My Husband Is The Emperor: I Woke Up With A Husband - Volume 1 Chapter 479

It started like a crawl under her skin, then her eyes felt burning. It was a quick process but Li Lian could feel it slower than it happened in her mind. The anger simmered her blood and her eyes fell on her hands. She clenched her wrist, trying to stop herself from bursting out of anger.

A murderer, Li Lian thought while looking at Mrs. Xie. This woman wasn’t her mother, it disgust her to the bone that she was her daughter. “Will you sign the money?” Li Lian asked, her eyes that now stared back at Mrs. Xie were red and she stifled down the anger on her throat, pushing it back so she won’t feel anything but numb.

Mrs. Xie was too focused with her panic of being found out that she didn’t notice Li Lian had only found out about her vicious act just now. When Li Lian passed the pen, the woman took it in haste. The tip of the pen ran close to the paper only to stop when it placed a dot above the dotted line.

“How can you guarantee you will keep your words?”

Li Lian looked at her mother and a smile appeared on her lips that grew wider as peel of laughter spilled all over the room. The laughter she shed was far from amus.e.m.e.nt or north, it brew something more sinister that her mother barely could tell.

By the time Li Lian leaned back her body to the chair, her smile had disappeared from her face and a empty look came over her face where darkness overfilled her eyes, only murderous idea passed by her mind which she could barely contain, “Do you think there is your place to negotiate?”

“You are blackmailing me without anything that could benefit me? Not even your silence?” Mrs. Xie asked with a shocked face.

“Yes,” Li Lian answered, “And to your information I have enough money I can make I am not desperate. It’s not the case for you isn’t it?”

Li Lian left the house after she had the cheque signed by her mother with the amount she wanted. Mrs. Xie stood in front of the window of the house that allowed her to see Li Lian leaving the house and entering the car. Her jaw clenched and she reached out for her phone, “Change of plan. I want someone else for you to kill,” said the woman while her eyes fixated on Li Lian.

Li Lian closed the door and she sat on the car seat with her hands clenched together. Li Jun Wei who had been waiting inside the car turned his eyes and it was clear how his eyes softened. His fingers touched her cheeks where tears fell from her eyes.

“I am not sad for myself,” Li Lian cleared the air, she needed to say it aloud as it was beneath her pride to say that she was saddened by her mother’s behavior. One said that orphan is the most pitiful creature in this world, but to Li Lian being an orphan was a blessing rather than to be born from a woman and man like Mr. and Mrs. Xie.

“It was her, not Hue Lin but Mrs. Xie who had pushed grandmother from the stair.”

Li Jun Wei was surprised but it wasn’t enough to make him question the woman’s action. Xie Hue Lin’s twisted character came directly from her mother, it appeared.

“Grandmother didn’t deserve this. She was a good person,” Li Lian blinked away the tear that slid only once and anger took place on her eyes.

“She was indeed a good person but good person is always the person who is caught by the crossfire. Exactly because they do not move cause them to be wounded,” Li Jun Wei replied. His words were cold but that was the truth and truth always sting. He caressed his hand underneath her eyes, “Do you have an event you want to change in your plan?” He asked as if he knew what went on her mind.

“Yes,” Li Lian answered, she had turn evil but she thought it was worth it, “I want to put her through worse than we planned.”

“I will help you,” Li Jun Wei offered and Li Lian felt a little sting on her heart. “Whatever you want. I can show you how to put her into more pain than she could ever withstand.”

“I wonder if I will be putting you through more sins just because you choose to help me with this revenge,” Li Lian said, “I don’t want to stain you.”

Li Jun Wei pulled a wider smile, “I cannot be stain, Li Lian. I am black enough that no sin can stain me.”

“But you are not,” Li Lian whispered, she knew deep inside him, Li Jun Wei had never done thing purely out of evil. He was selfless and that selfless love of him was what amazed her.

“To me if I am stained in your color or for you, nothing matter to me. It is my pleasure. I promise I will make her kneel in front of you and your grandmother,” Li Jun Wei answered, kissing her hand as an oath. “But before that we would need to make another person pay for what they did. The day for us to put Tsui Lan down is around the corner.”

Li Lian nodded slowly, her eyes turning determined. She wasn’t an unreasonable person. For people she love she could sacrifice anything and she won’t attack anyone unless they put a move on her love ones. A melody played on the back of her head, a ghastly string-like melody that her head produced or perhaps her heart, warning her of the war that would come soon.

Far from the car that rode back to the house, in the hotel located in Shanghai, Wei Tsui Lan stood in front of the terrace, feeling the wind and he opened his eyes to look at the man whose collar was on his clutch while his body tilted over the veranda.

The man’s eyes quake in fear when he looked down on the ground which was very far below him. “M-Master! I-I can explain…!”

“Speak then,” Wei Tsui Lan pressed, his eyes uninhabited from emotions. “What did you tell me about your failures of taking Haruhi’s life? Was the work I put you through that hard? Hm?” He turned to the rest of the men behind him, raising his eyebrows but no reply came as they didn’t want to cross his anger further.