Chapter 64
Ho Gina walked into Shen’s building with a food box in her hand and made her way unimpeded to the president’s office on the top floor.
Her chestnut curls fell casually over her shoulders, and she wore a powder-blue, knee-length, inexpensive dress skirt with sheer stockings on her legs, over a chic trench coat jacket.
A few hints of maturity, a few hints of innocence, and quite a bit of beauty.
“Miss He, CEO Shen is in a meeting and asked you to wait for him in his office for a moment.” Assistant Peng said with a smile.
Ho Gina was slightly stunned, a hint of no this slipped through her heart, staring at Assistant Peng and asking naggingly, “Is there something wrong?”
She was only here to deliver the afternoon order, and she used to come often, and whenever she came Shen Ron was just busy with work and hardly had much contact with her. Could it be that this time she was asked to stay, could it be related to that incident?
In order to have more contact with Shen Ron, she would always come to Shen’s under the pretext of delivering dim sum, and she still delivers it in these days after the poisoning incident, but her heart is on edge, fearing that one day Shen Ron will sweep his stern gaze at her and question her why she tried to poison Yang June.
“It seems that there is something to be entrusted to you to bring back to the old lady.” Assistant Peng continued to smile with a kind face.
CEO Shen had a deal to keep Ho Gina if she came in first.
Once she heard that it was just for her to bring something to the old lady, Ho Gina finally put her mind at ease.
She nodded and smiled, “Good.”
“I’ll go to the meeting first, then.” Assistant Peng turned and walked in the direction of the conference room.
Ho Gina stood alone in this vast office of the president, glanced around, then walked over to the leather chair behind Shen Ron’s desk and sat down.
She’d been here more times than she could count, but it was the first time she could take such a detailed tour as this one, and possibly sit in Shen Ron’s exclusive seat.
This kind of treatment that only Mrs. Shen is entitled to …
She closed her eyes, enjoying the palpitating and beautiful brief moment in time.
Just as she was touched by her fantasy of happiness and beauty, a woman’s conversation suddenly came to her ears, “Isn’t she the maid at Shen Mansion? How can a maid dress up in such an expensive way?”
“Yes, yes, are the maids at Shen Mansion paid more than us? Then why don’t we all go to Shen Mansion and become maids?”
“Maids are for serving their masters, and sweeping and cooking and washing, how can they be higher than us?”
“But look at what she’s wearing, it’s all big foreign brands, yeah.”
“Fake chant.”
“…”
The discussion in the secretary’s department grew lively, and Ho Gina’s hands balled into fists bit by bit, gritting her teeth in anger.
But quickly uncrossed his hands, just wait, one day we’ll make these brainy little vases pay.
The moment she becomes Shen’s young lady, then let them repeat today’s words to her face, then smack their mouths one by one and kick them out of Shen’s. Take a step back, even if she can’t marry Shen Ron, when she graduates from college in a year, it’s natural for her to enter Shen’s job.
With the old lady’s fondness for her position is certainly at her disposal, when the time comes, she will pick the human resources Toby Department, see who does not like it and kick her out.
Such a future is wonderful to think about.
Sitting inside the leather chair, Ho Gina not only subsided, but she even couldn’t help but eat and laugh.
It wasn’t until the phone rang that she stopped laughing and righted herself.
The ringing phone wasn’t hers, and it was coming from inside the drawer under the desk; it was obviously Shen Ron’s phone ringing.
Ho Gina hesitantly pulled open the drawer, her phone ringing short, like the sound of a text message coming in. She glanced up at the door and saw that Shen Ron hadn’t returned yet, as she did, and pulled out her phone and scratched the combination lock.
The password was set to Yang June’s birthday, which was something she could figure out without guessing.
The message is from Cheng Lydia and reads as follows: Hello, this is the First People’s Hospital of the city, your wife has been in a serious car accident and is being resuscitated in the emergency room, please come to the hospital immediately.”
Ho Gina’s pupils went round with disbelief at such information.
Cheng Lydia had a car accident, or a serious one? Is God helping her too?
The message was sent twice, the first time ten minutes ago, and this is the second time.
Ho Gina snapped out of her shock and after a slight hesitation quickly sent back a quick, “Please let me know when you’re dead to collect the body.”
After sending the message, she tapped her thumb twice on the delete button, deleting both messages at the same time, and put the phone back inside the drawer.
After ten minutes of waiting irritably, Cheng Lydia finally waited for a response, and she quickly tapped the message check button, and what met her eyelids was such a cold sentence.
Chung Grace couldn’t wait to drop the skincare products she was holding and sit down next to her, “How’s it going? Is that from Shen Ron? Why doesn’t he just call …”
The latter words were cut off by the content of the message, and she opened her middle, snatching the phone away with an incredulous hand.
“Please let me know when you’re dead to collect the body?” Chung Grace roughly jumped up from the bed, “Shen Ron! I’ll call him for you and curse him to death first!”
Cheng Lydia’s heart can no longer be described as too broken to be described as disappointed.
Is it desperation? No, it hasn’t reached that point!
That’s right, her feelings for Shen Ron aren’t at the point where she can despair because, at best, she was touched by him and liked him just a little bit, at best, she had different feelings for him because he was her first man!
She knew she couldn’t try, with Shen Ron’s distaste for her now, wouldn’t sending him such a message be asking for humiliation?
The phone went through, but it rang for a long time without being answered.
Undeterred, Chung Grace cuts off and redials, only her persistence doesn’t change anything, and Shen Ron still doesn’t answer.
“That’s enough, stop fighting.” Cheng Lydia said to her.
Chung Grace threw her phone on the bed and looked at her askance, “Cheng Lydia, is this the kind of man you want to go back and keep living with?”
Cheng Lydia raised her eyes and stared at her steadily, “I’m not spending time with him, I’m spending time with money.”
When she was discouraged, she would no longer fantasize about the good old days of ‘having a small family with Shen Ron, bringing up the kids and living in peace for the rest of her life’.
“Isn’t it just money?” Chung Grace took her hands and looked extremely excited: “Lydia, don’t worry, what I’m shooting now is a big blockbuster, after the movie airs, I will definitely become a big hit, then it will be wealth Toby rolling in, I can give you as much as you want. Even if you can’t make it to the top, I’ve already climbed up to Master Gu, right? As long as I ask, one million or ten million, he will give it without saying a word.”
Chung Grace is Chung Grace, the ever-present spirit around her.
Cheng Lydia smiled, cool fingertips brushing over her pink cheek, smoothing the strands of hair she’d slipped out of her ear from excitement, and smiled, “You’ll be able to be popular.”
“If you trust me so much, then do as I say, divorce Shen Ron and come to my side.”
Cheng Lydia’s smile faded to bitterness.
She knows better than anyone what kind of path Chung Grace is on. With Gu William’s personality of changing women like clothes, how long can she be in favour? Maybe she’ll be out in the cold before the movie even airs.
Gu William can hold her up, and naturally, he can destroy her.
“How much do you need, I’ll lend it to you now from Gu William.” Chung Grace asked again.
“Don’t always trust and rely on Gu William so much, and don’t ask too much of him.” Cheng Lydia let out a slight sigh, “Men’s promises cannot be trusted, am I not a living example, Lim Toby aside. Shen Ron… just the night of the incident, he was still talking about me being kind and forgiving, to try to love me and to live with me for the rest of my life. But only to turn around and leave me to die and to collect my body …”
“Actually, it’s fine if I don’t borrow money from him, now I have notices all the time, and although my fee isn’t half as much as those big names, I’ve saved some, so I can take it out for you first.”
Touching and grateful … converge into a warm stream that slides into Cheng Lydia’s heart and goes straight to her limbs.
She smiled and nodded.
“You’ve decided to divorce him?”
“I’m off for the weekend, so I’ll go back and talk to them.”
“Okay, I’ll go with you.” Chung Grace gritted her teeth.
Not only was she going to go, she was going to splash that vicious man with tea right to his face!
Cheng Lydia looked at Chung Grace with an angry, hawkish look on her face, patted her on the shoulder, and got up to pour her a glass of water.
In fact, there was no need to talk about it, Shen Ron naturally did not want her to initiate the divorce, and Mrs. Shen never interfered with her and Shen Ron’s affairs. After all, the marriage was made possible by the old lady, who had helped her and had treated her with sincerity.
Shen Ron finished chairing the meeting and went straight back to his office.
From a distance, Ho Gina saw that he and Assistant Peng were coming this way, and Ru straightened his posture and straightened his hair and the foreign clothes on his body.
Shen Ron instructed Assistant Peng as he walked inside, “Get Legal to double check the contract, no approvals or omissions.”
“Okay.” Assistant Peng responded.
Shen Ron stepped into the office and his eyes fell on Ho Gina beside the couch, smiling and nodding at her before walking straight to the back of his desk and handing Assistant Peng a file from it, “Go ahead.”
Assistant Peng took the information and turned around, nodding at Ho Gina to leave the large office.
Assistant Peng left before Ho Gina greeted Shen Ron and took the food on the table top in her hand with a smile, “Young master, I’ve suddenly taken up cooking recently and learnt the art of making dumplings, I made these with my own hands, young master is a connoisseur of eating dumplings, how about rating them for me? ”
“Of course it’s no problem.” Shen Ron came around from behind his desk and walked over to her, taking the food box in her hand with one hand and quickly taking her willow waist with the other.
Is this …?
Ho Gina’s eyes widened in horror, full of disbelief.
The young master had embraced her? Was she dreaming? Or was the young master drunk? But she was leaning right against his chest, close enough to smell his distinctive scent, but didn’t notice the slightest whiff of alcohol.Exclusive content from NôvelDrama.Org.
“Great young master … you …” Ho Gina stalled in speech with her mouth open.
The young master who had always ignored her hugged her, how could this not make her talk crazy?
“You like me, don’t you?” Shen Ron slid the food box in his hand toward the table, his palm gently cupping her delicate chin as he gazed at her with a gaze covered in soft tenderness.
Ho Gina swallowed furiously for a while, her mind in turmoil.
She’d liked him for a long, long time.
It was not easy to wait until he took a step forward and took the initiative to embrace her into his arms, how could she not be thrilled and excited. But … the only trace of reason left in her heart kept reminding her that this was a trap of tenderness set up for her by the young master, and she could not jump, must not jump in, or she would never come out again.
“Eldest Young Master … you don’t … have to do that.” Ho Gina turned red and pushed him away from her side as hard as she could, with a terrified face, “I know that the Eldest Young Master has been trying to find a suitable candidate for marriage recently, but I already have someone I like, I … appreciate the care and concern that the Eldest Young Master has shown to me on a regular basis, but feelings are not to be forced , I … I’m really sorry.”
She was acting so realistic, so overwhelmed, that even tears were flooding her eyes.
Shen Ron turned and sat down gracefully on the couch, looking askance at her with a coldening gaze, “Why did you poison June.”
Upon hearing about poisoning, Ho Gina’s heart immediately went half cold.
Sure enough! It’s all a trap!
Ho Gina’s terrified heart is more than sad that the only time Shen Ron was gentle with her, since it was unkind!
“I don’t.” She shook her head and walked over with a look of emotion, “Young Master, you know full well that I don’t know anything about drugs or where to get them, let alone …”
“You don’t need to stress over and over again that Cheng Lydia knows more than you do.” Shen Ron interrupted her, “I know you don’t understand and can’t get this forbidden drug, I can forgive you this one time if you give up that person behind it.”
The Man Behind the Curtain …
Ho Gina’s heart adds a point of trepidation, she didn’t expect Shen Ron to investigate even the person behind the scenes.
In fact, even she herself didn’t know what kind of person Ms. Ke was. Ms. Ke didn’t have a fixed residence, didn’t have a fixed phone number, and had never even met her face to face, and it was Ling who contacted her every time something happened.
Of course, that wasn’t the main reason she couldn’t answer Shen Ron.
During her first contact with Ling four years ago, Ling had warned her that no matter what happened in the future and what was discovered, she had to bite the bullet and say that she had done nothing and that no one had directed her, or she would be left to die a horrible death.
If she admits to poisoning herself, Shen Ron will let her off the hook for the sake of Zhang Jane.
But if she tells Shen Ron the truth, Ms. Ke won’t let her go, and with the viciousness with which Ms. Ke dealt with Yang June, it’s clear that she’s a character she can’t afford to mess with.
Having gotten into this boat from which there is no turning back, she has no choice but to follow Ms. Ke and continue on.
“Still won’t talk?” Shen Ron said coldly.
Ho Gina raised her face and looked at him with tears on her face, “It’s not that I don’t want to talk about it, but I don’t know what the young master wants me to say. I’ve been taking care of Ms. Yang at Shen Mansion for four years, if I wanted to kill Ms. Yang, I would have done it four years ago, why would I wait until now?”
“A two birds with one stone ploy that you really couldn’t come up with with your brain.”
If Cheng Lydia is innocent, then this mastermind’s ploy is to get Cheng Lydia away from him while getting Yang June killed.
Of course, he couldn’t think of exactly what it was that hated him so much, or … loved him so viciously.
“I still don’t understand what the youngest is saying.”
Shen Ron frowned impatiently, “Do you believe I will turn you over to the police?”
“Young master if you must believe Cheng Lydia, then hand me over to the police, I’m sure they will give me justice.” Ho Gina had a stubborn face.
“Do you know that attempted murder and intentional injury are punishable by jail time?”
“Of course I know that, but I’m not afraid of being right.”
“You …!” Shen Ron was dumbfounded by her gag.
Ho Gina added, “If the Young Master must force me to confess my sins, then I will have no choice but to die to prove my innocence.” Having said that, she turned and walked quickly towards the office door.
“What are you going to do?” Shen Ron leapt up from the couch.
“Get on the roof and prove my innocence.” Ho Gina didn’t look back.
Shen Ron took a few strides forward and grabbed her arm as her palm held the door handle with a firm tug, “Enough, don’t try to cover up your crime by dying!”
Ho Gina was forced to turn around and looked up at him with a sneer, “Does Cheng Lydia dare to prove her innocence by a death? She wouldn’t dare, because she’s weak!”
“Get back!” Shen Ron’s eyes sank as he barked coldly.
“I’m not going back!”
Shen Ron didn’t talk to her much, but turned and walked to his desk, dialed Assistant Peng’s phone and briefly ordered, “Lock the door to the penthouse rooftop, now.”
Hanging up the phone and turning back around, he stared at Ho Gina and said coldly, “Jumping is fine, but not on Shen’s building.”
“You–Shen Rone–!” Ho Gina was so angry that tears welled up in her eyes and glared at him with hatred, then pulled the door panel open and ran out crying.
A group of secretaries outside the door all dumbfounded, have speculated on how only twenty minutes less, CEO Shen bullying people little girls cry.
Inside the president’s office, Shen Ron stood frozen by the door for a long moment before turning around and heading behind his desk. His gaze accidentally landed on the food box on the desk, and with a twist of his foot, he walked over to it.
He slowly and methodically opened the food box, which was insulated and the dumplings inside were still steaming hot. To the naked eye, they looked brightly colored and soft and firm.
He picked a few in his mouth with his chopsticks, the taste was delicious, yet still not the one he was looking for.
Ho Gina says he is a connoisseur of dumplings, but that’s not true, he’s just always searching for the taste of his heart that no chef can make.
After the fall of Yang June, there was only one person who could have made this taste …
Cheng Lydia!
A name he couldn’t bear to remember.
Ho Gina’s credulity led him back into that maze, and he was never sure whether the poisoner was Cheng Lydia or Ho Gina.
Subconsciously, the person he would prefer to trust is actually her …