HIS GENIUS WIFE IS A SUPERSTAR

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She became so relaxed that she failed to pay attention to where she was walking. Her high heel snagged on a crack in the floor. She was already falling forward before she even realized what was happening.

"Aaaaah!"

Her eyes closed on instinct, waiting for the pain that was sure to come after her body crashed to the floor. But right at that moment, something wrapped around her waist and pulled her up all of a sudden. Then her back crashed into something warm and hard, knocking all her breath away.

"What a clumsy woman," a lazy masculine voice said beside her ear.

Long Jinjing froze as if electrocuted. Her heart which managed to relax just a few moments ago began to beat wildly inside her chest once again.

She turned her head and came face to face with the devil...or at least that was what he looked like in the shadows.

"Lu Zihao," she whispered.

"Long Jinjing," he said.

Alarm bells started ringing like it was the apocalypse inside her mind.

Danger! Danger! Danger!

Her survival instincts were telling her to run away as fast as she could away from this scar-faced man, but she couldn't seem to look away from his devilish eyes. They were like bottomless pits of pure darkness and mystery hypnotizing her.

"A woman shouldn't walk alone in a dark and empty place like this," he suddenly said, breaking the moment.

Long Jinjing regained her senses and realized that the man's arm was still wrapped tightly around her waist while her entire back was pressed against his chest. She could feel the hard planes of his body, making her face and neck flush red in embarrassment. Fortunately, the place was relatively dark.

"Mr. Lu, you can let go of me now," she said, doing her best to make her voice sound calm.

"Hmmm..."

He didn't let her go right away. It took him about three to four seconds before his arm unwrapped around her waist.

Once she was free, Long Jinjing stepped away from the man until they were separated by about a couple of metres.

"Thank you for saving me back there, Mr. Lu. I appreciate it."

Lu Zihao walked to the nearest glass window and sat on the ledge. The dim illumination from the moon in the night sky failed to soften the harsh planes of his features. In fact, it made them even more intense. He crossed her arms over his chest and looked at Long Jinjing, like a predator looking at his prey.

Something inside her shivered in fear from his intimidating gaze, but her chin lifted, refusing to back down. The man was only human, just like her. He wasn't a monster or a god. Why should she be afraid of him? Besides, he was close to her sister. They were so close that Long Jinjing sometimes felt a little jealous that they acted more like the siblings than her and Iris.

"If I didn't save you back there, you would've fallen on your face. Clearly a woman who has no awareness of her surroundings. I hope you aren't that careless when handling the finances of my sister's company," Lu Zihao drawled with his lazy voice.

His insinuation of her incompetence infuriated her. However, she controlled herself from lashing out at him.

"Mr. Lu, rest assured that I'm doing my job properly as the CFO of Orchidia Beauty. The company might be owned by Xiulan but I along with Chen Fei, the Bauer siblings, and the others working for it all want to watch it grow and succeed. Not only am I the CFO but Xiulan, the CEO, is also my sister. I won't betray my own sister nor her company that she worked so hard to build."