Love Began with the First Meeting novel Chapter 1189

Bess's words puzzled everyone. Their eyes glinted like mercury marbles, darting left and right in confusion. The managers ran up to Charlie, bowed to him respectfully and addressed him, "Mr. Long!"

Evelyn's mouth twitched. She glanced at Elsa quickly, then turned to look at Bess. Lowering her voice so that only Bess would hear her, Evelyn murmured, "This is too good to be considered a coincidence."

Bess laughed helplessly and murmured back to Evelyn, "This is one incident after another..."

Allen and Rita absent-mindedly looked at Charlie. This scene played in their minds like a strange deja vu, filling them with a sense of familiarity that shouldn't have been there in the first place.

Elsa's knowledge of Charlie's personal life stretched just until the Long Family. She knew very little of the true extent of his influence and power. As for her roommates, they had no idea what was going on.

Apart from Evelyn and Bess, everyone else dropped what they were doing and stared at the crowd downstairs in wonder.

Funnily enough, Charlie wasn't even aware that they were inside a mall. He just happened to be passing by to take care of some business.

"Have you found the person?" Charlie asked the manager of the mall as he walked to the lift, which would take him to the top floor, where the main office was located.

The manager lowered his head in embarrassment and answered, "No, we haven't."

"What is the damage?" Charlie waited for the lift, while the attendant pressed the button for him.

The manager's face soured as he reported, "At least 10 million."

That was just the minimum estimate. Although it was a small number compared to the wealth of the Dragon Empire Group, it was still a considerable amount.

"Shouldn't the computers be checked and maintained regularly by the technicians from the headquarters?" Charlie asked sternly, "Why was there such a huge loophole?"

The manager stammered, "There were minor issues earlier on, but when the technicians checked the computers and couldn't detect the problem, they concluded that it was a system issue and re-installed the system. However, after the re-installation…"

"It's Hack-Y." Charlie frowned, sighing in exasperation.

Suddenly, with a small beeping sound to signal, the doors of the lift slid open. After the people inside walked out, Charlie walked in, followed by the mall manager and his assistant. From there, everyone else were to take other routes.

The doors slid shut and the lift rose to the top floor without stopping at any other floors soon after the lift attendant pressed the button. As it was a capsule lift, it had tempered glass on all sides. Evelyn and the others could clearly see the manager repeatedly bowing his head to Charlie to show his respect.

"Elsa..." Ann's eyes were fixated at the lift. The mall had nine levels. From where she was standing, she could see the lift very clearly. "It seems like Charlie is some kind of a big-shot."