Chapter 48 - 48. Responsibility...

Ruri's heart almost suffered a shock when Secretary Qin, without any notice, just gave her away like that to ZiXuan!!

She was a bit startled alright, but then it rooted a small seed of anticipation as her heart rate increased waiting for his reply.

They hadn't met for almost 6 months now and a small part of her had wanted for him to miss her, you know, sometimes a distance between a couple makes them yearn for each other more, it was like that for her and she hoped the same from him, well, it was a wish...but she was going to disheartened.

She didn't know what he said but from the dumbfounded expression from the always stoic Secretary, she felt stuffy.

Her heart felt as if someone was slowly but steadily squeezing it, making it hard for her to maintain her smile when she heard Secretary Qian say--

"Ahem.. Miss Xun....It seems he is really a bit too busy so, he...um...asked me to follow protocol."

Though it seemed like he was having an awkward time saying it to her, his face was without any expression, he was too good at this, you know, 'sounding sorry without meaning it'.

He was actually a bit happy about this, he knew that for some unknown reason their CEO was forcing himself to meet her in those few visits she had here and was actually reluctant to meet at the QMX building, but still, he always would get a call and only then will he go out to see her, the key point was he always ignored her when she came but reluctantly went to meet her after he got a call from a particular person. Our Secretary had chanced upon the caller once as he was standing behind him during an important meeting with a client when his phone had rung, it seems it was the patriarch of Qin!!

Secretary Qin knew it was more than what meets the eyes and now that CEO Qin said outright to follow protocol, he was sure of it, it seems this so-called 'fiance-fiancee' charade was not with both party's consent!

Well, he didn't have anything to do with it, he feigned ignorance of the awkward silence between him and her that was created due to his words and also to her pale face after hearing the news, he again pushed his glasses up and said, "Miss Xun, I think it would be better for you to call CEO Qin after work hours or else please make an appointment next time. It's actually busy this time around and the CEO's schedule is packed and not flexible for him to receive sudden visits, I hope you understand. I'll see you outside."

He formally put a hand out to the door.

She had already blanked out after Secretary Qian said his first sentence, it was the first time something like this happened, no matter how busy he was, ZiXuan had never stood up on her.

She had always thought that, though he appeared cold and didn't know how to express himself, he was slowly but steadily falling in love with her.

But now...now that she heard that, he had asked Secretary Qian to follow protocol, it was like someone threw a whole bucket of ice water on her fantasies, she stood there rooted on the place, unable to think, unable to breathe, it was very suffocating for her.

Well, of course being doted on for years, even if, she acts like she was independent and didn't 'depend' on her parents, if something doesn't go according to her wishes, obviously she will act like this right!

Even though her family was against her choice of work, how could they let their princess inside this wolves' den called 'showbiz' without any protection, right?

Mind you, she has a talent for this field, has a good upbringing and is definitely fresh air to this industry as she hasn't seen the darkness and is still pure by being under the protection and halo of the entertainment giants, her family who further are under the wings of the Qin Empire!

She has a golden finger in the name of her family, she never went through the trials that 'normal' people went but she ignorantly thought that it was her doing, that it was her hard work, no doubt that you need talent, luck, and connections to survive in this industry and she had everything but the thing is, she is ignorant of the fact or maybe, she took it for granted.

Now, what she didn't know was that her manager is an undercover secretary of her elder brother and handles everything for her in the name of her family and is also responsible for giving her daily reports to the family.

As ZiXuan had told her before, he was okay with some rumors flying but he definitely didn't say yes to meetings in the office, or for the matter, anywhere else! These rumors were purely rumors, nothing more nothing else, he didn't mind if she indirectly said that they were in a relationship but he won't do it of his own accord, ever.

Of course, our Xun Princess was unaware of this, you ask why?

Well, you see, whenever she came here, her 'manager' was responsible to ask for the CEO, she would pass this knowledge to the elders in the Xun-jia when she was told that the CEO was too busy to meet their princess by the secretary. The family of course, liked the young CEO and would do anything to 'couple' them up so, they used indirect words to sway the patriarch Qin; our patriarch Qin saw that the young man was not against this so, he gave his okay and was always responsible to give him 'orders' to attend to her, which was seen as 'growing feelings' by our ignorant princess.....

haaah~ The upper society's water.....runs too deep.

But then again, Qin Mo can't be held responsible for all this as even he was a bit concerned about our Xuan who has not touched a girl in all his life, even our chairman wanted him to enjoy his life and not just drown in his work but these oast few years everything Xuan did can be said in three words, work-eat-sleep.

So...let's just dump all responsibility on our Meilin who still can't come face-to-face with herself....

Qin Meilin: "....."