Chapter 195: Chapter 195: He Can’t Escape

At that moment, Jessie Sterling was no longer angry with Victor Morgan. She looked up, her eyes sparkling. “Oh? How?”

Victor Morgan said, “That guy, Leo Goodman, is going down this time, and Ronan Yates won’t be able to escape either…”

“How can you be so sure?” Jessie Sterling interrupted.

Victor Morgan didn’t say anything, just looked at Jessie Sterling with a knowing smile.

Jessie Sterling: “…”

After mulling it over for a couple of seconds, she understood.

’How could Victor Morgan be so certain? Of course, it was because no matter who made a move this time, he was going to step in and make sure those two ended up exactly where they belonged.’

’In the past, these things had nothing to do with him, and he never paid them any mind.’

’But this time, it was something related to Jessie Sterling. How could he possibly stand by and watch?’

“With him out of the way, the only one left in his family will be Leo Goodman’s mother-in-law. That will make things much simpler to handle.”

“It’s not hard to handle a woman with no backbone, especially when it’s for her own daughter’s good.”

The moment Jessie Sterling heard that, she knew it was a promising plan.

“Victor Morgan, you’re pretty impressive!” As she said this, Jessie Sterling stood up and gave his shoulder a meaningful pat.

Victor Morgan, feeling like he’d just been praised by his superior: “…”

’He doesn’t seem too happy about the praise, does he?’

“That’s it?” Victor Morgan didn’t mind Jessie Sterling looking down at him. He reached out and wrapped his arm around her slender waist.

He was far from satisfied.

It wasn’t until after Jessie Sterling was carried into the bathroom once again that a question popped into her head.

’I never asked Victor Morgan for help. Didn’t he offer it himself? So why do I have to “thank” him like this? Who goes around demanding thanks from people?’

’That old fox!’

Jessie Sterling fumed internally, and then, before she knew it, she was too tired and drifted off to sleep.

On Sunday, Victor Morgan finally took a break from working overtime at the office. He and Jessie Sterling were in the small kitchen next to the courtyard. Without a chef, they set up a large parasol under the shade of a tree and started a charcoal barbecue.

It had been raining that day, pouring nonstop from the previous night into the morning, bringing a hint of coolness to the midsummer heat.

Jessie Sterling spent a day contentedly lounging around. The next day, she went to the office, fully recharged.

She didn’t expect that as soon as she arrived at the company, she would see the first-floor lobby filled with what looked like grand-opening flower arrangements.

The colors were surprisingly beautiful.

There were yellow, blue, white, red, and pink arrangements, and the floristry itself looked very tasteful and high-end.

As Jessie Sterling walked through the door, she couldn’t help but let out a curious “Huh?”

She had spotted the notes attached to the arrangements.

“Wishing our Boss success in crushing Thorne Pictures!”

“Apex for the win! The Boss for the win!”

“To Boss Sterling, beautiful and kind—may your career flourish!”

“Here’s to our Boss taking down Thorne Pictures! It’s just around the corner!”

The notes were all signed, some by individuals, others by entire departments.

Jessie Sterling was completely stunned.

Seeing several notes with messages about “taking down Thorne Pictures,” Jessie Sterling couldn’t help but think, ’I should really invite Arya Thorne over for a tour. Our company’s employees sure are spirited!’

’Then again, if Arya Thorne actually saw this, she’d probably get so angry she’d pass out on the spot, wouldn’t she?’

After going upstairs, Jessie Sterling greeted Chloe.

“What’s the deal with the flower arrangements downstairs?” Jessie asked.

Chloe noticed her boss didn’t look angry, so she explained with a wide smile, “We all pitched in to buy them! Boss, you have no idea how nervous everyone was when you were still abroad and our funding was cut off. Then you stepped in, and boom, we had money! Everyone knows that. Now we see Thorne Pictures slinging mud at us, trying to drag us down with their petty tricks, and it’s just infuriating! So today, we all wanted to show you our resolve…”

If the staff at Apex Films had been somewhat lax before, this crisis—sparked by investors pulling out and subsequently squashed by Jessie Sterling’s massive capital injection—had united the entire company.

Their boss was so wealthy and so capable of fighting back; as employees, they certainly couldn’t be the ones to hold her back.

People naturally have a sense of collective honor. In a workplace, a generous boss makes it much easier to unite the team.

After all, weren’t they all slaving away for the money?

With such generous pay, they were happy to put in the work.

Besides, as long as it wasn’t a matter of principle, Jessie Sterling was a very easygoing boss.

Especially when compared to the last boss…

Perhaps because she had received such a blatant display of affection from her employees, Jessie Sterling felt unusually energized for work that day.

*Glory* had received its broadcast permit, the other projects in development were proceeding smoothly, and Cheryl Stuart’s new series was about to wrap up filming. This meant a significant investment she had made was about to be recouped. It was all good news.

At the morning meeting, Jessie Sterling proposed for the first time a plan she had been conceiving: for Apex to partner with a streaming platform to produce a variety show.

“A variety show? Are we going to produce a variety show?”

Fortunately, ever since the professional management team was brought in, everyone’s mindset had been highly aligned—their goal was to make money.

No matter the channel, as long as the methods were legitimate, it would be hard for the management team not to offer their support.

After all, the better the company’s financial performance, the larger the bonuses the professional managers would receive.

“Mhm.” Jessie Sterling nodded. “Easy-watching variety shows, the kind people watch while eating, have very high ratings right now. Their production costs are relatively low, and the return on investment is high.”

“The company has never produced one before, but I think it’s worth a shot,” someone spoke up. “I’ve already done a cost analysis on a few other variety shows. I’ll email it to everyone to take a look.”

“What genre does President Sterling have in mind?” asked the head of the promotions department. “Right now, the most popular formats on the market are mystery-solving shows or dating shows.”

Jessie Sterling had ideas for the content as well. “I’m leaning more toward a slice-of-life, easy-watching show.”

She laid out her concept.

Gather people from different professions in a large house, where they’ll divide up tasks and work together, earning money using their respective skills.

“…The more diverse their professions, the more the audience can learn about their daily work lives through their interactions. That’s something a lot of people are curious about,” Jessie Sterling explained.

“But regular people from various professions might not have the star power to draw in viewers,” someone from the planning department commented.

Jessie Sterling replied, “Then we’ll cast some A-list celebrities?”

“We’ll need to check on their availability, and there’s no guarantee we can get them. I’ll start looking into it on my end.”

Jessie Sterling nodded. Tackling something for the first time was bound to come with many difficulties. But she believed that as long as she set her mind to it, there was nothing she couldn’t achieve.

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