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
“You can step out now.” Eldich Cho called out to Stephen and his companions.Stephen’s team looked at him nervously. They had never expected to witness something like this in their life.They had just uncovered a secret that the Chairman and Vice President were hiding.“Let’s go.” Stephen nodded as he led them out of the lounge back into the office.“Please, sit.” The Chairman gestured as Stephen led the group to sit back down on the couch. When everyone was settled, Mr. Kai came in with medicines for the chairman as well as refreshments for Stephen and his team.“I’m sorry you had to hear that.” Eldrich Cho said with a frown as he looked at the employees seated in front of him.“Will you have to kill us now? I promise we won’t tell anyone, please don’t kill us or hurt our families.” Carissa said, practically sobbing.“What?” Eldrich Cho asked, confused about their reactions.“Grandfather, they think you will hurt them because of what they heard.” Stephen whispered to Eldrich Cho as
“Relax, he just wants to meet my fiance and see how things are going.” Stephen gave the first excuse that crossed his mind.It wasn’t even a lie. Eldrich Cho wanted to meet his future granddaughter in law and to catch up with his grandson, Stephen just omitted the fact that he was the chairman’s grandchild. “We haven’t even met your fiance yet.” Carissa complained.“Yeah, whoever managed to nab you must be a beauty.” Natalia commented, making everyone look at her in shock and laugh. “I never pegged you as the kind of person to make a comment like that, Natalia.” Stephen said as he grinned and they met Mr. Kai in the hallway.“Good afternoon Mr. Kai.” Stephen and his team greeted.“Sir, we’ve arranged for Miss Isabelle’s transfer to your team, her things have also been transferred.” Mr. Kai reported. “Thank you Mr. Kai.” Stephen said with a nod. Mr. Kai hesitated for a moment, as if there was something he wanted to say.“Have a good day, Mr. Kai.” Stephen told the man as they walk
“Hey, love.” Stephen said as he drove through the city after picking Vanessa up.“Yeah?” Vanessa asked as she looked at him, worried that he would be upset about what had happened at the restaurant.“I need to meet up with the guys tonight.” Stephen told her. He knew that she would understand what he meant by the guys. She had met them on multiple occasions and had preferred to stay away from that side of Stephen’s life. “Alright. Just be careful.” She told Stephen as the continued to drive home.There was an awkward silence in the car, making Stephen worry.“Is something wrong?” Stephen asked Vanessa.“Are you mad about what happened at the restaurant with Mr. Ling and my friend Ginny?” Vanessa finally asked. She knew that keeping worries and secrets like these were not good for a relationship.“No. Is that what was bothering you?” Stephen chuckled. “Yes.” Vanessa confessed. “I thought you’d be mad that people keep trying to insist that I should date someone better than you.”Steph