A chicken turned Phoenix

"Director Zhou"

"Director Zhou"

Everyone greeted as Mo Zhou walked into Graceful clouds company building. His face appeared to be Ashen with slight sleep bags under his eyes, even though those people would have wanted to fawn over him, his unapproachable look shooed them away.

"Eldest Young master this..." His secretary hesitated while looking at the buzzing phone in his hand.

Mo Zhou didn't stop to look. He already knew what the young man was going to say even without looking. Ever since that dinner night with the Yu Family, hiss phone has never stopped ringing. Some times it was Yu Zhiruo and a couple of times it was Gao Ling. Even still he had not picked any of the calls.

The words he had heard that night keep resonating in his ear. Everything was still fresh in his memory. The contemptuous look that appeared on the face of the girl he once thought was naive and simple minded was even more horrific than watching any horror movie he could think of.

He didn't know which was more painful. The fact that he had been slapped on his face in public or the fact that he had been fooled for so long.

He really should have known!

How could he have been fooled by her innocent look! He should have been able to tell.

This great prince questioned himself but didn't stop to push all the blame on Yu Zhiruo. Someone had totally forgotten all the times his lust had pushed him into rolling sheets with Yu Zhiruo. Now it all became her blame.

"Ignore it. if she still calls just toss the Sim away and get a new one" He ordered sternly and continued his walk to his office.

The Secretary showed a judging look but still ignored the call like he was told. He of all people knew that this Eldest Young master didn't have the right to act righteously. His third leg was definitely not a saint and neither was he. Even if this was what he felt he still could voice it out. Instead he followed attentively behind Mo Zhou.

Yu Zhiruo on the other hand tossed her phone on the wall after her call was ignored for the umpteenth time. The sound of her phone screen scattering echoed in the room followed by the shocked squeals from the maids there. No one expected she would flip out like this.

Yu Zhiruo didn't care for their squeals. She stood glaring into open space, her fingers dug into her palms and her eyes blazed in pure anger.

How dare he abandon her?!

Wasn't he the one who said he would stand by her even if the world deserts her? It was over four days and not for once had he answered her phone call. She had been to the Mo residence too and was always informed that he wasn't at home. She was too ashamed to throw a tantrum at the office or else she would have matched to his office. She feared he might exposed to everyone what she had said.

Great!

Just Great Mo Zhou!

Look at him blaming her for what has happened. Who was the one who willingly rushed to her hotel room when she complained of cold? Who was the one that ditched Yu Xiao Yan on her birthday to spend a steamy time with her? who was the one that said he was not interested in his engagement and only wanted her in his life? Now he was going to leave her for someone else?

Never!

Even if the world burns and the earth ceased to exist she would make sure he was hers and hers alone! She would do everything in her power to keep her engagement with the Mo family. As far as she can maintain the engagement, the Yu Family would eventually forget all about what had happened. By then she would still be the Young Miss of the Yu Family and the Young miss of the Mo Family.

The girl suddenly broke down into tears. She who had lived her whole life as a pampered little missy couldn't bear remembering how she had been treated this past four days. Except for her mother and a few loyal maids, everyone in the Yu Manor gave her a cold shoulder.

Some had even voluntarily removed the title Eldest miss from her name. She was looked down on by everybody.

She really couldn't bear it.

Ring!!

At one corner, her smashed phone began ringing. The phone was badly broken but she could still see the private number displayed on the screen. One of the maids helped bring the phone over.

it took sometime but she finally was able to pick the call.

"Hello"

"Ah Great Young miss. I finally get the chance to speak to you" A voice rang out from the other side. It was hard to discern if it was that of a girl or a boy. This person was obviously using a voice coder.

"who is this?" Yu Zhiruo asked wearily.

The voice chuckled "No worry Eldest miss, we'll get to know each other eventually. I have a present for you. Why don't you take a look at it?" A beep rang out and a message came into her phone.

Yu Zhiruo felt a bad premonition about this still she tapped her screen and tapped on the message. The screen was broken still the heading was clear for her to see.

'A chicken turned Phoenix'?

She frowned. The heading was insulting enough but not as insulting as the content in the blog post. The general idea was based on what had happened that night in the reunion party. What caused her interest was that the person seemed to say there was a video prove of what was written.

"Do you like it?" That mocking voice rang out.

"You_" She was so angry that she didn't know what to say. The Yu Family had spent a lot, especially her mother, to get rid of evidence of what happened that night. Since the people present were all close family friends, it wasn't hard to get then to keep the even to themselves. Never did she expect someone would still threaten her with it.

"What do you want?" Yu Zhiruo asked with gritted teeth. The Yu Family was one thing, she really doesn't know what she would do if the public got to know of all she said and did.

"What I want? aren't you too hasty to bury the past"

"You scoundrel! just tell me what you want!" She yelled furiously at her phone, almost tossing it again at the wall.

"Fine fine Eldest miss. I want money, loads of it" The voice said. Pure mockery in its tone as he or she called her Eldest miss.

Yu Zhiruo gritted her teeth and scoffed "isn't it just money? How much do you want? 2 million? 5 million? 10 million?"

The person the other side laughed. "It seems I wasn't wrong to have called. Eldest miss must have loads of money so I wouldn't stand ceremoniously with you"

"I want 50 million"

Like Thunderbolts. Yu Zhiruo was struck by this person's request.

50 million? why don't they just Rob a bank!

Even if she broke her nails she wouldn't be able to cough out 50 million. She probably would have to beg the Yu Family for it and they would mock her even more for that.

"what nonsense! Why should I give you such an amount?!" She yelled into her phone.

"Nonsense? I thought you were hasty to get rid of the evidence. I have videos of that night and would not hesitate to post it. Don't you want to keep me shut?"

Yu Zhiruo cursed inwardly. She really wanted to get rid of all evidence but how sure was she that there was even any evidence. All she saw was written post but no video. Who knows there might not be any video.

"I'm not even sure there's an evidence. 15 million! That's all I can pay!" She tried to bargain.

The person clicked their tongue "Tsk Tsk, I thought Miss Zhiruo would be a good business partner. Well then I guess I would take my business somewhere else. Public blog would pay higher than that."

"wait!" She called out before the person could cut the call.

"oh does Miss Zhiruo have a change of heart?" The voice rang out almost immediately. She gritted her teeth and was very reluctant to agree but she had no choice.

"fine. Send your account. but how sure am i you wouldn't still share this evidence?"

"No need to worry, I'm a trustworthy person. I surely wouldn't go back on my words. I will send the account to your email. I expect to see my money before tomorrow. It was nice doing business with you Miss Zhiruo" The person moved to cut the call but seemed to have remembered something "Oh Eldest miss, don't waste your time looking for me. You'll fail even if you try" With that the call was cut off.

Crash!

This time the phone was beyond repair after hitting the wall again. Yu Zhiruo felt like screaming but that would only alert everybody at home. She could only hold her anger in as much as she could.

At the same time. A knock resounded at the door.

"Miss. The Old patriarch request your presence." A maid walked in and announced.

Fear flashed past Yu Zhiruo's eyes. She could imagine what the Old ma wanted to say. Perhaps was he going to send her out of the family?