Starting the morning with delights, Li Lian stepped out the room in the afternoon, she felt better and relaxed. All her tire had disappeared with the good sleep she had and by being beside Li Jun Wei. While Li Jun Wei left after being called by Xiao Chen, she wondered what they could be talking about. When Li Xiao Chen ca, she saw haste appearing on the younger brother’s face as if this was sothing greatly he need to say.
"Mistress," said Violet who appeared on the end of the corridor and she showed respect by bowing her body.
"Violet..." Li Lian drawled when she saw the woman, noticing how her cheeks seed to be grazed by sothing, "There is blood on your cheeks. Where did you go?"
Violet raised her brows and pulled her hand across her cheeks quickly to wipe the blood, "It is nothing."
"Really nothing?" Li Lian questioned, apart from the blood drawn on Violet’s cheeks, she also noticed how her expression appeared to be dark and a hint of sadness were on her eyes.
"Yes, mistress. Is this maybe the right ti for to report about what I have found out?" The woman questioned, changing the conversation smoothly.
Li Lian thought with how they shared more ti together, Violet might have opened a part of herself to her but that might be her wishful thinking seeing how the woman changed the conversation. Li Lian wondered if Li Xiao Chen know this?
She wasn’t in the position to probe, thought Li Lian.
"Tell about it in a different room," and leaving the place, they went to another place. Once Li Lian had taken a seat, Violet stood instead. "How is it going with my parents?"
"Currently both Mr. and Mrs. Xie are planning to overtake the company. I should agree with the idea of adding new bodyguards beside you mistress. It tends to be during the ti of desperation will people show their true color and kill for their benefits."
"I know," Li Lian played a smile, "I know it well."
Violet looked at the woman who had scars like her, "On the other hand, Miss Hue Lin had not been leaving her house. Her career had been put to a resu for the mont and articles begin to adopt her stories as Xie Company had been handed to you."
Li Lian tapped her finger, "It had been known that the company been passed to soone but they don’t know it’s yet. We should use this chance to make an everlasting shock to the people across Beijing."
Violet nodded in agreent, "Also, this is from what I heard over the maids’ conversation. It is said that Miss Hue Lin is suffering from depression. Her temper had reached to the point that she didn’t hesitate to damage her reputation in front of everyone."
"She is tipping..." Li Lian pulled a smile. How magnificent, she thought. At first she wondered if to see her sister’s last mont before falling in despair would be truly satisfying because such a feeling didn’t co to her when she saw Mrs. Jin suffer. To her violent delights, it was indeed as sweet as she expected. But still it was far from enough. "It is soon their her to fall."
"Did you find anything else about grandmother’s fall?" Li Lian asked. She knew her sister could be annoyed by the fact she overtook Xie Company but it was strange to know that it shock her so much that she could sacrifice her polished stainless image of the naive young lady.
"So far nothing," Violet answer, "The caras in the house doesn’t reflect the staircase and the letter indeed had the sa handwriting as yours, mistress. If I have to point out it would be the fact that Mrs. Xie was there during the ti everyone found the body."
"She was there?" Li Lian raised her eyebrows at what she had missed, "During the body was found she was there with Hue Lin?"
"Yes, and I drew a conclusion that Mrs. Xie might be there at the ti and witness what Hue Lin did."
If the two were there at that ti, and her birth mother saw Hue Lin pushed grandmother, would she report what happens truthfully? "No she won’t," Li Lian whispered to herself, "Which an we do have a witness."
"Why don’t you go and et her?" Li Jun Wei ca from behind her and Li Lian turned her head to et his eyes. He gave her a smile, the sa malicious smile that he showed during the ti he gave Mrs. Jin an offer. "I think you would find sothing by ’talking’ with her."
Li Lian’s eyes brightened, replying his smile with the sa evil thrill, "That’s a great idea."
Back in Xie Family house, the maid scatter when they heard the room of Xie Hue Lin was opened. Xie Hue Lin stepped out with her expression miffed. She had tried to call He Chang Min for nurous ti only for the man to ignore her call. What was going on?
After her mother’s whispers to her, Xie Hue Lin managed to pull herself together. She wasn’t guilty, Xie Hue Lin believed. It was her grandmother’s fault for being on the staircase and it wasn’t her who had pushed her. She did nothing, Xie Hue Lin convinced herself.
"Oh dear, where are you going?" asked Mrs. Xie when seeing her daughter leaving her room with a smile, "You finally look much better."
"It is thanks to you," Xie Hue Lin smiled and she wasn’t wrong. It was because her mother had reminded her hatred of Li Lian did she manage to turn all her stress, guilt, and fear into hatred. It was often the easiest to hate then suffer; to bla others for her mistake and to justify herself. "I will go to et Min-Ge. He hasn’t been answering my call. I am worried."
Mrs. Xie bit her lips, she had a bad feeling about this but regardless nodded, "Be careful on your way."
"I will," smiled Xie Hue Lin and she left the house, closing the door.
Mrs. Xie who stood near the foyer turn her back, wondering when will the n she hire finish their task when she heard the door was opened again. "Did you forget anything, dear?"
"When you kick out of the house? I don’t think I have," answered Li Lian who appeared with a smile. Her red dress were striking, similar to her feeling at the mont. It was finally the day she stepped to the damned house again— the place that had made her suffer. But it wasn’t the house’s fault. It was the people who live here and once they were kicked out and clean, the air of the house would beco much better.
"And even if I did leave anything. Would you be so kind to safe it for until I ca here?" Li Lian showed the woman a smile, watching how her mother’s smile shatter to surprise and shock, her lips only spread wider.
"You! Why are you here?! This is not your place. Leave!" Mrs. Xie demanded, seeing Li Lian in her house only similar to having a ticking bomb.
"In the past you would be mocking first and tell off with a disgusted look. I should say, mother, that expression of fear on your face is much better to see than before," Li Lian said and she snapped her finger for the bodyguard behind her to release the gown guards of the house and closed the door. "Let’s have a mother and daughter’s talk, shall we?"
"I have no business with you," said Mrs. Xie through clenched teeth.
"Well I do," Li Lian shrugged her shoulders, "And I don’t care of your opinion. Tea please," she requested to the maid on her left who was stunned by her words.
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