Previously, in Xiao Jane's bedroom ---
"let's eat together and....shall we discuss about your ongoing crisis? Xiao Guan seemed confident.
"You sure you can help me in my crisis, young man?" Xiao Jane relentlessly asked.
Xiao Guan was already seated on the couch, his juvenile muscular hands setting the table in front of it.
He too, was waiting to spill the beans for her sister's sake!
Song Lin got back after taking care of her outfit, large sized t-shirt with a panda:s face on it, matched with shorts.
She sensed some secrets in the air, when she asked Xiao Guan,
"Now we can talk, right Guan!"
He nodded, his eyes brimming with passion to add fuel to the fire that took place with Xiao Jane's sudden marriage announcement.
"But, here's the thing, my stomach won't let my mind work properly if I let it starve, so...."
"Let's eat it first then, let's eat so that we can digest some extra information along with food" Xiao Jane remarked.
They all ate breakfast together and Lin got to know that Guan has some information behind the idea of this contractual marriage situation. As soon as Xiao Guan took his last bite, he felt as if he was being attacked with two fiery eyes, hungry for the gossip.
"Okay, okay, I'll start now" he washed his hands and the three of them sat in a circle around the bed.
Both eyes and ears were on Xiao Guan as he opened his mouth to speak, "Listen Sisters! It's about time I let my detective skills show in front of you.....not gonna lie but...when I came back from my basketball practice .....I saw..." he stopped, his face getting serious.
Jane and Lin kept holding their breath as to wonder what's coming next.
"..... I saw ...a man, same age around our father, sitting in his study two days before the day you came home, that is ten days back.....
I suspected something odd as Father had never invited his business partners at his home for professional matters. He had always liked to deal with them within the company boundaries!"
"You're right Guan, since we were child, he only allowed a few people to enter the hall of our villa. He was so conscious of the people he will allow and those he had never allowed. Even if they enter, it's always the living room. Isn't it suspicious he invited someone in his study!" Xiao Jane's eyes grew wider with each facts that were opening.
"That's why when Guan saw that man in his study, he couldn't help but suspect that something was much more than a simple business matter, was going on inside." Song Lin highlighted the essentiality of Guan's curiosity.
"Lin Mei Mei is right..... that's why I planned.... to dig a little more and I came to know....." he stopped.
"C'mon Guan, don't leave it on an illegal cliffhanger!!" exclaimed Xiao Jane.
Xiao Guan looked at both of them. Took two deep breaths and continued,
"I found out that...that Father Ming's investors where alleging .....that our company Xiao Empire is about to go bankrupt because of the transfer of employees of the company .....to our competitors!"
"What are you saying Guan! Why I don't know anything regarding this issue, even though I was overseas I....."
"It's not like this Jane Mei Mei! Father is keeping it a secret even from us, not even Mother knows, what would you remark on that?"
"Why Father has been dealing with this alone? He always have been a good leader, and I thought our employees were atleast loyal!"
Song Lin was dumbfounded, not able to add anything after that.
"I got this information.... when I contacted Uncle Su!"
"Uncle Su..... Father's old friend and his company's number one investor right?"
"Yes, I told him that I was concerned about Father's health and I must know what was going on with him....So he bent to tell me all these things Father have been hiding.....it's not only this, He informed me that Our company's 10% shares has already been sold due to some corrupt employees leaking information from within the company to outside. Father wasn't shocked by this loss even though it's worth billions! Till now Uncle Su is the one who's preventing other investors to suspect anything or change investments....." he said it all with tensed expressions.
"Oh God! All of this has been happening and Father was dealing it with alone even when his health has been less than better? But I still wonder Guan.....where comes the role of this marriage...if the lost shares are just 10%, Father could have placed a legal notice and a team of investigators would have searched for the information leak and --"
"Let Guan state his full research girl! Calm Down!" Song Lin assured her.
Xiao Jane was in disdain to know these critical things, but the most important part of this mess is the marriage which is gonna decide her fate.
The atmosphere was tensed.
"I....spied Father's study the day you arrived! I was flipping past through some files when I saw an agreement signed by my future brother-in-law...."
"Stop calling him that, it gives me chills down my spine!" Xiao Jane worded her dislike towards Mo Fengshi and the marriage.
"I'm sorry Jane Jane..but at this point-, ok leave it,.....so I was telling that that contract I spied upon.... stated that Father Ming, due to his recurrent health issues, has been feigning ignorance within the company, is no more eligible to handle his own company, his son is not skilled enough to own it...as well his one and only daughter has never shown interest in the company matters even after studying business."
"It's as if they are claiming that the company doesn't even have a good owner. How sly and vicious those employees are to get rid of their own leader and the company" Song Lin spoke in utter disappointment.
"And that's, my sisters,.... that's why this company has two choices!"
"Two choices? What are they now?" Song Lin asked in pain.
"To sell it out whole to our competitors or..... to find someone eligible who can take care of it until Guan becomes eligible....Am I ...right Guan....?" Xiao Jane joined the knots and concluded the exact situation the company was in.
"Yeah, and to no surprise, the company will fall into the hands of Father's step-cousins, step uncle Xiao...and that...." As Guan was about to say,
" that would be the worst scenario ever!" hissed Song Lin, her teeth gritting.
" Yeah.....so here comes your marriage sister! Mo Fengshi's signature on that contract confirms that they are aware of our weaknesses.....But I never had the hunch that Father will give your hand in marriage to the guy who's one of the competitors of the company Xiao Empires, in terms of market profits and shares.....I ..I mean I actually wondered how he would solve this mess, even I was about to do something....but this marriage idea.....and even you agreed, at least I didn't expect that..."
"I see .... that's why you also got shocked when I mentioned it at Breakfast yesterday!"
"But Jane Jane, you mentioned some kind of promise along the lines somewhere...when you told me about it last last night-."
"Oh....he mentioned that he had promised his old friend, that is, Mo Fengshi's father that he will give my hand in marriage to his son....I guess.."
"He must have thought that his friend wouldn't betray him...." Guan added.
"So the man in the study was none other than..."
"Yeah....My future Father-in-law...he must be the man Mo Tahin!"
The atmosphere was gloomy as no one spoke after Xiao Jane's last statement.
Song Lin was at loss of words when she heard Xiao Jane call Mo Tahin her future father-in-law. That girl literally gave up resisting anymore.
'At least I got to know why my Father is getting helpless in front of that Mo Fengshi.....
But it's not enough to uncover the whole secret.....I have to meet him as soon as I can'
"Thanks Guan for your information it is really of high value....I don't know what would I do without you....."
"Mention not Sister! I'm having your back but you have to be careful as I don't think it is as simple as it's looking to us"
"Guan is right Ah Jane.....now your fate is upto your decision....., we still have to know their side of deal. You have to be prepared!"
"I will not let anything happen to Father and our company even if it costs my future...."
"Please Jane Jane.... don't say things like there's no hope ..."
"Even if I don't have hopes....I have to solve this mess!"
" The contract..... we've to get our hands on that contract or at least it's contents, in order to peek a glance at it's terms and conditions." Xiao Jane said, a bolt of confidence struck her.
"If Xiao Empires' reason for this marriage was mentioned....then Mo Corporation's terms or needs....who knows if it has also be written...." Xiao Guan was smarter than anyone his age.
"Really Guan....who knows what good or evil, is going on in the heads of the Mo Family....."