Fang Mi immediately stood up and left the small ugly house that belonged to her stepsister. She didn't want to stay there a minute longer than she had to. Fang looked back and contemplated burning the little house down with the people still inside. Oh how that would fix her problems right now. She smiled at the thought.
Instead, she would have to play the sweet innocent daughter in law act. "Jainjun, please drive us back to the house. I have bad news to tell father."
Fang Mi was soon back at the Ruo family estate pacing back and forth in her stepfather's study.
"I'm telling you it's worse than we thought father. She was wearing nothing but silky revealing Pajamas in the middle of the afternoon with one of the men from the online rumors."
"She took so long answering the door I'm sure they were doing unspeakable things."
"I think maybe sister has done something underhanded to get a deal from him because he had her sign a contract. Maybe all of the rumors online are true after all father!"
"I mean what kind of decent women allows a dirty man in her home alone in the afternoon like that anyway unless..." Fang stopped and with an award-winning tearful face she blurted the rest of her words out, "unless she is on drugs." With tears and panic on her face, she continued on. "Oh no. Father? Do you think that could be it? Do you think that she could be on drugs now? Maybe that's why it took so long to answer the door?"
Fang Mi just needed to plant seeds of doubt in her stepfathers mind. Soon she would see which daughter he favors. Fang Mi smiled to herself. The inheritance, the company, this estate, this will all belong to her and her mother one day.
CEO Ruo looked at the photos of his daughter Zhi Ruo online again. He watched a video of Jin Hyun and Mr. Min having a rap battle in a club all for Zhi Ruo's favor and saw another suggestive photo of Zhi with Tadashi. He paused over the photo of her and Tadashi. This was no doubt the boy he had paid a million dollars to leave Zhi Ruo alone completely. So what was he doing with her in a club?
CEO Ruo was a calm man. This unique quality of his is what had gotten him to be the rich man he was today. He put the pen that had been in his hand down on his neatly organized desk.
He never made giving money away a habit. Every last cent he spent was well calculated. Giving money to that boy was an investment in CEO Ruo's eyes. The investment for his own security and peace of mind. That's why CEO Rio made the decision 7 years ago to pay the boy to keep shut. He even went as far as sending his daughter away to boarding school. he even made a deal with that wretched man. The incident was swept under the rug quickly and nobody found out.
Nobody was to know about what happened to Zhi Ruo when she was 12. There must never be anything that could link him to the underworld. There were much worse things to be found out if people started to dig. And right now that meant Tadashi being back was a problem. But to any problem, there is a solution. "She will marry him."
Fang mi stopped. "What. You can't be serious father?"
"Why not, If a man defiled my daughter then i will make him take responsibility." He said firmly.
"Well, she has a scandal with three men, are you going to have her marry all three?" Fang Mi questioned.
CEO Ruo thought about it. Even if she just married one of the men from the scandal it would solve the issue. If she married this Tadashi then he would keep their business to themselves and if she married one of the other men then the Tadashi man is out of the equation. "She will pick one and them then the problem will be solved."
"Now go help your mother. She is in the kitchen working on the menu for the month with the Chef. Try and persuade her to take her mother's duck off the menu this month, will you?"
Fang Mi was furious but obediently left the room leaving her stepfather alone to make a few calls. He needed all of the information on the three men from online. If one of them was going to marry his daughter he would at least make sure she picked the best one. He also needed to find out more about who sent Tadashi to sign her over to this other company? Was it the CEO of the company himself. Does he know about Tadashi being paid off by him? Does he know why? Who is Tadashi to him?
After the calls, CEO Ruo called Zhi and demanded a lunch date with her tomorrow. Only when she agreed did he hang up.