CHAPTER 1

There are three things to keep in mind when working at this place:

ONE: Always be punctual. Keep in mind that 2:00 PM is different from 2:01 PM.

TWO: Work before anything else. Finish work first; you are being paid highly for a reason.

And THREE: Coffee is your bestfriend. Overtimes are unannounced and even so, work gets taken home like homework. You will be forced to work at home.

Welcome to Wu Enterprise

“One” the tacking of heels echoes along with the rest of the hundreds more. “Two” coffee was poured down onto the white cup and picked up. “Three” A knock lands on the well polished and expensive wooden door. “Four” Papers got tossed onto the table and the office chair rocks as the body weight leaves it's leather surfaces.

Kim Hana pops up from the crack of the door with a smile “Good morning, sir!”

Suho smiles at his EA “Good morning aswell, Ms. Kim”

Hana enters Suho's office, puts down the cup and some folders to go along with it on his desk. A sigh escapes the CEO's lips as he takes the cup and sips on the warm drink “Thank you, Hana” he says after putting down the cup and reaches for the folders. Without looking up, he says “Now I understand why Kris had hit such hard concrete flooring for you”

She only smiles, having learned to control her flusters at such sentences over the months that have passed.
“You have a long day ahead of you, sir. If you need me, you know where I am” she bows and walks out of the CEO's office, entering her own.

Taking a deep breath, she closes the doors to her personal space and walks to her desk. Day twenty-one of the six month deal. Fighting!

Meanwhile in China;

There are only three things to keep in mind when working for me:

ONE: Punctuality. There is a huge difference between 2:00 and 2:01, if you beg to differ then the door is open for you to leave.

TWO: Work, don't flirt. I'm paying you for a reason and it's not to blow my ing under my desk; go submit your resume to a house if that's the case.

And THREE: Don't ing waste my time. I'm Chairman Kris ing Wu and it's common knowledge that you know how important and expensive my time is.

Welcome to Wu Prime

“One” the tacking of heels echoes along with the rest of the hundreds more. “Two” coffee was poured down onto the white cup and picked up. “Three” A knock lands on the well polished and expensive wooden door. “Four” Papers got tossed onto the table and the office chair rocks as the body weight leaves its leather surfaces.

“Five seconds late” Kris frowns at the female who had rashly entered his office. The female blinks her eyes and soon her whole life seemed to have flashed before her eyes “You're fired”

And mornings were so different in Beijing and Seoul.

It's only been a couple of days and there was a lot of catching up and changes that Kris had to do at the mother company; if he was gonna run Wu Prime from now on, he had to run it his way and phase one was to replace the inefficient employees. No wonder Wu Ent. Is better. Tch. He leans back on his leather chair.

Kris was only formally introduced a few weeks ago by his father to the people of the company and at first everything seemed fine. Keyword: at first. No one knew what was up ahead. Females were swooning over the ex-chairman's son when he first showed up; oh what an impression he had left among the ladies even though he never actually talked to them directly. Males –the younger half of the population- didn't like him much, there was something about Kris that intrigued them in a bad way and how right they were because as soon as the second week of his reign arrived, the clean up –as Kris would call it- began.

A large number of the company were fired of both genders. Males and females alike, Kris was controlling the flow of the tides and no one –not even his dad, sister, aunt or cousin- could stop him. So long as they were inefficient, they were a candidate for firing.

And today was the thirty-fifth PA he had fired.

He picks up the phone “Yes, Mr. Wu?” the voice of the female from the front desk answers his call “Make a call, I need a new PA” “Right away, Mr. Wu” and he puts down the phone.

Kris takes a deep breath and pulls out his phone from the inside pocket of his suit. He presses the button on top and the screen lights up, a photo of Hana smiling comes into his view. How many days has it been?

Knock. Knock. He keeps his phone “Come in”

The door opens and a person with an almost equally bright smile as Hana's enters “Good morning, Yi Fan!” Stephanie Wu chimes brightly as she enters. Kris takes an inward sigh; Right... company lessons. “Morning” he mumbles as he reaches for his cup of coffee.

Stephanie's been going in an out of the company thrice a week for lessons.

“How's Dad?” he asks, reaching for a pen and takes one of the folders. Stephanie's smile fades and she lets out a sigh “He's fine but the doctor's had to tranquilize him last night since he refused to sleep and he needed to”

Well that's jolly. Note sarcasm. Kris takes an inward sigh. The old man got admitted into the hospital just a few days after he formally introduced Kris to the company; ofcourse it wasn't good news. His health was declining and the doctors could only do so much since surgery had failed. As much as he doesn't like to say it, his dad's life was simply only being prolonged inside the confinements of a medical facility.

“Are you gonna visit him later?” she asks. He closes the folder and moves on to another one “I have to do over time, maybe tomorrow morning before going to work” he mumbles.

A ringing sound fills the room and Stephanie fishes her phone out of her pocket. She stands up “I have to go; don't over work yourself Yi Fan” she smiles at her brother –who didn't look up- and leaves his office.

Once again he was left in silence.

This... he puts down the pen. Is harder than I thought.

Hana.

It's not easy. It's harder than I first imagined, to be quite honest.

Sigh. I try my best to concentrate on my work; being an Executive Assistant to the CEO has very different tasks from an ordinary PA. Although Suho's not hard to work with, it's me that seems to be a bit faulty. Nowadays, I easily get distracted by little things and I constantly find myself thinking how a certain someone is doing in China.

My Chinese lessons have already begun and so far, so good. Tao gives me reviews and converses with me in Chinese saying that it would help out if he does so; Luhan and Lay are also helping me out.

Ring. Ring. “Yes, Mr. Kim?”

“Hana-ssi, can you hand some files over to Kai for me? Please pick them up in my office” I give a nod. “Ofcourse sir” and he ends the call. My heart still skips a beat when the phone rings. Tsk. Quickly setting aside paper works of my own, I get up from my chair and walk out of my office.

As instructed, I pick up the files from Suho.

“Anything else, sir?” I ask, pressing the folders onto my chest to firmly keep them in place. Suho puffs out a breath then takes a sip of the remains of his coffee “No, that's all. Thanks Hana” he smiles at me then sends me off.

I enter the elevators and press the designated floor.

The ride was short, only two floors below the CEO's office; I exit the small compartment and walk down the quiet hallway of the sports department. Tack. Tack. Tack. Sigh. Sometimes, I really do prefer wearing flats. My heels continue tacking on the well polished marble floor until such time I reached the door at the end.

Knock. Knock. “Come in” came the voice from the other side. I grab the knob and open the door, entering with a bright smile. “Good morning, Mr. Kim” I greet him.

Kai looks up and smiles back at me “Hey Hana” he drops his pen and leans back on the leather office chair “Haven't seen you in ages; did you finally realize your feelings for me?” he chuckles and so do I. Still a casanova. Aigo. “Kai, you promised Kris” I tell him. He rolls his eyes at me “Just teasing you. Besides, I promised him not to pull anything funny on you, I didn't promise him not to talk to you; anyway, you have something for me?” he looks at the folder in my hands.

“Oh, yeah... Suho wanted to give you these” I place the folders down onto his desk; he reaches out a hand and catches me by surprise as he grabs my own instead of the folder as I expected him to. I blink my eyes momentarily before looking at him.

“Kai –“

“You get prettier each day” he smiles at me.

I felt the heat rise to my cheeks and I force my hand out of his grasp. Kai takes a breather and takes the top folder “Kris is really lucky. I can only imagine the look on his face once he sees you when he comes for a visit” he chuckles. Gulp. For a moment he looks up from the folder, to me.

He smiles “You can go now, Ms. Kim”

Deep breath Hana. Deep breath.

“Hana ~ !”

“Gah!” I jump at the sudden shout from behind me and it's followed after by laughter. Xiumin. Chen. Aigo. I place a hand over my rapid beating heart as I turn around from the elevator. “Omona” I breathe out “You scared me...”

Xiumin smiles “You're so easy to scare ~ aigo, so cute” he lightly pinches my cheek. Chen slaps his hand away, his face turning serious as he looks at Xiumin “Yah, you wanna get killed by Kris? He said not a scratch on her”

“Geez, I wasn't pinching her that hard” he pouts, rubbing his hand. “Tch, anyway...” Chen turns to me “Hana-ssi, how are your Chinese lessons?”

Blink. Blink. “Oh! Um... they're fine; so far, so good, it's quite hard but I manage” I give them both a smile. Xiumin smirks “我打赌当Kris回来时他们的床一定承受不了” Chen sniggers.

Eh. What? I try to register the words he had just said in my mind, trying my best to decrypt them but to no avail. I'm a hundred percent sure it's about Kris though.

Sheepishly, I scratch the back of my neck and laugh “S-sorry but I haven't learned such words yet” the two laugh at my clueless-ness. Ding. The elevator doors open and the three of us enter “Are you going to see Suho?” I ask as Xiumin presses the top floor button.

“Yep” Chen says pocketing his hands “He's been quite busy since he got the hot seat so we want to invite him for drinks tonight; wanna tag along”

I shook my head “No thanks, I have lessons from five to eight”

“Pft. I saw that one coming... Aigo, you work too hard, Hana-ssi” Xiumin tells me. Well, I only have six months, that's very limited time. “It's for a promotion” I explain to him and he only chuckles; finally the doors open and we all get out. “Well, we'll see you later” Chen bids me goodbye while Xiumin waves and I get inside my office.

As soon as I close the door, a faint sound fills my ears and it was coming from my desk. Walking towards the wooden piece of furniture, my eyes land on the screen of my laptop. Omona!

Incoming Video Call: Kris Wu

Click. I sat down and eagerly wait as the screen loads.

Kris.

“Good morning, babe” I smile as her face appears on screen. Thank you, Skype.

Hana smiles brightly at me; still as flawless as I have left her, looks like the boys are doing their job well. She looks healthy, a little stressed but healthy. “Good morning” she greets me back in Chinese.

Well, someone's been learning well. “I'm guessing you're on top of the small class; how are you?” I reach for me coffee and take sip. “Suho's not giving you a hard time, is he?”

“Ofcourse not! But you have to stop giving me baby sitters, I can take care of myself” she pouts. Cute. I chuckle and shook my head at her “How's your dad?” I was afraid she was gonna ask about that. “Not good to be honest...” I breathe in and lean back on my seat. A comforting smile appears on her face and it doesn't help one bit at all to ease something surging inside me.

Knock. Knock. Sigh.

I look up from the screen and see a female employee bow, holding a clipboard “Sir, your aunt is waiting outside and is requesting permission to see you, should I send her in?”

Ugh. “Fine” she bows and leaves. I turn back to Hana on the screen “Sorry Hana, I have to go... I'll call you tonight if I can, okay?”

She smiles and nods her head “Araso. Don't overwork yourself, okay?” I smile at her and give her a small salute “Yes ma'am”

“Saranghae” she forms a heart with her hands. Cute. “Nado” and the video call ends just as my door opens and in steps the person that I never really liked seeing.