THE CEO's LOVE 113 Anything Else You Want.

The environment became as silent as a grave yard. 

Fangxi head spinned, was she going to fall? She felt her eyes pop out of their socket.

Yin Anhao mouth was wide with shock. 

Deng Yue tried to maintain her composure but her eyes didn't go with her plan. It widened with every turn Fangxi made till she finally fell face flat. And she sprang up from her chair.

Sand immediately filled her eyes as dust filled the sky.

She opened her mouth to scream, "Mmm... Mmm..." She tasted sand and the scent of dust filled her nose. Fangxi started coughing and spread more dust.

Mei Han immediately came forward and pulled Xueyan some steps back, using the scarf to put the dust away.

Huang Mingfe watched from the sideline.

Yin Anhao darted from Huang Mingfe to Fangxi who was still lying on the ground. She ran towards the makeup artist area. "Brother Mingfe, you have to help Fangxi. Please,"

Mingfe glanced at her and then back at Fangxi on the ground. Why was she still lying there? He momentarily rolled his eyes. Stood up and went to help Fangxi off the ground.

"What are you trying to do Xueyan!?" Yin Anhao screamed. "Do you want to kill Fangxi?"

Xueyan shook her head. "She was the one who had stepped on my clothes," Xueyan said innocently. Casting her eyes down. It made her look like the one that had suffered the most. 

Anhao wanted to puke blood. "You're crazy! That was a mistake! Why did you have to push her down?"

"I didn't touch her. Which part of your eyes saw me push her?" Xueyan pouted. She wanted to put on this white lotus act and discover how it felt.

When she looked up, she saw Deng Yue wiping Fangxi's face.

Mei Han patted her back. "You did good," she whispered. "Really good."

The producer and director thought that they had enough of the day.

Mingfe escorted Fangxi to the shade and whispered, "You should return back. There's no need for you to be here causing trouble." He said over her shoulder. She spun around to look at him.

"I wasn't causing trouble Ming," she said soft. Calling him with his first name sounded pa.s.sionate as if they were in that type of relations.h.i.+p.

And thankfully they weren't.

He looked away. 

"Mingfe," he then turned to her. "Call me that. If you are not causing trouble, you wouldn't be like this..."

"Ming... Mingfe, she was the one. Couldn't you see she purposely threw me to the floor? I had mistakenly stepped..."

"Mistakenly you say?" His eyes dilated. "Miss Ru Fangxi, please kindly return home." 

Her hand balled into fist. Yin Anhao was some foot away from them, holding her purse, she strode up to her and forcibly took her purse and headed to her car. She still held her head high. 

Yin Anhao was flabbergasted and could only run after her.

"I think it's time to leave," Deng Yue murmured. She picked her purse and went to her car.

"Wow, Miss Ru just left like that?"

"I bet she's had enough of the humiliation."

"Didn't you see? She left because Huang Mingfe said something to her."

"Come to think of it, Miss Bai was going to say something about Huang Mingfe and Ru Fangxi the day Miss Ru returned..."

"Ah! You're right! I think there's something more to this than it is to the eyes,"

"It must be something juicy."

The female employees gossiped amongst themselves. 

The three cars zoomed out of the environment and everywhere became cool. 

Everyone relaxed.

Xueyan went to stand beside Mingfe. "You shouldn't have sent her away,"

His jaw tightened. "She was being a pain in the neck," after that he strode away.

Mei Han came forward. "Xue'er, why do you think she left? I remember you had said something about Huang Mingfe and Ru Fangxi..."

Xueyan neck snapped towards her. Question in her eyes. "Did I?"

Mei Han ignored the eyes. "Yes!"

"You heard wrong then," Xueyan strode away to go continue with the day's shooting.

The phone in Mei Han's pocket beeped. She took it out. It was a message, she looked up to see Xueyan, but she had gone back to shooting and the camera with microphone positioned beside her and Mingfe.

She couldn't see the content of the message since it was hidden and only revealed it was from a new number.

"Take them!" Dasheng voice rang out.

The guard escorting Yan Ping and the one escorting Yan Ruqin dragged them with their ropes to the square.

A man spoke up first. "What are we to do with this useless man? His leg is broken."

"No... Not so useless," Dasheng was quick to defend. He held Yan Ping's jaw to face the people. "He's quite good looking. If treated and taken care of, many women would rush to the brothels everyday just to have a look." He flashed them a smile.

Yan Ping shook off Dasheng's hand and hissed. "You had "it" cut off, how would I please the women?" He turned to look at Ruqin, he shook his head at her. Because her expression was horror-stricken. He didn't want her believing in that!

She smiled understanding what he meant. He didn't think about the repercussion of what he had said. Thinking he was safe now.

"So you say, I lie?" Dasheng asked. Anger in his tone. He forcibly grabbed Yan Ping's jaw again. "I lied?"

"You're such a bad liar," one of the men said.

"You want us to purchase him after you amputated him? That's unfair! You will ruin business for us!"

Dasheng wanted to slap the man across his face. "I should probably pull his pants to support my claim," he smiled at Yan Ping. "Right?"

Yan Ping was horrified. 

"Strip him!"

Gasps escaped the mouths of the onlookers. 

"Yes! Strip him!"

"We need to confirm!"

"Strip him!"

"Strip him!!"

"Strip him!!!"

Just when Ruqin thought she had had enough. Another comes up!

She instantly shook her head and stood up, "No! Don't!"

Everywhere quietened down.

"Do you think that's her husband?"

"Yes, I think so!"

"No, he's a bit older. They might be relative!"

"What do you mean by No? He had said that place was injured. We need to confirm ourselves."

"Yes! We need to confirm!" They shouted in unison.

"Strip him for confirmation!"

Dasheng looked behind his shoulder at the shocked father and daughter.

Ruqin wished she could wipe that smirk he had on.

She started shaking her head.

"Your father had accused of such a heinous crime! I would have been beheaded had it been the king was here! I don't want to be seen as a liar!" He winked at them.

"Strip him!" He looked toward the guard and they came forward, pulled Yan Ping from his kneeling position to his feet. His leg was shaking as cold sweat trickled down his face.

They were ready to pull his pant when one of the women spoke up. "No! I want him!" All eyes turned to her. "How much?" She enquired.

Ruqin looked in between the woman and Dasheng.

"Fifty gold bars milady,"

Another round of shocked voices rang out.

"Fifty gold bars?"

"That's rubbis.h.!.+"

"I agree with you! Total rubbis.h.!.+"

"Purchasing a man who can't walk properly for fifty gold bars? Nonsense!"

Soon one by one people in the market started leaving.

"What about the girl?" One man asked.

"One hundred gold bars," Dasheng said. 

Ruqin eyes popped. In their village they made use of coins, gold bars was rare to find. And this man was easily saying it.

Dasheng noticed the eyes on him and turned to flash her another smile. He squatted beside her. "Milady, did you expect me to easily sell you off? No way! Master Su would be displeased. I don't want to offend my master..." He stood straight. "Take them back!" He strode away. Not sparing the father and daughter another look.

Once he was out of sight, Ruqin put her head on his shoulder. But soon they were separated and taken back to their cells.

The camera paused. And Mei Han hastily took the phone to Xueyan. "You've a message,"

Xueyan darted a look at the outstretched phone. "Ignore it," she knew he was the one. He sends her message every afternoon to check up on her. She was tired of receiving the messages.

"Shouldn't you have a look?"

"No," 

"We are done for the afternoon!" The director shouted. And the employees sighed. The cameramen relaxed their shoulders immediately.

Everyone started making order for something to eat. 

"What should I order?" Mei Han asked taking out her phone.

"Anything would do. Send the driver to go back to the city."

"On it," 

Meanwhile, back in the city.

"Say, anything I want?"

"Yes, anything!"

Qingran excitedly ate her chicken. There was an iPad in front of her, she was watching the Powerpuff Girls.

And at the other side of the table, Zhihao sat with an iPad too.

He munched on his popcorn and would sip his fruit juice. 

Zhaolin watched the two with his hands folded. He later changed his mind about going to the shooting location. Zhihao had called telling him to come pick them up.

"What do you mean by 'we'?"

"Qingran and I," 

The smile that spread on his face shocked Zhiyang. Without wasting a single minute more, he took the car keys from a shocked Zhiyang and strode out.

"Sir what about your meeting with the staff?"

"Cancel it," he said without turning to look at him.

He derived so much happiness in watching Qingran. She was beginning to accept him, smile more at him. 

"Daddy, my iPad is broken." Zhihao had complained. "Let's go to the Apple store,"

That was a way of taking Qingran to the device store without her noticing a thing.

Zhihao took out two iPads and strutted towards Qingran, "One for me, one for you."

"No, I don't want it." She had rejected.

"I'm offering it to you, I'm not begging for you to accept it!"

She folded her hands and pouted. "I really don't want! Keep it!" She pushed him back a bit. 

"You really don't want it?" His expression turned sour.

"This is a gift from me to you," he slammed the tab into her and walked away.

She examined the tab, he said it was a gift. Shouldn't she accept it? 

She pressed the home b.u.t.ton and it turned on. Animation as the theme and it made her smile.

"Wow!"

"Yes, wow!" Zhaolin said from behind. "You can really keep it."

"Really?"

"Yes. And anything else."