(Warning: This is a repeat of the previous chapter!!!!)
Everyone decided to have their dinner first before they gathered around the conference room and talk their business.
"Nathan, Eunji, what is it that you wanted to talk about? We're really dying of curiosity here." Mada Mo asked the couple as they were now settled in the mini conference room.
Nathan decided to turn this room into a conference room that could house 12 to 16 people.
He had planned this long ago as he wanted to stay at ho most of the ti during the entire pregnancy just to make sure that his wife would be comfortable in every step of the way. It would be convenient to be around her all the ti whenever she would ask for sudden food cravings spell.
It would be very troubleso if he was still in a very important eting or conference with a big client and he would then receive her call and would demand him to buy her ice cream as soon as possible or so chilled fruits even when it's already called. Winter was just around the corner.
'Gosh! Did she not feel cold at all?'
Of course there's no way she would take no for an answer or else she would throw tantrums and shut him out of their rooms at night.
Good thing she would be back to being clingy the following morning or else he would die if she would be being cold to him all day. What more a week?
Going back, Nathan looked at everyone and then he looked at his wife.
He could see her biting her inner lip, an indication that she was nervous. However her gesture had a tempting effect on him.
He reached out to hold her hand to let her know that everything will be okay.
That no matter what, he'll be always by her side even of the world would turn their backs against her.
Eunji looked at him and she smiled when she saw and feel her gentleness and warmth around her.
"Mom. Grandma. Uncles. Aunt. Everyone, we're gathered here today as my wife wanted to tell an important announcent." Nathan started as he looked at Eunji who was now looking at everyone with no trace of nervousness earlier.
"That's my girl!" Nathan whispered with enough volu which was enough for the both of them to hear.
Nathan smiled when he saw her blushed.
"Eunji, darling, you sothing important to tell us?" i asked her.
"Ahm." Eunji paused when she saw the door opened and Michael Rolland together with Master Liu entered the conference room.
She waited until the two occupied the last two vacant seats around the room.
"Ahm...first of all. I'm sorry for the short notice." Eunji apologized as she knew all of these people had a very busy lifestyle.
"Silly girl, we're a family here. We won't hesitate to drop everything and co here whenever you needed us." Mada Hua said.
Eunji smiled when she heard her. She t her during their wedding and she got the chance to get acquainted with her as Mada Mo would often co and visit her with Kelly and Mada Hua in the mansion.
Mada Hua had this bubbly personality and she's quite talkative and had a lot of topics to talk about. No wonder where Young Master Hua got his attitude.
Because of this, she had grown to like her as she had a light mood around her.
Eunji smiled at her and said, "Thank you Aunty."
Then she turned her attention to the rest.
"Actually, I need all of your help." Eunji didn't beat around the bush.
She sighed as she looked at their confused faces.
"Sure dear. Whatever it is, I'll give you my support." Grandma Sana voiced out breaking the silence in the room.
"Well, Grandma, I want to ask a favor from everyone. It's about the foundations I had established almost five years ago."
"Eh? I didn't know you are involved in these kinds of activities. I thought it was only Kelly who was working on causes like this."
"Well actually, I work for her." Kelly chid in the conversation.
"Eh?!"
Everyone except for a few people exclaid in disbelief.
Of course, they were Nathan, Kelly, Mike, Master Liu and Mo Jing-sheng.
"You are the mysterious founder of Paradise Foundation International and ******* ?!" They asked her unanimously.
Of course, after Kelly and Mo Jing-sheng got married, Kelly opened up about her background to them though she knew they had arranged for soone to do a background check on her and Eunji.
She didn't intend to hide anything from them.
They were a group of extraordinary people who valued family and friendship, loyalty and trust. In short, they were good people who never judged her about her past or other people's status in life.
Of course they didn't force her to do so. But she felt so right by telling them her background.
And Eunji felt of doing the sa thing too.
Nathan and her had talked about it.
He said that it would be a big step for her. And he'd be proud of her no matter what the outco of this conversation would be.
"Yes." She answered timidly. As if she was not proud of what her foundations had accomplished so far in just a short amount of ti.
"But-"
"I know it sounded impossible but it is the truth. I established them years after I woke up from being dead. The money I used was from the dividends I earned monthly from those big corporations and conglorates in the business world."
Everyone was rendered speechless. Of course they had done background checking about her. It's not because they didn't trust her but it's better to be cautious than say sorry in the end.
And their findings said that she was a freelance photographer and had been travelling overseas because of her job for the past four years.
"Wow! So you're straightly telling us that you're this super rich and wanting to live a low-key life? Sister-in-law you're hurting !" Hua Zhang Wei decided to break the ice.
"I'm sorry Young Master Hua, but I have my reasons. I hope you understand." Eunji sincerely said not minding that he was just ssing with her.
"I grew up in a world where I could only trust my parents and a few people they trusted, too."
Eunji heaved a sigh as she got ready to tell her story.
"I know you might be having many questions running in your head at the mont. Things like who the hell am I? Like why did the background check report didn't say anything about sothing like this."
Master Mo and Master Hua looked down as they felt guilty all of a sudden.
As ntioned, they were only cautious. After all, they had fair share of enemies coming after them and their families.
"It's okay. I am not mad about it. I understand your reasons for doing such. I think, if I reveal who I am to everyone tonight, you might want to ban out of your lives."
"Silly, why would we do that?" i asked Eunji with a motherly affection.
"Mom, because, I built them to make myself feel better. The money I used was in establishing them ca from sothing I am not proud of."
"What do you an?" Mada Mo's brows furrowed as she asked her.
"Eunji, you don't have to do this if you are not ready." Kelly interrupted.
"It's okay Kel, I have to do this. All they did was welco warmly in their lives and hos without asking anything from . And it would be rude if I'll keep hiding my true self from them. Now, it's up to them if they'd accept or let stay in their circle." She told her making Kelly to be quiet.
She heaved a sigh as she looked at the rest. She could feel a gentle squeeze on her hand under the table.
"Those money...I earned them at the expense of soone else's blood."
"I was once a wanted criminal but I died so the authorities were no longed after ."
She said making everyone to be more confused.
Killer?
Criminal?
How could a deity looking beauty beca a criminal?
"I not only killed once but countless of tis."
They wanted to ask if she was trying to ss with them. However, hearing her serious voice they knew she was serious.
"I am a mber of that world. I had no choice but to follow their rules and principles because I once belonged there. No, the old was destined to be there."
"I think so of you had an idea that a person of the underworld could not leave their factions even if they wanted to unless they were thrown out by their leaders or by ans of death."
"It's not my intention to be one of them but I said, I had no choice but to obey because my parents were having a hard ti."
"Children at my age back then were going to school and have friends. Unlike . I was struck in my daily routines of studying in the academy either by myself or with a professor, or doing battles and harsh physical trainings. Master Liu was my instructor in kung-fu and other combat sports."
"To cut the story short, I am a killer. Soone with a lot of bloodstains in my hands."
"Wifey." Nathan called her out softly.
"I was destined to inherit the organization my father had been managing for years. But I have enough of that lifestyle. So I drink poison thay would end my life in an instant.." She honestly confessed.
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