My Husband is the Emperor : I Woke Up With a Husband

Li Lian’s morning starting with Li Jun Wei’s letter make her day looking brighter, nothing less than waking up with him beside her bed. Curiously she read the letter and muttered what was written in the close silent, "Xiao Chen’s will be undergoing a scan today, the doctor hope nothing would happen or complication after yesterday. I will be with him for the day and grandmother sent a chauffeur from the main house to wait for you, but I’ve told her you will have to attend the school reunion this evening so it would be fine if you leave the house as you like."

Li Lian’s eyes continued to move until it fell to the last word written and she smiled, at his last words in the letter. "Have a great day." With her smile, Li Lian also was reminded by the school reunion she would have to go in the evening. By the time Li Lian went out of the room, she requested the maid to bring the necessity as she went down to the car.

It took Li Lian three hours to arrive at the main house and if Li Lian first thought there was no house larger than Li Jun Wei’s; she was wrong, the house was not only large but almost look like a castle. It had her wondered how even more lonely to be in the house larger than that when people who stayed there were mostly Madam Li and Master Li.

The car stopped when it reached to the gate, the window opened for the guard to see the chauffeur’s face and Li Lian before he offered a greeting smile which Li Lian returned and let the car to continue to the track.

The distance from the gate to the entrance was distant and by the time she arrived, Li Lian could see Madam Li standing with an eager smile on her lips while waiting for the car where Li Lian was to arrive. When it arrived, Madam Li clasped her hand tight with her smile gleaming. Li Lian prepared to greet the woman when she stepped out of the car when Madam Li stepped forward to put her hands on her shoulders for a hug before she pulled away, saying, "Oh welcome Li Lian, I’ve been waiting the entire morning for your arrival!"

Li Lian couldn’t say she didn’t expect the woman to hug her but the warm greeting had her smile, "Thank you, Madam Li." replied Li Lian, "I’m glad to be here too."

"Please don’t call me Madam Li, just call me as grandmother as now you are my granddaughter," The old woman said and cover her lips and her laughter, "I really could not believe at first I am having another granddaughter and a gorgeous woman like you." said the old woman happily before she turned her back looking at the two women standing behind her that at first Li Lian didn’t took much attention to.

"I’m sure you’ve met them before, I heard they came to Jun Wei’s house last time to meet you and talked about your past." drawled Madam Li while looking at Mrs. Jin with a shake of her head, still disappointed that Mrs. Jin believed at the rumors when she should have known how rumors were never correct.

Madam Li turned her face to Li Lian who was watching Mrs. Jin and her daughter who were standing there stiffly and the old woman said, "I’m sorry, this is because of my lack of words. I should have told them that the rumors were not true but they were..." Madam Li shook her head, "They must have offended you, can you please take their apologies, Li Lian?"

On the words apologies, Mrs. Jin moved forward and her hand immediately took Li Lian’s with a sullen smile on her red lips, "I’m sorry, if I know it was just a false rumor, I would have try and find another way to talk things through, if I have hurt your feeling which I hope I don’t, please accept my apologies."

Li Lian didn’t raise her brows outward but inwardly, she question the change of behavior coming from Mrs. Jin and her lips pulled a smile, "I can’t lie if I say I was not surprised and... sad but I am could understand not everyone would accept me with the rumors," said Li Lian with her brows furrowing as if to pull herself a smile that made Madam Li to rub her back and her eyes look back at Mrs. Jin who was smiling at her but she could tell clearly how the woman didn’t mean the smile she had at all.

"Nu Yuan, what do you say?" Mrs. Jin turned her face to her daughter who stood there with her eyes objecting until she saw her mother’s eyes frowning at her behavior. Before Li Lian arrived, Mrs. Jin had reprimand her dead daughter not to be stupid or reckless. To show Li Lian, the woman who she saw to be lower respect and apologies but Jin Nu Yuan didn’t want to!

Her eyes were angry with as she glared down at the blameless floor where her shoes stepped on. Mrs. Jin released Li Lian’s hand and held her daughter’s hand but the hold tightened at it. Seeing her mother’s eyes and the hold that tightened with a heavy step, Jin Nu Yuan walked to Li Lian, "I’m sorry." She said briefly with her eyes down on the ground, glaring at it.

"Nu Yuan must be very sorry now. She had been thinking all night on how to apologize, and was afraid if she had offended you too much. It was never her intention to, you see." Mrs. Jin released her daughter after sending Jin Nu Yuan who was yet to understand a raise of eyebrow.

Last time, Mrs. Jin had been too hasty wanting Li Lian to be completely out of sight but now that she knows how much Madam Li had her trust on Li Lian’s she could t be careless and repeat the same mistake. Her daughter was still young, unable to hide her anger which was why she reminded Jin Nu Yuan to have her eyes on the ground so she wouldn’t glare at Li Lian and make a larger mistake that could make Madam Li frown at them.