 Billboard Music Awards, and has over 100 million fans worldwide. Last year, her world tour directly generated an economic impact exceeding 5 billion dollars.

In the United States, the lines between the entertainment, sports, political, and business sectors are blurred, and it's common for celebrities to leverage their influence to enter politics.

Especially for a national treasure singer like Taylor, she's already beyond the traditional roles, the usual unspoken rules of the entertainment industry have no effect on her.

Just like last year's election, Trump shamelessly tried to flirt, hoping to get Taylor and her fans' support.

But Taylor didn't appreciate it, and instead supported the Democratic Party.

When Trump learned about this, he could only say that his fondness for Taylor was not as strong as before.

"Her singing is quite pleasant."

Lu Liang chuckled, withdrawing his gaze.

He's generally not interested in women who are too troublesome, let alone those with strong political ties.

Neither party is good, one behaves like a hypocrite, the other like an outright villain.

Taylor supports the former, and Geoffrey's Joy Island is also backed by Democratic bigwigs.

Lu Liang couldn't be bothered to guess; he simply assumed they were connected, and just this was enough to make him lose interest.

This is something the Three Kingdoms of East Asia did well: no matter how glamorous or superior celebrities seem, they remain actors in front of them.

Prohibiting celebrities from participating in politics is an extremely wise decision, just like a comedian suddenly rising to power next door.

It'll be fun to watch, and there will be profits to gain.

When a country is about to fall into chaos, there will be demons.

One businessman has already risen to power, and one comedian is about to ascend.

The words of our ancestors keep increasing in value; history is indeed rich, and precedent can be found for any situation.

"Let's go, it's about time for us to go on stage."

Lu Liang glanced at the venue again, while they were chatting, nine Tianshu cars in different colors had already entered.

Accompanied by Taylor's high-pitched singing, the big screen displayed nine small windows showing acceleration from zero to a hundred in just 2.89 seconds.

Nine cars dashed around the venue at a top speed of 265km/h, kicking up clouds of dust, which refracted the colorful lights, making people feel as if they were in a rainbow paradise.

"Damn, I finally know why the front two rows are empty."

"Is this the American version Tianshu launch event? I feel like I'm watching MW."

"This stage design is quite something."

"Is it my illusion? Even though the top speed is 265, why does the American version of Tianshu feel faster?"

"...Because domestically, there's no chance to reach 265, even reaching 150 has to be sneaky."

"The highway speed limit of 120 should be changed; in the past there weren't many cars that could reach this speed, now you can easily go 150, but it's restricted to 120, no wonder the roads are so congested during holidays."

"Fun fact, even if the speed limit is changed to 200, it'll still be congested; loads of players in the fast lane driving at 80, just ask if you're afraid."

As the song ended, the nine cars slowly drove up to the stage.

Although dust covered the car bodies, hiding their original colors, it added a touch of ruggedness, showing that sports cars are not just city road toys, they can also drive on sand like off-road vehicles.

"Taylor, your singing is still as lovely as ever."

Flannery, smiling and holding a microphone, walked briskly onto the stage, evidently an old acquaintance of Taylor's.

Of the 50 million promotion budget, 35 million US dollars were used to invite the singing stars today.

Taylor's appearance fee alone was 18 million US dollars, so naturally, she won't be just singing a few songs.

She also took on part of the hosting duties.

Flannery smiled and asked, "Taylor, you haven't heard of our Tianshu before?"

Taylor smiled and shook her head, "I've heard of Tianxing, a very impressive investment company, and of Lu Liang, a remarkable investor whom I admire greatly, but Tianshu, before today, I've never heard of."

"If you went to a car exhibition and saw such a car, would you choose to purchase it?" Flannery continued to ask.

"I think I would, because electric cars are more environmentally friendly, they can effectively reduce carbon dioxide emissions and make our planet more beautiful."

Raising the flag of environmental protection was the second strategy Lu Liang and Flannery discussed for the launch of the American version of Tianshu.

East Country is a developing nation, and if they promoted environmental protection, it might be misinterpreted as moral pretentiousness, having the opposite effect, just like domestic car launches that never mention environmental protection.

Even someone as extravagant as Li Bing would only say, "If you're still buying fuel cars now, do you simply enjoy smelling exhaust fumes?"

But in the Western world, the concerns are either about polar ice melting or Amazon rainforest reduction, and environmentalism is a standard identity for every European and American celebrity.

Just in time for Taylor's private jet, which has ranked first in aircraft carbon emissions for many years, with a total annual flight time exceeding 300 hours and carbon emissions over 5,000 tons, often criticized by environmentalists.

Thus, both parties hit it off, with General Motors waving the environmental banner to promote the American version of Tianshu, and Taylor actively responding, hoping to turn the tide of public opinion.

"There's no ideology, it's all business. But without ideology, there would be no business."

Lu Liang smiled, standing on one side of the stage, waiting to go on. Next to him was a new car in hazy purple.

Flannery asked with a smile, "Taylor, which of these nine colored cars do you like best?"

Taylor smiled and interacted with the audience below: "I believe my fans should know which color I like, right?"

Although it was four in the afternoon and the light was bright, the fans in the audience heard this and raised their supportive lights, instantly presenting a sea of purple.

Flannery asked again, "Are you ready?"

"Ready for what?"

"To become our first owner of the American version of Tianshu 001."

As soon as the words fell, a brand new Tianshu drove onto the stage from one side.

An eagle-eyed audience member noticed that the driver was Lu Liang, and immediately erupted into high-pitched screams.

"Lu~" "Lu~" "Lu~"

The cheers for Lu Liang's appearance were no less than those for a top Hollywood star, and even faintly surpassed them.

Beijing time, 4:30 a.m.

The audience still watching the live broadcast was stunned, dazed for a long time, and couldn't help but utter a soul-searching question: "Does Liangzi have such a big influence in North America?"

It was understandable that Lu Liang had a big influence domestically.

After all, in earlier years he enjoyed stirring things up with Little Wang, occasionally revealing wealth secrets and helping fans get rich.

In recent years, although he is less active on the domestic internet, he has already transformed from a web-celebrity capitalist to a responsible entrepreneur and has become the youngest Prefecture-level City People's Congress representative in history, with a chance to become the youngest National People's Congress representative in history.

But why does he also have this kind of influence in North America? Isn't he often the "reaper" in international markets? Do the people of the United States all have Stockholm Syndrome?

The more they are abused, the more they like it?

"I really don't understand. How much do you underestimate Liangzi's global influence?

Here's a hot piece of knowledge to add: although Liangzi's Twitter account hasn't been updated for over two years, his number of followers has grown to 45 million, and this is just on a single platform.

If you still don't understand, you can compare it horizontally to Jackie Chan, who has the most fans globally and has won an Oscar Lifetime Achievement Award as a Chinese, with a combined 78 million followers on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter.

Liangzi, with just a single platform's followers, is already ranked second. Bruce Lee, Jet Li, and the ones you've exalted like Wang Jia'er and Zhang Yixing can only rank third, fourth, fifth, and sixth.

PS: These are statistics across the three major platforms."

This enthusiastic netizen also uploaded comments from Lu Liang's last post on Twitter, which have exceeded a million, in various languages.

If all translated into Chinese, they can basically be summed up in one sentence: Worship the God of Wealth, seek prosperity.

"Isn't this a domestic netizen making joke comments? Do foreigners actually believe this?"

"It's even introduced on Wikipedia, nicknamed: God who manages wealth. Do you think foreigners don't like money?"

"Terrifying indeed, Mr. Lu is awesome!"

"You little brat, earlier you were calling him Liangzi, and now you've changed to Mr. Lu?"

"When out and about, you still need to give some face. What if foreigners are eavesdropping? Better safe than sorry."

"..."

All the netizens were left speechless, but this unprecedented press conference also allowed them to see Lu Liang's real influence abroad.

The venue, which can accommodate more than 70,000 people, erupted in earth-shattering cheers. The last Chinese with such influence was Jackie Chan after the new millennium.

But those were all in the past, something they could only see in old videos, but now this scene is something they witnessed with their own eyes.

Each of them felt an indescribable excitement and pride, a sense of comfort like seeing a child achieve great things.

The rise of a great nation, the return of a nationality to the pinnacle of the world, culture, economy, military, technology, and representative figures, none of these can be missing.

The first four can be surpassed slowly through hard work and determination, but representative figures can only be created by the times.

Just like Bill Gates twenty years ago, Jobs ten years ago, now Musk, and a bunch of old-timers like Buffett and Soros, all are representatives of the United States.

The last person in East Country with such potential has already donned a white cap, submitting to the Squid Clan.

Regardless of whether he was sincere or insincere at the time, once the cap was put on and photographed, he was already dirty.

In contrast, Lu Liang, a native-born Chinese, specializes in harvesting international markets, benefiting domestic manufacturing.

Although there are rumors that he is involved with multiple female stars, ambiguous with several women, and even suspected of having children out of wedlock.

But as a first-generation wealthy individual with no background, these small flaws in private life cannot overshadow his halo.

As the saying goes, if I were as rich as Lu Liang, I guarantee I'd play even more wildly than him, being a groom daily and changing brides nightly.