Chapter 229: I want you.

The manager looked at Haru with distrust. She had never seen him before since Suyin had been transferred to her care by her previous manager back in Shenzhen. She looked at him for a few moments and saw how Suyin leaned her head back into his shoulder and looked up at him before holding his hands that were resting against her stomach.

"I missed you so much." Suyin exhaled a sigh of relief.

"I know. I missed you too. I thought that I would come and say hi. I was about to leave, the party got a little bit boring but then I saw you up there looking as beautiful as always and I just had to stick around to watch. I'm not intruding am I?" Haru asked to make sure that it was okay with Suyin that he was here but before she could answer, her manager spoke up.

"Yes. Yes, you are intruding. Listen I don't care what type of relationship you two have and I don't care. The last thing I want for my client is to be caught up in some tabloid scandal about her having a secret lover with some no-name guy." The manager spoke with harshness as she looked at Haru.

She for one didn't seem to be swayed by Haru's looks. She was the type of woman who was focused on influence and power over how people looked and Haru instantly got a bad feeling from her.

"Who's this bitch? What happened to the manager you had back in Shenzhen? He was a nice guy." Haru whispered to Suyin. Suyin couldn't help but laugh at the fact that Haru called her a bitch right in front of her face.

"The company transferred me under Miss Kang's care. She has been my manager for the past couple of weeks. Well, it's more like I have two managers but Mr Ling is currently talking with his family members in the Hong family." Suyin responded with a look of guilt on her face. She had found the way that Miss Kang would act when they were alone together was a bit threatening and controlling.

One time she had even invited Suyin to go out for drinks with a known celebrity playboy. Luckily for her, Mr Ling had intervened and put his foot down against Miss Kang's plans to get Suyin wrapped up in the wrong crowd. She decided to keep it a secret form Haru though because she knew that if he ever found out he would probably get rid of her permanently.

And Suyin felt guilty about the fact that both of her managers had to work hard on her behalf. But the way Miss Kang had been acting recently was getting out of hand. She would insult Suyin nearly every day and try to get her to hook up with rich and powerful people. She was even thinking about telling the head of the company about what was happening but she was willing to give her one more chance.

"Bitch? Who is a bitch? Do you know how much effort I put into making sure that Suyin's career is successful? I constantly have to put up with crazy fans calling the office and reading out their sexual fantasies to me. And that isn't even the worst of it. I have to make sure that the people who invite Suyin out for drinks don't get insulted each time she refuses them.

The young master of the Cheng imperial family even invited her out after today's party. But she refused. And who even are you? I haven't even seen your face before! Don't tell me that you two are secretly dating? Suyin, you are better than this. If you stay with him you will never get anywhere in life. How about you go out with Mr Cheng tonight?

With any luck, he might decide to make you his girlfriend and help to fund our company." Miss Kang began to criticize Haru. But that was Suyin's breaking point. She could deal with being insulted or judged but now she decided to insult Haru in front of her.

"How dare you!" Suyin shouted and then stomped over to where Miss Kang was standing.

"SLAP"

The sound rung out as Suyin's palm struck her cheek with so much force that it shook Miss Kang's head to the side slightly.

"That's it. I'm not only reporting you for all of the misconduct that you have inflicted on me. You're also now fired. Don't let me see you again. I will explain it to Mr Ling myself." Suyin said before taking her hand away from her face and then falling back to Haru's side again.

"Did you just slap her?" Haru was at a loss for words. Since he had first met Suyin when they were both younger she was never the type of person to jump to violence. That would be left for Haru to take care of. This was something he had never seen before but as he looked at her he could understand how she was feeling. Her whole body was shaking with anger and she seemed surprised at herself too.

"I did. I will slap anybody that dares to insult you." Suyin forced a smile but Haru could see that it was bothering her.

"Just wait until the owner finds out about this!" Miss Kang shouted trying to threaten Suyin with her job but Haru jumped into the conversation instead.

"Think about how many other recording companies there are in china right now. Suyin is pretty popular too and her fans actually buy her music. And then think about you yourself. You are just a manager that has caused the company trouble by trying to sell their employees to rich people for who knows what kind of benefits?

Even if they did fire Suyin for this, how long do you think it would be before a bigger company decided to hire her instead? Plus a contract has already been signed with your company. I happened to read through it when she had first signed it and nowhere in the contract did it say she was eligible to be fired if she assaulted anybody. The company would have to pay reparations if they break the contract and fire her.

The truth is. That you are the disposable one. Your job doesn't amount to anything at all and if it gets out that you tried to sell one of the company's talents to rich people then you are likely to be banned from ever working as a manager in the music industry. Don't overstate your power. Because you are truly worthless." Haru began to tear into Miss Kang's life choices as he was now infuriated by the fact that this woman had tried to make his girlfriend sleep around with rich men.

"You-you…" Miss Kang struggled to come up with anything to say about what Haru had just said. He was one hundred percent correct and even she knew it after it had been broken down to make it easier for her to understand her value. She had let the power of being someone's manager get to her head and thought that she was the one who was responsible for Suyin's success even though she had her debut long before she was assigned to be her manager.

"Me?" Haru asked, confused. He didn't know what else she had to say and was kind of hoping that she would admit her defeat and just leave them alone but that didn't seem to be the case.

"Just wait until Mr Cheng finds out about this! He is actually quite interested in Suyin and was even going to announce that she was his woman later on at this party! You are finished!" Miss Kang shouted out in outrage before pushing her way past Suyin and walking down into the crowd.

"Haru… I swear I didn't know anything about this. I have never even met Mr Cheng before. I don't want you to think that I'm a-" Suyin began to panic. She didn't know how Haru would react. She thought he might get the wrong idea and think she was cheating on him and then break up with her.

But Haru had changed. The fact that he knew that his life could end in just a couple of weeks had changed his mindset completely. He no longer cared about the consequences of the government or anyone for that matter. He had Lao and the black star sect protecting him and knew that there wasn't a single person on earth who would be able to compete against them.

"I know… But let me make this clear to you." Haru pushed her back against the wall with his hand on her waist and then leaned in to whisper in her ear.

"If anyone even thinks about making a move on you I will kill them without mercy. Be that a homeless man on the street or the queen of England. Whoever tries to take you from me will die." He whispered and then pulled back slightly as he realised how bad that it sounded.

He wanted her to know that anyone who had ideas about her would have to get through him first but the way he phrased it made him sound like an obsessive stalker. But as he looked at her he noticed that her cheeks were now glowing red.

'He's being so aggressive today… All this time we have been apart has made me feel like he might not want me anymore but this… I will lose my mind if he stays this close to me...' Suyin thought to herself but as she saw Haru pull back slightly she looked at his lips and couldn't stop herself from kissing him right there and then.

"I want you," Suyin whispered with a look that Haru had never seen in her eyes.

"You want what exactly?" Haru asked to make sure that they were on the same page but Suyin had other plans. She grabbed him by the hand and led him outside before pulling him into the car and demanding that the driver take them back to her hotel.

Haru tried to ask her again to make sure but all throughout the car ride back to the hotel she had kept kissing him and had ended up leading him into her room without him even realising.

"Don't be such an idiot I'm saying that I'm ready for "that" now…" Suyin whispered to him, slightly embarrassed by what she was asking. But Haru had the feeling that was what she meant since he felt the same. So he took the lead once again and pushed her down onto the bed.

"And so am I." He smiled mischievously before kissing her once again as they lay on the bed together for the first time in months. Although this time was a much different circumstance than before.