Day 1

Mark woke up to the sound of his alarm. He got up and stretched his body. He scratched the back of his butt and walked towards the bathroom in his room. He took a hot shower and brushed his teeth. He quickly dried himself and walked towards his suitcase and pulled out a tuxedo to wear for work that day. He changed into his clothes and walked back to the bathroom and did his make up and fixed his hair. He gave himself one last check in the mirror and grabbed his bag and coat and walked towards the entrance of the building where a car was waiting to take him to work.

"Good morning sir."

"Good morning Miguel. Can you please take me to a coffee shop? I haven't eaten breakfast yet."

"Of course do you have one you would like to go to in particular?"

"No anything is fine."

"Of course sir."

"Don't call me sir we're the same age. Just call me Mark."

"Ok Mark."

Miguel drove Mark to near buy coffee shop and Mark got off and went inside and ordered a small coffee along with a French toast breakfast. He sat down and ate his food and once done he paid for the food and walked back to the car. Miguel drove Mark to work. Which was Tuan incorporation. They arrived at the building and Mark got out of the car. He walked towards the entrance and when he entered he saw the employees standing in a line on both sides. They all welcomed him and bowed. He bowed as well and said his thanks. His secretary came up to him and started telling him his schedule for the day.

Mark and his secretary both made it to his office and he dismissed him to his office. He immediately started working. He read over the contracts being proposed to the company. He signed the ones he liked and turned down the ones that didn't benefit the company. His secretary came in and informed him it was time for his first meeting. Mark walked to the room where the meeting was being held and as soon as he entered the place everyone stood and waited for him to sit down. Once Mark sat down they all sat down. He scanned the file describing what the meeting would be about once he was done he looked up and the meeting began.

"Good morning everyone."

"Good morning Mr.Tuan."

"Today's meeting is to discuss the new entertainment companies that want to have business with our company. We've gathered the managers from the departments needed. Firstly we will start with the HR department. When your department is called please speak up and give us your report on what is needed for this new project by your department."

The meeting took about 45 minutes and Mark was dreading for it to end, but he knew he had more meetings after this one. After his first meeting was done, Mark was told by his secretary he had to check on the employees. Mark walked towards the elevator and he walked towards the different levels in which the departments were in. After walking around and checking on his employees and after two more meetings. It was time for Mark's lunch, but it wasn't a casual lunch it was a Business lunch.

Mark grabbed his coat from his office and headed towards the limousine which Miguel was driving. Mark got in and Miguel started driving. Mark rolled his eyes once he saw the place where he was eating ate. The place was empty. Mark walked inside the restaurant and the waiter walked him towards the table where he was supposed to meet for his business lunch. After 5 minutes a guy stood in front of Mark he stood up and shook hands with the guy.

"Mr.Tuan it's a pleasure meeting. I'm Hua Wuque."

"Good afternoon Mr.Hua. The pleasure is mine."

They both sat down and looked through the menu. Moments later a waiter came and took their orders. Mark settles for Caviar in ice along with some wine. Mr.Hua had ordered a medium-rare steak with asparagus with wine as well. The waiter left and the two males were left to discuss their business.

"Mr.Tuan as you might know, your father and I have been friends for a long time. I have a new movie I want to make and I wanted to see if you guys could fund the project?"

"I'm glad you have trust in our company to make this request Mr.Hua. We are very honored that you chose us, but what do we have that protects us in case your movie doesn't make it? You know that my father wouldn't allow for funding of something if we don't get anything in return."

"I understand Mr.Tuan and I was hoping you would ask this. I have given it much thought and what I came up with was that for every stream of the movie there would be a royalty price we would pay for you. Also in my movie, I would like to advertise your hotels and resorts. We have some films that allow us to do so."

"Alright that seems good enough. You can just send me a copy of the contract and I'll go over it."

"Thank you very much Mr.Tuan."

"No thank you Mr.Hua."

They both shook hands and their food arrived they ate and both parted their own ways. Mark got inside the limousine and Miguel drove him back to the company building. Mark headed in his office and was surprised to see someone waiting for him there. He walked towards his desk and sat down on his chair. The other person before him had stood up and bowed to him.

"You Can sit down. Tell me why are you here."

"I umm-."

Before she could answer his secretary walked in.

"Good afternoon Mr.Tuan."

"Good afternoon."

"Mrs.Zhang is in your office because she was caught stealing from the company."

Mark looked at the woman in front of him who had her head down.

"What was she caught stealing?"

"Money from the company sir. She was given the company's business card and she used it to make transactions. She had reported they were being used to buy presents for certain clients you had asked for. I looked into it with the finance manager the clients you had asked to receive presents never got them."

"I see call the finance manager please."

"Yes sir."

After a few minutes the finance manager walked into Mark's office and he bowed and stood until Mark told him to have a seat.

"It has been brought to my attention that this lady right here is from your department and that she has been stealing money from the company."

"Yes sir. That's correct."

"Now how come you didn't know about this? You're the manager you should go over the transactions done for the business. She's been stealing money for the past 6 months that's ridiculous!"

"I'm sorry for my negligence sir. It won't happen again."

"It better not happen again. If it does next time you'll be fired."

"Yes sir. Again I'm sorry."

"Get out."

The finance manager hurriedly walked out of the office and mark told his secretary to leave. Only Mark was left with Mrs.Zhang.

"Mrs.Zhang, please look at me."

The woman looked up at Mark and he saw the tears that had accumulated in her eyes.

"Mrs.Zhang, why have you been stealing money from the company?"

"I'm sorry Mr.Tuan please forgive me."

"I can't forgive you if you don't give me a reason for your actions."

"I'm sorry sir. It's just that my husband and I got divorced about a year ago. My salary wasn't enough to cover my children's school. I couldn't make ends meet with the amount of money I got paid, so one day I was told to go buy a present for one of your clients. I did buy them a present, but just not the one that you had asked for. I bought them a cheaper present and used the rest of the money left to cover the expenses for my children. I kept one doing it because I didn't get caught, but now that I did it's going to be even worse because I'm going to get fired."

Mrs.Zhang was crying, so Mark handed her a packet of tissues he had in his desk. She took them and cleaned her face with it.

"I'm sorry to hear what has happened to you Mrs.Zhang, but what you did was still wrong. Why didn't you just ask your manager for a raise?"

"I-I did, but he said he wouldn't file the raise request unless I slept with him. I rejected his advances and threatened to report him, but he said he would fire me."

Mark felt his blood boil. He took in and deep breath and let it out.

"I understand Mrs.Zhang, I'm sorry to hear all of this has happened to you. How about this; I'll give you a raise, no I'll give you a promotion, you'll be the new finance manager-."

"Really?"

"Yes."

"Thank you so much Mr.Tuan. Thank you, thank you, thank you. I promise to pay back in full the amount that I took from the company."

"Don't worry about that. The amount of money you took from the company is not big, it won't make much of a difference. Just promise me you'll take good care of your children and you'll be a hardworking employee."

"Yes Mr.Tuan, I promise."

"Good you can have the rest of the day off today. Tomorrow I'll have my secretary show you to your new office."

"Yes. Thank you so much for your kindness sir."

"Your welcome."

The woman stood up and bowed her head about three times and walked out of the office. Mark pressed a button on his work phone and called his secretary telling him to call the finance manager and to come in. A few minutes later all three males were inside the office.

"Mr.Park, I thought of you to be a good man with morals. I've also known you to be very religious as well. Am I correct?"

"I-um yes sir."

"Very well. Well let me ask you something Mr.Park, how would you feel if someone made sexual advances to your wife at work and then threatened her to fire her if she reported anything about it."

Mark saw the color leave the skin of Mr.Park and he smirked.

"I see. Mr.Park, this is Tuan incorporation. It's one of the biggest businesses in the world. You should be glad you work here, but instead you manipulated your power and used it to abuse those weaker than you. I'm very shocked you would do that. I'm sure you have many reasons and excuses for your behavior, but you can tell them to the police."

As soon as Mark said that two officers walked in and handcuffed Mr.Park. The man struggled and started yelling profanities. Mark rolled his eyes and walked towards his wine table and served himself a cup of wine.

"Lion."

"Yes sir?"

"Make a report about this and turn it into the company files. I'm going to have to make a statement when this gets out. Don't include the part of Mrs.Zhang stealing money from the company. Only include the part about the sexual advances Mr.Park had made towards her."

"Yes sir."

Lion bowed and walked out of Mark's office. Mark heard his phone ding and he smiled upon seeing the message of the screen.

Unknown number: Good afternoon Markie, this is Jackson Wang. I hope you've had a good day so far. I wanted to ask you if you wanted to meet up for dinner? It'll be my treat.

Markie🌷😗:Are you asking me on a date Jackson Wang?

Jackson🥵💦: yes. Dress into something comfortable.

Markie🌷😗: okay then. Thanks love. I really need it.