Iris saw an apologetic Dom a few feet away. She read his lips.
He said, "Sorry, boss! I tried delaying Big Sis Yiyi as much as I could but she became super-duper angry when she discovered the livestream of your interview online."
She gave him an "it's fine" wave of her hand.
"Iris, are you listening to me?" Tang Yiyi demanded.
"Elder Sis Yiyi, I don't regret what I said," Iris told her.
"Of course, you don't," her manager grumbled. "You never do."
"Manager Tang, I support everything that my wife said to the reporters," Jin Liwei interjected.
This time, Tang Yiyi grumbled in her heart, not daring to say it to CEO Jin's face. 'Of course, you are. You always are.'
Despite this, she still continued lecturing Iris. Jin Liwei wanted to interrupt but Iris stopped him with a look.
The lecture didn't last too long, only a couple of minutes or so.
When she was done, Tang Yiyi sighed. "Why do I even bother lecturing you? You're always like this, saying whatever you want."
Iris felt amused at her manager. She wasn't upset at all at being lectured.
"You've been managing me for this long. You should be used to my temperament a long time ago."
Tang Yiyi glared at her again. "It's because that I've been managing you for this long that I feel frustrated that you refuse to be a little, just a tiniest bit tactful, you know?"
"I'm already being tactful at this point," Iris countered. "If I wasn't, I would have said much worse things about that cheating couple."
"You!" Tang Yiyi sighed again, shaking her head.
Iris shrugged, not at all sorry about the things she said in front of the reporters. Was it wrong to call out the cheating couple?
It was the truth, anyway. It wasn't like she was pulling lies out of nowhere. Everything she said about Long Hui and Mao Qiuyue was the truth and nothing but the truth.
Tang Yiyi didn't know how many times she had sighed and shook her head as she looked at the biggest artist that she was personally managing. Her goal was to make Iris Long into a superstar, even bigger than Jin Chonglin.
They could only achieve this goal if Iris made another successful showbiz comeback and produced new hits after another. Now that she was married and a mother, the majority of the usual opportunities to advance her career had been greatly reduced.
This was normal because showbiz was one of the most fickle industries in society. Showbiz demanded younger and fresher talents who were preferably single and childless.
As a result, Tang Yiyi felt a little desperate to do everything involving Iris' career as perfect as possible. She hoped that Iris would learn a bit more tact when speaking to the media. Unfortunately, her hopes always ended up being dashed.
Iris remained as straightforward as ever and refused to compromise no matter what.
On one hand, Tang Yiyi admired Iris for her straightforward personality. It was because Iris was this straightforward that her fans always felt assured of everything she said. When she said something, she really meant it. This gave her something extremely important and rare especially in showbiz.
Credibility.
Too many celebrities lacked credibility. They were too easy to buckle under pressure. They would say one thing, and whenever they got into trouble because of it, they would take it back to protect their reputations.
Iris Long right now didn't have this kind of issue. Despite her turbulent showbiz career during her teenage years, she managed to successfully rebuild her image into something not only respectable but also brilliant.
And on the other hand, Tang Yiyi felt exasperated at Iris' straightforward personality. This kind of artist who didn't fear offending anyone by her words was too stressful to manage.
"Iris, I swear you'll give me a heart attack someday," Tang Yiyi complained but her tone had already softened.
"I don't think that I'm that unruly," Iris replied with a raised eyebrow. "Compared to Brother Chonglin, I think that I'm quite easy to manage."
Tang Yiyi was about to retort but then remembered her colleague. Lin Dong already began balding a little because Jin Chonglin often caused him too much stress.
Indeed, compared to Jin Chonglin, Iris was rather easy to manage. Jin Chonglin had excellent work ethics but his innate rebellious nature often caused his manager a lot of headaches.
The good thing was that Jin Chonglin seemed to have grown more sensible when it came to women. He had been a notorious womanizer before. Perhaps his nightmarish experience with his ex-fiancée traumatized him out of his womanizing tendencies.
Instead of dating and sleeping around, he now had become more focused in his career, and of course, in running LXC Studio. Lin Dong didn't have to clean up after Jin Chonglin's messy dating life anymore.
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