Chapter 04: Trouble

Shi Residence was much larger, it could even be called a palace from outside as it has an area of ​​more than 20,000  and is surrounded by high walls with heavy guarding.

Inside, there was a green land with various medicinal herbs and a large lake, with an area full of trees as if it were a small forest. This garden was like a fantastic place.

Unfortunately, no one can appreciate his beauty.

In the middle, there was a three-floor building and Shi Tu's office was on the third floor.

Shi Tu simply entered from the door because there is no need to infiltrate anymore as there is only one person who can reach here except Shi Tu without his permission.

Shi Tu opened the door and enter, heard a soft voice, but it was full of anger.

" So you know to come back? I thought you wouldn't be back tonight."

Shi Tu looked at Alice in front of him helpless.

Alice is a typical tall blonde foreign woman as if she was a fashion model. All that can be said about her is that the golden number found for her, She was only two years older than Shi Tu, so she is in the mid of her youth and beauty. Although Alice is angry now, that didn't affect her beauty at all.

Shi Tu came up and sat on the sofa with and said, "You don't have to be so angry, this isn't the first time I've done something like this, and if I didn't go out today, I wouldn't have found a very big threat to us even though it's still immature so this is something to celebrate for "

Alice's expression changed slightly, she knew Shi Tu well, and she never heard him describe anything as a threat and the only exception was her father, so she softened her expression a little, but she is still not satisfied with the behavior of Shi Tu.

Alice looked at Shi Tu with her angry blue eyes and asked, "What is this threat? Is it really that dangerous?"

Shi Tu seemed to be a little overwhelmed before answering, "Until now, there is no danger, but in the future, it may turn into a very big threat, but this discovery has come at a very high price."

Alice's expression became serious and she didn't dare to ask about the price he had to pay for this information because the things that Shi Tu appreciates are very few, he will not blink even when he spends billions on the most trivial things.

Finally, Shi Tu said helplessly, "I was noticed by the Sun family so the laziness days of staying in my office get to end and I have to make my debut."

After hearing this, Alice felt blood boiling ascending to her head because of her anger.

'End of laziness days? Is this the price he had to pay? I do almost all the hard work but he doesn't appreciate that at all!! All what he do is read the reports, sign them, give orders, make all the calculations faster than computers, plan and make decisions. How can he be sad if he must go to work? ''

A red glint appeared in Alice's eyes with a hint of madness.

'' I have to do all the annoying work that I don't even get a good sleep often and even if I get it will not exceed three hours ''

Fortunately, Alice was crying in her mind or she could never face Shi Tu again.

Alice threw a strong kick into Shi Tu's chest, it was a quick kick but her strength doesn't match Alice's delicate appearance.

Alice was intending to dig Shi Tu's eyes with her high heels for an unknown reason.

Unfortunately, this kick didn't reach Shi Tu and fell to the sofa.

Crap!

Instead of making a hole in the sofa, the sofa was shattered due to the strength of Alice's kick.

Shi Tu was so fast and already stood behind Alice and had his palm pointed firmly towards Alice's back.

This was a ruthless blow that would inevitably leave traces on Alice's smooth skin, along with many broken ribs.

Alice fell quickly to avoid Shi Tu's palm and threw a back kick from below at Shi Tu's face but he blocked it with his knee before the kick hit, pushing both of them a few steps away.

Shi Tu's mind quickly think of a way to calm this raging cat and said with raising his hands and give up, "why you are angry? It's not like I don't appreciate your hard work and want to evade but drawing attention will cause us many problems."

Alice quickly turned around and fixed her pose, but her anger never diminished, thinking about how to teach him a lesson.

Shi Tu was standing with a slightly forced smile on his face.

" It seems that you don't understand our current situation, so let me explain to you before you empty your anger on me and if you don't like my explanation, I will accept any punishment okay?"

Shi Tu knew that logic is useless here so he decided to play with emotions.

Alice looked at Shi Tu with sharp eyes as if his interpretation didn't matter at all, but the temptation of punishment was irresistible.

She works all day and night and takes care of the company's business but Shi Tu only planning and gives his approval for papers

Although it takes a long time to do that, she knew that he was deliberately doing it in order to not throw more work on him, or he had finished the work of a full day within one hour.

As her father said, "People are not equal, people should not be held accountable to the same standards but based on their abilities," applying this saying, although what Shi Tu is doing is much more difficult than what she does but for Shi Tu this is a very easy job.

Maybe this is just an excuse to punish Shi Tu for not praising her for her work.

Anyway, did he think how she felt when she had to deal with many people with a fake smile? No! he didn't think at all, he had not even thanked her for her work. She may have been his loyal follower, but she was the first to follow him. Shouldn't she get special treatment?

She had to teach him a lesson this time!!

Shi Tu, "Listen, we might own half the world, but we cannot move the power of the league to such small matters or those annoying rats, will not stand and do nothing, even if we have no goal they will not believe us at all, so we can only use the resources of the Shi family now, but beside the money, what we have? Nothing! ''

'' We don't have any ties, alliances, or any relations in politics and the army. Money is good, but we must have the ability to maintain it. "

"I know our situation well, but what does this have to do with your unwillingness to reveal yourself? Didn't you previously say that this is only a matter of time? We can also keep money by ourselves Without the power of the league "

Alice was not convinced at all if he wanted, Shi Tu could easily stop anyone from thinking about his wealth.

"Well, it's very simple. We are currently maintaining neutrality and we are not threatening the interests of any of the powerful parties so they will not care about us very much. ''

'' This was in the beginning, but because our rate of growth, other powers will start to feel threatened, so if we are not on their side, they will try to get rid of us, which forces me to enter into an alliance with a some powerful side, and what is the best way to forge such an alliance? "

"Marriage!!" 

Alice replied unconsciously before she realized the problem.

" That's right! marriage, and this itself is a big problem because we will not be able to prevent the leakage of some secrets if we bring a strange woman. ''

'' I was thinking at the beginning of developing a family and made her bind to one of the three families before I associated with one of their daughters and thus we will not have to bring an unreliable woman as we will avoid direct contact with the three families."

Alice seemed to realize something and said, "So that's why you were supporting the Ning family? I was thinking why you spent a lot of resources on a family that didn't provide any service at all.''

Shi Tu sighed a little before he continued, "Actually, this is a secondary reason. It's possible to deal with the woman in several ways and it would be useful to have a direct link with one of the daughters of the three families, but I just don't like the idea of ​​letting other woman than you here. I am accustomed to your presence only, I cannot act on my nature if there is another woman and you will not be able to be here like before, or this will raise make doubts."

Shi Tu looked a little emotional in the last half of his words.

Alice turned a little shy and lowered her head because of Shi Tu's words.

Women have always been very emotional creatures so Alice was a little moved and she could only think that Shi Tu really cared about her and .....

But before Alice swam more in her imagination, she kept these ideas out of her mind because, during her time with Shi Tu, she knew very well that this man doesn't have any kind of emotions at all and everything he does is based on logical reasons and he is also very adept at manipulating people.

  So, it was more likely that he was just manipulating her, She had seen him do it previously with many women before getting rid of them and sending them to work to death for him.

She could only think that she was not different from these women and if her father wasn't here he would have already got rid of her.

These thoughts frustrated Alice a little but she could only hope a little that what he was saying was true, so she couldn't throw on him any further anger.

Alice quickly recovered and asked, "So what are you going to do now? The Ning family is not big enough to associate with the three families and we are not qualified to relate to the direct descendants of the three families. They will not even allow us to do so in order to not have more influence, they don't trust us."

A malicious smile appeared on Shi Tu's chilling face and said, "Contact the Lin's family for the sake of alliance."

Alice started pitying a little on Lin family because she is well aware of the meaning of this smile that Shi Tu showed, it means that this family will soon end.