Chương 4: CH 4- EMPTY WITHOUT HER

Imperial city, Elder Lu is worried about his youngest granddaughter. He knows that Bella is capable of running the family business compare to her stepsister. Elder Lu got more confident after two years in Europe. Bella didn't spend a dime of Lu family money for living cost. It is mean that she is independent enough to stand on her own feet. Elder Lu arranges a lawyer to write up his will without anyone knows it. He will hand down his chairman position to his youngest granddaughter as her birthday present. He still hides her real identity and his job almost done when he sent all her information to the most capable bachelor in the world, Jun Shin.

Bella wakes up early morning to find out empty bed again. Today is her birthday. She put her hand first thing in the morning to say grace and ask for a good year ahead. The tear comes down to her white skin cheeks as she misses her Yeye Lu. Every year on her birthday, they have a small ritual as he will congratulate her on her birthday, and they will blow the candle. He will spoil her so much on her birthday every year until two years ago.

Bella was stunned to enjoy being lonely that morning. He decided to prepare himself and wash. He wants to rid himself of the stranger's body marks. The foreign man is her husband, but she doesn't see any marriage papers. So did she get caught up in the man's words to get her virginity?

Bella feels pain all over her body like when she's doing a pretty heavy physical activity. After he finished bathing and standing in front of the bathroom glass, he saw his body with many traces of kisses and bites from the handsome man. They don't come out of their bedrooms all day. Bella didn't realize how many times they had a husband and wife relationship yesterday.

Bella decided to ask permission to get sick today. He won't care about the consequences he'll receive from his place of work. But seeing the kiss marks and bites that fill her neck, Bella won't be able to work. That would raise questions with his coworkers about his personal life.

Bella found a box of presents neatly wrapped in her dresser. Bella approached to open it and found an expensive dress with her needs on the day. Bella picked up the dress and stroked it to find out it was from a famous French fashion house plastered on her shirt tag. Bella also found a card written in neat handwriting.

"To my dear wife,

I threw away all your torn and stained clothes the day after yesterday. I choose the dress base on the latest design in the session. May you like it? At the table outside the room, I left your birthday present from me, your husband.

Happy Birthday my wife

Best regards

Jun Shin'

The cards embroider with Shin corporation logo. Bella doesn't have the choice as she will be naked if she didn't use it. All the cloth is worth at least thousands of dollars. She walked outside the bedroom to find a wrap gift box and bouquet of red and white roses. Bella opens it up to find the newest smartphone inside and black titanium American Express cards. She feels like her virginity only worth this much. She throws the present on the ground before she walked out of the hotel room. The bodyguard left in front of the hotel room, called Ben, to report it. Ben instructed them to follow her from far away and keep her safe. Bella sneaks into the staff room to get all her stuff from the locker before she left back to her own apartment.

She makes a coffee cup and sits on her special lazy chair near the balcony with the view of lake and mountain, Bella's face looks empty and sad. She holds into the coffee cup while her feet coming closer into her chest.

"Do I really miss him now?" the thought in her mind keep repeating. She still can smell his scent on her clothes. She keeps holding her wedding ring. It's the biggest diamond she ever sees, and the colour is blue as water. It reminds her of the colour of Jun's eyes. She feels gloomy after all, and it seems that her heart is occupied by prince charming Jun. she never treated like a princess before. Jun already steal her heart by treating and spoiling her for the last two days.

Linda comes out from her room, asks for her explanation yesterday. However, Linda knows something happens to her good friends; that is why she took a blanket and wrap it around her. She finds a lot of bitting marks all over her necks. Linda makes phones call to their workplaces and asks sick leaves for Bella to find out someone already beating her for it.

They hear the bell ring to their apartments. Linda rushes to open the door, as it is still early in the morning. Linda sees Nathan bring a bucket of flower, and Jimmy brings a box of cakes and wines. Jimmy is Bella and Linda best friend, who has a crush on Bella. Nathan is a talented young surgeon who is Bella know as a regular guest from the hotel. He likes Bella and tries to court Bella. Linda takes a deep breath as her best friend to defeat her jealousy. She knows that Bella Beauty is beyond her reach. Bella is more suitable for a superstar rather than a waitress. Everyone congratulates Bella for her birthday, and they cut the cake.

Linda gets ready to go to churches with Jimmy for the first Sunday mass, and Bella stops her.

"Why don't you take me today?" She sulks like a little girl. Nathan is in awe to see Bella action toward Linda, like daughter and mother.

"Come then. I thought you want to spend time with this handsome guy." Linda continues to go inside her room.

"Mr Zhuang, would you like to join us?" Bella stands up and put her plate in the kitchen. She will wear this new dress and apply to makeup on her faces.

Bella knew Nathan after Bella saves Nathan from choke on food one night. Nathan instructs Bella to do Heimlich acts on his chest. Since then, Nathan always tries to seize all opportunities to get close to Bella.

Jun go back to his hotel room after settling in some business in his companies. He wants to take his newlywed wife out for lunch, only to find an empty hotel room. He found the box open and everything still inside the boxes. He gets his phone out and asks Ben to find out Bella phone number and whereabouts. He is so angry and felt empty for the first time because of this girl. Jun got used to being by himself last 18 years after one-day marriage life, he kind of love the marriage life. Jun feel mixed of emotion flow in when he is with her. Ben calls him back after a few minutes to reports him Bella whereabouts. Jun asks him to prepare the car to pick up his wife.

In Imperial city, Shuei Lan is planning her grand wedding. Elder Lu keeps mention that he wants Bella to attend the wedding as a family member. He insists for Bella attendances if Lu Shuei Lan wants extra million on her budget. Shuei Lan is really not happy for her grandfather request, but she wants to show off to all her friends. She wants her wedding will be the talk of the town. She even asks An Shi hao to get the rarest blue diamond for her wedding ring, but An Si hao got her grade one diamond ring. He can't afford it even with his pay grade as CEO of his father company. Shuei Lan has to think extra hard to make Bella obedient to come and go after the wedding. Otherwise, all her plan to remove Bella from Lu family will go to waste. She asks her fiancée to call Bella and invites her later on, as Shuei Lan thinks Bella still loves him.