Chapter 31
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Chapter 31
No one has ever talked to him in such manner before. Who did he think he was? He was Li Luxian! The great, almighty Li Luxian! Secretary Zhang stood up as if he had been poked with a hot pointed thing in his a*s.
"Ms. Chen, let me introduce Mr. Li, the young master of the Li family and the heir to Li corporation"
"What?", Chen Feng’s eyes widened to their last extent as she looked from his subordinate to that bumpkin, then at the subordinate, then at the bumpkin.
"You must be joking. Right?"
Zhang’s face was stiff. Not looking like he was joking.
Li Luxian. Who was not aware of that name?
Her heart skipped a beat as her mind processed the Zhang Min’swords.
Without wasting another second, she took out her cell and typed his name on a Baidu with swift fingers. That familiar face popped out in the front. Chen Feng looked at the picture then at him.
It was really him!
She looked at the man sitting at her lowly and humble couch. His temperament was calm and poised. A noble aura extended in his vicinity, so intense that difficult to overlook. She felt dizzy. How could she had possibly not noticed it earlier!
"Ms. Chen are you alright? You look pale."
How could she be alright when someone like him was sitting in front of her after she had offended him!
"M-Mr Li", she said lamenting how unfortunate she was, "Why did you not tell me t-that night that it was you?"
"You didn’t give me a chance"
"Y-You could just have shouted it out when I grabbed you", Chen Feng stuttered as she took a couple of steps back.
This person was clearly not here to play cards with her.
She was considering to dash out of her apartment in the first chance. She stealthily slipped closer to the door. But her slight movements couldn’t evade Li Luxian incisive eyes. He gave a notion to his men. They slammed shut the door.
Only now had she noticed that it was not only him. There were at least five well-built bodyguards with him all dressed in black, gloomy color. She was in big, big trouble!
Chen Feng heart throbbed.
Now there was only death or Mr. Li.
"As I said you, you didn’t give me a chance. And the moment after I was grabbed, I was kissed and later when I tried to hint you, I was thrown with money and called a bumpkin"
Chen Feng wanted to bang her head in a wall and die from a hemorrhage right then and there. Not only she kissed Li Luxian, the tyrannical Li Luxian of the great Li family, but she also called him a bumpkin and threw some petty notes at him! Those crimes were enough to sentence her with a death penalty!
"Why do you look like you are about to cry? Ms. Chen, I’m not here to murder you"
"Then why are you here?", she summoned her courage to ask meekly.
If not for murdering her, why was he here? There was no other logical reason for him to be here...
"Why don’t you take a seat while we discuss it?"
With trembling legs, she walked to him and tok a seat, far, far away from him.
"Better", he commented coolly.
He grabbed a few papers from his secretary and carelessly threw them on the table.
- My request is.......that you marry me
- My request is.......that you marry me
- My request is.......that you marry me
There were countless newspapers from different media channels. And on the front page of all, there was a photo of Chen Feng kissing him. Written in the bold letter was.
’The heir of Li corporates caught cheating on his fiance’
’Eldest son of Li family, Li Luxian had been seen intimate with a woman for the first time’
’The identity of the woman still unknown. Would Wang Hualing be able to forgive her fiance?’
’Does this event marks the end of a hundred years long alliance between Li and Wang families?’
’One night-strand or an illicit long term affair?’
’Li enterprise stock prices has gone down by two percent in just two days’
It was entirely her fault! The situation was clearly out of control. Chen Feng had no idea what could she do to amend for her sins. Had she known who he was before making that move...
There was no use regretting it now.
"What can I do to mitigate the situation?" If she was to make an enemy of someone like Li Luxian, she wouldn’t last a minute. Her voice was pliant, confirming her complete corporation. "If I give a statement the incident was entirely my fault..."
"Your statement would be of no value, Ms. Chen. They wouldn’t believe it then no matter what evidence you put forth to support it. If anything, it would give further air to their suspicion. The situation is beyond redemption now"
"Mr. Li I’ll do whatever I..."
"Forget about the scandal", he didn’t let her complete her, "What about my smartphone? It was the only one in the entire world sent to me as a present by a friend of mine. You have no idea how much it cost"
Deja Vu.
He had the same words to her just after she had thrown a few petty notes at him. But now his words held an entirely different color.
"I’m sure someone as influential as President Li has the ability to get a thousand smartphones like that!", Chen Feng said with a hint of flattering in her voice, sugar-coating her words.
At that time she was recalled of the time when she had accused him of robbing her and she cursed herself a thousand times.
How could she be such unfortunate?
Out of . billion people on earth, it had to be him that night?
She felt like Gods were playing some sort of game with her fate to produce something exciting out of her life and kill their boredement.
"Let’s leave aside the phone for now. You can never compensate for the damage caused by the loss of all the valuable data my cell contained", Li Luxian said shaking his head.
Secretary Zhang Xin’s ears bled.
There was no data loss! His boss was clearly lying and yet so fluently and shamelessly.
"Compensation?"
This man was clearly here to dig a grave for her. Wasn’t he?
Even talking about compensation? What could he possibly get from the broke her?
"To summarise it in one sentence, you have caused damage of ten Millions RMB to me and that’s not counting the expenses required to dispel the rumor"
Chen Feng suffered an HP damage of exact points.
"I hope you take responsibility so that we don’t have to get the layers. Though I don’t mind it if you insist, it gets troubling with all the people and media"
She felt herself drowning in an abyss of darkness.
Perhaps it was her end.
Now that his victim was desperate and hopeless, Li Luxian smiled satisfied and worked out his next step to give her a glimpse of hope.
"However..."
Chen Feng who was already feeling herself drowning into a realm of depression saw that word as the last hope of a dying man.
"However?"
"You can save the trouble by conceding to a small request of mine"
"R-Request?"
"Yes, a ’small’ request", Li Luxian said with an enigmatic smile. He knew that his prey couldn’t escape his clutches now.
Seeing that mysterious smile blooming on his face that clearly depicted ’my intentions are all evil and immoral’, Chen Feng’s hands unconsciously raised and covered her front as she took a step back.
"What is it?"
"Ms. Chen, you have a very imaginative mind"
Red crept to Chen Feng’s face as she suddenly realized that the implications of her reaction were too obvious. Due to her white face, her blush was even more emphasized and added to her embarrassment.
Zhang Xin coughed slightly to make his presence obvious when his President wouldn’t stop staring at the blushing woman with a foolish smile.
"Just tell me already. I’ll do it whatever it is", she said timidly looking at that formidable man through her long eyelashes.
At least it would be better than spending the rest of her days under the bars. Or worse, being killed.
"My request is...", Li Luxian looked at her with his deep shimmering eyes, "that you marry me"
Chen Feng’s brain exploded.
Mr. Li, you call that a small request?
- I find you tolerable
- I find you tolerable
- I find you tolerable
Marry him?
Haha! Now it all made sense to her! It was a dream! Chen Feng pinched her wrist to wake up from that bizarre dream. She didn’t wake up. Perhaps, she had to pinch harder. She tried again.
Huh? Still didn’t wake up?
"Ms. Chen I’m being serious here. My request is that you marry me"
Now she was sure that Gods were having a fun time watching her bizarre life from above.
Chen Feng looked at that flawless, chiseled face who was the dream of so many girls. Countless women would sell themselves just to be with him for a night. And the thought of marrying him was a fantasy they wouldn’t dare to indulge themselves into.
"Mr. Li I’m not understanding you. Are you asking for a fake marriage?"
"A trial marriage"
"You are asking for a real marriage?", she asked; her voice shocked; disbelief brimming in her deep brown eyes and somehow making her look like a clueless kitten.
"Yes", Li Luxian replied simply sparing the use of words.
Chen Feng was quiet for a while.
"I don’t get you. Mr. Li, it is so...", Chen Feng trailed off not sure what to say.
"But this is what my request is"
Chen Feng wanted to cry. Was it alright to call it a request when she had no other choice other than agreeing to it? A request is something where you have at least the right of choice!
"Secretary Zhang", Li Luxian said finally, finding his wife about to cry.
"Yes, Mr. Li", he pulled out a long printed contract and gave it to her.
With her cold fingers, Chen Feng opened the pages and started reading its contract. She realized that Mr. Li was not joking. He came well prepared for what he wanted from her that indicated that he was serious about that marriage thing. She took her time reading the terms with utmost heed and vigilant of every minute detail. Li Luxian waited patiently for her to finish. His wife was not naive at all.
"The contract stated I’m obliged to stay in a marriage with you for a time period of a year. After the time if any of the participants want to back out from the marriage, then we have the liberty to get it?", Chen Feng wanted to confirm.
"Yes.", Li Luxian said coldly. He didn’t quite like the idea of backing out.
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