Back to the only battlefield that actually mattered.
Everything else, Liu Chen Xi and his team huddled in some wilderness refuge waiting for the extraction she'd promised, Tang Group's board contemplating their severely limited options in some ornate Beijing conference room, Vertex Innovations being methodically integrated into larger operations, Mu Conglomerate being restructured from foundation to ceiling, all of it would continue without her direct oversight for a few hours.
The machinery she'd set in motion was efficient enough to run on momentum and the fear she'd instilled in those executing her directives.
Because right now, in this moment, she needed to be beside Mu Yunchen's bed. She needed to hold his hand and wait for him to wake up and come back to her. She needed to be there when his eyes finally opened so he could see immediately that she'd kept her vigil, that she hadn't abandoned him, that everything she'd done had been for him.
