Destined To Be His Wife novel Chapter 5

YuZhi was the future of their company, the one set to inherit the majority shares when his grandfather stepped down in the next two years, hence their strict timeline. It seemed Grandfather Leng had found that Miss Cheng was not worthy of a union with his grandson for his first-born child, who would be set to inherit the future company after his father. Cheng was a name in fashion and design but was even lower than that of Lei Enterprise in terms of worth.

TangShi shyly looked up at the second man, assuming it was YuZhi's father and was met with a blank stare of a quiet and bored person. The other gentleman was more on the age line of grandfather which confused her, and she wondered if his father had been late in life when he had a son. She didn’t know the relation of these two other quiet men to YuZhi or his grandfather for certain, other than they looked alike.

TangShi couldn't help herself but be drawn back to YuZhi as the elders continued to talk and finalize the details of her life. Zoning out because she had no say and didn't want to listen anymore. It would all be written into a contract she would sign today, and she could read back at the worthlessness of her value when she was alone. She didn’t really want to digest it while unable to cry or react with how she really felt inside.

YuZhi was staring at his coffee, oblivious to the conversation and seemed disengaged and closed off. Lost in his own thoughts, even while managing to sit like a commanding emperor and looking devastating and devilish all at the same time. TangShi's heartbeat hastened rapidly, her palms becoming clammy and she looked away as the blush rose on her cheeks.

Despite knowing this man was cold and heartless he was still the type of male who could reduce her to a trembling mess. She had thought him beautiful even masked, but seeing him fully now, her heart tore a little and her eyes dampened with regret at ever having let him wound her. One encounter was enough to leave a lasting impression and she regretted it deeply.

She wished she could erase that night and meet him as a stranger. She felt it would be somewhat easier had she never tasted his lips and been eternally traumatized by his kissing her. It had ruined her to be ever being kissed by another and she had actively avoided dating men in the years following. Such was the crushing effect he had on her fragile heart by standing her up. Proving all his words had been lies. She wondered if her lack of self-worth and neediness to find love had been catalysts to how much it had affected her. If she had been someone like Juefeng maybe she would have brushed it off and forgotten him in a matter of days.

She had often felt herself weak and pitiful by being so broken over such a small episode in a long life, but seeing him again, she understood how he could devastate hearts so easily. He was like a god among men. She had basked in his light and been burned for eternity with unhealing wounds.

"So, she will leave with you today? So fast, I was not expecting it. We have not prepared her to leave just yet." Ava's words pulled TangShi back to the present and she froze as they seeped into her brain and sobered her melancholy.

Did they really just say she was being taken from here immediately? She thought this was just a meeting to agree to the pairing. To sign the documents.

"The license is easy to obtain, and we have means to make it happen tonight. We brought the dowry gifts and have transferred money to the account you gave us. We have the papers and lawyers waiting to put it all in motion if you would accompany us, Mr Lei. Their wedding night should be under the roof of Leng and I don't see reason to delay." The old man commanded, his voice booming as though someone dared to question his position and everyone present trembled internally.

TangShi shuddered as she saw her father recoil, intimated by old man Leng, and it was scary to witness. Someone who had bullied her for a lifetime, dragged her to despair and back for his pleasure, was afraid of these new men and that did not bode well for TangShi. She looked down at her clasped hands, held tightly, cold and white, and swallowed heavily. Trying to bring her heart rate to a normal level to ease the growing panic, before raising her chin with a gentle smile, forced to conceal her fear.

"I don't have many things to pack, father. I will do as asked and only need a moment to ready myself." She uttered quietly, that dignified tone that brought all eyes to her and YuZhi almost choked on his coffee. Spluttering into his cup and clearing his throat before hastily laying it down.