Chapter 380 - 361: Finding Puzzle Pieces-III

Remembering what had took place Xie Hue Lin yelled on top of her tongue, "Damn it! F.u.c.k that woman! I should not have fired her but threw her to a boiling water. How could she embarrassed me the way she did?!"

Li Jun Wei hadn't been kind with his words but rather sarcastic about the whole situation. When they found her belongings inside Qing's room, the man laughed and Xie Hue Lin saw how the laugh he had was mocking her for believing the stupid maid. 

'Next time Mr. Xie I advise you to hire a better working maid with good morals. I am afraid that this isn't the only maid that stolen things here seeing how she had lived eight years in the house, stealing everything without anyone knowing.' 

Over Li Jun Wei's words, all the maid's room was immediately placed under investigation. The three maids who settled in one room with Qing was taken as an accomplish and before the room where the last two maids were checked, Xie Hue Lin stormed out from the place, feeling ashamed.

Xie Hue Lin brought her thumb to her lips, biting to her nail. "That Li Jun Wei. Did he think because he is someone wealthy he could ransack other's house and embarrass the family living here?" 

Li Lian, thought Xie Hue Lin. Although Qing was stupid, she wouldn't steal the woman's rings and it didn't seem like she had the skill to steal something the person was wearing without knowing. Li Lian was the true culprit but there was no evidence she could use to point her finger at her.

The frustration came over her head and taking the pillow, Xie Hue Lin once again beat the bed. Her hand continued to swing the pillow for the bed to sink in from the pressure until she huffed for breath from doing the intense exercise. When the pillow dropped from her hand to the floor, Xie Hue Lin crouched to the ground to take the pillow when she noticed how her bed cover was folded. 

Was it folded before she left the room? wondered Xie Hue Lin. She remembered it wasn't folded. As there was a very important phone she left in the box under her bed, Xie Hue Lin grew suspicious.

She reached out her hand and rolled the cover to bring her head to the floor. Her eyes narrowing to see what was inside and found that her brows box was stored in place. She was being paranoid, thought Xie Hue Lin. After meeting Li Lian, she couldn't have a good sleep and was worried if one day Li Lian would hire someone to kill her like she did one year ago.

All because Li Lian refused to die. Placing the cover again, Xie Hue Lin look at the clock and stepped outside to close the door behind her.

After Xie Hue Lin had left, the room was dead silence for a moment. The silence immediately break when a body fell from the door of the closet to the ground. He Chang Min braced himself from the fall with his hand to see Li Lian stepping out with her hand wiping her mouth.

"Don't you dare to f.u.c.k.i.n.g touch me!" She cursed, the same way Shin would curse out of their influence. Her hands on her lips were now smeared with lipstick when she wiped her mouth.

A few moments ago before Xie Hue Lin entered, He Chang Min went inside the room, finding Li Lian who was late to enter the bed and immediately he said without questioning, "Place the box to the place again! Hue Lin is coming here."

Li Lian closed the box, taking one record tape and the picture to shove the box inside the bed when she felt her hand pulled and her back slammed to the wall. As soon as she entered the closet with He Chang Min, Xie Hue Lin stomped inside the room, yelling and screaming to vent her anger like an insane woman. Li Lian squint her eyes when she heard her yelling in a broken voice.

Her eyes then move from seeing Xie Hue Lin through the small gaps made from the door of the closet to He Chang Min who was covering her mouth. Taking his hand, she pushed him away. 

"How did you know I was here?" she asked, her voice spoke in whisper as she dampen her own voice.

"You were missing from the group, Hue Lin didn't notice but I did," because his eyes had only and always been following her.

"I haven't agreed to work with you," Li Lian announced. She was helped but her mood was worse to be helped by He Chang Min. Yes, she was being stubborn but that was because she can't accept He Chang Min who suddenly became kind to her as of wanting to help her when he was one source of her misfortune apart from Xie Family.

Even if he claimed his mother and what he did was to protect her. It was too late.

He Chang Min stared at her features. Although it was dark, he was close enough to admire her delicate feature. The shape of her lips and how her eyes glared at him how, he could see everything well. "I want to apologize for that day," he whispered, a tone of sadness was in his voice, "Can we do this all over again? Everything from the start."

Li Lian's eyes stared at him with a bored expression. He Chang Min apologized again and again but what good would happen if he apologize every time he met her?

"Yes we could," her simple words had He Chang Min to pull a wide smile that shattered after she continued, "If we start everything from the beginning, you will be a stranger to me and I would very much like to grant your wish."

"That wasn't what I meant-" He Chang Min started for Li Lian to chuckle faintly.

"But that is what I mean," she cut him off, "You want us to start from when everything was peaceful and bright for you but that was hell to me. You will be happy as I'm suffering. Really He Chang Min, you have always thought about yourself that others came after you."

He Chang Min felt attacked by Li Lian's words. What she said reminded him of Li Jun Wei's words when he told him of how Li Lian had been suffering throughout college. Had he truly blinded himself by thinking they were both happy all this time without his own notice?

"The damage has been done. I wasn't the only one who was harmed my foster mother who I have thought as my own sister and mother, she was also harmed. You may think it wasn't your fault but you are the factor," Li Lian looked at him, an expression of pity took over her face. "I only need one person to stand by my side that day and it was you."

Li Lian's words stabbed him deeply but it wasn't much compared to the wound she had which still feel fresh on her body. There was still a few wounds she receives from the car crash and he didn't know anything about it. 

"But now it isn't you," Li Lian added, their eyes gazing at each other clashed.