Chapter 24: Bizarre: Weeping White Lady Spotted In the Highway
A whole week had gone by as quickly as it came, and Hermes' Brewings reputation was shooting through the roof.
Alucard's wealth increased with huge strides, as he discussed his ideas with the new foreign members of his company as well as the old ones.
A week ago, the professionals he asked Catherine to fetch from Europe had arrived in China. He brought them to Zhonghai using three big corporation buses where their accommodation was to be solved by the human resources department.
"It's nice to finally meet you, Mr Tepes. My name is Gerard O'Brien and I'm the leader of this group, we shall be in your care for the next few years" As the workers arrived in a private Boeing, a man that looked like he was in his fifties descended from the plane, his demeanour was very humble as he shook Alucard's hand.
"Nice to meet you, Mr O'Brien. Don't worry, I'll make it so that all of you will have a proper environment to work in, this way." Alucard received them himself at the airport and took them straight to the company.
O'Brien turned out to be one of the most renowned brewers in the world, being directly involved with famous brands such as Hennesey, Jonnie Walker, Jack Daniels and even Chivas Regal.
His team encompassed twenty members, all of them specialised in liquor production. Aside from there were also business managers, marketing experts, lawyers, investment advisors, software developers and so on.
In total, a hundred people came on that flight and some of them brought their families as they intended to stay in China for the long term.
Alucard's week was spent entirely with them, settling them up in Zhonghai, giving them the equipment they needed and proportioning his ideas.
Gerard was immediately surprised with Alucard's liquor ideas as well as his revolutionary fermentation methods, at that very moment he knew this company would be successful, and immediately got to work.
The new bottle of wine, La Faux Mort was scheduled to be released in the next month, it was a bottle based on an old formula of a german brewery back in the 200's AD.
Meanwhile, the Count focused on enhancing the existing formulas, the new bottle designs and many other matters.
Hermes' Brewings was working more than ever, with employees working overtime to meet the standard and demand. Unfortunately, most of his products still needed months to be fermented despite the upgraded fermentation method, this would slow down the production rate, but there was nothing that could be done.
The amount was very limited but Hermes' Wings was already exporting to Europe and America, their rebranded and renamed wines as the company's stocks more on and about more than a slippery snake in the mud. His shares had become the world's playground but it was always going up with occasional recalculations, everything was going perfectly in that regard.
His relationship with Catherine had stagnated, unfortunately, during the week he would occasionally go and find her crestfallen, he hadn't been staying the night there during the week but didn't fail on feeding her his blood as she seemed to adamantly refuse to even think of drinking from anyone other than him, she hadn't yet tasted their blood but deemed it as disgusting.
The Queen had been trying to quench his anger in many ways; cooking poison for him, giving him massages, serving him dutifully in bed everything is done with the heartfelt devotion of a woman in love, and he would be lying if he said he was still angry at her, but...
Her condition hadn't changed, and she insisted he shouldn't go to Buckingham that day; that she would solve everything herself. She was simply too stubborn and this made their relationship awkward, Catherine was important to Alucard, but the Vampire Count didn't tolerate insubordination from his Draculines.
Yet he also couldn't find himself using violent methods to make her heed his orders, the same way he had done in the past. Therefore, it was better for him to stay there the less possible until this matter was resolved, would he slaughter Yang Chen or not? time would tell, but one thing was sure, he wasn't letting his woman meet that bastard just by herself, if that cunt touched her, a hand would the least he would lose.
*BRROMMM!* Alucard's Reventon roared in the middle of the night, going through Zhonghai's main avenue. He had left the company long ago and was now driving purposelessly in the centre of Zhonghai.
He has received the proposal for partnership from many distinguished companies, abroad and locally that he was currently considering.
Chief among them, Yu Lei International, Maple International Corporation and Huangji Development Organisation.
He had looked for information on the three with the second one being fairly known due to it being the biggest corporation in China.
Yu Lei International was a corporation dedicated to women's fashion products as well as entertainment and real estate, rising in prominence ever since China's renowned genius CEO, Lin Ruoxi, took over after her grandmother.
The woman was a killer in business, someone to do anything and everything to guarantee her corporation's growth.
The second was naturally the largest corporation in China, Maple International also with a very resourceful and famous CEO, Tang Wan the apparent heiress of the Tang Clan in Beijing, the woman he had met before and by far, the richest woman in China, she was currently residing in Zhonghai for unknown reasons.
It was hard to believe that such a woman could be jogging one day in the streets without any guards whatsoever but her reputation in China had reached the pinnacle.
The last one was a software and technological development giant that had existed in China for a long time, the CEO Lei Wangyao was a very cunning man in his fifties, stories about his communication expertise in the second world war validated his reputation as well known computing genius, now, no longer young, he leads one of the main tech companies in China and seeks to somehow establish a partnership with Hermes.
What filled Alucard with amusement was the well-known competition between CEO Lin Ruoxi and CEO Tang Wan.
One was the woman at the peak of China, the other was the hero intending to beat the Demon King and become the future number one.
Be it media, broadcast channels or anywhere, the movements of the two were always compared and put under heavy scrutiny, be it their success, beauty, lifestyle or any characteristic, the two were always compared with Lin Ruoxi being ahead in the beauty and fashion department, but Tang Wan far outstripping her in success.
It was understandable, one was in her twenties, the other in her forties.
But despite that fact, Tang Wan wasn't a woman that anyone would describe as being in her 'forties' her mature charm was matchless and could be considered the dream woman of many Chinese multimillionaires and even abroad, with a queue of multimillionaires that could go from inner Zhonghai to the outskirts, all of them seeking to marry her.
Lin Ruoxi wasn't much different, her ice-cold aura and fashioning style warranted her the title of Ice Queen with not less amount of suitors than Tang Wan, all of them shunned away by her Ice Cold attitude.
Life was full of coincidences however as he stopped at a red light behind a red Bentley in the middle of the avenue, the road leading to the section of Zhonghai dedicated to bars and the underworld.
Alucard still in his inner thoughts waited for the light to change, and when it changed to green the Red Bentley in front of him didn't move.
After a whole minute, the car didn't move as the light changed back to red!
*PIIII!!*
*PIII!!*
The claxons of angry people started to resound behind him as the people screamed in outrage!
"Move away you pussyhole! are you sleeping on the road of what?!"
"That's how you drive a Lambo? might as well give it to me you little shit, go suck mommy's tit and learn to drive!"
Alucard's response was to stick out his middle finger with a smirk as the shouts only became more frantic!
He sensed inside the car to see what was happening, but the absolute beauty inside that car left him momentarily stunned...
Inside the Bentley, a breathtaking woman was hardly sobbing with her head over the steering wheel, too aggrieved to pay attention to the cars behind her.
Alucard sighed and left his Reventon, ignoring the shouts of the angry people, before walking his way to the woman's glass, the world is truly small, to think he would meet this woman here.
"W-wait, who is that person, I have seen him recently." The man that just cursed mumbled to himself upon seeing the man leave the car.
"Holy shit isn't that Vlad Tepes!! You insulted him, let's get out of here!" His companion said with his eyes opened like saucers!
The reaction was chained as everyone drove the heck away, they had just cursed a multimillionaire! no, a billionaire!
*BRROM!!!*
*BRAMMM!*
*CHUCHU!!*
All the vehicles that were behind them in the queue didn't even wait for the light to change and hurriedly accelerated, leaving only the Lamborghini and the Bentley.
The woman, no... the girl inside the car kept crying, not noticing any of this as the lights changed once again to green.
*KNOCK*
*KNOCK*
"Are you alright girl? do you need help?" Alucard asked from the other side, as the girl recomposed herself slightly and looked to the side, finding his pink eyes...
...
Upon witnessing his pink-slitted eyes, she gaped for a good while and her tears stopped just as Alucard asked once again, "Are you alright?"
His word only brought another river of tears out of her eyes!
"UWHAA!!" *sob*
Alucard stood in front of her glass for a good ten minutes, not minding the cars passing by them until she finally stopped crying.
He gave her a smile and said, "Follow me, I'll invite you to dinner".
The woman cleaned her mucus, a little ashamed and cast him a 'cold glance' that wouldn't be able to ever intimidate him after what he saw...
"W-Why should I follow you, I don't know you!?" She asked with a stutter, never leaving his pink eyes.
Alucard chuckled and shrug his shoulders after separating from the glass, "Because it will make you feel better? C'mon, hit the pedal~" having said that he walked back to his car as she followed him with her gaze.
*BROOM!!*
Starting his Lambo, he passed by her and continued on his way, looking for an appropriate place to stop by to have dinner with this unknown weeping lady.
After riding for a while, he sensed behind him and sure... she was following him. Not too long after, Alucard parked his Lamborghini in the parking lot of a pizza restaurant that had no customers whatsoever, maybe due to the time.
And a red Bentley parked right beside him.
The beauty, however, was starting to doubt if she took the right decision by coming here with an unknown person. She saw the pizza parlour and couldn't help but chuckle a little in amusement, if he had taken her to a bar, she'd have driven off.
Alucard knocked on her screen and she reluctantly lowered the glass, her light brown eyes firmly locked on his bright pink ones, mesmerized but also in a daze.
"Have you calmed down? It's dangerous if you drive in that condition, young miss, want to tell me what happened or do you want to tell me over a slice of pizza?" He hunched back on his Lambo, awaiting her answer, if she didn't want to, he would just go on his way.
*sob*
*sob*
His words however made her cry in a river of tears once again!
"Oi oi!" Alucard literally panicked at that, 'Is Baskerville behind me or something!?' with that thought he could practically feel his loyal hound get offended.
'Sorry Mate, but you're ugly as fuck... I still like you though' The count was never known for being a great liar, only a great impaler, in all senses of the word.
The beauty's current expression brought back foregone memories into his mind as he sighed, opened the door of the woman's Bentley and took her out softly, giving her a calming hug.
"Shhh, shhh... everything will be alright, Seras... " he said with closed eyes, not aware of the name he had just said.
The girl kept crying and hugged him back for a whole five minutes until she felt better... She released him reluctantly and said with a voice that resembled more a mosquito's than a human's
"T-Thank you, but my name is not Seras"
"..."
Alucard sighed and ruffled her silky hair softly, she was truly a beauty now that he noticed it.
"Do you want to eat something? it's on me." He repeated himself.
The woman held her stomach and noticed that it was rumbling in hunger, she nodded and followed him into the pizza parlour.
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