All Chapters of Symbiosis: Growth of Lichens in Ochre soil: Chapter 11 - Chapter 20

2 It irked Anaya, but she was more concerned with salvaging the situation, so ignored Ameya’s words. The party and further drama was all planned by Anaya. She had planned to make use of Chan and Ameya’s drunken actions as a reason to throw Chan out. Ameya was promised a role in an upcoming film if the plan succeeded. But who knew, Chan would react so harshly? He was so clear headed and decisive that Ameya didn’t even have a chance to kiss him properly. If Chan was even a bit hesitating, then Ameya would have taken it to the next level and then Anaya would make an issue out of it before anything happens. That was the plan, but everything flopped. “I should go back the next day itself. There is no way you would keep your promise after the plan failed, right? I should at least not miss my classes.” Ameya said with disappointment filled in her eyes. Keeping everything within the family was always the best. That’s why Ameya’s help was asked, instead of an outsider. But it rebounded. “

Chan got off at the city hub and walked to the Lilac Works. On the way to the office he stopped to watch a huge building under construction. It was the tallest in the city and was under the final finishing works. It was rumored that the whole building was of a single corporation, but which, no one had any idea. Chan looked at the construction for a moment and then went to the office. Everything was normally running in the office, when Anna, secretary of Chairman Shaw ran over to Chan. Chan had admiration for Anna, who always wore an office suit, and a professional attitude. She was very diligent at her works and a good colleague too. So no matter what the task was going to be, Chan would comply at Anna’s request. “Are you busy now? If not, can you do me a favor?” Anna asked Chan in a pleading voice. Chan nodded at Anna, without much reaction. “Master Ahn has informed that he will be coming back in a few days. He will be accompanied by some business partners, so we need to prepare a

Except Jina, everyone was in utter shock. Jina kept looking at Chan and asked, “So, you are saying that, you aren’t Neil Lichen, but his assistant. According to you, it was us, who mistook you as Chan and it was our mistake to not look into who you really are.” Jina walked from behind the sofa and stood in front of Chan and continued, “Then explain why you were the one in the car that night Neil was meant to come to the Ochre city? And please explain why you had Neil’s identity card with your photo in it? Who are you in real? And who are you trying to fool?” Jina questioned him without any leeway and turned to sit at the single sofa nearby waiting for Chan to reply. It was then Shen Shaw grabbed on what on Jina had said. Whatever Jina said was true. He had seen his face in photographs before. How can they be so stupid to mistake someone else as Neil? After all Neil Lichen of Lichen Consortium was not some unknown person. Everyone knew how successful and powerful the young master of Li

In Shen Shaw’s study, Lian Shaw and Anaya were staring at Shen Shaw with an urge to beat him up. Shen Shaw was thinking of a way to escape from his wife’s wrath as he knew it was him to blame now, for the blunder that happened. “Why are you not saying anything Shen? How are we going to solve this now? Do you have any idea, what kind of a mess you brought on our daughter? Will you open your mouth and say anything before I lose my patience completely?” Lian Shaw shouted at Shen Shaw after closing the door of the study room. “What should I say now? I did what you asked me to do. How can you just blame me for everything? I also didn’t know it wasn’t Neil. Even you and Anaya couldn’t recognize. Since it was your plan from the starting, why don’t you itself suggest a solution?” Shen Shaw passed the ball to Lian Shaw. Anaya, who was already brimming with anger on her own stupidity shouted, hearing her parents fight, “Will you two just shut up? I must have been momentarily stupid for believ

For the next two days Chan avoided Jina at all costs. He wanted to see a flustered Jina and was enjoying seeing her searching for him everywhere. But on the third day, to his surprise Jina showed no interest in looking for Chan and this made him upset. This also made Chan to decide to meet Jina that day itself. So he fixed an appointment with her late in that evening, in the Lilac mansion itself, for avoiding any doubts. He had it all planned, but that’s when something unexpected happened. As Chan was getting ready to leave the office, he saw Anna running around with some files in a rush. It was already time for her to leave, but she doesn’t seem to care about that at all. There wasn’t anything urgent pending, so what made her busy, unknowing to Chan, made him suspicious. Chan brought a cup of coffee for Anna and enquired, “You don’t seem to be leaving any time soon. What came up all of a sudden?” Anna took the coffee from him and said, “Oh, I was craving for some sugar. You are the