From Nobody to Star: Her Love with CEO

2.The CEO's sweetheart

"Hey, Linda, here's the coffee I brought for you."

"Thank you, Ryan."

Linda, the new front desk receptionist, gave the young man a sweet smile. She was proud of her good luck.

In PM (Paradigm Music), Ryan was one of the most eye-catching guys: young, handsome, highly educated, and he had already reached the top position in the business department.

The girls who had a crush on Ryan could line up from inside the company all the way to the street, but Ryan was only attracted to her. Of course, it wasn't strange. Linda knew how beautiful she was.

Now, she was going to make those bitches who didn't like her jealous to death.

"Want to grab a drink after work?" Ryan showed his white teeth and smiled charmingly. He was confident that he was going to win. He saw Linda open her sexy lips, about to say "sure" –

The door opened.

A tall and straight figure stood there, attracting everyone's attention.

The man's face was as perfect as a celestial being, like a carved work of art without any flaws. He was dressed in a neat suit, without too many decorations on him, but he made the handsome Ryan look like a regular John Doe.

"Ah ha." Ryan shrugged. He was already used to this kind of thing. Just as he was about to walk up to the man to report on today's work, Linda beside him had already rushed forward.

"Oh no, someone stop her... This i***t!" As if witnessing a disaster, Ryan grabbed his hair.

It was too late. The woman rushed forward in a hurry, her ample bosom almost popping out. She's totally attracted to this guy!

No woman could resist Damien Ashfield. Ryan had known this for a long time.

Damien Ashfield, that was the man's name. He was the first in line heir of the ancient Ashfield family and the CEO of the most successful music company in this country.

Family background, talent, status, wealth – he was the man standing at the top of all these. What's more, Damien had a face that could charm countless people, and he was still single.

"Ah!" Linda let out a cry of pain as she fell to the ground.

"Pfft." Several pairs of eyes looked over, mixed with some sneers.

Linda pretended to fall.

She displayed her proud curves on the ground to attract the man's attention.

Just when she thought that Damien had been captured by her charm, she looked up and found that there was no one in front of her.

The elevator opened, and the man walked in. He didn't stop for this little episode, and Ryan also trotted after him, no longer having any lingering feelings for Linda.

"What the f**k?" Linda cursed in a low voice. For the first time in her life, her beauty weapon had failed.

She went back to her workstation dejectedly, only to find that the HR manager was already waiting there. Oh, this was also one of the little bitches who didn't like her.

"What's wrong?"Linda asked impatiently.

"You're fired."

"What?"

"It's the CEO's order just now. "The woman shrugged, with an expression of watching a good show.

"He said that he didn't like to see the front desk leaving their post without permission during working hours, and he didn't want to see anyone wriggling their body on the floor in the lobby – it's bad for the company's image."

Linda's face turned as pale as paper.

"No, I managed to get into PM with so much difficulty. I can't..."

The HR sneered , "Anyone who stayed long enough in the PM knows that the CEO already has a beloved sweetheart deep in his heart. That's why he is still single. How dare you seduce the CEO? "

Linda was forced to leave.

The HR manager took a sip of coffee. "6th for this month?"

"Seventh, I guess." Her colleague replied casually.

"Boss, what's going on with you these days? You seem so irritable, like you've swallowed gunpowder or something."

Ryan followed Damien into the CEO's office.

"No, I'm fine." Damien said, but he was staring at the computer screen with his brows furrowed tightly, as if something was weighing on his mind.

As far as Ryan knew，recently, the company had been doing very well.

The music talent show "Rising Music Stars", which the company had invested in for two seasons, had been a huge success, and the auditions for the third season had also been completed smoothly.

Ryan really couldn't understand why Damien was so out of sorts.

Is this about the rumor? It's an open secret throughout the company that Damien Ashfield has a woman he loves but can't get. Only this “Miss.Mystery" can touch Damien's mind.

"Okay, boss. The auditions for 'Rising Music Stars' have ended. All the original songs that passed the auditions were sent to you yesterday. You should have listened to them all, right?"

"Yeah, There's no problem." Damien nodded. However, this man unexpectedly hesitated. "Are these all the songs?"

"Huh? I think so... What's the matter?" Ryan was a bit confused.

"No, nothing." Damien regained his expressionless face, as if the hesitation and expectation that had just shown on his face were just Ryan's illusion.

"Alright, then I'll continue. This year's judges consist of four people. They are the famous music critic Mila, the champion of the first season Blaze, the boss of Grayson Music Company, Vivian, and our company's music producer Johnson. Do you have any objections?"

"None." This was something that had been decided long ago.

"Alright - but boss, don't you really plan to go to the venue and watch the first round of the competition?"Ryan explained.

" One of the sponsors of the contest, Grayson Music, put a lot of effort into the contest this year.and the CEO, Vivian also serves as a judge. Perhaps you should show up at least once to show how seriously our company takes the competition?"

Seeing that the atmosphere was getting colder and colder, Ryan wisely shut up.

When Damian showed up on the scene, everyone went crazy, even the traffic came to a standstill.

Since that day, more girls had tried to approach Damien. Damien regarded those women as trouble. So when it came to the second season of the competition, he refused to show up again.

"Great. Then how about you go there?” Damien raised his eyebrows, and it was hard to tell whether he was happy or angry. Even with such an expression, his handsome face still looked extremely charming.

"I'm sorry, boss." Ryan gave a flattering smile. He didn't want to add extra workload to himself. So he lowered his head and opened his phone, wishing he could bury his head in it.

To be honest, Ryan was a bit concerned about what Damien had mentioned earlier about the audition songs. He'd better check it again.

At the same time, Damien Ashfield shifted his gaze back to the computer.

The audition registration list, he had looked at them more than fifty times. This didn't match his usual style of always emphasizing efficiency, but –

There was none.

There wasn't anyone who was female, aged between 20 and 25, with the surname starting with L and named Lyra.

Damien then moved his eyes to the small chat box in the lower right corner. The gray avatar on the other side still hadn't lit up.

And the last time Lyra replied to him was a week ago.

Dulce Bunny: Lyra, I really think you should consider this show again.

Dulce Bunny: Hi Lyra, I'm a rabbit 🐰. I've been kidnapped. If I can't hear your song on "Rising Music Stars", I'll be killed! Everyone is responsible for caring about rabbits. Please save me!

L.L: I'm not sure, bunny... But do you really think my songs are nice?

Dulce Bunny: Of course! (Cute kitten emoji) ! Your music deserves to be heard by the whole world.

L.L: Thank you, I'll consider it.

But since that day, Lyra hadn't been online. No matter what Damien sent, there was no response from the other side.

Did he make her unhappy? Or did something happen to her? This was the root cause of Damien's restlessness these days.

"Oh my God, boss, you're so brilliant. Thanks to your reminder. Fortunately, I checked my mailbox."

At this moment, Ryan suddenly took off his headphones and rushed over excitedly. Damien reflexively closed his computer and coughed unnaturally.

Damien would rather die than let anyone know that his private Discord account had a pink rabbit avatar and was even named "Dulce Bunny".

Ryan was holding his phone and didn't notice Damien's strangeness at all.

"At 11:59 last night, I received a song. You really should listen to it. It's a masterpiece – what else can I say!"

Ryan clicked the play button, and a gentle, flowing accompaniment came out.

This song renders a sense of tranquility and sadness.Although the arrangement was a little simple，among all the audition songs, this one stood out as particularly outstanding.

More importantly, it was very similar to the style of L.L that Damien remembered.

"What's the name of the singer? Does the surname start with L?" Damien asked.

"No." Ryan looked at his boss with a bit of confusion.

"The sender's surname is Taylor, Chloe Taylor."