Jin Liwei refused to give the woman the time of day, leaving his assistant Xu Tian to deal with her. However, Rose Young was persistent and soon caught up with him. He quickly side-stepped to avoid her hands when she reached out and tried to touch him.
“CMO Young!” Xu Tian caught up with them as well. “Please leave President Jin alone. You are stepping out of the line!”
She ignored Xu Tian as if she didn’t hear him at all. Her full attention was on Jin Liwei. “Are you really married?”
“Yes,” Jin Liwei replied but still didn’t look at her. At the same time, he made sure to flash the wedding ring on his finger just to drive his point home.
“Is the slut pregnant? Was that the reason why she made you marry her so soon and so secretly?”
Jin Liwei snapped the moment he heard the woman calling his wife the nasty word. How dare she?! He shot her a vicious glare. “What did you just call my wife?! I dare you to say that again!”
Rose Young realized what she had just said in her agitation. Her face immediately paled upon seeing Jin Liwei’s fury directed at her. “I…B-big Brother—”
“I’m not your big brother! Never call me that ever again.”
Xu Tian stayed back, deciding that President Jin’s firm rejection might do the trick to make Rose Young give up her delusions once and all.
“B-but…please. I’ve loved you for so long! Longer than that slu—woman. She doesn’t deserve a great man like you.”
“And which woman do you think deserves me? You?”
She didn’t answer but her silence and the firm look in her eyes were enough to tell him what she thought.
He sneered, his expression turning colder as he spat out cruel words to her. “You claim to love me, but I don’t care about you at all. Do you really think that you’re superior to my wife?”
His words stirred her pride. She lifted her chin and made herself look taller, pushing her flat chest out. “I know that you’re only blinded by Iris Long’s youth and beauty, that’s why you can’t see past her obvious shortcomings. I graduated from the same Ivy-league American university and collected similar stellar achievements as you did. Just looking at the quality of the things that I accomplished so far, any reasonable person would agree that I’m superior to Iris Long. She’s nothing but a celebrity and a daughter of a fallen family of nobility who used your name and resources to build her own company and reputation.”
He snorted in disdain. “You think too highly of yourself. Ridiculous.”
Out of the corner of his eye, he saw his bodyguards running towards them. About damn time. He shot Xu Tian a meaningful glance. His assistant immediately understood. Xu Tian stepped in the space between them and blocked her from chasing after Jin Liwei again.
Tears were now flowing down her face, but her straight back and raised chin indicated her refusal to accept his rejection of her feelings.
The bodyguards had now arrived and were about to move to restrain her, but Jin Liwei raised a hand to stop them.
“Remember this, Rose Young.” Jin Liwei’s voice was low and somewhat chilling. “You are far below my wife’s level.”
Her face twisted at his claim. It was clear from her expression that she didn’t believe him at all, but he didn’t care. This was the last time that he would tolerate this insignificant woman. Calling her wife that nasty word to his face was the last straw.
“Disrespect my wife and you disrespect me. As the President and CEO of Jin Corporation, I, Jin Liwei, hereby declare Rose Young stripped of her position of Chief Marketing Officer due to improper behaviour in the workplace. You’re fired.”
With that, he turned around and entered the elevator by himself.
“Wait—what?! No! You can’t fire me! Big Brother Liwei! Jin Liwei, you can’t do this to me! You can’t fire me like this without the board of directors’ approval! Wait! I refuse to accept this! Come back!”
The bodyguards immediately restrained her, preventing her from running after their boss. Jin Liwei’s cold, indifferent and merciless expression wasn’t even looking at her when the elevator door started to close. At the last second, he pushed the button and the door opened again.
“Oh, I almost forgot. Just so you know, I was the one who insisted on marrying my wife so soon. I wanted to marry her because I love her. Our marriage is none of your business. Stay away from us.”
With another push of a button, the elevator door closed. Xu Tian took charge of the situation on how to handle the increasingly hysterical woman.
Rose Young fought to free herself from the bodyguards. “Let me go! Where do you think you’re touching?! I’ll sue you for sexual harassment and physical assault! I said let me go, you assholes!”
“Throw her out,” Xu Tian instructed the bodyguards. He was in a bad mood because she managed to scratch his face before the bodyguards started to drag her away.
Now that President Jin was out of sight, the onlookers dared to openly stick their heads out of their offices to watch the ruckus. Their gossiping whispers reached the hysterical Rose Young.
She finally realized what kind of shameful situation she was in. She calmed down in an instant and stopped resisting. “Let me go. I’ll walk out of here by myself.”
The bodyguards turned to Xu Tian. He hesitated before nodding. “Watch her and make sure that she leaves properly. If she misbehaves, just carry her and throw her out.”
She glared at him but still controlled herself from cursing him out loud. Giving the closed elevator door a final glance, she turned around and started to walk away while maintaining her straight back and raised chin. Whispers followed her but she ignored them all, straightening her back even more and raising her chin higher.
Xu Tian watched her disappearing figure with a deep sigh, feeling a little admiration for her ability to walk away on her own two feet with as much dignity as she could muster, despite her shameless and pathetic display earlier towards President Jin.
