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

Mrs. Xie was on guard with the suddenness of Xie Hue Lin’s question. It appeared on the surface that her daughter was calm but Mrs. Xie could tell there was madness in Xie Hue Lin’s eyes, the deep hatred that she sowed was now blooming into a raging anger which was further fueled after what had happened the other day.

"If it is money—"

"He would not want money," Xie Hue Lin begin to raise her voice, "He must want more, something that would benefit him. If only we have anyone from our family members who has a high grade status in the police force... No! We do have one, uncle! Mother, uncle is your brother he would be able to help you, wouldn’t he?"

Mrs. Xie bit her lips, "It has been a long time since I talked to him and we had a discord."

"But it is still something you can still fix, right? Right?" Xie Hue Lin clutched to her mother’s dress. She knew now, her source of misfortune was Li Lian! When Li Lian was issued to be dead, she was living her fullest life but now that she came back and steal everything that was once hers left and right.

To end her misfortune she needs to cut the thread which is Li Lian.

"I suppose I can," finally replied Mrs. Xie who had been holding back her answer.

The mother and daughter then called the number. Xie Hue Lin was grateful that she had put the second phone which B-180 gave her in the beginning that now is useless in her hand inside the box and hid the other phone for her communication. She was confused why He Chang Min would want the phone and how he even knew where she had hid the phone at but pushed to think about the reason in the back of her mind.

A lone thought swirled inside her mind and it was only to kill Li Lian at all cost.

They didn’t delay and called the number, faced with the stable monotonous note similar to a metronome and Mrs. Xie felt oddly nervous. She didn’t ask Xie Hue Lin why she would know anyone dangerous; it wasn’t that she was not curious but she could not care less as what is important to her now was to shut Li Lian for good.

The call was quickly connected, and unlike the transformed voice, what Xie Hue Lin was a deep voice of a man, "I thought I told you and stressed it enough that I do not call me unless I have decided to call you first."

Xie Hue Lin felt nervous and Mrs. Xie could tell that this man was dangerous for her daughter’s face immediately paled as if she had just met a grim reaper. "I have brought someone who wish to ask for your help, she is my mother."

"Mother... ah, Mrs. Xie," Wei Tsui Lan laughed softly in realization. There was a clear tinge of condescending laugh but who were Mrs. Xie to get angry about it. She did not know who she face but she knew it wasn’t someone she could mess with.

Even though Wei Tsui Lan had frequently met Xie Hue Lin as he worked in He Chang Min’s company to keep a fake profile, the woman still doesn’t seem to notice who he was by his voice which he couldn’t blame as Xie Hue Lin’s memory was no less than a goldfish’s capability.

"I can guess what you want based on a few information I have gathered. You want the company back, don’t you?" Wei Tsui Lan questioned.

"That and I need to erase evidence which are held accountable by Li Lian," answered Mrs. Xie, subtly placing a polite tone rather than her usual demanding ones. "I need her dead."

"Like you daughter," and him but Wei Tsui Lan refused to elaborate and giving less information could turn into his trump card. "Sadly there is nothing you can offer to me, Mrs. Xie. I have my money, guarantee to escape from prison, connection with both the mafias and police. Tell me why should I help you?"

Mrs. Xie clenched her hold on the phone when she knew there was nothing that she could offer. "If there anything you would like me to do and if I am able to do it, I promise to give you what you want."

"Anything?"

Somewhere Mrs. Xie felt the need to rethink her answer but she had no choice and was firm to reply, "Anything."

"Even to kill?"

Though hesitant, Mrs. Xie was an ambitious woman. She could kill her mother in law, who else could she not kill? "Who do you want to kill?"

Wei Tsui Lan tapped his foot on the table in front of him, his eyes curving with menace and his lips moved to named who he wants to kill.

"It won’t be easy to kill that person," Mrs. Xie begin to regret agreeing to the man’s offer.

"I can promise that I will take back Xie Company for you if you can execute the plan well, Mrs. Xie. I am true to my words and you daughter can vouch for it." Mrs. Xie shifted to look at Xie Hue Lin who nodded.

"He helped me before."

"But it is still a tall order," Mrs. Xie tried to negotiate, straining her side of bargain to take hold of more advantage only to hear the man laugh. There was no mistaking of the warning and taunt in Wei Tsui Lan’s laughter.

"We can discuss more advantage for you again if you can actually give me the result I want," and the call ended from his side, allowing no room for Mrs. Xie to negotiate or bargain further.

She clenched her hand, biting her lips, her eyes rolling left and right. "If this is the only choice," whispered Mrs. Xie. Xie Hue Lin beamed a smile as it mean her mother had agreed to B-180’s side of bargain that also mean soon, she would be able to see a lifeless Li Lian and earn back her position as He Chang Min’s fiancée.

Without further ado, Mrs. Xie called the people she hired, keeping a few men to watch over Senior Mrs. Xie and kill when opportunity strike while at the same time passing her other order to kill the target who Wei Tsui Lan had told her to.

The next one day passed uneventfully which was peaceful to Li Lian who had to take care of Xie company. In Li Jun Wei’s study room which now held another table for her to work at, she submerged herself in the documents, her lips muttering in whisper of what she had read.

"The cost of the project is too high than what I want," she whispered to herself.

"Then maybe you should think of another alternative," Li Jun Wei’s words surprised her delightfully. She looked up, eyes meeting him and her smile widened. "We finally got a little clue of that B-180 who was sent to kill us."

Li Jun Wei placed the phone, explaining, "It took a little more time than the expected for the delivery man to pass the phone and Zhuang Xuan to see whether there are any tracker inside it."

Li Lian turned on the phone, seeing the call list, "It is all B-180’s."

"It is Wei Tsui Lan," Li Jun Wei confirmed and why was she not surprised? After reading more to the documents Zhuang Xuan gathered, she still could not find any reason why Wei Tsui Lan would want to avenge his shrewd father but then villain often born from villain. Maybe he just could not accept for loosing his father, disregarding the reason why.

"Whose phone is it?" She then asked.