Chapter 346 - 327: Putting to Work-II

Li Lian's day became busy with the promotion where she had to be on the stage for a TV music program and sang her song there. As it was her first time to be there, Li Lian felt excited than fear. It had been years for Li Lian to sing on the stage and she had gotten used to singing in front of people. She didn't feel any more stage fright and what came to her was only excitement.

Wei Mo Ran who was on her phone saw her son's picture which was sent by the caretaker who had always taken care of her son while she was at work. Li Lian bend her neck, to see the picture of the son and remembered how Jen Qiling was similar to Jin Suzheng. Both, having the same infidelity problem.

"Is that Sian? He is very adorable," Li Lian started, gaining Wei Mo Ran's attention and the woman smiled at hers agreeing to her words like a mother she was. "Last time you said he won the mathematics first place? I am sure he would grow up to be a boy with many secrets admires."

"I only wish him the best and to teach him how to treasure people beside him," answered Wei Mo Ran. 

Li Lian could guess the deeper meaning of Wei Mo Ran's words. She wishes to teach her son not to repeat the mistake his father had done to her. To not grow up as a  man who cheated on his dear wife.

Li Lian encouraged the woman, "They said a rotten apple tree would only produce rotten apple but they are wrong. You know, out of all apples on the rotten tree, there was still the baby apple that struggled to grow up. Whether the baby apple would turn rotten or now, is up to who was the gardener taking care of the baby apple. What's on the root isn't important but how they were tending as growing up."

"The caretaker," Wei Mo Ran smiled at Li Lian's words. "You are right."

In the silence Li Lian looked away from the picture as Wei Mo Ran continues to slide the pictures, watching every one of them with a motherly smile. Li Lian wasn't sure if she could speak freely but she thought she should. "Mo Ran can I ask you something?"

Wei Mo Ran took note of how Li Lian asked for her permission as if it was a question that wasn't easy to ask. It was part of Wei Mo Ran's work to hear Li Lian's question and help her go through her emotions but that wasn't only the reason. With Li Lian, Wei Mo Ran had thought of her more than only a singer under her but a friend.

"Anything," said Wei Mo Ren, waiting for Li Lian to ask.

Unable to ask the question to others, Li Lian asked, "How do you know Mr. Jen cheated on you?"

It was perhaps an intrusive question but Wei Mo Ran could tell how Li Lian was trying her best not to make her question sound nosy, like a person who wishes to poke her nose on everything.

Wei Mo Ran shifted her eyes, her finger sliding on her phone where the picture of her son was. "Have you know that my mother in law was the one who forced him to find a better woman than me?"

"I heard," Li Lian answered her question.

"On my way back home from the hospital, she was there at my house. In rejoice, she told me that I could know to forget about the child living in my stomach because soon she would have the proper grandchild she wished for," a sadness passed by Wei Mo Ran's face but she smiled not to make herself look stronger but because she had seen everything Like pages of her past where she didn't feel any more emotion by looking back at the memories. 

Li Lian, who didn't want to interrupt her didn't speak a word, she gave Wei Mo Ran the time she needed to speak beside her in silence. 

Wei Mo Ran continued, "Jen Qiling came back home not soon after my mother was there. He apologized and I interrogated him on how long he had been cheating on me. He said a few years but I learned it was more than two or three years. It was a mess up situation yet he still told me he loves me after making me feel like a fool," said Wei Mo Ran. She opened her heart and feeling to Li Lian because somewhere she felt like Li Lian was the ear she needed in the feeling she had. 

"I'm sorry," whispered Li Lian, she didn't know it was a harder past to tell.

Wei Mo Ran shook her head. "No, don't be. The only person who should apologize to me isn't you but him and that mother of his," Wei Mo Ran then turned her head, this time asking instead of replying, "why do you want to ask me this?" She can't see Li Lian as someone who would suddenly ask as even before Li Lian didn't ask, knowing that it wasn't a good memory but this time she had asked her.

"Can I ask something else before that?" On Li Lian's question, Wei Mo Ran nods her head to her. "Would you better not know of all the lies, waiting for someone to tell you about your husband cheating, or to find out on your own?"

Linyue was a good woman thought Li Lian. She could tell the woman had been living with wealth since her childhood but unlike Jin Nu Yuan, Linyue was a person who was with a very pure diamond-like heart.

Li Lian could tell that Linyue must have doubted Suzheng with the man who uses every excuse to leave the house but because she wishes to trust him, but she was fooled by his lies. The man appeared kind outside but he was nothing than a rotten apple born from the rotten tree.

Li Lian wished to help Linyue. She knew to learn the betrayal later as she did or Wei Mo Ran did would be more painful as it makes one confused a distrust others who knew but kept quiet about the heartbreaking event.