704 Long Industries’ Party Part I (1/2)
As Long Industries' celebrity brand ambassador, Iris Long attended many events and performed a lot of marketing and PR duties for the company. Her circle of business acquaintances expanded a great deal during this short period of time as a result. She wouldn't be a student of the (shameless) business genius Sir Lu Jianhong if she didn't take advantage of this precious opportunity to meet important business figures from different fields on a regular basis.
On the surface, she was diligent in fulfilling her commitment as Long Industries' brand ambassador, but on the side, she was gathering potentially lucrative business connections for her own companies. After attending these events, she would instruct Chen Fei (Orchidia Beauty) and Hou Liang (Planet Monkey) to contact selected personages she met through these events to form some sort of business relationship. There was no need to worry about her real estate company Gold Heights because it was already well-established even before she acquired it after Jin Liwei gifted it to her.
In this way, Iris wasn't only increasing her personal influence in Long Industries, and in extension, in the Long clan but also expanding her companies' connections in the business industry. Also, she didn't forget her original goal of winning the Longs' battle of succession and purging the cesspool of ancient prejudice and narrow-mindedness in the clan for the sake of securing a safe and bright future for her godson, Little Jun.
It was difficult but without a doubt a win-win solution, hence why she didn't mind spending a lot of time and effort in her brand ambassadorship even though she barely had any time to rest and felt exhausted all the time.
Fortunately, her hard work paid off. Long Industries stock prices recovered and even exceeded its previous value before the overnight crash by a few points. There was no need for the contingency plans that Long Hui had been assigned to prepare in case Iris and Long Jian failed.
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To celebrate the happy occasion, President-CEO Long Tengfei threw a company-wide party. All employees were invited from the ones in the lowest rungs to the top level. The party had to be hosted in a rented convention centre instead of a hotel hall in order to accommodate everyone. It wasn't very luxurious compared to previous parties but it was appropriate given that they just survived a dangerous stock price crash.
Iris attended the party without an escort but still stunned everyone wearing an elegant emerald evening dress with a golden dragon embroidered on the entire back. The dragon depicted on her dress was rising to the heavens, the symbol of the Long clan.
Seeing that she was wearing the clan's symbol with so much pride, many of the clan members who attended the party, especially the elders, couldn't help but nod in approval. Even Long Meng, Long Hui's number one supporter in the clan, appreciated Iris' homage.
The party seemed to freeze for a few seconds when Iris stepped inside the venue. Her entrance was silent, yet her presence was magnetic that almost everyone's heads turned towards her at the same time.
Unlike those who held high positions in the company, most of the average employees in Long Industries didn't retain their prejudice against her from her past reputation as a spoiled, selfish, fame-hungry and bitchy brat. In fact, there were quite a number of Black Stars among them.
”Kyaaaah! Boss Iris is here!”
”Thank you for saving our jobs, Young Miss Iris Long! Thanks to you, we didn't have to be laid-off!”