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

Li Lian quickly open the washroom door knob, turning as if in a hurry and worriedly called, "Ms. Zi? Ms. Zi! Are you alright?" Her hand knocked on the door, wondering if the woman could answer now.

After a while, Zi Lingyu opened the door, for Li Lian to witness and see how water had covered the woman up and down. Li Lian shifted her eyes to the sink, to see how the woman managed to turned off the faucet and her eyes quickly went at the woman with a frown. "God, what happened to you? Did you threw water over yourself?" asked Li Lian, her eyes clueless that had Zi Lingyu also surprised that Li Lian didn’t know as she clearly thought the woman had done this in purpose.

"The faucet," started Zi Lingyu, pointing her finger at the faucet, "it was broken and the water splashed on me like a waterfall!"

"What?" Li Lian asked in surprise. She quickly went inside the washroom, turning the faucet and Zi Lingyu who thought the faucet would stream water on her again, took her distance when she saw how Li Lian was dry, no water came on her face. "There is nothing wrong with this." Li Lian stated and she casted her eyes at Zi Lingyu with a confused expression.

Zi Lingyu frowned and she tried to turn on the faucet over and over again for the water to drip normally unlike the time it had splashed over her. "No way! It was really broken earlier." She tried to have Li Lian to agree with her.

As the one who had made water splashed on her, Li Lian do know what happened but she still looked at Zi Lingyu with an incredulous look. "Okay, maybe it happened only once." It didn’t seemed like Li Lian was really agreeing on her words or believe her which make Zi Lingyu felt stress, as she looked like a liar.

Taking towel, Li Lian then placed it over her hands, "Ms. Zi, I suggest you to wash your face too, there is soap in the first drawer." Li Lian then left the washroom, letting Zi Lingyu to use when at time, the maid came with a fresh dress. Li Lian’s eyes went to dress with a frown on her head. "Where did you choose this from?"

The maid wondered what to answer and replied, "The dresses that are prepared for the guests. Is there a problem with the dress, mistress?"

Li Lian placed her hand on the dress. Looking at it, she felt that this dress was looking very similar to the style of dress she often use. The maid could have picked many other dresses then why would they choose this dress? Li Lian looked at the maid, her face expressionless while staring at the maid’s eyes.

The maid felt rattled under Li Lian’s gaze. The mistress just stared at her with a void expression that met her look more pressuring with the seconds that passed. Li Lian could see how that under her gaze, the maid became more fretful and pulled a smile. "I think this dress is too thin and would be too cold, bring another one that is thicker in fabric. We wouldn’t want our guest to catch a cold."

"Yes, mistress." The maid went and Li Lian watched the maid’s back as she made a dash. 𝗳𝚛𝚎𝚎𝘄𝕖𝕓𝕟𝕠𝚟𝚎𝕝.𝗰𝕠𝐦

Meanwhile, Mrs. Jin in the dining room couldn’t keep calm. She held her knife and fork at the last dishes that were serve. It had been ten minutes passing but they hadn’t came. Did Li Lian do something again? Mrs. Jin turned her head at her nephew. Li Jun Wei appeared to be unaffected. Before Li Lian left, she had whispered him words that had him to smile.

"Li Lian and Lingyu had been gone for a long time, are they alright?" asked Mrs. Jin, starting the excuse for her to leave.

Right as she spoke, the dining room door opened. Li Lian came to the dining room with Zi Lingyu who had looked strikingly different than she was before she left the dining room. The makeup that make her seemed like Li Lian had disappeared and she looked like her own self that was hidden under the makeup.

Li Lian left Zi Lingyu’s side, staying to sit beside Li Jun Wei. When she had took a seat she spoke, "This is Lingyu’s real face without the makeup. As I thought Mrs. Jin is trying to bring someone who look like me."

This wasn’t a matter of makeup preference but Zi Lingyu had make-up herself to have a similar look to Li Lian. It truly felt uncomfortable to Li Lian but that wasn’t the only reason why Li Lian had tried to use the water in order to have her makeup removed.

It was the expression of Mrs. Jin that looked surprise was what Li Lian waited for. The woman was sly and cunning. She must have thought that someone who looked like her would be able to attract Li Jun Wei’s attention but somewhere Li Lian felt like that wasn’t all.

"We were correct," affirmed Li Jun Wei. "Don’t worry, even if others see her similar to you, in my eyes she doesn’t look like you even with the makeup. Aunt Jin is doing something useless. Let’s continue to eat." Li Jun Wei told her, his lips smiling which had Li Lian to smile back on him.

When they were done with the dinner, everyone left the dinner and began to spoke in groups. Li Lian watch from afar how Li Jun Wei was speaking with the uncles of the family, seeming to be having the talk of work.

"Excuse me." The voice came, very familiar voice that Li Lian know which had her immediately pulling her brows.

Turning her back, she saw it was Wei Tsui Lan, the young man smiled at her and she looked away from him. "You really do have your ways to appear everywhere you like." Li Lian didn’t feel uncomfortable to be by his side.

"You mean to come here? Ye Hua asked me if I could come, we are friends since childhood," replied Wei Tsui Lan. "From the gossips, I found something new and odd."

"If it is about me again then I will tell you that it is old. That happened in the past and I don’t care about it anymore." Li Lian said, she saw how there was distance to walk and she took her one step to walk toward Li Jun Wei when Wei Tsui Lan spoke again,

Wei Tsui Lan chuckled, "No, not about you, Li Lian. It’s someone else, your little sister. Ms. Xie Hue Lin."

Li Lian stopped her feet, her eyes shifting on him. It’s hard to admit that Wei Tsui Lan doesn’t know anything. The man, thought Li Lian, he posed himself as normal yet there wasn’t anything normal about him. Li Lian could only see him as someone fishy, hiding things in secret and sly with using the information he had with him.

"If you are interested we could talk," Wei Tsui Lan tipped his chin to his left side as if asking if she would like to come with home now.

"It doesn’t seem to my eyes you will answer my questions without anything in exchange," said Li Lian and Wei Tsui Lan looked at her subtly impressed before his smile widened.