The Overnight Chosen Wife: Darling, Kiss Me Deeper

The following day, Lanni received yet another call from Lin Jian.

"Do you need any more time off? I just read the news?" He asked, wondering whether she needed more time to get over the roller coaster that had just happened in her life.

"If you are worried about what happened to my dad, then your worries are unfounded." She responded. At this rate, she wondered whether she would ever actually get to work.

Her nonchalance baffled Lin Jian but he could not retaliate since it was she who knew whether or not she needed time off, and she had claimed to be alright. "Then start working today. Come over to Lin Media Group and I will give you a task."

She was overjoyed and quickly changed into official attire and prepared to go to Lin Media Group.

…

The receptionist had already been informed of her arrival so she let her in as soon as she arrived. Lanni was shown to Lin Jian's office.

She arrived just in time to hear the man harshly scold a female employee for messing up her work. The young woman dashed out of Lin Jian's office with tears in her eyes, rendering Lanni speechless. So Lin Jian could be serious at work too. What was more surprising was that he could also be strict with beautiful women. Thanks to his debauchery, everyone assumed that he was unnecessarily lenient with pretty girls that looked helpless, and they all wondered whether women would be the downfall of Lin Media Group.

"Come in." He bellowed at the door since he had already seen Lanni, and when the latter walked in, his overly serious expression morphed back to normal. Even then, the so-called normal was only in comparison to the strictness he had exhibited earlier. There was still an air of authority around him.

They were at work so Lanni did not mind, though she was shocked to realize that the man also had times when he could get serious and focus on work.

"What's my task?" She asked so as to not waste each other's time.

"Let me see." Lin Jian looked up from his work and read through a file before he explained the content to her. "There is a notorious woman that the police as well as the special forces are after. Her name is Li Xiyan."

"Are you kidding me?" Lanni was puzzled.

"You know her. I am aware of that" Lin Jian did not flinch. "Li Xiyan is a criminal who had been previously caught by the police but unfortunately, she ran away. She is suspected to be under an alias. Don't only focus on this point, though. She could be under an alias, or she could be hiding away in her true form since everyone expects her to be under an alias. Your task is to find her and report where she is as well as where she had been."

" What?" She was even more shocked when she heard everything he had to say. "My task is to find Li Xiyan? I didn't know I was supposed to be an undercover journalist of sorts?" This was exactly what she had been at Galaxis and she wasn't certain that she wanted anything to do with it.

"One of our roles as journalists is to inform the public of what lurks in the shadows that they should be wary of. I expected you to have learnt this in Media School." He sounded so serious that she almost mistook him for an impostor.

"It's not that I don't want to do it. I'm just shocked." Honestly, she didn't think it was a coincidence that her first task just happened to be related to Li Xiyan.

"Don't worry. I am not asking you to go undercover or disguise yourself like you did when you exposed the Feng family. You can work as your true self. Of course, if you want to go under a disguise, I will not stop you from doing that either. As long as you get the result as you should." He said seriously, then realized that she was stil giving him a skeptical look. He knew without needing to ask what she was shocked about.

" Is it surprising that I'm giving you something related to what you already wanted to find out?" He asked, and she nodded. He then let out a tiny chuckle and swung by his chair so he was facing her directly. "It's a mere coincidence that we were going to investigate Li Xiyan either way, Since you happen to want to do that, I thought I may as well give the task to you. Call yourself lucky." Before she could actually celebrate her luck, he added, "Don't be too happy yet. I will give you four days"

"Four days?" The exclamation escaped her lips.

"Is it too much? I think so too. Make that three." He spoke sternly, his eyes looking at her seriously as though he was threatening to decrease it to two days if she said anything about it.

"I will do my best." She bowed her head and made her way out of his office. Her eyes blinked for a while before she shook her head in disbelief. Was that really Lin Jian?

One second, the man was giving her calls and fondly addressing her as his friend-in-law, while cutely begging her to go over to Lin Media Group. The next second, he was trying to kill her by dumping on her head a heavy duty atomic bomb in form of a task and asking her to complete it within three days. Couldn't he at least give a warning before such insane transformation?

Thinking about it, Lanni shrugged as she left Lin Media Group. She was planning to take care of Li Xiyan after dealing with Xia Hanchen anyway. Take it as her taking advantage of work to sort out her personal matters. It would use less time.

...

After an entire morning of working his butt off, Lin Jian finally had a moment to take a breather over lunch hour. He thought about whether or not he should spend that time working but shook his head in the end. While there was a lot of work to be completed in a short time, that didn't mean he shouldn't eat and rest. Ruby would be worried about him if he didn't take good care of himself. Worse than that, she might start to let her imagination run wild and think he was in the company of another woman if he did not give her a call to check on her.

Thinking of this, he took out his phone and dialled the contact number he had saved as [My Ruby].

"Babe, how have you been?" He asked when the girl answered the call, which was almost as soon as he dialled it. Since she liked reading comics on her phone, he guessed that she must have been reading and had answered the call accidentally.

"I'm alright." She ignored what she had heard him call her. Since she had given him a chance, it was expected that he would use pet names on her.

He thought about what to tell her and realized that he had nothing in mind. All he had wanted was to check on her and he didn't think about what he would say once she answered the call. He frowned as he went through his schedule on his large, black desk and it gave him an idea. "I heard about the banquet"

"Yes." She was currently trying to draft up an invitation card before copies would be made of it. "Will you attend it?"

Her question took him by surprise. He thought she had always wanted more than for him to stay far away from her, so he was taken aback when she asked about his plans. "I will attend it if you take me as your male companion."

"Is there an end to your bullshit?" She rolled her eyes even though she knew that he would not see it. This man was so full of drama that sometimes it made her wonder whether he had chosen a wrong career path. Perhaps being an actor would suit him. If he acted the role of an insane drama king, he would not need any acting skills, he would simply need to bring out the real him.

"Why would there be? I want to bullshit my way into your heart. Is this not allowed?" Came his crazy reply. "Let's have lunch together."

"I'm busy with schoolwork as well as preparing for the banquet." She dismissed him. It wasn't that she didn't want to dine with him, she was just too busy at the moment.

"What a bummer, I'll be all on my own." He complained.

"Isn't there a retinue of ladies waiting to dine with you?" She chimed, but he knew she was not suggesting for him to take another woman out for lunch. He had been with enough ladies to know when they don't mean what they say.

"How can I do that? I can only have lunch with you." He said, much to her relief.

"Good boy." As expected, she was happier. "Let's have dinner together if you will be available."