Hello, Mr Li Chapter 283 - What they deserved.

After Minde closed the door behind him, he still stood outside the study's door in confusion. He could not understand his cousin no matter how much he tried. 

He had just showed him a picture of his girlfriend with another man and he was not bothered about that but was bothered about something else? 

"Do you trust her that much?" He had asked Muchen in surprise.

He tried to put himself in his shoes and knew he would freak out if the girl he loved was secretly seeing another man at night. 

"If I do not trust her, do I even have any right to say I love her?" Muchen asked back. 

"But what if you're thinking too highly of her?" 

"Just shut up. I know Sara more than anyone else. So you all should listen to me instead or just focus on your own business. And make sure you do not take pictures like these again. Taking my girlfriend's picture secretly is something I would not take likely from anyone." Muchen warned before asking him to leave. 

"So I'm the bad person now?" Minde wondered on annoyance. He had even felt bad for his cousin but now he was the bad person?

"What a strange human being." Minde muttered before going on his own way to his room. 

Immediately he entered, he was welcomed by a very uncomfortable sight.

Since he had been talking with Muchen, his head was a bit clear now so now, he could see how unkept his room looked. 

His things were scattered everywhere and Muchen had asked him and Heya to both take care of their own rooms and not expect the maids to do it for them everyday.

But he had pitied them and asked the maids to clean it on Saturdays. Just once a week. 

"Am I that unserious?" He asked himself before sitting on the bed with a melancholic look.

His hands were on his head that was hanging low. And as he quietly sat there, he began to think about his life.

He could never forget all Eva had told him last night. She had crushed him. Completely crushed him!

After they left the club and moved over to the car park with Minde supporting the drunk Emma who was clinging to him, Eva finally said something to him.

"Thanks for earlier. But don't butt into my business next time. Look what happened to you" She pointed at him cheek before gently pulling Emma away from him.

Minde frowned at her words. He had just saved her—well, even though he technically did not. But did she have to dismiss him just like that?

"You haven't still told me who he is" Emma reminded drunkenly with an excited glint in her eyes. 

"My subordinate at work. Wu Eric. Han Emma" Eva introduced both of them quickly.

Unlike Emma who seemed a bit drunk, Eva looked pretty much clearheaded even though he had thought she was drunk earlier. 

"Stop with the pretence. You know that's not my name" He interrupted.

He thought she was really good at pretending. If his cousin had not told him she knew about his real identity, he would have actually believed she did not know at all.

"Oh...do I?" She asked back before adding..

"We really need to leave now. Emma, Cling unto me so you wouldn't fall"

After talking to Minde, she turned her attention to Emma and held her friend around the waist tightly so she wouldn't fall.

'She's not even ashamed to publicly display her affection. Here I thought she was always prissy' His inner self whispered.  

"Eva." He suddenly called her when she was about to turn.

"Eva?" She raised a brow at him.

"Yea. Why can't I call you that?" He asked back.

"Because we are not friends and so you cannot address me so informally and casually"

"Why can't we be friends?" 

"Why do you think we should be friends? Because you are a Li?" She threw another question at him.

"That's a plus." He added proudly. 

"No. That's actually all there is to you" 

He looked at her in confusion and was about to say something but paused because Emma seem to be uncomfortable and quickly pulled away from her friend's hold to go lie on the car's hood.

As Eva was about turning to go help her friend inside the car, he interrupted again. 

"What do you mean by that?"

Eva turned, sighed and folded her hands in front of her chest. 

"What exactly is it that you want?" She asked straightforwardly.

"Because I can't really say you like me. You do not look like someone who would stick to one woman. You're looking for fun right?" 

She was not blind or stupid. She had seen how he always behaved around her when they were in work to know he wanted her attention. She had seen a whole lot of men act that way around her but this one was really bold even though he was younger than her. 

Minde smirked at her question. 

She was actually right. Why did he have to stick to one woman when there were a whole lot of women he would later meet? 

"I want your time. Let's have a drink sometimes or hang out together. Let's just get to know each other. And I do not mind if you are interested in women. It's going to be adventurous for me. First time being with a woman who likes women" He said with a flirty kind of smile. 

"Who likes women? Me?" Eva pointed at herself in confusion.

"Isn't she your girlfriend?" Minde thought she wanted to deny it. But it was too late. He already knew her secret. 

Eva turned to look at her friend again who was turning uncomfortably on the car's hood.

"Oh..." She tried not to laugh before leaving Minde to go attend to her friend. 

How on earth did he suddenly jump into the conclusion that she liked women?

She wanted to ask, but she did not.

"I'll help you" Minde offered and helped her assist Emma in entering inside the car. 

Eva did not reject. And once they were done after much struggle, Eva quickly closed the backseat door and took out her phone to call a designated driver. 

"Why calling a driver? I could drive you home."

He asked immediately she got off the phone.

"I could drive us both home if I wanted. But I drank. And so did you" 

'Oh.. The prissiness is still there' Minde said to himself after she was done explaining. 

"So.... Drink? Me and you?" He asked again. 

"No" She turned him down with an uninterested look. 

"What? No? Why?" He threw a string of questions at her. He had thought she was going to accept so why did she suddenly say no?

"Is it because of her?" He looked at the car to show he was referring to Emma. 

"It's because I don't like you." She stated.

"What? You don't like me? That's impossible. Why?" He asked inquisitively.

"You really want to know why?" She asked to be sure.

"Yes. Go on" He urged while also folding his arms in front of his chest. 

"Because you are irresponsible. You act carelessly and always take things for granted. Even before you appeared as Wu Eric, I've heard rumours about how you behave and spend recklessly. You do nothing other than just being a 'Li'. You were sent to the company to learn about some basic things of management. Yet, you never take your job seriously. If you are not sleeping, you are either grumbling or you're in somewhere no one knows about. You have no idea what it means to be responsible. So why should I like someone like that?" 

Minde's mouth was agape as he listened to Eva complain about him. 

"You...are talking about me right now?" He asked to be really sure. 

She scoffed before saying more to him that made him look at her in surprise. 

"I... this... you..." He tried to say something but nothing came out. He was totally speechless and blank.

"Look Mr Li.. I don't mean to sound insultive but you asked for this. You are old enough to stop hiding under CEO Li's shadow. Don't you feel bad that even your younger brother is a director while they are still trying to fix you? Just imagine what happened earlier. You could not even fight. Sorry to ask, but what talent or special ability do you have? I have not seen anything in you that I fancy and so, I am sorry. I can't even have a cup of coffee with you."

When she noticed her designated driver had arrived, she walked out on him.

"See you at work Mr Wu. And...don't be late again." Now, she addressed him by his work name.

When she was done saying that, she got inside her car and as they drove away, she hit herself on the head for saying too much and paying attention to a useless person like him.

He was useless? Eva called him good for nothing? 

He angrily raised every pillow from the bed and threw it at the wall. 

Was he that bad? It was not his fault that he was born with a silver spoon so why did she have to say such hurtful words to him? 

"I'm very sure the amount of money you send in a day, people have to work for months to earn such"

He remembered those particular words she had said and suddenly stood up in anger. 

"How is it my fault that I always get paid even when I don't work? Why do I have to spend while thinking of how the poor lived? Why..why..why?" 

He screamed in frustration before sitting back on the bed and felt tears slowly begin to trickle down his cheeks. 

"You are mean. Very mean Kim Eva!" He said in a low throaty voice before burying his face on the bed to cry.

Changyu claimed that she was okay and wanted to see Sara as soon as possible. 

She could not hide her anxiousness and excitement at the thought of Sara being her daughter. 

She had a lot of questions to ask. 

Wanted to know how he ended up with Sara. But now was not the time. 

Even though she was still angry with him for keeping their daughter from her and not trusting her, she pushed all those thoughts aside for now. All she wanted to do was to hug Sara and know she was hugging her daughter. 

She had been searching for her daughter and had just found her. How could she possibly sit comfortably in the hospital?

"Let's just wait. I'll call her to come here." Jianjun said to her.

"No. It'll take too long. Let's go instead. I want to see her. I want to see my daughter." She said in a rush before trying to stand up but he held her back down. 

"I promise. Just get the final test done and we'll go together. You shouldn't just leave like that." He tried to reason with her. 

He did not want her to leave without getting checked properly. 

What if she fainted again?

Quickly, he pressed the button he had seen her press earlier to call for the doctor.

As they were still going back and forth with their conversation, Jianjun's phone began to ring with a call from Sara. 

"Is that her? She's calling?" 

He nodded. 

"Let me speak with her first" 

Before he knew what was happening, she had already snatched the phone from him to take the call instead. He had been talking to her for twenty five years, now was her turn.

He did not know how to react because he thought Sara did not know anything about it yet and might shock or even confuse her. 

He wanted to stop her from saying anything but he saw how jittery she was.

"Sara? Are you there?" Changyu called slowly before blinking a couple of times.

For the first time, he saw her acting uncertain. She was always very bold and confident but now, she looked weak. 

"Miss Changyu?" 

Sara asked back when she heard the weak voice at the other end. 

Immediately she heard her daughter's voice, she properly sat up and slowly began to gasp. And soon, tears began to pour out from her eyes. 

She used her free hand to cover her mouth with the hope that it would help muffle her tears so Sara would not hear her.

"Sa...ra.." She called again in a soft voice, shaky voice.

She realised she could not say anything else. 

She was very contented to know that she was speaking to her daughter right now. 

She knew those were not tears if sadness. They were tears of joy. Because her daughter was raised well unlike how her parents had raised her.

She was very bright.

She was very beautiful.

On the other end, Sara had still been trying to think whether it was possible that Changyu was really her mother. But hearing her voice now, she confirned that her guess was correct. 

She realised that Miss Changyu must have also recently found out that she was her daughter. 

Although she was still a bit confused. How did she end up with her father and why did Changyu not know she had a daughter? But she pushed those questions aside for now. 

The woman she had always admired was her mother?

She had read the letter from Changyu and had been really shocked. But then, after thinking about it for a while, she suddenly understood what had happened the previous day between all of them; including her Aunt. 

She had heard her aunt sent her a mail to get rid of her child and out of anger because she thought it had been from her father, she had sent that letter in return.

So it was not really her fault right?

And besides, she knew Changyu was not a person to do something so evil. 

As she heard her mother's soft sobs, she could not stop crying either. 

It was strange. Really strange because she had always believed her mother was dead.

But suddenly realising her mother was alive, was her Father's one true love and was a woman she had been trying to put together with her father, she felt the heavens were finally looking at her family. 

All that was left was her Aunt. 

Sara was a very understanding person. She always looked from different angles and perspectives and now, she also understood why her aunt had done it. 

No one should fault the other. 

They should only live happily. 

It was what they all deserved after the many years of suffering. 

They all deserved it! 

Chapter end