Chapter 293 - 294: Short Dinner-I

When the call ended, Li Lian then saw him pushing the phone aside, that had her remembered, "I also met Wei Tsui Lan. He knew I could speak Japanese fluently. Something about him is... off." Li Lian didn't know how to put what she felt when assigning Wei Tsui Lan. He was odd, something about him had her irked like the way he spoke as if he knows a lot about her.

Li Jun Wei's eyes narrowed, his eyes flickered with an emotion, "How off?" He asked her.

"He tricked me by using another person to test my ability to speak in Japanese then I questioned him a few questions, of how he knows that I could speak fluently in other language when he said that he learned it from rumors." It made Li Lian to ask just how many rumors were about her that Xie Hue Lin had spoken to others? If the rumors said she could speak other language, wouldn't that be a good rumors and something like a praise?

Li Jun Wei brought his hand from his lap to her hair, taking the uneven side to straightened the ends, "Do you think he knows about you?"

On the question, Li Lian shook her head, "I don't know. He didn't seem like he is lying but also didn't seem like he is saying the truth either."

She heard Li Jun Wei hummed in response, his eyes that were always intensely looking at others now stayed calmer, "I never knew much about him either, his family is a simple family, not much to note on and that he is the only son, Ye Hua told me about this as they are friend since middle school." That would mean he had to find many other backgrounds of people to find how deep rooted their problem was.

Li Jun Wei who then looked at her gave a smile, "I didn't get to ask this yesterday too, how was your day? In the reunion." He added with eyes intrigued to know.

"A few people made some stifling trouble, but you saved me the second time." Li Lian das how Li Jun Wei raised his brows in question, wondering what she meant and she continued, "Is it a set rule that all Li Family members are exempt from paying when they stay in places under Li corporate?"

So that was what she meant, thought Li Jun Wei and he smiled at her, "Paying a few wouldn't make the places go bankrupt and it is better before some came to me using this as their pretext."

"Pretext?" asked Li Lian to him.

"There was once a problem regarding paying and any other things they could fault-find." answered Li Jun Wei and he stood up from his seat to pick a glass and a jar of water that had been freshly changed by the maids before he went home.

Li Lian watched him walked away from her side and watched his broad back that was now covered by his black vest. Her eyes fell to see the proportion of his body, truly it made her wonder how Li Jun Wei could keep his body even when he often stay in the company. Does all CEO have more time than she thought they do?

"Was it Mrs. Jin?" Li Lian guessed, she could see why if it is them. Mrs. Jin and Jin Nu Yuan were couple of people who love to abuse their power and see other felt pressured or feel scared of them not that she could understand.

She caught Li Jun Wei turning his body just slightly, "They did but the worse I remembered was Li Ye Hua's parents, they made a scene just to meet me at the time."

"For what?"

"To help them over their issue," he replied to place the jar and walked to pass her the glass, "A drink?" He asked and Li Lian took the glass from him to murmur him a thank you.

Li Lian held the glass on her laps while Li Jun Wei stood in front of him, "And you helped them?"

Li Jun Wei watched how Li Lian seemed to be smaller that he was now standing in front of her. Leaning his elbow on the wooden pillar of the bed he pulled one side of his lips, "I did for something in exchange, it was good to see them feeling broken over two options. They never learned, believing that I would helped them to settle their issues that started from their greed. They fell to a bank scam, almost a billion dollar was taken off their credits. Ruen helped me to catch the perpetrator."

"It's good that the scammer is found." said Li Lian, responded by Li Jun Wei's smile that looked as if he agreed to her words.

Li Jun Wei then reached out his hand to settle it over the curves of her cheeks, as Li Lian didn't expect his touch to be cold on her warm skin, in reflex, Li Lian pulled her chin away from his hand slightly until she calmed the tingling sense on her cheek. "I heard you song, it was a lovely one, I'm sure you will receive a reward for it and congratulation, I didn't get to say this yesterday in the hospital."

Although it was slightly late a day, Li Lian felt happy and her lips widened into a crinkling smile at his words. To her thoughts, receiving Li Jun Wei's words were far different than the praises or congratulation others gave her. It made her felt rewarded that he had heard the song.

"Thank you." she whispered and saw him leaning forward. Thinking that Li Jun Wei was about to kiss her cheeks as his hand on her cheeks tilted their face for her cheek to be exposed, she felt a soft texture on her lips that were brief as he pulled himself away. Li Lian watched him moved from her face to straighten his back, his smile was also wide across his lips that she couldn't help but to admire the view.

"Tomorrow all my relatives would come, be careful of them and keep you eyes and ears open." Li Jun Wei told her. He would be there by her side the entire time as no men would be stupid enough to let their wife exposed in danger.

"I will." Li Lian replied. It was clear to tell from Li Jun Wei's words how his relatives were not the best and that they all want the position where Li Lian had.

"It would be fine if you keep your back open because I will be there," his voice sweetly coaxed her heart, making Li Lian unable to stop herself from smiling too wide.

Li Jun Wei knew Li Lian was a bright one, she knows how to protect herself and from his family. She may thought that the extent his family could do was to bully her but it was far worse. Since the past, the wealth Li Family had make others greedy where people would even kill their own siblings to acquire the position of the family's head. He had heard it from his grandparents and all this time he survived to not be the next one killed.

At the same time, the door to their room was knocked and Li Jun Wei who had stood up made his way to stride toward the door, opening to see a maid. Li Lian who was curious stood from the bed, making a slight freak sound when she pulled her body by holding the wooden pillar and she stood behind Li Jun Wei to see the same maid who she had talked with this afternoon standing in front of the door, facing Li Jun Wei.

Unlike the expression the maid had while talking with Li Lian that was calm and collected, now, the maid's face carries fright and startled. The maid didn't know that Li Jun Wei had come home, thinking it would be Li Lian alone as she only heard her friend said that Li Lian had come home. With Li Lian's friendliness, the maid thought to speak a little with Li Lian and she didn't expect to meet Li Jun Wei.

The maid wring her hands together in front of her waist, bowing politely, "Madam and Master, have been waiting in the dining room, they request for everyone to come to the dining room." Li Lian saw how the maid seemed nervous as her eyes watched the floor that was clear and saw her own frightened expression.

Li Jun Wei was never known for being a person with a harsh personality like Mrs. Jin, Jin Nu Yuan, or the other relatives but they all know how Li Jun Wei prefer to keep his distance amongst other. Although there had never been cases when Li Jun Wei had gotten angry, there was one time the maid remembered clearly four years ago of how angry Li Jun Wei was and since that day, the maid swore never to offend Li Jun Wei to be the one next to have his ire directed to.

"Tell them we will be there." and at Li Jun Wei's toneless reply, the maid bend her back to bow, closing the door with politeness and made a dash away from the room like a mouse who had just seen cat.

Li Jun Wei turned his face and met Li Lian's eyes who was staring at him intently, "They all fear you." She stated with her brows furrowed. "They shouldn't be scared of you when you wouldn't harm or eat them." To know that Li Jun Wei in other's eyes seen as frightening didn't sit well with Li Lian. It made him feel lonely to her eyes.

"I don't need others to know about me, as long as you do not fear me." said Li Jin Wei, his smile at her was soft that didn't appeared to the maid earlier.

Li Lian smiled at him, "I wouldn't." How could she ever when Li Jun Wei was the kindest person she ever met who had showed her love?