Meeting Luo Xiaoxiâs father in Kingâs restaurant, Su Yicheng heard the things he had expected.
âXiaoxi likes you, but you are not suitable. The Qin family is the best family for Xiaoxi. Iâll marry Xiaoxi to Qin Wei. They are quite suitable in personality. After marriage, I believe that Qin Wei will take care of Xiaoxi.â
The old man arranged his daughterâs life as an experienced manager.
Su Yichengâs heart sank. âMarry Luo Xiaoxi to Qin Wei and Qin Wei will take care of Luo Xiaoxi?â
When he first married Jianan to Lu Boyan, he felt as if a piece of meat had been taken from his body. He thought it was the limit of pain. Now, the place where he was hit was the heart, and his heart kept sinking.
The pain was acceptable, but this was too much. He would not accept this anyway.
No! Absolutely no!
The voice inside Su Yichengâs heart had never been so angry. He would never let Luo Xiaoxi marry Qin Wei, not over his dead body!
âUncle Luo, I will not accept this, and Xiaoxi wonât either.â He looked at the elder in front of him, his eyes and tone as calm as ever. âI am going to be with Xiaoxi, and even you, her father, canât stop it.â
âOf course I will not stop you.â Mr. Luo smiled. âItâs normal for young people. They love people freely. Itâs not like things in the past when marriages are arranged. I understand that.â However, I am sure that you will not last long, and even if you are together now, you will not end up together in the end. Yicheng, the person whoâll marry Xiaoxi must be Qin Wei.â
Su Yicheng just smiled and stood up. âItâs not. Even if it is not me, it will not be Qin Wei. Uncle Luo, Iâve said everything I wanted to. Iâll leave first. I have already have my assistant foot the bill. You can take your time.â
He walked out of the restaurant, and Xiao Chen asked, âBoss Su, are you going to meet with Ms. Luo?â
Initially, Su Yicheng wanted to see her right away, but he could not help being disturbed by what Mr. Luo had said. He rubbed his brow irritatedly. âIâll go home first.â
At this time, Luo Xiaoxi just called Ada. She wanted to know how Su Yicheng looked like when he came back today.
âHe doesnât look very good.â Ada said, âI told Boss Su that you have been there, and his reaction was very dull. Ms. Luo, have you two quarreled with each other?â
Luo Xiaoxi was disappointed and mumbled a few words before hanging up the phone. She stared at Su Yichengâs phone number for a long while and wanted to dial the number several times, but eventually, she gave up the idea.
No, she could not call him today. Maybe she would wait for a few more days. Su Yicheng was so busy, and he would not always remember that thing every day, wouldnât he? He would gradually forget about it and no longer be mad at her!
What she didnât know was that Su Yicheng was lying in bed, unable to sleep.
âYou and Xiaoxiâs personality are not suitable. Even if you are together now, you wonât end up together in the end.â
What Qin Wei and Mr. Luo said kept echoing again and again in his head, and he thought about them carefully, he found that what they said did make sense in a way. When he and Luo Xiaoxi hung out together, they often ended up quarreling with each other. If two people who were only good at quarreling and not good at keeping each otherâs company, how could they stick together for a long time? Even if they had sparks for each other, they would get exhausted in the end.
However, stick together for a long time...?
What shocked him even more was this idea. When did he actually think that he would be with Luo Xiaoxi for a long time this time? He only wanted to have a try with her in the first place.
The more he thought, the greater pain he felt on his brain. Su Yicheng got up and opened the bedside table and swallowed two sleeping pills. Then, great drowsiness soon came pouring down to make him finally fell asleep.
On the next day, they launched the latest issue of âVogueâ.
Vogue was the best-selling fashion magazine in China. The editor-in-chief was a big shot in the fashion industry. Its readers varied from the company employees who have just entered the society to the senior white-collar workers, and then to the ladies in the upper society. The magazine was popular among countless fashion-conscious girls. When Luo Xiaoxiâs several pictures came out, the readerâs response was unusually strong. She was in the trending topics on the very same day.
In the first set, Luo Xiaoxi wore a bright red knee-length skirt and revealed the curves of her body in the carefully-tailored dress. Her slender legs were bare. However, compared with her attractive body, her unique temperament looked more attractive.
Many people could try this kind of bright red color, but not everyone stood out in this color. The flamboyant, enthusiastic, and straightforward red color suited perfectly with Xiaoxiâs eyes and poses. She looked very good in the dress and made herself the center of the picture, rather than the dress itself.
Big shot in the fashion forum often emphasized that people wore clothes, and should not be suppressed by the clothes they wore. Luo Xiaoxi had been a perfect interpretation of that sentence.
But if anyone thought that this was Luo Xiaoxiâs fixed image, then he was making a big mistake.
When they turned to the next page, they would find Luo Xiaoxi in an office lady style. White shirt, pencil skirt, and black leather bag. The suit did not look that strong but could immediately seize everyoneâs eyes. Even her smile became crisp. On the next page, she became an elegant lady. Her temperament this time was totally different from when she was in that glamorous red dress. However, she still looked naturally.
So people who reposted her three sets of pictures on Weibo all commented: A person can actually live as three completely different people!
This issue of the magazine sold very well that the newsstand bosses were all busy selling them.
Outside the presidentâs office of Cheng An Group, Su Yichengâs secretaries were also browsing the magazine, and Ada tut-tutted. âMs. Luo actually became a model, a model of Vogue! But... we didnât know that she can easily pull off so many styles.â
âThis is called versatility!â Another secretary said, âLike some stars, they can only play sobbing girls on screen with their deadpan faces, but some stars can play from high school girls to professional white-collar workers, and to rural women as well. Ms. Luo is the latter kind of star! And she has that innate style that says she doesnât care about anything. She looked comfortable in any kind of photos, all of them!â
âHey, I heard that Lu Enterprisesâ best agent is behind Ms. Luo managing her. If she keeps it up, she will definitely be famous! Should we ask for a few signed photos from her while we can?â
...
âHand me the magazine.â
A male voice that the secretaries were all very familiar with sounded. At that time, they were all taken back and then looked back. âBoss Su!â God, when did he stand behind them?
âItâs not working hours in the afternoon yet, you donât have to overreact when youâre having a conversation.â Su Yicheng reached out and said, âCan I have your magazine?â
âYes, you can!â Ada presented the magazine to him with both hands.
âThank you.â
Su Yicheng took the magazine and went straight into the office. After sitting down and opening it, he suddenly felt that Luo Xiaoxi in the magazine was both familiar and strange.
When Luo Xiaoxi pestered him, she always laughed like a kid and would occasionally strike a sexy pose to tease him. However, it was just a kind of mischief. She was not an open girl in her bones.
Now she appeared in the best-selling fashion magazine, so beautiful and in so many styles. She was shining so bright that people could not take their eyes off her. Nevertheless, she was not looking at him the way she used to. She was simply showing herself like there was no one else in the world.
After listening to her fatherâs words last night, he wanted to wait and chewed on it. But now, intuition told him that he could not wait any longer.
âAda.â He pressed the internal line. âDo I have any schedule for this evening?â
âYes, you do.â Ada added, âYouâll be having lunch with Manager Tang from Seal company for some business matter.â
âReschedule it for tomorrow.â
âBut your schedule is full tomorrow...â Ada thought that Su Yicheng was weird lately. He was a workaholic and would finish all the things on the schedule in one day, but lately, he often rescheduled things. It was not easy to be a secretary.
âThen the day after tomorrow.â Su Yicheng said, âIn short, it canât be tonight, I have something important tonight.â
Ada. âOK. Then I will inform Manager Tangâs secretary.â
After hanging up the phone, Su Yicheng looked at the photo of Luo Xiaoxi in the magazine. He raised his lips and opened the file to start working.
When he was busy, everything became clear in his mind.
He didnât want to have a try with Luo Xiaoxi. He really wanted to be with Luo Xiaoxi. If he could, he did not hate the idea of marrying her.
Luo Xiaoxi said that he only pitied her, but it was actually not. He was serious about her. Otherwise, when he heard that Qin Wei would marry her, he wouldnât have rushed on the streets of Japan to pick up a fight with Qin Wei. Yesterday, after listening to her fatherâs words, he would not have been rude enough to say that even if Luo Xiaoxiâs future husband was not him, it would not be Qin Wei.
Speaking of it, he rarely became physical for a woman, and Luo Xiaoxi had been the first woman.
After everything, Luo Xiaoxi still dared to say that he was not serious?
At five oâclock, Su Yicheng signed the last document and put the pen back in the pen holder. Todayâs work was all over.
He got up and buttoned the suit jacket. Just when he was about to leave the office, Xiao Chen suddenly rushed in.
After working with him for so many years, Xiao Chen was the calmest of all his assistants. Su Yicheng rarely saw such expression on Xiao Chenâs face and he had a bad feeling. However, he still asked calmly. âWhatâs wrong?â
âSomething big.â Xiao Chen was out of breath. âBoss Su, Qin Enterprise signed the deal with the Japanese company. More importantly, the plan Qin Enterprise gave to the Japanese company is exactly like ours, and not a single word was different from ours!â
Su Yicheng suddenly on that day, when he ran into Qin Wei on the street of Japan, Qin Wei smiled so confidently.
It turned out that he had his trump card.
He returned to his seat, and his look was so cold at that instant. âDid you find out what happened?â
âIâm working on it.â Xiao Chen said, âBut, these kind of things are obvious, arenât they?â
Su Yicheng looked graver. âYou mean, it was an inside job and someone leaked our project?â
âBoss Su...â Xiao Chen lowered his voice. âThe people on this project are all your followers. Some of them even built the company in the beginning with you. Everyone is loyal to Cheng An Group. To stay in the company, Zhang Mei even bites the bullet and works in the Marketing Department. How can you suspect that they did it?
Su Yicheng glared at Xiao Chen. âWhat are you trying to say?â
âI just want to inform you that Ms. Luo knows the detail of the plan too.â Xiao Chen closed his eyes and reopened them, and then he decided to go all out. âAnd I heard that the Qin family and Luo family are planning on a unison marriage. Ms. Luo and Qin Wei have been close. Iâve had people checked. On the second day Ms. Luo translated the document, she posed for the Vogue photos you see today. And on that night, she spent the entire night with Qin Wei.
âEnough!â Su Yicheng finally could not take it anymore and shouted without his usual composure. âGet out!â
Xiao Chen did not say anything further and left Su Yichengâs office.
Su Yicheng swept all the phones on the desk to the floor. All the phones flopped to the floor and shattered into pieces.