Auction? Fiance?

The entire night, Lijuan didn't sleep. She turned her room upside down as she searched for both the pen and drawing but still didn't find neither of them. 

By 4am when she was sure she wasn't going to see it anywhere, she took out her sketchbook and began to draw.

By the time she heard the first knock on her door inviting her for breakfast, she already used up all the space on her sketchbook and had papers littered everywhere. 

"I'll be down shortly." She informed the maid and stood up begrudgingly. Her muscles screamed in protest but she simply stretched by doing a little push up before going to her dressing table. 

She flinched in shock when she saw her reflection on the mirror. Her eyes were sullen and dull. She had panda eyes and her hair was messy. 

She cringed at her sight and began to fix her hair. When she was done, she went to the bathroom to wash her face and also brush her teeth quickly before treading downstairs in her pyjamas. 

She knew they were going to be mad at her for coming down late but she didn't mind. Nothing concerned her anymore. 

By the time she got to the dining, she noticed they were already seated and eating. No one except her mother bothered to look at her as she sat down.

"Good Morning Father, Good Morning Mother." She greeted.

"You look awful. Didn't you get any sleep last night?" Mother Mei asked with a concerned frown. 

"I am okay." Lijuan answered with a small smile and began to eat.

As usual, Chairman Mei and Rong began to discuss work related issues.. 

"I heard one of the flight attendants caused quite a stir in the plane early this morning." He said to Rong who sat up immediately. 

"Yes sir. She fed the wrong dish to a man who was allergic to an ingredient used. Thankfully, the medical team were able to handle the situation before the plane landed. He is currently at the hospital and is responding to treatment." She said formally like she was reporting to her boss and not her father. 

"What about his family?" He asked with a ugly frown. 

"They have been able to reach them. I'll be heading straight to the hospital once I leave here. I will speak to his family and also tender an apology to them and make sure it doesn't leak out to the public. The public relations team are also doing their best to keep the whole incident under wraps." Rong said quickly. 

"Good." He nodded approvingly and continued to eat. This was the major reason he loved his eldest daughter, she was very smart and reliable. 

Jiaying who was still in a foul mood didn't say much like she usually did. She simply picked her food and glared at Lijuan from time to time. 

She heard a notification sound from her phone and quickly glanced at it to see what it was... when she realised it was a message from one of the gossip blogs she followed she quickly clicked on it to see what the hot topic for the day was, and which celebrity was involved in a scandal. 

When she saw the headline of the news her eyes almost bulged out of her eye socket and she quickly clicked on the link of a video, making the others around the table to frown at the distraction. 

"No one actually saw that coming,  did you?" A female reporter asked and a male voice answered. 

"No, not at all. Although there has been guesses and speculations about the Vice President of Wang Motors dating the second young mistress of Mei Corporation, we were all silenced the moment he refused to comment on it during his press conference. And when he was later seen together with the first young mistress of the Mei Corporation who is also one of the top directors in her father's company we naturally concluded that he had close relations with the Mei family."

Lijuan frowned and turned to look at Jiaying's phone as she wondered what the news was all about and why they were talking about Wang Yun. 

Rong also had a slight frown on her face and was equally curious as to the reason behind the news. 

"What is that?" Mother Mei and Chairman Mei asked simultaneously. 

No one answered them...

The look on Jiaying's face darkened as she kept watching.  

"Of course, I was also surprised. To think the Vice President of Wang Motors, Wang Yun had actually announced by himself last night that Miss Mei Lijuan was his fiancee is something none of us saw coming. So I guess it's safe to say congratulations are in order. Congratulation to both families" 

All heads whipped around to look at Lijuan who was trying to hide herself.

"Wang Motors Vice President Wang Yun during an auction held at Yang Corporation's Hotel De Classique introduced himself as Mei Corporation's young mistress, Mei Lijuan's fiance." Jiaying read the headline to the rest of the family once she stopped playing the video. 

"Auction? Fiance?" Her father asked with a frown as he moved his eyes away from Jiaying to look at Lijuan. 

Her mother also looked at her in surprise. Her guess had been right all along. Lijuan had indeed gone there. But what was it about being Wang Yun's Fiancee?

The look on Rong's face darkened. They were all aware that Yun had been the one who dropped her off, but she hadn't thought something like that had happened.  

She tried to keep a straight face as she quickly stood up and excused herself from the table. 

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There was literally an earthquake in the Wang family house as Madam Wang screamed and crashed everything she could lay her hands on. 

"Finacee? Finaceeeeeeeee!!!!!" She yelled out loud and tried to pick up something else but her husband held her back. 

"You should calm down." 

"Calm down? I should calm down? How can I calm down? He left the anniversary just like that last night to go declare himself as her fiance?" She asked angrily. 

"Is she the same lady you mentioned was a Kleptomaniac?" He asked his wife.

"Yes! Yes!! Yes!!! Of all the ladies in the world, he chose her. Why can't I find my phone anywhere?" She continued to yell angrily as she scattered everywhere in search of her phone. 

"Come on, if he loves her then let him be. He is an adult after all." He said with an amused expression on his face as he watched his wife search frantically for her phone which was inside his pocket.

"Adult? Don't be silly!" She said without sparing him a glance.

It was going to be perfect if Wang Yun truly fell in love with her. He would do anything to support their union. A man married to a thief would not be fit to take over the company. 

"I'm off to work. I can see you aren't ready to leave yet. Catch you later." He said before heading out of the room. He whistled happily as he left. It was rather unfortunate that his wife's trouble was a source of joy to him.