The next morning, Yan Xiaoran woke up from the loud buzz of her phone. Rubbing her eyes, she blindly reached for her phone and didn't even look at the caller ID when she answered it.

"Hello?" Yan Xiaoran climbed off her bed. Stretching and stifling her yawn since she was on the phone with someone and it would be rude for her to yawn loudly.

After three seconds of no one's voice was responding to her, Yan Xiaoran looked at the screen to check if the call ended, but the screen told her that she was still connected to the caller.

The silence was deafening and made her curious.

This time, she saw the caller ID and saw that it was unregistered.

"Sorry, but I think you called the wrong number." She said as she grabbed a towel.

Still, there was no response from the other side.

Frowning, Yan Xiaoran decided to end the call. She was annoyed that her sleep was interrupted by someone.

She walked to the bathroom and put the phone on the counter. She always put it there so she could keep track of the time and whenever someone from the company or her secretary called, she could answer it on time.

The last time she forgot to take her phone with her, she almost forgot the board meeting.

Just as she was about to step into the shower, the phone rang again.

The same caller ID was trying to reach her.

Yan Xiaoran chose to ignore it but after the twelfth ring, she decided to turn the silence on.

Satisfied with the silence, she went back to the shower and washed the sleep and laziness off her body.

…

After she sated her hunger with the breakfast she made earlier, she stepped out of her penthouse to ride the elevator when Xie Na sent her the documents that the directors who finally did their jobs right sent for her to review.

The next message from her was telling Yan Xiaoran that the special team that she hired to acquire the land in New Ecle still hasn't succeeded with their mission and now, 3 of her rival companies are trying to compete with her.

The land in New Ecle was one of the best locations to build your business. Aside from the airports, malls, and ports that surround that land, the hospital and police station was close too. When Yan Xiaoran heard of this, she immediately created a special team to acquire the land at a reasonable cost.

However, even after two months, there was still no news that they somehow got the upper hand nor did they get to meet the owner of the land.

It was not because the special team that she created wasn't good enough, on the contrary, the team was really amazing for sealing the deals and acquiring other lands. It's just that the land in New Ecle caught the eyes of others and the owner of the land also seemed to be taking his time to chose who among the four companies should get the land.

Yan Xiaoran decided to call her secretary rather than replying through a message.

"Tell those incompetent fools to get the land before this week ends or they will pack their baggage and never return!" She pressed the button to the parking level before hanging up.

She really needs to get the land in New Ecle. There was no way she would yield to her competitors who liked to butt-heads with her and give them a chance to have their companies booming their hotel chains.

Ever since she became the president to the hotel conglomerate that Alina left to her, Yan Xiaoran sensed a great responsibility to keep the Femperial at the top 3 hotels in the country and top 20 internationally.

Throwing her bag to the passenger seat, Yan Xiaoran was about to give Xie Na another call when before she could even press her secretary's number so she could call her, the phone began to buzz.

She stared down at it and saw that it was the same unregistered number.

Frowning, Yan Xiaoran didn't like that the person kept on calling her and when she picked it up, no one would answer, leaving her feeling bothered and uneasy.

This is not a damn horror movie, okay?! Thought Yan Xiaoran to herself.

Yan Xiaoran groaned, trying to use every part of her brain cells to make it stop ringing and cursing the person at the other end of the call to be banished to the seventh level of Hell.

Unfortunately, it didn't stop. On the contrary, it continued to ring and the missed calls from the number piled up.

And in the end, Yan Xiaoran had to answer. However, instead of saying a greeting to the person, she decided to keep quiet.

She wanted to use the same medicine to this person and see if this person will feel frustrated when she doesn't say anything.

Yan Xiaoran drove out of her condominium. Her fingers were silently drumming on the steering wheel as she waited for the other person to give up and hang up.

But who knew that the moment she thought that this was pointless and there was no need to entertain the person at the end of the call, she heard the person saying…

"Xiaoran."

Instantly, Yan Xiaoran hit the break and made her car stop abruptly. The sound of screeching could be heard from the frictions of her tires against the concrete road.

Because of her sudden actions, she accidentally hangs up on the call.

Confused and surprised, she stared at the contact and saw that it was still the same unregistered number. A feeling of anticipation and relief, as well as excitement, started to rise from within her.

Getting rid off of all her hesitations, Yan Xiaoran decided to check if what she heard was real. Her fingers were now shaking as she pressed the call button.

In not even two seconds passed, the phone connected as the person picked it up.

Not waiting for him to say something, Yan Xiaoran quickly said, "Alexander?"