Ariana finally picked up the pen and signed the contract.

“Do you want me to be your lover or your wife?" she asked as she pushed the contract back across the table. Her head was tilted and she had a look of innocent expectation in her eyes.

After examining Ariana, he sneered.

“It depends on your performance," he said, reaching over the table and pinching her chin, hard.

His cold finger stroked her lips and she trembled slightly under his touch.

Despite the sexual implications, his face remained cold.

"Before that, I have to collect something."

He leaned in to kiss her.

Just as their lips were about to touch, he made a groaning sound and pushed her away. He tried to stand up but he buckled and fell on one knee.

There was a tingling pain surging throughout his body. He looked up with great difficulty to see the taser in her hand.

"You..."

“Do you think I'd come to such a strange appointment without some kind of preparations?" Ariana was short of breath and the hand holding the taser trembled slightly. But these feelings were quickly swept away as soon as she succeeded.

The man made a few feeble attempts to stand up but remained bound to the floor.

She took a deep breath and looked at him, her face cold as ice.

“No matter how much I hate Theodore, I will not date a freak who won't show his face. So what if you're the CEO of the BRD Group? Do you think I'm afraid of you? I'd like to see what you look like. You mysterious freak."

With that, she reached out to pull off his mask.

The man had no strength to dodge her hand. Ariana was about to take off his mask when the screen suddenly turned off. The whole room quickly fell into darkness, leaving nothing but dead silence behind.

Unable to see anything, Ariana instinctively squatted down on the floor and grabbed the back of the chair beside her to feel more secure.

At that moment, the light patter of someone else's footsteps could be heard beside her.

“Who is it?" Ariana was shocked and flustered, unable to see anything but the pitch-black darkness that completely enveloped her.