Chapter 530: The women in business conference
The palace hotel in the capital was always booked and busy. As one of the biggest and loveliest hotels in the city it played host to the most extravagant weddings with couples that donned imported gowns and millions worth of jewelry, the most lavish business meetings where the most expensive wines were served to impress potential or new business partners, more than one celebrity fan meeting a month with screaming fans and proud celebrities. For the next two days, it would play host to the women in business conference held by Chi Lian and sponsored by Phoenix media in conjunction with Crown University. The university’s involvement had been arranged by Muyang that sought to teach a few of the female students in his class a thing or two about business in the real world from the female aspect but the principal of Crown University was so enamored by the idea that he opened it up to all the female students who wanted to attend.
What came as a surprise was the desire of male students who wanted to attend but were turned down by Chi Lian. A separate conference could be arranged for them, this one was for all the girls who wanted to get into business or were simply preparing to join the workforce.
One thousand seats were arranged and all of them were quickly booked the very first day the advert about the conference was run on Phoenix television. Of the one thousand, the first one hundred got the chance to spend two nights in the Palace hotel. In a large conference room next door, a few booths had been set up by women that were in business and wanted to advertise or attract investors.
As early as six o’clock in the morning, excited attendees started showing up to the hotel. Some came dressed sharply in their most expensive suits and dresses. Others came with their resumes, hoping to get a chance to pass them on to impressive representatives or business women and a few came with inventions that would turn them into business owners themselves someday. Whatever it was, excited women stood at the entrance of the hall waiting for their e-invites to be verified by the staff.
At exactly eight on the dot, Chi Lian showed up and took up on the seats on the stage. There were six other chairs and in front of each was a small table with some refreshments like water, coffee flasks, tea cups, and bottled juice. Those six chairs were occupied by other women, those who would be speaking at the conference, including a very surprising speaker, the queen dowager.
Her presence excited many of the young women and they quickly shared those pictures with their friends and family. It was soon news everywhere that the queen dowager was present at the women in business conference.
Another surprise turn up for the conference was the princess who gave the opening speech, welcoming everyone, introducing all the speakers and finally inviting the first speaker Jing Fang.
Because the speakers did not need to stand up, madam Jing Fang took the microphone from where she was and greeted the crowd.