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

He Chang Min and Xie Hue Lin then moved to her room. Xie Hue Lin was ecstatic, she was happy that she wasn’t wrong, that her doubt was the one that was wrong. She had done right by believing He Chang Min. He did love her, it was why he had chosen her. Even if he didn’t at first, after spending more time with her, love sprouted inside him.

It was what Xie Hue Lin would like to believe but even after this, she couldn’t feel at rest. She thought that this test was not enough to prove He Chang Min’s love for her.

"There is a lot of dolls here," said He Chang Min with his eyes looking all around the room.

"Papa and mama would always buy me dolls when I was young, the habit didn’t stop until now, though. Even when I’m older, it’s a little embarrassing. But when we are married in the future, I won’t bring the dolls with me," a dreamy look then come to Xie Hue Lin’s eyes who had been wishing to be married to He Chang Min, the man she loved. She still doubted him, but her dream to be married to He Chang Min never changed.

"You don’t have to throw it, we can use it for our future child," he answered, having a wide smile to elate Xie Hue Lin. "Everything in this room belongs to you?" asked He Chang Min who had walked around the room to take a better look on the things around her room. Hearing the question, Xie Hue Lin raised a brow,

"Of course everything belongs to me," her insecurities shot up again, surfacing as if the heavy stone that was buried under the water begin to swim back to the surface. "What’s wrong?"

"No," He Chang Min turned to look at her with a smile, his hand was placed on a purple colored drawer that was small enough to reach only at his knees, "This seem to be very old, I thought maybe it was a hand-down from your mother."

"I got that back when I was still five, at that time I begged papa to give more purple color to my room, the color that I like," replied Xie Hue Lin, she was once again in relief because he wasn’t thinking about Li Lian. The thought about Li Lian makes her angry. All this time, even when Li Lian has ’died’ she would some times be at fear, as if there was a large shadow casted on her by Li Lian, and that shadow would engulf her to nothing.

Her eyes narrowed as she stated, "It’s very precious to me so I often put my most treasured things inside the drawer."

He didn’t reply but hum under her gaze. Seeing He Chang Min sitting back on her bed, Xie Hue Lin created an excuse, "Do you want a drink? I made a juice this afternoon. From what I heard that are a lot of good effect if you drink that juice."

"Then I would trouble you with it," He Chang Min accepted her offer. Xie Hue Lin looked at him with a silver line in her mind, ’Don’t disappointment me Chang Min’.

He Chang Min watched his fiancée leaving the room with a smile, seeing the door closed with a click, the smile he had disappeared without a trace, giving him a blank look. He then pushed himself from the bed, standing to look around the room and stopped when he reached the purple drawer.

Reaching out his hand, He Chang Min didn’t open the drawer but take the pearl necklace which was hung to his clutch. He knew it was first sight. The necklace was the same necklace he had gifted Li Lian on their first anniversary.

Looking around her room, he found more things that belong to Li Lian that Xie Hue Lin had brazenly hung all over the room as though it was hers. He Chang Min has never want to enter Xie Hue Lin’s room for many reasons. Only now that he learned all the things Li Lian had was stolen by Xie Hue Lin after her death.

The hand that held the necklace tightened. He wanted to bring everything back, everything that had never been Xie Hue Lin’s in the first place. But if he did that, then all the strenuous sacrifices he did would be all for naught.

He clutched to the necklace, deciding to only bring that one as it was the smallest one and the most easily to forget if it was to disappear.

He proceed to open the drawer, searching for the things he was told to by Li Jun Wei, not knowing the eyes that had been watching him through the small camera. Xie Hue Lin was in shock to see the sudden change in behavior that her fiancé showed her once she had left her room.

Xie Hue Lin immediately knew the necklace that He Chang Min took. She remembered it well due to her enormous envy when seeing Li Lian wearing the necklace. The memory was still fresh in the back of her mind, that day Li Lian came back with a very delighted face, when she asked her what happened that made her happy, Li Lian innocently spoke about the necklace He Chang Min gifted her.

It struck like lightning to her. All this time He Chang Min did never loved her and perhaps she would have been able to forgive him, letting it slide because even if he lied, he said he loved her. All her hope crumbled when He Chang Min ransacked through the room, searching for a box that she hid under her bed. When he found it, he then immediately searched for a way to open the box.

Xie Hue Lin didn’t stop him, it was because she was too shock by the sudden reveal of He Chang Min’s true emotion toward her that she couldn’t move. She was currently in the first floor, watching everything through the small screen of her phone in the darkness, letting the light to tinge her skin from bellow with white color while the rest black.

"Hue Lin, what are you doing in the dark?" cam a voice and light appear, Xie Hue Lin looked up to see it was her mother. Her anger, disappointment, and frustration mixed all at once, giving her a muddy feeling. She was angry to her mother who had cheated to her father, resulting to her having to take care of the mess.

Why can’t anyone love her?!

Out of spite, when Mrs. Xie placed her hand on her shoulder, Xie Hue Lin raised her hand and swatted her hand roughly.

It was the first time for Xie Hue Lin to ever do such thing, surprising Mrs. Xie with her rough attitude. More than disappointment, a concern flickered in her mother eyes, "Did anything happen?" she then looked at her phone, "You don’t have to mind the negative comments, Hue Lin. Those people talk about you every time but we all know it isn’t true."

"...you."

"It’s because of you!" Xie Hue Lin shouted on top of her linger, her eyes were red from rage, "Why can’t you live normally? You already had a husband, and even if it was because of pain... you shouldn’t have indulge yourself in it. Because of you, it’s because of you that I have become like this!"

Mrs. Xie was in awe, she put another hand on Xie Hue Lin, this time softer because she didn’t know what had make her daughter very unsettled. "I don’t understand what you are talking of, did mother do anything wrong?"

Xie Hue Lin looked down before shooting a hateful glare with her eyes, "Whose child am I?" her question was akin to a blunt weapon, hitting Mrs. Xie and make her dizzy.

The woman looked stiffly at her, "Who else, you are mine and your fa-" Xie Hue Lin interjected before lies spilling from her mouth.

"Don’t lie! All of you are liars, do you think I never know? That I was blind not to see what’s happening?" Xie Hue Lin took a step forward, holding Mrs. Xie by her upper arm, "Tell me the truth, I have enough. I am not father’s daughter, am I? I was the daughter of your affair!"

All colors ran from Mrs. Xie’s face, turning her complexion pallid. Xie Hue Lin shook her body, "All this time you’ve been lying to everyone! I found about everything already, all your lies!"

"No," Mrs. Xie was struck with short words with the sudden confession Xie Hue Lin forced from her. "Where did you find out about that?"

"Is where important now? Don’t you ever care about me? Don’t you worry about me who had to find out about this and worried that anyone would find-"

Her words were suddenly broken as a loud tumble sound not too far from them. The mother and daughter almost immediately turned their head, looking at the direction where the sound came.