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

The maid was torn on what to do. While the mistress of the house was Mrs. Xie, she could not deny the leading air Li Lian had which she couldn’t refuse even though she had been the one who forced her way inside the house.

"Don’t give her. Leave," Mrs. Xie ordered, her finger pointed the door. 𝒻𝓇𝑒𝘦𝘸𝑒𝒷𝓃ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝒸ℴ𝘮

Li Lian pulled a sad face, "How sad. You know, dear mother. I always have loose lips when I feel sad. I am someone who always whine when tears wet my eyes and maybe I would speak what I shouldn’t by mistake," Li Lian stared at Mrs. Xie’s boiled expression and with a smile she pulled her finger underneath her eyes, "Look at that, something is about to fall from my lips."

"Fine!" Mrs. Xie said, alarmed that Li Lian would actually spill her secret. If there as a list of what Li Lian would do and what she wouldn’t, tittle tattling her secret here out to everyone must be Li Lian’s greatest pleasure and it was something Mrs. Xie could not allow.

"Show me the way to the sitting room. If I am tired I tend to whine too," Li Lian waved her hand while looking at the tips of her fingernails.

"You know the way," said Mrs. Xie with gritted teeth as she felt like her status had turned into a maid.

"Do I?" Li Lian pulled a surprise expression and while looking around the house with her eyes, her smile fell. "I only remember how cold my night was when I was driven out of this house. How my tears are uselessly shed to cry for people who doesn’t care for me, and how painful it was to be stabbed in my stomach, the shattering glasses that sliced my skin, and lying on the hospital like a corpse. Now tell me, mother. Do you think I would remember the way to the sitting room much better than this scar?"

Mrs. Xie clicked her tongue and harrumphed as she left to show her the room.

Li Lian pulled her smile again and walked two steps only to stop. She pointed her hand to the maid who was still standing near her, "Bring me a tea, a dandelion tea. Mother must have some. I remember how much she liked it."

The maid knew how the tea was treasured by Mrs. Xie and hesitate until Li Lian said, "I will make sure you will be paid handsomely if you would do me my favor."

The maid bowed and walked away, doing her bidding.

Violet who was standing beside her can’t help but chuckle over Li Lian’s little act that manage to lit more rage in Mrs. Xie while at the same time cornering the woman to unable find a help for herself.

When the tea came to her hand after taking a sit on the drawing room, Li Lian pulled the tea to her hand, "What a great fragrance. Dandelion tea. Just perfectly as I remembered."

"I thought you have forgotten everything about this house," said Mrs. Xie who couldn’t hold her tongue in anger.

"Did I say that?" Li Lian showed an oblivious look, "No worry, mother like you I hate being in this house. We can hold this conversation very briefly and shortly. I have some offer to make with you and you can reply me with yes or no. One thing to remember is you have to be very careful upon deciding this."

"I have nothing to offer with you nor talk with you. Do you think that with only the company you have won? This is bare-"

"Barely the beginning," Li Lian answered with a clap of her hand, stealing the word from Mrs. Xie’s mouth. "You won’t believe what I say when I told you how much I have been waiting for this, mother."

"Stop calling me mother!" Mrs. Xie raised her voice, to keep hearing Li Lian calling her mother only brew more hatred and anger in her.

"I told you," Li Lian’s smile fell from her vivid red lips and her eyes that look at Mrs. Xie was overtaken by a gaze filled with malice, "When you tell me what to do it only drive me more to do what you dislike. Don’t raise your voice to me again. This is my last warning or you will regret it."

Mrs. Xie could tell Li Lian wasn’t kidding with her words. Both the gaze and Li Lian’s words grazed her neck, like a dagger and if she were to swallow a gulp or lose her balance, it would be her neck that she cost.

"Finally silence, you are noisy you know, mother. Maybe you don’t have to offer but I do have something I want to you," Mrs. Xie’s eyes narrowed when Li Lian pulled out a cheque on the table.

"Money?" Mrs. Xie scoffed, "What you want is money?"

"Simple, isn’t it? So I want money and I want you to pay me forty million yuan. What do you get for paying this money is," Li Lian pulled her index finger to her lips, "My silence about what you hid will be tight on my lips if you do so."

Mrs. Xie’s fingers on the armrest tightened, "You are blackmailing me?"

"I would say persuasion but yes if you use the harsher word it is blackmail," Li Lian answered without feeling a shame.

"And you think I would nod and write whatever amount you wish?"

"You won’t?" Li Lian raised her brows and begin to lay her trap, "I won’t tell about the two secrets you have been hiding for all this time."

"Two?" Mrs. Xie asked, confused. If one thing that had been revealed by Li Lian it would be the fact she had cheated on her husband. What was the other one? Mrs. Xie wrecked her brain and she could only find one more secret which was the ’accident’ or Senior Mrs. Xie, her mother in law.

"Yes two, the first well, I don’t think I have to tell again, right? And the second one took place not too long ago, in this house," Li Lian showed the woman a confident smile as if she knew what happened when in truth she had only faintly guessed it, "You remember? What happened that night when you stood with your daughter in front of the staircase."

Mrs. Xie’s face loses color at once. Her first secret had been found by Li Lian that she didn’t consider the possibility of her being played under Li Lian’s tricky plan. Her eyes widened while she looked at Li Lian, "H-How do you know about that?"

"It’s easy I had some of my own informations and a witness," said Li Lian which was an utter lie. "Surely you don’t think everyone in this house is on your side, do you? Paying someone to be on your side is easy, mother."

"They won’t believe-"

"They will." Li Lian cut the woman’s words, pushing her further to the edge of the cliff, "Why? Because my words weigh more than yours. Once I reveal Hue Lin’s true identity do you think your words would be believe ever again? Should we bet?" Li Lian leaned forward to intimidate the woman which worked, "Come on. Use your head a little, mother. If I told them that night that you-"

"No way!" Mrs. Xie shrieked, pulling behind showing fear to her eyes, "No one was there. No one saw me pushed her other than Hue Lin. You are lying!" yelled the woman who then gasped on her own words.

Li Lian’s smile that was wide with malice then fell all of a sudden her expression turn into a pure shock and she could only resist herself to mutter, "What?"

The one who had pushed her grandmother wasn’t Xie Hue Lin... but it was her!