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

Mrs. Xie couldn’t believe what her daughter had said, she looked straight to Xie Hue Lin’s eyes, "If we confess than what would happen to me? What will also happen to you? We will not only have to leave this house and driven away but also put in jail."

"But I can’t take it anymore!" Xie Hue Lin yelled, she crumpled her hands that were running through her hair. "Everyday makes me mad, I keep thinking that grandmother is here, somewhere near me. She is watching what I do and at night she would whisper and blame me for the accident!"

"That’s only your dream, Hue Lin. Your grandmother is not here," Mrs. Xie said as she held Xie Hue Lin’s arm, "Believe your mother. You will only need to overcome this and then we can live like normal."

Xie Hue Lin raised her face that looked like a mess similar to her inner self, "Normal?" She asked, "What is normal? We are in a ship full of boat. It’s only a matter of time we break down. I-I heard it..."

Mrs. Xie raised her brows, "Heard about what?"

"That Li Lian had took over our company!" Xie Hue Lin raised her voice. As she kept more thoughts, her sanity plummet. She appeared like a mad woman, so far from her image of a gentle and kind woman whose heart was pure white. "This will happen soon and I knew it. She will also bring grandmother’s accident to light and we will be brought to jail. Before that happen we should confess now and lighten our sentence. M-mother what if grandmother dies and her ghost hunt us?" Her words went back and forward, sounding relational and the insane.

Mrs. Xie sighed with frustration. The only witness other than her was her daughter and she couldn’t let Hue Lin to confess about everything in her shaken state that will only ruin her plan. She love Xie Hue Lin as her daughter and that’s also why she had to stop the girl from blabbering what she shouldn’t. Thinking to what that can convince Xie Hue Lin, a sudden thought passed by Mrs. Xie’s mind and she took hold of her daughter’s arm, "I have something in mind to get back Xie Company and keep Li Lian away from our family. Will you help me by keeping this a quiet secret between us? Or will you would like it better that Li Lian take what is rightfully ours? What is suppose to be yours?"

Mrs. Xie, who knew which button to push as she was aware of the hatred between Li Lian and Hue Lin, knew that this was the correct method to make Hue Lin to pull herself together which worked.

"If you loses the company, my dear, it won’t be us who lose everything and you too," came the woman’s faint threaten. 𝗳𝗿𝐞𝕖𝘄𝗲𝕓𝗻𝚘𝚟𝕖𝐥.𝚌𝕠𝕞

Why did she forgot it? wondered Xie Hue Lin. She recalled that something similar to this had happened before. It was years ago when Li Lian came to the family. The servants immediately took a liking to Li Lian who was known to be gentle and friendly. When she was young, Xie Hue Lin unlike now was a timid girl who prefer to keep things to herself.

She always admired Li Lian who could make friends left and right with her outgoing personality. At that time, she was still unaware how her habit of comparing herself to Li Lian would soon build up into an inferiority complex.

Years ago, Hue Lin recalled leaving her own room when she saw the maid who saw her only smiled and ran to talk with Li Lian when they saw her. It was the start of the rift in her heart. It was then when she made her way to her mother’s room and told about how she wished to be like her elder sister.

Instead of pacifying the situation so the sisters wouldn’t feel jealous, Xie Hue Lin recalled what her mother told her, "That girl live unlike you, Hue Lin. She is your sister and my daughter, but we cannot disregard how she grew up with people of no manners and morale. Don’t stoop low like her or become someone lower than her. You are born to be better than your older sister, it’s only right that you earn better achievements than her. You shouldn’t lose to her— someone who is lower than you."

And that was the start of Xie Hue Lin’s deep rooted hatred against Li Lian.

Back in the present, Mrs. Xie cupped Xie Hue Lin’s cheeks, "Do you understand, Hue Lin?" and Xie Hue Lin while looking at her mother’s eyes slowly nodded her head as if she had fallen in a deeper spell of hated, she begin to push the blame for Senior Mrs. Xie’s accident to Li Lian.

"You’ve come back," came Li Lian’s voice when she reached back the entrance of her house. It wasn’t Li Jun Wei who she greeted but Violet who she had sent on an errand for her. Violet bowed her head.

"I have found out what you want to know, Mistress." said Violet and Li Lian who was curious to know the answer to her question was about to ask without knowing the presence of another person in the same room who was in the corner of the staircase, holding to his drink.

"I’m also curious," came Li Jun Wei deep voice, sending a light shiver on Li Lian’s back and she looked at him, finding him walking toward her with a smile on his lips that could stop her heartbeat.

"You are back," Li Lian greeted him with a smile when she was pulled to his embrace.

"I am, work got me a little late but I didn’t expect to come back later than you," he chuckled, and Li Lian leaned her face deeper to his chest where she felt the warmth radiate from.

"I went out a little to visit the hospital. How about you? Is there anything you want to talk about work?" Li Lian questioned, wanting to hear his story.

Staring back at her Li Jun Wei brushed his thumb over her forehead. He didn’t reply almost immediately and showed her a smile before shaking his head, "It’s nothing too important but there are things I need to tell you."

"About what?" Li Lian asked, she couldn’t help but pick up the slight difference in Li Jun Wei’s voice that tells her it was something very important.

"It’s about your family in Japan," Li Jun Wei replied, bringing his words slow so he didn’t sprung the informations suddenly toward her.