“What made you-” As Stephen spoke, Mr. Ong suddenly arrived in their office area.“Stephen Sy!” Mr. Ong shouted, furious possibly about the rumors that Stephen had gotten into trouble with the Chairman.“Good morning, Mr. Ong.” Stephen calmly greeted, not wanting to make things worse for him.His team eyed Stephen cautiously. They didn’t understand why he was so calm, it was as if there was no way he could be in the wrong, and yet it seemed like he had messed up in the eyes of Mr. Ong.All the members of Stephen’s team were quite aware of how bad Mr. Ong’s anger could get. He, after all, expected only the best from his people. “I sent you to complete a task and you failed at it so miserably that the Chairman had to scold you personally?!” Mr. Ong questioned, he was turning red in anger as he glared at Stephen.“Mr. Ong, who told you I failed in the task you asked me to do?” Stephen questioned his boss as he walked over to prepare coffee for Mr. Ong.He was still a guest in their area
Mr. Ong left utterly confused, and it wasn’t just him, even Stephen’s team were shocked on how easily and quickly he had managed to settle the matter.“Lowe City has been a problem for months!” Natalia Wu exclaimed as soon as the door closed behind Mr. Ong and the team were allowed their privacy again. “You didn’t say that’s the issue he asked you to settle.” “It didn’t seem like a big deal when Mr. Ong brought it up.” Stephen shrugged. “He told me he was giving me the task because I lived in Lowe city for a bit. No one even told me how important the task was.”“Lowe City has been a pain in the operation and sales’ team’s asses for a really long time now.” Michael Ho explained. “Well, it’s solved now.” Stephen said, brushing off the matter. He didn’t want them asking too many questions since he had taken extraordinary measures to deal with the matter. “Let’s focus on the task we were left with, who has the report?”Carissa raised her hand and stood up. She handed Stephen a folder w
Vanessa Ty smiled as she sat across Jacob Ling. “So how long have you and your boyfriend been together? The one that escorted you to my sister’s birthday party?” Jacob Ling behaved as if the rest of Vanessa’s team were not around.“Fiance.” She corrected Jacob Ling. “Fiance.” He corrected himself with a smooth smile, not showing that he was bothered by the fact that he had met Vanessa Ty too late.“We’ve been together for two years, but I’ve loved him for almost six years.” Vanessa plainly answered as their food was served. “What kind of man makes a woman wait four years to love her back?” Jacob Ling scoffed looking down at Stephen Sy.“A man that has eyes set on much greater prize, Mr. Ling.” Vanessa answered, addressing him as formally as possible.“Well, I believe that if a man truly loves a woman, he should not wait. Who knows, another man might also want that woman?” Jacob Ling said as a flirtatious smile crossed his lips. “And what if the woman doesn’t want him?” A familiar
Stephen chose to arrive via taxi rather than to take his car. He didn’t want to go through the hassle of looking for a parking spot again. When he arrived at the restaurant, he couldn’t help but sigh and shake his head. He knew the place, it belonged to a classmate of Amalia’s, one she tolerated and could consider a friend. Unfortunately for Stephen, when he arrived, the first person he bumped into was Jacob Ling who had stepped out to take a call.When the other man saw him, he grinned and walked up to Stephen.“Mr. Sy.” Jacob Ling spoke his name as if it were quite disgusting.“Mr. Ling, what a surprise to see you here.” Stephen said, pretending that his fiance had not told him about lunch with the businessman, or that his sister had not called him to complain.“Well, I had meeting with your girlfriend.” Jacob Ling answered.“Fiance.” Stephen corrected him.“I’m sorry, what?” Jacob Ling gave him a confused look as they stood outside of the restaurant. “She’s my fiance, she’s not
“Why did you have to do that?” Stephen grumbled as he sat down across from his sister. He crossed his arms and glared at her, making Amalia frown.“You didn’t have to come.” Amalia grumbled as she waved a waiter to bring food and drinks to them.“If I didn’t show up, you and Robert would be all across the news. People will gossip that you are dating your dead brother’s best friend.” Stephen hissed as he scolded his sister. “I couldn’t let Jacob Ling getting his dirty hands all over my sister in law!” Amalia said a little bit too loudy, making Stephen throw her another glare. Amalia was quick to cover her mouth, realizing her mistake. Next to her Robert laughed and shook his head.“You know, she hasn’t been this way since before the incident.” Robert said with a sad smile.“The incident?” Stephen asked, confused by his friend’s words.“He meant since you died.” Amalia explained. Gone was her smile, she was now looking down in embarrassment.“I’m back now.” Stephen said as he tried
Vanessa drummed her fingers on the table, she knew that she shouldn’t rely on Stephen for things even if he was the young master of the Cho family. She also wanted to be more useful to him. Someday Stephen would be the richest and most powerful man in the country and she wanted to be someone worthy of standing next to him.Vanessa did fairly well at work, she had just started but she was already placed in charge of many big projects. But to stand next to Stephen she felt like she needed to do more, be more. “I’m no great beauty.” Vanessa said to herself as she thought of what she had to offer. “My connections are mediocre at best.”“You alright?” Ginny Yeoh asked as she passed by Vanessa’s desk. “Yeah, I just wish I could give my fiance more. Help him out with his work or the errrr. . . business he plans to start.” Vanessa confessed. She couldn’t tell her officemate that she wanted to help Stephen with his family business, that would raise too many questions.Despite their disagr
“The top floor?!” Carissa asked, panicked that they were going to the executive’s floor. “Won’t we get into trouble for going there?” “No, we’ll be fine.” Stephen said as he turned around to check on the woman. “She’s not injured.” Natalia told Stephen. “I checked her, she has a few scratches and her make up and hair are ruined, but nothing permanent.” Stephen nodded as Michael Ho handed the girl his handkerchief to clean up her makeup. “Wh- why are you being so kind to me?” The woman stuttered. “You’ll get fired for helping me, Miss Ye doesn’t forget and she has so much influence it’s almost impossible to go against her.” “Don’t worry about us.” Stephen said as he smiled at the woman, trying to give her comfort. “So tell me, what’s your name and what happened.” “Isabelle.” The woman responded as she kept looking down. “What Miss Ye said was true, I somehow managed to get Vice President Cho’s attention, but I don’t want it. I have a boyfriend and I love him and I don’t want to
“Father.” Vincent Cho said in a low voice as he entered the room. Mr. Kai had already cleaned up any evidence of the Chairman having had guests and Eldrich Cho had returned to his throne-like place behind his desk.“Well this is a surprise, you’re actually visiting me.” Eldrich Cho’s words were dripping with sarcasm. It was no secret that after Vincent Cho had disinherited his son and divorced his wife, Eldrich Cho became cold towards him.“You know, I’m not fully to blame for our situation.” Vincent Cho said as he stood before his father.“Then who do you want to blame? Your dead son?” Eldrich Cho was clearly mad. “Why did you come here? The last time you came to me was to complain about an employee that showed me the truth, now what will you complain about.”Vincent Cho hesitated, what he had come for was clearly not a business matter.“There is a woman I want fired-” Vincent Cho began to say before he was cut off mid sentence by his father. “A woman your mistress wants you to f