Chapter 1189: We Will Be Buried Together Among the Stars

With newfound motivation and a new goal to strive for, Han Lie suddenly felt a burst of new passion.

It didn’t take long for him to inspect the airplane for the future owner of the Princess. He examined four models with outstanding efficiency within a week.

The top two contenders were the Airbus A380 and the Boeing 747.

These two beasts are large commercial airliners, but they can be customized and converted into business jets.

The advantage is their size, unimaginably large for the average person.

Fifty meters long, six meters wide, with some design tweaks, they become the ultimate luxurious airborne palaces.

The downside is the cost… but no, no, for Han Lie, this is actually an advantage.

However, the over 3 billion RMB price tag and the customization time of more than three years are indeed a bit hard to bear.

When he seriously consulted the wealth management team sent by Morgan Stanley, Pan Ge pulled at him in fright.

“No, no, no, it’s too big, I can’t handle it!”

If you don’t have extensive overseas business and a large assistant team, buying such a big plane is indeed quite pointless.

If it’s only for domestic flights, it’s too cumbersome.

Then he turned to look at the alternative options, Bombardier and Gulfstream.

Thanks to Han Lie’s long-term, efficient outputs related to the Bai sisters, he raked in a lot of US Dollar cash. It went back and forth, in and out, on the forex platform and Morgan Stanley accounts. He was viewed as a high-end client to strive for, so their private banking team went all out to serve God Lie, directly scheduling sample aircraft and test flights.

Gulfstream’s current proud creation is the G650, which just entered service in 2012.

Bombardier’s top products are the Global 7000 and Global 8000, also new models. The latter surpasses the former in flight range but sacrifices some cabin volume. In essence, there isn’t much difference.

Compared to the large airliners, these things are as small as pigeon cages.

With a cabin width of only 2.1 meters, placing a 1.5-meter double bed in the bedroom doesn’t leave much space, a poor review!

However, there are no other options available on the market.

No matter how much Han Lie was unwilling, he could only choose between Gulfstream and Bombardier.

Learning that their brand had entered the final selection stage, the sales teams launched a fierce PR campaign.

Yes, that’s right, it’s the brand’s PR targeting the buyer.

In later times, Han Lie read some super-rich novels on the Rotten Tomatoes platform. My goodness, they’re ridiculously low-brow.

A super-rich person who would be looked down upon by the brand and would spend money to show off and get back at them…

But the reality is, once the brand confirmed Han Lie’s strong purchasing desire and overwhelming buying power via Morgan Stanley, they immediately formed their own PR teams and allocated over a million US Dollars in PR expenses.

Behind the scenes, they frantically PR-ed Morgan Stanley’s private banking service team, hoping to obtain some key information and consulting inclinations.

On the front lines, they arranged all sorts of programs for Han Lie and Pan Ge.

Including but not limited to various large-scale events being held in the US, fashion and artistic dinners, concerts, various sports events VIP tickets, and so on, and so forth.

At this moment, Han Lie only needed to make a request or even just a hint, and they would invite Kendall Jenner or the Black Widow or any woman or even man to a coincidental dinner party, and skillfully introduce them, doing their utmost to facilitate at least one in-depth interaction.

Ahem, of course, it’s proper interaction.

Whether he could manage to win over these celebrities ultimately depended on God Lie’s own performance.

But unfortunately, Pan Ge came along… ah no, unfortunately, God Lie isn’t that kind of person; he’s too upright.

Additionally, Gulfstream specially stationed the G650 in Los Angeles, ready at any time, and the City of Savannah had long prepared a four-day tour itinerary, including a welcome dinner organized by the city government.

Not every luxury private jet buyer enjoys these gimmicks. Most people are long indifferent to them, but the brands still try their best every time.

With the efforts of the brands and Morgan Stanley, it took just a month for Han Lie to initially integrate into American high society and become familiar with another mode of life.

This is the real treatment of a super-rich person on this land.

If it were a truly young person, they might indulge in this superficial respect, but Han Lie felt nothing at all.

The world has two sides, one facing inward, one facing outward.

The inward-facing side is filthy, no one wants to see it.

The outward-facing side is glamorous and mesmerizing.

Only those who clearly see both sides and remain unwaveringly walk the middle path are qualified to always win.

Han Lie is such a person.

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The two brands were equal in all respects, so Han Lie decisively bought Bombardier.

Gulfstream’s sales manager refused to accept defeat and, in the final attempt, promised, “I can offer you a higher discount and promise delivery within 36 months!”

Han Lie looked at him with a strange expression, calmly replied, “Thanks, but I don’t need that.”

What an elite salesperson, huh?

Even now, don’t understand why I chose Bombardier Global 7000?

It’s 20% more expensive than yours; that’s quite a gap, right?

The old white man was thunderstruck on the spot, dumbfounded in place.

It took a week, discussed the details with Bombardier, and Han Lie directly paid 80% of the full amount, signing a very tight contract.

It seems like a move that isn’t too smart, but actually, there’s no real risk.