Summer froze as she gazed at Leonardo.
“Slowpoke.” He looked impatient. Taking her handbag in one hand and holding her hand with the other, he brought her out of the restaurant.
She glanced at his hand that carried her handbag, and she grinned from ear to ear with her head down. Sometimes, Young Master Emerson was a gracious gentleman too.
…
As they entered the car, Leonardo fired up the engine and casually said, “Quit the job.”
He said it so casually as if he did not mean it, and it took Summer half a minute for the words to register.
“You mean me?” She pointed at herself.
“Who do you think I’m talking to?” He turned to face her with a calm expression.
“Why are you asking me to quit all of a sudden?” He said it so out of the blue that Summer felt a little perplexed.
“You can’t keep staying in Jarrett Group. It’s a waste of time.” His voice was firm and serious. “Besides, you’re not happy working there.”
He had wanted her to join Tip Top Entertainment since the beginning, but Lynn held out an olive branch to her at that time. He thought since Summer wanted to join Jarrett Group, he left her to it.
He may not have had the most innocent intentions at first, but now, all he wanted was for her to live happily and do the things she loved. He had seen her carrying her laptop and writing her screenplay in the room many times.
She studied drama, film, and literature; that was what she was interested in. If she did not like working, she could stay home. After all, the money he earned could last them over ten lifetimes. If she had something she liked to do, she could have a team of people to back her up, prepare the path for her, and let her stay on top of her game.
Summer had a lump in her throat. Leonardo was a man of many contradictions. He was ruthless but not an entirely evil person. He had his gentle moments too. He was thoughtful, and he cared about her feelings. She was touched by his words but still did not give him an immediate reply.
“If I left Jarrett Group, how are you going to get information about my grandpa?”
Leonardo scoffed as if he had heard something funny. “Do you really think you can get information from your grandpa?”
He did not even hide his ridicule. It seemed that what she thought of him earlier was not true at all.
“Who told you I can’t?” Summer hissed, punching him in his shoulder.
Leonardo caught her little fist with his free hand and kissed her on the lips before he chuckled. “I’m driving. Knock it off.”
Since their first night in the Golden Cauldron, they had been making out regularly. But she still felt embarrassed when Leonardo did little acts of affection to her like that. She blushed and tried to pull her hand back, but he would not let go. Twisting her arm, she said, “Get your hand off of me!”
“I’m driving, stop moving around,” Leonardo said without looking at her.
Jerk! She looked away, and he kept her hand in his as he drove.
…
Adams was Leonardo’s elder cousin brother and Tip Top Entertainment’s top artist. It went without saying that he had the most powerful team of people behind him. Quickly, the online gossip about his secret lover died down. Tip Top Entertainment also released a press statement on its official Weibo account to clear the air over the matter.
“The recent rumor about the secret lover of Adams has been proven to be fake…”
As Adams was the youngest academy-award artist, he had an army of diehard fans. The moment the statement was released online, his fans swarmed the comment section.
“If the woman in the photo isn’t his girlfriend, who could she be?”
“After all is said and done, they are just saying the woman isn’t Adams’s girlfriend. Could it be that Adams is courting her?”
“I’m curious about what kind of woman Adams likes…”
“I think they are a perfect match!”
“I think the statement is fake!”
Carl sat on the sofa in Leonardo’s office, reading the comments out loud in his face. After that, he thumped the desk with his hand.
“Holy crap! The imagination of these netizens is really over the top!”
“Would you just please shut up?” Leonardo’s face darkened, and his voice was stone-cold.
The popular search gossip about Summer and Adams already made his blood boil, but he had suppressed his anger in front of Summer. Now, when those people online said that Summer and Adams were a perfect match, there was no reason for him to stay silent anymore.
Browsing to the press release on the official Weibo account, under which there were already over ten thousand comments, Leonardo replied to the comment that said Summer and Adams were a perfect match.
“Are you blind?”
He replied to every comment that said Summer and Adams were a perfect match with the same line.
After being told to shut up, Carl kept quiet and continued to browse Weibo. Halfway through, he was logged out of his account. He looked at Leonardo.
“Did you just log in to my Weibo account?”
“Mm.” Leonardo did not look at him and just typed away on his computer.
“Why did you log in using my account?”
Curious, Carl walked over and saw him replying with “Are you blind?”.
“What are you doing? Why are you using my Weibo account? It’s under my name!” It was a verified Weibo account with the title: CEO of Tip Top Entertainment.
Leonardo ignored him and continued to do what he was doing. Just then, his mobile phone rang. He took a glance and saw that it was Charlie. Stopping his activity, he took his mobile phone and walked over to the floor-to-ceiling window.
Carl the opportunity to change his Weibo password and re-logged in. On normal days, his official Weibo already had enough unread messages and tags, but they were not as many as today. His hands trembled as he tapped open the top Weibo post, looking at the comments below.
All screenshots showed his “Are you blind?” replies.
“President Jones, what’s wrong with you today?”
“I’m afraid he has lost his mind!”
“President Jones, you’re freaking me out.”
“I’ve just searched around for the latest entertainment news and am surprised to find that President Jones has gone without gossip for a month! If you think back on what he has done just now, I have a bold conjecture!”
“Me too. I have a daring conjecture!”
“My conjecture is, President Jones has a crush on Adams!”
“#Overbearing President Jones and Adams# Something that you ought to know…”
Carl was starting to think about ending his life now. Just then, Leonardo’s conversation ended on his phone. Carl put his mobile phone in front of him and said, “Young Master Emerson, look at what you’ve done!”
Leonardo read the comment with no expression on his face, then said, “Diversion is always an excellent strategy.”
Carl was thinking about jumping off the building now.