Mr Liao chuckled at the meek voice of the once confident girl and shook his head, "No, this is a proposition." Lu Xinyi gave him confused stares which he returned with a determined smile, "This will not work for literature but if this was filmed, it will be a one-way ticket to fame on new levels."

Lu Xinyi looked at him shocked and didn't know what to say for a moment. She shook her head to clear her head, then looked at him with an exasperated expression, "You want me to make it into a script?"

Mr Liao pursed his lips but nodded, "That's a proposition. A Hollywood director wanted to film such a story with dramatic, realistic and adventure. When I showed him a copy of your novel, he was convinced he wanted the very storyline. For your first project, I will tell you it's like a golden ticket to heaven express!"

Several second of silence extended between them and the wheels in Lu Xinyi head turned. It was, in fact, a golden sparrow that too for her debut.

Authors waited for years to get such success!

It could give her several opportunities and platforms in the future... It was something like she wanted to jump on her feet and grab the opportunity but instead kept her professionalism intact.

Now she could finally show everybody that she very well could handle the independence she demanded! And that she was capable and worth something...

"I will consider it and my a.s.sistant will let you know my decision." Lu Xinyi stood up, gave him a professional smile and extended her hand for a shake.

The man too stood up, took her hand and gave her a formal smile, "I will wait for your response."

The listener, speaker and audience all knew she was convinced and the deal was on.

Lu Xinyi got out and at once Riley caught up with her, excitedly interrogating about the meeting.

She filled her in all the juicy details on her way to the car.

They both got settled in the car, happy and contented with how their day had pa.s.sed. Riley looked at Lu Xinyi and asked in an excited tone, "So where are we heading too?"

Lu Xinyi squinted her eyes with a gleeful smile. There were a lot of places that she wanted to visit. All kind of public places she had never been to.

She wanted to see how her countrymen became festive and celebrate with them in enthusiasm, she wanted to do and see everything the high society had deprived her of.

But her excitement was short-lived when a thought struck her. Right now, she had to cut the loose strand of her past that was still pulling her strings.

Lu Xinyi turned to the driver with a new-found determination in her eyes, "Take us to the Li Corporation."

Riley and the Driver both were equally stunned but they were fast to cover it up and complied.

Lu Xinyi bit her lip in thought, she had no idea what her father had planed about the engagement now. She had tried to talk to him about it a couple of times but in vain, he would always give her vague replies and end the discussion.

For G.o.d sake, the man had a woman pregnant! How could they still see possibilities here were beyond her.

But Li Yuan was a twisted man, what if he thought to keep her because of the same face they shared, now that his lover had fled? She didn't want to be a replacement or look-alike of another woman for her whole life!

Lu Xinyi knew that if even the marriage with Li Yuan is annulled, it will be another arrange marriage that will follow it on the horizon but Lu Xinyi wanted to find love and live with a man not because a contract is imposing it but because her heart craves him.

The times and situations were different now, she will have it. 

A man that she loves to spend every day of the rest of her life, who she will have a family with, a family where she will not feel like an extended addition ever again!

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"Any report on the two brats?"

His a.s.sistant halted in his moment. His Master was asking about Li Yuan and Yu Youhan, the most dangerous men with volatile tempers in the continent like they were some troubling teens next door.

Sometimes he thought, in fact, Master Lu was the most powerful man instead, one of them was his ex-soon-to-be son-in-law and another was trying to take the position up. Such an influence!

"None Sir. I have been trying to set a meeting with them but their a.s.sistants says that their schedule is pack."

It was the truth and even a half baked man could tell it was deliberately they were trying to avoid him and it irked him. There were some already scheduled meetings with them which they cancelled without prior notice.

The Lu Corporation had many ongoing projects with both Li's and Yu's but the two arrogant brats were overlooking many facts like this one!

Master Lu gritted his teeth in frustrations, "Arrange a meeting as soon as possible."

"Yes, Sir." His a.s.sistant bowed and left at once.

Master Lu took a deep breath to calm himself before he wreaked havoc. 

He had to deal with them but they were consciously avoiding confrontation. the engagement and the marriage now had to be dissolved with Li Yuan. Master Lu grimaced at the thought. 

He was his best shot for Lu Xinyi but now he had a Lei woman pregnant. Even if he could still make Lu Xinyi his wife for her protection, the mother of his child will be out for Lu Xinyi's head sooner than later so it was better if she rested.

Even then he couldn't hand his only daughter to a man with another woman in his heart, that too with a child. The arrogant young man practically kissed the floor that girl walked on and that was something to say.

It was time to leave him behind...

And Yu Youhan was another story, Master Lu wasn't dense he could see the admiration in his eyes for Lu Xinyi but it could be a fling or an infatuation for him.

But for Lu Xinyi, it was going to be her first-ever relations.h.i.+p and to threaten or pressure Yu Youhan he had nothing, no contract, no years of immunisation. He could easily break Lu Xinyi's heart and move to another wench in line.

Not to mention his reputation of zero relations.h.i.+ps! He paid women so none asked for anything more than he wanted to give...

The man was corrupt in his personal life, Master Lu wouldn't have such a sketchy man even a kilometre in her perimeter.

He wanted to warn him and repay him for whatever expenses he had spent on Lu Xinyi so his Little Pumpkin didn't think she owed anything to the man.

She was innocent, naive but an honest and loyal young woman; He would be d.a.m.ned if he let any b.a.s.t.a.r.d take advantage of that!

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