324 Back to Work (1/2)
The Spring Festival holidays finally ended. All the people returned to their regular lives. The children went back to school while the adults returned to work.
Of course, Iris and Jin Liwei were no exception. In fact, they had no time to adjust, immediately diving back to their busy and heavy workloads.
Iris began shooting various ads for the endorsements she signed before the Spring Festival. This included the ad for Lin Yehan's premium tea company.
Actually, some of the offers she accepted were withdrawn by the companies when the tabloid scandal about her having a love child with Jin Chonglin hit the news. When it was proven that the scandal was not true, the companies reoffered the endorsements to her again. However, she rejected them the second time around. She wasn't interested in endorsing companies who had so little trust in her character.
In the end, she ended up with only five endorsements.
First was Serenity Premium Tea—Lin Yehan's company. Second was Meili Nails. It was the nail polish company who fought against the Alarm Girls in court after the trio physically assaulted Mr. Chen's secretary. Third was for a new phone model. Fourth, an endorsement for high-end earphones and headphones. And lastly, a toothpaste endorsement.
All of these endorsement deals were worth a total of about 10 million RMB. The initial offers were actually lower, adding up to only about 4 million RMB. Tang Yiyi worked hard in negotiating with the companies and was able to increase the offers.
”The day will come when you'll get a minimum of 10 million per endorsement,” Tang Yiyi told her. ”So just continue to work hard for now.”
”I will. Thank you for the hard work, Elder Sister Yiyi,” Iris said in a sincere tone. ”The offers already exceeded my initial expectations. I was expecting to receive about 2 million for all five endorsements.”
”Your expectations are too low. Iris, you're now one of the hottest celebrities in the country. Although your level of fame is still very far from someone like Jin Chonglin, you have the potential to become a superstar that'll eclipse him someday. Your showbiz career will definitely be worth more than this 10 million of endorsement deals.”
Iris nodded, grateful for Tang Yiyi.
While she busied herself with the endorsements, the Bauer siblings finally arrived to the country all the way from Germany. They were here to stay and start working with her on their company Orchidia Beauty.
Amanpio Kileksy also came with them to install the various special equipment he built with Alric Bauer. Iris spent tens of millions of dollars before Amanpio and Alric were able to complete building all the equipment. They went through a lot of failed prototypes which cost millions.
Although Iris had the urge to strangle Amanpio several times for draining so much money, she appreciated his firm belief in using only the highest quality materials. In the end, Alric Bauer told her that the equipment they built were even better than what he originally envisioned.
Iris helped Alric file several patent applications for all of the equipment. He and Amanpio agreed to share the patents under their names. The two also already agreed to sign an exclusive licence to Orchidia Beauty once the patents were approved.
Before they arrived in the country, Iris already made preparations. Orchidia Beauty now had a lab to develop products, a factory, warehouse and even a small commercial building which would serve as the company's headquarters.
For accommodations, Iris assigned the Bauer siblings to a large unit at Gold Heights Condominium building where her penthouse was located. There were several vacancies after she evicted the residents who colluded with the reporters in hunting down Little Jun.
As for Amanpio, she allowed him to stay at the penthouse as a guest. She already warned Yi Mei that Amanpio was weird, so the household staff should prepare themselves not to be too shocked by any of his behaviour. She also gave Yi Mei authority to kick him out if he ever disrespected any of them. The guy was a Cross Academy student. He could afford a hotel.