Offer to the CEO

Thursday, continued ...

Anna Jones, decided, rather than worry about what was happening in the section of the Legal Department she had been working in presently, her immediate focus needed to be in dealing with immigration.

Anna walked to the elevator bank, and entered the elevator with three bodyguards and all but one of the immigration officials.when the doors closed, she used the pass card, Assistant Wang provided her earlier, she selected the level she instinctively knew where Hou Yi's office would be located, and the elevator had everyone there within seconds, and everyone exited the elevator.about 30 seconds later another elevator door opened and out came Assistant Wang, the remaining bodyguards and immigration official.

Before Assistant Wang moved, Anna handed him her laptop bag and handbag.At the same time he passed to her the original marriage certificate and household registers that he had.He realised that Anna needed to have him keep them safe and whispered "Madam Hou, I will keep a hold of these for you."

Assistant Wang, then led everyone to Hou Yi's outer office.In the short walk there, Anna could feel the eyes of a number of staff members, watching her, wondering who she was.Just as they arrived in the outer office, Hou Yi opened the door to his actual office.Anna simply wandered in and the stunned immigration officials followed her in.Immediately, once the bodyguards blocked anyone seeing into the room, Hou Yi pulled Anna gently into his arms, kissed her and quietly asked "Are you OK sweetheart?"

"I am fine Yi.All I want to do is get this sorted out." came Anna's quite reply

"Not a problem."Hou Yi with Anna's hand in his walked over and sat down on a couch pulling Anna down to sit on his lap. He immediately took the hand he still had a hold of up to his lips and kissed it, and then helped Anna sit in such a way that she was comfortable on his lap.Anna leaned back into Hou Yi, who was relaxed and calm about what was happening.

These actions surprised the immigration officials, as anything any of them had heard about Hou Yi was he was aloof and never showed emotion.Their observation was the complete opposite.All he was doing was displaying emotion, and apparently could not keep the hands of the woman that claimed she was his wife.

When Hou Yi called out "Assistant Wang, can you please arrange that footage for these men to see now," he was playing with Anna's hair, while she had apparently slipped a hand in between two buttons on his shirt.She had, from her initial position, moved partly to the side, slipped off her shoes and stretched out on the couch, sitting beside Hou Yi, but with her legs over his lap.

The lead immigration official, who was from the illegal workers section, started to wonder if this woman was telling the truth. and the information received was wrong.He looked and noticed that CEO Hou had a wedding ring on, which looked as if it matched that on the woman in question.

Hou Yi paused his actions and looked directly at the immigration officials."Gentleman, what is the issue?"

The lead immigration official, cleared his throat but before he could say anything Assistant Wang came into the room."CEO Hou, Madam Hou, I have sent the footage through to the television for these officials to view."He walked and picked up a remote, then handed it to Hou Yi, and left the room, shutting the door behind him.

"Gentleman, please find yourself a seat.Hopefully this footage will put to pay any doubts about the authenticity of our marriage."With that, he hit play on the remote, which closed the blinds on the widows, and started footage, date and time-stamped clearly displaying their movements into the Civil Administration Bureau, and then into the room with Official Song, and the process to obtain the marriage certificate.

All but one of the immigration officials were focused on the footage.One however was carefully watching Anna or Hou Yi, who not only were ignoring the footage, but seemed lost in their own world with their attention solely focused on the other, ignoring everyone else around them.

It was only when they heard the first official say "CEO Hou" that they realised that the footage had finished, and the officials wanted to speak to them again.

"Yes", replied Hou Yi.

"We need to do one more thing, given that there is on the national records no official recording of your marriage certificate having been issued, is we have to contact this Official Song to confirm"

"Well we were married less than two days ago, so it does not surprise me that it has not been recorded on the national database.Anyway, stop looking at us strange.Work forced me in to the office, and other issues have now dragged my wife here.Our honeymoon plans have been delayed, so we are taking whatever time we can together."With this Anna reached up and kissed Hou Yi on the lips.While short, the immigration officials viewed that Hou Yi reluctantly pulled away from what looked like it was about to become an extremely passionate kiss.

Hou Yi continued "Feel free to use the phone on my desk to call the Civil Administration Bureau to confirm what you need to.As you know and will be confirmed on our marriage my wife gained citizenship here.We simply have not had the time to have local identity documents issued, nor a passport from here issued.However due to laws on her marriage, she does not lose her Australian Citizenship but we and Australia simply regard her as a dual national."

With that, the first immigration official picked up the telephone, and called the Civil Administration Bureau.It was very clear within a few minutes, he was able to get the confirmation that he needed that Hou Yi and Anna's marriage certificate and the other documents were in fact genuine, and he ended the call.

"Apologies CEO Hou, Madam Hou, for all the misunderstanding.The information we had, in one respect said that Madam Hou, you were an Australian Lawyer working here and nothing within any system indicated you had any permission to work here.Clearly you do, and base on what you have told us, it is an emergency situation that has brought you into Hou Enterprises.The other piece of information was that you had come here to get married and failed to marry who you were to marry, which automatically would revoke your visa, however you are legally married, so this was incorrect.Is there anything we can do?"

Anna turned to Hou Yi, and realised exactly what needed to be said."Look, we can understand that you need to follow up these reports.However, we are not ready to go public with our marriage and would ask that you keep as minimal information as you need in your records, but more importantly tell no one that you do not have to about our marriage.Can you do that?"

"We can," said all four officials together

"Well if that concludes your business with us, would you mind leaving us alone please," came Hou Yi's short and sharp reply

With that the immigration officials left the room, all realising that they had some momentous news that they had just agreed to keep as quiet as possible.One official was torn about keeping the secret.He had volunteered to his boss to be involved and had clear instructions to secure the laptop his boss told him was highly important.However he was unable to do so.