Chương 3: The Silence of Circumvent

Yáng XinYu saw his schedule. There were three meetings back to back from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m. He knew that Wu Lina had to be present in the last meeting as she was heading the project. He didn't know whether he was ready to face her or not…

Zhou Zhili brought his coffee along with his breakfast. She was instructed to serve him breakfast, as he was practically living in the office. Zhou Zhili stood in front of his table for some time before saying, "Miss Wu Lina won't be able to come to the office today since she had to go to visit her aunt urgently."

Yang Xinyu did not reply while maintaining a steely expression. He looked at his tablet intently blocking out Zhou Zhili. He started shuffling pages on it stopping at various points to show he was busy reading the details.

"CEO Yang, Ms. Wu Lina is an excellent coder. Kindly allow her one-day leave. I know that she is required for the last meeting but she wouldn't have been absent from the job had it not been urgent." Before Zhou Zhili could continue further, he cut her off and said coldly, "Ask her to be present for the meeting or even you can visit her aunt along with her."

Zhou Zhili silenced immediately and lowered her eyes. She wanted to go out of the room, away from this demon, but she had her duties to perform. She apologized "Yes CEO," and carried on to explain him all other tasks that needed his attention. She finished and hurried out of the office.

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Wu Lina was like a small sister to Zhou Zhili. Zhou Zhili liked her because she wasn't pretentious like many other girls in the office. She was simple and laborious. She never backed out from a job that was given to her. Wu Lina was abandoned by her family, a fact only Zhou Zhili knew. This was enough for the softhearted Zhou Zhili to help Wu Lina whenever required.

Once Zhou Zhili had left his office, the silence overpowered the atmosphere. The sunshine was streaming in through the closed glass window. He kept the tablet on the table and looked outside with a pensive mood. The city beneath him was busy with the daily humdrum of life.

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'Miss Wu Lina won't be able to come to the office today since she had to go to visit her aunt urgently.'

He knew that there was no aunt… she was making up an excuse to not see him. He was well aware of the fact that her family had abandoned her and Zhou Zhili was her best friend. Wu Lina had nowhere to go.

So how did they become nemesis of each other? He lit a cigarette and took a large puff.

He picked up his phone to call her but he decided against it. He started moving his fingers lightly on the edge of the phone, and opened it to see the wallpaper, which was her sitting on a hospital bench, grinning from ear to ear. He lightly stroked the photo and looked outside.

Later, he saw eighteen missed calls from his mother and three from his father. There were numerous text messages but all related to the company matters. Eventually he called his mother.

"Ah Xinyu, where have you been? Come home and we will have dinner together today. Your father and I are so worried about you! You must show your face to us at least once in a day. However you choose to ignore us and don't visit us for weeks. How long will you be like this?" His mother complained on the phone.

"Hmm… I'll come today in the evening for dinner," he replied nonchalantly. This was the only way for Yang Xinyu to get them off his back. He was tired of their constant nagging and pestering him to get married to a suitable girl.

So he reluctantly agreed...

Rest of the day went hectically in the usual manner. He didn't get time to think about his previous night's predicaments.

In the evening, he came out of his office to attend the last meeting of the day, which Wu Lina was supposed to join. He went to the meeting room and saw that all the employees working on that project had arrived. He took a quick glance at everyone hoping to find her…but…she wasn't there. Her absence felt like sharp knives hurting his heart. He suppressed his emotions deep down and looked passive and controlled outwards to concentrate on the presentations.

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Chương 4: Memories of Recent Past

When Wu Lina was tossed out of the room, she had never felt so humiliated. She straightened her hair and dress out of embarrassment before rushing out of the office building. She was conscious that she wasn't wearing underwear beneath her skirt, which made her feel all the more miserable. She took a cab to her apartment, which was only a twenty-minute ride. In the cab she texted Zhou Zhili that she won't be coming to the office today. After paying the driver, she fumbled out of the cab and slowly climbed the stairs to her apartment. She opened the door and went to her bed, dropping her purse and kicking out her shoes. She fell on the mattress wailing. Her whole body shivered and she didn't know for how long did she cry.

She must have slept and when she got up every muscle in her body tensed. Then she forced herself to let out a breath. She realized that she was burning with fever. She took out some medicine to eat from the bedside cupboard and went off to sleep all over again. When she woke up, it was already five in the evening. Her fever had subsided and she decided to take a hot shower.

She stepped in the bathroom and filled the bathtub with warm water. She added her favorite lavender bath gel to the water and stepped inside. Once inside her whole body relaxed. She spread her legs in front and rested her head on the edge of the tub closing her eyes.

Her mind drifted to the previous night's incident and she immediately felt nervous.

Wu Lina started reflecting on the past few months of her life.

She had succeeded in avoiding Yang Xinyu for three months after joining his company as a junior manager. However, she was transferred to the main office on the same floor, as the CEO, to work on a special project that involved creating software that would prevent cyber attacks on bank accounts. She was one of the head coders. When she saw him again in a meeting one of the days, she realized that he had become perfect and self-confident. Upon interacting with her he didn't remember her though, much to her relief, although it made her very sad.

Strong, muscular and youthful, owner of a multi-billion business empire, with dreamy brown eyes and mellifluous voice, a CEO with distressingly good looks… he was described like that in public's general opinion. Every adjective explained his Prometheus like image except they didn't know about his temper. He was City H's most eligible bachelor.

She remembered that back in the psychiatric ward all nurses drooled over him because of his looks. After a year his attraction had only increased because of the addition of seriousness to his attitude. The only negative quality was his temper, which went out of control most of the time when she was around him or when any woman touched him accidently or purposely.

He exuded a chilliness that would prevent any person from having a meaningful conversation with him outside of office affairs. The magazines also labeled him as the most handsome demon king devoid of any emotions who was only interested in making money.

Many business houses had brought forward their daughters as possible match for marriage for him but he rejected all of them. For this reason most of his pictures in the magazines or the Internet were without a trace of women. Some even thought him to be a gay!

Only a very few around him knew that he was once involved very seriously with a woman who had cheated on him. He had kept their affair a secret on her insistence. A famous artist, Ying Yue never wanted to reveal her relationship status to the society. She thought that her business and image would suffer, as many of her fans doted on her because she was single. She had promised to marry him. Little did he know that she was two-timing him, and her interest in him was withering. When he discovered whom she was cheating him with, he went ballistic. He went to her home to confront her only to realize that she had left the country with him to an unknown location.

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