Chapter 479 - 460: Death’s Melody-IV
It started like a crawl under her skin, then her eyes felt burning. It was a quick process but Li Lian could feel it slower than it happened in her mind. The anger simmered her blood and her eyes fell on her hands. She clenched her wrist, trying to stop herself from bursting out of anger.
A murderer, Li Lian thought while looking at Mrs. Xie. This woman wasn’t her mother, it disgust her to the bone that she was her daughter. "Will you sign the money?" Li Lian asked, her eyes that now stared back at Mrs. Xie were red and she stifled down the anger on her throat, pushing it back so she won’t feel anything but numb.
Mrs. Xie was too focused with her panic of being found out that she didn’t notice Li Lian had only found out about her vicious act just now. When Li Lian passed the pen, the woman took it in haste. The tip of the pen ran close to the paper only to stop when it placed a dot above the dotted line.
"How can you guarantee you will keep your words?"
Li Lian looked at her mother and a smile appeared on her lips that grew wider as peel of laughter spilled all over the room. The laughter she shed was far from amusement or north, it brew something more sinister that her mother barely could tell.
By the time Li Lian leaned back her body to the chair, her smile had disappeared from her face and a empty look came over her face where darkness overfilled her eyes, only murderous idea passed by her mind which she could barely contain, "Do you think there is your place to negotiate?"
"You are blackmailing me without anything that could benefit me? Not even your silence?" Mrs. Xie asked with a shocked face.
"Yes," Li Lian answered, "And to your information I have enough money I can make I am not desperate. It’s not the case for you isn’t it?"
Li Lian left the house after she had the cheque signed by her mother with the amount she wanted. Mrs. Xie stood in front of the window of the house that allowed her to see Li Lian leaving the house and entering the car. Her jaw clenched and she reached out for her phone, "Change of plan. I want someone else for you to kill," said the woman while her eyes fixated on Li Lian.
Li Lian closed the door and she sat on the car seat with her hands clenched together. Li Jun Wei who had been waiting inside the car turned his eyes and it was clear how his eyes softened. His fingers touched her cheeks where tears fell from her eyes.
"I am not sad for myself," Li Lian cleared the air, she needed to say it aloud as it was beneath her pride to say that she was saddened by her mother’s behavior. One said that orphan is the most pitiful creature in this world, but to Li Lian being an orphan was a blessing rather than to be born from a woman and man like Mr. and Mrs. Xie.
"It was her, not Hue Lin but Mrs. Xie who had pushed grandmother from the stair."