Chapter 33
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First week, Shuji has been busy with two companies he manages.
"Sir, these are the folders we gave them to you." Shakira approached Shuji who was just bowing.
"Please land next to me, Miss Lao what is our schedule today?" Shuji asked without looking up.
"Sir, we will go to see Mr. Engineer Wright at the site before going to the Liao Firm and come back here to board with your father's business partner," Shakira answered and immediately left the office.
Shuji didn't always catch up with Lixue at home. He remembered this and suddenly stopped reading and texted.
Text message
Shuji: Where are you?
Lixue: I'm here with Drick, how is your work?
Shuji: What are you doing? You don't have a photoshoot?
Lixue: Later
Shuji: What are you and Drick doing?
Lixue: I can't say bye already 😊
Shuji: Hey
Shuji frowned at what he read.
'Why did I feel jealous that I shouldn't?' Shuji said in his mind.
Shuji stood up and took the bag and the folder that he would take to the other company. Shuji saw Lixue's bodyguard standing on the edge of the door when the bodyguard saw Shuji suddenly bow.
"Let's go?" Shuji hesitated, he was still not used to his presence.
"His aura is scary, sir," Shakira whispered as she walked along.
"I don't know but I'm different from him," Shuji said to his secretary.
"Where did you get him, sir?" Shakira asked.
"That's Leatrice's bodyguard, the girl with Drick who came here," Shuji said.
"A–Lixue? Leatrice isn't the real name you're talking about?" Shakira asked.
"You know her?" Shuji asked the secretary.
"Yes, I was with her 7 years ago when I saw her again just the other day," Shakira replied she was almost babbling but she managed to control it.
"Where did you meet her?" Shuji asked as they walked out of the company.
Shakira did not answer Shuji's question. They went to the basement of the parking lot. Walked up to the car as soon as they got in.
On the other hand, Lixue is looking at the blueprint of the plan she and Drick made.
"Did you follow him properly?" Agent Zero asked Agent One.
"The don is prickly, Agent Zero seems to suspect that someone is following him." Agent One said.
"Don't follow him for a week and I will follow him without him realizing it." Agent Zero said.
"Alright, what happened to his daughter?" Agent One said.
"Someone is watching Shuji, I am going to silence him right away so that nothing will be reported to the son of the don," Lixue replied.
"Which child? Is there a firstborn, second, third, fourth or fifth?" Agent One asked.
"Ah? Look at their family background." Agent Zero said.
Don Emilio Gayag
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His wife
Doña Verna Gayag
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Eldest Child — Tomas Gayag
Second Child — Verna Gayag
Third Child — Aiya Gayag
Fourth Child — Joaquin Gayag
Fifth Child — Rachel Gayag
"He has five children at the age of 83? He must have been a playboy in his youth." Agent Zero said shaking his head at what he found out.
Their serious faces refrain from smiling at their thoughts.
"When I followed him, I saw that his two boys were involved in the transactions." Agent One replied.
"Tomas Gayag and Joaquin Gayag?" Lixue said she put a √ check sign on the side of the name.
"Yes, don't you have a shoot?" Agent One asked.
"I'm just going to finish this and I'm leaving." Agent Zero replied.
"What's the news about the don's daughter, Aiya other than the fact that you silenced Shuji." Agent One asked.
"She's crazy! She's laughing for no reason, maybe she used illegal drugs that's why she got like that.." Agent Zero replied.
The two of them didn't react to what Agent Zero said because they had the same suspicion.
"I did a good job of keeping Shuji's kidnapper away the other day, my bodyguard helped me." Agent Zero replied.
When Agent Zero was about to speak, his cellphone suddenly rang and she and Agent One looked at each other before she read and replayed the text.
Text message
Shuji: Where are you?
Lixue: I'm here with Drick, how is your work?
Shuji: What are you doing? You don't have a photoshoot?
Lixue: Later
Shuji: What are you and Drick doing?
Lixue: I can't say bye already 😊
Shuji: Hey
"The who?" agent one asked.
"Shuji Liao, ask agents two and five to find the location of the hiding place of weapons and drugs that are their illegal business location except for the warehouse, I think this is the only props they use to make people who are looking at them think that this is where the -they will hide." Agent Zero answered before standing up from her seat and extending his hand.
"Are you leaving?" Agent One asked.
"Yes, it's lunch time! So that when I get to Sakura I'm full, just text me all the details I'll know." Agent Zero said and walked out of the underground office.
"Bye!" Agent One shouted.
Lixue, eat lunch at the restaurant just a few miles from the Sakura Modeling Agency.
On the other hand, After Shuji ate with his secretary and Lixue's bodyguard, they went to Liao Firm.
"Good afternoon, sir." among the OJT employees and the regular employees at Liao Firm.
Shuji just nodded and they walked to the conference meeting room. They caught up with the laughing lawyers who turned and stopped when they saw Shuji.
"It's fine for me to see you like that, sir don't get me wrong." Shuji immediately answered and asked what happened to those who complained and were complained about.
"This is the case that was not won in court and at the hearing, son." a lawyer said.
"Why?" Shuji asked the lawyer.
"There is a strong attachment to the court, even if something is proven, something is also broken because the person who complained to us admitted that he agreed only out of fear." the lawyer answered.
"When is the next hearing or going to court?" Shuji asked the lawyer.
"Next week, sir, at two o'clock in the afternoon." the lawyer answered.
"I'll try to catch up, I'll help the case, just support me, I'll lie just once so we can win it, even if it's wrong, they'll have an excuse because the victim didn't refuse what the accused wanted," Shuji replied making all the lawyers nod.
They studied each case of the victim and the suspect. When they reached the afternoon, Shuji canceled the last schedule for later.
"I will reschedule tomorrow morning at eleven o'clock in the morning," Shuji replied as the lawyers looked at him.
"Y-yes, sir," Shakira answered seriously and wrote something in the notebook she was holding.
When Lixue arrived at Sakura Modeling she found everyone in a panic.
"Annoying!" Erika shouted and everyone looked at her.
"Maybe your boyfriend is busy and it's hard for you, you want his attention to be only on you, what are you doing? You haven't changed for a long time." Akatsuki's seat was caught by Lixue.
"Just now he did not make me feel for a week," Erika answered her friend.
"I'm a busy person so he only texts me once in a while and I only talk to him once in a while," Akatsuki replied to his friend.
Lixue turned around when the gay manager called her.
"It's been a long time!" the gay manager called.
"Leatrice, where's Shuji?" Erika said.
"Maybe he's in their company, I can't see him right now, we're both getting busy, he's still asleep and I'm awake sometimes the other way around, we hardly see each other even though we live in the same house." Lixue/Leatrice said one after the other as Erika approached her.
Lixue went to the dressing room and was fixed up by a stylist as well as a make-up artist.
"It's good that you said that she was already irritating before, she was irritated, Shuji doesn't show it everyone knows that he is busy, he manages two companies." the make-up artist answered.
"She doesn't think that, she just understands it for herself." the stylist answered.
Then Lixue came out of the dressing room and took her with all the female models.
"Good job, girls! One more, and it's Lixue and Erika." the photographer answered.
After the photographer pulled Lixue aside, and Erika with a frown.
"Perfect!" the photographer answered to the two of them.
Erika and Lixue had been photographed several times before the filming ended.
"I will go with you, are you going home?" Erika's approach to Lixue.
"Yes, I'm going home." Lixue/Leatrice answered.
They both left in a convoy in the car. Lixue was secretly shaking her head inside the car.
Upon arriving at the mansion the maid met them. Lixue goes up to her room, and Erika is left in the living room to wait for her boyfriend.
"Almost ten o'clock, you're not coming home yet? We're both tired, I would have left you here if you'd been waiting for a long time." Lixue/Leatrice's approach to Erika.
Lixue asked her and Erika to eat together and she agreed.
Erika went home and just as Shuji arrived.
"Here—" Lixue interrupted as Shuji hugged her behind them and G.M. nodded and left.
"Hold me for a moment," Shuji whispered that he knew something was wrong with his feelings because he had a girlfriend.
"Erika is here, she waited for you, you two got— and she left—" Lixue interrupted, kissing her on Shuji's lips.
They couldn't stop kissing as they walked. Shuji carried Lixue and went up the stairs. They reached the room and Shuji took Lixue to his room. Shuji ran over to Lixue and they looked at each other before kissing again before Shuji lay down properly.
"Sorry–" Shuji replied, realizing what he had done.
"I'm just going to change clothes in my room, knock me if you want to hug and kiss me, I won't stop you," Lixue answered and left the bed, she was surprised when Shuji took her hand.
"I have a big shirt in the cabinet, wear that first or my polo shirt," Shuji replied pointing to the cabinet.
When Lixue was able to change from inside the bathroom. He went out and Lixue lay down on the bed and he let Shuji pull her to lie down, he hugged her tightly, and Lixue just sighed before closing her eyes.
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