Chapter 2
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Xiulan's attention was glued to her laptop and the keyboard kept creating loud tick tacking sounds ever since she arrived in the office that late afternoon. All her employees and even her secretary were shocked when they saw her two hours before the employees' dismissal.
Xiulan's expression were both cold and irritated when she arrived in her company. Though she has an aura of a pissed person but she still managed to greet them with a lazy smile.
When Xiulan sat on her office chair, her secretary Wang Dandan, immediately reported to her. While Dandan talks, Xiulan can only nod and meekly agreed to the things she says. Dandan found it really suspicious that her boss is really inexplicably quiet today.
"Something might have happened when she met the old man Song earlier." Dandan thought.
Originally, Xiulan doesn't talk that much in the first place. Even though she is quiet, it was not awkward like now. She has an aloof personality but would still respond if someone tries to talk to her. Xiulan is actually friendly, she's just naturally quiet.
Right now, all Xiulan can do is nod and hum to Dandan's report.
Dandan went back to her seat. After a few minutes, all the employees went to her side and bombarded her with questions regarding their beautiful aloof boss.
"What happened to our beautiful madam? It's my first time seeing her pissed off." one of the female employees said.
"It is very rare to see her like that. She might have a poker face 24/7 but I prefer that than seeing her with a different expression. They said that the most quiet and kindest people are very scary to anger." another female employee said.
"True! She went somewhere awhile ago right? She was in the office so early in the morning then she went somewhere after lunch. Someone might have offended her or something." an employee added.
The female employees kept on chatting about their boss when Dandan suddenly spoke.
"All of you should stop gossiping. Boss is still human, of course she still has her bad days. Obviously something happened and it's not our business to know the cause. All of you should go back to work." Dandan coldly scolded the female employees.
The female employees nodded and immediately dispersed and went back to their respective cubicles.
Dandan sighed and looked at her boss' door. She was worried. She hoped that her boss could overcome whatever hurdle she's currently in. Xiulan is a smart woman, she believes that her boss can overcome anything.
While inside Xiulan's office, she can actually hear the ruckus outside but she preferrs to ignore it and put all her attention on her laptop.
Actually, Xiulan's attention is both on her laptop and on the events that happened two hours ago.
"Miss Xiulan is a person with few words? I like that." Hongqi's deep voice resonated on her thoughts. His voice was really charming and seductive.
But what caught Xiulan's attention was that dirty grin on his face and the double meaning in his words. It's like he's insinuating something. If this is another woman, they might have blushed.
Xiulan thought that this man has an outstanding talent in wooing a woman and also a great talent in pissing her off. She suddenly felt disrespected but she chose to be quiet and not attack him.
She never lose her cool and she rarely meet people like him since she's very cautious in meeting and talking to different people. That's why Xiulan felt that talking to this person will need a huge amount of energy. She doesn't know anymore if this is a casual talk or he's indirectly trying to offend her.
"I'm just very shy right now, Young Master Hongqi." Xiulan nervously said and faintly smiled at him.
Hongqi's eyebrows raised. "Oh? Is that so." Hongqi said before sipping some water. While drinking, he can't remove his grin. Dirty thoughts have flooded his head.
"Since we are getting married. It's fine not to be shy to me. Let's always meet to remove this tension." Hongqi suggested and stared at Xiulan's eyes.
Hongqi has this friendly and easy going aura. He kept teasing Xiulan and made some uncomfortable flirting throughout their meeting. His eyes were glued on Xiulan's face and it made her really awkward.
For Song Yingpei, he was really happy with this development. He thought that Hongqi will be a difficult person when he meets Xiulan. It was like a huge block was removed from his heart when he saw how their conversation went smoothly.
He was worried that Xiulan, who is naturally quiet, and Hongqi will have a hard time conversing.
Whenever Yingpei met and pestered Hongqi for two years, the powerful youngster was always very cold and indifferent. He's also quite cruel. He understands that he's a powerful man and would always put a wall.
That's why Yingpei expected that this meeting might not be a success at first and he would try his best that the next meeting will progressed.
But Hongqi suddenly became very friendly and talkative. Yingpei thought that Xiulan must have attracted and got Hongqi's attention that's why there was a sudden change in his attitude. His heart was on cloud nine again just by thinking that.
Yingpei was extremely happy with this development. Hongqi even acknowledge that he'll get married soon. Yingpei felt like he won a lottery. He always wanted the best for Xiulan and Hongqi is the best person for Xiulan.
Yingpei was aware that Hongqi has a quite number of women out there. But Yingpei thought that his daughter is the best, she can change a man like Hongqi. The old Song was 100% sure that Xiulan can change Hongqi.
The meeting ended and Hongqi left first since he still has a flight going to Singapore. Hongqi even gave a hug to Xiulan and stole a kiss on her forehead before he disappeared.
Xiulan was caught off guard and gave her father a questioning look if that was okay. Yingpei gave a thumbs up and his smile was excessively big, his mouth might rip off anytime.
Xiulan's thoughts of the events earlier were cut-off when the sound of a falling object echoed in her room. It was her mobile phone. It was on silent mode and kept on vibrating. The phone fell by itself due to the vibration.
Xiulan went to get her phone and checked who the caller is. It was Wenyan.
"Hey, why are you calling?" Xiulan answered. She went back to her chair and browse some documents while waiting for Wenyan to talk.
"It just sink in to me that you'll be marrying God Hongqi. Like oh my Lord! Have you met him? Does he smell good? People said that the pictures and the videos on the internet didn't gave any justice on his ethereal looks. Tell me!" Wenyan excitedly yelled. His excitement was all over the place.
"Yes I met him awhile ago. Regarding his smell, I don't know but he's not stinky. My mind was preoccupied and wasn't able to be that attentive. Yes, he's really handsome and ethereal." Xiulan casually said and answered all of Wenyan's interrogating questions. Her expression was really bland like it didn't even bother her that she met a very important person awhile ago.
"Ahhhh!! You met him?! Oh my God! Oh my God!! Ahhhh!" Wenyan screamed. Xiulan immediately pulled the phone away from her ear. She slightly cursed Wenyan for suddenly screaming like a hog being eaten alive.
"Hey! Don't suddenly scream so loudly like that." Xiulan scolded Wenyan. It hurt her ears so much, she felt like she'll suffer a hearing damage soon.
"Bitch! I can't anymore! I'm so happy for no reason. When is the wedding anyway? You better introduce me to him once I get back there!" Wenyan said. He can't control his happy feelings.
"I don't know. We haven't talked about it yet and father said that it'll take a long preparation since both families are influential. I will meet him again soon once he comes back from Singapore. I will ask him and of course I will introduce you." Xiulan promised. She was about to sign the document on her hand when Wenyan started screaming again.
"Ahhhhhhh! You'll meet him again that soon? You even know his schedule! Wow oh wow, Xiulan! This is unexpected." Wenyan can't help but scream like a little girl. He doesn't even know why he's very happy but he felt like a teenager and his best friend will finally get a boyfriend.
Wenyan is currently on that mood and it made him really happy. Finally, the aloof beautiful Xiulan will have a man! He must pray later and thank the Gods.
"You're weird. Why are you so happy? I don't know Hongqi's schedule, okay? He just said that before he bid goodbye." Xiulan started to become irritated. Xiulan thought that Wenyan is adding a different context. She also thought even her best friend worships Hongqi. "What's so good about him?" Xiulan grieved in her thoughts.
"Whatever. I'm just really happy! This time I'm the one who's going to support your love life. You've been supporting my hoe days ever since day one. Just tell me if there are women who tries to snatch your man! I'm going to help you get rid of them." Wenyan declared. He will make sure that Xiulan will not shed a tear during her marriage. She must get all the good karma. No hoes can hurt his baby Xiulan.
"Thank you so much, brother. I will immediately report to you if that happens." Xiulan warmly said. She smiled and her heart felt full from Wenyan's words. He has been pestering her to date someone. Now that she's getting married and skipped all the basic stuff in dating. She now understands Wenyan's unexplainable excitement.
Her call with Wenyan ended. Since she's really tired from all the events happened today, she decided to go home. She only stayed in her office for three hours so when she tried to ride the elevator it was still jampacked. There were a lot of employees that did overtime.
She smiled at the employees inside the elevator and told them she'll ride the next elevator instead.
While waiting, two employees greeted her and also waited for the next elevator. The two employees suddenly explicitly talks about Hongqi and the popular sexy starlet, Gong Yuming. Xiulan's full attention went to the two employees.
"I heard that Gong Yuming landed a new role for a huge movie and she's even the face of Pior China now. Wow! It's all with the help of God Xing Hongqi." the female employee wearing red lipstick said. Her tone had an obvious disgust mixed to it.
"I know right! If you're beautiful and sexy like her, you will get anything! Even a person like God Hongqi. I heard she is God Hongqi's new favorite. She better perform well or else God Hongqi will find a new favorite." the female employee that has a super bright pink blush on her cheeks said and giggled.
"I heard Yuming did a lot of effort just to meet Hongqi. That one meeting changed her life and now she's one of God Hongqi's women. She's reaping all the benefits by just being God Hongqi's woman. I'm really jealous. To think she's untalented and only has the visuals. Life is really unfair." the female employee sounded really jealous and depressed.
"Imagine having a wealthy and very handsome man to be your sponsor. You'll just be contented. No need to marry or have a serious relationship. But I heard some of his women who fell in love with him were dumped like trash. They became really clingy. At first they only wanted his wealth, now they want his heart as well. Very greedy women."
"Ayah! Very greedy and shameless indeed. If I were them, I would just savor the moment being with him."
Xiulan can't help but ponder about the things she heard regarding Hongqi and his current favorite. Xiulan haven't checked any information about Hongqi yet. She might do that tonight.
Xiulan pursed her lips just thinking about him. If he's currently dating then why did he agreed to marry her? Also the way those two employees talked about the starlet Yuming, she seems to be a very cunning woman. Hongqi was really very generous as well. As expected from a God like person, Xiulan thought.
This what added to her irritation. She was only irritated the way Hongqi indirectly tried to offend her and now she kept hearing about his women. She doesn't care if he was wealthy or handsome. The fact that he tried to offend her and a womanizer already fumed her.
As possible Xiulan wants to avoid trouble and mostly problems about men and their mistresses or lovers. Her big sisters already had a fair share of experiences about women who wanted to snatch their husbands. She saw how her sisters went crazy and pitiful. She doesn't want that kind of emotional baggage.
In her entire 28 years in this world, she never thought about love and even getting married. She never felt that heart pounding feeling towards a person or even the need to be with someone romantically. Well, she felt nervous sometimes on some occasions but the feeling of falling in love was an alien life form for her.
She fell in love with her work, her computers, her cartoons, her family, her friends and a lot of things. But falling in love with a person romantically? She can't seem to fathom that.
Xiulan decided to ask her father about Hongqi one of these days. There must be some kind of mistake. Her father shouldn't involve her to a man who is currently in a relationship. She'll gladly would like to fall in love with someone but not to a man like Hongqi.
Xiulan speculated that her father might have only looked at Hongqi's good side or he didn't really know about Hongqi's relationships.
She must at least get a reasonable information why she must marry a man like Hongqi.
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Xiulan's attention was glued to her laptop and the keyboard kept creating loud tick tacking sounds ever since she arrived in the office that late afternoon. All her employees and even her secretary were shocked when they saw her two hours before the employees' dismissal.
Xiulan's expression were both cold and irritated when she arrived in her company. Though she has an aura of a pissed person but she still managed to greet them with a lazy smile.
When Xiulan sat on her office chair, her secretary Wang Dandan, immediately reported to her. While Dandan talks, Xiulan can only nod and meekly agreed to the things she says. Dandan found it really suspicious that her boss is really inexplicably quiet today.
"Something might have happened when she met the old man Song earlier." Dandan thought.
Originally, Xiulan doesn't talk that much in the first place. Even though she is quiet, it was not awkward like now. She has an aloof personality but would still respond if someone tries to talk to her. Xiulan is actually friendly, she's just naturally quiet.
Right now, all Xiulan can do is nod and hum to Dandan's report.
Dandan went back to her seat. After a few minutes, all the employees went to her side and bombarded her with questions regarding their beautiful aloof boss.
"What happened to our beautiful madam? It's my first time seeing her pissed off." one of the female employees said.
"It is very rare to see her like that. She might have a poker face 24/7 but I prefer that than seeing her with a different expression. They said that the most quiet and kindest people are very scary to anger." another female employee said.
"True! She went somewhere awhile ago right? She was in the office so early in the morning then she went somewhere after lunch. Someone might have offended her or something." an employee added.
The female employees kept on chatting about their boss when Dandan suddenly spoke.
"All of you should stop gossiping. Boss is still human, of course she still has her bad days. Obviously something happened and it's not our business to know the cause. All of you should go back to work." Dandan coldly scolded the female employees.
The female employees nodded and immediately dispersed and went back to their respective cubicles.
Dandan sighed and looked at her boss' door. She was worried. She hoped that her boss could overcome whatever hurdle she's currently in. Xiulan is a smart woman, she believes that her boss can overcome anything.
While inside Xiulan's office, she can actually hear the ruckus outside but she preferrs to ignore it and put all her attention on her laptop.
Actually, Xiulan's attention is both on her laptop and on the events that happened two hours ago.
"Miss Xiulan is a person with few words? I like that." Hongqi's deep voice resonated on her thoughts. His voice was really charming and seductive.
But what caught Xiulan's attention was that dirty grin on his face and the double meaning in his words. It's like he's insinuating something. If this is another woman, they might have blushed.
Xiulan thought that this man has an outstanding talent in wooing a woman and also a great talent in pissing her off. She suddenly felt disrespected but she chose to be quiet and not attack him.
She never lose her cool and she rarely meet people like him since she's very cautious in meeting and talking to different people. That's why Xiulan felt that talking to this person will need a huge amount of energy. She doesn't know anymore if this is a casual talk or he's indirectly trying to offend her.
"I'm just very shy right now, Young Master Hongqi." Xiulan nervously said and faintly smiled at him.
Hongqi's eyebrows raised. "Oh? Is that so." Hongqi said before sipping some water. While drinking, he can't remove his grin. Dirty thoughts have flooded his head.
"Since we are getting married. It's fine not to be shy to me. Let's always meet to remove this tension." Hongqi suggested and stared at Xiulan's eyes.
Hongqi has this friendly and easy going aura. He kept teasing Xiulan and made some uncomfortable flirting throughout their meeting. His eyes were glued on Xiulan's face and it made her really awkward.
For Song Yingpei, he was really happy with this development. He thought that Hongqi will be a difficult person when he meets Xiulan. It was like a huge block was removed from his heart when he saw how their conversation went smoothly.
He was worried that Xiulan, who is naturally quiet, and Hongqi will have a hard time conversing.
Whenever Yingpei met and pestered Hongqi for two years, the powerful youngster was always very cold and indifferent. He's also quite cruel. He understands that he's a powerful man and would always put a wall.
That's why Yingpei expected that this meeting might not be a success at first and he would try his best that the next meeting will progressed.
But Hongqi suddenly became very friendly and talkative. Yingpei thought that Xiulan must have attracted and got Hongqi's attention that's why there was a sudden change in his attitude. His heart was on cloud nine again just by thinking that.
Yingpei was extremely happy with this development. Hongqi even acknowledge that he'll get married soon. Yingpei felt like he won a lottery. He always wanted the best for Xiulan and Hongqi is the best person for Xiulan.
Yingpei was aware that Hongqi has a quite number of women out there. But Yingpei thought that his daughter is the best, she can change a man like Hongqi. The old Song was 100% sure that Xiulan can change Hongqi.
The meeting ended and Hongqi left first since he still has a flight going to Singapore. Hongqi even gave a hug to Xiulan and stole a kiss on her forehead before he disappeared.
Xiulan was caught off guard and gave her father a questioning look if that was okay. Yingpei gave a thumbs up and his smile was excessively big, his mouth might rip off anytime.
Xiulan's thoughts of the events earlier were cut-off when the sound of a falling object echoed in her room. It was her mobile phone. It was on silent mode and kept on vibrating. The phone fell by itself due to the vibration.
Xiulan went to get her phone and checked who the caller is. It was Wenyan.
"Hey, why are you calling?" Xiulan answered. She went back to her chair and browse some documents while waiting for Wenyan to talk.
"It just sink in to me that you'll be marrying God Hongqi. Like oh my Lord! Have you met him? Does he smell good? People said that the pictures and the videos on the internet didn't gave any justice on his ethereal looks. Tell me!" Wenyan excitedly yelled. His excitement was all over the place.
"Yes I met him awhile ago. Regarding his smell, I don't know but he's not stinky. My mind was preoccupied and wasn't able to be that attentive. Yes, he's really handsome and ethereal." Xiulan casually said and answered all of Wenyan's interrogating questions. Her expression was really bland like it didn't even bother her that she met a very important person awhile ago.
"Ahhhh!! You met him?! Oh my God! Oh my God!! Ahhhh!" Wenyan screamed. Xiulan immediately pulled the phone away from her ear. She slightly cursed Wenyan for suddenly screaming like a hog being eaten alive.
"Hey! Don't suddenly scream so loudly like that." Xiulan scolded Wenyan. It hurt her ears so much, she felt like she'll suffer a hearing damage soon.
"Bitch! I can't anymore! I'm so happy for no reason. When is the wedding anyway? You better introduce me to him once I get back there!" Wenyan said. He can't control his happy feelings.
"I don't know. We haven't talked about it yet and father said that it'll take a long preparation since both families are influential. I will meet him again soon once he comes back from Singapore. I will ask him and of course I will introduce you." Xiulan promised. She was about to sign the document on her hand when Wenyan started screaming again.
"Ahhhhhhh! You'll meet him again that soon? You even know his schedule! Wow oh wow, Xiulan! This is unexpected." Wenyan can't help but scream like a little girl. He doesn't even know why he's very happy but he felt like a teenager and his best friend will finally get a boyfriend.
Wenyan is currently on that mood and it made him really happy. Finally, the aloof beautiful Xiulan will have a man! He must pray later and thank the Gods.
"You're weird. Why are you so happy? I don't know Hongqi's schedule, okay? He just said that before he bid goodbye." Xiulan started to become irritated. Xiulan thought that Wenyan is adding a different context. She also thought even her best friend worships Hongqi. "What's so good about him?" Xiulan grieved in her thoughts.
"Whatever. I'm just really happy! This time I'm the one who's going to support your love life. You've been supporting my hoe days ever since day one. Just tell me if there are women who tries to snatch your man! I'm going to help you get rid of them." Wenyan declared. He will make sure that Xiulan will not shed a tear during her marriage. She must get all the good karma. No hoes can hurt his baby Xiulan.
"Thank you so much, brother. I will immediately report to you if that happens." Xiulan warmly said. She smiled and her heart felt full from Wenyan's words. He has been pestering her to date someone. Now that she's getting married and skipped all the basic stuff in dating. She now understands Wenyan's unexplainable excitement.
Her call with Wenyan ended. Since she's really tired from all the events happened today, she decided to go home. She only stayed in her office for three hours so when she tried to ride the elevator it was still jampacked. There were a lot of employees that did overtime.
She smiled at the employees inside the elevator and told them she'll ride the next elevator instead.
While waiting, two employees greeted her and also waited for the next elevator. The two employees suddenly explicitly talks about Hongqi and the popular sexy starlet, Gong Yuming. Xiulan's full attention went to the two employees.
"I heard that Gong Yuming landed a new role for a huge movie and she's even the face of Pior China now. Wow! It's all with the help of God Xing Hongqi." the female employee wearing red lipstick said. Her tone had an obvious disgust mixed to it.
"I know right! If you're beautiful and sexy like her, you will get anything! Even a person like God Hongqi. I heard she is God Hongqi's new favorite. She better perform well or else God Hongqi will find a new favorite." the female employee that has a super bright pink blush on her cheeks said and giggled.
"I heard Yuming did a lot of effort just to meet Hongqi. That one meeting changed her life and now she's one of God Hongqi's women. She's reaping all the benefits by just being God Hongqi's woman. I'm really jealous. To think she's untalented and only has the visuals. Life is really unfair." the female employee sounded really jealous and depressed.
"Imagine having a wealthy and very handsome man to be your sponsor. You'll just be contented. No need to marry or have a serious relationship. But I heard some of his women who fell in love with him were dumped like trash. They became really clingy. At first they only wanted his wealth, now they want his heart as well. Very greedy women."
"Ayah! Very greedy and shameless indeed. If I were them, I would just savor the moment being with him."
Xiulan can't help but ponder about the things she heard regarding Hongqi and his current favorite. Xiulan haven't checked any information about Hongqi yet. She might do that tonight.
Xiulan pursed her lips just thinking about him. If he's currently dating then why did he agreed to marry her? Also the way those two employees talked about the starlet Yuming, she seems to be a very cunning woman. Hongqi was really very generous as well. As expected from a God like person, Xiulan thought.
This what added to her irritation. She was only irritated the way Hongqi indirectly tried to offend her and now she kept hearing about his women. She doesn't care if he was wealthy or handsome. The fact that he tried to offend her and a womanizer already fumed her.
As possible Xiulan wants to avoid trouble and mostly problems about men and their mistresses or lovers. Her big sisters already had a fair share of experiences about women who wanted to snatch their husbands. She saw how her sisters went crazy and pitiful. She doesn't want that kind of emotional baggage.
In her entire 28 years in this world, she never thought about love and even getting married. She never felt that heart pounding feeling towards a person or even the need to be with someone romantically. Well, she felt nervous sometimes on some occasions but the feeling of falling in love was an alien life form for her.
She fell in love with her work, her computers, her cartoons, her family, her friends and a lot of things. But falling in love with a person romantically? She can't seem to fathom that.
Xiulan decided to ask her father about Hongqi one of these days. There must be some kind of mistake. Her father shouldn't involve her to a man who is currently in a relationship. She'll gladly would like to fall in love with someone but not to a man like Hongqi.
Xiulan speculated that her father might have only looked at Hongqi's good side or he didn't really know about Hongqi's relationships.
She must at least get a reasonable information why she must marry a man like Hongqi.
Xiulan's attention was glued to her laptop and the keyboard kept creating loud tick tacking sounds ever since she arrived in the office that late afternoon. All her employees and even her secretary were shocked when they saw her two hours before the employees' dismissal.Xiulan's expression were both cold and irritated when she arrived in her company. Though she has an aura of a pissed person but she still managed to greet them with a lazy smile.When Xiulan sat on her office chair, her secretary Wang Dandan, immediately reported to her. While Dandan talks, Xiulan can only nod and meekly agreed to the things she says. Dandan found it really suspicious that her boss is really inexplicably quiet today."Something might have happened when she met the old man Song earlier." Dandan thought.Originally, Xiulan doesn't talk that much in the first place. Even though she is quiet, it was not awkward like now. She has an aloof personality but would still respond if someone tries to talk to her. Xiulan is actually friendly, she's just naturally quiet.Right now, all Xiulan can do is nod and hum to Dandan's report.Dandan went back to her seat. After a few minutes, all the employees went to her side and bombarded her with questions regarding their beautiful aloof boss."What happened to our beautiful madam? It's my first time seeing her pissed off." one of the female employees said."It is very rare to see her like that. She might have a poker face 24/7 but I prefer that than seeing her with a different expression. They said that the most quiet and kindest people are very scary to anger." another female employee said."True! She went somewhere awhile ago right? She was in the office so early in the morning then she went somewhere after lunch. Someone might have offended her or something." an employee added.The female employees kept on chatting about their boss when Dandan suddenly spoke."All of you should stop gossiping. Boss is still human, of course she still has her bad days. Obviously something happened and it's not our business to know the cause. All of you should go back to work." Dandan coldly scolded the female employees.The female employees nodded and immediately dispersed and went back to their respective cubicles.Dandan sighed and looked at her boss' door. She was worried. She hoped that her boss could overcome whatever hurdle she's currently in. Xiulan is a smart woman, she believes that her boss can overcome anything.While inside Xiulan's office, she can actually hear the ruckus outside but she preferrs to ignore it and put all her attention on her laptop.Actually, Xiulan's attention is both on her laptop and on the events that happened two hours ago."Miss Xiulan is a person with few words? I like that." Hongqi's deep voice resonated on her thoughts. His voice was really charming and seductive.But what caught Xiulan's attention was that dirty grin on his face and the double meaning in his words. It's like he's insinuating something. If this is another woman, they might have blushed.Xiulan thought that this man has an outstanding talent in wooing a woman and also a great talent in pissing her off. She suddenly felt disrespected but she chose to be quiet and not attack him.She never lose her cool and she rarely meet people like him since she's very cautious in meeting and talking to different people. That's why Xiulan felt that talking to this person will need a huge amount of energy. She doesn't know anymore if this is a casual talk or he's indirectly trying to offend her."I'm just very shy right now, Young Master Hongqi." Xiulan nervously said and faintly smiled at him.Hongqi's eyebrows raised. "Oh? Is that so." Hongqi said before sipping some water. While drinking, he can't remove his grin. Dirty thoughts have flooded his head."Since we are getting married. It's fine not to be shy to me. Let's always meet to remove this tension." Hongqi suggested and stared at Xiulan's eyes.Hongqi has this friendly and easy going aura. He kept teasing Xiulan and made some uncomfortable flirting throughout their meeting. His eyes were glued on Xiulan's face and it made her really awkward.For Song Yingpei, he was really happy with this development. He thought that Hongqi will be a difficult person when he meets Xiulan. It was like a huge block was removed from his heart when he saw how their conversation went smoothly.He was worried that Xiulan, who is naturally quiet, and Hongqi will have a hard time conversing.Whenever Yingpei met and pestered Hongqi for two years, the powerful youngster was always very cold and indifferent. He's also quite cruel. He understands that he's a powerful man and would always put a wall.That's why Yingpei expected that this meeting might not be a success at first and he would try his best that the next meeting will progressed.But Hongqi suddenly became very friendly and talkative. Yingpei thought that Xiulan must have attracted and got Hongqi's attention that's why there was a sudden change in his attitude. His heart was on cloud nine again just by thinking that.Yingpei was extremely happy with this development. Hongqi even acknowledge that he'll get married soon. Yingpei felt like he won a lottery. He always wanted the best for Xiulan and Hongqi is the best person for Xiulan.Yingpei was aware that Hongqi has a quite number of women out there. But Yingpei thought that his daughter is the best, she can change a man like Hongqi. The old Song was 100% sure that Xiulan can change Hongqi.The meeting ended and Hongqi left first since he still has a flight going to Singapore. Hongqi even gave a hug to Xiulan and stole a kiss on her forehead before he disappeared.Xiulan was caught off guard and gave her father a questioning look if that was okay. Yingpei gave a thumbs up and his smile was excessively big, his mouth might rip off anytime.Xiulan's thoughts of the events earlier were cut-off when the sound of a falling object echoed in her room. It was her mobile phone. It was on silent mode and kept on vibrating. The phone fell by itself due to the vibration.Xiulan went to get her phone and checked who the caller is. It was Wenyan."Hey, why are you calling?" Xiulan answered. She went back to her chair and browse some documents while waiting for Wenyan to talk."It just sink in to me that you'll be marrying God Hongqi. Like oh my Lord! Have you met him? Does he smell good? People said that the pictures and the videos on the internet didn't gave any justice on his ethereal looks. Tell me!" Wenyan excitedly yelled. His excitement was all over the place."Yes I met him awhile ago. Regarding his smell, I don't know but he's not stinky. My mind was preoccupied and wasn't able to be that attentive. Yes, he's really handsome and ethereal." Xiulan casually said and answered all of Wenyan's interrogating questions. Her expression was really bland like it didn't even bother her that she met a very important person awhile ago."Ahhhh!! You met him?! Oh my God! Oh my God!! Ahhhh!" Wenyan screamed. Xiulan immediately pulled the phone away from her ear. She slightly cursed Wenyan for suddenly screaming like a hog being eaten alive."Hey! Don't suddenly scream so loudly like that." Xiulan scolded Wenyan. It hurt her ears so much, she felt like she'll suffer a hearing damage soon."Bitch! I can't anymore! I'm so happy for no reason. When is the wedding anyway? You better introduce me to him once I get back there!" Wenyan said. He can't control his happy feelings."I don't know. We haven't talked about it yet and father said that it'll take a long preparation since both families are influential. I will meet him again soon once he comes back from Singapore. I will ask him and of course I will introduce you." Xiulan promised. She was about to sign the document on her hand when Wenyan started screaming again."Ahhhhhhh! You'll meet him again that soon? You even know his schedule! Wow oh wow, Xiulan! This is unexpected." Wenyan can't help but scream like a little girl. He doesn't even know why he's very happy but he felt like a teenager and his best friend will finally get a boyfriend.Wenyan is currently on that mood and it made him really happy. Finally, the aloof beautiful Xiulan will have a man! He must pray later and thank the Gods."You're weird. Why are you so happy? I don't know Hongqi's schedule, okay? He just said that before he bid goodbye." Xiulan started to become irritated. Xiulan thought that Wenyan is adding a different context. She also thought even her best friend worships Hongqi. "What's so good about him?" Xiulan grieved in her thoughts."Whatever. I'm just really happy! This time I'm the one who's going to support your love life. You've been supporting my hoe days ever since day one. Just tell me if there are women who tries to snatch your man! I'm going to help you get rid of them." Wenyan declared. He will make sure that Xiulan will not shed a tear during her marriage. She must get all the good karma. No hoes can hurt his baby Xiulan."Thank you so much, brother. I will immediately report to you if that happens." Xiulan warmly said. She smiled and her heart felt full from Wenyan's words. He has been pestering her to date someone. Now that she's getting married and skipped all the basic stuff in dating. She now understands Wenyan's unexplainable excitement.Her call with Wenyan ended. Since she's really tired from all the events happened today, she decided to go home. She only stayed in her office for three hours so when she tried to ride the elevator it was still jampacked. There were a lot of employees that did overtime.She smiled at the employees inside the elevator and told them she'll ride the next elevator instead.While waiting, two employees greeted her and also waited for the next elevator. The two employees suddenly explicitly talks about Hongqi and the popular sexy starlet, Gong Yuming. Xiulan's full attention went to the two employees."I heard that Gong Yuming landed a new role for a huge movie and she's even the face of Pior China now. Wow! It's all with the help of God Xing Hongqi." the female employee wearing red lipstick said. Her tone had an obvious disgust mixed to it."I know right! If you're beautiful and sexy like her, you will get anything! Even a person like God Hongqi. I heard she is God Hongqi's new favorite. She better perform well or else God Hongqi will find a new favorite." the female employee that has a super bright pink blush on her cheeks said and giggled."I heard Yuming did a lot of effort just to meet Hongqi. That one meeting changed her life and now she's one of God Hongqi's women. She's reaping all the benefits by just being God Hongqi's woman. I'm really jealous. To think she's untalented and only has the visuals. Life is really unfair." the female employee sounded really jealous and depressed."Imagine having a wealthy and very handsome man to be your sponsor. You'll just be contented. No need to marry or have a serious relationship. But I heard some of his women who fell in love with him were dumped like trash. They became really clingy. At first they only wanted his wealth, now they want his heart as well. Very greedy women.""Ayah! Very greedy and shameless indeed. If I were them, I would just savor the moment being with him."Xiulan can't help but ponder about the things she heard regarding Hongqi and his current favorite. Xiulan haven't checked any information about Hongqi yet. She might do that tonight.Xiulan pursed her lips just thinking about him. If he's currently dating then why did he agreed to marry her? Also the way those two employees talked about the starlet Yuming, she seems to be a very cunning woman. Hongqi was really very generous as well. As expected from a God like person, Xiulan thought.This what added to her irritation. She was only irritated the way Hongqi indirectly tried to offend her and now she kept hearing about his women. She doesn't care if he was wealthy or handsome. The fact that he tried to offend her and a womanizer already fumed her.As possible Xiulan wants to avoid trouble and mostly problems about men and their mistresses or lovers. Her big sisters already had a fair share of experiences about women who wanted to snatch their husbands. She saw how her sisters went crazy and pitiful. She doesn't want that kind of emotional baggage.In her entire 28 years in this world, she never thought about love and even getting married. She never felt that heart pounding feeling towards a person or even the need to be with someone romantically. Well, she felt nervous sometimes on some occasions but the feeling of falling in love was an alien life form for her.She fell in love with her work, her computers, her cartoons, her family, her friends and a lot of things. But falling in love with a person romantically? She can't seem to fathom that.Xiulan decided to ask her father about Hongqi one of these days. There must be some kind of mistake. Her father shouldn't involve her to a man who is currently in a relationship. She'll gladly would like to fall in love with someone but not to a man like Hongqi.Xiulan speculated that her father might have only looked at Hongqi's good side or he didn't really know about Hongqi's relationships.She must at least get a reasonable information why she must marry a man like Hongqi.
