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

Haruhi appeared to be taken aback by Li Lian’s demand even though she knew he must have expected this request of hers when he first agreed to the negotiation. "I can’t do that," Haruhi flatly refused.

Li Lian’s jaw tightened. She knew it was a great opportunity for her to know who was her true enemy that had been hunting for her life, wanting her to be dead. As much as she tried to act as if she has the upper hand in the negotiation, she needed the information from Haruhi and both of them currently has the same position in the negotiation.

"Then do you have an idea to what you can agree with?" It was Li Jun Wei who asked her the question.

"I can agree with helping Li Lian to find the truth of who had pushed her grandmother," answered Haruhi playfully.

The knot on Li Lian’s forehead tightened, "You," she said with her voice tight. "Did you put someone from your side to Xie Family House?" This man, not only had he been stalking her, but he had also put a person to spy on her grandmother!

"I can do what I need to do. I am a Yakuza, and I live up to my title, don’t you agree?" Haruhi chuckled upon seeing her expression. Li Lian tightened her hold on the table, only softening her clutch when Li Jun Wei’s cold hand covered her palm. "What do you say?" Haruhi then questioned her.

"We can find that on our own," Li Jun Wei answered. Li Lian felt thankful for he had calmed her nerves before she go ballistic on Haruhi, letting him to use her emotions for the negotiation when she had to be rational-minded. "Finding the assailant is easy once you have the tail." But they were not able to catch who were pursuing Li Lian as all tails they manage to catch burn to ashes with the person’s meticulous detail in killing all evidence that could ever lead to them.

Pulling herself together, Li Lian then said, "We need something better. A negotiation that would make you lose something. I don’t take it well that I am the only person who need to offer a risk when you did not."

Haruhi hummed in a thought, tapping his feet as he stared to her eyes, as though trying to daunt Li Lian but she had long passed from being daunted by other’s hard gaze. "What if I promise you I can help you in the future. Whatever help you need and I will oblige."

"Whatever help?" Li Lian raised her eyebrows at the question, "That is too random, I can ask you for help to dissolve the contract you gave to my grandfather."

"That I cannot. I can promise you I will help you in anything but things that won’t kill me and excluding the contract," Haruhi raised his hand, folding his fingers except door three fingers and raised it next to his head, "I can swear this."

Li Lian put a deeper thought in it, sharing a look to Li Jun Wei, she whispered, "What do you think? He won’t lie but I cannot trust him."

Li Jun Wei also couldn’t put his trust to Haruhi. There was also still the thought in him that he would rather find the person himself without the help of Haruhi but with his hint, it would help them to weed out the root of the problem faster that could also help Li Lian from danger. "We can use it to our advantage if he says true to his words," he said in his rational mind, "But we cannot trust that he would stay true to his promise."

"If you don’t believe me," Haruhi suddenly said, and both Li Lian’s and Li Jun Wei’s attention fall back to the man. "I can give you a warrant. Here," Haruhi placed a document in front of him and raised his hand to urge Li Lian to take it, "You would like this one."

Seeing the document, Li Lian became more certain that the man had come prepared. He had guessed all of this which mean he also knew the outcome of her words. Li Lian took the document then read what was written carefully. After she manage to read the first page, a gasp unwillingly left her lips.

"The document is about all what I have done," Haruhi announced, "All, including my deepest and darkest actions that could put me in jail for my entire life. Including killing my parents, the evidences, and my confession statement."

And he was correct. Li Lian tried to find if the man had forged the documents, but with the details and his own written confession along with other evidences, including fingerprints and DNA test for the killings that he did, it won’t be an exaggeration to say that the document hold his life.

"Why would you go this far?" Li Lian then asked. Only for the sake to kill the enemy that wanted her life, she was sure Haruhi who was keen to make such elaborate plan to bring up this negotiation would have a better method to kill the person himself. It’s as though there was something deeper under Haruhi’s reasoning that he was hiding.

"I hate this person," was Haruhi’s simple answer.

Li Lian knew that wasn’t all that is there in Haruhi’s mind. "Are you not afraid that I can use this to my advantage and to sell you out?"

"Well, you will be facing consequences if you do so," his faint threaten had Li Jun Wei to narrow his eyes. "I can promise you this, Li Lian. That this promise of mine will benefit you in the future or even solve all your problem. Do you still want more..."

"Okay," Li Lian answered, going down with the negotiation. She didn’t see the need to go all around and went straight to the point, "Who is this person?"

Haruhi passed another document to the table, "I expect you two to kill this person, soon, okay? I will leave now, awaiting for the good news." Haruhi had came like wind and disappeared like one. He went out of the cafe, keeping an eye to Li Lian who had begin to tear the envelop and left the place to have a man come beside him.

"Are you okay?" The man asked, he was taller than Haruhi. If compared, Haruhi was shorter than most men but the man who came up to him was much taller than other. A wide scar appeared under his chin when Haruhi stared at him from below. "You are reckless," the man warned with a sigh. His frown tightened with a brush of worry dusting his eyes.

"You need to be reckless to achieve something, Hyuga," Haruhi said and he stopped all of a sudden on his heels, turning his face to cut the distance between him and the man, Hyuga. "And this is for the better. I want to be free. Free from all of this. Like a bird and fly on the sky."

"Jail is not freedom," Hyuga answered, the longer he stared at Haruhi’s calm expression, his expression marred with a deeper concern.

"I am not going to jail," Haruhi answered with a hint of confidence, "I am casting away this fake identity of mine. It’s time to let the dead go."

"But you weren’t able to-" Hyuga’s words were suspended when Haruhi circled his hands around his neck, pushing him to the nearest wall.

"I want to end everything and be with you," he whispered, "I want to be like the true person I am. Not as Haruhi my older brother but myself, Haru."

Hyuga was surprised with the sudden hug and closed his eyes to pull her tighter. "You are a silly woman. Taking up your twin brother’s identity only to suffer."

"And you are a stupid man for being beside me and suffer," smiled Haru when meeting Hyuga’s eyes, "It’s time to leave China. How was it in Japan?"

"Silence," Hyuga replied, his hand failing to hug Haru again when she moved away. Getting into a car, Haru then pulled away the wig that she wore, revealing her short hair that fall above her neck.

Pushing her hair with her hands, Haru’s lips pursed, "Silence is the worse enemy for us. I feel worried that everything is going to well to my plan. It’s time for that man to soon disrupt my plan."

"You don’t have to worry. Everything will be alright," Hyuga said in response, surprising her as this was perhaps the first time she heard him spoke that kindly and it must have been because he was worried about her.

"Because you are here with me?" Haru asked with a sly smile on her lips. 𝚏𝕣𝕖𝚎𝚠𝚎𝚋𝚗𝐨𝐯𝕖𝕝.𝕔𝐨𝕞

Hyuga stared back at her eyes, smiling for a quick second, "Yes."