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Chapter
XV
I Needed
(Brrrrrriiiiiiiinnnnnggggg!)

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To: Zhang Rishan

BCC: Xie Yu Chen, Wang PangZi and Huo XioXio

From: Wu Xie

Subject: Request for Transfer

Mr. Zhang,

This email is to formally request that I be transferred to the Zhang Inc. offices in Macao, effective immediately. Circumstances have made continuing to stay at the Main branch, in Shanghai, no longer a viable option.

I understand that I will not be guaranteed a job description similar to my current situation and that I will not be able to retain my title of Vice President. I understand and accept these terms.

I respectfully request that my team be allowed to stay on in their current positions. They are all more than qualified to run the division without the aid of an executive supervisor. If one is needed, VP Zhang Qi Ling is certainly capable of overseeing both aspects of the fourteenth floor.

Sincerely,

Wu Xie

Vice President, Zhang Inc.

Main Branch, Shanghai, China

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To: My Foolish Little Cousin

From: Your Goddamn Boss

Subject: Forward: Request for Transfer

What the hell have you done?

You will fix this.

(Forwarded Message Attached)

Zhang Rishan

President, Zhang Inc.

Main Branch, Shanghai, China

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That night Wu Xie listened while Zhang Qi Ling got out of bed and presumably went into the bathroom to clean up Wu Xie's 'life'.

Bastard.

Soon the sighing man came out again and Wu Xie knew that Zhang Qi Ling stood over his bed for some time before finally crawling into his own and eventually falling asleep.

After Zhang Qi Ling's breath evened out, Wu Xie threw off the covers and stared at the ceiling.

This wasn't going to work.

Furthermore, Wu Xie didn't want it to work. It had to end. He would survive the last three days because he said he would and he wasn't a quitter but then... then something was going to have to change.

Wu Xie set up. He needed his Papa. Not the mystical father that he resembled, that made people stop him in the streets because they thought he was a ghost. No, the father that took him in and loved him. The father that held him when he cried and when he laughed. The father that made Wu Xie who he was today.

He needed his Papa.

Standing up, Wu Xie spared a glance at the sleeping Min You Ping. His chest hurt to a point that made breathing difficult and Wu Xie knew it was disappointment squeezing it, choking it until tears prickled behind his eyes.

This had to stop.

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"Sunshine! Why are you out so late, my friend?"

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