Young CEO loves me

The Cold CEO's Unwanted Genius Wife

Meng Xinyu

I stood in the darkest corner of the Pierre Hotel’s ballroom, my cheap polyester dress itching against my skin while my wristband buzzed with a DARPA Priority Red alert. In front of the city’s elite, my fiancé Bryce Calloway took the stage, not to toast our future, but to publicly end our engagement and announce he was with my sister, Chloe. The room turned on me instantly, a hundred pairs of eyes pinning me down with pity and disgust as they physically backed away like I was contagious. When I returned home, my mother shattered a crystal vase at my feet, screaming that I was a humiliation and a "dropout" who didn't deserve a cent of the family fortune. Chloe and Bryce mocked me, laughing when I told them I had a mission with the National Security Agency, convinced I was either a pathological liar or a low-level criminal. They watched in horror as a black, unmarked military helicopter descended on our backyard to extract me, yet they still chose to believe I was being arrested for drug trafficking. They saw a pathetic girl who couldn't even parallel park, never realizing I was Dr. Nova Vance, the lead physicist behind the world's first successful fusion reactor. To secure funding for my research and gain a "fortress" of a name, I signed a thirty-day marriage contract with the arrogant billionaire Roman Knight. He treats me like a fraud, convinced I’m a gold-digger who failed out of college, while I quietly run global energy simulations from his guest bedroom. He has no idea that the "loser" he’s forced to live with is the same anonymous grandmaster who has been ruthlessly crushing him in online strategy games for months. "The contract is active," I told him, looking past his expensive suit. "But don't expect me to be your maid."

Modern Mystery

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Alisha Perry, an average looking seventeen-year-old girl with a very long, natural blonde hair, extremely skinny and paled skin applied a bloody red lipstick on her lips, and checked herself in the mirror before walking out of her room.

"Mom" she called as she walked to the sitting room "I'm going out. I will soon be back."

"Okay. Have a nice time."

Alisha touched a small box inside her jacket and smiled with all her heart before replying her mother "I will."

Today was Alisha's seventeenth birthday. After celebrating her birthday with her only family member who was her mother, she had planned to visit someone later in the evening. But when Alisha stepped out of the house, the weather had been so cold to the extent that she had deliberated whether to postpone what she was planning to do or not

No. She thought. I'm doing it today. And with that thought being fixed into her heart, she walked more determinedly to her destination. Her destination wasn't that far, it was just a twenty minutes journey.

Halfway to her destination, her phone vibrated inside her pocket and she hurriedly brought it out. She checked the caller and it was one of her friends whose name was Miranda. Alisha had saved her name as Mindy and had grinned sheepishly when she had saw Mindy's name on her phone screen. Without anymore delay, she picked up the call.

"Mindy! Mindy!" She said into the phone.

"Hey." Mindy replied "How are you?"

"I'm fine."

"Hope you got my text in the morning and your present?"

"Absolutely. Thank you so much. It means so much to me."

"It's okay. I'm just glad that you like it. I'm so sorry for not being with you today. You know that I would have excused myself if I could."

"I know. You don't have to feel bad" Alisha replied.

"So, where are you now? I can hear the sound of cars."

"Guess." Alisha said with her beautiful smile still on her face.

"Hmmmmmm" Mindy hummed into the phone for some seconds before giving up "Just tell me. You know that I'm bad at guessing."

"Try. I'm giving you a second chance."

Mindy hummed again into the phone before giving up "I give up. I don't know."

"Okay." Alisha said disappointedly "I'm on my way to Zhang's house."

"Zhang?" Mindy questioned as if she had heard the name wrong.

"Yeah, Zhang."

The next second, Mindy shouted horrifically into the phone "Alisha! Don't tell me...!"

"Yeah. That is what I'm doing. I'm on my way to his house" she replied boldly before smirking "Don't worry, if everything goes well, you will be the first to know."

"Alisha, don't do this. For the sake of our friendship." Mindy said sadly.

"For the sake of our friendship, Mindy, allow me to be happy. Let me have something that my mother was deprived of. I love him and he loves me" Alisha said as she used her left hand to touch the small box that was inside her jacket.

"Alisha" Mindy called sadly.

"Mindy, please..."

Mindy sighed heavily and said "I hope everything goes well."

Alisha smiled when she heard this and said "Thank you."

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