Chapter 150

• As soon as the voting results were announced, Chun Kit rose and strode out of the conference room without a backward glance. Zhenhai lingered a few moments longer, eyes sweeping the space like a man mentally cataloguing the terrain. Then, with silent finality, he too disappeared down the corridor.
• Zinnia remained, her gaze sharp with reproach as if I’d personally dismantled her plans.
• She must have known. Without the merger, our engagement was dead in the water.