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

Weeks ago, during the day of Senior Mrs. Xie’s birthday, Li Lian had come up with her idea. What she bet on was her grandmother’s fondness of her and she knew it was low of her to do this while knowing that her grandmother love her, but sometimes being low is what need for one to win.

’Which why, I hope grandmother can sell your stock in Xie Company to me," Li Lian said, clasping her hands together, "I know you would need time, I won’t force you and I hope you understand that I love you. I didn’t do this purely out of revenge-"

Her grandmother had placed a hand on her clenched fingers that had her to stop talking. Senior Mrs. Xie them showed her a tender smile.

"You don’t have to explain, Li Lian. I understand," her grandmother said, her eyes glazed with a drop of tear, "I had not plan to vanquish my hold over the stock either to anyone, not even your father. Of course, I had planned to pass everything that originally came from his father to him, but then I had to witness what he does to his own daughter and as a mother, I know I cannot allow that. He is my son but before all you are also my granddaughter. My poor granddaughter," the elder woman said, holding Li Lian’s cheek, she shake her head when she sympathize with everything Li Lian had went through. "I wasn’t able to help you and for that I continue to feel guilty upon hearing your death. Seeing you again here is all I have in my prayer and God hear it. Do what you see fit. I only wish you won’t regret it."

"I will give them a chance, grandmother," Li Lian said to put an ease to her grandmother’s heart.

"I wish for them to use the chance, but I doubt they would be able to," her grandmother answered with worry marring her expression.

Getting back to the present, Li Lian crossed her hand upon entering. Her soulful greeting seemed to caused some of her father’s hair to turn black from the shock. "What are you doing here?!" Mr. Xie demanded in shock. He could put the pieces together from Elder Fu’s words but didn’t want to believe it.

Li Lian noted how her father kept denying the reality and shake her head, "One seat is empty, isn’t it? That seat belong to me."

"What do you mean?" Mrs. Xie stood from her chair, her expression filled with disbelief. "No way. Did mother gave all her stock to you?"

Li Lian smiled at her mother. Indeed, the woman was much cleverer and she had used her cleverness to trick her husband by thinking that Xie Hue Lin was their daughter. Li Loan couldn’t express the elating feeling to see her parent’s shock but this was still the beginning.

"Grandmother didn’t gave it to me, I bought it from her with enough money from my hard work and I made sure to pay grandmother handsomely," Li Lian answered without waiting for their reply, she then make her way to the sit. Mr. Xie frowned, confused but he had a feeling he should not let Li Lian be here.

"Leave now, this is not your place to be," Mr. Xie stopped Li Lian by his words and Li Lian indeed had stopped walking.

"But I don’t want to," Li Lian deadpanned, her words were calm that infuriated Mr. and Mrs. Xie.

"This isn’t a child’s play, Li Lian. You need to go back and stop embarrassing us with you throwing your tantrum. If not we cannot use any kind method to bring you out," Mrs. Xie threatened. She cannot allow Li Lian to interrupt her plan any more at the cost of everything.

"Have you ever use a kind method to me, though?" Li Lian asked her back, "I wonder what you mean by kind. Speaking about who is embarrassing it is you and Mr. Xie. Telling me to stand here is the same as not allowing the largest stock holder in this room to proceed with her work, do you? What a poor manner."

"Why do you always need to go in between our way? You should have been thankful we were lenient with you," said Mrs. Xie. Mr. Xie didn’t speak purely because he was still shaken after knowing that Li Lian had acquire all his mother’s stock from the company when he thought Senior Mrs. Xie would inherit them to him.

"It is I who has been lenient on you, mother," Li Lian called Mrs. Xie top sweetly that had the woman to shiver. Mrs. Xie would like to claim the shiver came from the coldness of the room and not because she felt daunted by Li Lian. "And it is also you two who are in my way." Li Lian shrugged her shoulders, walking straight and she heard from behind,

"You will regret this," Mrs. Xie said with her hands clenched. Li Lian didn’t reply simply because she found it not to be worthy of and went on her way.

When she took a seat on the chair that was place on the far end of the rectangular table, it instead looked as if the boss in the room was her with the people across the table being her subordinates and her parents who still stood away from the table like people who were chewed out by scoldings for doing mistakes. It wasn’t entire wrong, Li Lian had indeed to come here to chew them.

"Let’s begin again. Apologies for the little hitch we have there," Li Lian said, offering a smile to each person on the table one by one. "It’s a usual morning routine for our family. An exchange of greeting for the better word." The people begin to wonder if fighting was truly a good morning routine for a family and it was clear with the rising tension of the room how Li Lian was looked down upon Mr. and Mrs. Xie, but the fact she has the remaining stock of Senior Mrs. Xie allow no one to look at her with one eye.

"Where were we?" Li Lian questioned, and she raised her hand to Mr. Xie, urging him to speak.

Anger flitted over Mr. Xie’s face and frown marred his forehead. If there was one thing that Li Lian could find similar from him and his half-daughter Xie Hue Lin it would be their habit of throwing tantrum like a three year old child. Except this time, he won’t be able to do so in fear he would lose his reputation in front of the guests who are important to his career.

"We were in the middle of discussing about Director Xie’s plan to put himself forward as the next CEO and were going to use voting as a way to gather the largest voice and find an agreement," the man who spoke was none other than the man who had earlier advised Mr. Xie not to set sail his idea of promoting himself as the next CEO during the dire situation.

Mr. Xie’s eyes glared quickly at the man who didn’t spoke but instead bow, "Pei Gu," Mr. Xie named him with his jaw set in anger.

"What?" Li Lian feigned a shock expression where it didn’t look deliberate but purely from stable. "Then we are forgetting one person who is also a candidate of the next CEO. How could you kick a start off like that, Mr. Xie? Even if you are sure you would be the next CEO. It is a very low move not to tell me the meeting is today."

Mr. and Mrs. Xie was rendered to have their mouth open agape with Li Lian’s words.

"This is why I told Mr. Xie that his decision is too hasty," Elder Fu chimed in the conversation turning others to be surprised and looked at Mr. Xie with lesser favorability.

"I can tell some of you are confused and it is not my intention to do so," Li Lian said. Both of her hands entertained as she settled them above the table. "Everyone might have not known it yet or perhaps some have heard my name coming from some baseless rumors. I am Yue Li Lian, Mr. and Mr. Xie’s former eldest daughter, and also the largest stock holder of Xie Company. Also the next candidate of Xie Company. I came here to tell you that my father and I are the two candidates of being the next CEO."

Li Lian had spoke using her softest way, saying that she was one of the candidate when in fact everyone in the room could tell where the position would land on, and it was none other to Li Lian. Not only did she has the largest stock amongst them, she also seem to not approve her father’s idea to take the position of a CEO with the rift they shown.

While most of them was confused a crisp sound of two palm meet each other rang in the room. Elder Fu was the one to begin the clap, followed by everyone soon after, "Congratulation, Miss Yue. I could never expect that you are the largest stock holder being in a young age."

Li Lian returned the elder man’s smile, disregarding her father’s expression that switched from anger and stricken of shock on the corner of her eyes, replying, "Yes. My grandmother in fact had been preparing me to study and take the position as the next director of Xie Company. Unfortunately the idea was delayed as I met a very unfortunate accident." Half of what she said wasn’t lie only the last part was a white lie that wasn’t necessarily a full lie either. "As I came back, my grandmother finalized that I will take the position of the CEO instead of the director..." her eyes then met Mr. Xie, a look of naively confused girl appeared on her face, "I really wonder why grandmother had chosen me instead of you, father? But I believe in grandma’s decision. She has always think for the best of the company.

Mr. Xie had been confident about being the next in line as CEO company because how he didn’t have a single opponent and rival to the position. He could tell how his mother had only one choice and it is to trust the company to him. Giving the position to other from outside the company is simply careless and dangerous. Senior Mrs. Xie won’t do such a thing and he didn’t have to fear his daughter taking it. But he forgot about Li Lian. This woman! Cursed Mr. Xie. He had let it slip from his memory that his mother was overly fond of the troublemaker!