how you choose a wife

Akaashi looks at his mahogany table, it fulls of pictures of different women from different backgrounds and different careers. They’re ten men sitting inside the room, they are a group of higher up in Kaeiji’s business. But they stay silent because they know their presence in this room is just to be a witness for this an important moment.

A moment of the future...

“You need to choose one of them,” said Ken Mitsuji, Akaashi’s personal assistant.

Akaashi doesn’t show any interest, his face remains stoic. He looks for something on his table...then takes the eraser on the sketch paper. He throws upward...the eraser went up in the air before falling onto the table, it bounces a few times before stopping on between two pictures.

Mitsuji sighs, why can’t the eraser fell right on top of one picture instead of fell in between? He was just about to ask whether his boss would throw the eraser again, but he sees Akashi takes the two pictures.

The room was silent, this is such an important moment....

“I choose this one,” Akaashi said and pass one of the pictures to Mitsuji.

“Oh,” Mitsuji looks at the picture, the details of every picture already at the back of his head, he turns to face the other men in the room and announce...

”Gentlemen...from today onwards Ms. Daichi Yuyuka will be our Mrs. Keiji!”

Yes, the throwing-eraser earlier is for choosing a wife for Keiji Akaashi - A young business tycoon in city B and also an heir for Keiji organization.

Mitsuji puff up his chest make another announcement, “The engagement ceremony between Mr. Keiji and Ms, Daichi will be held in two weeks!”

“Ahchoo!” Yuyuka sneezed. Did she get cold? Why today she sneezed a lot? No, she can’t get sick...she needs to finish writing the draft for her novel. She shudder at the thought of her editor’s angry face every time she late submitting her draft.

Daichi Yuyuka is one of the famous authors for romance novel, using her pen name Jellypoong. And no one knows her real identity except her editor. Her novel was famous around women.

But in reality, no one knows Yuyuka never once had experience love and never once touch a man.

ー Your father wants to meet you this weekend, we will have dinner with his business partner. Will share the location with you later.

Yuyuka rolls her eyes, business partner? These past few years her father’s business plummet down and he was desperate looking for an easy way to save his business, which is by marrying his neglected daughter to any successful businessman.

Yuyuka is the illegitimate daughter of a businessman Daichi Akihito. She was the result of a drunken one-night stand. Her mother died after delivered her to the world and her father never once treated her like his own daughter. Since baby Yuyuka was raised by maids, her room was at the far end of their kitchen, she eats with their maids, going to school by herself, she worked part-time to save money for her study, she can’t walk around the house if his father’s first wife and her half siblings were around. She could count by her fingers how many times she sees her father face to face, sometimes she wonders if her father knows how she looks.

And Yuyuka lost counts how many times she ran away.

She knows soon or later she still will be force to marry whoever her father’s wanted her to be with. But at least she wanted a young, handsome and nice man. Not an old man who only make her as the second wife.

It is indeed her dream to marry an honorable man who has more power than her father so that she could leave her family.

...───...

Her instinct was true. When she arrived at the dinner’s place, it’s not a family dinner. But it turns out that her father wanted to introduce her to her future husband.

She knows that her father was practically sold her off to whoever the man that will be her future husband, there’s no way her father has money to hold a dinner at this 5 stars hotel and booked a private room.

“I don’t agree to any of this,” said Yuyuka with a cold tone.

“I don’t need your agreement, be a good daughter, and listen to me.” Mr. Daichi growl at his daughter.

The man that will be her future husband has not yet arrived, and her instinct telling her to escape. From the way her father and his first wife dressed, she could feel this won’t be just dinner.

While the people inside the room chatting happily, Yuyuka used that moment to excuse herself to the restroom, but once she walked outside...she quickly heading towards the elevator.

But the space in front of the elevator was full of men in black suit, tall and strong build. They are five of them but their presence already enough to block Yuyuka from walking further. She heard a bing sounds and that’s when she realizes there’s another man in a suit but his look expensive and handmade tailored. Yuyuka could only see his face from the side as the man walking inside the open elevator. He’s handsome!

“Ermmm...excuse me, I want to use the elevator...” she says politely to the tall man in front of her. She wonders why are they standing here if they’re not using the elevator? only the handsome man and another tall man beside him walking inside.

One of the men turn to look at her, “You can use the other one after this.”

Huh? She was in rush to escape, there’s no way she wants to wait. Her father will soon realize she took a long time in the restroom.

“No! Wait!” Yuyuka said to whoever inside the elevator, she tries to walk past the tall guy but failed as he still blocking her way. “I have a very urgent matter, please let me use the elevator. I can’t wait! My son needs me at home!” she lied, acting desperate.

The tall guy opens his mouth to say something, probably to refuse but a cold yet calm voice speaks from inside the elevator...

“Let her in...”

Yuyuka’s heart stops for a beat hearing the voice. As if it auto-respond, the tall and the other move to the side, giving her space to walk inside the elevator.

Again, her heart stops for a beat the moment she sees the man inside the elevator. If earlier she could only see him from the side, now she could see his full face from head to toe as she enters the elevator, their eyes meeting but the man acts like he didn’t see anything in front of him.

“Lobby?” asked the other man who stand straight beside the handsome man.

“Ah, yes,” Yuyuka replied and see the man pressed the button to the lobby, the atmosphere inside the elevator turned cold after the door closed.

She doesn’t know why but the handsome man's presence was too strong, she feels like she can’t even take a breath loudly.

This man is the epitome of PERFECTION! - her inner self screaming dramatically.

Reading a romance novel is her hobby, and an erotic or mature content novel is always her favorite. Yuyuka always has a certain imagination of the male lead in every novel that she read...and surprisingly this man fitted 1000000% of her imagination!

And when the elevator stops at the lobby, Yuyuka gets antsy waiting for the door to open.

“Thank you...” she said before quickly dash off of the elevator.

Keiji Akaashi looks at the woman who just runs like she was running from a murderer. Her face looks familiar but he doesn’t have time to think about that. Tonight, is his engagement night with his future wife. He was supposed to arrive at 8 pm but as he reached the 18 floors with his men, he just remembered he left his phone inside the car. There are a picture and all details about his future wife on his phone, he beliefs Mitsuji had emailed him everything a few hours ago because Mitsuji knows Akaashi doesn’t even remember the face of the woman that he chose to be his wife.

He walks to the car after the elevator reached the basement car park, his driver quickly opens the car door upon seeing the boss.

Akashi takes his phone on the backseat and turns back to walk to the elevator in calm steps. Tonight will be his engagement night, truthfully he doesn’t need a wife but it’s a tradition for Keiji family successor to get married by the age of 30.

He opens his phone and looks for Mitsuji’s email, at least he needs to remember the face of the woman that will engage with him.

“Oh” that’s the word that comes out from his lips upon seeing the picture on his phone.

Did he just help her escape a few minutes ago? His thumb tracing on his phone screen as if touching her face. Then he chuckles dryly.

The bodyguard who has been following close beside Keiji Akashi takes a quick glance at his boss. It’s rare for his boss to chuckles or even smiling.

Akaashi closes his phone but his finger tapping on the screen, suddenly feeling excited to get married.

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