"Song Meilian, where are you? What are you doing at night?" Song Guo spoke in high pitch on his phone while talking with his granddaughter.
"Grandpa, you know I have come here for the company's work, and don't worry my secretary is with me." Song Meilian talked as she walked inside the door of a high-end hotel in Yang City.
"That good-for-nothing chap is with you at this hour and you are asking me not to worry…" Song Guo got up on his feet from the chair. "Where are you now? I am going there right now."
"But Grandpa, this is all our business. I have to manage everything on my own."
"Manage everything on your own…" Song Guo whispered. "Do you think I won't be able to help you?"
"No, that's not true, Grandpa." Song Meilian stopped in her tracks and closed her eyes to take some deep breaths. "You remember what you always say?"
"What? I don't remember anything…"
"Grandpa, how can you forget it? You always say that 'No matter how old the tiger is, he never forgets how to hunt.' Song Meilian said as she turned to see her secretary standing outside in the corridor.
"Yes… Yes, how can I forget?" Song Guo said when he realized what he forgot. "Because you are getting old, my grandpa. But let me attend this meeting with our clients. I have to make important decisions tonight."
"But you must tell me where you are… I am coming to you, okay?" Song Guo announced as he walked up to his car on the porch.
"No, you can't come here, Grandpa." Song Meilian replied so fast that Song Guo suspected what she was up to.
"Song Meilian, I know what I am doing right now is what you hate the most. I am not supposed to control you. I am not against you working but I am against you working with the Wu empire's heir." Song Guo declared without keeping any secrets.
"Grandpa, you know I am not working for him." Song Meilian closed her eyes for a second and again opened them to look ahead with firm determination. "I am doing this for Su Yichen. We are going to get married soon and his problems are my problem too. Believe me, Grandpa, I will be back in no time. Okay, now I have to go. I am already very late for this meeting. Bye."
"But Song Meilian, I want…" Grandpa Guo tried to speak but the busy tone on the phone indicated that the line cut off from the other side. "This girl… she never listens to me."
He walked back inside the house only to meet Song Meilian's mother Li Huan.
"What did she say, Father?" Li Huan asked as she held his arms to walk him down to his room.
"The usual." Song Guo said as he looked at her face with a little sad expression. "She is doing everything for her fiance."
"I don't understand this girl anymore, Father." Li Huan was a bit worried for her daughter.
She looked down at the floor and when she felt she could control the tears coming out from her eyes, she looked back at her father in law. She wasn't ready to show her pain to him yet.
"But maybe that is good for their future." Li Huan spoke
"Oh, really, Li Huan? You too think like that?" He looked at her with so strong emotions that they made her shiver from them. She immediately looked down. But he was not ready to back off even after seeing her condition. He wanted to fight for his granddaughter.
"That good for nothing boy is definitely having an affair out somewhere and my idiot son thinks that he is best for my granddaughter because these Su family have created an image in front of his eyes. I don't know how he is hiding his bad character but I will make sure to break this relationship before Su could ruin my granddaughter's life."
When Li Huan heard her father in law speaking her heart, she looked at him with teary eyes.
"Can you do it for her, Father?" her voice was almost breaking with each word. "She will get hurt every day if she gets married to that inhuman boy."
Song Guo looked back at his daughter in law with great confusion when he heard what she told him.
"I saw his crazy expression when he was about to take our Meilian for dinner one night. He was looking at her like he would kill her anytime he would get a chance. From that night I always remained watchful of him and my doubt got clearer every time I saw him looking at her. I don't want her to get married to him, father. Can you stop this wedding for our Meilian?"
"Yes, I will. Till this date, I thought it was only me who had doubts about him but now I know what I am going to do tomorrow morning is worth the risk."
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"Hello!"
"Hello! Madam Song, where are you?" Lee Cheng, the secretary of Song Meilian, asked on the phone when Song Meilian picked up the phone.
"I told you I am going to meet Su Yichen. Do you have some work with me?" Song Meilian walked inside the elite rooms that were exclusively created for the special customers to have some privacy while meeting.
"Madam, I request you to not go inside that hotel right now. Go back home as soon as possible." Lee Cheng's voice was coming low like he was whispering on the phone.
"But what happened, Lee Cheng? Why are you whispering and why should I go back home? What is the problem in meeting Su Yichen?" Song Meilian's steps ceased at a point but she never retreated her steps to go home even when her heart already told her to listen to Lee Cheng.
"Madam, please listen to me. Right now I can't tell you much but you must not go there at any cost. Something bad is going to happen there with you. Go home right now…" Lee Cheng requested her with all his heart but before he could complete his sentence, he heard another voice on the phone that he always hated.
"Hey, Song Meilian, you are here! I was desperately waiting for you for the last half hour. How can you get late? Come, my sweetheart, my friends are waiting for you." Su Yichen, who came out of one of the rooms, held on to Song Meilian's waist and tried to pull her phone from her hand.
"Who are you talking with?" Su Yichen asked as he retreated his hand from the phone with a hint of uneasiness in his eyes.
"It is Grandpa. I need to talk with him a bit." Song Meilian put her hand on the speaker and pulled herself from his strong grip.
Listening to Grandpa Song Guo's name, Su Yichen automatically retreated from there, nodding his head, and gesturing for her to come inside after talking to her grandpa. Song Meilian nodded her head, keeping a smile on her face though she felt the constant pressure in her chest with Lee Cheng's words.
She moved back with hurried steps and walked out of the elite lobby and took a breath of relief when she saw the rush of people around her. When Song Meilian felt the strong grip of Su Yichen on her waist, she knew she was never going to come out of that grip but at the last moment, she just took her grandpa's name.
Song Meilian always knew that Su Yichen is afraid of her grandpa but she never understood why it was like that. But for once in her life she was thankful for that.
"What you were telling me…?" Song Meilian asked in a very low voice as her steps took her near the hotel's exit gate.
"Madam, I can not tell you the whole story but if you can please come out of that hotel immediately, that will be so great. You just come out from there and come to the west road. I am going there as soon as possible."
Song Meilian heard Lee Cheng's last words before the phone line went silent for a few seconds. She kept on walking and came out of the hotel's door while trying to listen to the line.
"Hello… hello…" Song Meilian tried to speak but her attention got distracted and she collided with the strong body hard making both of them fall on the floor with a loud thud.
"The hell is wrong with you…" Song Meilian cursed loudly at the man who was lying under her. "Can't you watch where you are going…?" She questioned the man while she tried to get up but one more time she lost her balance and fell on him.
This time though her eyes went to the man who was looking at her with questionable eyes. But she almost lost herself in those grey eyes. The handsome face was so close to her that she was able to count his long eyelashes.
"I can ask the same question. What are those pretty eyes for?" The handsome man asked as he helped both of them to get up.
"Really, flirting with me now! Are you for real?" Song Meilian asked while looking for her phone. "Oh shit, just because of you my phone is broken. You idiot…!" She shouted hard looking back at him but immediately turned around to just come out of the hotel.
"I just can't believe girls like you." The handsome man said when he saw Song Meilian turning back with arrogance.
"What do you mean by a girl like me?"
"A girl like you who is an arrogant and spoiled brat of rich parents. Who does not have the courtesy to accept the fault and say sorry but you have the audacity to call me by name? You spoiled brat!" The handsome man spits out with so much hate.
"What? You called me a spoiled brat… How dare you call me that?" Song Meilian was shaking with anger but before Song Meilian could answer him back, she looked behind the handsome man and saw Su Yichen searching for her. "You know what something… I hate you."
"Don't worry, sweetheart! Feelings are mutual!" The handsome man said with a mocking tone but Song Meilian just closed her eyes and immediately retreated from that handsome man thinking about Lee Cheng's words and started running towards the exit door of the hotel.
"Spoiled brat!" The handsome man looked at Song Meilian's back. "Don't meet me anywhere else again or I will make sure to teach you a lesson of life."