Burning Passion

CHAPTER 88: HARRY'S FIRST LOVE

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Li-Shang Distributor Company, China

Chairwoman Nina Shang and Rubin were in a meeting when the door opened.

Following behind the uninvited visitor is Nina's secretary.

"Madame, I'm very sorry. I tried to stop her, but Miss Hong insisted on meeting you."

"It's alright, Miss Lin. You can go back to your desk."

The Secretary bows and leaves, closing the door behind the person who barges into the office. 

"At least, can you knock next time?" Nina scrutinized the woman none other than Min Xi.

"How true it was?"

"Please be specific about what you are pointing out," Nina keeps her calm, talking to Min Xi.

"Why can't I be presented as the face of the new product?"

"That project is Theo's decision. Whatever he came up with, as long as was best, I must give my approval."

"What is best? I heard it was just an ordinary girl he chose from a lot of Internationals professional models!"

"Actually, it also involves master Jeremy in decision-making."

"Jeremy?"

"Yup! The young Masters are working together with it." Rubin smiled. He wanted to brag about it in front of the Chairwoman that the siblings are working out their relationship and their family businesses.

"But still! Could you allow a stranger to be the star of the Shang celebration? At least someone to be part of the family!" Min Xi dares to question the Chairwoman.

Nina placed her teacup. Her eyes traveled to Min Xi, scanned her from the head down to her toe. "If that was the brothers' decision, they must perceive something special to this ordinary girl you are talking about."

"They were eyeing keenly for the project. Surely, the masters know what they are doing since it was for their future success," Rubin supported Nina's statement.

Min Xi presses her lips. Nina Shang is not supporting her, and even Rubin. So then, she can't get either of these two their sympathy to give this project and offer to her instead.

"Don't tell me those pictures?" Min Xi picked up one photo and looked at it closely. "Is she the girl they preferred for the project? Who is she? I never heard of her! Are they planning to use an ordinary woman?"

"She may be… but the Masters do not think she was just a typical girl."

Min Xi throws a suspicious stare at Rubin. "Let me guess. Do you also get associated with this?"

"Yup! I was the one who introduced her to the masters."

"Rubin!"

Min Xi glares at him and is about to say something but changes her mind. "Okay, fine!" She tears the photo and leaves without a word, shutting the door noisily.

Watching Min Xi leave the office enrage, Rubin noticed when Nina lightly massaged her forehead. "Chairwoman? Are you alright?"

"Don't worry, Rubin. I'm fine," her response, heaving deep sighs. "It won't surprise me why Theo doesn't want to keep her by his side. It will only irritate him having her complaints all the time."

"Hum, she's been possessive and demanding ever since we were younger."

"That's right… the three of you grow up together."

Rubin nodded. "Is dealing with the clan stressing you a lot, Madame Shang?"

"That's one thing, yes. I'm glad Theo and Jeremy now worked out together. Now I have fewer worries about those brothers' relations. I thought they would be completely drawn apart from each other."

"This project seems a blessing. That was my point of view, Chairwoman Shang. If it wasn't because of it, I guess Theo would still hide from us all."

"You are correct. He never wanted to step back into this city. One reason I approved he proposes to see how he would work on this one, and it surprised me… this girl seems no ordinary at all."

Nina stared at the photos. Truthfully, she could recognize a resemblance of this girl from Theo's sketches of samples he proposed to her… during that time around; he was reluctant to fly to Mainland City. But now, Jeremy told her that Theo would stay in the Mainland for a longer time. She's now intrigued by how Theo met this girl before— if his samples resembled a real girl.

"Rubin, when Theo meets this girl?"

"Ah, Nikki! I have wanted to introduce her to Theo. Then, I could see she is perfect for our new product endorser when Theo wants to kill me off searching the entire world for a model that passes to his taste."

"I see…" Hmm, Theo plans to turn the world upside down because there is a particular woman he is looking for… she has a feeling that it is not only about the project why he suddenly flies to Mainland City.

"Chairwoman Shang, it's time for the meeting with the executives. I will head to the Shang Empire tower now."

"Please, go ahead. Thank you for your reports, Rubin. Also, for watching my son all these years."

"Ah, you need not mention that, madam Shang. The truth is, I am enjoying my life in Mainland City. You have nothing to worry about now. The brothers are doing well…."

"I'm glad to hear that."

Nina waited for the door to shut off before she sat up from her chair. She stood near to her floor-ceiling window and traveled her eyes to the city that reached her gaze, then fixed her vision to the skyline far ahead.

'It seems you are becoming like your father, Theo. But the difference is, you are pursuing what your heart desires. In which your father lives in misery for being tied to responsibilities.'

Harry is an obedient son. That is why he married her, despite it being only marriage for business merging— the Li Enterprise.

'Your father married me and left his first love. But the world is just too small for us all.'

Nina shook her head before tears escaped from her eyes. She should have to move on and stop having self-pity then and now…

Yet, it was because until now, she doesn't have got Harry's heart even Kristina is long dead… Harry's first love.