My Husband Is The Emperor: I Woke Up With A Husband - Volume 1 Chapter 450 431

The hall was filled with many reporters, all was intrigued with what Li Lian had to say regarding the rumors. An act of using drugs had never been taken well by the citizen and worse some people had begun to ask Li Lian to step down from being a singer. Li Jun Wei had done a lot by surprising rumors but once her name had been stained, it was hard to get rid of the entire situation. Cleaning it to white by erasing and banning all media that covered Li Lian’s story would instead make more questions to appear. Therefore, Li Lian prepared her move.

She stepped to her room, finding many cameras that pointed at her sent clipping sounds of shutters from her left and right. Wei Mo Ran stood behind her.

“There are around twenty reporters from WN groups, you should be careful with them as they are affiliated with Xie Company and Million Entertainment-” Wei Mo Ran said with a hint of worry.

“It’s okay. The reporters’ questions aren’t the biggest problem,” said Li Lian, her eyes looking across the room. The problem was her sister, right now the media doesn’t have any concrete proof but Xie Hue Lin does. She weighed the choice between revealing the truth but that would mean exposing Xie Hue Lin in order for her words to be taken as innocent.

Li Lian was ready to expose whatever Xie Hue Lin had done to her, the fact that she almost killed her too, but the little sister of hers had done well by showing no evidence during the time she was almost killed by overdosing. To make it worse, the incident happen years ago which why she could not dig more and have Li Jun Wei to find the perpetrators.

But hiding it would make it worse if someone had leaked the true video which only Xie Hue Lin kept as some sort of trophy.

Making her way to the podium, Li Lian showed an expression of a calm person, clearly something the reporters weren’t expecting as they thought she would show a distressed look.

“We will begin the press conference,” said the person who stood on the left side that organized the conference.

Li Lian nodded when she met the person’s eyes who was in fact Li Jun Wei’s subordinate. Turning her eyes to the reporters, she begin by bowing for more cameras to shutter taking picture of hers. When Li Lian raised her head to begin her eyes stopped at the far left corner of the room.

Haruhi sat on his chair with his legs crossed, his eyes were straight looking deeply on her. Seeing him, Li Lian frowned, what was he trying to do? But the surprise didn’t end there as soon when head head turn right corner of the room, there was Wei Tsui Lan who was brimming with a smile as he waved his hand toward her.

Li Lian put her fingertips over her forehead, she was confused. What was with her luck today?

Not wanting to ask why they were here, especially Haruhi who was one source of a terrible danger, Li Lian resumed to her initial aim, “Today I have come to clear the qualms that surrounds my name and the rumors which I will addressed today are all false.”

At once many questions arose, people from left and right bombarded the room with countless of questions that it was hard to pick one clear question from the reporters that were ready to twist her words if it is what it takes to raise the favorability of the media. As the truth didn’t matter to them as much as money was.

During the thunder of questions, Akasaka Haruhi turned his eyes slowly to see the man who Li Lian had seen earlier. Being a man with a good eyesight it took him only once to know who it was that Li Lian watched. At the same time, Wei Tsui Lan turned his head, his smile widening as he bowed before throwing his gaze away.

Haruhi kept his gaze in silence, and rolled his eyes only after a while.

Once the room had calmed down, one reporter was picked to speak, the man was eager with the chance he got, and without respecting the boundaries as it didn’t matter to them, the man asked, “Earlier, you bowed, was it to apologize for what you have done, Miss Yue? Your records are said to be clear, many of your fans are very anxious about your reply and upset at your past.”

“Only one question, sir,” warned the man who organized the conference which the reported didn’t care as they needed all chance for their work to be done.

Li Lian raised her hand, nodding and she said without her determination deter by the malicious questions some reporters held as she had read their plan from steps away, “I have bowed to show respect and not to apologize for I have done nothing and I will be clear to say that the rumors surrounding me are all hoax and false. I apologize for my fans who had been lied by the baseless rumors that was accused to me.”

Once she had answered one question, another raised their hand forward, standing quickly to say, “So you are denying this rumors, Miss Yue, but from what I had gained the rumors didn’t come from nothing as smokes wouldn’t form without fire. The fact written here said that someone once closed to you had revealed this.”

“And who might that person be?” Li Lian asked, having the reporters surprised as they were used to interrogate but not answer the interrogations.

The reporter that had asked Li Lian indeed came from Xie Company, this time it wasn’t Xie Hue Lin who had enforced the reporter but Mrs. Xie who planned to push blames to Li Lian in order to strengthened her claim when she later blame Li Lian for pushing Madam Xie. Back in Xie House, Mrs. Xie was alone in her room, watching the TV with a twisted smile.

The reporter took some time to come back from the startle and said, “We cannot disclose that information as the person would like to have their information disclose.”

“But I don’t hide myself,” said Li Lian proudly, she stared at the reporter’s eyes, her gaze unbending. “This person claim to be someone close to me but refuse to come out by themselves. They have put a false rumors on me, assuming that I had done heinous things such as holding a drug party which I can attest never happen. Next question,” Li Lian demanded, but by now the reporters had settled themselves on the chair in a momentarily speechlessness.

The reporter believed they were the ones who had the upper hand in the press conference as Li Lian had every blames on her. They didn’t expect Li Lian to be brave and snap back at them as she had nothing to hide or being guilt of.

“Do you have proof against the rumors that surrounds you then, Miss Yue? Proof that you are innocent,” said one reporter who had suddenly stood up when everyone was in silence.

Li Lian raised her brows, reading the name tag on the man’s upper chest pocket to narrow her eyes and read the name of the company he belong. She had been doing the same thing by reading the names for each people who had proposed a question to her, finding one of the work under Xie Company and the other belong to a well-known media company. This reporter was different. He belonged to a nameless company which Li Lian never heard before.

A shadow-like foreboding crawled under her skin. Li Lian didn’t showed how cautioned she was as the man had spoken, “If I don’t have a proof. Do people who accused me has one?”

So far Li Lian didn’t deny the entire rumor, what she had denied was the fact she had used drugs willingly and the rumors that had been tampered, making it sound worse than the truth. In the false rumor, she was said to be willingly took the drugs, which she denied. The reason for her not to deny was to prepare herself if Xie Hue Lin waged a war by putting the video which was taken during the time she was high, drugged by others.

Who knew that the card she held would be used as soon after her reply, the reporter’s smile flashed wider, “Then would you be acknowledging it when the evidence have been exposed?”

The people in the room looked at each other, questioning what the reporter said as he appeared to know more than what the story had been fared so far. Wei Mo Ran grew nervous as she could also sensed something was going off track here. She was about to tell the reporter to sit down when her phone rang. Frowning, she opened her phone and her eyes widened as she saw a short clip of Li Lian using her drug.

Within second Wei Mo Ran received the news, by then hell broke loose on the room. “Ah!” Suddenly one person exclaimed when she had opened her phone, “It’s the evidence!” She yelled and everyone immediately turn left and right, taking their phones out to read what was written and the video that had been sent.

Like oil poured to the fire, the room turn rowdy again. The particular reporter who had asked the question didn’t budge from his seat to keep his eyes on his phone, as if he knew it would happen.

“It seems the evidence we have been waiting have appear, what do you have to say now, Miss Yue?” questioned the same reporter with a tilted grin.

Wei Tsui Lan enclasped his fingers, his eyes slowly shifting to look at Akasaka Haruhi who was sitting far yet also near at the same time with a slow smile spun on his lips.

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A/N: Sorry for the late update everyone, I have just came back from surgery and felt very lethargic. The surgery went well, there is nothing to worry, but I might be a little off in update timings as my condition isn’t the best~~