Chapter 467 - 448: Coaxing The Beast-I
Mrs. Xie couldn’t believe what her daughter had said, she looked straight to Xie Hue Lin’s eyes, "If we confess than what would happen to me? What will also happen to you? We will not only have to leave this house and driven away but also put in jail."
"But I can’t take it anymore!" Xie Hue Lin yelled, she crumpled her hands that were running through her hair. "Everyday makes me mad, I keep thinking that grandmother is here, somewhere near me. She is watching what I do and at night she would whisper and blame me for the accident!"
"That’s only your dream, Hue Lin. Your grandmother is not here," Mrs. Xie said as she held Xie Hue Lin’s arm, "Believe your mother. You will only need to overcome this and then we can live like normal."
Xie Hue Lin raised her face that looked like a mess similar to her inner self, "Normal?" She asked, "What is normal? We are in a ship full of boat. It’s only a matter of time we break down. I-I heard it..."
Mrs. Xie raised her brows, "Heard about what?"
"That Li Lian had took over our company!" Xie Hue Lin raised her voice. As she kept more thoughts, her sanity plummet. She appeared like a mad woman, so far from her image of a gentle and kind woman whose heart was pure white. "This will happen soon and I knew it. She will also bring grandmother’s accident to light and we will be brought to jail. Before that happen we should confess now and lighten our sentence. M-mother what if grandmother dies and her ghost hunt us?" Her words went back and forward, sounding relational and the insane.
Mrs. Xie sighed with frustration. The only witness other than her was her daughter and she couldn’t let Hue Lin to confess about everything in her shaken state that will only ruin her plan. She love Xie Hue Lin as her daughter and that’s also why she had to stop the girl from blabbering what she shouldn’t. Thinking to what that can convince Xie Hue Lin, a sudden thought passed by Mrs. Xie’s mind and she took hold of her daughter’s arm, "I have something in mind to get back Xie Company and keep Li Lian away from our family. Will you help me by keeping this a quiet secret between us? Or will you would like it better that Li Lian take what is rightfully ours? What is suppose to be yours?"
Mrs. Xie, who knew which button to push as she was aware of the hatred between Li Lian and Hue Lin, knew that this was the correct method to make Hue Lin to pull herself together which worked.
"If you loses the company, my dear, it won’t be us who lose everything and you too," came the woman’s faint threaten.
Why did she forgot it? wondered Xie Hue Lin. She recalled that something similar to this had happened before. It was years ago when Li Lian came to the family. The servants immediately took a liking to Li Lian who was known to be gentle and friendly. When she was young, Xie Hue Lin unlike now was a timid girl who prefer to keep things to herself.
She always admired Li Lian who could make friends left and right with her outgoing personality. At that time, she was still unaware how her habit of comparing herself to Li Lian would soon build up into an inferiority complex.