A Call That Changed Her Entire Life

Chapter 120 You Country Bumpkin

"Help me, Mark. If anyone could find a way to make me an employee of the Gu Consortium, it would be you." Grabbing her elder brother's hand, Tina begged with the "puppy eyes" look and with no intention of giving up before Mark agreed.

And she saw her brother shake his head and heard him say plainly "no".

'Jacob never had any interest in Tina, ' Mark thought, 'and even my family is nothing compared to his. It is impossible for Tina to have any position in the Gu Consortium.'

"My dear brother," stamping her feet on the floor, Tina's face turned red with anger. But after thinking for a while, she wrapped her arms around Mark's neck and hanged on tightly. "You are the sweetest! And I'm sure you will help, I know! You are my best brother!".

Tina said, looking at Mark. With eyes sparkling with great expectation, she waited for his reply.

Stared by his sister in such a lovely manner, Mark finally gave up. After all, he had always indulged his little sister since childhood; even if Tina asked him for the stars, he would try his all and get them for her. And all in all, becoming an employee of the Gu Consortium was nothing compared to picking the stars. It will be much easier. So he promised her,"Okay, I will figure it out how to get you in."

"I knew it! I just can't wait to hear the good news!" with a good mood again, Tina detached herself smoothly from her brother's neck and walked off, while humming a tune

Staring at the place where she had been, Mark shook his head and sighed, covering again the strange affection in his eyes.

As a man of his word, Mark would, of course, keep his promise. So without any delay he paid a visit to the Gu's mansion. There, Mark tried hard to persuade old Mr. Gu and in the end softened his attitude

and let Tina had a chance to get a job in the Gu Consortium for the sake of "creating more opportunities for Jacob and Tina to develop a romantic relationship".

After all, it was also the anticipation of Mr. Gu to unite the two powerful families by marriage. Mark's proposal gave him a thinking that it was a great opportunity to start his agenda.

The next morning, Tina woke up early with so much energy and registered in the company as she was overjoyed that finally she got what she really wanted. Since she was arranged into the company by old Mr. Gu himself, no one dared to give her cold shoulder.

But as soon as she was finished with her registration, whispers were fast spread in the company.

"If I'm not mistaken, our new manager was the elder daughter of Tao family. What brings her here?"

"You bet! She must have come here for Mr. Jacob. Don't you know that sooner or later, she will marry him? By the way, I've heard that she was a bad-tempered girl. So we'd better watch out and be careful."

"But...What about Mr. Jacob's assistant Ms. Emily? She even shared an office with Mr. Jacob, right?."

"I bet she was just one of Mr. Jacob's lovers. All in all, no matter how much she was being spoiled by Mr. Jacob, she would definitely have no chance to marry him. To tell you the truth. I think Mr. Jacob and Ms. Tina looks like a perfect couple since their families are fairly well matched. Don't you think?."

The whispers suddenly stopped when Emily walked by; she saw the two girls standing there awkwardly, pretending like there was nothing wrong.

After Emily passed through them, pretending not to hear them, she heard the whispers once again, in a caustic tone.

"That's right! She was just an assistant. It won't take long before Mr. Jacob lose interest with her."

Emily bit her lip in hearing the whispers, and walked into the office. She didn't find Jacob there because he was out for business.

The whispers, which still echoed in her mind, made her wonder if what the girls said about Tina was true. 'Will Tina marry Jacob?'

then her thoughts were interrupted by a sudden knock on the door by someone.

Emily stood up from her seat and walked to the door. As soon as she opened it, she was stunned to find a girl, for the last person she ever wanted to see, stood before her.

And Tina, who also took Emily as the last person she wanted to meet, scowled at Emily when she opened the door, and asked sarcastically,"Why are you here?"

She had heard of the rumors that Jacob was sharing an office with Emily. But she never expected that it was true! 'How long had they been working together in such a private room that no one else could disturbing them?'

Just the thought of it made Tina extremely jealous of her. ConTEent bel0ngs to Nôv(e)lD/rama(.)Org .

Emily looked directly into Tina's eyes; with no emotion at all in her eyes she said,"Well. Because this is also my office."

"You are not a match for him! Aren't you ashamed of sharing his office? Where is Jacob?" Giving Emily a dirty look, Tina pushed her away, walked directly into the office and yelled,"Jacob, I..."

But there was no one in the office.

"Mr. Jacob is out doing some business. So you won't find him here," Emily said politely, following Tina into the office. After all, Tina was the elder daughter of Tao family, a regular employee of the company,

and more importantly, the future bride of Jacob—though it could be just a rumor and not yet confirmed. All in all, although Emily didn't like Tina at all, she had to pretend to be polite in dealing with her.

However, if Tina always found fault with her, she won't just sit around and let her bully her.

Disappointed and dejected, Tina threw herself into Jacob's seat leisurely and murmured,"How long do I have to wait before he comes back?".

Emily lowered her head, saying nothing at Tina's question.

Tina, however, never gave up a chance to taunt Emily. With eyes sparkling full of contempt, Tina asked,"You look stupid and numb you know?. What else can you do besides designing a jewelry? There is nothing you can do to help Jacob at all. And I guess you could only make everything worse."

Tina jeered at Emily, completely forgetting that she was the one who actually had nothing to do in this company, nor with Jacob at all; since she was designated to be here by old Mr. Gu, the only thing she had to do was to punch her time-card twice a day. And that's it. Nothing else.

To her surprise, Emily didn't contradict her and just listened to her tease, because Emily believed that she did make a lot of trouble for Jacob.

'Has the cat got her tongue?' Tina was annoyed by Emily's attitude and felt that she was offended by such gesture of not answering her, as silent protest.

"Go and get me a cup of coffee, now."

Before Emily could opened her mouth, Tina interrupted her all at once, as if she already knew what Emily would say. "As an assistant, you are very lucky and should feel honored to prepare me a cup of coffee!"

"But I am Mr. Jacob's assistant, not yours."

"Even so, since Mr. Jacob is not in his office, as his assistant, should you not receive his guests for him and serve them? Well, I guess you have an unclear idea of what to do as an assistant. You country bumpkin!" By saying so, Tina finally felt that she gained the upper hand.

Tina's words shortened Emily's patience to silence. She couldn't do anything but leave and prepare the coffee for Tina. As to what Tina said about her, she could also do nothing but just ignore it.

'Anyway, a pampered girl like Tina couldn't think of anything more terrible to curse me than "bitch","nothing","country bumpkin" or something alike. Compared to those days when I was hurled abuse by Rose, Tina's words were nothing at all, ' Emily consoled herself.

Pleased and satisfied, Tina watched Emily walking towards the coffee maker, followed her and was so fussy about the way Emily made coffee.

However, in the end, Tina was disappointed because Emily made the coffee with great patience and seemed that she was not distracted at all by Tina.

Tina rolled her eyes, and suddenly her face turned bright by a new idea.

"Emily, do you know that my family and the Gu family will unite in marriage one day? That is to say, my marriage with Jacob is by destiny, whether he likes it or not."

"Even if Jacob fancies you, you would never be married into his house in an open manner, let alone have any child with him. You are not a wife for him; as I say, he will only have one legal wife—me.

Plus, how long will his love for you endure?"

"Ms. Tina, your coffee is ready. What else can I do for you?" Emily suddenly raised her head and asked with chilly politeness, as if she didn't heard even a single word from Tina. However, deep in her heart,

with every word Tina said, thousands of thorns were piercing through her.

She was hurt, struck dumb and knocked over, because she knew that what Tina said was all true..