Chapter 129

"Remember the times when they were children? Nu Yuan always seek out for Jun Wei for hours whenever she visits the main house and would cry each time she had to go back home." Li Lian wondered why she would bring up the past but didn't think deeply about her words.

"That was when I was still a child, mother!" Jin Nu Yuan pouted her lips.

"While we are on this topic, have you find any men that caught your attention?" Li Rin Zu queried again for rumor and this piqued Li Lian's interest.

"Not yet!" Jin Nu Yuan quickly rebuked. Li Lian had been silently seeing their expression as she can't speak in between their personal exchanges. At the time when Jin Nu Yuan was asked by the question and when she denied the question, her eyes instantly fell on Li Jun Wei. The expression she had was the one that was afraid of misunderstanding.

"But do you remember, Jun Wei when you two were still young? One day when you were playing the cats near the garden with Nu Yuan, you mistook her for a cat and said that she looks very similar to the cat." Li Jun Wei's eyes shifted from his uncle. "Did that happen?" Even though he was sure he could have remembered his childhood, this one he can't remember.

"It must have been a joke." Li Nu Yuan defended.

"No, no, I remember clearly that he said that the two were similar because they are adorable." Mrs. Jin ended her words with a laugh that was followed by Li Rin Zu. Li Lian who felt slowly becoming the odd one out of the family's discussion fell silent. Not that she was jealous of Jin Nu Yuan but she was a little confused by why Mrs. Jin keeps on alluding something along with her conversation.

"I don't really remember that happen." Li Jun Wei stated firmly, hinting Mrs. Jin to stop with her words but the woman seemed to be either ignoring his hint or was persistent with her words.

"Well, we can't blame you for not remembering it. After all, that time about ten years ago, maybe? You were in an accident so perhaps it was the side effect-"

"Alright, alright, we should keep our reminiscent of the past until here." Li Huian stopped Mrs. Jin from continuing on her pace.

Accident? Li Lian rose her eyebrows curiously. She had told Li Jun Wei of her past but they hadn't held a proper conversation of their past. She had many things she wants to ask him, about the wound on his right hands, and also the agreement that started her marriage with him. When she had just woke up from her coma state, Li Jun Wei stated that he married her to protect her but what was he trying to protect her from? She had been too occupied with her revenge that she hadn't gave a proper thought of the matter when it was the most important thing she should have asked since the beginning.

Noticing Old Madam Li was about to stand up from her seat, Li Lian lent her hand for the old woman. Seeing how thoughtful Li Lian was, the old woman nodded between her impressed expression. "Since we are all here, we should not keep the guests waiting for us anymore. Where is Long Hua?"

"I think that son of mind is still talking with his friend, he had been abroad for a very long time, so there must be many things he wanted to talk with his friends. Remember that boy who often played with him? Wei Tsui Lan." Li Rin Zu stated, picking her rounded fan from the side of the couch.

"Oh that boy, he's now aiming to become an actor, isn't he?" Li Rin Zu's husband added.

Li Rin Zu added a laugh toward her husband's silly words. "He is already an actor, darling."

"They must be near the first floor anyway, let's go." Li Long Hua spoke, quickly standing up from his seat hurriedly to go down and stay with his parents. Having the young man beside him standing up, Li Xiao Chen quickly moved like a shadow behind him only for Old Master Li to find him. "Xiao Chen, you're here?"

Pulling an awkward smile, Li Xiao Chen cursed his misfortune and turned his face to see his brother standing beside his grandfather with an uncaring expression while the old man looking at him with a visible frown. "Hahaha, grandfather how are you?"

"You're asking how I am now? Where were you all this time?"

"I've been sitting there?" Li Xiao Chen inclined his head to the side. "Oh! That's right grandfather, do you want to hear a story?" He quickly hopped beside his grandfather and spoke all the story he accumulated.

Li Lian standing with Old Madam Li chuckled a little. "That boy still hasn't matured, right?" Old Madam Li asked her opinion for Li Lian to shook her head. Li Xiao Chen was a person who always held a goofy expression in his face, especially when he felt relaxed. But he wasn't certainly an incapable person. He knows well what to do to creat a good relationship with his business partner and when it came to his job he changed to a great person.

"That's not true, grandmother." Old Madam Li rose her brows. "Xiao Chen often love to joke, however, he is very excellent with his works and that's why Jun Wei always put his trust on him."

"Is that so?" The Old Madam patted her hand at her understanding. Not only do Li Lian understand Li Jun Wei, she also understood well Li Xiao Chen's personality.

"Say, Li Lian," Just then Jin Nu Yuan spoke from her right sight, beaming a sweet smile. "Are you perhaps free next weekend?"

Li Lian felt the girl was a kind one, however, she can't shake the odd emotion she felt from the girl. Being cautious is good after all she had been fooled by her own sister who always feigned a kindness and she know that many women other than Xie Hue Lin are a two peas in a pod with her. This was no different.