"By the way, before going to Florida, I went to France, happened to meet Mitterrand's funeral, and was invited to a memorial reception."
"How do you talk about this?"
"It's just that I suddenly discovered that you are quite similar to the former French president."
"I prefer to hear someone sound like me, rather than me sounding like someone else."
"Haha, okay, Mitterrand is quite similar to you," Grace chuckled, and before Simon asked, she took the initiative to explain: "I mean you both have many lovers, and you are also very greedy. He always liked to date many women at the same time. I heard that Mitterrand had to date several lovers in a row in one night, which made the driver very tired. Also, he competed with his political rival Chirac to see who had more lovers, and even shared the same woman. .”
"Well, I don't share women with other men. If it's a woman, I can still consider it."
"Bad guy," Grace scolded, and then said: "However, you also have the same thing in this regard. You are both successful. For Mitterrand's funeral, his wife, lover, biological children and illegitimate children chose together Attend."
Simon rubbed the soft waist under the woman's bottoming shirt and said, "Are you just attending?"
Grace wondered: "What should we do?"
Simon said: "I thought someone would die for love."
When Grace heard what Simon said, she felt inexplicably emotional. She came over and kissed the man on the lips. Her softness revealed infatuation: "It's a pity that I'm much older than you. I'm destined to die earlier. Otherwise, I'll give it to you in the future." Sacrifice for love."
"That's not necessarily true. Being exploited by so many of you women all day long, I may live shorter than you. However, don't do this when the time comes. You are old and ugly and you come here to sacrifice your love for me. I am very shameless. I will sacrifice my love for you." It would be better if she is a pretty little girl."
Simon deliberately said something unpleasant and looked disgusted, but Grace was not angry. She just pressed her mature body towards Simon again and said seriously: "Okay, I am the president of Elite, and I have the most abundant subordinates." She is a beautiful girl, if... it is really like what you said, I will find some to die for you when the time comes."
"Why do I sound like I was buried?"
"They are all the same. In short, I will definitely choose the most beautiful one for you."
In the quiet living room, the two of them were whispering, and were suddenly interrupted by a voice next to them: "Hey, why do I feel like I'm staying with two perverts? They're both dying for love and burial, and I'm getting goosebumps. "
The atmosphere was ruined. Grace looked at Bryce, who had already painted her toenails and had driven away the waitress, who still had a pair of delicate feet hanging on her face. There was dissatisfaction in her tone: "Can't you continue to be a mute? "
Not to be outdone, Bryce said, "No."
Grace regretted bringing Bryce here with her, and simply turned to Simon: "Shall we go upstairs?"
"certainly."
Simon said, directly holding the woman up from the sofa and walking upstairs. Bryce immediately got up from the sofa and followed her as if you don't want to get rid of me.
Looking at Bryce's figure behind her, Grace suddenly leaned into Simon's ear again, and didn't lower her voice very much: "I know you were very busy in Park City two days ago. If you don't do anything tonight, I will bully Bryce." Can I show you the silk? I know you like this?"
"OK."
Bryce paused when she heard this, then quickly followed, and counterattacked: "Do you think I'm deaf? Besides, it's not necessarily who bullies whom."
Early the next morning, Bryce Levison, who had been so miserable, couldn't get out of bed, but Simon and Grace both left the Fifth Avenue apartment around eight o'clock, sending Grace to the same apartment first. At the Elite headquarters in Midtown on Fifth Avenue, Simon continued to rush to downtown.
Elite headquarters.
As soon as Grace stepped out of the elevator, her first assistant Michelle Sonam was waiting here with two other deputies. The woman had completely lost the suppleness she had when she was around Simon. It took just two seconds from the elevator to the office. Thirty meters away, Michelle reported a series of work items quickly, and at the same time, she and the other two deputies took turns writing down Grace's instructions on the memo.
When I arrived at my office, it was only about 8:20 in the morning.
There are already people waiting here.
The head of the Elite planning department simply said good morning to Grace and began to demonstrate a TV advertising design plan for Chevrolet's latest SUV that the company was bidding for.
This is a very important attempt by Elite.
In the past, Elite would only cooperate with car companies on car models, and occasionally shoot advertisements. The models invited were only human-shaped props. Obviously, it was impossible to gain much profit in this way. The agent wanted to let its models get it. In addition to his job, he also has to curry favor with the marketing director of the car company.
Now, Elite plans to seek an equal partnership.
The core of the completely packaged advertising plan is of course Elite's models. Grace personally selected Tracy Gauff, who is still filming "Jumanji" in Australia. The baby-faced girl not only has an appearance that makes men's hearts beat, but also has a temperament. Very changeable, just like this time in "Jumanji", Tracy Gauff is an image of a female warrior full of power.
This fits the style of Chevrolet's SUV very well.
Participating in TV commercials does not mean that you are a spokesperson, especially a model who is at the bottom of the food chain in the entertainment and fashion circles.
Of course Grace is not satisfied.
With the background of last year's "The Man from Earth" and this year's upcoming "Jumanji", she also hopes to win a Chevrolet SUV endorsement contract for Tracy Gauff.
But there is no rule that supermodels cannot endorse cars.
In addition to the carefully prepared packaging plan, the key idea of Elite's lobbying this time is to find another way that may have unexpected marketing effects.
As Tracy Gauff becomes more and more popular in Hollywood, the girl's career focus is likely to turn to the entertainment industry. However, as long as Elite can get a better job for her, the two parties can maintain a very long-term cooperation. Moreover, Elite is responsible for the work they get, and they can naturally draw corresponding commissions.
Neither Grace nor the planning department had 100% confidence in this attempt, but they both put in 100% effort.
During the discussion of the plan, Grace also got on the phone with Australia and discussed some details with Tracy Gauff in person. There is a huge time difference between the two places. It was already late at night and almost early morning in Australia. After a busy day, Qu Si Gauff should have gone to bed early. The girl did not show any perfunctory or impatience in response to Grace's call.
Just this matter took Grace 40 minutes to rush to the company early.
Nine o'clock sharp.
When it's time to work, it's Elite's regular senior management meeting again. The heads of various departments attended together with some core brokers. They took turns reporting on the progress of a series of projects they were busy with. Some heads in Europe and Asia even made a special phone call to contact us. Participate online.
This aspect alone is completely different from the Elite from the John Casablanca era. The previous Elite, due to its continuous and uncontrolled expansion, although it seemed huge, was already in disarray internally. John Casablanca could no longer unite people's hearts and could only hold on to his own power and interests.
After the integration, Elite is now a huge fashion machine with upper and lower parts integrated.
Efficient and unified.
And strong.
There is no lack of upward spirit in people's hearts. As this change becomes more and more obvious, employees and customers who initially resisted Grace's changes no longer oppose it.
Of course, the most important reason is that many people's incomes are increasing.
Even though it has only been a short time since Elite completed the integration, a company that was once bloated, slow and inefficient has regained strong vitality. Corporate shareholders and company leaders are not greedy and mercenary people, and are willing to share more benefits with employees and customers. , the originally monotonous revenue model has also been greatly expanded, and everyone's income has naturally increased.
Although it sounds unpleasant to say, interests have always been the most powerful tool to change a person's attitude.
After the regular meeting, Grace began to devote herself to various tedious and specific work matters. This is also the biggest difference between brokerage companies. For other types of companies, if the person in charge is willing, they can focus on the big and let go of the small. They are only responsible for controlling the overall direction of the company. Leave the specific implementation to the people below.
The talent agency industry is just a variety of trivial matters from morning to night.
After Elite completed its transformation, Grace has decentralized the details as much as possible, but this still cannot be avoided.
In just one morning, Grace made more than thirty phone calls without interruption, arranging and handling all kinds of trivial matters filled with five memos, from the shooting arrangements for Fernanda Lima and the latest cover of "VOGUE" to Gram Laudia Schiffer is renegotiating her Revlon endorsement deal, to name a few.
Time also flies by in this busy work.
In the evening, she made an appointment to have dinner with her family. Grace got off work at six o'clock. Fortunately, the maid hired at home was good at cooking, so she didn't need to do it herself. So the time before dinner can be used to chat with a pair of children and fulfill the duties of motherhood.
It’s also a break.
Even though she works very hard, Grace has not neglected her body at all. Whether it is a reasonable diet, body control or regular maintenance, she has relevant professionals to make detailed plans. Therefore, she started to get acquainted with a certain little man two years ago. Up to now, Grace's appearance and figure have shown a very obvious state of reverse growth.
Daughter Rita, who keenly discovered this, couldn't help but joke that if this continued, mother and daughter might be regarded as sisters if they went out together.
Bill Spurter, who was also very busy, didn't get home until nearly seven o'clock.
Bill Spurter has recently focused a lot of his attention on the IPOs of two key companies in the Westeros system, Tinco Bair and Melisandre. Last year, Tinco Bair and Melisandre announced their IPOs very early. Melisandre, because the U.S. stock market continues to improve, is not too eager to promote the progress of the listing, so it has been proceeding slowly until now with the heart-wrenching expectations of many investors on Wall Street.
Now, Tinker Bayer is finally going to start its road show. As expected, it will be officially listed in the middle of next month.
Then, the listing of Melisandre's company will not be delayed for too long.
When getting along with a certain young man, he would not talk about work too deliberately, but Grace also knew that the main reason why he came to New York this time was for the IPO of Tinker Bayer.
Of course there are others.
After all, I went to Australia for vacation last Christmas, and now, when I come back to New York a month later, I must have accumulated a lot of work here.
First Boston is not the lead underwriter of the two companies' upcoming IPOs. The First Boston securities trading department headed by Bill Spurter also received some underwriting business for the stocks.
The meaning of support is very obvious.
But Grace also knew that this was not because of herself, but because of a certain little man's deliberate layout on Wall Street.
The husband is just a pawn.
Didn't think anything was wrong.
In today's world, no matter how many people are willing to be Simon Westeros' pawns, they may not be able to get the chance.
In fact, she counts herself as one.
As for what role these scattered chess pieces could play, she didn't think too much about it.
Anyway, she is willing to give everything for him.
When her husband returned, the family quickly sat down at the restaurant. During the meal, they learned that there would be a cocktail party held by Tinker Bayer for the upcoming IPO road show. The location was at the Hilton Hotel in Midtown. Her husband asked her what she wanted. Don't go there together, and casually said that Simon Westeros should also be in attendance.
Grace just said that she just flew back from Miami in the morning. I don’t know if her husband believes it or not. Anyway, the children have no suspicion.
After hearing what he said, he hesitated a little but agreed.
The increasingly slim daughter expressed that she also wanted to go and wanted to meet Simon Westeros and asked for an autograph, but was unanimously rejected by the couple.
My daughter is very smart.
The couple understands this.
Otherwise, the boy from the Levison family would not be eaten to death.
Therefore, it would not be good if some flaws were revealed when he brought her to Simon Westeros.
Eight O'clock.
After dinner, the couple quickly changed their clothes. Bill Spurter's driver was already waiting downstairs. In fact, Grace also had her own personal driver now, but she rarely revealed this in front of her family unless necessary.
Hilton hotels from the Upper East Side to Midtown.
About ten minutes away.
The two of them chatted about various things like an ordinary couple along the way, without any sign of any barriers.
Of course that has long since changed.
The two are actually more like two friends of the opposite sex who have known each other for a long time and have an inseparable relationship. Grace also knows that her husband's lover has recently become pregnant. Bill Spurter is very honest about this and he has decided to have this child. , but it has been agreed upon and the agreement has been signed, which will definitely not affect the couple's current status.
Alimony expenses and the like are not a problem at all for Bill Spurter now.
Grace was fine with that.
I just occasionally couldn't help but fantasize about whether I could give him a child.
You can only fantasize about it.
In fact, she also knew that Sophia Fessy, the female head of Melisandre Company, gave birth to a pair of twins for him. However, she did not dare to expect this, mainly for his sake. Anyway, she already had two My child, life is not lacking in regrets.
Arriving at the Hilton Hotel, the reception has already begun.
Soon I found the figure of a certain little man.
There was never a shortage of women around him, and this time there were two.
Asian.
They are all beautiful and elegant.
Because Chen Qing is very active in the Manhattan circle, she has met each other before and knew each other by name.
As long as she can be by his side occasionally, she is very satisfied. She is not a greedy woman, so she has no taste for him bringing two other female companions. She only half-jokingly reminded him during the chat when the two women left. He still had to be restrained. He actually couldn't hold it back last night, or he didn't deliberately hold it back.
She also definitely didn't want him to get hurt because of being exploited by a woman... Of course it wouldn't be like this.
It's very clear that he has self-control.
Then he remembered that Bryce was still staying in his apartment on Fifth Avenue, and couldn't help but tease her, wondering how he was going to handle it tonight.