7 Chapter 3: The (not so) terrible party [1] [Re-uload]

After seeing that her A.I has searched through her whole office and still not finding anyone, Ning Wan was instantly dumbfounded.

How could she hear Jin Hai's voice so clearly if he wasn't here?

This didn't make any sense at all!

She felt pretty frustrated right now. Ning Wan is a woman that likes to solve her problems early and if possible, on the root of the thing so she won't have problems later on.

And hearing Jin Hai's voice without him being in here is a real problem.

'Why is it that I could hear that dog's voice?' Ning Wan although frustrated, was no stupid, she immediately started thinking about the possible reasons as to why she heard the voice even when the person whose voice belonged to wasn't present.

<Actually, wasn't it today that Ning Wan was going to have a date with that protagonist, Ye Chen?>

'!'

Ning Wan instantly became startled and looked around to see if she could find Jin Hai.

To her disappointment, he was nowhere to be seen.

Furrowing her brows in confusion, Ning Wan asked the A.I to keep scanning through her office, just in case.

Ning Wan sat down and paid attention to see what would happen.

<Ning Wan is in for a surprise for sure.>

She once again heard the voice in her head and now that she paid attention, she noticed that the voice wasn't being heard by her ears, that is, it wasn't an external source producing this voice.

She furrowed her brows even more when she noticed it.

The only way to make such thing happen was to use telepathy or use a direct connection in the Nexus, the internet that covers the whole world and reality.

However, Ning Wan knows for sure that Jin Hai has no such person that can use telepathy nor is he able to use it himself. This begs the question: How can she hear him if not by the normal ways?

Could she have awakened a unique ability like some people out there?

If that was the case, then why Jin Hai out of everyone for her ability to focus on?

Does it make you able to hear the thoughts of the person you hate the most?

That would be terrible. She would rather not have any ability if all her ability do is to make her able to hear Jin Hai's voice.

<Today Ning Wan is going to spend her day as usual in her office, then she is going to go home a few hours earlier to prepare for her little date. When the time arrived, she was all dressed-up and had even put some make-up to be pretty for the protagonist. Although, not even a miracle would make this woman look pretty, but beauty is subjective. Anyway, she will then wait, and wait, and wait more but the protagonist Ye Chen wouldn't show up. After being depressed that her love didn't show up, she will confront him and got to know that he was in the hospital and this is why he couldn't come. After asking how he injured himself, he will answer with a 'I was helping a person in need' and give his generical smile to her. She as the brainless woman she is, is going to forgive him easily and let him off the hook. I wonder how she would take it if she got to know that he got injured because he slept with the Nyx gang's boss' wife and that he was caught red-handed. And to ice the cake, he had actually forgotten that he had promised Ning Wan a date, since he never bothered to check his agenda and went on promising dates to every woman that had a crush or liking on him without even paying attention to the date of some "less important" women.>

*THUD*

A pencil fell from Ning Wan's desk.

She stood there for a good one minute trying to process the information she just heard.

What the hell was this supposed to mean?

Does Ye Chen not regard her as an important woman to him?

'No!' She shook her head to free herself from this spiral of negative thoughts.

'It's all that Jin Hai's fault! How could I even trust him over Ye Chen? Between the two of them, it's obvious who is the most important and trustworthy.'

Although Ning Wan couldn't help but have a nudging feeling that there was some truth in what Jin Hai's voice said, she didn't want to believe in him over her love, Ye Chen.

She is not an easy woman to fool.

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*TRING~*

Opening my eyes, I stretch my arm towards this accursed cellphone, the nemesis of people who love to sleep and pick the thing up.

Bring it to my face, I see who is calling me at such ungodly hour and as expected, it was my father.

I look besides me and see Elena sleeping peacefully while having just a thin blanket covering her divine-like body.

Just looking at her, I feel like I can throw my day away and stay in bed with her.

Alas, sloth is a sin for a reason.

Getting up without waking her up, I pick the call while opening the balcony and going towards the handrails.

"At what do I owe the pleasure?" I asked not really interested because I already knows what is going to happen.

- 07:00 pm today at our mansion. There will be a party, come dressed properly and don't be late, it's a party organized by your sister.

"Is that all?" I asked while picking a cigarette, putting it in my mouth and willing a bit of mana on the surroundings to lit it up.

- Prepare your luggage.

*TUUUTUUU*

Looking at the cellphone's screen that shows the call has been cut off, I show nothing on my face but my morning laziness.

*CRASH*

I look towards where the noise came from and see a maid just below my balcony looking at me with a face as red as a tomato and shielding her eyes with her hands but still leaving gaps in between.

I look at me, or more specifically below and see that I'm still naked.

I then look back at the maid and smiled at her.

I wave at her while she is rushing away with a furious blush on her face.

'Now that was a good way to refresh myself.' It might not see, but talking with my father always puts a boulder in my heart.

Knowing that they are going to disown me and still having to pretend to like them is pretty anxiety inducing, you always want it to end soon but can't do anything to fast-forward time.

I know they are going to chose my sister over me and disown me because of my "behavior" wasn't worth of being the young master of the Jin family, but everyone knows that this is bullshit.

They simply saw that my sister has more potential than me to take the family to higher heights. Her being adopted doesn't hinder it in any way since they just have to take a distant cousin and marry her with him and voila, a genius is now tied to the family by marriage.

But finally, it's here. It's in this party that I'm going to be disowned by my parents and my sister is going to be announced as the official successor of the Jin family.

While walking towards my bed once again, I suddenly stopped.

'Wait a minute…'

'Since the system said that I can do what I want, then why not just go there, do things my way and come back?'

This line of thought might end with 'If I do this, wouldn't I be going to mess with my sister who is also a heroine and hence mess with Ye Chen?'

The answer is:

Not necessarily.

Although my sister is considered a business and martial genius, she doesn't even make an enemy to me when it comes to business.

However, the clash or cooperation between the two of us is inevitable since we will be going into the business field, so I have to leave an impression.

An impression of: 'You don't want to cooperate? Who said I care?'

If there is something that irks me no matter how many times I redo things, it is the arrogance of the heroines in thinking that I or other people depend on them and it will be us that will be losing if they aren't willing to cooperate.

This attitude seriously irks me.

This is why I need to make this impression. I can't have a possible important operation which requires our cooperation be ruined because she was arrogant in thinking I depended on her to do anything.

'But oh well, that is for later. For now, I shall enjoy my beloved's sleeping face.'

Shoving my plans aside, I lie down once again and watch Elena's face

Showing a small smile on my face and using my mana to not let the smoke or scent of the cigarette reach her, I just stood there for about an hour watching here sleeping.

' "No matter how much one might be swallowed by troubles, if they see their loved ones having a peaceful expression, they are going to have some peace in them and strength to keep going forwards." Was it, master?'

While I was wandering in my thoughts, Elena's eyelids trembled and she started opening her eyes.

When she fully opened her eyes, she took some seconds to understand where she was but she quickly realized where when she saw her young master's naked figure.

Elena smiled beautifully and said with a sweet tone:

"Good morning, young master." She spoke with love.

Jin Hai snapped out of his thoughts and looked back at this beautiful woman.

"No, no, no. It's wrong. It's not 'young master'. You have to pick either: hubby, darling, honey or dear." Jin Hai said with a straight face.

Elena simply blinked her eyes at his demand.

"Eh…. I can't young master. Young master will always be my young master, no matter if you granted this lowly one with love or not." She said resolutely.

Jin Hai narrowed his eyes dangerously at her.

"I mean, if you granted me with love or not." Elena quickly corrected herself. Her young master always gets really pissed when any of the mansion's staff refers to themselves as inferior to him, specially her.

"Hum…" Jin Hai went back to his carefree expression and hummed while looking directly at her determined eyes.

"It looks like I got a goal really fast. I'll have you calling me something other than young master at the end of this year." Jin Hai said and nodded to himself with unwavering determination emitting from his body, as if he just decided to oppose an army alone.

Elena looked at her young master and just realized she dug her own grave.

Her young master wouldn't stop once he decides something and she has yet to encounter or see someone that can make her young master gives up once he set his gaze on a goal.

But did Elena care?

No.

*GIGGLE*

Jin Hai looked back at Elena just to see her giggling.

Seeing her giggling, he couldn't help but smile himself.

Picking up his cigarette, he threw it away and it instantly turned into ice and broke not even leaving any traces behind.

"Alright, good morning my empress. I have a party to attend at night I'm want to make sure I wouldn't run out of love." Saying so, Jin Hai lied down and hugged her.

Elena didn't reject and hugged him back.

This is the happiest day of her life.

In all her life of an extra, it was just today that she felt truly free and fulfilled.

She wouldn't trade this happiness for nothing.

Honestly, she is sure that she would instead give away her things to get more of this happiness.

Jin Hai looked at her and smiled sweetly.

Anyone who see this smile wouldn't even imagine that this same young man was the one who made the assassins from the night before turn into ice sculptures without even leaving his bed.