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

In anger, He Chang Min raised his hand, whamming his fist to the wall on his left. He gritted his teeth on the anger that still didn’t leave his body.

He Chang Min has a secret. He was never the real son of Mrs. He. His birth mother was a mistress to Mr. He. They were in a relationship until his mother got pregnant and Mr. He decided to leave her for good.

Since young, he remembered his mother to be sickly. She was born with a fragile body and weak lungs like him and giving birth to him deteriorate her health. He remembered that his mother would often stay on the bed and he would be there beside her, holding her hand.

The memory had faded in her mind as He Chang Min left her mother’s side when he passed the age of six. Since then, he never met her as he began to live with his foster mother, Mrs. He in He Family, being the son of the woman as if he was her child since his birth. Now, he couldn’t even remember his birth mother’s face. Mrs. He never permitted him to visit his mother and he could only see her through pictures where not her face could be seen.

After taking him in, Mrs. He demanded him to keep the fact he wasn’t her son as a secret. He did what she said, all in order to follow his mother’s message to live with the He Family; but each day, he became someone who he wasn’t. In college, he was told to chose Xie Hue Lin instead of Li Lian. When he denied Mrs. He’s order, she helped Xie Hue Lin to drug him and slept with her.

It continued to the point where she threatened him to break his engagement and choose Xie Hue Lin and if he didn’t agree, she threatened him to never be able to see his mother ever again. Without a single choice in his life, He Chang Min became the doll Mrs. He made him to be.

He had continued his life based on her words but to marry Xie Hue Lin, the woman who had destroyed everything by working with Mrs. He? That would be the last thing he would do.

Under four months, He Chang Min swore to destroy the happiness Xie Hue Lin and Mrs. He had. No matter what approach he need to do in oder to fulfill his revenge.

Once Li Lian came back from the part, she stayed in her room after taking a bath and dressed in her pajamas. Brushing her hair, Li Jun Wei opened the door to enter, he had taken off most of his clothes, leaving him with his inner shirt and his slack.

"You had taken your bath," Li Jun Wei remarked, he went to her side and took the brush from her hand to brush her hair.

"Should I waited for you?" Li Lian asked him, her eyes looking at him from the mirror.

"No, if you waited for me, it would be late," Li Oian felt his hand soothingly caressed the top of her head as the other hand which was holding the hair brush, gently slide from the top of her head to the ends her hair. "Did you have a good time with your grandmother?"

"It was great, grandma was also happy. Did you talked with her when I was gone?" Li Lian questioned curiously.

"We talked about you. She said she was happy to finally have you back at home and like that you speak a lot today. I had to agree with her. With your beautiful voice, it would be a blessing to hear more of your voice when you talk," Li Jun Wei said as he settled the hairbrush on the side of the dressing table.

"You are exaggerating," whispered Li Lian, her cheeks turning pink.

"Have I? Everything about you is beautiful and I don’t exaggerate any of my words. There are many who would agree with my words much to I dislike," a shade covered Li Jun Wei’s eyes when he recalled He Chang Min trying to set his lips over Li Lian’s. Turning the chair, Li Jun Wei brought Li Lian to the bed. "It was a shame you didn’t see your sister’s face when she found her clothes and accessories were in the maid’s room. You would be happy if you see her expression. How did you know the maid steals from the house?"

Li Lian took a seat on her bed and she saw Li Jun Wei unbuttoning his shirt to stare, "There was once when she accused me of stealing things from the house. It was a jewel Mrs. Xie had. After they went through my place, they suddenly found the jewel which was never there in my knowledge. The maid who reported me stealing was the same maid as earlier," Li Lian explained, "Later after that, I found her stealing some more accessories from Mrs. Xie’s room. I thought she would once again place the accessories to my room and followed her. It was at that time I found out she had stolen it for herself."

"Did you try to tell this to your parents?" Li Jun Wei questioned, his hand stopping from taking off the rest button to unbuckle his belt.

"I did," sighed Li Lian, "I still thought they would believe me at that time. It was late when I realized they never tried to trust me. Instead, they assumed I was the one who had stolen the accessories. Only my grandmother believed in me." But it was late when her grandmother issued to search for accessories Mrs. Xie lost in the maid’s room as the maid was smart to move what she stole right away as soon as she learned Li Lian suspecting her. With Li Lian gone from the house, she felt free to steal without going under anyone’s suspecting that lead to her loss.

"She is a wise person," agreed Li Jun Wei. He raised his hand to rub her head as if to soothed her. "Senior Mrs. Xie said that she was ashamed to have Mr. Xie as her son and she also wish you the best of everything. I am glad to know that there was still one person who stay by your side in time you needed." Because at that time, he wasn’t by her side and he couldn’t protect her but this time he would never fail.

He then asked, "What did you bring from Hue Lin’s room?"

To his question Li Lian’s eyes widened. Remembering what she got without checking, Li Lian stood up from the bed and she went to take her purse to pull the record tape and the paper she got.

Placing it to the bed, Li Jun Wei first took the paper and unfolded the paper which had been fold many times to a small square, "What is this?" He asked curiously.

"I don’t know, I haven’t opened it yet," Li Lian replied, "There was an odd box Hue Lin hides under her bed. I found a phone, six record tapes, and this paper inside the box. I didn’t get the chance to check the rest and this was all I could find."

Li Lian watched the expression Li Jun Wei has as he stared at the picture and when she took a seat beside him again, she saw his lips pulling higher. "Now it make sense," he said to her ears before placing the picture for Li Lian to see. 𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝕨𝕖𝗯𝚗𝚘𝕧𝕖𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝕞

At first she was curious by his words, wanting to ask. When Li Lian saw the two people who took the picture, her brows draw in together. "This is my mother and who is this?"

This time Li Jun Wei was the one to stand up, pulling the drawer of the desk on the corner of the room and came back to place the paper to her hands. Li Lian read, the words on the letter, ’Paternity test result Imperial Hospital’.

Curious she opened the envelope while hearing Li Jun Wei explained beside her ears, "Hue Lin is indeed the daughter of Mrs. Xie but her father isn’t him but the man in the picture."

Li Lian’s face turned first, a blank expression on her face and her eyes widened in surprise. She read the test result once again, reading how Xie Hue Lin was stated unrelated to Mr. Xie and only Mrs. Xie was related to her.

"Mrs. Xie was cheating on Mr. Xie and Hue Lin is the daughter she had with the man she cheated with," Li Lian drawled, still surprised then a chuckle came from her lips. "Its ironic. All this time that family hold a very strong relationship as if I was the outsider but each of them have their secret, I see."

Li Lian’s smile tilted when she learn she had gotten one secret from the family, the dirtiest secret they tried to bury inside a hole which now fell to her hands.

"It would be up to you to use this secret they have," Li Jun Wei said and Li Lian nodded with a smile.

Her eyes then moved to the record tape, "I think we would need a record player for this."

"I will tell someone to bring the record player here," said Li Jun Wei who then stop, "Or would you like to go to the theater?"

"Theater?" There was a theater in the house?

"Yes. Xiao Chen built it years ago," explained Li Jun Wei. Once again Li Xiao Chen thigh Li Lian. He does love doing something new and unique. "We can go there if you don’t mind."

"Of course I don’t mind," replied Li Lian with a smile and her hand hold his to leave the room.