The Shen mansion
Elder Shen came back home from a sudden meeting from the company which made him tired, the meeting lasted for almost 2 hours. Butler Gu was about to serve elder Shen his favorite green tea but stopped when elder Shen asked for a glass of water instead. He stood up from the couch when he was done drinking his water and told butler Gu that he wanted to rest in his bedroom and went upstairs.
He was going to his room to rest when he walked through the library and saw Francesca sitting on the couch while reading a business book called 'Better Business'. For a few days he saw her reading books, he knew that she was going through a lot. She had a lot of friends in high school but stopped contacting them after she found out that they only contacted her when they didn't have any others to talk too or they only wanted to be friends with her because of her mother was a famous designer. Her only real friend lived almost 5 hours away from her and it was very hard to find a day where they could meet each other.
Elder Shen walked over to her and sat beside her. "Little flower why don't you go out and do some shopping?"
Francesca looked up from her book. "Eh, why pa?".
"Well you are always at home reading books, and you threw a lot of clothes a few days ago," he said standing up taking out his wallet and handed her his black card. "Remember to buy our favorite caramel pudding on your way home."
Francesca chuckled and received his black card, she was about to go and get ready when elder Shen stopped her. "Oh don't forget to take bodyguards with you little flower."
"Then I will only take two bodyguards with me," said Francesca looking clearly at elder Shen that she doesn't want more than two bodyguards.
Elder Shen wanted her to take at least five bodyguards with her but he knew she wouldn't like it if he asked two more bodyguards to watch over them secretly. Elder Shen heaved a sigh before he nodded. She happily gave him a big hug before she left to get ready. After a while, she came downstairs wearing a white crop top along with a waist patch pocket pants, a black Michael Kors shoulder purse, cross earrings matching with her necklace, a pair of Gucci sunglasses and put her long hair in a low ponytail. She saw two female bodyguards standing right beside assistant Yu.
"Young miss this is Ivy and Alex, they will accompany you to the mall." said assistant Yu.
"Oh, that's nice! Where is pa?" asked Francesca.
"Chairman Shen went upstairs to rest, this meeting today was a bit intense." said assistant Yu looking a bit worn out.
"Then, please tell pa that I'm going out now, and you should also rest assistant Yu," said Francesca walking to the door wearing her Air Force 1 shoes.
"Yes young miss, have a nice day!" said Assistant Yu smiling to her.
Francesca went outside and saw Chauffeur Zen and her two bodyguards Ivy and Alex standing bedside her Audi a4 b8 matte grey. Alex opened the door for Francesca and she entered the car.
They arrived in front of the mall gate after a quick 15-minute car ride. "Thank you, chauffeur Zen I will call you to pick us up later," said Francesca before she walked into the mall with Ivy and Alex right behind her.
She went to different clothing stores and bought a lot of new clothes, she didn't know that she will actually buy many things, and soon Ivy and Alex's two hands were full of shopping bags. They took the escalator up and she saw some bench and told Ivy and Alex to sit for a while. Both Ivy and Alex hesitated for a bit but decided to sit down when they saw Francesca sat down.
"I think I'm done shopping," said Francesca looking a bit worried over Ivy and Alex. She was trying to carry some of her shopping bags but Ivy and Alex would always refuse to let her carry anything.
Ivy saw that Francesca was looking worried at them. "Young miss you don't have to be worried about us, we are doing fine, you can continue shopping if you want to."
"Oh then I will just only go to the Chanel store, you guys don't have to come with me the Chanel store is right over there," said Francesca and pointed at the store. Ivy stood up immediately and told Alex to watch over those shopping bags and went inside with Francesca.
They went inside and was welcomed by one of the employers right away, this employer recognized Francesca as the daughter of the well-known fashion designer Evelyn Shen. She asked if they needed help to find anything, but Francesca kindly rejected her and told her that she didn't need any help right now and walked over to look at some clothes. Ivy saw Francesca was looking at a cute summer dress from the other side of the store and went to the other side to bring it over to her. She was about to go to Francesca when someone suddenly snatched the dress from her hand.
Ivy looked surprised at the one that snatched the dress from her hand, this girl wore a short pink neon dress with grey high heels that didn't go with her dress. She has a small face with green eyes and a big forehead. Her nose looked like she recently got a nose job, and her blond hair was put on a high donut-shaped hairstyle.
"Excuse me but I picked that dress for my miss first, can you give it back to me?" asked Ivy looking a bit annoyed.
"What do you mean? I saw it first!" said the woman.
"But I picked it up first for my miss," said Ivy not giving up.
"Doesn't matter your miss haven't bought it yet, so I can basically still take it." said the woman glaring at Ivy.
"You…" Ivy was going to say something but was interrupted by an employer. "Excuse me but I clearly saw this miss taking this dress first so can you kindly give it back to this miss?" asked the employer.
This woman thought that this employer was talking to Ivy and was closing her eyes thinking she won the victory of the dress, but suddenly opened her eyes when it was suddenly silence. She looked at the employer and Ivy looking stupidly at her.
"You was talking to me? I saw that dress first! Forget it where is your miss? How dear you talk back like this to me? Do you know who I'm?" asked the woman.
Both Ivy and the employer was looking at each other before looking at this woman with a question mark written on their face. This woman felt so embarrassed and yelled "Where is your miss?"
Before Ivy could reply Francesca came over. "Her miss is right here,"
The woman turned around and saw Francesca. "Francesca Shen? You should teach your bodyguard have to talk back, I saw the dress first." said the woman holding the dress tightly to her body like it was something so important.
"Oh did you? Then take it then Stacy Lu." said Francesca expressionless.
"But miss Francesca I was the one picking it up first for you," said Ivy not giving up.
"It's okay Ivy, some people never learn from their parents that snatching things from other people is considered as disrespectful," said Francesca looking at Stacy.
"What did you call me?" said Stacy angrily. She walked closer where Francesca stood and
was about slap her when Ivy immediately caught her right arm and pinned behind her back.
A loud shrieking could be heard from her. "Let me go!!!" said Stacy almost crying. Ivy tightened her grip even more "Try to slap my miss and I will not hesitate to break your arm, are we clear?" asked Ivy still pinning her right arm behind her back. Stacy noded but Ivy didn't let her go before she clearly said yes. "Yes!!" said Stacy finally and started to cry loudly like a baby not caring about the people around her.
Francesca and Ivy decided to go out cuz someone just had to be disrespectful and destroyed Francesca's mood on buying anything from the store.
A sound of a phone call could be heard and the owner of this phone picked it up. "Hubby, I'm done shopping could you please pick me up? Uh no, I was not done shopping but a crazy bitch is crying loudly at the store my ear will bleed if I'm still here. Yes, love you too." The owner of the phone walked to the counter. The employer did her job but almost peed on her pants when she was looking at the woman in front of her, the woman gave her a black card and the employer swiped it and gave it respectively back to the woman almost bowing 90 degrees too. "From now on you guys should get some guards in this store," she said taking back her black card. "Yes, Miss Lee (aka Haylin)," said the employer shivering.
Stacy who was not standing so far from the counter could hear everything loud and clear and stopped crying. She saw miss Lee/Haylin walking to her. "Stop being a bitch so you don't embarrass yourself and your parents next time," said miss Lee/ Haylin walking past Stacy. People in the store saw miss Lee/Haylin walking out and turned their look at Stacy who was so embarrassed and threw the dress down to the floor and ran outside of the store.
Meanwhile, Francesca was annoyed but didn't really show that she was annoyed in front of Ivy and Alex. They went through a suit store and she saw a suit that caught her attention, she knew that her pa only wore black suits, and thought that he will fit a dark blue suit. She went inside and bought the dark blue suit before they were officially done shopping today.
They went outside to the parking lot at the first floor and saw chauffeur Zen driving to them, Ivy and Alex were putting Francesca's shopping bags behind the trunk, they were about to enter the car when they suddenly saw Francesca getting out of the car. She told them that she remember that she was also going to buy a healthy tea to her pa and ran inside the mall before Ivy and Alex could react.
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Outside of the mall
"Hello princess," said Mike
"Dawdy somone was bulyying mehh wahhhh and thes is to embarising miss Lee was there huw can I faceee him now whuu? waahhhhhhh" said Stacy bawling her eyes out.
"Listen princess daddy doesn't understand you if you are crying and talking at the same time. What about you go home and tell me so we can punish this person hmm?" asked Mike.
"Noo! I must see for myself that she is gone huuuuu," said Stacy looking like a madwoman.
"Okay tell me what happened first," said Mike.
"That bitch Francesca embarrassed me and miss Lee was there wahhh how can I face my future sister-in-law? waaahhhhh" asked Stacy crying even more.
"What? Princess wait there daddy gonna send over daddy's men to you," said Mike
"Huurry huuuuuu I'm so embarrassed wahhhhhh," said Stacy crying louder than before.
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Parking lot on the second floor
Francesca found the famous tea shop and bought more healthy tea than one particular tea she planned to buy and went outside. She was holding a tea pack and read the ingredients when she felt suddenly an arm around her shoulder, she looked up and saw a guy smirking at her with his gang around them.
"Sup baby girl! Are you alone here?" said the guy holding around her shoulder. People around the parking lot ran away when they saw the gang members.
"I was about to meet my girlfriend right now," said Francesca trying to take his arm away from her.
"Wowow not to fast girl. Why don't you wanna play with us?" said the guy, still having his wrapped arm plastered around on her shoulder.
Francesca's blood was starting to pump by the fact that the man didn't keep his arm to himself and spoke, "I already told you that I'm gonna meet my girl-friends, now can you please unwrap your arm and leave me alone?"
"Oh someone's got temper guys," he said mockingly to the other guys.
Francesca tried once again to remove his arm, but no luck. He then proceeded to pull her close to his body the moment she resisted and got slightly difficult to handle. She parted her lips to let out a cry for help, but one of the man's friends placed a hand on top of her mouth – silencing her.
"Miss Francesca" yelled both Ivy and Alex and ran towards Francesca and those gang members.
Everyone turned around. "Fuck they must be her bodyguards." said the guy holding Francesca. "Call the boys over fast!" he commended. One of the guys took his phone out and gave a quick call.
Ivy and Alex tried to get their hands off her but didn't succeed, suddenly 10 men came out of nowhere and surrounded them, which made it hard for both Ivy and Alex to come even closer to Francesca. They tried so hard to defend themself at the same time as they tried to come closer to protect Francesca. Ivy and Alex were focused on all the punches they were dodging and wasn't focused on what happened behind them before they knew it a loud scream could be heard from Francesca and before they could react they felt a sharp pain behind their neck and passed out. Francesca tried to scream again but was held by those guys. She heard a glass breaking and before she knew it they placed a cloth in front of her mouth. Soon after, she passed out.
The guy who was holding on Francesca took up his phone and called someone. "We have the chick Lao Da Gin."
(Lao Da means big brother/leader from a gang member.)
"Good!" said the person from the other line.
"Brother David what are we gonna do about them?" asked one of those guys. The guy name David was looking at both Ivy and Alex lying on the grown. "Let just leave them be, Lao Da Gin is waiting for us let's hurry up and go."