A Perfect Plan

Ai Mi stays in the bathroom for a while pretending to ease herself and then flush the water closet. When she heard the ghostly footsteps of Zhi Ruo and the banging of the office door, she came out of the bathroom staring at the door with a contagious smile, as well as provocative thoughts rushing like a whirlwind in her mind.

She walked back to her desk in a hurry after a few seconds and tapped a few buttons on her computer.

The screen then displayed the office of Zhi Ruo who was crying like a wife would do if she lost her husband.

It disgusted Ai Mi enormously, but she quietly watched.

Zhi Ruo picked up her phone in her scattered purse and began to dial a number.

Ai Mi waits patiently, her head quietly on the back of both palms whose fingers are entwined, as she watches.

"What did you tell Ai Mi when you went to her house yesterday?"

Bingo!

She smiles a little before her computer screen went blank. Zhi Ruo switched off the cameras in her office.

Well, too late for that. Her suspicion has been proved correct and accurate.

She's the one partnering with Munchen and, maybe her father. But she doesn't care!

Zhi Ruo... Such a thief!

Seeing that the computer won't pick up anymore, Ai Mi stands up from her desk and walk to the large window in the room with a dirty smile on her face.

Zhi Ruo...

She bites her lower lip lightly, letting it go bit by bit with Zhi Ruo and her minions going through her mind.

The green lights in her office starts to flicker uncontrollably making her turn to her computer once again just to see it back up, and Zhi Ruo leaving her office.

She smiles widely as she headed to the door, taking her hat and purse with her, but leaving her shades in the office.

She has no idea what they discussed, but she is totally ready for them.

****

Zhi Ruo enters the meeting hall where over a thousand workers are standing with somewhat abnormal expressions on their faces

Zhi Ruo looks down with a flashy smile on her face, trying to hide the excitement in her seeing the disgusted looks on so many of their faces.

If the government gets them looking like this one day, Ai Mi will be fired and the company will be redirected to her.

She may share just a little with Munchen and the rest with Haoran. Ahhh... A perfect plan.

Thinking about it makes her cackle within.

Ai Mi emerges from within the dark stage in front of the employees and the whole place grew silence. Those murmuring, groaned inside hoping it won't be one of the company's pep talk again.

Judging from their tired and disgusting faces, Ai Mi smiles. Her contagious smile made everyone within the hall smile too, but in fear though. Only the stubborn ones remained frowning.

"I called you here as a reminder of the board meeting tomorrow. As you know, supervisors from China and Japan are going to be here for the product we are to produce in a month's time" she pauses, letting the information go down a bit before she proceeds.

"After that, the Vivyl Agency Corporates are going to be here" Gasps of surprise and amazement fills the entire hall.

"And you know what that means" Ai Mi states.

"Vivyl Agency Corporates?" People ask themselves with hush tones.

"What's that?" Haoran asks a worker beside him

"VAC is one of the best agency in the world. They major on different things like, the production agency, criminal detection, training of youths..." the male worker says.

"That's not all..." another male employee jumps in

"I heard they also send people abroad to catch presidential candidates that have embezzled money and all those"

"Fraud?"Haoran asks

"Something like that, yeah"

Haoran went ahead to stare at Ai Mi in the large screen in front of them.

He starts to recall what he saw on the internet on his computer in his office.

Presidential firms are the words the internet used.

He looks up again in confusion.

"GJP is in the hands of this board meeting, so I advice that everyone pack your things and head home in preparation for the meeting tomorrow while it's still morning"

Haoran takes a look at his watch. It's 11:45am.

And it feels like a decade just passed.

"The new workers should please wait behind for an hour before you also depart. Have a wonderful day"

The whole hall applauds for Ai Mi as she left the stage. Not because they want to, but because of their freedom at last to leave the company early to prepare for a longer day ahead of them.

"Thank God I'm an old leftover" Many old workers say happily.

Some of the new staff sulks while most of the responsible ones just smiled and shook their head, trying to question themselves on how lazy the old workers are.

Before 30 minutes, the whole company seemed like a graveyard.

About a hundred of them were the ones that waited behind for the fact of being new here.

After Zhi Ruo made sure each one of the old worker had left, she took some files to her office where they were all seated and went upstairs to get Ai Mi.

Haoran, who is seated at the third role to the front stared at Zhi Ruo.

The way she worked and walked trying to get so many things ready at the same time. Well, she's the assistant so... She has to do what the boss needs her to do.

After a while of chatting with each other, Ai Mi and Zhi Ruo entered the office and slowly, their mouths started getting shut tightly

Her hat that is making everyone in the room to barely see her face is admired by all the ladies in the room as they guessed that she had some sense of fashion.

"We never did a proper introduction about the company, and most of you never made a deep research on the company that hired you, so we will like to take this opportunity to do that now" Zhi Ruo says.

"My name is Ai Mi Bao and I am the CEO of Global Japan Products. This is Zhi Ruo Bowen, my assistant, and the two of us have been working together for three years now" Everyone stares at them, innocently.

"GJP was created as a research company that gave works to lawyers and detectives when it newly started operating. But as time went by, things changed a lot.

If you search about it, you'll notice that the internet says that GJP has been in existence for 21 years"

Everyone takes their phones out and do as she says.

It's true.

Haoran though, just stares at Ai Mi blankly. He was so absentminded by her appearance, that he forgot that he was staring too much.

Their eyes met and that silence and eye contact from last night, continued with her head up high.

Ai Mi though, didn't make the mistake of allowing anything to slip through her fingers...

But something seemed to slip into her, just by staring into the beautiful eyes of the young man in front of her.