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

Entering the house, Li Lian could feel how the people eyes on her. It reminded her of her first time coming to the house starting from when she had just left Japan.

Since her teens, Li Lian was not very keen on being on the spotlight whether it was a good or bad attention. She remembered passing by the hallways, overhearing the maids’ discussion.

’That’s is her? The girl that is said to be the long lost daughter of the madam and masters? She looks very plain,’ said the first maid.

’What else can you expect she lives on the countryside. She won’t look like a princess while Miss Hue Lin is born with silver spoon under her mouth,’ the second maid said, ’though I expected more of her since she is the first daughter but what can we do? Not only does she looks plain, she look very gloomy.’

In fact, Li Lian wasn’t at all plain. She had been a beautiful girl. Xie Hue Lin on the other side had always went through treatments for her skin which caused her to glow while Li Lian had been naturally beautiful but the maids often compared them together and they were biased to the younger miss who they knew better.

But the worse comment wasn’t that it was this: ’The people who had raised them in the countryside must have been saint. I mean, I wouldn’t even want to take care of a lost girl who then bite my hand by leaving to her birth family who is more well off. That kind of unfilial girl, I wonder how can she even be sisters with our kind young miss.’

Li Lian had been angry but much more think of herself as a bad person. While the maids talk was completely false, it was true she had left Ryouma Clan.

It was three years after that when Li Lian started to hate her own decision and herself for letting go of such a beautiful family where only kind souls reside.

"Are you alright?" Li Jun Wei wasn’t particularly liking the house. It was beautiful in term of structure but the place was filled with only painful memories for Li Lian which didn’t sit well with him.

"I am, it is just that watching the walls there are memories I remember better now compared to the time we came before," Li Lian answered with a smile.

Maybe Li Lian in the past would have been sad. Before she fell into coma, she had a very kind heart, so kind to a fault. Right now, she was still the same kind person except she doesn’t allow anyone else to hurt the people around her any longer and he would do anything to protect those who are kind to her.

Those who see her would know how much her demeanor had changed. The once simple girl now walked confidently, she will not take the stand to bow over others anymore. Her tall heels and red bottoms clicked on the floor with a crisp movements as if to warn the people in front of her to make way for revenge.

"I feel the need to burn this house down. The building is not at fault but the people here had turned this place to hold so many harrowing memories for you," Li Jun Wei said with a sincere look. While he had do whatever he could for Li Lian now, there was still limits even for the Emperor of Beijing. The past was not changeable even for him.

"While this place is indeed the Hell I would like to refer it to, there is good memories here..." Li Lian stopped her feet all of a sudden, causing both Li Jun Wei and the maid who had taken the responsibility to lead them to turn their heads.

Li Jun Wei didn’t have to ask what was wrong when his eyes caught the staircase in front of them. The same staircase which had caused her grandmother to fall.

"But even those memories have been gone on ashes," Li Lian uttered before wreathing her hands around Li Jun Wei’s strong arm. "Maybe it is a good idea."

Li Jun Wei’s face broke to a smile, "We should see through everything before doing whatever you wish for."

"Let’s go," agreed Li Lian.

On reaching the room, the maid was too afraid to get caught up in the middle and left. Li Lian stopped her when she offered to open the door. When the maid left, using her leg, Li Lian kicked open the unlocked door.

The loud burst caused the three people in the room who had been waiting on them on edge to flinch in surprise.

The expression on their faces were quite a sight to see for Li Lian. She saw her mother’s face paled while a red pattern was around her face. Xie Hue Lin glued to her mother as the girl knew there was only her mother she could relied to.

Mr. Xie, on the other hand, had his expression stunned before he forced out a disgusting polite smile.

One look at each faces, Li Lian could see all their intentions and the thought they had in mind. 𝕗𝗿𝕖𝐞𝐰𝗲𝕓𝐧𝕠𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝐨𝚖

"I am back," Li Lian smile in a greeting which faded slowly as her eyes turn hollow. "Did you miss me, mother, sister? We didn’t meet each other for a month I trust that you have been waiting for me."

They had been waiting for Li Lian, of course, her words were correct. The past one month both Mrs. Xie and Xie Hue Lin waited for Li Lian to come to their house while being on edge. They remembered of Li Lian’s warning hat she would come soon and they had been threading on the days with fear that one day in one bright afternoon Li Lian would knock on their doors and kills them.

Mrs. Xie gulped, trying to calm down her hateful eyes that didn’t miss neither Li Jun Wei’s nor Li Lian’s watch.

"W-What might bring you here, Li Lian?" Mr. Xie asked, his hand was held politely.

Li Lian hummed as if thinking what she wanted and she said, "I need a chair. Two chairs for me and my husband."

"Chairs?" Mr. Xie was taken aback by the demanding order Li Lian had said but he still had some intelligence on him to know that he was on the lesser side of the bargain. "I will tell the maid to—"

"The chairs is right beside you, Mr. Xie. Why don’t you help us? I don’t see it’s necessary to bring more people in this room I dislike being in a place with too many places."

"Y—" Mrs. Xie tried to hold her words that almost slipped from her mouth.

"What is it mother?" Li Lian asked with a smile that make her look harmless when she was far from it.

Mr. Xie glared at his wife, resulting to Mrs. Xie to bite her lips.

"I-I will bring the chairs for you two, make yourself comfortable, please." Mr. Xie never thought that one day would come this day where he would have to become submissive and obedient to the demand of someone below him. Mr. Xie deep down believe he was above of everyone and to be ordered around didn’t sit well to him but he didn’t have any choice.

The chairs were quickly pulled across the floor, causing a high-pitches screeching sound, "Ah, don’t pull them it’s too noisy, Jun Wei doesn’t like loud noises," said Li Lian as she look at her husband who smile at her. Both Mrs. Xie and Xie Hue Lin clenched their hands, angry at how they took this like a joke while they were on the verge of breaking.

Mr. Xie grumbled under his breaths and this time dragged them so the legs of chair won’t hale on the floor.

Now that the seats were placed, Li Lian took a seat, having Li Jun Wei sitting beside her. She reached out her hand to her bag but her husband had helped her sweetly by holding her bag in her stead and giving the documents she needed.

Li Lian looked at her family who went quiet, "Please don’t be on edge, I am here only to speak about a few things and it is up to you all to take the words I said and do what you want to do with it."

"You came here to break our family!" Mrs. Xie said, cursing under her breaths.

Li Lian’s eyes moved silently at Mrs. Xie and Mr. Xie glared sharply at her wife, "If you don’t have anything better to say then shut up!" warned Mr. Xie loudly. He then turned to both Li Lian and Li Jun Wei, "I’m sorry for her words she is a little on edge—"

"Yes," Li Lian answered with a wide smile pulling her painted lips, "I am here to indeed break this family apart. Though what I will be doing is only a single push as from what I see this family is only a phoney to look perfect from outside when in truth everything here is on verge of breaking down."