Jessica Dole spent her night in anger, dissatisfaction, tension, and humiliation, but upon hearing Donnie''s words, her dim eyes finally began to shine.


    "Perhaps by that time, some boss will take a liking to you, bring you into his house, and you will be able to live the life you desire!"


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    If it were Carmen Farmer at this moment, she would have immediately thrown herself onto Donnie, but now it was Jessica Dole, who couldn''t ept such a sudden change.


    She just stared nkly at Donnie.


    ....


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    The next day, Donnie returned to the Block Tavern.


    This time, without the contribution of flower value in the Miss America city contest finals, Donnie naturally lost this source of ie.


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    However, Donnie didn''t mind, because the ie from advertisements, documentaries, betting rings, and newspapers were sufficient to offset the loss incurred by the absence of flower sales.


    Since the preliminary rounds of the Miss America city contest had concluded, the sales of the "Antic City Post" had climbed steadily, reaching 90,000 copies the next day, followed by 100,000, 120,000, 140,000, and eventually teauing at 150,000 without further increase.


    Yet, by the second week, the "Antic City Post" began to see a dip in sales in Antic City, due to it havingpleted the acquisition of stakes in three other newspapers, holding 30% in each one. The "Antic City Post" paid them the price of 15% of their shares, and the rest of the equity was in exchange for agreeing to the right to vote for Miss America for the other three newspapers.


    Initially, these three newspaperpanies did not agree to this approach, but in the previous week, their sales volumes had plummeted to rock bottom, with the highest single-issue sales of any of them not exceeding a thousand copies.


    Such a result finally made them relent!


    The sales of the "Antic City Post" suddenly dropped from the peak of 150,000 copies to 90,000 copies per issue.


    However, at the same time, the "Antic City Post," leveraging the poprity of Miss America, officially entered major cities such as Phdelphia and New York, boosting total sales to 160,000 copies.


    As a daily paper, in just two weeks, the "Antic City Post" had sold 2.02 million copies, generating an ie of $12,120 US dors!


    Then there was the box office ie from the Miss America preliminary contest documentary, which had been showing for a week. Its poprity was unwavering, and the Phdelphia Film Company along with its distributors had finally tallied the first week''s box office ie.


    As ofst night, the documentary of the Miss America city contest preliminaries had garnered a total of 1.41 million US dors in box office revenue across the United States. Of course, ording to the current film industry''s box office revenue sharing schedule in the United States, Donnie would have to wait until the second month after the documentary''s run to receive this ie.


    This was only because Donnie had made strict demands beforehand; otherwise, the profit return time would have been even more dyed.


    Most importantly, Donnie didn''t have to share this money with Nucky— it was his alone.


    But no matter what, the box office of the week provided Donnie with at least $564,000 in ie. After deducting the production cost of $70,000, Donnie made a profit of $494,000 from the documentaryst week!


    Following that was the ie from advertising. Due to the sess of the first round of preliminaries, the advertising revenue from the Miss America city contest finals was the real bulk of the earnings.


    During this period, Starry Entertainment epted advertisements from 10panies, consisting of 5 C-level advertisers, 3 B-level advertisers, and 2 A-level advertisers.


    This segment brought in 950,000 US dors of ie for Starry Entertainment. After sharing 475,000 dors with Nucky, Starry Entertainment earned an equal amount of ie.


    Of course, whether it was the sales of the "Antic City Post" or the advertising revenue from Starry Entertainment, these needed to be taxed, as Donnie certainly did not want to attract the attention of the United States Treasury Department.


    As for whether or not Nucky would pay taxes on the advertising ie, that was his own business.


    What remained was the ie from the betting rings, which couldn''t be taxed through the normal channels. However, Donnie had already had the "Antic City Post" post a job recruitment notice seeking an expert capable of helping him legally avoid taxes.


    Speaking of the betting ring ie, during the preliminaries, betting from the other ten cities reached more than 7 million dors. By the time of the finals, this betting had breached 10 million dors, soaring to 13 million, from which Donnie and Nucky each stood to earn 585,000 dors in ie.


    Last was the betting ring ie from Antic City. During the preliminaries, nearly 50,000 people ced bets, amounting to almost 600,000 dors.


    Once the city contest finals arrived, the numbers skyrocketed, with 70,000 bettors cing a total of 1 million dors in bets!


    Donnie and Nucky each received an ie of 150,000 dors.


    In other words, the second round of the city contest finals alone brought in an ie of 1,222,120 dors for Donnie, and adding the documentary''s box office share, the total ie would exceed 1.7 million dors!


    If all taxes were deducted, this sum would definitely shrink considerably, but the American tax system doesn''t only look at how much you''ve earned; it also considers how much you''ve spent during that time.


    There is a veryplex calction form involved, and the current Donnie did not need to worry about this sum of money.