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

Li Lian who was in the corner of the room felt that it was wrong for her to hear the two quarrel, from what she could seem it appear that Li Xiao Chen’s and Violet’s relationship had wane instead of progressing. Though she did heard a little form the conversation, she dare not make any sort of opinion or conclusion about the fight. Though interested, she also knew this wasn’t her matter. But strange, why was she always in the situation where she found the two of them together?

Li Lian made her way to the study room where she would have time to think of the things that were busying her mind. She still couldn’t shake off her deep anger against Mrs. Xie, who she had just exposed to be the one to push her grandmother to the deadly fall. It disgust her to think that Mrs. Xie was her biological mother, the woman who had given birth to her, enough to make Li Lian want to find out or a way where she could draw all the blood that came from her family with a new one.

In the beginning, Li Lian wondered from who had Xie Hue Lin inherited her godawful character only to find out now that it all came from Mrs. Xie. Li Lian thanked the generation skip for it had spared her from her family’s loathsome disposition.

Li Lian then decided to think about her current most crucial matter which was the war with Wei Tsui Lan that was around the corner.

"Mistress," came a voice of the maid that startled awake Li Lian from her thought. She turned away and the maid offered a polite bow, "Elder and Madam Li are here to visit you; they are waiting for you in the sitting room."

Last time Madam and Elder Li visited her to speak about the reason why the accident that happened with her and Li Jun Wei was supressed and kept as a missing case. She asked herself if there was anything they forgot. As she thought it might be about Li Jun Wei and that it would be dire, she flew to the sitting room, opening the door to find both Madam and Elder Li sipping their green tea.

"Li Lian!" Madam Li quickly called her name with a bright tone, "Sit here, there is something very important we want to discuss with you."

For now, there doesn’t seem to be a grave matter, thought Li Lian to her relief. She took a seat on where Madam Li offered her to. Taking the seat, she then heard the woman asked, "Which would you like? A western or Chinese wedding? Personally I love the traditional ones better as I can tell how the red wedding gown would suit you so much like a lovely princess."

"But Western wedding procession is more modern and we won’t fall from the fashion," said Elder Li who jumped to the conversation with a delightful intonation.

Li Lian blinked. Once. Twice. Thrice. Wedding? Naively, she turned her head to the two elder couples, asking with a clueless expression, "Whose wedding?"

"Who else, silly girl," chuckled Madam Li with a chuckle, "It is of course yours and Jun Wei’s marriage, my dear."

"Mine?" Li Lian gestured her index finger toward her, asking another confirmation as if earlier wasn’t enough.

"Yes yours!" Madam Li laughed again over Li Lian’s scrambled look on her face, she had always looked like a gentle and calm child to Madam Li’s eyes which why she could not help herself but smile over Li Lian’s clumsy attitude to the surprise. She truly found the news surprising.

"But I am married," Li Lian answered; the sudden firework of news caused her mind to work less faster than before.

"What my wife means is the wedding ceremony, Li Lian," Elder Li punch up as a help, "We both know it was the circumstances and nothing could be done about you two marrying in a very..." the man hang his words, trying to rummage a better fitting word.

"Unique," said Madam Li and Elder Li nodded his head vigorously, pointing his finger as if to gesture that was what he wanted to say.

"Method but I am sure like any other bride out there as well as my wife, you wished for a normal marriage. What’s the most important about marriage is the celebration as it would happen only once in your lifetime," the man said with much encouragement.

While Li Lian’s head goes blank that she couldn’t properly count the calculation of one plus one, both Madam and Elder Li continue their buoyant rant of which dress to choose and what kind of ceremony is better only to settle for both. Pictures for the wedding reference was laid out on the desk, the two were animatedly volleying one conversation to the other while Li Lian sat blank, staring at the ocean of white and red traditional Han wedding gowns. It was beautiful but at the same time, a shock to her.

"If Jun Wei didn’t tell us, we might have forgotten how we have missed this most important step," Madam Li intoned after watching Li Lian’s silence, but apart from the silence, the woman also didn’t miss the wide smile etching Li Lian’s lips.

"Jun Wei did?" Li Lian didn’t know that apart from planning for the upcoming danger and war, Li Jun Wei was also thinking about their wedding— something that didn’t even pass by her mind.

"He did. He is also the one who gathered this albums and choices for us to take as a sample for the wedding. All of this,, which you might like," and truly, upon seeing the gowns and dresses, it was all similar to what Li Lian would love, in fact it was spot on. "There is also the Japanese traditional wedding. Reminds me! Can we have a contact to your family in Japan, Li Lian?"

Li Lian blinked at this part, "You would like them to be there?" Of course, Li Lian would undoubtedly call her family in Japan to come and visit her wedding as they were the only family who treated her well and someone who she could feel a bond to, but she was surprised to know Madam and Elder Li would welcome and invite them with open hands. Indeed, this are the family who had raised Li Jun Wei with love and care.

"Of course, we cannot forget them."

"Maybe we should instead come there, it would be terribly troublesome if everyone from Japan have to come to China , we can hold two wedding ceremonies," suggested Elder Li.

"I have also been thinking of the same," Li Jun Wei said when he pushed the door open. "I am back. Grandmother, grandfather, thank you for coming today but Li Lian look a little startled, can you come tomorrow again to discuss this?"

Elder and Madam Li looked at each other before nodding, "We will leave this albums here," said Madam Li and they left while still joyfully chattering about the wedding.

"I didn’t know you planned for this," Li Lian said, taking one of the books to her hands.

"I have promised," Li Jun Wei gave her a smile, "I promised to give you everything you wish for and I heard from Shin that you have always dreamt for a wedding ceremony. As your husband, I am here to fulfill what you wish."

"Thank you," Li Lian said to him sincerely, from the bottom of her heart. While her life continuously met dangers and people who betray her small expectation, she find herself a family, a loving family that also helped her to understand that she wasn’t alone, that she had another family in Japan who is more of a family then her biological family ever felt like.

"All for you. Sorry to interrupt you while choosing the gown, but something urgent came up," Li Jun Wei said and as he took a seat beside her, he passed a file which he had been holding on his left hand, "I asked Zhuang Xuan to search deeper to Wei Tsui Lan’s past, did you remember?"

"Is this his file?"

Li Jun Wei confirmed as a yes, "I find something strange. He might actually be someone who you know, or to put it in better word, he is related to one of the person whom you know but not due to a good term."

Li Lian raised her brows, her head tilting and she took the file to read it and perused the file only frowning deeper, "This person... he is Wei Tsui Lan’s father?" At first she questioned who this person might be then she recalled who it was upon seeing the man’s face. She could never forget him after all he was the one who had caused a grave danger upon her years ago...