Chapter 374 - 355: Sweet Home-III

Li Lian went to take a seat soon after her little sister had gone. As she bent her knees to rest on the couch, Li Lian watched her grandmother slowly walking to her left side where there was a single chair. Deep down Li Lian wondered what was her grandmother want to say that she can't have anyone else apart than her in the room?

Her grandmother took her hands, placing it over hers to squeeze, "I have been thinking to say this earlier Li Lian before your mother and father could disown you from your house. Until now I could not understand your parent's choice or why they hated you over trivial things which could be forgotten easily. As your father's mother, I apologize in his stead," her grandmother bowed her back slowly as she was old and her back hurt when she bent too deep.

Seeing her grandmother bowed, Li Lian's eyes widened and her hands quickly shot up to hold her grandmother's shoulders. "Please don't do this grandmother, it wasn't your fault." 

It was her father's fault and her mother' s fault. They blinded their eyes with disgust as soon as they know she was raised by Yakuzas which made them to have very less opinion about her. With the seed of displeasure growing on their heart when she first came to the house, it grew abundant with Xie Hue Lin's provocations. 

Sadly enough, a parents could hate their own daughter for being raised by Yakuzas after she had been kidnapped. A simple question of 'are you alright living there' would have been fine but the first information Mr. and Mrs. Xie pressed was 'what did you do in that family'. They were afraid that she had turned into something abdominal while living in Ryouma Clan when they had treated her with nothing but familial love which her parents never showed her.

"As his mother, I am at fault for not being able to grow him up into a proper man and a good father." Sadness passed by Senior Mrs. Xie's face and seeing it Li Lian squeezed harder. Li Lian thought she was the one who had to say sorry because no matter what, she wouldn't be able to forgive her parents and soon would bring an end to this family's charade.

"Not everyone could grow up with the teaching given by their parents, in the future it is up to the child to take paths, it had never been your fault, grandmother," Li Lian encouraged her grandmother whose face which had sadness turn to a small smile. "What did you mean by before I could be disown from the family?" 

Senior Mrs. Xie looked sadder on Li Lian's question because of her son and daughter in law's fault that had destroyed their own daughter's future. 

"To tell you the truth, they had planned to disown you from the family long before that videotape," Senior Mrs. Xie watched how Li Lian grimaced at the mention of the video. It was the video of where she was drugged but Xie Hue Lin had twisted the truth by saying she had been the one who drugged herself to the point of intoxication. "I have faith that you didn't do that, my dear."

She felt elated to see there was still at least one person in this family who was her ally. "Why did they want to disown me? I didn't do anything." Perhaps the worse offense she did was making fun of herself due to her sister's trickery but that wasn't the only reason.

"Xie's inheritance," her grandmother filled her in and she looked away from Li Lian's eyes to her hands. The girl had a very small hand when she was a baby, very small and Senior Mrs. Xie could still remember how happy she was to meet her first granddaughter in her life as if it was yesterday.

"I plan to give fifty percent of my inheritance for you alone." Li Lian stared at her grandmother, Li Lian knew she had always placed her in a different space in her heart. However, fifty percent leave only another fifty percent inheritance for, Xie Hue Lin, Mr. and Mrs. Xie. "But they disapprove of the idea. They want everything to be divided equally. As a mother, I can't never understand them. Parents sacrifice themselves for their child but they would prioritize their own well being and Hue Lin's over you. No matter what they said, I would never change my will and now that you are alive, it is your right."

Li Lian didn't know what to say. She hated the very house and the people in the house but the kindness of the only person who thought of her touched her heart that she was moved to tears.

"I will be fine grandmother without the inheritance, I just wish you would live a long life," said Li Lian when their eyes met.

"No, dearie. This is only right and whatever anyone say, I have put this will to stone and nothing could change it. Although I still think it is not enough," sighed her grandmother. She was the eldest daughter but she almost receive nothing and should Li Lian wait until her death to have something? which was the worry Senior Mrs. Xie had. "Would you like to work in Xie Company?"

Li Lian almost burst into a laugh she didn't mean which resulted to a wide smile. "I think if that ever work in that place, it wouldn't end up pretty." It would turn to chaos but Li Lian kept her words better sounding to her dearest grandmother.

"But there should be something you should take from the company," said her grandmother with a sigh. She seemed to be stressed out and Li Lian turned the gears in her head as to what she should ask to her grandmother from the company. Working there would be impossible.

After a thought, Li Lian had an idea and she whispered to her grandmother, making her voice soft that she shared only with her grandmother. Senior Mrs. Xie who had heard the wish Li Lian made then turned her head at her, "Is that your last decision?"

"Yes," Li Lian replied without knowing at the same time, the floor below her was crowded with a person's arrival.