Chapter 266 She Was Learning to Grow
The ten of them met each other in a unique way.
The other nine members of the tour were all men, leaving Veronica to be the only woman. Everyone was surprised to find that out.
Afterward, Veronica traveled with the tour group while discussing with them her plan.
Fortunately, she could walk normally after two days as her injury was no longer serious.
She made efforts to meet them as she did not want to stir up too much attention in case Matthew finds out too much about her.
Water could carry a boat but also capsize it.
Matthew could make her rich, but he could also destroy her easily with his power.
Therefore, Veronica silently paved her way to start a business. By traveling on a tour together, she managed to get along with the rest and observe their personalities.
While traveling, she also visited a few well-known e-sports companies to carry out thorough research. She even participated in two large-scale e-sports competitions throughout her tour.
After discussing with the nine members of Black Dragons, she only managed to persuade two members to invest in her idea. The remaining seven members were unwilling to invest due to the high risk.
Veronica thought about it at first, and eventually, she managed to persuade them to sign a two-year contract with an annual salary of 30 thousand, while three of them were offered 5% of the shares. At the same time, she also managed to recruit e-sports operation managers, project managers, data analysts, referees, and club managers with high salaries.
The reason why the seven members of Black Dragons who did not invest were given such high shares and basic salaries was that Veronica saw their abilities and values!
After returning to Bloomstead, Veronica rented the 17th and 18th floors of her building as office space.
After that, the company was registered in the name of one of the members—Vincere Games. It was a homonym of Vincent Yale.
Once everyone signed the contract and the office was fully equipped, they officially started operating.
Once everything had been settled, two months had already passed.
In the past two months, Veronica seemed to have been working in Encounters Bridal Store all the time, but in reality, she often took the elevator to the 17th or 18th floor whenever her colleagues were not paying attention.
The two adjacent buildings were commercial residential buildings, and there was no connected area between the two. Therefore, it was not easily noticeable when Veronica moved around.
After the e-sports company officially started its operation, Veronica spent a lot of money to promote Black Dragons and started the game commentary live broadcast. The fame of Black Dragons easily attracted tens of thousands of netizens to watch the live broadcast online that day.
Of the seven people who signed the contract, five people formed a team called Black Dragons, while the remaining two were responsible for the commentary.
A few days after the live broadcast, the Black Dragons, who had been attracting attention from netizens, gradually gained more fame and even attracted a group of diehard fans.
Veronica and the project manager agreed that at present, they only had to build momentum for Black Dragons, increase their popularity, and make them compete with other e-sports teams. Eventually, they planned to challenge the most powerful e-sports team to grow their fame!
Veronica felt fortunate that she met such a group of like-minded people early on. Moreover, they were gaming experts.
The only issue they faced was that there was no start-up capital.
Now that they were officially established, it was only a matter of course.
For the past few days, Veronica was so preoccupied with the marketing plans for Encounters Bridal Store as well as planning for Vincere Games that it completely drained out her energy.
Even when Hendrey invited her out, she had only met him twice. The two of them would have a casual chat over a meal and part ways after that.
As for Matthew and Xavier, she had not seen them for two months.
The e-sports company was gradually getting on the right track, so Veronica was finally able to rest in Encounters Bridal Store’s office for a while.
She had not slept for two to three days now, so she was extremely exhausted.
Ring—
The phone on her table started ringing.
Veronica squinted her eyes to answer the phone and put it to her ear, asking, “Hi, may I know who this is?”
“What do you mean who am I? Didn’t you save my phone number?” Yvonne’s voice sounded on the other end of the phone.
Hearing Yvonne’s voice, Veronica slowly opened her eyes and inquired, “What’s up?”
“It’s snowing, and it’s freezing outside. Let’s have some sushi,” she suggested.
Blurgh—
Veronica’s stomach started growling the moment she heard Yvonne’s suggestion.
Since she was hungry, she craved some sushi too, so she agreed readily, “Okay.”
“Alright then. See you later at Shiro’s Sushi.”
Hanging up the phone, Veronica sat up and placed the blanket over her sofa.
Looking at the document with last month’s turnover on the table, she picked it up and flipped through the document. Last month’s turnover was only 30 thousand dollars.
Although there was more than 20 staff before, she managed to recruit a dozen people when the business of the bridal store soared. The company now had a total of 40 manpower.
Rent, salaries, utilities, and other expenses added up to a total of 30 thousand a month.
Therefore, the earnings leveled off last month’s expenses. Compared with the previous month when the total turnover was only 7000 dollars, this month’s performance was way stronger.
Putting the document aside, she put on a thick woolen jacket and left the bridal store with her bag.
It was misty in the evening, and snowflakes the size of goose feathers fluttered in the air.
Veronica, who was wearing a pair of black heels, sank her feet in the thick snow at the entrance of the company. As the cold wind blew in the direction of her face, she wrapped herself tightly in her khaki-colored trench coat and pulled the red knitted scarf around her neck to cover her face.
She then spread out her hand playfully to catch a snowflake. Watching a hexagonal snowflake falling into the palm of her hand, she felt a cooling sensation. Under the dim streetlights, it glowed like a star before melting into a droplet of water. She found it exceptionally beautiful, feeling her tense mind relax in the sight of it.
Half an hour later, she arrived at Shiro’s Sushi.
Seeing Yvonne by the window, she took off the scarf, put it aside, and sat opposite Yvonne.
Yvonne handed her a cup of warm tea and tilted her head to look at Veronica, asking, “Goodness, I haven’t seen you for a long time, but why are you so haggard? The dark circles under your eyes are so obvious now. What have you been up to for the past month?”
She simply thought that Veronica went on a trip two months ago and had been busy managing the bridal store for the past month.
“Really? Maybe it’s because I didn’t sleep well last night.”
Veronica took the cup of tea and took a sip to warm her body.
In fact, she had not had a proper rest for more than a month now as she was busy with Vincere Games and Encounters all day.
After all, she majored in marketing management and was good at planning and operation, so she was naturally worried about her two companies.
To put it bluntly, the reason why she worked so hard was that she was currently cash-strapped.
Before this, Matthew said that he would give her 15 million in compensation whereby 9 million had been paid to her in advance to buy a necklace that she was currently wearing, but the 6 million had not been given to her until now.
Now that she had to support the operations of Encounters and invest in Vincere Games all by herself, she could not guarantee how much longer she could sustain the businesses if there were no more funds.
Veronica was aware that Matthew seemed to be deliberately making things difficult for her.
Nevertheless, it did not matter. She chose a difficult entrepreneurial life where she could grow stronger and be more independent instead of relying on others for everything and being mocked for gaining support from the Kings Family.
That kind of disapproval would only make her life bleak and meaningless.
“Can’t you love yourself more?”
The relationship between Yvonne and Veronica gradually became closer. Although they met less in the past two months, they kept in touch via WhatsApp.
Seeing her friend working so hard, Yvonne could not help but feel her heart ache for her.
