Filed To Story: My Accidental Bride Is a Fashion Circle Queen Novel
“Mr. Xie, this is my business.”
“Aren’t you afraid that Annie will find out about this?” Xie Tong asked with a deeper meaning. “I really feel bad for Annie. You’re not as logical as they say you are. Anyone with brains would not reject such a great offer.”
“I have my own arrangements for Annie. If Mr. Xie doesn’t have anything else to discuss, then I won’t be staying much longer. I have other things to deal with in the afternoon.” After speaking, Zephaniah b**toned his suit jacket and stood up to leave.
Not long after, Annie approached Xie Tong from a neighbouring booth with a dark exp**ssion.
“It seems you really should change managers,” Xie Tong said. “Zephaniah has no intention to help you grow. At least, for now, his efforts are completely focused on Yadanar.”
Annie understood what she saw and heard.
But, why did Zephaniah sign her on with no intention to help her?
Annie couldn’t quite understand the reason.
Afterwards, Xie Tong fetched a business card from his pocket and handed it to Annie, “When you’ve made up your mind, give this number a call.”
After speaking, Xie Tong left the hotel, leaving Annie all alone in a daze.
A while later, Annie returned to the apartment to find Zephaniah installing Yadanar’s video game console. She had always thought that Zephaniah was too high and mighty to do something so insignificant for others. But, her assumption was obviously incorrect…
“Mr. An…I received a phone call from Hongchuan Film Company. They said they have a character for me to audition for…”
“We won’t be going,” Zephaniah said without lifting his head.
“But, why?” Annie questioned. “Why can’t I attend the auditions?”
“Hongchuan isn’t very trustworthy and its chairman has only just taken over, so the directors are currently a mess. If you go with with them now, you may fall into their trap.”
“Mr. An, are you stopping me from advancing?”
Hearing this question, Zephaniah finally stopped what he was doing and looked up at the serious Annie, “Trust is a huge factor when it comes to collaboration. Do I have a reason for stopping you from advancing?”
Annie did not respond…
However, inside she was thinking, without a reason, he definitely wouldn’t stop her…
…but with Yadanar around…he definitely had a reason.
“If there’s nothing else, then get some rest, stop thinking nonsense.”
Annie clenched her fists, turned around and headed upstairs to her room. She then pulled out the business card that Xie Tong had given to her.
She wasn’t bound to Zephaniah.
Plus, the way that Zephaniah treated her, showed that he never thought of her as someone that wanted to move forward; he simply kept telling her to wait. He even rejected Xie Tong’s offer for the sake of protecting Yadanar’s role.
Unable to comprehend what Zephaniah was thinking, Annie decided to call Little Five to complain. At this time, Little Five warned, “Annie, I think Mr. An appears to care for you on the surface, but in reality, he has ulterior motives. I feel like he brought you back simply to provoke Yadanar.”
Hearing this, Annie froze…
She had been awoken by Little Five’s words!
Yadanar had never been obedient towards Zephaniah, so he hired her to annoy Yadanar. This had to be the reason why Zephaniah did not care about her future prospects!
The truth was cruel…
With this painful thought, Annie impulsively phoned another agency…
“Don’t assume that I’d back out so easily. Since you’ve played me for a fool, I’m going to get you back for it!”
Later that night, Yadanar returned to the apartment to find that her game console had been fixed. As she looked at it, her face was filled with an obvious sense of joy.
But, didn’t Zephaniah say that he was going to send it back to the factory in Germany? How did it get fixed so quickly?
Regardless, she gave Zephaniah a phone call, “Are you asleep?”
“Speak,” Zephaniah was sitting all alone in his living room, enjoying a glass of wine.
“How did you get the game console fixed so quickly? Which amazing person did it? How did they manage to fix a German product? I must meet them!”
“I fixed it.” Zephaniah may have drank a little too much. So, under the influence of alcohol he wasn’t as reserved as usual and was a lot more direct.
“You? Why do I find it so hard to believe?” Yadanar scoffed.
Zephaniah chuckled. Obviously not in his right mind, he straightforwardly invited, “Want to come over for some wine?”
“Huh?” Yadanar immediately covered her ch*st protectively, “Do you want to do something indecent?”
“I can only do that if I am capable of winning you in a fight.” Although Zephaniah didn’t want to admit it, he was indeed much worse than Yadanar when it came to physical strength.
“What…what’s up with you today?” Yadanar realized that there was something odd about Zephaniah’s mood, “Who annoyed you?”
“It’s fine, go to sleep. Although your console works again, I brought it to show you that it’s fixed, not so you can play with it.” After speaking, Zephaniah hung up the phone. However, his heart felt a sense of emptiness afterwards. He had never felt this way before, especially not on a day like this.
Perhaps, he had been alone for too long…
Yadanar sat in a daze for a moment. Because of the game console, she decided to do some research on Zephaniah.
She realized, she didn’t actually know much about him.
Typing ‘Zephaniah’ into the search engine not only came up with results about the award he had previously received and the drama he had with H World, amongst the top results was a news article about him and his ex model girlfriend. Yadanar looked at the date of the article and realized, today was the day of Yunxin’s death.
No wonder the drunkard was not in his right mind.
Thinking of this, Yadanar relaxed a little. At Zephaniah’s age, he couldn’t possibly need her to worry about him. Plus, the incident had already happened so long ago; it was time for Zephaniah to move on.
However, she couldn’t understand why, after having a shower and hopping into bed, she couldn’t sleep.
As she rolled around in bed, she found herself thinking about Zephaniah’s invitation to drink with him.
To stop herself from dwelling on this thought, Yadanar changed into a set of black activewear and headed for Zephaniah’s apartment. As she reached the front gate, she did not intend to ring the doorbell. Her plan was to jump the fence and take a simple peek at Zephaniah, then leave after confirming that he’s OK. But, just as she climbed up to his balcony and tried to sneak in through his living room window, the seemingly easy manoeuvre went wrong and her head got stuck.
“Son of a b*tch!”
Zephaniah was sitting in the living room enjoying his drink when he heard a noise. He immediately ran over to his balcony and saw Yadanar stuck bet**en his window. As he looked at her, he held his belly and burst out laughing.
“What are you laughing at? Come and help me!”
“You could have come in through the front door, yet you chose the window. This is your punishment,” Zephaniah quickly opened the window wider to release Yadanar and guided her to the front door.
“Those with good martial arts don’t like walking through doors. How are we supposed to show off our skills that way?” Yadanar replied with disdain. At this moment, she smelled the alcohol on Zephaniah’s body and held her nose, “How much did you drink?”
“It’s very dangerous for a 19-year-old girl to enter a single man’s home,” Zephaniah said as he walked towards the doorway.
“If you dare to touch me, I’ll paralyze the bottom half of your body,” Zephaniah’s threat did not frighten Yadanar.
But, before she got a chance to react, Zephaniah p**ssed her against the wall and trapped her bet**en his arms, “No matter how strong you are, you still ended up trapped against the wall.”
Yadanar blushed as she knocked her head against Zephaniah’s head in response. A clear ‘pang’ was heard before the two held their heads in pain, “Yadanar, I realized you’re really violent.”
“Since you’re OK, I’m going to leave,” Yadanar did not want to remain around this alcohol-fueled man.
“Yes, you should go home. Otherwise, I don’t know what the newspapers will say about you tomorrow,” Zephaniah returned to the sofa and picked up his wine glass to continue drinking.