Chapter 102 - Clash of the titans (5)

Lina's eyes widened, as she softly tried to gesture to Shu to remain silent about her visit to the hospital. 

But her husband was looking at Shu, not her. 

"Shu, you're here too." he said, solemnly. 

The two had been friends for a long time, and had grown up as friends. 

"Shen! Yes, my mother wanted me to keep Sara out of trouble." he sighed as he said this. 

But he was constantly looking at Lina, as if asking Shen for an introduction. 

But Shen didn't have to say anything. Sara piped up before he could so much as open his mouth.

"You-You're...you're Brother Shen's wife...fro-from the ball?" 

She finally recognised the woman she had bullied in the bathroom at the masked ball. 

She had even tried getting her thrown out of the mall. 

Sara gulped. 

She was in big trouble now.

"This is your wife?!" Shu asked Shen, confusion in his eyes. 

Shen sighed. 

"Yes, let me introduce you to her. Shu, this is Lina, my lovely wife." He put his arm around her with pride. If the secret was out to a few people, it couldn't be helped. 

Shu bowed to her, acknowledging her. 

Then Shen turned to Lina. 

"Angel, this is Shu Yi, the heir to Yinan Industries." 

The heir to Yinan?! What was he doing, working as a lab technician at a small hospital?! 

But Lina covered up her shock and bowed back. 

"It's nice to meet you, Mr. Yi." 

"Shu, I'm revealing her identity to you in confidence. You know how it is...with us. She can't be known to the public." Shen said to Shu, quietly. 

He understood very well. 

If people knew the closest ones to them, there had been kidnappings and blackmail in the past. Shen was trying to keep her safe. 

"Of course, you can count on me. Sara...watch your tongue." Shu said, glaring at his sister. 

As much as Sara wished she could sabotage and hurt this woman, she knew she would never survive the aftermath and grudgingly nodded. 

Shen had realised that Lina was wet and someone had splashed a drink on her. His anger was making his blood boil now. 

It wasn't the first time Sara had hurt his angel. 

"Sara, have you still not learned how to treat other people?" Shen said with grit teeth. 

Shu immediately stepped in front of her. 

"Shen, I will apologise to you however I can, and to Madam Moshi. It's my fault for letting this troublemaker out of my sight. I was only here to keep any eye on her." 

He bowed deeply in apology to both Shen and Lina. 

Lina felt sorry for Shu. He seemed to be a good man, and had even treated Mei very well. It was a pity his sister acted like mongrel. 

But Shen's anger wasn't so easily appeased, even after seeing his childhood friend lowering himself in apology. 

"Haven't you and your mother realised to keep her locked up at home if she doesn't know how to behave?! Didn't the withdrawn deal and your business losses have any impact?!" Shen said tightly. 

"Shen...about the contract...I was hoping we can find a time to talk." Shu had yet to clear up that mess too. Yinan was facing major problems. 

Shen had pulled out of a major collaboration and their stock prices were falling. 

"There's nothing to talk about, regarding that." he said, quietly. 

Shen felt a small tug at his sleeve. 

"Hubby, it's not Mr. Yi's fault. Please don't punish him for his sister." Lina said quietly, her big eyes begging Shen to soften his heart. 

Shu smiled at her kindly. 

This woman really knew how to bribe people. 

But Shen wasn't as easily appeased this time. 

"No way. They need to know the consequences of messing with my wife." he said, resolutely. 

"But Mr. Yi had nothing to do with it, and yet he has to bear the consequences of your punishment since he is the one running Yinan, not Sara." 

Lina made a fair point. Sara still lived comfortably at home, while her brother had to deal with the fallout of the deal. 

Shen's resolve was weakening. 

Shu looked at Sara.

"Sara, go buy Madam Moshi a change of clothes from the most expensive shop around. She can't walk around like that." 

Before Sara could protest her brother's order, he glared at her viciously, indicating he would not give in to her tantrums this time. 

Sara stomped away in anger, unable to believe she was running errands for the horrible woman. 

Shu turned back to Shen. 

"It is our fault indeed for raising her badly and indulging her. Shen, please forgive me. I will punish her sufficiently, to whatever extent pleases you." 

Shu's genuine apology won Shen over. 

His friend had always been an honourable man. 

"Fine. I don't want her to be seen or heard for a year in Capital City." Shen said resolutely. 

Lina looked at him in shock. 

He was asking a brother to exile his own sister! Her husband really could be a demon. 

But Shu nodded without any hesitation. 

He had repeatedly told his mother, she needed to be sent away to live in the real world. She needed to be disciplined. 

"I agree. We will send her away to a boarding school for young ladies to be disciplined in the countryside." Shu said, with finality. 

"Then, we will talk about the contract in the next few days, Shu." Shen said, graciously. 

Soon Sara returned with all the clothes she could find from the stores nearby. She thrust them at Lina with disdain and walked away in chains with her brother, who had decided to shackle her far away from here. 

"Come, angel, I'll wait outside the ladies room where you can get changed." Shen decided to wait on his wife, and escort her personally. 

He wouldn't leave anyone a chance to hurt his precious woman. 

Lina nodded happily and went inside. 

As Shen stood by, waiting, an elegant goddess-like woman walked towards the ladies room. She stopped in her tracks, when she saw Shen. 

The man she was waiting to marry for years since she saw him, just once. 

Lila Lim always got what she wanted. 

She would get Shen too. The only man she had eyes for.