When the CEO arrived at his office's floor, he would be greeted by an unbelievable sight. "Panda!" a young child would come out of nowhere and run towards Li Yang. Or rather it had ran over to meet the Panda hovering and complaining beside him.

Even the Panda stopped in mid-sentence.

"What the actual fu.."

"Fudge cookies?" the little girl tilted her head, and then her eyes widened. "You can talk!"

But if the child was enough to put the man in surprise, there were two other people who had been waiting for him.. One he could recognize easily, Ying Yue He was at her desk with an indeterminable expression on her face. She then gave him an awkward smile, the woman standing up, "Good morning, Mister Li. I apologize because Miss here—"

"Luo Ju Di." the other woman said. She had her long dark hair tied and resting over her left shoulder. Compared with Ying Yue He's office attire, she wore more casual and modest clothes that didn't fit in his office. And yet she would gaze back at the CEO with a small frown, and it was a disapproving one. "I've come here to talk with you."

There was an authoritative tone that wouldn't take no for an answer.

"Mama, I found the panda again! It's flying~!" the small girl glanced over her shoulder and looked back at her. Above it, the Panda was avoiding the child as it floated way above the girl's jumping capacity.

"That's nice, sweetie." Luo Ju Di's expression softened at her child's 'overactive imagination' before her attention returned back to Li Yang. She didn't exactly frown, but she was serious when she said, "I would like to talk with you in private, it's an important matter if you can't already tell."

Ying Yue He tried to speak up. She waved her hands at the woman to grab her attention and adopt a conciliatory tone. "Miss, I tried to tell you that you can't do that. Mister Li is a very busy person, you can't just demand—"

The mother would place a hand on her hips, "I've looked for him for over six years. I'm not going anywhere at all, Miss Secretary." Luo Ju Di glanced at Ying Yue He, narrowing her eyes slightly at her before she turned back to him. "Besides, it's up for this man to decide whether he wants to go this through the hard way or the easy way. Make your choice."

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Ying Yue He thought she would have a pleasant, if not, awkward morning. When she came home after her dinner with her boss—her heart was soaring and racing. It was even enough to set her in the mood and fantasize about them being together. It was a guilty and even naughty pleasure. She couldn't help but feel dirty when she came into the office. It would be unknown to the man that she was secretly having her wish fulfillment provided by just him treating her kinder than usual.

A secretary and her boss? Scandalous. Sexy. Seductive?

It was something that made romance novels and movies sell like hot cakes. And yet, she had forgotten about something else common in romance novels between a simple woman and a CEO. 'I'm secretly pregnant with your child movies!'

When she watched her boss and the woman walk into his office, it might have been easier to stick a pickaxe through her chest—why was a woman coming out of nowhere to declare that she had a child with Mister Li?! The woman tried to be vague, but it was so obvious!

Ying Yue He wanted to take out a handkerchief and bite it to hold back her emotions. This felt like an overdone and contrived novel plot! It was even worse than the secretary and her boss kind of scenario if somebody were to ask her. It implied many things.. well, just one. It meant that her boss had already slept with another woman in the past and impregnated her.

She needed to pull herself together.

Impregnated sounded like such a bad word. Accidentally did baby-making with someone? Ying Yue He took a deep breath to calm herself. She was glad that she hadn't brewed the CEO a jug of coffee because she would have drunk it all by now and made her pulsing heart worse.

Maybe this was just some woman trying to fool Mister Li and earn money? Did she fake a DNA test or something? And yet when the secretary looked at the child still talking with her imaginary friend 'Panda' on the couch... it was enough to reduce her to tears. The child was adorable!

What really were the chances that this was her Li Yang's child?

She had no right to feel betrayed or anything, the two of them weren't even together at all. Not to mention that her boss also seemed surprised when he arrived and saw them. But was it the 'I have no idea who she is' surprise or the 'did the ghost of Christmas past come to haunt me' surprise?

Ying Yue He really wanted to eavesdrop right now.

But she also had to look over the child and make sure that she stays well-behaved. A sudden scenario came through Ying Yue He's mind and the woman nearly collapsed even as she was already in her chair.

This woman could already imagine her future.. as a nanny!

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Author Note: Am I the only one enjoying Ying Yue He, the Secretary's overactive imagination? You can see that I've incorporated some tropes from over the Female Lead section. It might not be up to your liking, but it's my way of poking at the cliche and popularity of it. Is it hard to tolerate?

Team Mother or Team Secretary?

It's officially 5:14am yay, and I haven't slept a wink. I think the next chapters will go premium at 8am-12pm if I remembered my editor's words. So if you're curious on why there's sudden updates, that's why xD I warned this over the synopsis woot woot.