Ice and Fire

Chapter 101 Displeasing The Chu Family

In the morning, Cherry got up early to get to work. Processing yesterday's orders to the manager and

making herself busy with her own tasks, Cherry spent the whole day without anything unexpected

happening.

She walked out the JS Building after work, as usual. Her phone, kept away in her bag began to ring

suddenly when she was about to drive her car out of the parking lot.

Taking the phone out, Cherry saw that it was John, and she answered the phone.

"Hello, John, " said Cherry in a cold tone.

"Cherry, have you gotten off work now?" John asked with concern.

"Yes, I just got done with work now, " said Cherry.

"So are you free now? Would you like to have a cup of tea with me?" John offered.

Thinking about it for a while, Cherry thought that it would mean nothing to have a cup of tea with John

since she had no affection for him now.

"Okay, where do you want me to come? I'll try to get there soon, " Cherry said decidedly.

"Come to the Ancient Path Tea House", replied John.

Cherry drove to the teahouse after hanging up. All that while, she wasn't aware that there was a man

following her.

When Cherry got to the place, she found John occupying a seat in the corner, so she just walked up to

him.

"You are here, " said John.

"Hmmm, " Cherry sat opposite to John. Upstodatee from Novel(D)ra/m/a.O(r)g

"How are you doing these days? How is everything at work?" John asked with concern. He had not

seen Cherry since the last time they had met at the cemetery. He had only spoken with her on the

phone. Luckily, both of them were free today, so he could meet her here and ask her about her

wellbeing.

"Well, fine", said Cherry simply. Seeing John's caring attitude, Cherry spoke to him as though he were

a regular friend, "so, how are you doing these days? Are you keeping very busy?"

"Not really, it's just the same as before. Sometimes there are some things that need to be handled,

while sometimes, I am free, " said John.

Cherry nodded, letting him know that she was listening to his words.

John continued, "Cherry, how could you join the JS Group?"

Cherry felt a bit surprised when she heard the question. Why couldn't she join the JS Group? She had

employed her own abilities rather than nepotism to be one part of the JS Group, so why couldn't she

get the position she had earned?

"Why do you ask that? Do you think I could not get into the JS Group?" asked Cheery, with a hint of

anger in her voice.

"No", John explained immediately. He didn't mean that and he just wanted to clarify to her that her boss

Selina was Derek's sister.

Cherry looked at John, still waiting for his further explanation.

"I just wanted to tell you that your..." John suddenly saw Jackson walking towards them, before he

finished his words. His expressions totally changed.

Cherry saw John stopping short with his words, and that his face grew momentarily pale.

"Uncle, " Join could barely get the words out of his mouth. How could Jackson possibly know that they

are here? Had he already got the message that Cherry had come back?

Hearing John say the word uncle made Cherry shudder as she knew his uncle was no other than

Jackson. This would mean that Jackson was standing behind her right now!

Cherry followed John's gaze to stand up and turned to see the man behind her.

As soon as Cherry saw the angry face of Jackson, she realized that how furious Jackson was at that

moment. And what's worse, there were two men following along behind him.

Jackson walked to place himself between Cherry and John, took a glare at John and turned to focus

his complete attention to Cherry.

"Did you come here just to meet him?" What Jackson said resonated in Cherry's ears, word by word.

Cherry looked into Jackson's eyes, quiet and too frightened to speak.

John was afraid that Jackson would make things difficult for Cherry and he knew that Cherry did not

want to see Jackson again. He interfered immediately, "No, uncle, it was me who called her to come

just now."

When John finished his words, Jackson turned his glare towards John and shouted angrily, "John, do

you think that your life as the state governor has become too easy for you?"

But John was no longer what he had been five years ago, and he had learned to fight back against

Jackson now.

John said, "Uncle, I know it's you who has helped me to get the position of the state governor, but if you

want to threaten me with taking that away, you should just do it now, because I'd rather abandon my

position than be forced down by you."

"Really?" Jackson got more and more angry in his heart. This woman had occupied?a?certain?position

in John's heart in all of these five years, considering that John was even ready to abandon his position

of the state governor for her. 'Cherry, how many men have you seduced around?' he wondered.

"So, what do you want?" Jackson continued to ask as he found it amusing to play this game of

questions and answers. Cherry hated to see him. She had not even wanted him to know that she had

come back, but here she was intimately chatting with his nephew in a corner of a tea house. No one

could know what was happening between them in such an appropriate place. How smart and

considerate Cherry was!

John knew that Jackson was in a fit of anger. Being afraid that he might put Cherry in an awkward

situation, he finally answered, "I only wish that you should not harass her."

Just as John finished his words, Jackson grabbed him by the collar. Looking at him closely, Jackson

ferociously demanded, "What right do you have to protect her?"

Grabbed like that by Jackson, John felt a bit terrified. He just looked back itno his eyes without saying a

word.

Seeing the two men behave like this, Cherry immediately said, "Jackson, let him go. It's my decision to

meet him, not yours."

"Really?" Hearing Cherry's words, Jackson fiercely threw John away and stepped up to Cherry, looking

down at her, "Does it make your heart ache? Are you scared that I would hurt him?"

Cherry dared not to look into Jackson's eyes. Lowering her head even more, she asked, "What do you

want to do?"

"Do you really want to know the answer to that? Then I'll let you know what I really want to do." With

these words, Jackson gave a sign to the men behind him.

At the unspoken command, Bobby, one of the men that had come with Jackson, came in front of John

and punched him in the face.

Cherry raised her head when she heard the sound, only to find that John had fell on the ground.

"John!" Cherry cried. When she tried to help John back up, Jackson pulled her arm back towards

himself.

His strength was too much for Cherry who failed to let herself loose off him.

She stood there, unable do to anything while watching John being beaten up by Bobby, hopelessly.

There was even no scope for him to hit back as the man seemed to be so large and fierce.

She, however, still continued to resist Jackson, "Jackson, release me, release me!"

However, Jackson only spoke grimly, "You want me to release you to let the beauty save the coward,

right?"

Staring at Jackson, Cherry said in a hurry, "He is your nephew! He will die if you continue attacking him

like this."

As Cherry continued her pleadings, her heart began racing when she turned towards John, whose face

was now covered in blood. She didn't want to see John hurt like this, even though she did not love him

any more. Even if she had hated him from the bottom of his heart, that had been a thing of the past. All

of these things had been a matter of the past, right? Cherry could still feel pained when she saw John

being like this.

"Cherry, do you care for him so much?" Jackson got even more angry when he looked at her painful

expressions. Did she still care about John, making her so agitated now?

"Yes, I care for him a lot. I have always cared for him a lot" Encouraged by an uninhibited momentum,

Cherry spoke out without thinking about it deeply.

"Crack!" A sudden sound reached people's ears.

Cherry's body fell down on the chair, losing all control. One of Jackson's hand was still in the air but the

other one had released Cherry.

She slumped into the chair, her head hitting its back. Cherry was too stunned to even realise what was

happening now.

Even though he looked at Cherry who had buried her face in her hands, the rage inside Jackson's

heart did not disappear at all. He didn't take pity on her and felt that she completely deserved this!

Now that Cherry had been silenced, Jackson raised his hand to stop Bobby.

Bobby stopped immediately. He would only listen to Jackson's words, from the start to the end of this

command.

John had already been knocked out unconscious. As soon as he recovered, he saw Cherry slumped

into a chair with her face buried into her hands. Had she been slapped by Jackson?

"Cherr...Cherr, " John was whispering in coma.

Jackson heard perfectly what John was saying repeatedly, and the look on his face changed very

quickly. Who the hell has allowed him call Cherry that?

Jackson immediately walked up to John, who was vanquished on the ground and seized him, "John,

she is your aunt, your aunt!"

Jackson wanted, if he could, to engrave the word 'aunt' on John's heart to make sure he would

remember it forever that Cherry was only his aunt.

Looking at Jackson's angry expression, John suddenly broke into a smiled, "ho, ho!"

Jackson pushed him aside mercilessly, stood up and took a final look at him. Then he said to Bobby

who was obediently standing next to him, "Drag him out."

John was immediately dragged out by Bobby and another man.

Finally there were only Jackson and Cherry left at that corner in the tea house. Jackson gradually

walked close to Cherry, who did not pay any attention to his approach at all. She had already made up

an image of Jackson in her heart. She believed that he seemed to hate her and his heart must also be

filled with hatred.

Jackson walked up to Cherry, holding her slightly swollen and red face. He didn't take pity on her at all,

but snapped, "Cherry, how could you become a degenerate so soon? You have just come back! What

a cold and uncaring woman you are!"

Cherry stared at Jackson without saying one word. He was, after all, the last man she wanted to see.

Seeing Cherry keeping silent, Jackson continued on his words of reprimand, "Cherry, from now on,

every male who appears around you will end up like this or perhaps, even much worse."

With these words, Jackson loosened his the grip of his hands, making Cherry squat down on the

ground with a involuntary thud.

Jackson turned around and left.

Cherry sat there, with her hair dishevelled, while other people all around in the teahouse continued to

stare at her.

"What just happened with that woman? Who was that man in the military uniform?"

"He is Jackson, the incumbent, supreme commander of this military region. He hails from the Chu

family. How can you not know him?"

"Really? He looked so stone-hearted when he slapped that woman. It must have been very painful!"

"I don't know...It looked as though this woman must have really displeased the Chu family."