Entangled: Crisscross - Chapter 109

To her surprise, Chris stopped and stared at her. “Are you alright?” he asked. She could only open her eyes wide, surprised.

What? Why was he asking her about this now? She could see his shadowed face close to hers. Did he look… sad? Did something happen?

“I need to leave for a couple of days,” he started speaking.

“I see…” Well… this is better. At least she could do everything that she needed to do with no distractions around. That’s right, Chris is simply distracting her. “When are you leaving?” she asked.

“Tomorrow. It is an emergency.”

“Ah.” She fought the urge to ask any more questions. She simply doesn’t have the right to ask those questions. Anyway, just thinking about the dynamics of their relationship is giving her a headache. It is best not to show any weakness and emotion at all. Moreover, a woman like her isn’t worthy of him.

That’s right. She wasn’t worthy.

“Then… you should take care.”

“Are you not angry?”

“Angry?” The reason why this man is here is that she threw a tantrum and left this house. His trip was cut short, and he had to go home. It was logical that he would have unfinished business that he needed to do outside of this country. “I understand why you are here.”

“I want to prepare for a wedding. Once I come back, we should start the preparations. I can— ”

“Huh?” Aren’t they already considered husband and wife?

“I want to give you a grand wedding.”

“I don’t think that needed.”

“It is needed.”

She stared at him. What’s wrong with him now? She swallowed the rest of her words. “Alright.”She suddenly folded her arms around his neck. Sensing the surprise in his eyes, she pulled his face closer, making his lips land on top of hers. A wedding isn’t really that bad, but it wasn’t necessary. After all, they are still going to divorce soon.

However, she wanted to find out why he would suddenly want to give her a proper wedding. Was this related to the secret that he was keeping from her?

Chris… just who are you?

She believes that everything isn’t a coincidence.

Soon after, their moans echoed inside the room.

….

After making sure that she was already asleep, Chris put on a robe and went back to his office, where Lan Xing was waiting.

“Boss…”

“You are here?”

“Yes. I just finished the conference meeting with the higher-ups of Quinn Media.” Aside from being Chris’ secretary, he is also the one who attends meetings inside Quinn Media. This is because Chris didn’t want to show his face to anyone.

“How is it?”

“We have eleven percent increase In profits this year. The resources that we gave to our actors were worth it. As expected of the boss. Everything that you said is true. I told them about your plans to create a new girl group under our music team. Everyone agreed.”

“Hmmm.”

“Boss, are you sure you are leaving without me?”

“Hmmm.”

“But boss… we are not even sure if it was really that woman. How could you just leave everything behind?”

Chris didn’t say anything. He looked out of his window and stared at the moonless sky. Seeing this, Lan Xing continued, “Plus… it’s been so long since she disappeared. How could you — ”

“Let’s not talk about it anymore.”

“But sir…”

“No,” Chris said. “You can leave now.”

“Alright.” Lan Xing bowed, but before he could leave the door, he heard Chris said.

“Take care of my wife.”

Lan Xing didn’t say anything as he gave Chris a deep, contemplating look. At first, he never understood why Chris wanted to marry Miss Sera. To him, she looked ordinary and was always gloomy. He actually thought there was nothing special about her. Well… he was wrong.

It turns out that her background is really special.

Even Chris couldn’t compare to Miss Sera’s real background.

Just the thought of offending such a woman who came from those… dangerous parents are making him trembled. “Yes sir. I will do my best to protect Miss Sera.”

“Madam.”

“Eh?”

“Call her Madam from now on.”

“Ah… “But isn’t this only a fake marriage? “Alright. Yes, I will protect the Madam.”

“Good. Also… I forgot to ask. Tell me about the current events. Sera is hiding something from me and even her bodyguard… is now hiding something from me too.”

“Ah… it wasn’t that big. She is now working with Mr. Tan.”

“Mr. Tan… black market Mr. Tan?”

“Yes. She wanted to keep it a secret and must have warned her bodyguard about it.”

“But why would she work with— “He waved his hand. He didn’t continue the rest of his words as he already knows the answer. It turns out, she was preparing for something. Was she preparing to fight against Mrs. Fu? But this one doesn’t make any sense at all. After all, Sera was planning to go back to Pane City and leave this place.

“Also… after her first visit with Mr. Tan… shipments of diamonds from the Fu Family from Plaria… disappeared.”

“Diamonds?” Chris frowned. “Was it Sera’s work?”

“Sir, as we all know, the Fu Family is dominating the diamond market in the black market. Their security is top notch. How could someone just breach their security? This is just a suspicion, but I believe we know someone that might be able to destroy their security system, right?”

Chris didn’t say anything. Because of technology, most of the things that people use nowadays can be hacked. Sera could easily hack a car, phone, laptop, and even satellite. However, this is not the only thing that she could do. She could also hack into things that have an operating system. Fridge, TV and even Ovens. If one would think about it. As long as she knew what to target, she could easily kill someone or make an oven explode on fire.

“So… she was targeting the Fu Family after all.” He looked through the window again. “I believe no one knows this yet?”

“Yes, sir. The rumor that she met with Mr. Tan was actually popular, however, it was because people are trying to ridicule her for thinking that Mr. Tan would give in. That old man is someone who survived in the industry for years. Even Edward Fu failed to convince him.”

“Edward is dumb,” Chris said. “Let’s not talk about that person anymore.”

“Ah… Yes… my apologies.”

“Anyway, what is going on with the Zhang Family now?”

“Ah… Lawyer Liu called. He was fuming.”

“Why?”

“Miss Zhang Ying approached him and tried to blackmail him.”

“Hm?” This made Chris curious. “Blackmail?”

“Miss Zhang thought that Lawyer Liu is sleeping with Miss Sera.” Lan Xing stilled when he heard someone’s knuckles cracked. He looked at Chris’s hands and, just as he expected, it was clenched in a tight fist. He immediately added. “This happened a few hours back. Miss Zhang Ying shamelessly blocked him while he was on his way home and asked him to have some tea with her. Then… she started talking about making him lost his license for sleeping with a client. It was actually a stupid story. Hehehe…”

Seeing that Chris already had a dark look on his face, Lan Xing quickly added. “But master… this was nothing but a futile attempt to make Miss Sera suffer. Miss Zhang Ying just wanted to destroy Miss Sera’s name. That’s why she was trying to make things up. Her argument was that Miss Sera isn’t someone that could easily hire Mr. Liu.”

“That woman is a fool.”

Lan Xing nodded as if his life depends on it. There was already sweat dripping on his back. “Yes… Yes… that woman is a fool.”

“I didn’t want to do anything since I wanted Sera to handle this on her own but that woman is crossing the line.”

Lan Xing was confused. Why was he so upset? Both of them know that Miss Sera would never do that. Moreover, Chris and Sera were husband and wife, and the reason why Mr. Liu agreed to work for Sera was because of her husband.

So… this overreaction doesn’t make sense.

Was Chris jealous of Mr. Liu because of Miss Zhang Ying’s words? But that can’t be.

How could he be this shallow?

Ah, he must be overthinking it.

“Release the video of Zhang Xin inside the mental facility. The one which shows she is staying inside a villa with her own servants and personal doctors to cater her needs.”

“But Sir… what about Miss Sera?”

“I will take care of it. Go ahead… release it. That woman Zhang Ying just keeps on making it look like she was a pitiful woman who was only trying to protect her mother when she was just a fox disguising to be a sheep. She should not blame me if I slaughter her like a sheep.”

…..

I am so sorry for the delay. I was busy both of my sons were born on August just about a week apart. I have to prepare for something special for them.

Thank you for your understanding.