"Wei" Wei looked up from the cab to the face of her best friend, Xo An. She took one look at Wei teary eyes. "Who hurt you tell me right now, was it that asshole Chen, wait until I see him." Wei could not help but smile, she and Xo An had been friends since junior high school and she had always been her most faithful protector. "Calm down Xo, I just ran into him at the airport.
"He had the nerve to meet you at the airport, shameless bastard. He should find that slut you call a sister."
"Xo!" Wei scolded, she could not bear to hear anyone speak ill of Hoo no matter what she did, and she was still her little no matter what she had done.
"Heh, she sleeps with your fiancé and you still have the face to defend her, no wonder she treats…" Wei hung her head in shame as she prepared herself for Xo harsh words.
Xo sighed Wei had been through enough, scolding her would be too much, what she needed now was her support. Xo placed her hand on weighing shoulder, giving her a little squeeze of support. "Come on, let's go inside you, you must be tired from your flight." Wei looked at her friend warmly and nodded, as she had always know Xo was the one person who treated her the best. "How has work been without me?" Xo made a fist.
"Bia Si gave me all her work to do as usual, even though she knew I was covering yours. Incompetent trollop, she thinks she owns the company just because she is sleeping with the manager." Wei listened as Xo continued to vent without responding, she knew Xo had to get it out because they hadn't spoken to each other in a month. When Xo had finally calm she replied: "I'm sorry I left you with my…"
"No, don't apologize you have been helping me since we first interned 2 years ago. I was happy to do it." She replied smiling warmly. "What I'm not happy doing is Bia Si's work." Her eyes grew cold again as she once again began to rant.
"Such a filthy mouth from a pretty lady." Xo paused as they both turned to see a blond hair man smartly dressed standing behind them. Wei eyed him curiously, something about him felt familiar.
"It seems you have no business sir so you must entertain yourself with others." Zo snapped at him. A thin wicked smile spread across the man's face. "This is a public street, maybe miss should keep it down if she is embarrassed by others hearing her vulgar words.
"Who is embarrassed!? I can think of a few more colorful words if…" While they argue Wei looked on wondering where she had met this man then suddenly, she remembered. "It's you from the hotel that night." Zo mouth fell open as she heard Wei's words but the man only grinned.
“A hotel?” Xo exclaimed, “Don’t tell me after you caught Chen and your sister you went to a bar, got drunk, met this hunky C.E.O, and did the deed."Xo...""Then you disappeared the next morning, but he had already fallen in love with you.""Xo""But alas, you had left the country, so he spent a month looking for until he finally found you here today. How romantic."Wei could feel a vein pop in her head. Finally, she grew tired and smacked Xo in the head. "What nonsense are you spouting?""Ouch," Zo exclaimed, retreating from Wei's grasp, she replied."Don't be mad because you did something so shameless; we have all been there; what I can't understand is why you would choose him?" She looked at the blond with disdain, but he only smirked before leaning to whisper. "I know you wish it was you
Wei looked awkwardly as Charles stood with his head down."Are you ok?'"Ha Ha Ha." Charles laughed; Wei looked at him confused."Secret... Vice President Gu, your boss had something he wanted to discuss with me about the Ru Corporation. Shall we go?" Charles stopped laughing, remembering the purpose he straightened u."Ok."Wei found the drive surprising pleasant; it was a little awkward at first, but Wei opened up on Architecture. Charles had pointed to a newly built building complementing its design. The very building Wei and Xo had worked on their first year at the company. She explained that her company worked on that project; she was there during the designs even though she was only fetching coffee. Wei had so much fun talking about her work; it took her a while to realize that Charles had stopped talking. Wei looked at the tall building that stood before her, "Han Corporation." She suddenly felt her chest tighten while her stomach felt unset
Mr. Han, is this a marriage proposal?""Wei Ru, don't think too much."Wei looked at the domineering man puzzled; why was he asking her about her qualifications as a wife if they weren't wedded."My grandfather has instructed me to marry you, a woman who I met only once who threw herself at me. So, I ask again, what qualifies you to be my wife." Wei stared at the angry man before and sighed. Grabbing her bag, she stood up to leave."The first time I met you was an accident, the second time was a coincidence, Mr. Han, I have no interest in you. If there is nothing else, I'll take my leave now." before she could finish, he sprung to his feet, his dominating figure standing before her."Wei Ru, don't test my patience; this marriage is not a choice; your father presented grandfather with the lotus seal.""What?!" Wei asked, surprised; she had been told about the lotus seal by her mother before she died. Wei's grandparents had prevented Han Corporation f
Wei arrived home mentally exhausted, two annoying encounters in one day, she lamented as she thought of her misfortune of meeting both Chen Sun and Tyler Han today. "Ugh, " she sighed melting her couch, she kicked the shoes off her feet."What did Mr. Han want?""To marry me," Wei replied too tired to explain."What? So he did fall in love with you…" Xo replied running from the kitchen."No, my father invoked the lotus seal, now we're being forced…." Wei."Forced, lotus seal, Wei?" Xo asked, but Wei was already sleeping, she smiled grabbing a blanket she covered Wei."Forced marriage," she said out loudly sighing. Wei had been through so much after her mother's death, her father's indifference, her sisters and stepmother bullying. Xo had been there through it all sharing that pain with her. After college when they got their first jobs and Wei no longer had to rely on them, Xo had thought that everything would be better. She sho
Wei looked up at the eyes that always held scorn when they were cast upon. “President Han I.”“Didn’t expect to see me here, how lucky I was to witness the real you. I ensure you will never enjoy being Mrs.Han.” and with that, he walked past her. Xo looked at her, but Wei just held her head down; no, don’t hold your head down, Xo thought. I never want to see you with your head down, anger churning, she shouted after Tyler Han.“The real hero? What do you know? You pom..”Wei grabbed Xo's arm and shook her head.“He’s a client here; we can’t cause trouble.”“I don’t care; he can’t treat you like dirt, I’ll.”“Xo! We need this job.” Xo sighed. She knew Wei was right. This was the top architectural firm in the country. Getting fired would ensure they never work in the industry again. Sighing, Xo released her anger,"ok, Wei,
Chen sat in the dark corner of Weichen bar which he owned and had name after him and Wei. It had been their favorite place to unwind after a long week at work, laughing and drinking with friends. The bar was designed by Wei he had bought it as a gift at graduation so she would have her first design job out of college. Now looking at it everything in the place reminded him of Wei, a painful reminder of what he had lost. Drinking a glass of liquor he cussed himself for his stupidity of being caught by Hoo Ru, and cursed again because it had been a week and no one could find her.“Boss.”“if you don’t have that fucking bitch then don’t come in.” Chen replied before downing the glass of brown liquor and requesting and another.“Chen" he heard a shaking female voice say, before she spoke again he sprang to his feet and grabbed Hoo Ru by her throat gripping it a bit too tight.“It seems the gods are kind to me tod
Wei looked up at the house she had grown up in and sighed. This was the house she lost her parents, her mother in a car crash, and her father to indifference. This building held nothing but the pain of her past, all her lonely nights, being abused by her stepmother and ignored by her father. Her father, her mind flashed the image of the domineering Lang Ru. She hadn’t seen him in since she moved out five years ago, she had called him twice since then. The first time to invite him to her college graduation but he didn’t attend and the second time was last week she asked to meet. Hoo Ru was the only one she had kept in contact with, but now even that relationship was broken. A deep pain pierced her heart as the memories flood her mind. “No," she thought the past would not defeat her. She had to face them along with the man who lived within the walls. Taking a deep breath, she closed her eyes to steel her nerves and walked up to the door knocking. After a moment, a se
She just flew to her feet when she saw her father figure; she steered at her fingers nervously, she dared not look up. Suddenly she felt arms wrapped around her as he pulled her in for a hug. Wei’s body tensed to his touch; he had not hugged her or held her in his arms since she was six; therefore, she did not know how to react and could feel nothing but discomfort as she wondered who this man was.“Wei, you’re home.” Her father shouted joyously, still squeezing her.“Let go of the child; you want to squeeze her to death.” Aunt Din shouted after seeing the discomfort in Wei's expression“Tch,” her father replied, finally releasing Wei from his grasp.“Don’t forget your pl...” he began but stopped as if he remembered something.“If there is nothing else, Madame Din, you can go first. I would like to talk to my daughter.”“Heh, daughter, wonder wh