Xu WeiWei showed the designs she had received, "Take a look; which logo do you like best?"
Fang JunRong planned to give her skin care product company, Meifang, a new logo. Li WangJin picked the original one, and looking at it would irritate her.
She looked over them, and finally, the last one caught her attention. It was a drawing of a mountain surrounded by a river. It instantly reminded her of her bracelet, so she pointed at that one and said, "Let's use this one."
Xu WeiWei looked at it and smiled. "Yeah, I quite like this one as well." Then, stroking her cheek and looking very high-spirited, she said, "Boy, your beautifying pills are no joke. I took a round of them, and now my skin is much firmer! And a lot of my friends asked me about it as well."
Fang JunRong's lips curved upward a little. "The ones I gave you are better than the ones we will sell."
Xu WeiWei asked, "How much do you think we should price them?"
Each box was one round of treatment, containing seven pills inside, one a day. They had already manufactured 10,000 boxes and would release them in September.
"Let's just make it 888[1], it's lucky." Fang JunRong didn't believe it was overly expensive. After all, the effectiveness of her product was far better than anything else on the market. It was a steal at that price.
Plus, the results were evident after just one round of treatment.
Had Xu WeiWei never used it before, she would have probably felt it was expensive. But now that she had used them, 888 yuan each was dirt cheap.
"Okay, I will start on the marketing then." Xu WeiWei had taken on the Vice President position since she transferred. The VP before her was Li Wangjin's man. Fang JunRong had a deal with Li WangJin. She pulled back her people from Ayron, and he pulled back those loyal to him from Meifang.
She couldn't be sure that she hadn't missed any, but at the very minimum, she could be sure that all the ones who held the critical positions were loyal to her. These employees had stayed with her and never strayed in her previous life. They had undergone a lot of hardships; even for them alone, she wants her company to get better.
"Oh, right, who do you want to be our spokesperson?"
"You can make that decision. I am not familiar with this area," said Fang JunRong. Then, a name popped into her mind, and her face turned cold. "Except for Fang JueMing. I do not want to work with him."
In her previous life, Jiang YaGe had helped him with her White Jade Cream. Ever since then, Fang JueMing has become one of her loyalists. He often used his status and popularity to assist her. Of course, he said she was like a sister to him to the general public. His fans had accepted this so-called sister of his and did a lot for her. In her previous life, Li XinYun had experienced a lot of internet violence and all sorts of verbal abuse because of this, and was even depressed for a while.
Even though Jiang YaGe might not have anything to do with Fang JueMing in this lifetime, Fang JunRong hated this man and wanted nothing to do with him.
"Oh, so you don't like him, huh? Okay, we won't use him. There's no rush on this," said Xu WeiWei decisively.
Naturally, they would not pick someone that the boss didn't like as their public spokesperson. She had no rush to choose a spokesperson. Truthfully, as much as Meifang's brand had been around for a while, its market share was mediocre. After all, both Fang JunRong and Li WangJin had placed their focus on their other company. The most valuable thing about this company was its location. Even if they wanted to hire a first-tier actor, they might be unable to. They might as well wait until they have made a name for themself. Then, performers would fight over the opportunity.
"Let's release our product on September 8. That is the day that XinYun starts school. We will have a 10% discount for the day. No need for other promotional activities."
Fang JunRong had already decided that from now on, this product would only have promotional activities on XinYun's birthday. Not even on 11/11 or 12/12[2].
Xu WeiWei burst out laughing. "You do love XinYun a lot." But she liked that girl a lot too.
The two discussed related issues before Xu WeiWei left valiantly and gallantly with two boxes of Beautifying Pills. She felt very confident about the company's future, or, in the Beautifying Pills.
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Fang JunRong had been passing her days happily ever since the divorce. With the money she had received, she bought the stocks of a few companies that she remembered had done well in her memories from her previous life. But she also saved some fluid capital, just in case.
Her daughter XinYun would start school in September, and Zhong Yi even earlier. Fang JunRong had taken some time to purchase school supplies with them. They could, of course, buy those by themselves, but as their mother, she didn't want to miss any stages of their lives.
Even though XinYun had a "Mom's too clingy, and I'm troubled" look, Fang JunRong could tell that she was pleased and was starting to forget about the pain brought to her by Li WangJin.
Both XinYun and Zhong Yi's colleges were local and within the top 50 in the country. XinYun's college was in City S, further from home. Fang JunRong had two houses near the university, so she tidied up one of them and put some of her daughter's stuff over there. Offering them the option to stay there if they didn't like staying in the dormitory.
After she had bought XinYun and Zhong Yi each a computer, Fang JunRong waved at them and said, "You two have fun shopping. I am going to go meet up with your Aunty He."
Since the birthday banquet, Fang JunRong has been going out with her friends. Today, she would be meeting up with He JianBing. She had learned a few days earlier that the He's were finally able to claim the property in question. That differed from what happened in her previous life; that Wang Xiao wasn't able to take it from them.
The club she was heading to was owned by the Hes and located next to the ocean. The best private rooms even had private beach access. She pushed open the door and found He JianBing in her swimsuit, relaxingly on a beach lounger.
Hearing noises behind her, she sat up and smiled at Fang JunRong. "You are here, JunRong."
It was now early evening, and the sun was setting over the blue ocean. It looked like broken gold pieces were floating on the water, and the scene was dazzling. The sea breeze mixed with moisture and the smell of the ocean made the air feel less stuffy.
Fang JunRong sat on the lounger beside her and said, "You sure know how to enjoy yourself."
"We won't have to worry about anyone eavesdropping in an open area like this," said He JianBing.
He JianBing put on a more solemn look and said, "I am glad you gave us the heads up earlier; we would be in a bad position otherwise." Her niece, He ShuHua, was such an idiot. She had bugged their study, and her father and brother had the habit of holding discussions there. Some of the family's confidential information was almost leaked to Wang Xiao by her niece. She had no idea what Wang Xiao had given her niece to make her willing to betray her family.
But once they had figured that out, they used the same method to trick Wang Xiao instead. The marriage alliance between the Hes and the Wangs existed because they had high hopes for Wang Xiao. But, even with high hopes, no family would want to keep a white-eyed wolf around.
The Hes wanted to call off the alliance, but He ShuHua refused. Her father, fed up with the spoiled girl, finally lost all his patience and kicked her out.
He JianBing did not elaborate too much on He ShuHua as that was considered a private family matter. She did, however, tell Fang JunRong that they had already started plotting against Wang Xiao.
"That ex-husband of yours has been so useless ever since he left you. He hired someone to look into Wang Xiao but almost got tricked by him instead. Finally, we couldn't stand it anymore and lent him a hand. Granted, we've decided to make some money off him." The private eye hired by Li WangJin was sent by the He's as no regular private eye would be able to find dirt on Wang Xiao.
Fang JunRong paused for a little and burst out laughing. "And here I thought he was lucky to have found someone competent."
She figured that the He's would like to see Li WangJin and Wang Xiao get at each other and was excited to see how this all had turned out.
He JianBing was much more in the know than Fang JunRong when it came to stuff like this, so she shared with Fang JunRong that Li WangJin had already submitted the evidence he had collected. The evidence was so solid that Wang Xiao had been pretty frantic as of late. He wanted to push someone below him out to take all the blame and clear himself, but with the Hes operating behind the scenes, it wouldn't be easy for him to get away scot-free.
"Many of his other crimes had come into the light as well. He'll probably get locked up for some ten years."
When Fang JunRong heard that, she vaguely remembered what happened to her daughter in her previous life and finally felt a little bit better knowing that he would pay for his crimes. She was much happier now.
In addition to talking about Wang Xiao, the other subject that He JianBing wanted to talk about was the Beautify Pills.
"Your Beautify Pills worked so well. My mom was like a bandit and took whatever I had left. When are you going to start selling them?"
Fang JunRong's smile deepened. Countless friends had asked her about Beautify Pills. "They will be on the market next month. I will have someone send you a few more boxes tomorrow."
"That's great. Don't worry. I will make sure to have stars from my company advertise for you then." He JianBing owned a studio under her name and had a few stars on contract. Two of which were quite popular.
Naturally, Fang JunRong would not turn that down. The two of them went to the hot spring for a bit, had a massage, had dinner, and finally parted ways, completely pleased. The food at the club was surprisingly good, especially the cabbage in broth. It was Fang JunRong's favorite.
As Fang JunRong had eaten a bit too much, she felt a little bit stuffed, so she decided to go for a walk before heading home to help with digestion after she took off from the club. Her two bodyguards followed from a distance behind her.
"Hey! You can't sleep here! It's my turf!" Noises of people fighting came from below a bridge not too far off, most likely beggars fighting over their territory. As much as City S was a bustling city, it couldn't all be rainbows and sunshine. Naturally, it had dark corners where the sun wouldn't shine.
One of the men whose territory was intruded on shoved the man sitting on the ground angrily. The person leaned over and fell directly on the ground.
"Hey! Hey! Are you alright?! Don't try to scam me!"
There was no response.
"Psst! So unlucky. Guess I will go somewhere else."
The man, obviously not wanting to get involved, left angrily.
Fang JunRong, too, had assumed that the person on the ground was scamming the one who left. But she watched for a while, and the man on the ground still didn't stir.
Since she had witnessed it, she couldn't pretend that she didn't.
Fang JunRong turned to her bodyguards and said, "Let's look."
She walked over and could tell from the body shape that it was a man, a skinny one at that. His skin was an abnormal color with sickly purple marks. Under the moonlight, half of his face was rotten, and he looked vicious. He had a yellow Buddha necklace around his neck. The Buddha's smile was somewhat crooked; it looked casual yet strange.
Through the Buddha, however, Fang JunRong figured out who he was—Jiang WenYu. In the novel, he caused Jiang YaGe many problems. He could be considered a boss villain of sorts.
Because he had been Jiang YaGe's enemy, she must save him.
[1] the number 8 in Chinese is phonetically similar to the word "prosper" and the phrase "become wealthy", as such the number 8 is considered a lucky number thought to bring luck, wealth, good fortune and success
[2] 11/11 or 12/12 aka November 11th and December 12th, are dates that Chinese retailers traditionally offer steep discounts. Similar to the Black Friday sales in the USA