Contract Marriage: Emperor CEO's Secretary Wife Chapter 37 - Really getting married?

Chapter 37 - Really getting married?

"Hmm~♫ Hmm~♫" Xiu Mei hummed as she listened to her current favorite music in her headphones. Her eyes trailed on the words on the book she was currently read while holding a glass of champagne in her other hand. The little lamp was the sole light that lit her place as she read the book. Around her was probably the sleeping passengers since their seats are mostly dimmed.
Unbeknownst to Xiu Mei, this peace and quiet she was having wouldn't last for too long.
An hour later, the plane she was on finally landed on City A. Gathering her bag on her hand, she followed behind the other first-class passengers getting off the plane. She calmly made her way to the carousel where her bag would be dropped off. On her way, she felt the trailing gazes of other people on her. Xiu Mei's grip on her shoulder bag tightened as she suddenly felt anxious.
Did something happen? Was something on her face?
Her mind already conjectured a lot of possibilities. Her mind finally remembered her phone. Pulling out her turned off phone, she used her phonescreen as a mirror. She saw nothing out of place except a few hairs slipping out of her bun.
She looked up and checked whether their luggages have been dropped off but there were no bags coming out behind the black curtains so she continued to look down on her phone as she turned it on.
Xiu Mei was almost freaked out when she received a bombard of messages on her phone as it didn't stop firing to life due to the amount of texts she was receiving. She was even barely able to click on anything as the messages kept popping out in the middle of the screen.
Confused, she opened the messages inbox and read a couple of texts. It was from some of the employees she had exchanged numbers before and some friends she would sometimes hangout with. They were all congratulating her and wishing her the best. Xiu Mei got even more confused.
She scratched her head as she continued on reading the messages, hoping to get enlightenment about the truth of the matter.
Then came the messages from some of her cousins. As she read through the long messages she got from them, she finally understood what was happening.
"What the hell?!" Xiu Mei almost dropped her phone to the ground due to shock. Her eyes widened as she kept repeating in reading the text from her cousin. She was hoping that by the end of her message, she would see a word 'Just kidding!' or 'It was just a joke!'. Anything along those lines were what she was wishing to see however, her cousin utterly failed her and instead, what she saw was more congratulations and for her to have a baby soon.
What the fudging hell?
Xiu Mei became even more tempted to throw her phone onto the nearest trash bin.
She just cut off communications with everyone in just a few hours and suddenly, everything had changed. It's weird!
Exiting from her inbox, she quickly opened her phone's browser and opened the news channel.
There, in large, bright red fonts read 'The Ultimate Romance: Lu Corporation's President and Secretary's Future Married Life'.
"..."
What an outlandish headline. Who's the editor for this?
Xiu Mei immediately shrugged off the weird headline and focused on the main topic. She read that headline once again before she finally had an idea of what was currently happening.
"The president and I? Married?" She whispered as she asked herself.
Even though she didn't remember saying 'yes' to Lu Chen's proposal before, she still panicked inside. She thought hard to remember if she had carelessly forgotten that maybe she had agreed to his proposal. She even thought back whether she called Lu Chen after getting drunk in some dinner parties with the team. But no, nothing came up in her mind.
Heck, she even forgot that Lu Chen's proposal is only known by her, Lu Chen, and Lu Shao. Her? Was she that stupid to even leak such a thing that could potentially start a big issue? Lu Chen? Hah. Xiu Mei doesn't even need to think hard about it. Definitely not. Lu Chen is not the gossipy type and she couldn't even imagine that he'll be the person who would spread this kind of news.
Lu Shao? Too impossible. He was too loyal to Lu Chen to the point that she had even thought Lu Shao was like a father spoiling his son's whims?
Xiu Mei thought hard if there are still any people who could've possibly known this matter.
Hmm...her second brother?
If she was being monitored by her siblings, they would definitely know about this matter. However, her siblings were the two people in the world who wouldn't dare to leak this matter. They would even be the ones to be against it knowing how protective they are to her.
Dang it! So who was it? Who dared to be stupid enough to conspire against them--to a powerful CEO and to a military family to boot? Was that person asking to be killed?
After knowing the reason why she was getting the looks after getting off the plane, Xiu Mei took out and wore her sunglasses just so to find the chance to slip out of this crowd and maybe, disappear into somewhere so she could leave the airport safely.
Finally spotting her luggage, she quickly dragged it off the moving delivery belts and pulled it while walking away from the place. Despite the stares she was receiving, Xiu Mei was quite calm as she showed her passport and other doc.u.ments on the window before heading straight to the exit.
"There she is!"
"Ms. Xiu, a word please!"
"How do you feel about getting married to your superior, Lu Chen?"
"When and where will the wedding be held?"
Xiu Mei hadn't even taken more than 10 steps after passing the doors before she was welcomed by the lunging reporters who were trying to get a word from her. She instinctively took a step back, increasing the distance from the reporters when the airport security finally reached her area. They quickly held back the energetic reporters as they helped find a way to leave the airport.
Finally reaching her car which she had parked on the parking lot, she dropped off her luggage on the trunk before she sat on the driver's seat.
Her hands didn't move to key the car nor start it. Her gaze was in a far far away distance.
Xiu Mei's thoughts were suddenly blank, still too dumbfounded with the scene awhile ago.
Was she... really getting married?