10 Arc 1: 1. 9

After Ivan saw Belinda left, he turned to the invisible black round ball that was near him the whole time, intended to ask his system a question but he was cut off once again by his own system.

[Host, between who is smarter than who?] 

[Are you kidding me? Why are you bothering to ask this silly question?] 

[I just wanna know, can't I?] 

[Well, the answer, of course, It's me.] 

Blackie rolled his black eyes to its host's answer, [Why are you so narcissistic?] 

[I'm not. It's the truth. Even though my intelligence is just above average, I'm still smarter than you.] 

He returned to his desk and saw that it was nearly 5:30 PM, so it meant that he would have finished today's work soon. That's right there was a free dinner too. How cool today was, was what he thought. Suddenly, he thought of something.

[Blackie, can you monitor female lead and male lead? I wanna make sure of something because I've seen a scene like this on TV before.]

[Okay, host I will be back soon.] 

Right after it announced itself, he didn't Blackie floating around him anymore. He went to Lance's desk and knocked on the desk to get Lance's attention.

"What time does dinner start?"

"At 5:45 PM, Mr. Radford will send someone to fetch us to the restaurant. So don't worry! By the way, have you done your work?" Lance pushed his glasses up while he's asking Ivan.

"Yep, I've done all of today's work."

"Alright, good work then!" Lance brought his attention back to his work and no longer cared about Ivan.

So that meant Ivan had some free time before the dinner started. He browsed the internet through his phone. Then, he stumbled upon something shocking to his core, the female lead's father was his boss's uncle? 

This wasn't mentioned in the story plot at all. Where did it come from? Ivan immediately called his system back.

[Blackie, what's the meaning of the news? It is the truth or a fake one?]

[Host, I just found out about that too during my observation of the female lead in several minutes. She just called her father regarding her position in the company. She said to her father that she wanted to be in your position, but that old man said that he couldn't manipulate things regarding the CEO's decision.]

[Does she actually want to replace me?]

[Yes, host!]

[And here I thought that she is a good person with a high principal and morale.] He took a look at the time and saw that in any minutes the driver would have arrived, so he ended the conversation with his system by telling it to continue monitoring the female lead's every movement that she made.

Before Ivan and Lance bid goodbye to Andres and left the office, Ivan had reminded his boss about the dinner meeting with Ms. Belle Clair at restaurant XXX at 6:00 PM. Then, they proceeded to the elevator. They waited in front of the entrance of the building and then a black Audi A8 smoothly made a stop before him and Lance.

(A/N: let's imagine as all the famous brands' name on earth also the same in this world too)

Although Ivan never cared about the brands of the car nor its model, he could tell this one is quite expensive and a high-quality car that everyone could ever ask for. Only one thing he could tell from this, it was really extraordinary.

They got it inside the car and Ivan still opened his slightly due to his initial surprise. Despite the fact it was all in black color that he didn't like very much nor love too much, he still felt like he would instantly fall in love with the interior design of the car the moment that he saw it.

The duo arrived at the destination after a 10 mins ride. They got out of the car and a waitress appeared in front of them, guiding them to their room.

The room that they were being guided to, is the private room for any customers that like privacy. It was located on the 2nd and 3rd floor of the restaurant.

The 2nd floor was reserved for normal VIP cardholders, whereas the 3rd floor was reserved for the special VIP cardholders. They were guided to one of the rooms on the 3rd floor where he could see only a handful of rooms available on this floor and less in numbers compared to the 2nd floor.

The door was opened from inside after the waitress had knocked it three times. Ivan followed Lance inside and saw the expensive design nearly made his jaw drop.

Ivan's thought at the moment was only 'Wealthy people' Fredrick nodded his head as his greeting and told them to take a seat. Ivan and Lance took a seat after they were told and Ivan found himself sitting beside the CEO of Radford Group.

He was wondering how the heck he ended up in this seat? He cased a glance at Fredrick and as a result, their eyes made another eye contact. Their surroundings seemed rather quiet as it wasn't inside the restaurant, they seemed to be engrossed in each other's eyes and presence.

Ivan suddenly felt this sparking feeling within him that he had no answer to that. He broke the eye contact the moment the knocking sounds were echoing throughout the room. Then the door was opened and the waiter brought the food to serve on the table.

Fredrick waved his hand to get all the waiters to stand outside the door, he then smiled at Ivan and Lance and told them to start their dinner.

As they started eating, the only sounds that were still echoing throughout the room were either the discussion between Lance and Thomas, the secretary of Fredrick, or the little scratching sounds from fork and knife on the plate.

The quartet finished the dinner around 8 o'clock at night due to there being some discussion going on from time to time.

Fredrick whispered something to Thomas, his secretary, Thomas nodded and whispered to Lance. When Thomas saw that Lance agreed, they took off to the parking lot together.

Unexpectedly, he found himself alone with Fredrick and it made his little heart pounding again. *ba-dump**ba-dump*

Ivan lifted his right hand and put it on his left chest to calm down his fast-beating heart, but he was not able to call it as he thought he could.

In the quiet street, Fredrick spoke up and his voice was somewhat gentle, "How about I send you home?"

Ivan, who was asked out of the blue, shrieked a little bit due to his nervousness and took a while to reply to Fredrick in his trembling voice, "Y..Ye.Yes?"