My Husband Is The Emperor: I Woke Up With A Husband - Volume 1 Chapter 449 430

Mr. Xie came back to his home with an inexplicable emotions. He went toward where his family had gathered, seeing his wife coming toward him with a questionable look. Seeing that he didn’t reply, she finally pressed, “What happened?” demanded Mrs. Xie. “How did it goes with grandmother, did you manage to visit her?”

“No,” Mr. Xie replied to see his wife frown. He has more concern, however, and suspicions since Li Lian pointed the truth which he wasn’t able to see. He was aware his grandmother had bad eyesight that she needed a glasses to read, then why would she read in the stairs with the kind of eyesight?

“I want you two to answer me truthfully,” Mr. Xie said, his eyes moved toward Xie Hue Lin whose face was still pale after shock which cause him to feel that maybe he was wrong to doubt them. Unable to shake what Li Lian had said to him, he decided to clear the confusion that he has once and for all, “When grandmother fall was you two near there?”

Xie Hue Lin’s hand clenched tighter, her eyes wide but she stared at the floor so Mrs. Xie wasn’t able to see her expression. On the other hand, Mrs. Xie was shocked, she frowned her brows deeper, “Did you hear yourself, dear? You are doubting that we were the one who pushed mother? How could you!”

“No, I was only asking whether you were near,” Mr. Xie continued his question, receiving his wife’s anger.

“Enough! You cannot do anything against Li Lian and now you are blaming us for such a heinous thing like pushing mother from the stairs? I know you are shaken but you are going out of line!” Mrs. Xie didn’t wait for her husband’s words, leaving after taking Xie Hue Lin with her to Xie Hue Lin’s room.

Xie Hue Lin was shaken after her father’s doubt. Her hand wring together when Mrs. Xie took a hold of her shoulders, “Don’t worry Hue Lin, you did nothing. Your father didn’t know about anything and I have made certain no one was near us when it happen.”

“But father,” Xie Hue Lin drawled, seeing her mother shaking her head.

“No, in the first place it was your grandmother’s bad luck and her nosiness that lead her to fall from the stairs. She deserves what was coming for her. You are not wrong, my daughter,” Mrs. Xie convinced Xie Hue Lin who was shaken.

“What about you then?” asked Xie Hue Lin, “Mother if father found out about this, you will go to jail!” She exclaimed in horror, revealing what others didn’t know and the truth of the culprit who had pushed Senior Mrs. Xie was in fact not her but her mother.

Mrs. Xie looked at her back with darkness thickening in her eyes.

That night after hearing a noise near them, Mrs. Xie and Xie Hue Lin’s eyes snapped away toward the staircase. Xie Hue Lin’s expression grew worse and when she met her mother’s eyes, she found her gaze looking wide.

‘Stay here,’ Mrs. Xie said, warning Xie Hue Lin not to leave. She was concerned but didn’t move. Waiting for a few minutes, Xie Hue Lin who pressed her ears near the wall gradually come to hear a clearer noise of two voices speaking. One belonged to her mother and the other sounded familiar but she couldn’t point her finger whose voice it was as she was standing afar.

Xie Hue Lin continue to step back and forward, her feet moving in anxiousness. Unable to hold her curiosity that get the best of herself, she left the side of the wall, making her way toward the staircase when a loud gasp escaped from her mouth.

Her eyes shook on horror as she witnessed her grandmother lying coldly on the ground. Blood trickled from the third case of the stair starting from bellow and she shifted her eyes up to see her mother’s huffing for breaths in a hurry as if she had use a lot of her energy or perhaps it was the nervousness that mess her calm breathing. Both her arms were raised high in a clear stance after pushing someone.

‘M-Mother,’ whispered Xie Hue Lin, unable to believe what she had seen.

Mrs. Xie was startled and she shifted her eyes to look at Xie Hue Lin’s face that turn pallid and her trembling body. Xie Hue Lin might not be scared or feel an ounce of guilt upon seeing Li Lian dying, it was her goal to kill her older sister, erasing Li Lian’s existence. But that was hatred that numb her moral reason to not feel any guilt upon seeing Li Lian’s suffering. Her grandmother might dote on Li Lian, always being on her side, but Senior Mrs. Xie had always been an equal person, loving not only one granddaughter but both of them.

Since before, Senior Mrs. Xie had also been on her side, and now she has died. Wallowing in shock, Xie Hue Lin’s attention broke only when Mrs. Xie clutched her shoulders, shaking her to bring her back from stupor.

‘A-Ambulance, we need ambulance,’ Xie Hue Lin said, remembering that her grandmother need help as soon as possible.

‘No!’ Her mother stopped her, pulling the phone she took out and clenched on it with iron grip, ‘I need your help,’ her mother said as more blood flowed from Senior Mrs. Xie’s head, the two of them didn’t call ambulance immediately. Instead, they chose to hid what happen by forging letters and push all the blame to Li Lian.

Back to present, tears rolled on Xie Hue Lin’s cheeks. She was torn from not wanting Mrs. Xie to be put to prison and guilt to witness her grandmother’s accident without helping her. She didn’t know if she should keep the secret but the consequence would be great. Her father would know that she wasn’t his daughter, and her mother would need to serve sentence in jail. Li Lian won’t show mercy if her mother was in court.

“W-What should we do?” Xie Hue Lin who never been the best in thinking strategy asked her mother.

“Don’t worry,” her mother engulfed her on her embrace, “I will come up with something. We have no witness, only one victim who is also the witness,” she said, “Id anything goes wrong, we only need to discard the witness and everything would go back to being alright,” she convinced. This was also the reason why Mrs. Xie didn’t want Li Lian to take care of Senior Mrs. Xie. It had only been two days since the accident but Mrs. Xie knows she should kill the older woman soon or she would ruin all happiness that had never been there in the house since the beginning.