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

"It turns out when I met my mother they live through poverty. Both my mother and my sister cannot even afford the cake which I bought for them when we met again. They were dressed in a tattered clothes, and my sister, even though she was at the age where clothes and look mattered wore her school shoes outside because she cannot afford anymore shoes," Wei Tsui Lan explained.

Li Xiao Chen could tell it wasn’t any time soon that the man would kill him because he seemed to be taking leisure time in telling his life story.

"Then buy her shoes," Naomi commented, gathering the attention of others on her she crossed her arms. "Skip reminiscing about your past and come out with it. How did his grandfather killed your mother and sister, and what does my sister have to do with this too?"

"One question at a time, Miss Naomi," Wei Tsui Lan used a calm tone against Naomi as if he was enjoying her anger that only angered her further.

"Of course I bought her shoes, I gave her money too. Only the next day I learned that the money I gave her was then taken by her step-father who my mother married again for gambling. I also learned later that he was involved in a great gambling debt. You asked me what Xiao Chen’s grandfather did? He was the loan shark who lended my mom’s husband’s money. And that resulted to the great fire which took both her and my sister’s life."

Wei Tsui Lan recalled it as if it happened yesterday. He decided to visit both his mother and sister with worries. The last time he had seen her, he remembered the bruises on their face and bodies. It was clear the injuries was caused by her current husband.

He had planned to take his sister with her. After consulting with his adoptive parents, both of them was quick to agree and help them.

He came to their house with a wide smile, wondering if he could fulfill the promise he made as a child to bring both of them to a trip to the Sea.

Wei Tsui Lan was walking on the street where the apartment was when all of a sudden a sudden blast rang in the whole neighborhood. The sound was so loud that he couldn’t mistaken it to be less louder than an exploding bomb.

"It’s fire!" Shouted the elder woman who was standing not too far from him.

Another person who had came from the other end of the street ran and yelled, "A fire broke out in Xiangyung building! We need help!"

Xiangyung? Wei Tsui Lan tied to take a hold of himself, pulling to see the paper his mother had given where her address was written. His heart sank when he saw the name of the building was written there.

He didn’t gave anymore thought and ran, ran as if his life depend on it, forgetting about how he had fallen on the ground and pushed himself to stand once again.

When he came to scene, the building was on fire, the large red monster taking everything down and charring everything it touched.

He heard a louder noise from the side, seeing the firefighter who had just escaped the burning house, "Not good, there are still more people. Take the survivor! Move!"

Wei Tsui Lan dragged himself to the ambulance, hoping it was his sister and mother whom he seen but instead, it was the man whom his mother had married.

"SunJin! SunJin!" The man yelled as he was carried by the other firefighters. Upon coming closer, Wei Tsui Lan saw how the man’s entire face had been burned and covered by bandage. Only his mother’s name could be heard coming from the man’s mouth.

"I am his family!" Wei Tsui Lan shouted to have access and come to the man. "Where is my mother?! Where is she?"

"The house...! She is still in the hours. Those bastard cut the gas and lighted the fire! They killed them! They killed SunJin and my daughter!" The man continued to yell and Wei Tsui Lan wanted to hear more of his words only for the doctor to take hold of his hand.

"Sir! You can talk to him once his situation become better. Do not disturb us for the sake of your family’s safety!"

Wei Tsui Lan couldn’t care less about the warning. He needed to know who those bastards were! The people who killed her mother and sister!

But everything was too late. The man went to coma and had to be taken into a better hospital while he met his mother and sister again in the coffin box.

Coming back to the present, Wei Tsui Lan sucked the smoke from the cigarette he held between his index and middle finger.

"What will you do if you were to find out someone killed your family, Xiao Chen?" Xiao Chen who was in shocked of what he learned showed a blank response.

Wei Tsui Lan chuckled and answered to his own question, "You will kill them. I know you would because I had seen your records. There was this one past you have that isn’t as pretty as everyone would thought. Putting four people to the hospital after they had allegedly harmed your brother... I can see how you have that dirty blood of Li Wen Zhou! You are no less than your grandfather! Just like him, just like your older brother as well!"

Shock came over Li Xiao Chen. He knew his family’s business spread high and low both illegal and legal. The illegal things they did was covered and some killing was done, but he knew both his grandfather and brother wouldn’t kill innocent people.

He clenched his hand, "How are you sure it happened because of my grandfather? Why don’t you think it is possible that someone else had done it?"

"Everything was recorded in the only CCTV that your grandfather tried so hard to erase. In that video the men whom worked on the loan shark company was seen tampering the gas line of the apartment. Which then resulted to their death. But everyone was on your grandfather’s side, the police, the lawyer, and the judge. All because the money you had!" Wei Tsui Lan released the cigarettes and stomped it with hatred.

His eyes then quickly moved to Naomi. "And you. You wondered what your sister then did? They killed the last two people whom I treasured, my adoptive father and mother, Mrs. Wei and Mr. Wei. I am here to take revenge for these four people with your brother and sister’s life."