Chapter 197 - Picture (2/2)
But what really concerned Kris was the picture that Gary was able to obtain. It was a picture of a bunch of high schoolers. In it, they all huddled around as good friends: His father, Li Jun, was next to his mother. And next to her was Chen Xu. Next to his dad was Madam Yang and Drew Yang. Even Mr. Huang and Madam Huang were there.
Obviously, the Zhao family was not there since the Li and Zhao families had private bad blood against each other. In the picture, everyone was young and happy. Kris wondered what happened... between them all.
Would his friends... ever get as horrible as the people from the picture now?
His phone rang and interrupted his thinking. It was Lena. He quickly picked up the call as he put the file away and in a secure location.
”Hello.” Kris answered.
”Hi! I am going to bed soon but just wanted you to hear your voice before I go to sleep.”
”This early?”
”Yeah.” Lena replied. ”Are you... okay? I can tell your voice sounds different.”
”I am fine, just missing you.” Kris walked to his bed and lied down. He was not completely lying to her. Gary and he will tell Lena when they know more.
”It hasn't been even 24 hours yet, you can't miss me already. How are you going to survive when I go on vacation or you go on a business trip?”
”I'll kidnap you.”
Lena laughed. ”Goodnight Kris. And if you have a nightmare again, call me ok? I'll leave my phone on loud.”
”Okay, goodnight.”
Lena kissed him over the phone and hung up. She was going to tell him that she needed to visit Andy sometime this week, but she felt that something was wrong with Kris. She will tell him on Wednesday when they meet up.
Why does her heart feel so heavy again? Like their smooth days were already over... and there were more unforeseen tragedies ahead of them.
The next morning, Lena woke up early to go to the Shen company with her father. She messaged James to pick her up later in the afternoon for them to go back to SHYNE.
She walked into the company with her father. When they arrived Henry was already in the meeting room, making sure everything was good.
”Henry!” Lena greeted him.
”Lena, nice to see you here.”
They all settled down first as Henry personally went to greet them first and bring them up to the meeting room.
As far as Lena remembered from the files that Henry gave them, their first main investor was Mr. Sanders. He is originally Chinese but changed his name after getting citizenship in America. He's getting old and wanted to re-invest in blooming companies in China for the future of his children.
The next one was the Huang Family. Lena knew that after the Yangs, Zhaos, and Lis invested into the Shen business, their fame and stocks had risen. Maybe this is why other great families are interested in their company.