Chapter 148 - 147: Phone Call

After Jang Hyun taking care of Kim Hui Cha's embezzlement with the authorities, Wang Li Lei had to go first to restore the mistakes that Kim Hui Cha did. 

While he left, Xiao Yun took the chance to talk with Zi Gong. She sat on the couch and looked over the evidence that he gave with her bodyguards.

"Thank you very much for your assistance in giving the evidence, Mr. Zi. Unfortunately, we couldn't let you off after turning a blind eye and cooperating with Mr. Kim Hui Cha." Jang Hyun spoke with his robotic tone, turning over the doc.u.ments with an expressionless face. 

Perhaps what made people nervous in front of Wang Li Lei wasn't only his coldness, but the indifference of his secretary too who was always watching at the back with eagle-like eyes. 

Zi Gong's heart drowned in cold water, as he thought after what he did firing him off must have been the gentlest compensation for his action. He could understand the company's point of view but felt dismayed that he had dismissed from his job and the opportunity to settle his debt. 

As he stood up to pack all his things on his desk, Xiao Yun raised her palm and stopped him. "Wait." Zi Gong's stopped instantly from her voice and meekly glanced at her. 

"How much debt you still have from your father's hospitalization debts and surgery debt?" 

Zi Gong replied immediately. "The hospital debt is without interest and the total is about 6 million yuan. In a count of another four to five months with the salary of the company, I should be able to settle it. But the surgery debt..." Zi Gong evaded his eyes toward Kim Hui Cha's table. "Last time senior Kim multiplied the interest by two-"

"How about working for me?" Xiao Yun cut off in between. "The salary should be the same as SLP and also I could guarantee you that you would not have to pay the interest from the surgery debt. The work wouldn't be that hard, it's onl-"

"Please let me work." Zi Gong quickly replied with unhesitating eyes. Anything that could help him to nurse back his father's debt wouldn't need any second thought for him. Especially the person offered him a clean job, not the same one as what Kim Hui Cha proposed to him. 

Xiao Yun grinned and placed her name card on the table across Zi Gong's eyes. "Then, you could come to Azure Company, for the rest of the working contract." 

Zi Gong stood up in haste. "W- When should I come?" 

"As fast as you could." Tian Yi and Hi Gu Yan followed her out to Wang Li Lei's car. 

Zi Gong didn't notice that his eyes had been watery for the whole time and when he saw Xiao Yun leaving him with hope, a drop of tears blurred his eyes which he immediately wiped off. He shouldn't make another mistake, he thought to himself. After what had happened, Xiao Yun still offered him a job and promised to lift some of his burdens. 

Seeing that he was able to start his life and pay for his father's medicine, he could only praise Xiao Yun as an angel falling down to Earth. 

As she was done for the day, Wang Li Lei escorted her back to her house. Walking out of the car, Xiao Yun stopped for a moment and met her eyes with Wang Li Lei. She gulped and brought forward her lips to his forehead before walking out of the car. "Good night." 

"Good night. Sleep well." Wang Li Lei replied with a gentle smile to watch the girl waving her hand until his car exited the gate of her house. Waiting for eleven years, five months, and fourteen days wasn't that long in comparison to share a kiss with the girl. Slowly, her body had got accustomed to him and soon her heart would only have him. 

A cold glint hovered through his eyes as he leaned back to the car and covered his eyes. He couldn't be too greedy. He knew that being greedy would only lead him to hasty mistakes and that wouldn't be desirable. 

Drowning in his thought, Wang Li Lei could only notice someone called his personal phone after it rang twice. His black eyes glanced at the caller's name after he took his phone and tapped the green button. 

An old woman's voice came through at the other receiver, her tone was kind and comforting as she greeted her grandson. "Xiao Lei, good evening. How are you?" 

"Good evening grandmother. I'm fine, how are you and grandfather doing?" He replied politely, giving a sense of solitude to Wang Yan Zhi.

"That's great. Your grandmother and your grandfather is fine here. Have you eaten well? Don't forget to take a good rest every day. Your work is important but health comes before that. Don't be like your grandfather who could only stop working after he finally faint. Being a hard-working person is good but forgetting your limit isn't good." She warned sternly. 

"I understand grandmother. Have grandfather's health been improving?"

"Yes. After taking a holiday here for months, that workaholic seemed to have relaxed down and forget about his works which is good. Also on the 27th of this month, we would arrive back in China." Wang Yan Zhi guessed Wang Li Lei's answer and quickly added, "I know that you will be not home that week. Your grandmother can't wait to see your face again. Also because you would not be coming to the airport, Chang Lu would pick us up from the airport. "

A frown pulled the brows on his fair forehead as he heard the name mentioned by Wang Yan Zhi. "That wouldn't be needed, Hyun would be coming to pick you two." he coldly rejected.

"I know that already but what would be wrong in having her coming to pick us up? She had been like my own granddaughter. Rather than your secretary, I would want to catch up with things when we were not here. " Wang Yan Zhi's persuasion showed her fondness for Lin Chang Lu. 

"Grandmother, Xiao Yun is my fiancee. Please remember that." His stern voice brought a little sense back to Wang Yan Zhi. 

Since he started college, Wang Yan Zhi had been wanting to make Lin Chang Lu as his fiancee and made all possible ways to hold a meeting between them. 

Of course, Wang Li Lei rejected all of the opportunities made by Wang Yan Zhi coldly. But whether it was Wang Yan Zhi's stubbornness or Lin Chang Lu's obstinate, they kept on finding opportunities until he took Xiao Yun as his fiancee.

As he thought, his grandmother was still one-sidedly holding a candle on making Lin Chang Lu to become his fiancee. 

"I know that." Wang Yan Zhi sourly replied. "But can't you think more about this? The position as your fiancee should be filled with a mature, strong, and kind person. Not some childish girl born in a renowned family that could only use her family's business. In any case, the little lady of Y-"

"Grandmother. " Cold voice unlike the one her previously used pickled through the phone. "Even if it is you, I will not stay down quietly if you say any more words about her." 

Wang Yan Zhi's face darkened. Her son, Wang Li Lei's father had also fell in love with a woman with no background even though he was supposed to be the top out of anyone. When they heard Wang Li Lei saying that he wanted to engage with the young lady of Yu corporation, they could only agree as they didn't want to repeat the same mistake which led to his father walking out of the Wang Family.

Knowing Wang Li Lei's mind, he would rather be stripped down out of his position now and made a new company instead of leaving his fiancee. It was the same resolute as his father had.  

But even though she agreed, she still couldn't accept such a weak-background woman to become Wang Li Lei's fiancee. 

"Forget it." Wang Yan Zhi drew a heavy breath out. "We haven't talked for a long time, we shouldn't keep on talking about this. I have to go now, I will call you later."

"Good night. Grandmother." Wang Li Lei staleness still didn't disappear until he ended the call.  He tapped his fingers on the seat beside him and remembered the chocolate-coated almond in his pocket and pulled it out.

Placing the almond on his mouth, the sweetness with a little bitterness spread through his mouth. He crunched through his almond and calmed down to remember the girl's compassionate smile and how her round eyes gazed at him. 

On the next schooldays, Xiao Yun jumped brightly out of her room in a school uniform and greeted her parents to have her breakfast. Yu Xing Fu took his glass of water and rubbed his eyes at his little sister who was currently smiling brightly on Monday. 

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