On a typical day's shooting of the company, the crew would come in and rig the equipment and help to put sets together, it was Lisa's job to accompany them through the whole tour. At half past nine in the morning, Lisa meet the crew members in reception and she led the way to Peter's office.Rose was not there, Joseph would pick her up and host her personally per their arrangement.The first leg of the day's journey was the interview of the CEO, a talk with Peter of how he became a CEO of Hixcth and the industry-level trend in terms of market dynamics and product development in the future.To some extent, the talent of the top manager usually determined the company's future prospects, and in Lisa's opinion that Peter was the best leader anyone could ever dreamed of.Peter had just celebrated his 23 years' service with the company, it was his first and only job after he got his PHD in economics. And he maintained consistency of his personal life and his work life, his wife Melinda was
Lisa is sitting on the terrace of his penthouse, making a pretense of watching the sky Garden restaurant. It is one of Joseph's properties, there would be no need to worry about neighbors peeping is just one of the perks of being living on the top floor.Over years Joseph develops a few harmless eccentricities, some is partly a matter of personal style. For example, he likes being naked every time walking out of the bathroom.He is standing at the door, wearing nothing not even a damn towel.Joseph catches his underwear thrown him, shaking his butt cheeks while putting it on.One reason he loves about Lisa is that she cannot hold a secret, it is all over her face if she has something in her mind. He is not going to leave her alone, he reaches to hug her tightly and kisses her cold lips."Now can you tell me why we need to hide from Ella? It is my day off so I have a whole day, Lisa, do not try to dodge the topic. ""All right, she had a secret crush on you. Did you know……""Lisa, I am
"What's up?" Joseph sent Lisa a message which created an intersection between two parallel lines, life indeed was full of coincidence. Everything was in a thorough mess for Lisa after Ella left the country with her newly husband. The new girl Janine who covered for Ella was a scheming girl and she did not get along with Lisa at all, but the guys in the office seemed to like her very much. And Lisa did not want to find a replacement as a roommate. It was a humid evening on work day, she had nothing better to do when a message came in, it was Joseph. It was a message even more casual and meaningless than any words, yet, somehow, it was a consolation. By the time she was unable to find anyone else to talk with, Lisa replied immediately, he was a talkative guy and she struck up a conversation with him. They spent hours talking about their dreams, how she wanted to see the world, his of being a new CEO in the family business. Sometimes those that put on the happiest of faces all the t
"Adieu! Adieu! Janine." Lisa hoped not to see her again. It took two days for the work handover, then Janine was transferred to Marketing because Peter thought her skills might best be used in the new department. Lisa had been so busy that she had neither the time nor the inclination to think of other things, though she had to work harder than before, she felt no fatigue. Suddenly the air in the office was as fresh as ever, with Alex and William in the office treated her as before like Janine had not been there. It was not that Lisa did not hold grudges against them, she just did want to struggle and only Peter mattered. It wasn't until Ella had gone that she realized, for her at least, being friends with colleagues didn't emerge as a priority at all. Life was once again very hectic but empty. At the start, Ella chat with Lisa online very often, lately they did not talk at all, Lisa took it for granted that life moved forward. She was very concerned about Leopold, she initiated
"Have you heard the news? Janine and Charles are having an affair."The breaking news went viral in the company almost overnight; today's careers offered more opportunity for extramarital affairs, for example Charles as the vice CEO and the head of Marketing and his newly young and beautiful Secretary-Janine.It didn't occur to Lisa that Janine would tolerate a man older than her father, besides Charles was neither sexy nor funny.Unlike talking about the gossip of Joseph, people were being judgmental and critical about Janine, using the worst swearword in the world. One of the most elementary rules of life was never hit a man when he was down-in other words, never took advantage of a person's misfortune. Although what had happened in the office caused Lisa and Janine were not incompatible, Lisa did not want to talk about Janine behind her back for this matter.Lisa was too busy to studying at night and occasional weekends to get a MBA degree with Peter's recommendation, she was so th
Lisa is thinking about buying a more suitable couch if they are getting spontaneous again. When he is done his cheeks is flushed and he looks triumphant, the colour upon Lisa' spread over her face to her body. One of Joseph's hobbies is purchasing houses, this is an instance of childhood trauma and it is pretty commonplace in other families in the country. "What first put you onto texting me? I mean the message comes from nowhere."Joseph is a cuddle-a big surprise; the emotional wounds of early childhood leave ineradicable scars. He is lying on the couch with Lisa in his arms and a guilty look on his face. His mind travels back to the hot sultry day at the airport four years ago.After his mother Lucy named him CEO of the family business, he thought it would be a great time for him to do some actual work for the company. It turned out he was too naïve, Lucy disapproved all his ideas, then they started to argue about how the company would grow. Finally, he yielded the palm to her, in
Lisa truly understood the unpredictability of life, which often changed within an instant without being noticed. Just when it seemed life was going well, Peter's sudden death from acute myocardial infarction was devastating.Sometimes life hit you in head with a brick, two days later Charles took his place as the CEO of the company.The day before it all happened, Peter felt uncomfortable because he got a cold. Lisa asked him if he need to take the day off to go to the hospital, Peter interpreted his illness as being less severe. So he took some cold medicine and went back to work.Peter took good care of his body, he did not smoke or drink, eating healthy food and doing sports twice a week. When Lisa was about to go off work, she found out that Peter was fall sleep on the sofa in his office, she knew it was the pill so she did not care to wake him up.She had class the night and she told Alex that Peter was asleep, then Lisa left the company. The next day morning she had been told th
"If you ever kiss my finance again, I will destroy you." Penny went around to see Lisa on Sunday afternoon, they talked about what happened last night. Lisa had vague memories of Joseph coming under the influence of alcohol, a certain hollowness that she tried to stifle. To think that she had kissed Raymond wildly, a wave of nausea and disgusting swept over her. But what Penny had said aroused her. "Penny, are you trying to make welcome with the usual pantomime of exaggerated words and gestures?" "Lisa, those are his very words. He was so cool when he said it. Since when are you and Joseph engaged? The story has taken a huge twist, one minute you and Raymond are enamored, next minute Joseph appears as your finance. Is there something going on between you and Joseph?" "Don't be ridiculous, we are just friends. What did Raymond say? Did he misunderstand my intentions? I am so embarrassed." "Don't worry about him. He had worse. He can survive that one of his ex-girlfriend cheated on