My Husband Is The Emperor: I Woke Up With A Husband

Without Li Lian visiting them, the Xie Family should have been in their most peaceful time. They were supposed to if not for the fact that over the count of minutes, Xie Company had slipped from Mr. Xie's fingers and now they had nothing. Worse, Mr. Xie had been fired from the company, leaving them only for a few days to work their life with the leftover wealth they had. 

Days passed with both Mr. and Mrs. Xie fighting against each other for the lack of money. 

"You should have been kind to her!" Yelled Mr. Xie early in the morning. The servant knew that in the exact time it was often for head of the house to fight with his wife. Therefore, the servant had left and emptied the surrounding.

With many of the servants fired because they couldn't afford to pay their wage, the remaining servant tried to hold into the job as long as they could while preparing to find another job.

"Kind to Li Lian?" Mrs. Xie shouted back in horror, "Did you not see with your own eyes what she had done to Hue Lin?! She shot her!"

"Didn't she shoot her because you both had done something?" Mr. Xie raised his brows.

Being blamed didn't sit well with Mrs. Xie, "Why didn't you acted kind to her then?! You cannot blame me alone when you were the first person who didn't like her!" 

"I might have not like her but you should have been less demanding and less cruel to her. If you did so, she would have spared our company!" Mr. Xie pushed the blame to his wife.

In the past Mr. Xie was a proud man. He often wore the most expensive suit he could afford, a golden watch on his thick wrist. Now, the man had been stripped from all his privileges he believed he was entitled to have.

With lack of sleep, dark circles stood out under his eyes. The stubbles had overgrown and he looked haggard as he wasn't able to sleep with the shock and disappointment of how he had lost all his status in mere seconds.

His hair was greasy and oily, unkept that only had Mrs. Xie to look at him in disgust.

"How can you blame me when I had only followed your lead? The one who suffers the most in this house is me and Hue Lin! Did you not see her in fever after being shoot by Li Lian? And you can still speak about her here?" Mrs. Xie demanded back, "Unlike you, I have tried everything to gain back our company. But here you are, blaming me for everything! Why don't you leave this house and find a way to work? We need money and you are the head of this family!" 

"I had told you I tried! I have tried to find work and contact everyone I know but they didn't want to help me. All of them are only garbage!" Mr. Xie kicked the chair beside him, startling Mrs. Xie.

Xie Hue Lin who watched it all happen had her eyes wide in shock. Anger and upset grew more in her heart. She swore. She deeply swore in her heart that one day she should avenge herself and bring down Li Lian!

Their hard days will only last for a few months and maybe year for worse but she knew if she tried, there should be a way for her to stand back on her feet and put Li Lian in worse shame than she felt right now.

"Madam! Master!" The maid run inside the room, standing beside the door, passing by Hue Lin in haste. Her expression looked filled with fear for she remembered what had occurred a month ago.

"What is it?!" Mrs. Xie who was still venting her anger by words snapped her eyes, "How could a maid like you come and disturbed—"

"It is the young lady Li Lian!" The maid shouted, "She had come and request to meet you."

Colors disappeared from Mrs. Xie's face and even Hue Lin who had just prepped herself with the swear to kill Li Lian turned even paler as the wounds on her legs still remember the searing pain of the bullet that went through her flesh.

"Tell her we are not here!" Mrs. Xie ordered at once, her voice sounded like a shrieking mouse who had just realized it had been trapped. 

"No! What are you saying?! Let her in," said her husband that staggered Mrs. Xie. The woman looked at him as if he had two heads. "We need to please her. Maybe if we do that, she can see that we had learned our mistakes. When she come here, beg for her forgiveness." 

"No! Have you lost your mind? Why would I—"

SL.A.P!

Mrs. Xie who was still speaking had her face turned to the opposite side in an instance. Her eyes were blank as her hand went to cover the same cheek that had been slapped by her husband.

"W-What did you do?" Mrs. Xie was in surprise because no matter how low of a man Mr. Xie was, he had never slapped her but now he did.

Xie Hue Lin was even more in surprise as she watched how her entire family broke in front of her. The happiness she had a year ago without Li Lian where she was doted, where everyone around her live in a peaceful happiness on top of Li Lian's death shattered.

Now, Xie Hue Lin felt herself standing inside a ship with a hole. Slowly the water entered the ship, drowning it by more time that passes.

It all happen because of one small push Li Lian used, causing the domino effect.

"I will warn you once again and you!" Xie Hue Lin flinched when her father shouted at her. "Respect your elder sister and ask her forgiveness. I want our two to be sincere and if you are not don't blame me for being merciless!" 

Outside, Li Lian and Li Jun Wei stood before the might Xie Family's House. That was how it is in the past, however, thought Li Lian with a smile.

"Jun Wei," Li Lian called and Li Jun Wei looked at her with a smile.

"Is this about the three children? It won't be easy for you but I am sure we can make them soon. We have enough time when everything ends."

Li Lian's cheeks blushed, "You have gotten bolder, haven't you? Speaking about such thing now. I will show you tonight the effect of your words," she said, ignoring her pink ears and turning her face away.

Li Jun Wei couldn't resist but nip her ears, causing her to yelp. Before Li Lian could express her irritation, he came nearer, whispering, "I should say that to you."

"Milady, master, the madam and master is waiting for you inside," came the ginger word from the maid who was nervous. When Li Lian came last time, she had turned as a witness when seeing Li Lian coldness in shooting her own younger sister while the man beside him who was handsome, only stared with disinterest.

The two were monsters to the maid's eyes, beautiful and deadly monsters.