The Overnight Chosen Wife: Darling, Kiss Me Deeper

As Lanni thought about it, she stood up from her office chair and made her way to the CEO's office.

"I take it as you have made more progress?" Lin Jian asked when he saw her, since she rarely showed up unless he called her over. 

Lanni nodded but didn't explain as it was not time yet. "Is it possible to get a team I can trust and rely on?" 

Lin Jian thought about her question and wondered what she was up to. "What do you want to do?" 

"To follow someone." She stated briefly, still keeping the explanation to herself as she had not yet been asked about it. 

Lin Jian ran the back of his black pen through his ruffled hair, looking at the woman before him with interest. "You do know that it is impossible to trust anyone completely, and that in this field of work, trust is the beginning of all disappointment, don't you?" She didn't answer him and he added, "Still, I must admit that I'm impressed. I'm glad you did not try to do everything on your own and decided to seek help." 

"That's because if I follow someone for too long, the other party will be alarmed within a few minutes." She explained. 

"Alright. I will arrange a team and send them to you within an hour. How many people do you need?" 

Lanni thought about it with a scrunch of her brows. "As many as possible. As long as they can drive. I would like for everyone to follow the person for a maximum of seven minutes." 

"That sounds like a random number." Came the man's laugh amid his curiosity as to what she was thinking. 

"Trust me, I wouldn't do random things at such a time. Though I'm about to arrange the numbers in a way that they look random." 

"I'll send ten." He raised an eyebrow to ask if it was alright. He didn't believe that the person would need more than an hour to get anywhere. Unless they were leaving the city, in which case Lanni's plan might not be successful.

She nodded. "Thank you. I will go ahead to make the arrangements." 

… 

Just as she left his office, Luna called. 

"Luna? How was the appointment?" She asked, her voice still holding the seriousness it did a while ago in Lin Jian's office. 

"It's alright. It's good news…" Luna paused when she realized how solemn Lanni sounded when she spoke a moment ago. "My twin instincts are nagging me about you needing help."

Lanni rolled her eyes. "There isn't such a thing. That's your psychic instinct and it's wrong." 

"What was that? Are you afraid of asking for my help lately, or are you looking down on me and thinking that I can't do much now?" Luna asked, pretending to be hurt about it. 

"No, no. That's now what I meant!" Lanni urgently explained. 

Knowing that her sister would otherwise be worried, she could only sigh and explain. "It's like this, I need someone's schedule and I have a feeling that it's stored in their laptop, phone or tablet." 

"I'll retrieve it for you. Do you have the person's number?" Luna sounded like she was ready to start working on it immediately. 

"Not yet. How about I try to get it today and send it over?" Lanni suggested, and when Luna agreed, she agreed and moved on to another subject. "What's the good news that you were going to tell me?" 

"Ah, that!" Luna's excitement returned in full swing. "Xingyu and I… we are expecting twins!" 

"What?!! Oh My God, Luna!" Lanni was so excited that she didn't know what to say. "I'm so happy for you, sis." 

"When will you pay your little nephews, nieces or nephew and niece a visit? Xingyu and I are writing down all the names we love for both boys and girls." Luna laughed through her words, it was apparent just how happy she was. 

"How about I tell you when I'm ready to come over?" She suggested, knowing that her schedule was not predictable at the moment. She didn't want to make any promises that she might end up breaking. 

"That's okay. We should also go shopping for the second baby. Ah, my poor baby. I didn' t even know it exists until today." Luna's tone was a mixture of excitement and guilt. 

"It's not your fault. How would you have known if the doctors didn't tell you?" Lanni coaxed as she settled in her office. "Luna, let's talk after work, okay? I'll give you a call."

Luna remembered that her sister was still at work and quickly agreed. "Sure, sure. Send me the phone number when you can and I will get down to work." 

Lanni hung up and continued planning with a smile. It was almost too hard to focus as she thought about how adorable her nephews or nieces would be. 

"They wouldn't want a lazy, procrastinating aunt." She muttered to herself and got back to work. Sure enough, Lin Jian sent the team over within the hour. 

"Are you all ready?" She asked the group, which was six men and four women. When she realized that the entire team was reporters who were popular,  she was thankful for Lin Jian's thoughtfulness. When they nodded, she handed the sheets of paper she had prepared for them. 

"Tomorrow, we will follow this car. The first one of you will follow it for three minutes, and the next for five minutes, two minutes…" She described the order which seemed to be random with the way she had written it down. 

"The point is to not alert the other party in the slightest. let it seem like a random group  of cars going to different places. Don't appear from the same place where the last car went. Not on the same side of the road either, keep a few seconds before the last disappearance to the next appearance. " 

As she gave the instructions, the team obediently noted everything down, regardless of the fact that she had joined the company later than all of them and was younger than most of them. 

"When should we begin to follow the person?" One of the young men asked. 

Lanni felt bummed that she could not give an immediate answer. "I'm sorry, I don't know yet. Can I let you know once I find out? It might come on sudden notice." 

"It's okay. We will be prepared just in case." An older woman with long hair responded, then wrote down her cell phone number. 

Lanni felt relieved even though she was yet to accomplish the mission. with such a compliant team, the chances of success were high. If it wasn't because she had witnessed how strict Lin Jian was with his employees, she would have thought that it was too good to be true. 

When she was done making arrangements with them and taking their cell phone numbers, she gave Qiao Linyou a call and asked if they could meet up. After their previous meeting, they had exchanged contact details and talked over the phone a few times. 

"I'm finishing up my shoot in a few minutes. Let's meet up in about an hour, come to my house okay? I'll give you my address." She responded cheerfully, and Lanni was amazed at how fast the latter had started to trust her.  Wasn't she scared that Lanni would leak her location to the paparazzi? 

Of course, she would not let go of such a brilliant opportunity. She went over to the address that Qiao Linyou sent, notifying Lin Jian of her current location in case anything went wrong. She couldn't entirely trust the person she was investigating for such shady business. 

When she arrived, Qiao Linyou had also just arrived home from her shoot and had taken a shower. Her hair was wet and she was wiping it as she opened the door. 

"Lanni, come on in. I've been waiting for you." She beamed. 

"Hello." Lanni returned the smile and walked in. The villa was exceptionally large and really furnished. Just as Lin Jian said, it was too luxurious for an actress of her level, whose net worth was not much and who was not from an aristocratic background either. 

"Feel at home." The actress sat on one of the fluffy couches and ordered the servants to bring them drinks. 

"I wanted to ask you for a favor." Lanni went straight to the point, not wanting to stay for too long in this suspicious place. 

"What is it?" From Qiao Linyou's sweet smile, one would mistake her for a sweet, innocent woman. 

"Do you mind being the model of a business magazine? I think your story would be quite inspiring to young women. You have worked so hard to get to where you are from scratch."  Lanni explained. 

"If you say so." She did not even think through it. All she knew was that Lanni was surrounded by a bunch of influential people, so whatever she recommended would be good for her career.