Love Me Harder, Mr. Fu - Chapter 90

After leaving Shi Lian’s office, Cai Li goes to her father’s workplace. Her lips are pursed together and she bites her nails as she walks. She had a hard time controlling her composure in front of Shi Lian and every time she has met Shi Lian after she came from the States, she has been more jealous of her. The way Shi Lian held such an imposing aura, made her jealous.

Reaching her father’s office, she enters inside without knocking. The secretory stand there yelling her name but Cai Li already was inside. “Daddy, I have done what you told,” she says nonchalantly, planting her ass on the grey couch.

Zheng Yi narrows her eyes at her and gets up immediately from his seat to close the door before anyone can hear them. “Knock before you come, Cai Li” he snaps at her.

Her daughter acts like she is not listening by scrolling inside her phone. he snatches her phone from her hand and keeps it aside on the glass table. “Now, tell me what happened in there. Did she accept?” she takes a beside across her.

“Yes, she somehow agreed. She was not believing me at first so she called a woman, her name was Ruxi or something…she then confirmed everything and Shi Lian had no choice but to accept me” Cai Li informs him whatever happened inside the office a while ago. But she cannot understand why her father will want her to work with Shi Lian? To answer her confusion, she questions her father, “Why did you want me to work with her? Didn’t you wanted her to fail?”

“I do want her to fail but I want something else as well” he smirks, lost in his thoughts.

“But Daddy, I don’t want to work with her, she is so arrogant and she mocked me for my clothes!” Cai Li complains, anger fuming inside her.

Her father sighs and rubs his index finger on his temple. “Deal with it for a while. she won’t be able to keep being haughty after her trashy show.”

Cai Li agrees and nods showing her proud smile. “What do I have to do anyway? Don’t tell me I have to follow her orders” she rolls her eyes. when her father asked her to do this task, she was confused why would he want her to help Shi Lian when he knows she clearly despises her? But her father assured her, he will get rid of her and the position of Chairman will soon be his. Having no other choice and hatred towards Shi Lian, she agreed. But Shi Lian threatened her as well and she did felt intimidated at that time. “Oh, and she also tasked me to find the other models for her” she adds.

Zheng Yi implores, not sure what her silly daughter must have replied, “What did you say then?”

“I agreed. I told her I’ll get the models in two days.”

He heaves a sigh of relief knowing her daughter does have brains. After the failure of his plan, he wasn’t sure what to do next. He had hoped that his plan will definitely succeed but it didn’t. Now, he has to come up with another plan as soon as he can because he cannot wait anymore. “Good. I’ll call the models who were interested at first” he tells her.

“What do you mean? I thought no one was interested?” She doesn’t know much about what is happening in the company and she does not bother to know as well.

Her father keeps on nagging her and her brother to put their inputs to the company so they might be able to take over the position from Shi Lian, but none of them are interested. Cai Li is content with her modeling career and even though she gets work due to her father’s money, she still likes what she is doing.

“You think no model would be interested in working with the Mo corp? Our company is one of the largest business in Asia. Think Cai Li” he says sternly.

Thinking for a moment, she then answers, “You declined them? But how?”

“After Ruxi sent the proposal, I ringed them after few days before Ruxi. Many were interested and I didn’t want that so I made up an excuse and declined those who wanted to work with Shi Lian. Ruxi had no idea why they refused. It was a part of my plan and as it now, it’s going smoothly.”

As if understanding what he said, she nods. “Alright, I will be going then” she rises from the couch and steps forward to give a hug to her father before leaving.

“Don’t tell anyone about our plan, you understand?” Zheng Yi warns his daughter. “And I’ll send the names of the models with their names by tonight.”

Turning on her heels, she starts leaving but she pauses. She won’t know why but she isn’t too sure about the plan. She feels uneasiness that it might not be good but it’s her father and she trusts him. “Daddy?” she calls.

“What?”

“This plan… what if it doesn’t work?” she asks, gulping softly.

“It will work. It has to.” With that, he tears his eyes from her and starts working on the pending files. She exits the door saying goodbye and ignoring the secretary who keeps calling her.

**

She hasn’t called him yet and he is growing twitchy. It’s been four hours since he gave her a call and till now, she hasn’t said anything, not even a message. His mood this morning was the best he had, according to Rong and the staff but as time passes, he is back to being gloomy and scary. He has been signing the documents one after another without any pause. Rong keeps on bringing more and more files as per Zichen’s orders and he is signing, flipping over the papers like a maniac.

He has been thinking about whether he should go check what happened to her or he should just wait for her call. he knows she won’t like it he if barges into her company without informing her but he cannot wait any longer. What if she is some problem? His mind is drifting again and again to her and the possibility of something happened to her. After the incident last time, he is overly worried for her and he did tell her to return his calls as soon as she can but here she is, being the stubborn woman she won’t do what he told her. closing the file and leaving the rest of them on the desk, he takes his coat from the hanger and leaves his office. Rong notices him going out and he follows.

“Sir, where are you going?” he asks, a little scared. Zichen has been yelling at him for no reason because of his foul mood. He has been barking at him for lame reasons including wrong files, wrong bindings, etc.

“To Mo Corp” Zichen states simply, striding taking long steps. He passes the halls, ignoring the eyes of his staff, and walks past the reception area. Rong hurries to catch up with him.

The guards bow to him as Zichen passes. His manager- Rong hurries to call the driver but Zichen stops him. “I’ll go on my own. Go fetch the car.” Without any further saying, Rong goes to bring one of his cars, and Zichen waits. Bringing the car in front of him, Rong steps out of the driver’s seat. Zichen hops inside, shutting the front door and Rong takes the seat next to him. He starts the car, pressing on the acceleration bar, and the car moves at a speed.

“Sir, may I ask why are we going there?” Rong asks, clutching onto eh seatbelt tightly. He has experienced Zichen’s driving and every time he has puked at the end. He drives way too fast.

Zichen gazes in front, his brows knitting together and his mouth in a hard line. “To teach her a lesson.” Rong sometimes gets frustrated because of Zichen’s twisted replies. He does not ask further because then he knows, Zichen will snap at him and he does not want that. Angry Zichen is scary, dangerous, and prude.

After fifteen minutes of driving, they finally reach outside Mo’s building. Both the men step out of the car, leaving the car in front, not bothering to park it. shoving the car keys inside his coat pocket, Zichen walks up to the glass door but is stopped by the guards. One look from him and both guards startles. He recognizes Zichen immediately and shows him the way inside. Rong follows behind him, trying to hide the anxiousness because they are in someone else’s company and they have barged in here without any informing. He doesn’t know what Shi Lian will when she finds them intruding in her company.

As he keeps on moving, the receptionist standing behind the slightly curved desk asks, “Sir, may I know if you have any appointment of coming here?” she knows he is Zichen but it’s her job to ask the questions no matter how big and influential the person is.

Before Zichen can open his mouth, Rong steps in and answers for him. “Miss Chairman called us and we are here to discuss business with her.”

“Oh, alright Sir. Let me tell her about your arrival” the receptionist says and reaches for the desk phone but Rong speaks up again.

“You don’t have to do this. We already informed her just a while ago.” Rong is good at making excuses and lying. He lost his counting how many times he has to lie like this just to save them from any awkward situation. Zichen watches him and smirks slightly. He is proud to have a manager like him.

The receptionist hesitates for a moment but nods and shows them the way to her office. Thanking her, Rong follows Zichen who is already moving ahead.