Throughout her childhood, Li Lian had always have people chasing for her life. After she was kidnapped from the Xie Family and when she was adopted by the Ryouma Family. Being the only girl in Ryouma Family, she created a weakness for the family for being the easiest target. That was until she walked out of the Ryouma Family. As a person who doesn't have any ties with Ryouma Family, not only her but the whole Ryouma Family thought there wouldn't be anyone who would try to kill her.
It had been years since she came into contact with the Ryouma Family and the Yakuzas had never made a move on her in China. This was the first time to happen and it made her confused with the question why now.
"Do you know who they were?" She asked to see his head shaking. "No."
"Is that why grandfather asked you to marry me?" She asked again, trying to fill the puzzle on her own.
"No." Li Jun Wei took her palms. "I saved you before you were attacked in the ambulance and moved you to be treated at a different hospital which had a stronger defense protocol. While you were under the surgery, I received a news that Xie Family made a ruckus of wanting to see your corpse, so I gave them a fake cremation ash." He could still recall the time when he saw the camera where Mrs. Xie, Mr. Xie, and Xie Hue Lin making a ruckus at the hospital where she was out to be treated at. One would think the three people were making a ruckus out of their worry to their daughter and sister but it was the complete opposite. When the receptionist ask them what they came for, the instantly asked for Li Lian's ashes. While Xie Hue Lin was faking her kind image, he didn't miss the smile which kept on slipping off her words.
That was to be expected and Li Lian didn't blame him for doing so, instead she felt grateful for him to gave what her family deserved. "What about my death certificate?" Although Mr. Xie and Mrs. Xie wouldn't ask for one, if they want to see their ashes, they would need a death certification.
"They didn't ask for one."
Thought so, Li Lian thought with a smile. They only want to see her ashes to make sure she was dead and rejoice on top of her funeral. Not that she ever needed for them to cry for her.
Li Jun Wei raised his hand, brushing between her hair to smoothened some strands of her hair. "Thankfully, your life was saved and the surgery went well. However, the hit you received in the accident on the back of your head was worse than the doctors thought and the possibility of you calling them vegetative state was high. While your were treated in the hospital, there were a few time where they tried to kill you again." He meant the previous Yakuza who went to kill her.
"They are a lot more than I thought." She said to receive his agreement.
"I've told you before I've loved you for a long time, haven't I?" He heard her whisper, "Yes."
"I also knew you were part of Ryouma Family before saving you, so I went to Japan and asked for Elder Ryouma his permission to protect you in China and also discuss him of the people who targeted you. That when I received his words that the people who targeted you came from a small timer Yakuza."
"That's weird." She knitted her brows. "If they are small, they couldn't have went far by targeting me." She doubted Li Jun Wei's security to be weak. Even when she was attacked on the day after her audition, his bodyguards were far than weak, they were strong but unfortunately the enemy were far stronger.
"There was a high possibility they were only use as a scapegoat." Li Lian knew well of how the underworld were where kindness doesn't belong and only darkness lived there. Deaths were everywhere, betrayals, and schemes. But even now, she still couldn't agree with the way of how they worked. Using people as scapegoats were the easiest ways to erase one trace's after a failure. "Do you perhaps have found the reason why they targeted me?" This received Li Jun Wei concerned look. When their gaze met she noticed his expression changing not to a good one.
"Yes. Li Lian you may not know this years ago before you went to China, only a week before it, the Yakuzas made a new term and they want your grandfather to abide by the new term. This new term changed the system in Japanese underworld with a condition."
"Does this have to do with me? The condition?" Li Lian wasn't slow and she could tell the entire ordeal where she was targeted must have something to do with her. But the question laid there. Why her? Compared to the others, she was only a small existence on the Yakuzas.
"The condition was to get you married with the son of Akasaka Family. There are people who doesn't agree to the new term and targeted you for this reason. As if you die, the new term will never work." The Statement had Li Lian gasped. "What? Marry?" She repeated in a shocked which made her almost fell from the couch where she had sat down on the very far edge. Before she extended her hand to gab the couch, Li Jun Wei had took her waist and helped her to seat deeper into the couch, worried that she would fall again.
"Of course, grandfather didn't agree to this." He continued as he retracted her hand back to her hand. "Which where he asked whether I have a feeling for you and I said yes. He also said, he agree if I marry you for now until the matter in Japan ended. He expected three years for you to wake up from coma but you've woken up faster than he thought."
"But why me? They should have known I'm not in Ryouma Family anymore. Even if they marry me I don't have anything to do with this." She knew there were more women that could marry to Akasaka Family so why they chose her specifically?
"It's because the Son of Akasaka Family personally chose you." His deep black eyes spun like two circle of tornado, bringing depth which took her in.