397 Time to Step Up (1/2)

The summer season was a time of opportunities for Iris as a career woman.

As a translator and interpreter, she started accepting small assignments from both Jin Corporation and Long Industries. She translated some documents for them. There was only one instance when she acted as interpreter after the international business conference, and that was when she accompanied Grandpa Lu for a meeting with some Russian investors.

She didn't really have that much time to spare to accept more translator/interpreter jobs, even though there were many companies, both local and foreign, that expressed their interest in hiring her. Nevertheless, her two professors encouraged her to apply her skills regularly in an actual work environment for her to gain more experience. It would help in polishing her language skills.

After the international business conference, the two professors left China to return to their own home countries. They didn't need to train Iris in person anymore. However, their lessons and mentorship would still continue via long-distance training.

As a businesswoman, Iris was extremely busy running her own companies and closely monitoring their progress. Her companies continued to eat up a substantial amount of her wealth, but she remained optimistic that she would get back everything she had invested and more.

Planet Monkey was already starting to really profit. If the company's upward trend continued, Iris estimated that both Hou Liang and Wu Chen would become millionaires in the country by the end of this year.

Iris didn't really need to worry too much about Planet Monkey. Both Hou Liang and Wu Chen were doing a fantastic job in running it. Although she was the President-Owner, what she really just needed to do was continue being the financier and also periodically attacking the company's online systems to test the strength of its security.

Planet Monkey was using a powerful security system that she personally created and developed. As a result, the company's systems were virtually impenetrable by anyone below her skill level. There weren't a lot of hackers in the world who could contend against her. So it wasn't a stretch to conclude that Planet Monkey's systems were the most secure in the country.

Being a financier and a cybersecurity hacker for Planet Monkey weren't taking too much of her time and effort. For that, she was grateful.

Orchidia Beauty, on the other hand, was a different matter. Because she planned on making the company synonymous to her name in the future, she paid close attention to every single detail concerning it.

It was taking a lot of her time and effort. Fortunately, she had capable people helping her run it who were as filled with youthful energy and ambition as her in making the company successful.

At the moment, their initial products that they planned on launching first were already completed. They had sent PR packages to selected beauty influencers in the country and even reached out to some international ones.

Within a few weeks, the reviews started pouring out. At first, the reviewers expressed their distrust for a new company that they had never heard of before. However, almost all of them gave positive reviews and high ratings after personally using the products. They raved about the products' ”miraculous” effectiveness, all-natural label, and beautiful but sustainable packaging.

All of them wanted to know more about this new company, Orchidia Beauty. They couldn't wait for the official launch of the products.

Using the hype generated by these influencers in the beauty community, Orchidia Beauty finally announced the official launch of their first products which would be in the autumn season. Iris would be endorsing her own company, of course. But for now, it was a secret.

Iris also discussed Sang Bleu with Chen Fei, Long Jinjing, Clover and the Bauer siblings. They were all excited when they heard that she acquired the perfumery's resources. All kinds of possibilities ran through their minds on how to make the best use of the perfumery. However, they decided to put it aside for now and focus on their upcoming launch next season.

All of these made Iris super busy throughout the summer. Despite this, she still had the energy to pursue her passion—music.

Even with her crazy schedule, she didn't neglect her showbiz career, especially now that Bright Summit was providing her with increased resources and opportunities to make her more famous.

Iris and Jin Chonglin had finally completed their parts in the production of their two music collaborations. They handed the remaining details for JJ to iron out.

As always, JJ won the right to produce Iris' music collaboration, even with a superstar like Jin Chonglin. JJ was able to intimidate Jin Chonglin's record label into not fighting against him over the production right of the collaboration.

The two songs would be released on separate occasions in autumn.

Eveything was kept hush-hush for now. They wanted their collaboration to be a big surprise to the music industry, especially to their own fans.