Memories of Recent Past

When Wu Lina was tossed out of the room, she had never felt so humiliated. She straightened her hair and dress out of embarrassment before rushing out of the office building. She was conscious that she wasn't wearing underwear beneath her skirt, which made her feel all the more miserable. She took a cab to her apartment, which was only a twenty-minute ride. In the cab she texted Zhou Zhili that she won't be coming to the office today. After paying the driver, she fumbled out of the cab and slowly climbed the stairs to her apartment. She opened the door and went to her bed, dropping her purse and kicking out her shoes. She fell on the mattress wailing. Her whole body shivered and she didn't know for how long did she cry.

She must have slept and when she got up every muscle in her body tensed. Then she forced herself to let out a breath. She realized that she was burning with fever. She took out some medicine to eat from the bedside cupboard and went off to sleep all over again. When she woke up, it was already five in the evening. Her fever had subsided and she decided to take a hot shower.

She stepped in the bathroom and filled the bathtub with warm water. She added her favorite lavender bath gel to the water and stepped inside. Once inside her whole body relaxed. She spread her legs in front and rested her head on the edge of the tub closing her eyes.

Her mind drifted to the previous night's incident and she immediately felt nervous.

Wu Lina started reflecting on the past few months of her life.

She had succeeded in avoiding Yang Xinyu for three months after joining his company as a junior manager. However, she was transferred to the main office on the same floor, as the CEO, to work on a special project that involved creating software that would prevent cyber attacks on bank accounts. She was one of the head coders. When she saw him again in a meeting one of the days, she realized that he had become perfect and self-confident. Upon interacting with her he didn't remember her though, much to her relief, although it made her very sad.

Strong, muscular and youthful, owner of a multi-billion business empire, with dreamy brown eyes and mellifluous voice, a CEO with distressingly good looks… he was described like that in public's general opinion. Every adjective explained his Prometheus like image except they didn't know about his temper. He was City H's most eligible bachelor.

She remembered that back in the psychiatric ward all nurses drooled over him because of his looks. After a year his attraction had only increased because of the addition of seriousness to his attitude. The only negative quality was his temper, which went out of control most of the time when she was around him or when any woman touched him accidently or purposely.

He exuded a chilliness that would prevent any person from having a meaningful conversation with him outside of office affairs. The magazines also labeled him as the most handsome demon king devoid of any emotions who was only interested in making money.

Many business houses had brought forward their daughters as possible match for marriage for him but he rejected all of them. For this reason most of his pictures in the magazines or the Internet were without a trace of women. Some even thought him to be a gay!

Only a very few around him knew that he was once involved very seriously with a woman who had cheated on him. He had kept their affair a secret on her insistence. A famous artist, Ying Yue never wanted to reveal her relationship status to the society. She thought that her business and image would suffer, as many of her fans doted on her because she was single. She had promised to marry him. Little did he know that she was two-timing him, and her interest in him was withering. When he discovered whom she was cheating him with, he went ballistic. He went to her home to confront her only to realize that she had left the country with him to an unknown location.