Chapter 354: The Proposal of Marriage

Book:The Selfish CEO Published:2024-6-2

Sunny Qin was annoyed to death in her heart, only feeling that the smiling faces of the two mothers and daughters in front of her were like laughing at her stupidity back then. Gritting her teeth, she hated that she couldn’t tear them apart right away. Can …
In the end, she calmed down. Collecting the fluctuations between her expressions, but smiling a little, she looked at Yami Hu, “Auntie, it is true that each has their own destiny, as you said. However, your family Zoey doesn’t necessarily have a good life.”
Yami Hu and Zoey both look at her, and she straightens her back slightly as she continues, “I heard you guys threw out five percent of your shares for Jerry? That’s really touching. However, it’s too bad that you guys fell for the scheme that Jerry set up.”
Zoey and Yami Hu look at each other.
“Don’t you dare try to sow discord!” Yami Hu gulped.
Sunny Qin laughed coldly and looked at Zoey, “Zoey Baker, I used to say that you are stupid, now you should believe that you are really stupid, do you think Jerry is really going to propose to you? You think Jerry really wants to propose to you, you think he really loves you, you think he really can’t handle this matter in the company with his strength, what is 500 million dollars to him? Do you guys need to sell your shares to him?”
Sunny Qin’s series of questions sent chills down Zoey’s spine.
It wasn’t that she hadn’t thought about these issues. But the state of his accounts was not clear to anyone outside. Besides, she had never suspected him.
“Sunny Qin, I don’t want to hear these unsubstantiated words of yours. If that’s what you’re going to say …”
“You want proof?” Sunny Qin interrupted Zoey, “I don’t have any proof. However, you will see the facts before long. Do you know who bought 5% of your company’s shares? It looks like it was purchased by many accounts, but in reality, it was Jerry alone who made the purchase. Oh, and I forgot to tell you …”
Sunny Qin elegantly ruffled her hair, “There is one more thing, he has secretly purchased 20% of your Baker family’s shares during the time he returned to China. Originally, there was no way for him to become the largest shareholder of your company, but now, you have personally contributed 5%, so … good grief, in the future, the chairman of the board will have to be replaced.”
She said words of good regret, but her tone was not without gloating. Picking up her bag, she turned to leave, thought of something, and turned back to talk to Zoey, “Do you know why Mrs. Zhan only came for two days, and left after she dared you to leave? Because, Jerry told her, if you want to take down the Baker family, don’t kick you out, you – are the key to his plan!”
“Sunny Qin, have you said enough? Say enough and get out immediately, you are not welcome here!!!” Yami Hu snapped and stood up to kick people out. Her complexion was the same as Zoey’s, hard to see. Obviously, Sunny Qin’s words had already had an effect.
Sunny Qin didn’t say anything more and left arrogantly like a victor, stepping on her high heels.
“It’s not good!” Sam Baker cried out, suddenly coming from the study. Zoey’s heart sank, and she almost fainted.

Zoey doesn’t know how she got into the cab. Her destination, MY group of companies.
On the way, the cab rushes along. Passing one familiar street after another, Zoey just stares blankly at it all.
When she passed Century Square, the large screen in the center of the square was broadcasting financial news. On the screen was a face she was familiar with, but, for a moment, it felt like she didn’t recognize him at all.
“Master, please stop.” She called out to the driver. When the driver stopped the car, she rolled down the window. The cold wind poured in like that, ruffling her hair and disorienting her eyes.

“Is this private matter related to Ms. Baker?”
“Yes, and now I’m going to propose to her, so please, move over.”

Proposals …
Because of these two words, Zoey gently smile open, smile so beautiful, so touching. Tears, wet the corners of the eyes, stained with long eyelashes, can not be suppressed rolled down to the face.
“Master, I’m having a baby.” She suddenly, without a clue, spoke.
The driver in front of him smiled nervously, “That’s a good thing, congratulations, young lady.”
“Thank you.” In her eyes, tears glistened, “Do you think the baby’s father will like him?”
“What kind of words are these! Your own flesh and blood, of course you love it so much!” The driver smiled, “Miss, are you still going?”
Zoey glances at the screen that’s already relaying other news. She eases the window up before smiling and saying, “Fair enough. Keep going.”

When Zoey arrived downstairs, she received a call from Jerry Xiao. Looking at the familiar number, she smiled and picked up the phone.
“Where have you been?” His voice, coming from the other end of the line, drifted off, and Zoey felt so impractical.
“Downstairs.” She was still smiling, but she could hear herself trembling between her lips.
“I’ll come down and get you then.” He was, really, thoughtful.
“No need. I’ll just come up myself. It’s already in the elevator, so I’ll see you in a bit.” She hung up the phone and put it away in her bag.

Jerry Xiao sat down at his desk, stood up again, and paced two more times. Hands, resting in his pockets, there, a ring knocked gently against him. There had never been a moment when he had been as nervous as he was now.
As Zac White would say, a proposal involves getting down on one knee, gaudy red roses, and celebratory champagne.
All this, he was ready. But the uneasiness in his … heart was gradually and constantly expanding …
There was a sudden knock on the office door.
He froze and immediately righted himself, standing up straight before saying, “Come in.”
The door was pushed open from the outside, and the familiar figure in the doorway made him raise the corners of his lips.
“I wanted to tell you some good news.” Zoey looked at him, her eyes twinkling.
“I have something I want to say to you, too.” His hand, clasped and unclasped in his pocket. Draws it out, to take Zoey’s hand.
Zoey, however, subconsciously avoided, the panic flashed in the bottom of his eyes was almost instantaneous, but Jerry Xiao saw it clearly. The color of his eyes darkened suddenly, complex emotions in the bottom of his eyes surging.
Thin lips, pursed, he spoke, “You first.”
Zoey flipped open her bag and handed him the bank card, “Here’s half a billion, take it and fix the company. The password is my birthday.”
Jerry Xiao only looked sullenly at the card and made no move to pick it up. +
“Why don’t you answer it?” Zoey looked at him, a smile adorning the bottom of her eyes, “Because you don’t need it anymore? Or is half a billion dollars actually easy for you to come up with?”
“Zoey …,” he called to her, his voice dark and dry. It was as if it was laced with emotions too strong to be melted. Did she, by any chance, know it all?
“Don’t you call me! Don’t call me!” Zoey shrieked, unable to hold back the tears raging in her eyes any longer. She shoved the card insistently into his hand, “Take it! Take it and tell me that you’re not trying to cheat me out of my family’s stock, that you’re not designing a trap for me to jump into. You tell me … you really just need this money!!!”
She wanted to hear him say it, and she was willing to believe him even if he was lying to her. But …
But he never said anything, just pursed his thin lips, those dark, heavy eyes staring at her in death. This, already said everything …
Zoey’s whole body, including her teeth, was trembling. She just raised her face and looked at him. The Jerry Xiao in front of me is so strange … and scary ….
It was as if the hooker from hell had come and pinched her heart, her soul, to pieces.
“Since when did you start setting this trap for me?” Zoey breathed hard, and breathed again, before finding her voice with difficulty. But …
Chest, so painful … just such a simple breath, all let her feel pain …
“Set this trap from the proposal of marriage? No, it must not … should have been earlier. The initiative to put the word out to the media? Yes, how could I not think of it … This kind of thing, other companies can find a way to suppress the media, how could you not be able to do it …”
She muttered to herself as layers of chills ran down her back, causing her to shiver viciously. He, however, remained silent, causing Zoey to yell out unwillingly, “Why won’t you answer me? Why don’t you answer me?! By now, do you still want to hide it from me?” Jerry Xiao gazed deeply at her, a touch of pain in his eyes that Zoey could not understand. He pursed his lips and finally spoke, “The moment I came back from England and tied you to my side, the stock was my purpose …”
Finally, the words were made complete. But, it was like something was stuck in his throat, and his voice was muffled and astringent.
Zoey felt a thunderclap and looked at him incredulously.
Turns out, he’s been scheming to set himself up ever since then …
At that time, she would actually feel happy, in fact, but like a fool in the palm of his play …
The care when she was sick, the movies at the cinema … everything was just one act after another, waiting for her to jump into this abyss.
A scene, as if it were still yesterday, was clearly reflected in her mind. However, the truth of the matter today was too much for her not to come to her senses.
As if all the strength in her body had been drained by this cruel fact, she took several weak steps backward, but her body staggered and could not stand still. Her hands grabbed the back of the sofa haphazardly at the back, so that she didn’t fall to the floor in a mess.
Jerry Xiao’s eyes flickered and he reached out to help her, but he was fixed by the cold light she swept over him.
“You are truly the best actor I have ever seen! How can you be so cruel? Taking advantage of how much I love you, of the fact that I’d be foolish enough to fly into a rage for you, to hurt me so recklessly?!” She screamed in an emotional breakdown.
The man in front of her eyes was all but a blur. It was only like a demon with teeth and claws, tearing at her every nerve.
It hurts so much that she has a cold twitch …
His eyes, sunken in, locked onto her. Pain and suppression, in that pair of eyes like the son of the night flowed underneath. The thin lips lifted, trying very hard to say something, but her chest was like a ball of cotton was blocked, all the words were squeezed in the mouth of her throat, unable to make a sound.
But her next words shook his entire being.
“Jerry Xiao, do you realize … that I’m pregnant! I’m already having your baby!!!”
“What did you say?!”
There was no surprise that she thought at first, no expectation that she thought he was going to be a father, and all that floated up on his face was incredulity, and even … icy coldness.
He stepped forward and clasped his hands hard around her arms with a force that seemed to crush her whole being.
The fingers were so taut that the joints were oozing pale, “Who gave you permission to get pregnant? Who gave you permission to get pregnant?!”
Those eyes, as if they were going to swallow her whole.