"Where is Miss Shi?" Song Jingren asked his assistant. They had been standing at the doors of the Civil Affairs Bureau but neither he could see Miss Shi nor her family. Did she go to the wrong address? Then again, which sane person would have the address of the wedding venue wrong?
Special Assistant Lu, who was calling Miss Shi for a while now, was startled when he glanced at a message shining on his phone screen.
"President, Miss Shi cancelled…''Special Assistant Lu said as he glanced at Song Jingren who was looking at his wristwatch. He noticed that his boss had no expression on his face, but it could be seen that Song Jingren was unhappy.
President Song hated unpunctual people the most! This was the reason why the employees in their office had to work ten minutes extra in the evening for every minute they came late in the morning. They call him a tyrant, but he was only ensuring efficiency and productivity in his office.
"Didn't my mother give you a list with about twenty girls? Just call one of them. Ask any of them if they had time to get married today, "Song Jingren said as if it was no big deal.
Truly, marriage was no big deal for him.
Special Assistant Lu called almost half of them but nobody picked up the call.
Those ladies, did they know what they are missing?!
Once in a lifetime chance!
A chance to marry the most eligible bachelor in the country!
Fools! Big fools!
They will regret it! Every single woman will regret this chance to change their life.
When Special Assistant Lu was busy over the phone, an average heighted woman walked toward Song Jingren wearing a white strappy summer dress that reached her ankles but showed her bright red ten-centimetre-tall high heels. Her long dark brown hair that almost reached her waist was hiding the deep back of the dress.
The cold wind was blowing the long and soft tendrils of her hair with it while exposing her smooth back.
Song Jingren was left blinking his eyes like a butterfly fluttering its wings when the owner of those devilish forest green eyes that always haunt his days and nights were standing before him.
This had to be a mirage, right?
This woman with the face of a goddamn angel and eyes that of a devil was a dream.
"Baobei, it's not a dream," Her bright smile brought him out of the trance as a dimple that he used to adore once upon a time formed on her left cheek. "It's really me."
Even her voice sounded the same; pure and inciting.
Dare he tells you there was nothing pure about this woman!
What would you do if your ex, who left you without a word five years ago, was standing before you in a damned white dress in front of a Civil Affairs Bureau?
Surely, marrying her should be the last thought on your mind.
Did he mention he was also in dire need of a wife?
'Don't marry her,' His brain suggested.
'Don't marry her, 'His heart ordered.
"Who are you, Miss?" Special Assistant Lu, who smelled the sense of a woman near his President grew wary as he turned to look at her. It was his duty to scare off all flies and bees away from his boss.
'Woah, an angel, 'Special Assistant Lu said in his heart. He had never seen such a beautiful woman before. She looked so angelic as if she walked with a halo on her head. It could be an illusion but he swore that he saw a bright hallow over her head. Or it could be the sunlight that was peeking out of the raining clouds over her head? What sort of a miracle was it? The sun was peeking through the clouds but the rain was pouring too.
"Hi, you can call me Zuni, " Zuni aka Long Reine replied with a sweet smile. "Can I apply for the post of my Baobei's wifey?"
The smile on Special Assistant Lu's face fell and shock covered him from head to toe. He looked at his boss in questions. Yes, questions, not question!
Who was this beautiful woman? And how could she call his ice block president *Baobei*?
"Assistant Lu, get me any Tom, Dick or Harry to marry but take this woman away from my eyes!" Song Jingren said in a voice that only meant that he was restraining his temper.
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*Baobei* is an endearment for Baby/lover/ darling!