Estelle spoke calmly, but in reality, her mood wasn't much better than the assistant's. If she hadn't been angry, she wouldn't have returned to the office and asked the assistant to find all the documents from companies that had recently submitted collaboration applications.
However, the problem was that after she reviewed all the invitations, when it came to the prestige of the brands, none of them compared to the previous chocolate advertisement.
Accepting such a second-best offer was worse than not accepting any at all.
Otherwise, after the official announcement, the other party would probably hire a bunch of internet trolls to say that's all they were fit to endorse—some low-grade products.