"Fu Xian, tell me about my schedule for tomorrow." He said, looking rather exhausted.

"Mr. Si, you have a meeting at 7am with the ambassadors from country D. Afterwards, there are a few meetings to attend to at the company. Then there's a dinner with the Wang fam--"

"I told you to never bring that up in front of me again!" He said in a cold voice, rubbing his temples.

"I apologise, Mr. Si" Fu Xian continued. "I'll cancel it right away."

Si Yan Cheng hummed in acknowledgment. Fu Xian opened the car door for him. He walked out in a rather lazy and exhausted manner. Walking towards the main gate of the Si mansion, they noticed an unfamiliar figure outside the door.

"Who's there!" Fu Xian inquired in a cautious manner. This is the mansion of the master of the Si Family. How dare someone come here and sit at the front door? Are they tired of living??

No one answered.

"Sir, I'll go closer and check. "No need." Si Yan Cheng walked towards the gate and stopped in front of the person in question and stood there. While the person sat on the cold ground. He could finally see the person's figure clearly. She was a wom-- a girl.

A little girl who barely looked 17 years of age. She lifted her head and looked at him with her expressionless eyes, He examined her. Her long silver hair were glowing brightly even in the dead of night. Her eyes were as red as blood.

She was wearing a floral skirt and a plane white top which was giving her an air of a youth even younger than 17 yet her beautiful face stayed emotionless, creating quite an irony.

"Sir, Hello." She said.

"Who are you?" He ignored her greeting.

"...I'm very poor." She said.

"What?" He couldn't comprehend her.

"I'm very poor. My younger brother is sick and I need money." She continued. "Sir, please give me some money."

Fu Xian couldn't make out of what was happening with the conversation of the two. He had met many women trying to please and get closer to his Boss yet she was the first to dared ask him for money.

There was a silence in the dead night for a good whole minute. No knew what to say. Finally the girl broke the awkward silence.

"Sir" She continued, "Will you give me money?"

He stared into her cold expressionless eyes for two seconds before finally replying, "Sure" He smirked. "I'll give you money but what would I get in return?"

"What!?" Fu Xian was so shocked he couldn't hold his expression and this earned him a cold glare from his Boss.

The girl hummed as if thinking seriously about what to give in return for this man's help. She got up from the ground and walked towards the flower beds at the side and randomly picked a flower from there and came back to stood in front of the other two.

This time they could make out her height clearly. She was more than a feet shorter than Si Yan Cheng but quite tall for a girl, yet slim. He looked at her expressionless face. She looked back at him.

"This flower is pretty. You can keep it." She said looking all the more serious.

"What is wrong with you!?" Fu Xian finally couldn't handle it anymore. "You are actually giving a flower to my Boss from my Boss' garden in return for his help!?"

"Is there something wrong with that?" She looked rather serious while asking him.

"You--!" He didn't know what to say.

"Haha..." Fu Xian thought he had heard wrong.

"Hahaha..." No, his ears were working right.

"Hahahahaha... Little girl, you are the first person to ever dared to treat me like this."

"I'm very honoured." Again, she looked very serious.

The other two were speechless.

"Sure" He continued. "Come inside with me. I'll give you money."

"Okay." She replied. She followed him inside.

"You will regret this! Pei Lang, I will surely make you pay for this!!" The girl screamed her throat out to the man standing in front of her.

Pei Lang had his arm around a woman standing next to him. He laughed and said, "You? How will you do that? Ye Yin, you are about to die. All of your property, connections and everything you have now belongs to Xiao Dong."

"Lang, I want to have a word with my sister. Will you give us a minute?" Said the woman standing next to him. "Sure" Pei Lang walked out of the room.

The woman continued, "Sister, I'm really sorry. Who asked you to be so successful in life. But now everything you have earned and even the man you love is mine. It's all mine now. Hahaha..."

"Ye Dong, you ingrate! How dare you betray your family for money!! Don't you have any shame!?"

"Sister, you truly are naive. No wonder you were so easy to fool." Ye Dong's face darkened, "I was never blood related to the Ye Family."

Ye Yin's face paled when she heard this. "What do you mean by that?" Ye Dong continued, "My mother once fell in love with a man. But he betrayed her. My mother couldn't bear the fact that your mother was living such a happy life, so decided to take all happiness for herself. You pair of mother and daughter are really stupid."

So...father did not really betray mother...? He was really drugged by someone as he claimed...? Ye Yin's hand started shaking.

"Oh, yah. It was also my mother's doing that she drugged your father. And then I became the child of mother and your father, hahaha..."

Ye Yin couldn't bear to hear any longer.

"Shut up! Aren't you even a bit ashamed after all you have done!?"

"Heh, why should I be? I deserve it all. How do you deserve the attention of even the Si Family's master!? It should all belong to me! Everything should belong to me!"

Ye Yin's heart froze. She cautiously opened her mouth and asked, "Do you mean...what happened to Si Yan Cheng was your doing...? His death had something to do with you?"

"Not had something to do with us. We planned everything. Who asked him to favour you so much and get in our way!" Ye Dong laughed like a maniac.

Ye Yin looked at her dumbfounded. So Si Yan Cheng didn't betray her. It was all Ye Dong and Zhao Xiao Rong's doing! Ye Yin had no strength left in her. She fell to the ground.

She was already on her last breath. She had lost her parents, her brothers, her entire family to these devils. Even the one man who truly loved her died because of her.

She silently prayed to the gods during her final breaths that if she is reborn ever again, she will surely make these demons in human skin pay for everything they have done. And also give Si Yan Cheng everything he deserves.

All this misfortune befell her because she was too successful. At the age of 25, she had already achieved all the things even people twice her age struggle to get.

She was a true genius in the complete sense. But she fell in love with the wrong person.

----

To her surprise, the next time she opened her eyes she was sent back 10 years ago. The day when she has announced to the world of her achievements because of Pei Lang, was only a month away.

Because of this big press conference she had recieved support, but also hatred and jealously of countless people. She was being interpreted as being a cocky person for announcing her achievements like that.

People thought of her as a girl who looked down at others which affected her future really badly. Yet she cared none for it because she thought she had done it for the person who would spend the rest of her life with her.

Yet fate loves to play jokes on sincere hearts.

After coming back, she cancelled the press conference and broke her engagement with Pei Lang. He was naturally furious but he could not do anything against her.

Now, two years later she finally decided to meet the man who died for her in her previous life. They met when she was 19 in her last life, yet she decided to greet him early this time around.

Ye Yin was very nervous. She was so nervous that she could not say anything else except a, "Sir, Hello." for a greeting. She was so nervous while talking to him that she could not make out her own expressions.

Si Yan Cheng was looking rather coldly at her. This was her first time experiencing such a gaze. She had always remembered him looking at her with a warm expression and a smile in his eyes.

She decided, before anything, she wants this man to look at her the way he used to in her previous life!

Inside the enormous Si Mansion, three figures were present in the main hall. Si Yan Cheng went towards the sofa and sat down in the single seater sofa.

He lifted his gaze to the girl standing in front of him. "Sit." She obediently sat down. "What kind of illness does your younger brother have?"

Ye Yin's face paled and she remembered that outside the door she has indeed said something like that due to her nervousness. Her heart was pounding very fast.

The man in front of her was indeed too handsome! His black hair was shining and his right bangs was almost covering his right eye. Only his other dark eye was visible with a dangerous aura. This made him look rather wild.

"...Um, sir" She gathered her courage and spoke. "Actually, can we maybe start over with the greetings and introductions?"

He hummed in response.

"My...name is Ye Yin. I am the second miss of the Ye Family."

"The Ye Family?" It was Fu Xian who spoke.

"Yes. What happened at the door was a misunderstanding. I was too nervous so I babbled some nonsense. Please don't take it seriously."

He threw something towards her on the table. "Here."

"...What is this?" She looked at it. It was a bank card.

"You did not mean it but I did. I brought you in to give you money now the money is yours."

"..."

"..."

The other two were speechless.

Ye Yin tried to say something but was interrupted. Si Yan Cheng was looking at her as if she was some delicacy delivered to his doorstep. "Little girl, do me a favour in exchange for this money."

The other two finally understood. He wanted Ye Yin to do something for him. No wonder he was being so generous...

"I'll do it!" Ye Yin replied.

"...I haven't even told you what you need to do."

"That's fine, I'll do it." He raised a brow at her. This made her feel rather embarrassed.

"I need you to be my girlfriend."

Fu Xian was scared out of his mind. "Excuse me?" She inquired in confusion.

"Here's the thing. The Wang Family has been bothering me lately. I need you to deal with the first miss of the Wang Family, Wang Ruo Ruo. Get her away from me."

Fu Xian breathed in relief, so that's what he meant...

"Alright. I'll do it."

"Ho, you don't need to consider first?"

"I'll do it." She repeated. Her gaze was firm and determined like she was going to the battlefield or something. He raised his brow again and silently smiled.

"I just want to ask one thing." She said. "What is it?" He replied.

"Why me?" She doubted, "You are the master of the Si Family. Any woman would do this for you. So why me?"

He hummed for two seconds. "Because none of those women is as interesting as you. Not to mention, since you dared to sit at the front gate of my mansion then you dared to do anything."

That was true. "I see."

"Also," She looked at him, "You are my type. Both your face and your temperament matches what I like."

This was rather unexpected. She could not contain her excitement. Her cheeks turned bright red. With her pale skin, it was easily visible. Now this is a reaction a woman should have after meeting his Boss, thought Fu Xian.

She turned her face away in a huff. But she seemed to have heard Si Yan Cheng laughing at her under his breath.

"Come, see me tomorrow at evening. I'll prepare your attire and everything else. You just need to attend the dinner with me and keep that woman away from me."

He seemed to have said so with a hint in his eyes but maybe she imagined it.

Fu Xian drove her back home afterwards.