Chapter 522 - 532: Karma-II

The dining room was more merry than it had ever been. With Xiao Chen moving away to live with Violet in a different house which was actually right beside theirs, their house had been quiet as the newlywed was busy with their own lives while Li Lian and Li Jun Wei was busy with the second pregnancy.

"There must be a lot that you can't eat," said Elder Li. "I remember my wife also had the same problem."

"Yes," answered Li Lian. "I think I vomit more often in the morning than the time with Wei Yuan. Thankfully, grandmothers have helped me to take more nutrients through drinks," she says while wiping her son's mouth.

"Though the taste never guaranteed," Li Jun Wei added that had the rest of the people inside the room to laugh. 

"But believe me when I says it is one of the most tasty drink you could ever had during your pregnancy, when it was during my time, we were given a hundred time bitter drink," answered Senior Mrs. Xie.

"Of course, it doesn't make any pregnancy easier when we had to drink the bitter medicines," Madam Li answered. "I heard you would be leaving somewhere tomorrow, Li Lian? Should I accompany you?"

"I will be alright, grandmother, I will be going with Violet to pick some things," answered Li Lian with a smile, having the elder woman to nod.

"Back for this few days, Li Lian had been wanting to endeavor things on her own," Jun Wei said, "She claims that she is getting chubbier even though she looks no different than usual."

Li Lian elbowed Jun Wei lightly, nudging him, "He has a sweet mouth."

"Of course, pregnant women often told to stay still but I have been on your place so I know how stifling it feels to be told you need to stay quiet," Madam Li said, agreeing with Li Lian as the elder woman had went through the same phase, "But be careful as much as you can Li Lian. I wish I could come with you but seeing my schedule don't match I don't think I will be able to come."

"Don't worry, grandmother I have Violet to accompany me," Li Lian said, turning her eyes to look at Violet who nodded with a smile.

"I will make sure she would be safe, grandmother," Violet said promptly.

"Oh dears, you are also my granddaughter now. I am wondering if we should hire more people..."

"You see now?" Li Jun Wei raised his eyebrows with a grin on his lips, "I am not the most overprotective in this house. We all wish for you to be protected."

Li Lian scrunched her lower lips, "You should help me to convince them I have enough bodyguards."

"Well for one, I am on grandmother's side," said Li Jun Wei with a shrug of his shoulders, looking at Li Lian lovingly before kissing her forehead, "There there, I promise I won't hire more bodyguard for you."

"I hope you stay true to your words for the entire month," she muttered with a chuckle. "I think I am going to the toilet."

At her sign, Li Jun Wei immediately pushed himself from the chair, holding one of her hand while wrapping his other hand on her back. Li Lian's smile widened at this action of his, loving the attention he devotedly gave to her.

"They are so glued to each other you won't believe they have been married for more than five years now," said Li Xiao Chen who then looked at his wife with a wink, "So, my wife, how many great randchildren will we gift to our grandparents?"

Violet heaved her breath, pinching his cheek or his embarrassing question, "Once this childish side of you grow up!"

The dinner went on with everyone had a wide smile on their lips. The family had never been completed for her, thought Li Lian as she looked at the people all around her. Once the rotten stems had been cut and discarded, she never felt this happy before and at peace. Things that went on now was a past to her, the past that lead her to happiness. She was sad, and had lost someone precious but through every crooked path she walk, she finally found her happiness at the end of the tunnel.

"Mama!" Wei Yuan called her. Seeing her son Li Lian can't help but to continuously smile at his chubby cheeks.

During the next day on afternoon, Li Lian went on as she planned to buy a few ornaments for Christmas and also Wei Yuan's birthday.

Carrying Wei Yuan on her arms, she looked at her son as they entered to the second shopping mall, standing before the door, Li Lian just saw her son's feet, "Oh no, Wei Yuan, where is your shoes, dearest?"

"I lend it to the teddy bear!" Laughed Wei Yuan innocently, chuckling when Li Lian tickle his sides.

"I will go get it for you," Violet offered.

"I'm sorry and thank you," Li Lian said, receiving a nod from Violet, "I will wait here."

Watching Violet left, Li Lian played with he son again, "Next time don't lend your shoes to the teddy bear."

"But he looks cold," reasoned Wei Yuan.

"Do you know, Wei Yuan that actually your teddy bear isn't feeling cold? He lives without shoes and putting one on him without receiving his permission is wrong," Li Lian reasoned back to her son using her illogical answer.

"But the teddy bear cannot speak."

"That would mean, my love, he enjoys the way he look now. Let's help the teddy bear when he ask for help okay? And when someone ask for help, what should you do?" Li Lian questioned.

"Help them!" Wei Yuan answered cheerfully.

"That's correct, you deserve a kiss!" Li Lian had only pressed her lips on her son's cheeks, having him burst into laughter when she heard a man trashed to the ground.

"Leave!" Shouted the man who was wearing the black suit, the guards of the mall.

"You should know who you are talking to!" Shouted the man to the guard. "Believe me, I am someone who know the owner of this shopping mall! Let me meet him and I am sure he will immediately come to help me."

Li Lian saw the man from the side, looking at his tattered clothes, his greasy hair that make him look like a homeless man. It was Mr. Xie. 

It had been years since she saw her birth father and she remembered she had lifted the ban of people from rejecting Mr Xie's plead for help though it appears that now people still doesn't want to help him.

The guard was like an unmoving rock, blocking Mr. Xie from entering and said sternly, "The owner had stated clearly he doesn't know you. Sir, a kind word of mine but if you have lost everything you need to build yourself to reach your previous status to talk with our owner. If you still being adamant and force your way in, we won't be kind!" 

Li Lian couldn't exactly say she sympathize with Mr. Xie after all she went through. There was nothing more heart wrenching than the time your family forsake her. Others can condescend her for all their life but once her family denied her for who she was, her world has been destroyed and her heart bleeds. The bleeding now had stopped and she only had scars but that never meant that she had completely recovered from the disappointment.

She looked looked at her father, noticing how still appear prideful and she shook her head. "Some times it take a person four life to finally change themselves for the better as well."

"Mistre—Li Lian, this is the shoes?" Violet came and asked, showing the red shoes.

Li Lian tear her eyes from the person of her past and look at her current family, nodding her head. "Yes, that is the shoe, thank you Violet. We should enter now."

Violet nodded her head, following Li Lian beside her before looking at Mr. Xie. 

"The Karma wheel had moved," whispered Violet.