Transmigrated: Stealing the CEO husband-Chapter 47: You represent the face of company

’Ting’

[New main task. Make Lucia and Luiss fateful meeting unsuccessful.

Time Limit 3 days

Penalty: Elimination]

Ariana had just known the comfort of her bed when the bloody system tore through her peace. She had her doubts in the beginning. Now she was certain, the stupid system found it joyous to ruin her leisure moments.

"Of course, how can I forget? The fateful meeting of the male lead and the female lead at the at Todoroki valley. The opening scene. The start of fire."

And she was supposed to ruin it.

"Long time not see." Gerald approached Ariana with a casual stance. His eyes narrowed at her as he approached. "I see walking out of Luiss private jet. Someone seems to have risen in status. Did my girl Rosaline teach you stuff?"

Ariana stepped back and bowed to Gerald, bringing back the formality.

"I can’t dare to copy President Gerald’s staff methods." She got up. "Speaking of which, I don’t see Ms. Rosaline with you."

"Let’s just say that your way of planting doubt of seed made me go hard on my girl. In the end, she wasn’t resilient enough, and now she is no longer adequate for the job of my secretary. In her place. I got a new girl. Hey Violet, come here."

A blonde girl excused herself and walked past the guests to arrive. "Give your introduction to Ms. Grey. After all, we got an..." His sleazy gaze licked Ariana. She felt goosebumps "...an old acquaintance here."

Violet, a fresh young girl, gave her a deep bow. "I’m Violet James. We would be working together for this project as previously decided. Pleased to make your acquaintance"

Ariana could have only guessed what happened to Rosaline. According to the story, when she tried going against the female lead, Gerald lost his mind and tortured her brutally. To the point of insanity and disability. She was discarded as such.

Gerald wasn’t someone right in the head.

She shivered as she answered. "The pleasure is all mine."

As they conversed, Gerald seemed interested in her personal life.

"I have a little brother, Elias, who is studying medicine; that’s all. We are a little family."

"No boyfriend or fiancé?"

Ariana didn’t know what to say to that. But since the other party was a tycoon she couldn’t just ignore him. "None as of yet."

With each question, he cornered her. His overbearing presence was too much for her. Coupled with what she had known about him by reading the novel. She was terrified.

"Secretary Grey!" Luiss called from a distance. Walking past the guests, he came to her side. "Where did you disappear to?"

Ariana felt a sense of relief wash over her. "I was just catching up with President Gerald."

"Oh, really?" Luiss gave Gerald a non chalant look. "Since when have you made acquaintance with President Gerald? Come on, I need to introduce you to some important people." He dragged her away.

Never had Ariana been so grateful to President Luiss than now for saving her from the awkward conversation with. Once they were at a distance, Luiss stopped her.

"I need to ask you something." His intense eyes bore into hers.

"What is it, President Luiss?"

"David told me when you had gone back to retrieve your key, you had very likely stumbled into Gerald." He spoke each word, distanced carefully keeping an eye out for her expression.

"What about it?"

"Did he hurt you in any way?"

"Am I not fine and healthy in front of you?"

"So you did stumble into him." Luiss narrowed his eyes. "I want to know what happened from A to Z, everything. If he hurt you or threatened you even a little bit..."

"President Luiss, nothing like this happened. President Gerald had the same questions you had. And he wanted an answer"

"And did you answer him?"

"The same answer I had for you."

"You are a cunning one."

"Aren’t you happy to have a smart secretary?" Ariana beamed.

...

When she was grabbing herself some lunch, Ariana accidentally stumbled into someone, spilling the drinks over her dress. "I’m so sorry." She apologized.

"You!" The woman was enraged. "Whose company do you belong to? Do you know I was wearing a premium brand dress?"

"I’ll pay for it." She offered.

"You can’t pay for it, it’s one of its kind. It’s replaceable." The woman was particularly ill-tempered.

"What happened, Ms. Voss?" A man with blond hair asked her. She recognized the man as the organizer of the event. If he was being so reverent to the lady with a ruined dress then she must be someone important.

Ariana’s ears perked up at the word Voss.

"This woman here stumbled into me, ruining my dress." The woman complained. 𝙧𝙚𝙚𝔀𝒆𝓫𝓷𝙤𝓿𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝙤𝓶

"Which company do you belong to?" Roiling in anger, she asked. "I’ll have you fired before the sun sets."

"I’m really sorry, Ms. Voss." Ariana understood the difference between the heirs and heiress and herself. She was a commoner.

Although the staff and the heirs mingled in the event, the commoners could not hope to compare themselves with the top elites. There was a stark difference between people of power and those who worked under them to serve them.

"You did that on purpose!" Katherine Voss spat out.

"No, it was not out of purpose. I just didn’t expect you to be behind me all of a sudden."

"So now you are blaming me?" With each sentence, her voice grew more irritated.

Ariana kept her cool. "What can I do to make you ease up your anger?"

"I’m going to change. You must wash it clean and make it look like how it originally was."

"Fine."

Ariana agreed, not wanting Luiss to be involved and ruining her relationship stats with him. She followed Katherine to her residence suite. She was handed over a crumpled article of clothing. She went back to her lodging and placed it carefully at the table.

When she went outside, the door opened and Violet slipped through the cracks. She took an iron, put it on full and placed it over the dress, effectively burning it to deep black.

"Let’s see how you get out of this, Ariana." Margarete’s eyes glinted with maliciousness.

When Ariana came back, bringing the washing items, she stumbled into Margarate, who was walking past her. She made eye contact with her, passing a meaningful smirk. Ariana didn’t think much of it.

However, when she stepped inside her apartment, a disaster. awaited her.

"Fuck!" She could easily wash away the stains. But she could do nothing once the article of clothing had burnt to such a miserable state.

She picked up the expensive dress, finding an iron shaped blackened area over it.

"Who the fuck did this!. I’m not going to let you off," Ariana cursed in frustration, walked up and down, checking the system inventory for a remedy.

There was none.

"What am I gonna do now?"

To her frustration, a light knock came from the outside.

"Ms. Ariana, I’m the assistant of Ms. Voss." The voice said. "I’m here to retrieve the dress."

Ariana went outside and opened the door. The assistant walked inside. Looking at the burnt piece of cloth, she was aghast. "Ms. Voss is not going to let you off."

"Leave it here. I’ll think of something."

"You have run out of time." The woman smirked, picked up the cloth and quickly took it away from her. Not soon after, Ariana was called. She didn’t want to offend the other party. So she obliged.

When Kathrine Voss found out the state of her premium irreplaceable dress, she lost her mind. Smashing stuff here and there. "That bitch! I’m not going to let her off! She did it on purpose!" When Ariana arrived, her first reaction was to move forward and slap Ariana. However, Ariana, having learnt martial arts, ducked and avoided her slap.

"You...!" She grew even angrier and slapped Ariana again. Only this time the hand was blocked by President Luiss.

"That’s enough"

"President Luiss." Katherine Voss recognized him and greeted him with reverence.

With a smirk, he let go of her, jolting her backwards. "I don’t like it if someone touches my people." She put his arm around Ariana.

"President Luiss, your secretary here bumped into me, ruining my premium-branded dress. Then she burned it on purpose to such a miserable state"

Luiss put his hand out. Liam handed him his chequebook. He cut out a blank check and handed it to Katherine. "I think that should cover your losses."

"It’s not about money. You...!" Katherine was still angry. The only way to relieve her anger was to slap that vixen. No amount of money could replace her dear dress.

"Ms Voss, we are here on a diplomatic mission to strengthen the bonds of all the groups involved in the Skyline Project. As such, you wouldn’t want to make an enemy out of me over trifling personal affairs, would you?"

With this Luiss made it certain to give Ariana full backing of the company. Her value was more than just a staff, a pawn to be sacrificed unlike other companies. She represented the face of the company.

Katherine Voss wanted to drag the issue, but she was afraid of her father, President Voss, so she backed off. "Alright, I’ll accept President Luiss’s offer." She accepted the cheque, her haughtiness crumbling. "I hope President Luiss won’t mind the little squabble. It was a little misunderstanding."

Katherine backed off.

"However, Ms. Katherine, I’m not the one who burnt the dress?"

"What do you mean?"

"Someone wanted to sabotage me."

"Shifting blame on others..."

"You can check the CCTV. I went to the shop downstairs to buy washing items. When I came back, the dress was already burnt."

Katherine still didn’t believe her. So to prove her wrong, she agreed to call for the CCTV footage.

During the CCTV footage, after Ariana went out to get washing items, a woman was clearly seen entering and then exiting the room. Unfortunately, her face was covered.

"I have seen this dress before", Ariana remarked."Can I get the inauguration party video?"

Sifting through the inauguration party video, Ariana picked up the dress.

"Here’s your person."

"Margarete"

"Isn’t she also from the same company as you?"

"Just an assistant to Steven, a member of the executive staff"

"Now that Ms Grey’s name has been cleared, you can do whatever you want to her."

Luiss took Ariana with him. "What were you doing? Accepting abuse from others?"

"I didn’t want to involve President Luiss."

"Whether you wanted it or not, I was involved. You are the personal secretary of mine. You represent our company’s face. If you let yourself be bullied like this, then tell me what message it gives to others?"

Ariana seemed to have understood. "Yes, President Luiss."

"Good. Now I hope such an incident doesn’t occur again. You have Luiss Group’s entire power behind you. Keep that in mind."

"I will."

Back at Katherine’s side, both Steven and his secretary were called. Katherine went ahead and slapped Margaret. "Do you think you are too smart. How dare you touch my dress? Do you even know who I am?" She seethed.

"Mr. Steven..." Margaret called out for help. Her blood had run cold when Katherine’s assistant came to call for her and Steven. She had covered her face, so how had they discovered her?

She only got a cold shoulder from the man.

Looking at the enraged face of Katherine, Margerte was terrified. If there was someone who could boss around after President Luiss, then it was Katherine. The only heir to the prestigious Voss family.

As if not satisfied with one slap, Margaratereceived another slap. "I hate people like you who believe that just because they got to enjoy the privilege of the elites, they are elites. Let me tell you one thing, you are a commoner and I’m the heiress. How did you even get enough courage to go against me? It seems your employer has not been disciplining you adequately."

When the burden fell upon Steven’s shoulders, he immediately took a backfoot. He was wise enough not to make an enemy out of the heiress of the Voss family.

He bowed. "Yes, Ms. Voss, I have failed to educate my employee. For that I’m eternally sorry." Getting up, he glared at Margerete and right there and then, he barked out.

"Assistant Margraet, you are fired."