When Lily arrived at Zhou Jingren's office, the first thing that she noticed was the thick smell of chicken soup. Beaming, she walked towards Zhou Jingren's table. "Hey! Did you have Chef Yang deliver the soup here?"
"He was already on his way to your office when I texted him to just come here instead." He rose from his seat and kissed her. "Bored?"
"Not really, no." She hugged him. "I was busy daydreaming." Her gaze turned towards the table. "Chicken soup?"
"With Korean Ginseng. Mother sent it yesterday. She said it would be good for you."
"Sounds yummy. Are we going to have lunch now?"
"It's not yet eleven."
"Really?" she feigned ignorance and glanced at her watch. "I thought it was already one in the afternoon. I am pretty hungry."
"Mother also sent us some snacks, for you." He went back to his seat. "You should have some. Korean Chestnut Cookies. I haven't tried one before but she said it's good."
Lily nodded without saying anything, she marched towards the mahogany table and started munching on the snacks. "Mother will come with us to Switzerland no?"
"She will. She is pretty excited about it."
"How about your father?"
"He will be busy with the company but he will visit us once you give birth. And maybe stay with us for a couple of days."
"Oh! Then it's good!" She said and started talking about businesses and some deals that their company just finalized. "I think I am set. After the Corneels, we can leave and go to Switzerland."
"Hmmm. That's good." Zhou Jingren said. The more Zhou Jingren talked to Lily the more guilty he felt for not telling her about what he had just discovered. However, this was because he was not really sure about it.
At this point, this was nothing but suspicions on his part. Some part of him was hoping that his suspicions were not true. Some part of him wanted it not to be true at all.
However, the other part of him knew that the possibility of someone betraying them is high.
Since he does not have any proof about it, Zhou Jingren chose to maintain his silence until he and Bei Tian could find something. A proof, a trail, even a small breadcrumb. Something that would tell them Zhou Jingren is not crazy for thinking this way.
After a few minutes, Lily and Zhou Jingren had their lunch before Lily left so she could go back to Facci Group.
"President, some paparazzi are camping outside of the office. I am not sure if they are still here because of Mr. Li or something else."
"This is why I said, they cannot have their own privacy. Everything about them is an issue. Even their deals with companies need to be publicized." Lily sighed. "Just have someone inform them that Mr. Li already left earlier."
"Hmmm."
"Did you meet the actor earlier?" Qin Yuanfeng asked.
"It was a brief meeting." Lily shrugged. "He was a boy — at least he looks like it. He looked sixteen to me."
Bei Tian immediately laughed out loud when he heard Lily's words. "He is a pretty well-known actor."
"He is." Lily nodded. "Mr. Rossi would not really consider him if he did not have an excellent reputation and millions of fans in mainland China and Asia. But… I told him to find someone else if he gets overboard with his demands."
"His fans might attack you and your company if the deal won't happen." Qin Yuanfeng said. "Teenagers are pretty scary when it comes to their idols."
"You know what? I think you are right." Bei Tian uttered. "I actually agree. His fans, even the paparazzi, were aware that you were planning to make him your ambassador for the Harmony Isle. Since the company is a big one, they might have expected that he already got it."
"And… I did not even think about that." Lily uttered before she held her chin. "I understand your point. That is indeed a dangerous thing for a shopping mall." As Qin Yuanfeng said, some younger people were willing to take it too far when they felt that corporations had bullied their idols.
"I will inform Mr. Rossi about it," Lily uttered before she dialed the latter's number on her phone. She then started telling him about the things that Qin Yuanfeng and Bei Tian told her. After a few minutes, Lily finished her conversation with Mr. Rossi. "That's a good dodge." She uttered.
She would accept that since she became pregnant, she had stopped looking into unimportant details for deals such as this. This was because she trusted both Cathy and Mr. Rossi to handle it for her. A sigh escaped her lips.
"There is a reason why we chose the ones with an enormous fan base," Lily uttered to herself. However, this fan base could also act as a double-edged sword. This is one of the reasons why some of these idols are really confident to demand something.
The sound of soft beeps interrupted Lily's stupor. She furrowed her brows as she remembered that having these beeps meant that her name had been mentioned on the Internet.
"What is it this time?" she asked, lazily.
"Hah… entertainment news. Baby Xiao's contract with Facci Group Confirmed."
"Baby Xiao seen with the President of Facci Group. Will he become the first Asian star that the company hires for their European Market?"
"What kind of news is this?" Bei Tian's face turned ugly when he saw the image of a young man giving Lily flowers. "Who would dare— "
"That's entertainment news for you." Qin Yuanfeng uttered before he looked at Lily. "You planned this, yes?"
Lily stared at her brother in disbelief. She grinned. "My… you are starting to think like me. Impressive."
"What is happening?" Bei Tian grumbled. He really felt that these two were underestimating him, ah. "What is going on?"
"Lily would not just allow someone to be seen with her… like this." Qin Yuanfeng explained. "It's either… she was unaware that this would happen or… she deliberately made it happen."
"And I bet it was the latter." He added.
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