Chapter 1257 - Aggressive And Forceful Acquisition (2/2)

She and Jin Liwei were still keeping her pregnancy a big secret to the general public. This meant keeping her public appearances to the bare minimum. Her fans, the Black Stars, were missing her like crazy and wished for her to do more shows like before but they would never demand her to do anything that she didn't want to do.

After dropping the bombshell that Iris Long was the true owner of the gaming company, Planet Monkey, and that she established her own holding company that housed several companies including LXC Studio that she co-owned with her husband, CEO Jin Liwei, and her brother-in-law, the superstar Jin Chonglin, she was once again the talk in the news for several weeks.

She accepted a few carefully selected interviews arranged by her manager Tang Yiyi through LXC Studio. However, she didn't go to the shows' studios but instead invited the interview hosts to her companies—Eve Holdings, Orchidia Beauty, LXC Studio and even Planet Monkey. She didn't bother with Gold Heights because it had its own original management that she rarely interfered with since becoming the owner.

These interviews became instant hot topics after they aired.

This was the first time that people saw that Iris Long was really now a legitimate businesswoman who knew what she was doing and not just a symbolic boss on paper.

If the interview shows aired about her were to be believed, her leadership skills and abilities were on par with business school graduates like Orchidia Beauty's COO Chen Fei and Iris' half-sister, CFO Long Jinjing.

The Black Stars were extremely proud of her while some didn't fully believe what they watched on the shows.

The skeptics suspected that the shows were deliberately edited in such a way to project a positive image of Iris Long as a competent business leader. Her lack of proof of higher education wasn't doing her any favour in persuading others that she was a natural as a businesswoman.

Despite all these mixed opinions about her business endeavours, Iris wasn't bothered in the least. She was keeping herself busy with many things while prioritizing her health and pregnancy. Every day was productive and meaningful.

At the moment, she was inside her office at Eve Holdings. Her executive business assistant had just handed her a Long Industries stock certificate with her name as proof of ownership of the new shares she acquired through Elder Long Jufang's mediation. There was a second certificate that she acquired through another more forceful channel.

She remained expressionless while looking at the certificates in her hand. Her executive assistant couldn't guess her thoughts through her face.

”Set up an investment company under Eve Holdings,” she ordered. ”From now on, we'll aggressively acquire as much Long Industries shares as we can. That'll be the main priority of the investment company until I say otherwise.”

”Understood, President Long.” The executive assistant jotted a note on his tablet.

When the assistant left, Iris reclined her seat. Out of the corner of her eye, she saw Ketchup appear on her computer screen.

”Mommy, Uncle Long Jian left you a voice mail. Meow~”