12 Chapter Twelve

Zhou Hua Fan sat in her grandfather's office waiting for him to return from his meeting and admires the view he had. Across from her, she could see the other building just as tall as theirs standing upright, reflecting the sun into her eyes. Raising a hand so as not to go blind, Hua Fan turns her attention to the streets below her. The once big and dangerously fast cars that although seemed so powerful and intimidating when she was down on the sidewalks to her seem so far away now. Now that she was watching from above, is this what it is like to feel powerful?

The people below who called for taxis yelled at others on the streets and raced back and forth busily were so loud earlier. But just like the cars they were not even worth her attention for longer than a millisecond, making her easily bored of the humans below her. Is this how the gods and immortals feel when looking down on us from the clouds? Do they also feel that all of us are insignificant ants that are not worthy of their attention? She could fully understand why her grandfather had worked so hard for this spot, and also why other people desired to be on a taller pedestal than they were born with.

This view, although lonely and boring, was very satisfying. Behind her, the door opens to reveal an older man who had a snobby look that seemed attached to his face permanently and an annoying pretentious smile on his face. When his eyes landed on the girl standing by the large window, she even caught a flash of contempt flash past his eyes. "Is there anything that Miss Zhou would like to drink or eat while waiting for Chairman Zhou?" She thought for a long moment, and her eyes find their way to a tiny shop below the building that she recalled seeing on her way here. "Then I want lychee milk tea from that shop across the street."

The man was not phased and was rather complacent despite her request and tone, which showed she considered him nothing more than a servant. Hua Fan blinks her large eyes at him as he professionally responds to her stupid request, making her smile slightly. "If that's what the young miss wishes to drink, then I'll have someone fetch it for you." The girl's sweet voice cuts him off making him freeze on his way the close the door. "You would trust a random person to casually come in contact with the drinks and food your superior's heiress is going to consume?" The hand on the doorknob twitches, yet the face remained unchanged as he corrects himself, forcing his smile to remain.

"Of course not, if the young miss is so worried, how about I personally go order that milk tea myself? Surely you have no objection to this solution?" Stupid brat! If the Chairman didn't make it clear he favored this spoiled girl, did she think he would ever listen to her ridiculous demands?! Most people would have treated him at least with some respect, but now he had to bend over backwards for a little girl who he could easily throw out a window? Hua Fan could easily see through his cold smile and smiled back very gently, "Thank you for the trouble." He left with gritted teeth while Hua Fan rolls her eyes at the closing door. After he left Hua Fan's fake smile fell and she turns around to give the door a single glance of indifference before seating herself directly in her grandfather's chair to play with the documents neatly stacked on his desk.

Looking through the contracts and financial situation of the Zhou company, Hua Fan felt it was all rather bland. "This is what Ye Ye does all day?" Recently Zhou company's profits and stocks have been on a steady rise again, so her grandfather was receiving more and more offers from other companies to work together on projects. It was just that Hua Fan hadn't paid attention to these things in the past and let other people reap the benefits under her grandfather's nose. Opening a folder with a project in C city having to do with a new mall being opened under the proposition of Zhou company helping fund the building supplies, she scoffs flipping through the folder in a careless manner.

This project is a big loss, even without knowing the future, her grandfather had declined this one with a single glance in the past. Sure, although C city was rich with opportunity and there were plenty of lands to build upon, it wasn't an area within their full control. The other families and corporations there would not let her already influential grandfather peacefully pluck a piece of ripe fruit from under their noses. More than likely someone else already made plans to make their own mall in C city and steal the hype, causing millions of dollars to go down the drain for anyone who did not have influence there to inevitably fail. Of course, grandfather could try to fight for rights, but the effort would not be worth the price in the long run.

She remembered her father in the past had gotten angry one day and drank till the whole living room stank of alcohol due to this loss and after getting a heavy scolding from her ye ye. Who told him to steal from her grandfather's desk? Did he think all of these were amazing offers with no setbacks? Her grandfather was so busy taking care of the mess and dealing with the losses that he had no time to punish Zhou Feng Ming fully in her past life, allowing his enemies to take advantage of his lapse in attention. The situation gave Feng Meng time to recover, plan, and beg Zhou Jian Kong for leniency, playing the family and only son left in the company card. She only remembered this incident because it was the first time her father did not come home and yell at her for bullying Huang Gou Heng at school.

Hua Fan tosses the folder into the trash without much psychological burden and grabs another folder to flip through, resting her chin in her hand. It was about fifteen minutes before the secretary came in again with her milk tea in his hands, but before he could set it down properly the drink falls from his hands in his shock. The man was stunned to find Hua Fan in her grandfather's seat leisurely flipping through folders like it was her office not even looking up after his interruption. "Young miss that's the Chairman's desk! Those are classified files!!" Hua Fan who was carelessly looking through a folder and comfortably leaning in her grandfather's chair raises her head from the papers in her hand to the man who seemed nervous and upset with her meddling.

The girl rose a brow and slowly sat up straight while closing the folder in an agonizingly delayed manner, seemingly obedient and calm despite being caught. He relaxes a tiny bit, yet suddenly, Hua Fan's eyes flash with a malicious light and her lip rose into a sneer. She tosses the papers onto the desk before he could stop her. Causing its contents to spill across the surface, knocking other documents off and scattering papers worth billions across the floor as if they were nothing more than paper mache. The man's jaw fell due to shock before his face quickly goes from purple to red, his smile falling off his face and becoming a glower. Hua Fan's eyes were as cold as ice and her lip rose in one corner like a queen looking down on a peasant with disgust.

"Ha? Who do you think you are?! Just a poor chicken being raised by a tiger out of pity, and you actually dare to raise your voice at me?!" The secretary was furious after being treated like this by a young child barely in her teens and took a deep breath before speaking again in a firm voice. He no longer pretends to be polite and took a menacing step forward, not afraid of the little girl in front of him. "Miss Zhou, please forgive this subordinate for being blunt, but this is the Chairman's desk. Not just anyone is allowed to sit there. I will have to ask Miss Zhou to rest elsewhere until the Chairman arrives."

Hua Fan laughs harshly and stays in the chair, even going as far as to cross her legs and lean back making herself more comfortable. Her lips curl with derision and humor towards his attempt at intimidating herself. "You are asking me?" He pursed his lips and answers her with feigned calmness, still pretending to act like a righteous elder dealing with a child throwing a tantrum under her amused gaze. "Yes." "Then I refuse. I carry part of Ye Ye's flesh and blood, so I am also considered someone who is worthy of this seat. A commoner like you would never have the opportunity, but you dare covet this seat so much that you turn green with envy each day."

Having been rejected and insulted all in less than four sentences, the man was shocked for a moment before giving up trying to be professional with the girl and shouting in an angry and reprimanding tone. "Miss Zhou!!" "Who?!" The secretary almost jumps out of his skin after hearing the authoritative voice behind him. He swallows harshly and shrunk back from the person behind him who was glowering at his back he hadn't noticed arrived till just now in the heat of the moment. "Chairman Zhou!" Hua Fan peers around him to beam at the person who had just entered the room, "Ye Ye~" She calls out sweetly with a bright face full of adoration and loyalty.