Offer To The CEO

Wednesday, continued …

Meanwhile

Yao Tan walked over to where Hou Yi was standing.

"Tan, my friend, good to see you. I need a friendly face, even though we have some business to deal with."

"Yi, you should have called. You have helped me out, I do not know how many times, and I could have been here for you."

"You have a business to run, and that has to take priority, rather than sitting here holding my hand."

"Do not try and get out of it my friend. I know you well enough to know you love your wife just by the way that you look at her and given the potential for her injuries you should have had someone you trusted with you. You should have called."

"I do not want to talk about this now. Can we deal with business firstly."

"Fine, but you will not be getting out of this."

With that, they sat down at the table, and went through the paperwork for the City X Mall construction collaboration. As the deal was as had been discussed, with the changes to reflect it was only both companies involved, it was signed quite quickly.

"Yi, just so you know that press release was going out as I left the office, so the deal is now is out in the public, along with our condemnation of last night. Now tell me the truth about your relationship, no bulls**t about it. And how do Yang Ling and Lu Jinhu play into it?"

"Well you know how Lu Jinhu went to Australia for his university studies …"

"Yeah, I am guessing given how he was at school his family simply brought him into a far away university, rather than achieving initial entry on merit, for that idiot, to get his degree."

"Well, the university he attended was the same one as my wife. In fact they met in the same University College. Apparently he tried to manipulate my wife into a relationship while there and she refused. She graduated before him, and started working in Melbourne. He graduated 4 months after she commenced work in Melbourne, and he showed up on her doorstep 5 years ago and manipulated her into a relationship."

"And yet he was back here time after time hitting on women and trying to form relationships. You know the rumours as much as I do. He s*xually assaulted numbers of women, and while some went to the police they were persuaded not to have him prosecuted. Let alone what you and I suspect him of doing to my daughter."

"She does not know that. Well during the relationship, as she admits he was emotionally or psychologically abusive, but I have information that he was also physically abusive to her. About 10 months ago she was about to end the relationship with him, and he proposed. She accepted him and recommitted to the relationship."

"Our meeting was a chance meeting when I was at her employers for business. We literally bumped into each other. I was able to get into contact with her and we communicated on and off for months. I did not push her, despite my feelings and we just talked. Eventually she came to the conclusion that the relationship was over with Lu Jinhu, and she wanted to be with me. Despite the pressure my father and grandfather exerted on me to get marriage …"

"I know about that. You had a deadline to marry otherwise they were effectively going to give control of the company to the Lu's"

"Yeah. Despite that when she made the decision, I was willing to wait until not only had she ended the relationship properly but there was a gap of time before we announced our involvement, as I did not want to see her pillared for our actions. However, before she could do that Lu Jinhu married Yang Lin, and we decided that we did not have to wait. Due to the Australian Embassy messing up slightly the paperwork for her marriage, we were able to marry immediately."

"One thing the b**tard did was he forged court documents to try and take everything Anna had, and he has reacted to Anna's efforts to turn that over and our foundation that has exposed his behaviour. The former is why we disappeared for a few day as we had to go to Australia to deal with that and get orders to overturn it."

"The original orders is what he used to convince the police to take Anna in and question her, despite her trying to tell them that the orders were effectively declared null and void. Between you and I a police officer assaulted her. I suspect that Lu Jinhu and Yang Lin were involved in manipulating the police into it. However I am waiting for a personal lawyer, not connected to the company, to tell me what is going on, as I do not believe the authorities have any choice but to investigate what is going on."