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YANG SHENG ZHENG

"How about you marry me?" Yang Sheng Zheng proposed to the elegant woman, having a conversation with one of his clients, Mr. Bao.

He handed her a glass of freshly shaken martini from the bar which Wang Xiu reluctantly took from his hand.

"Thank you for the drink and the offer, Mr. Yang, but I'd rather marry Mr. Bao," Wang Xiu replied, wrapping her arm tightly around on Jiang Ru's waist.

The CEO responded by affixing his hand on Wang Xiu's exposed shoulder. Intimately caressing the skin with his fingers.

Sheng Zheng glared at the cozy action of his client and quickly glanced away when he noticed that Wang Xiu did not recoil from Mr. Bao's gesture.

'Did Wang Xiu slept with this man?' He asked in his mind.

Sheng Zheng has their law firm investigator find personal information about Wang Xiu including relationships that she tried to hide away from everyone.

His investigator met Ms. Li Chang Ying, a receptionist from Tianlong Towers, and from her fruitful knowledge, Ms. Zhang didn't shy away from the woman's seduction.

An engagement with an executive also came up from their investigator's search but easily ended after an incestuous scandal from an intoxicated Mr. Long Li Jun.

Sheng Zheng learned a lot of things about the executive and it made her more intriguing to his eyes. To charm Wang Xiu, he only needed to make himself profitable to her sight.

"Think about it, you don't have to seduce my mother to get all the favors you want?" The senior lawyer wickedly smiled.

Wang Xiu's pinkish cheeks suddenly redden as he mentions his mother and their favorable exchange. The woman took a few notches to get near his face and let him smell the woman's promising scent mixed with the cocktail drink.

"Your mother approached me, she's the one dangling the goods in front of my face. I'm only a young hungry fish who needed to eat." Wang Xiu clarified, biting her lower lips to entice the curious man.

She turned and clasped Mr. Bao Jiang Ru's arm to pull him away from Mr. Yang Sheng Zheng, ending their confrontation that Wang Xiu knows will not end that day.

Bao Jiang Ru raised his brow and leaned his head towards the woman while they walked away from the arrogant lawyer's presence.

"Why don't you just marry Mrs. Yang." Bao Jiang Ru mumbles. "Isn't she a widow already?"

"She's a widow of my uncle Liu Wei's best friend." Wang Xiu stared at the hallway with a blank expression. "They will curse me in my grave if I marry her."

"You are SO unfortunate to be a niece," The CEO shrugged his head and glared at the woman in his arm, "Better give up being a CEO if you want your life to be more at peace."

The executive didn't react to the CEO's trivial advice. It was hard for her to even grasped the position she wants but now that she decided not to get it, it comes too easy with another incestuous price.

Yang Sheng Zheng gazed at the woman who strutted away from his offer. From what he heard between Mr. Bao and Ms. Zhang, there is a way to make the woman say yes to his proposal.

Meanwhile...

In the middle of the hall, stood a man with a prominent face. His cheeks and chin were cleanly shaved while his gray hair was still thick on his head. CEO Long Liu Wei sported a handsome face with little lines on his forehead and under his eyes. It's his 55th Birthday and though he looked younger than his age, he felt tired of standing in front of the crowd and shaking everyone's hands.

"Happy Birthday, CEO Long Liu Wei." Mrs. Yang Fei Hong greeted the man wearing an all-white tuxedo with a red bow tied on his neck.

"Thank you, CEO Yang Fei Hong," Liu Wei stretched his arms to shake the woman's palm, "It's been a while."

"Yes, it is." Fei Hong grabbed the CEO's hand tightly with warmness.

For almost ten years, the Yang and Long families avoided each other. Liu Wei accused Fei Hong of betraying his husband for having an early affair after a few months of her spouse's untimely passing.

Yang Mao Heng and Long Liu Wei were best friends since they were young and discovering Fei Hong's adultery deeply hurt the old man. Though Liu Wei never disclosed the affair to anyone, it ripped apart the goodwill of the two clans.

An old man with thin white hair and a rounded face slowly approached the two CEOs. The loud thud of his wooden cane against the marble floors reverberated throughout the hall that made the guests step away immediately from the old man's direction.

"Fei Hong!" The old man's ghastly voice called the woman by name, "I thought I will never see the two of you together again

CEO Yang let out a modest arched on her face to smile at Mr. Long Bao Qing. She recalled the old man took the initiative to set her up with his son Liu Wei when they were both young and stubborn. His romantic son chose to be with his girlfriend and she ended up marrying Liu Wei's best friend.

Whenever Fei Hong reminded herself of the past, she often wonders how it would greatly change everyone's life. From Liu Wei accident to her husband's death. Would it still be peaceful if she followed her parents?

"I hope to see you more often, why don't you visit the Long Mansion sometimes?" The former CEO insisted, setting his dry trembling hand on the woman's shoulder.

"I would love to," Fei Hong nodded her head and glanced at CEO Long.

When Wang Xiu was assaulted, she lowered her pride and immediately approached Liu Wei to offer her help. She knows the CEO was still angry but when she mentioned Ms. Zhang, his uncle, Liu Wei accepted her offer. CEO Long has been very fond of his niece which made her often question their bond. Especially when Wang Xiu mentioned both of her parents dying in a car crash.

As the wife of the CEO of a media corporation, she could have heard about Zhang Wang Xiu's parents in the papers or police report yet there was none. She even checked their database for any related car accident news that year but the only one that comes up is CEO Long's accident with her girlfriend.

The sound of the microphone's low rumble to piercing screech echoed through the vast hall that made all the guests turn their heads to the stage where a tall man in a black tuxedo stood in front of the band that hums a piece of soft music for everyone.

"I have an announcement to make. My name is Yang Sheng Zhen and Ms. Zhang Wang Xiu just agreed to marry me."