Asking for a fight.

Shera Black was smug. It was as though she was saying, "Heh, I just passed off your masterpiece as CT Corporation's. What can you

do about it, stupid Qins?"

Of course she knew that Cece Qin and Leo Qin were in this banquet. If she didn't know something as simple as the guests attending her banquet, how could she have made it to the nation's top five company presidents?

She also knew that Cece Qin and Leo Qin were not invited - she would have been a fool if she invited them - they had used their own influence to buy the invitation cards from one of the less important guests.

They were even sly enough to pick someone whose absence wouldn't be noticed, but Shera Black was more sly than them.

From what she knew, they must have come out of curiosity. CT Corporation had advanced so fast that the Qin Empire must think of her as potential competition.

But, they only had the advantage for now because their company was more than a century old. Did they really think they could compare to her?

[Master, your arrogance level has surpassed the maximum level.] Tazja gently reminded. It meant that the level was currently dangerous.

Shera of course ignored it.

The banquet was pretty much done; there was nothing more for her to do here, so she summoned Purple.

"President, do you have any orders?" Purple asked respectfully. Since she was currently Elena, she had to act like most secretaries did.

"Keep the banquet going. I'm leaving." Shera Black said and didn't wait for Purple's reply before heading out.

...

She was just about to get into the car when a cool scent of masculine perfume wafted into her nostrils. She found it quite familiar, and she frowned.

The second before she launched a knock out punch, she remembered that she was Arya Turner today.

She definitely couldn't lose her cool.

Leo smiled slightly. He had clearly seen her almost lose control and then suddenly act cool.

So his hypothesis was right.

When he attended this banquet, it was merely because just like everyone else, he wanted to see who this infamous woman was: the businesswoman that possessed a pair of magic hands, and had single handedly created a company out of thin air and made it one of the leading business conglomerates in just a few years.

But he would never have expected that the so called magical woman was... Shera Black?!

At first, he only thought that the woman seemed to be familiar. He also thought that Shera Black had sold off the Heart of the Goddess to her. But when she spoke, he was now sure that she was Shera Black herself. No one else could possess such a crazy level of pride and such a strong desire for trouble. Wasn't she scared all her hard work would go to dust before morning?

"Do you need something?" Shera asked the man who was silently sizing her up.

Leo snapped out of his thoughts and extended a hand. "Hello, nice to meet you. I'm Leo Qin."

Shera looked at his hand for a few seconds before shaking it. "Arya Turner."

In the next second, Leo violently shrugged her hand off. Damned woman! She almost broke his fingers!

His suspicions were now officially confirmed. He snickered. "Shera Black, I didn't think you were so good with disguises. But unfortunately, I have discovered it. You don't need to put on an act anymore."

Shera crossed her arms leisurely. "You think I care?"

Leo wasn't so stupid as to think that such a thing fazed her. But he couldn't help but ask, "Do you have something against the Qin family?"

Shera chuckled and asked her own question in response. "Why do you think so?"

Leo looked at her her, his eyes calling her out for acting dumb. "You have been against the Qin family for years now. First, you create CT Corporation and venture in Real Estate, Jewelry Design and pretty much everything else that The Qin Empire is involved with, trying to rival The Qin Empire every step you make...

Then you suddenly appear at the Qin Empire's banquet and not only humiliate the Qin family with your words but also steal from us. What exactly do you have against us?"

Shera rolled her eyes. "You have it wrong."

"What?"

"Before appearing at the Qin Empire's banquet, I appeared at The Qin Empire and threatened the eldest son of the Qin family."

"..."

Why did she sound like she was proud of it?

That wasn't the main point here. "Why did you do all that?"

Shera pretended to hmmm and haw for a while, spinning her brains and making Leo wait for a torturous amount of time before she said, "I like messing with aristocratic families."

Leo frowned. "I know you do. But why?" What psychotic hobby was this?

"Because I want to. Got any problem with that?"

Leo didn't ask anymore.

But he was curious about something else. "Why did you steal the Heart of the Goddess?"

"Because I wanted to." came the infuriating reply.

Leo chuckled and looked at her. "You just confessed to that. Aren't you afraid that I might have some recording device on me?"

Shera was the one to chuckle this time. "Then it would be your unlucky day."

"Huh?"

"I would shove it up your *ss."

Leo was caught in between anger and amusement.

Speaking to this woman was such a waste of mental strength.

He took a deep breath and looked at her. "Do you have time? Maybe we could... go somewhere and fight?"

Shera was finally intrigued. "If you said so earlier, we wouldn't have wasted so much time."

Leo's mood improved by several degrees. "So... uhm... your current outfit is not suitable for fighting."

"How troublesome." Shera frowned as she looked down at her gown.

She was thinking of ripping it up and tieing it into something that would look like a crazy excuse of a pair of pants when Leo spoke up. "My outfit isn't suitable either. Why don't we get changed and meet up?"

Shera flashed an impatient smile. She would kick his butt today. "Sure. See you at the Mansion of Black."

"The Mansion of Black?" Leo mumbled.

He felt a light tap on his shoulder before the woman wickedly grinned. "Don't you want to fight? Find your way then."

With that, she entered the car and zoomed off.

Leo remained in a daze. Hey... that's not the main point, okay!

Whatever, he wanted to fight. It didn't matter if he had to go to that rumored nightmarish place.

"Sigh, my dear brother, I don't know what to say to you." Cece facepalmed.

"What are you doing here? Shouldn't you be waiting in the car?" Leo asked the young woman who had suddenly appeared before him.

"If I waited in the car, how would I have known that my brother asked a woman for a fight? Are you even a man?"

Leo was annoyed. "If I'm not a man, what am I, huh?"

"You are the most shameless man in history." Cece sighed dramatically.

"The most shameless man in history is a man. Now get lost." He still had to go to that aesthetically assaulting place.

Shera Black, if I don't kick your butt, my surname is not Qin.