"Miss Bai, I've brought your coffee." After a knock, Elliot's voice sounded through the door.
"Enter." Lillie's eyes didn't leave the PC's monitor.
Elliot entered, looking poise as always, holding a steaming cup of freshly brewed coffee. He gently place the cup on her table before standing on the side, waiting for more further instructions.
The room was comfortably quiet, aside from Lillie occasional typing on the keyboard.
"How are the two?" She asked when her eyes gaze at the time. It was already 23:36 pm.
"They appear to enjoy playing with each other." He casually informed. Lillie stopped typing on her keyboard and grabbed the cup of coffee.
Blowing the steam off, she took a sip. "Be sure to remind them of the time, call for both houses' driver to send them home." She reminds.
"Yes, miss." He obediently replied.
"Also, prepare the files for Miss Fujikawa's new game. I will expect them at eight o'clock in the morning."
"It will certainly be done." Elliot bowed like the perfect British gentleman he is. Lillie excused him off before going back to her work.
Hearing the door closed, Lillie sighed. She removed her spectacles and pinched the bridge of her nose. She was physically and mentally exhausted.
What she-devil?
What cold an emotionless CEO?
Lillie used to be a girl who loves sweets and cute things. But, because she's the eldest and the future heiress, she hid all of those just to fit her part.
Lillie sat back up and unlocked one of her drawers and pulled out a worn out photo. She always reminisce this day, the day she met 'him'.
It was her first year in 'Middle school' when she met him, she was eleven at that time. He was sitting at one of the school's benches, under the tree, all alone.
But, he appears not to be bothered by it but Lillie thought otherwise, so she bravely went towards him.
"H-hello.." Lillie, back then, was very shy. She rarely talks to other people because they find her weird. Wearing eyeglasses and braces.
Lillie was actually born with myopia or near sightedness. Her vision is already blurry as soon as she opened her eyes for the first time. It can be healed but, the ophthalmologists said that she's too young to undergo surgery, they have to wait for a few years.
The boy was snapped out of his revery when he heard a mellow voice speak behind him. He turned his head towards the person and was surprised to see a girl.
"May I help you?"
Lillie felt her heart jump, he noticed her.
"A-are y-you new h-here?" She nervously asked.
"Yeah, how about you?"
Lillie was surprised that he replied, not even looking at her in disdain when he saw how she looks like.
"I-I'm new t-too...." She said, barely audible.
She saw from her bangs that the boy had a grin painted on his delicate face.
"Do you want to be my friend?" He asked out of nowhere. Lillie was flabbergasted, no one wanted to be her friend before, expect for Yu Mei [1]. What astonished her even more is that he was the one who proposed.
"Y-yes!" Without hesitation, Lillie agreed. The boy's toothless grin widen.
"My first name is Fang and my family name is Wèi, what's yours?"
"M-my name is Lilliana Theodora Bai."
"L-lili.hana T-teo..*bleh* ouch!" Ah, he bit his tongue.
Lillie burst out laughing.
Wèi Fang playfully glared at her and pouted, his cheeks flushed in red.
"Aya, your name's too hard to pronounce! I'll just call you...Dora!" Now it's Lillie's time to be upset.
"No way! I don't want that!"
"Why not? You don't want to be Dora the explorer?"
"No!"
"Then it's decide, I'll call you Dora!"
"Noooooo!"
Lillie indifferently stared at the photo.
The two of them were best buddies back in Middle school. Unfortunately, something happened that caused the end of their friendship and the change of Lillie's personality.
"Miss Bai." Elliot knocked again. Lillie immediately placed the picture back to her drawer before letting Elliot enter the room.
"The young master and young miss Li already left hours ago. Shouldn't you be resting now?" Lillie didn't noticed that the clock's hands already points at 1:09.
The building should be empty and the only ones that remained are the nightshift guards and probably some her employees who're not yet done with their work.
"Ah, yes. I'll be sleeping here. You can go home now." Lillie lethargically said.
Elliot sighed, "Please take care of your health, miss."
She hummed before entering her office's bedroom. Her doting father knew how much of a workaholic she is so, he had someone specially revise this office to her taste and build her own bedroom. Even the president's office didn't have this luxury.
Elliot saw her enter the bedroom, he knew that as soon as she lie on the bed, she'll be KO'ed immediately.
Shaking his head, he went to her table and rearrange the papers, putting them all on a file and grabbing the cup she used.
Turning off the lights, he locked the door behind him before retreating.
[1] Remember Yu Mei? You know, Lillie’s ex-friend that betrayed her. Stated at Chapter 3.
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Bab 8: Chapter 8: Bonding With Their Idol
As they were getting nearer to their destination, one can clearly see even from miles away, the White Phoenix Empire that Alexander Bai proudly created and Lillie Bai carefully groomed.
The tremendous building stood tall and proud among its neighboring building, making them appear as if mere ants.
Yi Fei who already saw the WPE countless time still couldn't help but gape and be amazed by it.
"I wish I could create something like this one day." She solemnly said to herself. Lillie stared at her through the rear-view mirror.
"Your father and brother managed the Huo Long Corporation, why don't you ask for future references?" Lillie questioned.
Yi Fei snorted as if she heard the biggest joke. "Yeah right. Dad's company is really great and all but compare to WPE, it's so-so. Well, to me at least." She quickly added the last part.
Lillie raised her brow in confusion. "What is it that you don't like from HL Corp?" Lillie didn't want to admit it but, Ethan did a pretty good job in handling HL Corp.
As she didn't want to say it out loud but, WPE and HL Corp are equally powerful.
Yi Fei sighed, "You know how much I love games and HL Corp didn't did a good job in making one. Instead they are good with the Entertainment industry. Because my bro is handsome, many actresses throw themselves to him. Also, they tried to pursue me too just to be in my bro's good graces."
"Do you know how much that annoys me? Those bunch of plastic even go as far as making me ride their car after school to send me home! Urgh, and my classmates always ask me for their autographs!" She furiously explained.
"Tch, you just don't know how to handle them." Gabriel rebuked.
"Haahh?!" Yi Fei fiercely reacted.
"My sis had thousands of suitors, fans and even enemies. But, because my sis is smart, she doesn't show herself much in public and also hated being in the spotlight, lot of people do not know who she is. Unlike your brother who's face is all over the magazine, TV and radio.
1The only person they know are our parents. When I'm at school, my classmates just thought I had the same surname or I belong to the branch family." He haughtily discussed. Yi Fei gaped at him.
"Why didn't that stupid brother of mine thought of that?!" She said in frustration.
1"That's one reason your brother is inferior to my sis." He said, his nose pointing up.
Yi Fei grumbles. "Even if he's my own brother, I can't argue with that."
Lillie who heard the whole conversation slash comparison, couldn't helped but look at them weirdly.
She didn't even know that just because she doesn't show herself much in public actually helped her brother greatly. She mentally let out a sigh in relief.
'Ethan Li, you're being insulted by your own little sister.' She almost pity him.
The car entered the WPE's underground parking lot and parked it at the owners' space.
The three exited the car and entered the elevator. The lift they entered can only be accessed by the VIPs or the owners so that there will be no dilemmas like stopping at every floor.
The employees, who were waiting for the elevator to arrive at their floor, suddenly stiffen as they noticed the VIP lift moving.
It either means that there is someone extremely important visiting the company or the she-devil herself arrived, they choose the latter.
The employees all scurried to tell the others, they even quickly grabbed their phones and informed the other departments just incase Lillie Bai would have a surprise inspection.
And as for the cause of their panic, she was calmly waiting for the lift to arrive at her office's floor along with the two excited teenagers.
'Ding~'
As soon as the lift opened, they were greeted by Lillie Bai's personal assistant, Elliot Anderson, a very handsome yet serious British man.
Lillie hired this man because of his professionalism, productivity and diligence. She actually met him while attending a party at London, serving as a waiter.
Now you must be wondering why would she hire a mere waiter and give him a prestigious position in WPE.
Actually, Lillie Bai had extremely good eyes in determining a person's talents. She immediately saw the intelligence, she wanted to her people, on his serious grey eyes.
After a few background check ups, she found out that this man attended Princeton through scholarships, unfortunately he dropped out because his mother needed immediate medical attention.
Because he's an only child and his father died a long time ago, he's the only one who can look after her. So, he dropped out of school and entered a job as a waiter.
She offered him to pay all of his mother's hospital expenses, confined his mother to the best hospital and gave them a new home at Country K.
1"Elliot, prepare two PC for them. I'll be on my office." She ordered.
1Elliot nodded and lead the two teens to Lillie's private computer laboratory, where she usually tested the company's games, checking the system's firewall and for any traces of hackers while doing a bit of hacking herself.
2You wouldn't believe me if I told you that Lillie knows 'almost' everything that concerns the people around her.
"Wait, I thought that you're going to help me beat the mega boss?" Gabriel frowned and looked at his big sister as if he was a kicked puppy.
Rotating her head slightly to the side, showing only half her face.
"Yi Fei can help you on that, after all she's already at Grandmaster level six so, she've already beat the mega boss before." She elucidated before entering her office.
"..."
Gabriel: You've just ruined my bonding time with my sister...
1Yi Fei: I shouldn't have leveled up so fast...
2The two can only sigh, unfortunately there's no medicine for regret.
2PERTIMBANGAN PENCIPTA Tsukino_Kimiko
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