1 Wang Rouxi and Xia Jiannan
Time waits for no one.
Despite the scorching heat of the July sun, a chilly atmosphere enveloped the inside of an inconspicuous car parked a few meters away from the entrance of Haohua, the most luxurious restaurant in City A.
The countenance of the person seated on the driver’s seat turned frostier as the third hand of the clock ticked by at a constant rhythm with each passing second.
A sultry day it was. But the sweltering weather proved to be of no help to cool Lu Xi's head and ease her annoyance. Oh! It should be Wang Rouxi now.
‘Why would the Headquarters task me to take over as the CEO of Wang Empire Estates?’ Wang Rouxi thought while she flipped through the pages of the mission report she had read for the seventh time in the past half an hour.
She was to assume the identity of Wang Rouxi, the rightful heiress of the prestigious Wang Family?
“Ha!” Wang Rouxi laughed, then she said with a voice full of sarcasm,“They want me to pose as myself? Who were they kidding!?”
But then again, they were not aware that she knew the truth about her real identity. She had always been Lu Xi, the orphan who had killed her guardian because of their orders. Who would have thought that she would be the ‘dead twin’ of the current CEO of Wang Empire Estates?
A frown made its way on her flawless face as she kept the file in the glove compartment. She had been here for half an hour.
At this moment, Wang Rouxi could see a valet walking towards her car.
Li Wei, a valet working at Haohua for slightly over a year now, examined the unidentified car from a distance. His superior told him to keep an eye on it while he tended to their other valued customers.
However, even after half an hour had passed, there’s still no movement from the car. He could only go over and ask them personally about their business here.
Keys clinking in his pocket as he traipsed over towards the car, Li Wei wiped the sweat off his forehead and smoothed out the wrinkles on his uniform before he lightly knocked on the car’s window.
Through the heavily tinted windows, he could see the faint outline of a woman on the driver’s side, and so he addressed her as such, “Hello, Ma’am!”
Inside the car, Wang Rouxi sighed as she rolled down the window. Her new secretary would never hear the end of it once she meets him today.
Who would even set the time for a meeting and be half an hour late?!
Her secretary, yes!
Flashing a smile towards the valet, her gaze briefly shifted to the nameplate on his uniform, and she greeted him back. “Hello to you too, Li Wei!”
The smile on Li Wei’s face froze when he saw the countenance of the person sitting in the driver’s seat.
Not only was the driver a woman, but she also possessed an otherworldly beauty!
This woman was simply a goddess!
But what was she doing working as a driver?! With her beauty alone, she could just enter the entertainment industry and beat all those fake barbies in one fell swoop.
It was really a pity.
To think that an ethereal beauty would be reduced to such an extent as to serve as a driver for some lucky bastard. This was truly lamentable!
Wang Rouxi, unaware of Li Wei’s mistaken thoughts, waved her hand in front of the valet to pull him out of his reverie. Then she asked in a polite tone, “Is there something I can help you with?”
She wouldn’t be so petty to shift her anger to an innocent man. He was just properly doing his job here, unlike her unprofessional secretary.
Li Wei shook his head to clear his mind of those miscellaneous thoughts, and he gave Wang Rouxi an apologetic smile. “My superior wanted to know if you are waiting for someone. We noticed that you’ve been here for more than half an hour. Maybe we can check on them for you?”
Five stars!
Wang Rouxi would definitely give them a five-star rating!
“Yes, please!” She immediately agreed. “Kindly tell Mr. Sun Yiqi that someone is waiting for him.”
“Okay, Ma’am! I will relay your message. Have a great day!” Li Wei quickly left after he said that.
The poor valet could feel his heart thumping wildly against his chest. His neck and ears had turned beet red. If he stayed any longer, he was sure that he would only embarrass himself in front of the beautiful woman inside the car.
Wang Rouxi watched as Li Wei’s back disappeared in the distance. A wry smile made its way on her face.
This was the reason she opted to stay in the car instead of going inside the restaurant to look for her secretary.
Now, she just had to wait. Again.
However, some time had already passed, and yet Secretary Sun was still nowhere to be found. Even Li Wei didn’t come back.
Wang Rouxi's lips pressed into a thin line. She hated waiting.
As she was contemplating whether to give her secretary another call, Wang Rouxi noticed an extremely good looking man standing beside her car.
The man had an emotionless expression on his perfectly sculpted face while listening to his secretary’s report. God must have spent too much time in perfecting this man to the point where one glance could make any woman or even man fall in love with him.
The man was wearing a black slim-fitting tailored suit and white undershirt, which emphasized his broad shoulders and slender waist.
Although she could only see his side profile from her position inside the car, Wang Rouxi immediately recognized this man as the CEO of the Xia Corporation, Xia Jiannan. This man was known for his cold yet calm demeanor and was given the title ‘The Stoic King’.
But Wang Rouxi could just care less about this godlike man. After all, she was the rightful heiress of the largest business empire in the whole of China. Her status was indeed far greater than his, if only...
Not wanting to delve into that topic once more, Wang Rouxi shook her head and was about to call Secretary Sun when suddenly...
Xia Jiannan got into her car!
Surprisingly, Wang Rouxi seemed not to be affected by the man’s appearance. Faced with such a beauty, there were no changes in her expressionless face.
But was she really not affected even a slightest bit?
Badump!
The assassin felt her heart skip a beat!
A chilling coldness flashed in Wang Rouxi’s eyes for a second before it went back to its normal indifferent gaze.
If one would see the two of them together, they would agree that these two seem to fit with each other.
With their cool and laid-back temperament, the man seemed like an olden day emperor while the woman looked like an ancient deity. It would not even be an exaggeration to call them ‘The Ice King and Queen’.
Looking at the handsome profile of the man who had just intruded in her car in interest, Wang Rouxi leaned back in the driver’s seat and crossed her arms. She merely sat in front of the steering wheel, not bothering to make him leave.
“To the penthouse.”
A deep cello-like voice broke the deathly stillness inside the car.
When she heard the man’s authoritative tone, Wang Rouxi could not help but glance at her attire before musing to herself, ‘Do I look like a driver-bodyguard?’
