Chapter 6
"I've left your tickets on your table and remember your boarding time is 8 a.m. tomorrow morning ok. A car will come pick you up at 7 a.m. You don't need to be at the airport too early. You're in business class," Suzanne, Xiao You's secretary reminded her while handing her the phone messages that she took down during Xiao You's last meeting with her senior partners. "How was the meeting by the way," she asked her boss. "It was ok, nothing much, just the usual discussion on the way the reconstruction of the different projects that are on the table now are to be handled in general and all that," Xiao You replied to Suzanne.
"Hey had your lunch yet? Come, my treat. This is the last day we get to hang out together anyway before I leave for Taiwan. You sure you don't want to come with me to Taiwan and help me out there?" Xiao You asked again. "What and leave this foggy, dirty and busy city to go live in a beautiful foreign country with wonderful culture and food and people. Nope. London, England... my heart, my home," Suzanne laughingly replied.
Suzanne continued, "No seriously, I can't bear to leave Mike here. I know that if I go, our relationship wouldn't be able to bear the brunt of the distance between us and we'd soon break up. I think he's the one. Anyway I'd still get to work with you when you come back, by then you'd be partner and I'd get to be a partner's secretary. Kind of a promotion of some sort as well. So make sure you don't screw up there ok. Always think... Suzanne's life is also on the line here. Hehehe.... It'll be only 1½ years, before we know it, you'll be back."
"Well ok then, just make sure you don't get yourself hooked up with Mike without telling me ok. I intend to be there at your wedding." Xiao You warned to Suzanne. "Come lets go eat at some fancy place and forget about getting back in time for work," Xiao You said as she dragged her secretary along the pathway towards the Russian Tea Room. "Girl, you got yourself a deal!" Suzanne replied.
At night in Xiao You's apartment
"Yeah don't worry. I told you, the company has arranged a driver to come pick me up and send me to my apartment at The Ascot. ... No, I don't want to stay with you at your place. I need my own space as well, plus I'm there to work not to have a holiday, I'll be up some nights finishing my work and all. ... Yes, I know your house is huge. And yes I know you guys got more than 1 study in that place. ... No, I am not saying this because I feel shy. Hey, we've been friends forever ok. I don't even recognise or understand the meaning of that word when I'm with you. Shy? What's that?" Xiao You talking to her best friend on the phone while finishing her last minute packing before going on the flight to Taipei, Taiwan the next day.
Her firm will still maintain her apartment in London for her for the times when she has to come back for any meetings with the partners to update them about the situation in Taiwan. Therefore she does not need to do any major packing before she leaves. She'll just be bringing some of her personal stuff with her and her clothes. The rest will be left in her apartment so that she can use it when she returns.
In Taipei, her firm has arranged for her to stay at a serviced apartment in The Ascot. Due to that, she doesn't need to bring much stuff with her. The apartment comes fully furnished anyway and if she needs anything, she'll just get it from there. She has about 3 weeks to settle herself down in the City before she starts work, it'll be sort of a short break for her as well because there really isn't much things for her to do. Her legal team has gone on to Taipei ahead of her by a week and they will also be settling most of the logistics of setting up an office there.
"Taiwan... Ready or not, here I come," Xiao You thought to herself before she drifted off to sleep.
"I've left your tickets on your table and remember your boarding time is 8 a.m. tomorrow morning ok. A car will come pick you up at 7 a.m. You don't need to be at the airport too early. You're in business class," Suzanne, Xiao You's secretary reminded her while handing her the phone messages that she took down during Xiao You's last meeting with her senior partners. "How was the meeting by the way," she asked her boss. "It was ok, nothing much, just the usual discussion on the way the reconstruction of the different projects that are on the table now are to be handled in general and all that," Xiao You replied to Suzanne.
"Hey had your lunch yet? Come, my treat. This is the last day we get to hang out together anyway before I leave for Taiwan. You sure you don't want to come with me to Taiwan and help me out there?" Xiao You asked again. "What and leave this foggy, dirty and busy city to go live in a beautiful foreign country with wonderful culture and food and people. Nope. London, England... my heart, my home," Suzanne laughingly replied.
Suzanne continued, "No seriously, I can't bear to leave Mike here. I know that if I go, our relationship wouldn't be able to bear the brunt of the distance between us and we'd soon break up. I think he's the one. Anyway I'd still get to work with you when you come back, by then you'd be partner and I'd get to be a partner's secretary. Kind of a promotion of some sort as well. So make sure you don't screw up there ok. Always think... Suzanne's life is also on the line here. Hehehe.... It'll be only 1½ years, before we know it, you'll be back."
"Well ok then, just make sure you don't get yourself hooked up with Mike without telling me ok. I intend to be there at your wedding." Xiao You warned to Suzanne. "Come lets go eat at some fancy place and forget about getting back in time for work," Xiao You said as she dragged her secretary along the pathway towards the Russian Tea Room. "Girl, you got yourself a deal!" Suzanne replied.
At night in Xiao You's apartment
"Yeah don't worry. I told you, the company has arranged a driver to come pick me up and send me to my apartment at The Ascot. ... No, I don't want to stay with you at your place. I need my own space as well, plus I'm there to work not to have a holiday, I'll be up some nights finishing my work and all. ... Yes, I know your house is huge. And yes I know you guys got more than 1 study in that place. ... No, I am not saying this because I feel shy. Hey, we've been friends forever ok. I don't even recognise or understand the meaning of that word when I'm with you. Shy? What's that?" Xiao You talking to her best friend on the phone while finishing her last minute packing before going on the flight to Taipei, Taiwan the next day.
Her firm will still maintain her apartment in London for her for the times when she has to come back for any meetings with the partners to update them about the situation in Taiwan. Therefore she does not need to do any major packing before she leaves. She'll just be bringing some of her personal stuff with her and her clothes. The rest will be left in her apartment so that she can use it when she returns.
In Taipei, her firm has arranged for her to stay at a serviced apartment in The Ascot. Due to that, she doesn't need to bring much stuff with her. The apartment comes fully furnished anyway and if she needs anything, she'll just get it from there. She has about 3 weeks to settle herself down in the City before she starts work, it'll be sort of a short break for her as well because there really isn't much things for her to do. Her legal team has gone on to Taipei ahead of her by a week and they will also be settling most of the logistics of setting up an office there.
"Taiwan... Ready or not, here I come," Xiao You thought to herself before she drifted off to sleep.