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

Xie Hue Lin show as hiding behind the wall clenched her hands. Anger sizzling her eyes on the place she stood at. Nothing was going right today! Xie Hue Lin slept last night in peace, looking very eager to see how Li Lian would turn out tomorrow.

Instead, before the party start, she learned her personal maid was a thief all along and with Li Jun Wei’s often sharp remarks, there was many moments when she felt ashamed. She wondered who had given Li Jun Wei the invitation card without permission. He was the wealthiest person but Xie Hue Lin would rather not have him attending the party as whenever Li Jun Wei spoke, it was to degrade her.

Now she had to hear her grandmother saying that the company would be given to Li Lian. It was unfair! She had studied hard in the business school, all to satisfy her grandmother and to choose her instead of Li Lian to become the CEO of the company after her father. Now she learned her hard work was going in vain and she could never allow that to happen.

Her feet stomping to the ground when a maid bowed to her and seeing a maid, her anger raises. She quickly make her way to stay beside He Chang Min when from behind, her mother called her, "Hue Lin, could you accompany me for a bit? Your father want to talk to you."

Xie Hue Lin’s eyes narrowed subtly. Was this about the succession of Xie Corporation? Her father must have found a way and plan to make sure she would continue be the next CEO.

"Alright," Xie Hue Lin stood beside her mother, her hand holding her, "What does father want to talk with me?"

"You will know." Xie Hue Lin didn’t missed the eager expression her mother made and her lips quirked up.

At the same time, in one of the room on the second floor, He Chang Min opened his eyes. His hand then quickly went to his chest where he could feel pain from his lungs. Pushing himself from the couch, he the cough to see a glass of water was offered near his face.

Taking it to drink, his eyes then fell at his mother whose expression was unchains when looking at him. "Do you know how embarrassing you was? How could you faint when everyone was sending you a congratulation?"

"Why didn’t you tell me that today you will announce my marriage and you didn’t inform me I would get married under four months," He Chang Min asked without looking at her face.

"Do you need to know everything all you have to do is putting my word to action but even that you couldn’t do. This is why I should have another son. A son like you is never good enough. Since childhood you always fell a step behind others," sighed Mrs. He with disappointment despite knowing He Chang Kin didn’t faint out of will.

He Chang Min’s constitution happened since he was young and although it had healed it hadn’t healed completely. When stress accumulate to his mind, his old illness would relapse. His mother knew this far better than anyone but still blame him like she did when he was still young.

"Yes, you should have another son. A good and bright minded son who could marry Hue Lin and stay with her forever. Like a puppet you wish everyone would be," He Chang Min smiled in sarcasm, meeting his mother’s eyes that glared down at him with a cold ice expression. "But that would be impossible, after all, having one son was already hard for you. Infertility must be hard, right mother?"

Mrs. He’s eyes flared she raised her hand and swung it across his cheeks. If he was small, the slap would have come but he wasn’t a child any longer. His hand was larger than it was in the past. Even if he was sick he could still catch his mother’s hand before it landed on his cheek.

"Know your place!" shouted Mrs. He before her other hand swung to slap his cheeks which he caught in time. "I am your mother! You should listen and heed to my words. This behavior of yours should stop unless you want to be kicked out of the family!"

"Yes. My foster mother who took the son of her husband’s mistress!" He Chang Min revealed the secret he kept for years. "If you want to see your dear family loosing the son you wanted, you could do it." He Chang Min threatened his mother’s words. His eyes stared back at her with a fiercer look. "Did you think I would hold tight to this flimsy family ties? Once I stepped out from the family, I could tell how happy my life would be."

Mrs. He glared down at his face and she pulled her hand away forcefully pushing her hands from him. "Then you would like to see how your mother will suffer."

On the words, He Chang Min’s smile fell. Mrs. He knows where his button and to trigger him. "Your grandmother from your mother’s side sent a few pictures for us, requesting for help as r birth mother is falling ill. Do you want her to continue suffer?"

"Don’t you dare!" He Chang Min ground his teeth when she saw the woman in front of him smiling wide.

"Have I ever give any empty promises? I only have one role to do and it is to follow my words. If you could act based on my orders, you can then have your mother living peacefully," Mrs. He smiled when she received He Chang Min’s silence and took it as his compliance. She patted his shoulder and used a softer expression to say, "Good boy.Yiu can stay here for today and come back tomorrow morning. I would leave."

He Chang Min’s head was dropped low and when he heard the door clicked close, he raised his hand which was holding the glass to the ground. Shattering sound came in follow where now the sharp glass shard glittered in front of the door.