“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
“The Lu family is working with the underworld?” Hans asked as he glanced at his cousin in disbelief. Over the years the Underworld was one part of Marina City that both families had failed to control. If the Lu family managed to pull into their fold the leaders of the Underworld and Stephen was not the head of the Essen Mafia, they would have easily crushed the Cho family.“They don’t, sir. At least not yet.” John clarified as he spoke to the cousins over the phone.“What do you mean?” Hans asked.“No one person can rule over the underworld of Marina City, let alone this country.” John told Hans. “The city and this country is too diverse for any one person to take control. There is also the matter of people like the Lu and Cho families that make taking control even more difficult.”“Isn’t the Essen Mafia powerful enough to get them to follow?” Hans asked as he looked at his cousin.“Not as just the Essen Mafia.” Stephen said with a smile on his lips. “Huh?” Hans was now even more
When Stephen declared the changes when it came to who would inherit the Cho family fortune in the future, Ina was no longer able to keep the reporters in line.Stephen decided to end the press conference there and move on.He, Vanessa, and Hans all left the stage and returned to Stephen’s office at the top floor. They were greeted by Paolo’s laughter as they entered the room, he was playing with Amalia and Robert. “Shouldn’t you be putting out the fire I just started downstairs?” Stephen asked as he gave Robert an amused look.His friend was never big on children.As a matter of fact, Robert was probably the one that was most against having children in their friend group. So it was quite the surprise for Stephen to see Robert happily playing with a child.“They don’t need me to put out that fire.” Robert chuckled as his phone began to ring next to him.“Shi-” Robert began to curse.“Language!” Both Hans and Stephen shouted, making Robert jump in surprise. “You two are going to scar
Paolo Cho was a handsome child, it was something that the reporters couldn’t deny. He had received amazing genes from the Fredrikson, Ong, and Cho families, making him probably one of the best looking children around.But when Paolo Cho smiled he won the hearts of everyone in the crowd, even those that wanted to speak badly of the Cho and Fredrikson families.They might have been bribed by the Ong families and their allies, but there was no denying that Pablo Cho was happy.Pablo waved at the crowd and smiled. He then hugged his father as he shied away from the crowd again.People couldn’t blame the little boy, he had lived his entire life in hiding and now, all of a sudden he was in front of hundreds of people. Every single one of the reporters wanted to snap a photo of him or his father. It was obvious that Paolo was already getting uncomfortable with the situation.“I’ll bring him in.” Amalia volunteered as she took Paolo from Hans, allowing him to stand straight and glare at the
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“Ah, I see you’ve noticed it.” Stephen said as he saw the confused expression on some of the reporters' faces.Not everyone had seen a DNA test in the past. Normally when businessmen and actors were trying to prove they were not the father of a child, the match would be much lower compared to what was flashed on the screen.“Allow me to explain for those who are seeing a DNA test for the first time.” Stephen said with a smile. “The report you are seeing behind me says that I am somehow related to Gabrielle Ong’s child. Now for those that are familiar with the genealogy of the Ong and Cho families, we are not in any way related.”The members of the media nodded as they slowly absorbed the information that Stpehen was telling them.Most were genuinely surprised at how kind Stephen sounded and at how willing he was to explain the situation to them.Normally, leaders in the same position as Stephen had little to no patience to explain trivial thing such as these, but Stephen took his tim
The parking lot of Philip Tower was filled with people chatting among themselves.It was no mystery what the Cho family was about to announce, they all knew that the biggest issue of that time was if Stephen Cho did or didn’t have an illegitimate child.Many people claimed that it was just a ploy of the Ong family to get their members out of jail.Others said that there was truth to it, especially since Gabrielle Ong was Stephen’s ex girlfriend.No matter what rumor people believed they all still wanted to be there. They all wanted to hear the truth and they all wanted to report it first. Inside the lobby of Philip Tower, Stephen looked out at the crowd that had formed.He had never expected that these many people would be interested in their personal lives. He thought that mostly gossip columnists would appear, but it seemed that every kind of reporter stood in their office’s parking lot.“You can’t seriously be surprised.” Hans said as he stood next to his cousin.“I just didn’t th
“We need to make a press release, the media will not leave us alone if we don’t.” Amalia told her brother as they sat around the meeting table in his office.Among those Stephen had invited were people he believed were crucial when it came to the matter of Paolo Cho’s identity.“Have you gotten the Ong family under control?” Stephen asked as he looked to his cousin.He knew that only a few days had passed and that Hans had his hands full watching over Paolo, but they needed to make sure that the Ong family wouldn’t cause them problems.“Almost, there are still some who are trying to question my ability.” Hans said with a malicious grin. “My people are making sure they understand who I am today.”Stephen nodded, impressed by Hans’ efficiency with dealing with the matter of the Ong family.“So we can schedule a press release today, the news agencies will publish it tomorrow and everything will be settled.” Amalia said as she thought of the timeline in her head.“No, we won’t just releas
Miguel and Manuel might come from a weaker family than the Cho’s but they had begun as Stephen’s friends, so Stephen decided to accompany Miguel to the airport the next day.He had offered for Miguel to use his private jet and the younger Villanueva brother happily accepted the offer.Stephen and Manuel stood on the tarmac with Miguel as they said their final goodbyes.“I’m guessing I won’t see you for a while, boss.” Miguel teased him.Technically now it was true that Stephen was their boss. With the trade to protect their family name, they were more like his henchmen doing his bidding rather than his partners through a treaty.“Most likely.” Stephen said with a nod.His wife was pregnant and he had no intentions of leaving her alone for too long. “I just wanted to say, thank you.” Miguel told Stephen. “You helped us back then and you helped us again now. Jacob would have ruined our family if news got out about his cases.”Stephen nodded, then he realized something, he forgot to as
Stephen had been exhausted by the night before.Paolo had woken up in the middle of the night and cried out for both Hans and Stephen. Stephen had been sleeping with the little boy at the time, but he refused to calm down unless his Daddy Hans was there.It seemed Paolo had settled on what to call them.Hans was Daddy, and Stephen was Papa. In the same way, he called Vanessa his Mama. When Stephen had asked a maid to call for Hans, his cousin seemed like he was about to burst into tears because his son had called for him.“Boss?” Andrew called, waving his hand in front of Stephen. “Sorry, Paolo had a hard time sleeping after yesterday’s incident. What were you saying Andrew?”Stephen asked as he tried to focus on the discussion at hand.“The bidding for the latest piece of land that that government has put up for sale starts in a week. The procurement director wanted to ask if you wished to purchase it.” Andrew informed Stpehen as he handed him the details of the piece of property.