Domination in America, Starting from being a Boxing Champion

The high-rise apartment in Jianghai Mansion is a high-end apartment, with the upper and lower floors featuring classic European decorative styles.

From the floors and walls to the spiral staircase, ceilings, and the design of the French windows, every detail exudes an air of luxury and elegance. The apartment is well-equipped with modern appliances.

After looking around, Link found it very nice, but when compared to Ivanka's apartment, both the layout and the interior design were of a lower standard. This kind of gap couldn't be bridged by money alone, as aesthetics were key.

If he had time in the future, he could ask Ivanka to help with the design.

Upon arriving at the small living room, Link handed the gift to Yui-chan—it was a hand-drawn album of Huaxia landscape paintings. It wasn't very expensive, but it was unique, interesting, and held some collectible value.

Upon seeing the gift, Yui-chan repeatedly waved her hands, saying that she was paid for the business trip and there was no need for him to spend his money.

Link said it was a local souvenir that wasn't worth much and also his gift for becoming her student.

After thinking it over, Yui-chan reluctantly accepted the album.

Looking around the small living room, Link asked where Miss Sasaki was.

Yui-chan told him that Sasaki was upstairs and would be down shortly. She apologized for being occupied with other tasks and not preparing to welcome him, asking him to wait for three minutes.

Link nodded, saying he had plenty of time today and was in no rush. He told her to take her time.

Yui-chan placed her hands in front of her waist, bowed to thank him, and then slowly exited the living room.

Link took off his coat and hung it on the coat rack, where the clothing of two female teachers was already hanging. Yui-chan's clothes tended to be simple and elegant, resembling those of an ordinary city girl, whereas Nozomi Sasaki-chan's wardrobe was mostly designer labels, fashionable and striking.

Out of politeness, he refrained from examining their clothes further and returned to the small living room, where the coffee table now held a basket of fruit, a pot of fragrant tea, and two celadon tea cups, infusing the air with a light aroma.

"Mr. Baker, I've kept you waiting."

Yui-chan, holding books, quickly emerged from the study.

Her medium-length loose hair was tied back in a ponytail. She'd added a light blue ladies' blazer over her attire and swapped her slippers for white shoes. Matched with her tall figure and sweet, friendly smile, she looked even more fresh and beautiful.

Link inwardly praised Yui-chan, who truly lived up to the title of 'national wife' as seen through the eyes of her Japanese fans—she was indeed beautiful.

"Mr. Baker, may we begin our lesson?"

Yui-chan lowered her head to brush aside a strand of hair near her ear and then knelt down at the low table.

"Teacher Yui, please teach me well."

Link nodded and sat cross-legged on the soft stool opposite her.

Yui-chan noticed his awkward position and, slightly embarrassed, looked down, her ears turning a faint red.

She had suffered a lot getting here from Huaxia, due to her fear of heights and discomfort flying which even caused her to get airsick.

Her mood was also spoiled due to a situation with her father. She initially started teaching classes to take revenge on this playboy. Yui-chan had suggested that if he wanted to learn Japanese quickly, it would be best to change the desk to a low Japanese-style one and for him to kneel on the carpet during classes.

Link followed her suggestion, quickly arranging for a low table, tatami mats, and two Japanese folding screens to be bought, exceeding her requirements.

However, in terms of sitting posture, Link explained that he was an athlete and kneeling might hurt his knees, so he could only sit cross-legged.

Seeing him so cooperative, Yui-chan did not press the issue further, secretly thrilled by the idea of having successfully played a joke on a big shot.

But after spending a few days with him, she realized that this infamous playboy was not a bad person at all. He was handsome and refined, intelligent and learned, full of talent, and had a warm and polite character, which contrasted sharply with the sneering face and the predator she had imagined who only knew how to take advantage of girls.

After getting to know him, Yui-chan felt a quiet guilt. What if Link found out she had been pranking him? Would he get angry?

"Mr. Baker, if you're uncomfortable sitting like this, we can move over there and sit on the sofa... The learning experience might be slightly less effective, but it won't be much different," said Yui-chan, pointing to the adjacent small reception room with a gentle tone.

"It's all right, studying Japanese while sitting here is indeed more calming," Link said nonchalantly.

One advantage of the low table was that he could talk face-to-face with Yui-chan.

Only three feet apart, he could see her bright, lively eyes, her fresh and pure face. When she laughed, eight white teeth would show, and when she smiled, the corners of her lips curled up high, revealing sweet dimples that were soft and infectious.

Being in close proximity to such a girl who could provide emotional value was also bound to improve the efficiency of learning Japanese.

"Mr. Baker, if you don't mind, let's start our lesson. Please flip to page twelve in the booklet, today we learn the Japanese expressions for everyday items," Yui-chan opened the booklet and said.

"Yooshi~"

"...Mr. Baker, it's not quite appropriate to use 'you xi' to express 'good' here, 'hi' would be more accurate, or you could use OK."

Yui-chan corrected seriously.

"OK!"

"I'm very sorry, Mr. Baker, for being late."

Just as the two were about to start the lesson, several shy and sweet voices of 'sumimasen' came from behind.

Link looked up and saw that it was Nozomi Sasaki-chan.

Her attire was very sexy, reminiscent of a female teacher from a Japanese adult film, wearing gold-rimmed round glasses, a white suit, a fitted skirt, and meticulous makeup. It was unclear if she wore any underwear beneath her jacket, which revealed a fair cleavage.

The hem of her fitted skirt was rather high, rising above her thighs with just a slight sit-down.

Her shapely long legs were clad in black stockings and high heels.

With her sexily swaying catwalk, her legs moving back and forth, she exuded a sense of trendy sexiness.

But her face was pure and delicate, her expression serious and even a bit cold, carrying a flavor of a celibate older sister.

She was like a high-end version of a female teacher.

Link glanced at her and greeted her in Japanese, "Good afternoon, Teacher Sasaki, your clothes are very pretty."

"Arigato! Link-san, you also look very handsome today."

Teacher Nozomi Sasaki smiled sweetly, giving a slight bow, and the cleavage under her jacket became even more conspicuous, like a white line in a valley on a snowy day, glaringly bright.

Link smiled lightly, his mind filled with extra caution.

Nozomi Sasaki was also quite a famous actress in the Japanese entertainment industry.

After entering the entertainment industry last year, with her sweet looks and sexy figure, she became popular in Japan, and many Japanese media and netizens hailed her as Japan's number one beauty, the 'dream lover'.

Now she dressed so seductively in class as if to tempt him, which made him maintain his vigilance.

Here, vigilance wasn't a matter of timidity but stemmed from a lesson learned from previous experience.

That lesson involved MJ.

In the 1980s, MJ managed to buy the rights to popular songs, including over two hundred hits from The Beatles, through his ATV Music Publishing company.

In the early 1990s, Sony Records, coveting the music rights MJ held, proposed a merger with ATV Music Publishing, where the rights to all songs would be split equally.

In this way, Sony Music also secured 50% of the rights to the songs by MJ and The Beatles, while MJ obtained 50% of the song rights under Sony Music.

However, as Sony Music grew stronger with the acquisition of over two million song rights from around the globe over the decades, the value of Sony/ATV Music's rights soared from a few hundred million US dollars to between forty to fifty billion US dollars.

According to the agreement from 1995, 50% of that belonged to MJ, making MJ's net worth over twenty billion US dollars.

This was a huge fortune, and Sony believed that MJ had received an unfair advantage and demanded to change the initial agreement. MJ refused, and the situation between them became extremely tense.

Later, a lot of negative stories about MJ came to light, causing him plenty of troubles and nearly ruining his reputation.

Western media reported that this was partly the reason.

After MJ's death, Sony Music managed to buy back shares and all of MJ's song rights from his estate, becoming the world's largest music rights company. If this was a war, Sony undeniably emerged as the ultimate winner.

The situation was quite similar for Link.

He was the largest shareholder of Link Music and owned all of the company's song rights, including his three albums, as well as those of Lana, Mars, Wiz Khalifa, and Justin Bieber.

The rights to these songs were Link Music's most valuable assets, which was also why Wall Street kept on raising Link Music's market value.

In contrast, Taylor's first six albums' song rights were sold for three hundred million US dollars in 2018, while all of Justin Bieber's song rights were transacted for two hundred million US dollars in 2021.

The value of the albums under Link Music and its artists, after 2018, could conservatively be estimated to worth no less than one billion US dollars.

This was a pie worth hundreds of millions or even over a billion US dollars, and nobody could resist lusting after it. Since last year, several parties had been eyeing Link Music, proposing financing and acquisition plans, including the five major record companies, partly motivated by the desire to own these song rights.

In fact, neither Link nor Eva had planned to hold onto these rights long-term. After two or three years of release, the ongoing revenue from these songs would significantly decrease, selling the rights would also result in a huge profit.

But before voluntarily selling the rights, he didn't want anyone to touch this pie or to be held hostage by it.

Therefore, when he saw Tahara Ayane bringing two popular Japanese actresses to serve as Japanese language teachers, he grew wary, and seeing Nozomi Sasaki-chan in her alluring teacher outfit coming to class just heightened his caution.