"Sir." Kim Suho nocked as he entered the office with his boss' favorite blend of coffee in hand. A puzzled expression on his face, instead of his trademark gentle smile. He closed the door behind him and placed the coffee unto the table before taking a step backwards but not leaving. He waited paitiently.
"Hm." Lu Yexuan looks up from signing a document. He pauses then places the pen on the desk, giving his attention to his assistant, while reaching over for his routine dose of caffeine. His long and slender fingers holding the cup with a bit of grace that seemed engraved into his being. Male lead halo's were surprisingly deeply rooted. Making even the simple action of holding a boring coffee cup attractive.
"Second Young Master Yeluo called. He made a request."
"Isn't this his usual game? Making absurd requests with no rhyme or reason. You're smart. You usually don't come to me about these. What makes this one so special?" Lu Yexuan, rubbed his eyebrows helplessly as he thought of his younger brother. His brain seemed to work on a different pace from everyone else. He couldn't seem to decipher whether this was a good thing or not. Its already good enough that he doesn't cause any trouble for me to fix. I'll just ignore the rest…
"Yes." Kim Suho cleared his throat. "This time he made a request about Young Miss Su…"
Su Qingtang? Lu Yexuan raised an eyebrow questioningly. His expression changing subtly. So subtly that he himself didn't notice it.
Kim Suho gulped a bit before continuing. "…He asked for a special team to be assigned to assure the safety of his 'little sister Qing-er' and said that he had no one else to turn to. He also said he couldn't bear to see his bun get hurt and threatened to tie you up like… Tie you up like a meat bun and deliver you to Madam Su if anything happened to her and that-"
Lu Yexuan cut him off. He could already see that everything else to be said would only be Lu Yeluo's senseless ramblings. Lu Yeluo was like that. Covering up the main point with dozens of useless statements. A pretty useful skill if it wasn't abused like what Yeluo did. If one were not careful, you would miss the main point entirely. "Special team for Su Qingtang? Why would she need bodyguards? Did anything special happen recently?"
Kim Suho shook his head. The persons that had been sent to monitor Miss Su reported that nothing out of the ordinary happened.
"Should we inform Mr. Su?" Kim Suho asked. He didn't think, LU Yexuan would agree but its best to get his approval for personal matters such as this one.
"No… Yeluo would have spoken to his directly if it was within his intentions for him to know. By asking me, he seems to want to keep this entire thing quiet, maybe even keep it from Su Qingtang as well and with everything that's going on with the Su's… I think it's best to keep things quiet for now."
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Su Qingtang looked around herself for the dozenth time since she had started walking and sighed. The system was quickly getting annoyed. It was hard living in someone else's head. It couldn't wait until it finished it's mission and could return. Being a system was no fun.
"Whatever is the matter host?" Please stop sighing. It's driving me crazy.
Su Qingtang rolled her eyes. How did the system even survive so long with such strong lack of awareness? Simply mystifying. "Scrap, don't you see anything different in my surroundings today? A bit more shady movements? Anything?" Don't tell me you are completely useless. The weight of your negative IQ would be dragging this aunt down if you couldn't even get this much.
The system scanned around and was shocked. It quickly scanned again to make sure the data was correct. "H- Host! Your being trailed!"
'Bingo!' It seems you aren't that unaware. Hmmph, I shall reluctantly carry the burden of a pig teammate.
"There are two teams of unknown pursuers. Host who did you offend while I wasn't watching?!" The system continued shocking Su Qingtang. She was aware enough to realize something was different, but she didn't expect two teams to be following her. They were even specially trained enough to blend in perfectly with their surroundings. Too bad they couldn't hide from Su Qingtang's eyes.
"I'm innocent! I haven't offended anyone. Nor have I done anything to cause plot deviation!" She hadn't had time enough to stir up trouble yet trouble still came looking for her. This wasn't her burden to bear!
The system quickly did further investigation. It didn't like the feeling of being despised by the host and was quick to show off its usefulness. You keep despising me but are you a walking information booth. No? That's what I thought, humph! "One team is from the male lead and the other is from the Rong... Rong family? There must be something wrong somehow. How on earth did you manage to offend them? There must be something wrong with the way my eyes opened earlier-"
The Rong family. A quite well-known family in the capital of City T. They were pretty lowkey and only attended the highest of high-class banquet but their expeditions in charity kept them popular with normal citizens of the city. Their level of prestige was way over the Su Family's and so Su Qingtang's life never really interlocked with theirs. The original abhorred banquet so she was useless when it came to information on them as well. This meant she knew next to nothing about them. Certainly not enough to have suddenly offended one of them. She'd totally know if she did that!
'Rong family… Rong Li? No.. it cant be… Can it?'
Su Qingtang sipped her chocolate tea to calm herself down. She seemed to have been making ridiculous correlations. Unless…
Realization hit Su Qingtang like a tsunami. It seemed she had been the one inviting trouble after all. Coincidences were surely not that common, it seemed the heavens were against her.