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“Yes tell us ”

“Please! Tell us!”

“Mr. Ling, this way please ” The chief executive officer directed him to the stage.

“It is great to have Mr. Ling here with us. Last one hour, a rumor circulated about you and your fiance and even a picture to prove it. Are you really married?” The host spoke and handed the mic over to him.

The camera light flashed around once he collected the mic from her.

“No I am not! And anyone who tries to circulate this kind of rumors would be gone!” He gave a threatening note to his mother and his mother grinned at his response.

“You think you win now?” His mother chortled at him.

“Okay, Mr. Ling ” The host gulped down heavily and stared at the script man.

The discussion was meant to be on his rumored childhood fiancee but now he objected to it without stress, they had no topic left.

“That is what I guess!” Ling Rui stood up from the seat and went down the stage in his frosty aura.

“Any such rumors that circulate without my permission and you call me for this, you all would be sorry! Gao Jimi, get me the names of the media who set this up and deal with them!”

The host fell to her knees instantly at the mention of his words. Deal with them? That was the merciless word to come out from the Big Boss.

There was no denial that everyone feared this young but yet brutal business lord.

“I beg of you, Mr. Ling, this will not happen again ” She crawled down from the stage with her knees to him.

The pain she felt right now was less than the one she would feel if she was fired or at most asked to pay for damages.

Offending the big boss meant hell to those offenders. He showed his capabilities by bringing down the most famous TV station in Europe in under two minute all because they used him to promote their shows without his approval.

“I would not be the King if I allowed second Chances!” He looked at the pitiful reporters all on their knees and turned around and left through the exit.

Sweats were on the faces of the reporters present as Jimi took legal note of them and sent a lawsuit to their companies.

“Too bad the owners are facing the consequences of their incompetent workers. ” He sighed in his mind and left the hall.

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In Beauty Photo shoot.

Zhang Meiyin came down from Rue's white Maybach car and went into the venue.

“Over here, Miss Zhang ” Jinwei waved her hands and Meiyin went to her.

Lan Jinwei was four years older than Meiyin with glorious skin. She stood on a two inch heel with paperwork in her hands.

“I am guessing you are Jinwei?” Yin held her hand and led her into the make-up room.

“Zhang Meiyin?” Her eyes magnified at the sight of her artist's sister.

She ran as quickly as possible and met Xiyu in the restroom.

“Miss Xiyu? Meiyin is alive!”

“Meiyin is ALIVE!”

The sentence rang in her ears like echoes. Her brain could not process what her manager had just said.

“What?” She stumbled on the floor with her lipstick on the ground. “Impossible! She died!”

A dead person could not just resurrect from the dead that fast and easy? She saw her die with her own eyes. Why is the story different now?

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Last Nine Years.

“Gao Jimi, locate her house and drop her over ” Ling Rui breathed out as Gao Jimi lifted Meiyin and took her out.

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Meanwhile, On the Road.

“Have you gotten there?” Jimi asked and continued to support the sleeping girl in his arms.

The Boss was hard to please and also was not caring. For him to make his assistant send a random girl home meant she had some deep connections.

“Jimi, we are being followed!” The lady announced as she tried to drive as fast as she could to avoid them but they seemed not to back out.

“Drive safely, I will let the Big Boss know!” He dialed his number.

“What?!”

“We are being followed by five black cars. Should we......?”

“If anything happens to that girl, you die along with her!” He said as Jimi imagined himself dead.

“Okay, Boss. ” Jimi cut the call, hopped to the driver seat, and took hold of the wheels.

This was never the first time he has been stalked by cars. Being an assistant for the business lord was never a simple assignment.

Learning combat and martial arts was a requirement and I also had good driving skills. So taking care of this situation was as easy as ABC.

He plunged in the car keys and sped to the highest one and drove fast. The cars also went to the fastest speed.

Jimi cornered them at the Ville Road and made them stop. He came down with his gun and told the others to stay in his car.

“May I know the gentlemen that want my boss's princess dead?” Jimi jokes as he twirls the gun between his fingers.

Presently, the men looked qualified to take down anyone seeing they had the same gun as him.

The battle had just begun so hot right now but Jimi had a joke face on.

“Move out of the way little kid, I only want the girl ” The leader angrily says as he points to Jimi's forehead.

“Go ahead and shoot. Let me count for you ” Jimi raised his fingers up

“One ”

“Two ”

“Three!”

Jimi smirked as he grabbed the man's arms and twisted it to his back and kicked him on the knee.

He fell to the ground as his knee began to bleed. The other members of the gang could not believe that a boy could do that to them.

“Anyone else?” He pointed the gun to the leader and took him by the collar and then pulled the trigger and shot him dead on the spot.

Their leaders were gone and had no one to command them. They began to run the opposite way for safety.

Unknown to him it was a plot among them. Another member shot one of their bullets at the car and the glass shattered.

Jimi looked at the car as it moved backward without no one at the steering wheel. He ran to the car to drive but it crashed into a big building and stopped.

His eyes shot fire at them and picked his gun up and shot them down in a second. He dropped the gun and ran to the car.

“Are you okay?”

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“Are you okay?” Jimi asked as he shook Ms. Zhang and sighed.

She was very much alive but sleeping due to the spiked drink. He wondered who the bullet had hit and looked at the other passenger seat and saw the woman dead.

Blood gushed out from her forehead where the bullet was. Blood ran through her nose.

The woman held Meiyin in her arms to cover her from the bullet and took it instead. He ran to the woman and held her up.

There was nothing he could do. She had already lost blood. The car seat and Meiyin's face were covered in blood.

He rushed to the hospital, and dialed Ling Rui number to tell him they were safe.

“We are safe. But Ms. Yunnan died ”

Ms. Yunnan was the woman's name who collected the bullet for her. She served the young master for two and a half years and wanted to retire.

There was silence at the other side of the caller.

“Compensate her family. Bury her in the Ling's cemetery ”

It would not be shocking if the Ling's had a cemetery to themselves. It was built by the Young master himself to bury those who died when working for him or those who died on behalf of his safety.

It was a privileged thing to be buried there. The cemetery had flowers and many attendants to constantly trim the flowers and the tomb.

“Okay boss. The people who chased us wanted the girl and it won't be safe if we drop her at her house. ” Jimi reasoned.

“Take her to the US. Hide her from everyone .”

The call disconnected and Jimi stared at the sleeping woman and the dead one.

He bowed his head towards Yunnan as a sign of respect for the dead and carried Meiyin away.

At that time the boss attracted multiple enemies when he made the president step down and sued him for infringement of human fight.

Yunnan was the only woman that accepted the military training and took the oath of always protecting the big boss.

She had an eleven year old daughter at that time and took the oath. She served the big boss with all her heart.

End of Flashback .

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“Are you sure of this information you are giving me?” Xiyu's hands trembled as the manager helped her up.

The surviving guards reported to her father that she was dead and it was successful. Why is the story different?

“Yes I am. She went to the make-up room with Junwei before I came here, ” her manager said.

Xiyu took her bag and went outside.

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In the Make up Room.

“Miss Zhang, here hold this ” Junwei handed Ms. Zhang a file and she opens It.

“Let me brief you on the show. This is a selection for the beauty event made by Editor Su. Normally, I hardly get anyone to manage because it is hard to get into here ” She sits down and the make up artist begins the make up.

“You are really lucky, Ms. Zhang, ” Tiffany replied.

“If so then i hope to seize this opportunity with all my heart ” Meiyin smiles back at the two.

Meiyin was the happy and funny kind among people who liked her and the dangerous and shameless one around people that hated her.

The door opened and Xiyu walked inside the room alongside her manager and sat near Meiyin.

“Ms. Zhang ”

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“Ms. Zhang ” Junwei greeted as Xiyu sat on the chair.

“Meiyin, long time no see ” Xiyu grinned with hidden meanings behind her words.

She was obviously flaunting her gold wrist watch. She wanted to show how successful she was now.

Meiyin turned her head to her and smiled back at her.

“I did not know I was so popular that my name flew to many people's ear ” Meiyin scoffed in her mind but maintained a bright smile.

The tension in the room became high. The two sisters were both smiling at each other.

“No Ms. Zhang, I am just an observant person that is all. Hope the cooperation will go smoothly ” She laughed a little.

Xiyu tried her best to maintain her posture but she could not. She hated the fact that Meiyin was not the one who died and also she came here too.

Against Her, Xiyu was lower than Meiyin in terms of beauty and professionalism. If not for her cosmetic surgery, she would not get shot at any roles.

“Sure Ms. Zhang, hope to cooperate with you well ”

The room went silent as their various make-up artists did their makeup.

“This way, Ms. Zhang ” Xiyu's manager leads her to the photo booth.

“Wait let me call someone ” Xiyu stops and goes to the nearest corner and calls her dad.

“My sweetheart, what is it?”

“Dad! Why is Meiyin not dead?!”

Quietness came upon the other side. Zhang Yeri was surprised himself.

“Calm down and tell me what happened ”

“She is right here!” Xiyu walks around and taps her heels on the glass floor impatient while waiting for her dad's response.

“Okay, just make sure you secure the role. Besides, after this event, I will make sure she is dead for real!” Yeri smirked evilly and stares at the caller ID

“But what if she secures the role? You know she is far more professional than I am and I am just a copy of her. I am really annoyed!”

“I will contact my friend for that event. Everything would go smoothly okay? ” Yeri cut the call and gazed at the wall.

How could she survive that bullet? It was one of the best guns in the underworld and was also qualified by the military.

That girl needs to go!

“I need one more favor from you. ” Yeri calls an unknown number.

“Go ahead and this one time .”

“Help me get rid of someone forever!”

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In the Set.

“Okay! Let us get on with this. ” The director was obviously irritated with the previous model performance.

The director was an outstanding photographer in the fashion industry. Willison Hudson, An English photographer.