Chapter 117 - Accidently seeing her hubby

Lina and Mei helped Lila dress and do her makeup for the dinner. They were, after all, June's assistants. Who better to help present her to meet her future husband! 

They eventually agreed for her to wear the first gown she tried on - the sheath gown made of mustard mulberry silk. Her hair updo fit beautifully with it. 

Finally, she wore a pair of delicate pearl earrings that belonged to her mother. As she put them on, Lina finally saw a hint of real emotion in Lila's perfect visage. 

Lila Lim, the daughter of the princess Jiang Ying Yue. This girl really was royalty. 

Assessing herself one last time in the mirror, Lila made her way to the door, hurrying as gracefully as she could. 

She turned back to Mei and Lina one last time. 

"Thank you for your services today, ladies. Charge the bill to my card, will you? Goodbye!" saying this, she left them in her chambers with a maid who would show them out. 

Mei and Lina sighed. It had been an extremely long day and they were both tired. It was already nightfall and they had a long way to drive. She also had to sneak back into the Moshi Mansion without anyone noticing her disappearance. 

'Butler Min and Housekeeper Tan must be alarmed, I've been "sleeping" for far too long!' she thought to herself with exhaustion. 

The two women followed the maid out of the chambers and into the main hall. 

From the main hall, they could hear chatter from the dining hall through one of the corridors. 

One of the voices was familiar. Very familiar. 

Mei heard it too, realised what her boss was thinking and decided to do something. 

"Oww oh god, my stomach!!" Mei cried out suddenly, startling the maid.

"Oh, what now!" the maid sighed almost angrily. She just wanted these two intruders to leave. 

"It's my stomach! Please show me the bathroom!" she begged the maid, her face contorted in pain. 

'Mei's a good actress, I need to use her skills more often' Line thought to herself. 

"What's wrong with the both of you! Why are you having such problems?" the maid asked with disbelief. 

"Well...my colleague and I had some really spicy street food at a stall earlier. I think they had some old meat they must have used" Lina added to support their stomach problem stories. 

Mei looked like she was about to cry. The maid gave in. But before she led Mei away to the guest quarters, she glared at Lina. 

"Miss, you please better stay put here."

It was a warning. She didn't want Lina snooping around under her supervision. 

Lina nodded with a fake smile, but turned to the corridor where the sounds were coming from immediately as the maid turned her back. 

The door to the dining hall was slightly ajar and Lina was able to quietly peek through. 

She covered her mouth to stifle a gasp as she saw her husband standing at his chair, a smile on  his face, as he greeted Lila, who had just made an entrance. 

Lila's father, old master Lim, was introducing her to Shen. 

"Shen, this is my beautiful daughter Lila" he said proudly, as Lila smiled at Shen sweetly with a starstruck gaze. 

Shen bit down and acted polite. He didn't want to see her here, this was supposed to be business dinner but had turned into a  matchmaking ploy! 

"It's a pleasure to meet you, Miss Lim." he said politely. 

"Isn't she beautiful? She's exactly like her mother!" the old master said, obviously making his point. 

Lina grit her teeth in anger as she saw Shen nod at the old master. Lila blushed in feigned embarassment. 

The table was set for another person whose chair was pushed behind, but wasn't present in the room. 

That was probably the brother's seat. 

But what was annoying was that Shen wasn't even wearing his wedding ring! What was he thinking?! 

The truth was, since their marriage was a secret, neither one of them wore their wedding rings in public. But Lina had totally forgotten about that fact. 

She was only burning up inside with rage. 

So this was the business dinner?! Or was he trying to win favour with this family by courting their daughter?! 

How could she have trusted him! It was all for show, wasn't it? 

'Maybe his parents were forcing him to marry, so he just chose me to please them, but at the same time it was convenient because I was okay with us keeping it a secret!' she thought to herself angrily. 

'And he keeps me locked at home not to protect me, but so that he can go out living a double life?!' Lina completely forgot about her purpose, and lost all sense in that moment. 

Then she heard Lila speak up as she was still looking through the slightly ajar door. 

"Actually father, remember I told you I met Mr. Moshi just the other day at the university during the fair!" 

"Ah yes! My daughter did tell me about that run-in with you. She spoke very highly of you!" the old master added. 

"I'm flattered that she did, old master." Shen replied, politely. 

What? They met at the university fair? When?! Wasn't he there to find her, his wife? What was he doing fraternizing with this bitch there?! She never saw them together! 

Now Lina's heart was pounding and her head was hot with anger. She wanted nothing more than to slam the door open and drag him home to give her an explanation. 

But the old master's next words hurt her more than ever. 

"You know, Shen, the elders are trying to find Lina a suitable and worthy match. It's high time she marries, but we can't accept most suitors simply because they aren't good enough." 

The conversation was becoming very awkward for Shen, he knew where this was going. But this was their first formal sit-down together, he couldn't afford to insult the Lims.

So he just played along. 

"Oh, is that so? I'm sure any man would be lucky to have Miss Lim be his wife!" 

Lina couldn't bear anymore. She was about to slam the door, but she heard Mei's loud voice coming through from behind in the main hall. 

"OH, OH IT STILL HURTS" she was crying out. 

That was her warning, she had to move before the maid found her missing from the main hall. 

She moved away from the door she wanted to slam open and quietly ran back to the main hall. 

Mei could see something was very wrong with her boss. But she kept shut until they got into their car.