Offer To The CEO

Wednesday, continued …

After breaking away from the kiss, Hou Yi continued "Sweetheart, until two days ago, while I was hopeful you might come to love me, I was fearful that if I did the wrong thing you would run, ending all my dreams for the future of us. We have a future, and do you know I actually feel that I deserve that future with you, because I respected what is important for you, the law."

"Screw respecting the law Yi, we need to crush them, and to be truthful, I want to see the ruthless businessman that all the stories say is you."

"Anna …"

"Do not Anna me. We need to be ruthless. I got the perfect revenge I wanted with Lu Jinhu, using the law to crush him, and he will be forever known as an abuser. The rest I do not care about."

"Well sweetheart, that I can achieve, if you want, but I figured the plan that has been developed is the best way, because in the end it will destroy the financial underpinnings of Lu Jinhu and his family, meaning that they cannot come back in the future to use that as a means to hurt you. That suits me."

"That sounds like fun."

With that Anna moved a little, and Hou Yi realised that she wanted to be in his arms, so he moved across the seat, and carefully took her in his arms. The sat quietly until they arrived outside Hou Enterprise, before Anna spoke "Yi, I am guessing you are going to watch the press conference?"

"Yes, but you need to go home."

"No, I want to watch it with you. I promise I will spend tomorrow and Friday with the family."

"Anna, you need to rest, and see your family as the next time you spend any time with them will be just before our wedding ceremony there."

"Yi, I can do that, I need to be with you to watch this go down. Please."

Hou YI took one look into the pleading eyes of Anna, and his resolve to send her home immediately crumbled. "Fine, come on. But you have to promise me that tonight you will go out and have tea with your sisters-in-law."

"Perfect, we can have so much fun …"

"Why do I fear that statement."

"Spoilsport Yi. You know I will behave."

Hou Yi stepped out of the car, and went around to help Anna out onto her crutches, and the slowly and carefully entered the building, crossing the the foyer before taking the elevators up to the the CEO Floor, and entering Hou Yi's office. Hou Yi, once Anna was seated on the couch, moved over and to shift the painting covering the television and turned it onto the 24 hour business channel.

As he came back across and sat down beside Anna, it was obvious that people were about to walk in for a press conference. Leading the group of 10 businessmen and women was Yao Tan, who approached the microphone on the stage, with the others all spreading either side of him.

"Ladies and Gentleman of the press, welcome. You may wonder why the ten of us, who while we may collaborate on projects and may call some of each other or other businessmen and women friends have gathered from across the country, it is due to a mutual announcement that we all have to make. Following this, some of the people here will be making separate announcements for their respective companies, others of us, including myself will be making announcements in the coming days. I have been designated as spokesperson for the group."

"What has lead us to this time an place, started three weeks ago, yesterday, when the wife of CEO Hou Yi from Hou Enterprises was assaulted in front of members of society, including three of us here at a charity theatre performance. While what has happened subsequent to then is shrouded in mystery due to the legal system. All that has been released by the courts that gives us some idea is that Mr Lu Jinhu and his wife Yang Lin, are the subject of a five year restraining order, which they agreed to, to prevent them from approaching, verbally abusing or physically assaulting Madam Hou."

"While no-one here really understand's the reason that Madam Hou is wearing a cast, I can indicate myself along with my now wife, who is a close friend and colleague of Madam Hou visited her in the hospital, have more of an idea. I came out of that visit clearly understanding that Madam Hou was assaulted by a police officer acting on what was erroneous information. That information, in some ways was connected to people from the Lu Corporation, and its CEO."

"While that may have been connected to CEO Lu's desire to protect his son and pregnant daughter-in-law, the investigations some of us have been through as a result of our concerns about Mr Lu Jinhu, who formally was the Vice-CEO of Lu Corporation, have led us to believe that company resources may have been responsible for the provision of that information. None of us have conclusive evidence that allows us to make a firm decision if this is the truth or not."