Chapter 269 - 269: Calling The Unknown-III

With the smile from Xie Hue Lin disappeared, Li Lian notice how her sister had put down the farce she had been parading the entire time. Her face looked shock and fearful that had Li Lian's eyes narrowing in thought. By a single mention of an old friend of hers that came from Japan, Xie Hue Lin's face turned as dark as a the night sky and it wasn't for a reason.

Pushing the situation, Li Lian smiled and continued, "He had been staying in Japan for a long time and had just came back today to meet me, to see if I am healthy or in case if I am in a dangerous situation to help me." Li Lian stared down at Xie Hue Lin who was shorted than her and Xie Hue Lin's face turn paler each time her mind process Li Lian's words. "He also came to stay at this hotel. Do you want to meet him?" added Li Lian and Xie Hue Lin's steps went further back.

Xie Hue Lin apprehensively look at Li Lian although she didn't completely show her fear but it was clear enough to see even by a blind person. "I think I will refuse."

"Oh, why?" Li Lian gasped and covered her mouth, "I thought you were curious to know who I met with. Well I wouldn't force you." Li Lian turned her eyes around from her sister to her nails as if checking if it's alright and slowly added, "Since he would come here soon."

Xie Hue Lin turned alarmed. Li Lian could see how her younger sister felt stressed by her words to the point that her face had not only lose blood but her hand began to shake. When Xie Hue Lin saw Li Lian raising her hand to touch her, the woman took even more steps back in fear.

"I think I will be going home early today." said Xie Hue Lin when Li Lian's words came to struck her like a thunder. Without waiting as if a grim reaper was in hurry to chase and hunt her life, Xie Hue Lin bolted out of the party hall and Li Lian watch how Xie Hue Lin had ran away as if seeing a ghost. The face Xie Hue Lin had where she was soaked with fear reminded Li Lian of when Xie Hue Lin first saw her again.

Li Lian crosses her hand, her fingers tapped over her arm. Xie Hue Lin had tried to kill her with the help of someone in Japan who targeted her life. She clenched her hand, not only did Xie Hue Lin killed her, she worked with someone who wanted her life. Li Lian couldn't understand why Xie Hue Lin hated her nor will she try to understand. But Li Lian still could not wrap her mind on how a blood sister could hate her own sister to the point of killing. Somewhere it made her doubt. Was Xie Hue Lin really her sister?

Li Lian's eyes faded whether Xie Hue Lin was her blood sister or not, she would complete her revenge that slowly had took wheel without Xie Hue Lin noticing. While Li Lian was in thought in how she should complete her plan her phone she held on her hand suddenly rang. Looking down, Li Lian read Li Jun Wei's name and her smile widened.

"Jun Wei?" asked Li Lian when she had answered the call. Her ears than slowly processed the words said by Li Jun Wei slowly with his tone that brought up sadness, Li Lian's eyes widened.

At the foyer of the hotel, Xie Hue Lin stormed out in a hurry. She entered the car prepared and toss her heels once she had entered the car. Her manager looked at her in a worry, wondering what was going on as Xie Hue Lin would never miss the chance where she could boost her popularity yet now before the party end, Xie Hue Lin had ran out.

"What's wrong, Hue Lin? We still have time-" Ku Chenxiang started only for Xie Hue

Lin to glare and shout at her,

"Shut your f.u.c.k.i.n.g mouth!" The gentle facade of Xie Hue Lin had shattered beyond repair. Her hand clasped against each other out of fear and her teeth sank to her lower lips as she remembered Li Lian's words. Ku Chenxiang was shocked that her mouth was open in wide a gape.

No way, thought Xie Hue Lin to herself. She didn't want to believe it. Now that Li Lian is alive and escaped from the accident what would happen to her? They told her it would b alright but this was past alright! She couldn't bear with the anxiety and stress to know that Li Lian could kill her soon.

Once her car arrived at her house, Xie Hue Lin slammed the door of her room entering in a hurry and make sure the door was locked properly with keys. Walking around the side of her bed, Xie Hue Lin bend down and took the brown old box she stored beneath her bed so no one could find it. There was a small padlock to secure the box and Xie Hue Lin moved to take the key she hid behind a shelf.

Bringing the two things together, Xie Hue Lin opened the lock and her eyes stared at the black phone that was old. A year ago, Xie Hue Lin had been warned not to use the phone unless necessary but she couldn't bear with the stress and fear of death and left with no choice but to use the phone again.

Once Xie Hue Lin had turned on the phone, she pressed the only person in her contact number B-180. Her throat gulped before she called the number. There was no other way she had to do this, Xie Hue Lin braced herself for the call to start. For many minutes the call didn't start until at the last two minutes the voice appeared, "Speak."

Xie Hue Lin gritted her teeth. The voice was still the same as she remembered as it had only been one year since their call passed. Knowing to what extent this man could kill others, Xie Hue Lin had to be careful. Last time she managed to have her life intact because they had the same interest while now although they have the same interest, she wasn't sure if the person need her assistance.

"H-Hello." Xie Hue Lin spoke with her lips stammered. She hoped the man wouldn't kill her but her greed to kill her sister was larger than her fear.

"No need for the pleasantries." The person replied, the voice cold and had been changed so Xie Hue Lin couldn't guess if the person was a man or a woman. "You have something to request by calling me now. What is it."

Xie Hue Lin apprehensively replied, "It's about Li Lian. She is still alive and today someone from Japan came for her! She told me that the person is staying in China to help her!" With the person asking her, Xie Hue Lin believed it was better to tell the person everything. "Could it be they came to kill me now?" she asked and her teeth ground on her own words. She was afraid to die not when her sister was still alive.

"How could that be?" The person spoke tonelessly. "There's no one from Japan who came for her. She fooled you and you got fooled by her words." There was a mock tone on the person's voice.

"No!" Xie Hue Lin denied and her legs shot to stand on the ground. Anxiety filled her heart where the thought that soon she would die now stay at her mind. Remembering Li Lian's smile only made her felt worse. "She is not lying! Every time, every time I met her, she was always touching my shoulder as if she is warning me that next time she would kill me! She had found out about everything and this is because that day your people failed to kill her!"

"Are you saying that this is my fault?" The man asked her and his tone felt rigid, not liking how Xie Hue Lin had blamed him.

Xie Hue Lin who had forget who she was talking to out of anxiety quickly faltered, "N-no! No! I only... it was a slip of tongue. I'm sorry," she apologized. She couldn't afford getting on this person's bad side as if she did, what would be lost was her life.

"I thought you have forgotten who you had been talking to." The person spoke coldly and Xie Hue Lin could sense the still anger from his words. "In any case she wouldn't do anything such as that. Not her or her family in Japan." The person continued to reply, "Don't do anything too bold in front of her don't act and hide what you know if you fear to die."

Xie Hue Lin heard the apparent warning clear and felt her hands to sweats, "I-I will."

The person continued, "You have still one secret you wouldn't want either of your family or sister to know keep your head low and only think in how to avoid anyone knowing your secret. Next time you call me have your head clear or else this call will be over forever. No one would guarantee your life."

Xie Hue Lin couldn't reply anything but, "Yes." she was too afraid to die but afraid to offend the person either. Once the call ended, Xie Hue Lin's hand she clenched into a fist tightened. Li Lian thought Xie Hue Lin. Since Li Lian came back to Xie Family, it felt like she had been pulled into a dark hole of bad luck where she couldn't climb away from.

When her room was knocked, Xie Hue Lin put everything aside to its place before stepping out to meet her family with her face smiling that without anyone placing their attention to her hands which were still trembling.