Chapter 177 - A Dark Secret

Before dawn, her Uncle and Jackie accompanied Elizabeth for her morning run.

"Elizabeth Knightley we aren't running a marathon so can you please slow down." Jackie shrieked as she tries to catch her breath.

Elizabeth laughed seeing Jackie poor state, "Jackie you really need to work out more often."

"Excuse me, I'm perfectly proportioned. I just ate quite a bit yesterday." Jackie replied as she paused for a moment to catch her breath.

Elizabeth did not argue further since they ate quite a lot yesterday since Little Yan kept asking them to try different food stalls around the zoo plus they also brought their own food which they have to eat as well.

"Lili, what's your plan for today?" Zhao Yunxi asked.

"I have a meeting today but after that I'm free. Why Uncle?" Elizabeth inquired as she slowed down her pace so Jackie can catch up with them.

"I was wondering if you and Jackie wished to visit the military academy." Zhao Yunxi suggested.

"Are you doing your inspection Uncle?"

"Yup, Father would be there as well as the President," He answered.

"Jackie, what you think?" She turned and looked at the girl.

"Of course I'll go, there are quite a lot of handsome soldiers there."

Elizabeth and Zhao Yunxi laughed at Jackie's silly remarks.

When they arrived home Elizabeth was getting ready to head to Imperial EStar to sign the contract with Wang Jin. Since she needed to meet up with Jackie and her family later at Imperial Military Academy, she drove her own car causing quite a lot of people to speculate who she was when she got down the car.

"Wasn't that Li Zi?"

"She was driving a very expensive car."

"Could she be the daughter of some rich tycoon?"

Amongst them was Wang Jin who saw the girl arrived but did not care to ask the girl about her background nor did they try have someone investigate her. Since they trust her so much and she has helped them a lot.

"Li Zi, once we sign the contract you have a meeting with President Feng and Director Mo tomorrow to finalize the schedule for the movie." Wang Ji reported whilst he checked his planner.

"Just text me the time Bro Wang." Elizabeth smiled.

"Miss Li Zi we are so glad to have you here."

A man spoke whilst heading towards them with a beautiful secretary beside him.

"Li Zi, this is President Zhu Lan." Wang Ji said.

Elizabeth greeted the old man but felt a strange seeing how he was looking at her. She observed how his secretary was dress and moved just indicate what type of person President Zhu Lan is.

"President Zhu Lan, an honor to meet you." Elizabeth forced a smile disgusted being in contact with such a man.

From what Wang Ji explained, President Zhu was just appointed president lately since his brother was ill and is unable to continue with work. But rumors said that President Zhu has not handled the company well but since the company is a well-established magazine it did not show such a great decline.

As Zhu Lan continues to embrace the girl, Wang Jin cleared his throat as he tried to help her escape from the beast. "If you excuse us, President Zhu, we need to meet Director Xia Tu."

"Very well…" Zhu Lan said whilst giving an unfriendly looked at Wang Jin.

As the two of them walked away from President Zhu, Elizabeth took a deep breath as she finally was able to breathe and relax, "Thank you."

"I'm sorry Li Zi…" Wang Ji disappointedly said.

"It's fine."

...

In one of the private rooms, Wang Ji was finalizing everything with Director Xia as they sighed and confirmed everything for the photoshoot.

"Then Mr. Wang, my secretary will contact you in regards to the detail of the shoot." Director Xia Tu said.

"Director Xia thank you for the opportunity." Wang Ji shook hands with the man.

"Thank you, Director." Elizabeth smiled.

"You are indeed fascinating Li Zi, I can see why the President was so eager to have you for the shoot." Director Xia sighed as he felt concern for the girl since he saw such purity in the girl's eyes yet she about to enter the beast cave and soon will be devoured. "Anyways, if anything goes wrong please don't hesitate to call me."

Elizabeth was dumbfounded when she notices the worries in the man's eyes. She left it be for now and repeated, "Thank you again, Director."

As they partway, Elizabeth could not help wonder why everyone seems to be imiting such disgusted aura against President Zhu. The fact he was known to be a faithful husband to his wife and a good father to his children. Yet everyone seems to see a different side of him. Like his brother, he too shows great talent when it comes to handling people and business that why his brother asked him to handle the company while he was away. But from what she just witness it seems there's a dark secret that will soon be unraveled.

Elizabeth sat on the driver seat for a moment whilst reflecting on things, she then recalls she still has something important to do. She grabs her phone and called someone...

"Uncle, I'm heading to the academy now."

The girl then ended the call as she started the car engine, she steps on the gas as she rushed down the highway to the academy. Ignoring what happened earlier...