New main task.

Once outside, free of President Luiss's presence, Ariana broke into cold sweet. She took out the tissue paper from her purse to wipe off the beats of liquid concealing at her forehead.

"This man is really.... the male lead." She commented before making it back to the garage. The cars were supposed to take them back to their temporary stay before they attended the collaboration party.

However, one of the personal bodyguards of Luiss was waiting down there. He stopped her. "Ms. Grey, President Grey has instructed us to escort you to the accommodation here."

"Here?" Ariana blinked. That was a VVIP area, and none of the staff was privileged enough to stay here.

"Yes, he asked us to convey to you, you would be attending the collaboration party with him. He needs you to handle some tasks and paperwork."

"Oh," that made sense. But this never happened in the original storyline.

"Someone's under close watch. I would watch my steps." David taunted as he passed by her with a satisfied smile.

FUCKER!

While David knew why Ariana was being showered with sudden favours, the other staff wasn't that close to Luiss. They looked at her with envy as the bodyguard took her to the luxurious accommodation. And not far from the president's suite.

'Whatever...' Ariana thought to herself. She had eliminated the challenge thrown by the system. The death threat was over. She could finally let herself relax for a moment.

The bed was comfy, to say the least. As she sunk deeply into it, she heard a ting.

'New main task. Have President Luiss see the host as a woman.

Time limit: One week.

Penalty: Elimination. '

"FUCK!" Ariana sat up straight on the bed. Her voice was so loud that she was certain it pierced the ceiling and reached the President's Suite atop her.

"This is so unfair." Her eyes were brimming with tears. Just as she thought she had gotten rid of the knife hanging on her throat, a new one emerged.

"See me as a woman, how do I do that? Does he not see I'm a woman?" Ariel thought back to the original storyline. All along the story, Luiss had respected Ariana. She had tried hard to evoke romantic feelings in him but failed.

He saw her as an employee, nothing more. He maintained a strict boundary between work and personal life.

If she intended to progress her relationship with the male lead, she needed to break that boundary.

"But how the fuck I'm supposed to do that?" Ariel was an introvert, a virgin who had never stepped out of her comfort zone or dated. She could behave professionally, she could memorize stuff, and solve problems that required intelligence, but if you asked her how to evoke a male interest, she would be a total blank.

"Ughh! This is so fucking frustrating!" Ariana let out her frustration by grabbing a pillow and throwing punches after punches on it. After the pillow became misshapened from her abuse, she laid back down, exhausted.

"Stats"

She called the system and jumped straight to the relationship stats with the male lead.

'Affection/Friendship: Two per cent.

Romantic Interest: Zero

Sexual interest: Zero

Respect: Fifteen per cent.'

"Well, that's some progress," She consoled her heavily grieved heart. After that, she clicked on the inventory and the reward from the completion of the last main task.

'Softness Buff.

Description: When activated, for a time period of fifteen minutes, the buff would make the person of the opposite gender put his guard down for the host. The host can make use of this opportunity to influence the situation.

Warning: Must be within 5 inches proximity of the target to be effective'

Ariana looked at the reward and then recalled the impermeable nature of the male lead. "I guess that's gonna be my breakthrough." She thought to herself and sighed. "Alright, at least I've got an extended time limit now before the system comes to slaughter me." She thought and relaxed her shoulders and let the much deserved sleep take over her.

Unbeknownst to her, her every move and action, from the moment she left the President Suit to the moment she fell asleep comfortably on the bed, was under the observation of a certain someone as he took sips of Brndy and personally undertook the task of monitoring this curious girl.

"Liam, I've some orders for you," He said with a smile that hid thousand tricks underneath it.