A Flash Marriage Can Be A Treasure novel Chapter 416

It seems the executives mean to teach Lily a lesson, so they report fast and use some abbreviations of technical terms.

Lily swiftly scans the documents on the desk while listening to them without any dissatisfaction.

She is sitting there with her legs crossed.

When the executives are done with their work, Lily has also finished scanning these documents.

Casting a glance at the two thick stacks of documents on the table, Lily does think she's so awesome now that she's capable of doing two things at a time, just like Louis.

Thinking of how mature Louis is in her mind, Lily feels sour in a sudden.

'Stop.' She says to herself secretly.

That man has already had another sweetheart, and he must have forgotten her.

Seeing Lily keep silent, the assistant asks carefully, "Ms. Lily, what do you think?"

"Well." Lily takes a deep breath and calms herself. She picks out a copy from the documents and throws it heavily to the center of the conference table, which frightens everyone. And they turn to look at her.

Lily says to the assistant in a faint tone, "Show them the report of the first quarter of this year."

"Okay." The assistant does as she said, and the pie chart of the quarterly report quickly appears on the screen.

"You saw it?" Lily points at the screen with a serious look. "At the beginning of this year, three new products were launched, and the spokespersons of them are famous stars. And we spent more on promotion than last year. But why is the report of the first quarter of this year worse? The spokespersons we invited last year aren't that famous, and we spent less on promotion."

The executive of the marketing department explains immediately, "Ms. Lily, thanks to a hit movie, the products we launched last year sold well. But this year is different."

"So, do you mean no one should be blamed for the poor performance of the first quarter? Although we invited some famous stars as our spokespersons and spent more on promotion." Lily follows the words of the executive up with a sneer.

The executive of the marketing department looks anxious as Lily is staring at him. And he doesn't know how to reply at the moment.

Lily says in an indifferent tone, "All of you come from the core departments of the company. Whether our products will sell well depends on you. We invested more but made a poorer profit than last year, which is your fault."

"The head office will only focus on the profits, and they're not interested in the process. If they find we gain less than we spend, they'll find someone else to replace you or dismiss some of you. If the annual report can't meet their expectations, all of you may be replaced."

Lily knocks on the table and says, "I think no one would like to experience what I mentioned just now."

She looks around after saying that.

Seeing that the executives look worried in silence, Lily feel pleased.

"When I was about to take charge of the company, I discussed the bonus for you with the head office. Each of those departments that do a good job can get a double quarterly bonus when the quarterly report comes out. And their annual bonus will also double." Lily says gently.

As soon as she finishes, she can see the glitter of excitement in the eyes of those executives.

Money talks, and it’s always the best way to motivate employees.

Looking at their reactions carefully, Lily says, "I will send the report of the first quarter to the head office on time and I'll take the blame for you. I'm looking forward to your good performance in the second quarter as well as a nice half-year report. But if not, I'll consider changing some of you."

"Have I made myself clear?" Lily raises her voice to draw the attention of everyone.

"Yes."

"Alright. That's all for today." Lily pushes away the chair and gets up, "I'm going back to my office."

"..."

"Ms. Lily, what's wrong?" Ella asks nervously, "I watched the baker make the cake. Both the cream and oranges are fresh. I even tasted the oranges. You don't like it?"

Lily nods and says with disappointment, "Yes, I do want to eat oranges, but this is not what I want."

She doesn't feel well as soon as she tastes it.

"I heard from the baker that the oranges came from Hanchi. They're pretty expensive."

"I'm picky." Lily kneads between her eyebrows.

She is pregnant, but she doesn't want anyone to know it.

"I'll buy another one for you."

"Nope. You've been running errands all day and you must be tired." Lily stops her and says after a short while, "I remember that the Smith Group bought an orchard. The fruits there are pretty good. Call them and order some fruits there for me when you're free."

Ella nods, "Okay. I'll look up their number and make a call. I'm leaving first, if you don't need me now."

"Okay."

Lily doesn't like the orange cake, so she puts it aside and starts to eat the biscuits that she hasn't finished off in the morning. And she doesn't stop scanning the documents.

Cosmetics and perfumes are the staples of HS Company. Their cosmetics can't be compared with those of luxury companies, but the global sales of their perfumes are quite good. The sales of their newly launched perfume used to rank first quickly in the Asia rankings.

However, when their chief perfumer was poached by a big company five years ago, HS Company witnessed a plunge in profits. After they changed their chief perfumers three times in five years, their head office finally poached a big shot from another big company. Since then, they saw a rise in profits. But the good times don't last long, and the sales have been poor in the recent two years.

The new perfume isn't made by their chief perfumer. Instead, it's bought at a high price by the head office from someone else. The executive even signed a valuation agreement with other companies.