She remembered feeling someone holding her hand when she was having a nightmare from what happened five years ago. That person held her hand tightly and kept saying, "Don"t be afraid, I would always be by your side, protecting you."
That voice calmed her down and her nightmare was gone very quickly.
That familiar voice and warmth often appeared when she was sick, but whenever she woke up, that person wouldn"t be around. It was like whatever she heard was just a dream.
If it wasn"t because of a sweet dream about the times that she had spent with Lu Jin Xiao coming right after the voice just now, she wouldn"t have realized that the voice was just like Lu Jin Xiao"s!
"Little Ling, are you alright?" Qiao Xin Yi asked worriedly.
"Ah… Ah?"
"You look a little sad. Is there anything bothering you?"
"Oh… No… I"m fine…"
"Alright, tell us if you need anything. Sleep some more."
"Mm… Ok… Thank you…"
Jing Mo Ling closed her eyes again and her friends tugged her in.
6 p.m. at the ballroom.
The large ballroom was filled with about four thousand people from different companies.
Mo Xi entered the ballroom first without the others as she didn"t want to draw their attention.
Mo Xi attended the anniversary events every year without her real ident.i.ty hence though everyone knew her, they didn"t know who she really was.
Mo Xi went to talk with a group of people that she was very familiar with.
"Hi! You are here this year as well?" A man spoke in Italian.
"I come here every year, don"t I?" Mo Xi replied in Italian fluently as well.
"I really wonder what your company does, why have you never told us about what you do?"
"It is a secret."
"Still as cold-hearted and mysterious as always."
"HAHAHAHA!" The others in the group laughed.
*Coughs*
Mo Xi saw the Italian man coughing and asked the waiter to get a warm gla.s.s of water for him.
"Not so cold-hearted afterall," The Italian man said after drinking the water.
Everyone in the group laughed.
"She just worked with me recently! She just opened an entertainment company," Another man said in German.
This group of people are fluent in many languages, hence though they spoke in different languages, they could understand and communicate with one another.
"That"s just part of what I do," Mo Xi answered in German.
"At least we get to know something that you do and not nothing," A woman said in Spanish while laughing.
"You will know later," Mo Xi replied with a smile.
"Are you finally going to tell us more about you?" Another woman chimed in Korean.
"Mm."
"Wait, aren"t you being a bit too unfriendly? We have known each other for so long and yet you only approached him to work with you and not us?"
"She approached me as well!" Another female answered in Russian.
"I can understand why you would work with him since he handles electronics, but her? She runs an alcohol company. Why would you need to collaborate with her for your entertainment company?"
"Her entertainment company is more like a palace than an entertainment company. The kind of benefits that her artists and workers get are like wow!" The female answered.
"I can"t wait to find out more!"
Mo Xi chuckled.
Another female then said, "I heard that the CEO would be coming today! I can"t wait to see who we have been working with all these years!"
"I heard that too! I really want to know who he or she is!"
Mo Xi then chatted with them for a while more before talking to the others.
The door to the ballroom opened at 7 p.m.
Alexander, Yan Chu and Jackson came into the ballroom first, followed by London and France. Then, Elaine and Max. Paris followed behind them and stepped to the side after she entered the ballroom.
Their entrance was very stunning as it left all the guests gaping though most of them should have been used to grand entrances since they were all bosses of huge companies.
Except for Mo Xi, the rest of them went to sit at the center, near the stage, to prepare for the opening speech.
Yan Chu, Jackson, Elaine, Max, France, and London each took a turn to speak before Alexander spoke.
"Thank you all for coming to E"s Corporation tenth anniversary," Alexander said with the microphone, "we are proud to say that our boss is here tonight."
The large ballroom went noisy immediately as people started to talk while they look around to see where the boss of E"s Corporation is.
Mo Xi wasn"t afraid that any of the companies here would betray her because E"s Corporation only works with kind-hearted people, and more importantly, their collaborations were built on trust.
"Please welcome our boss up on stage."
Mo Xi stood up and walked towards the stage while the others sucked in a deep breath. When Mo Xi was finally on stage, they held their breaths until Mo Xi spoke.
"Thank you all for coming here tonight, I know most of you are very shock to know who I really am, but I believe that through all these years of working together, you all would be able to trust me. I am sorry that I have never appeared in front of you all as the CEO of E"s Corporation before this. It isn"t that you are not worth it, it was that I would rather talk with you all casually than to have you all think of me as the boss. However, tonight is a special night because it is our tenth anniversary, that"s why I thought it would be very meaningful to share this moment here with you all. I must say this though, please continue to keep my ident.i.ty a secret within here and between us. Though it hasn"t been very long since the start of E"s Corporation, I would say that we have come a long way. We couldn"t have become the second most influential corporation in the world without all of you. Thank you!" Mo Xi bowed a little to show her gratefulness to them.