The Employed Empress 181 Most Hated Words

If there are words that could set out Wei Yi Yi's mood, after 'responsibility', it would be manipulative words such as 'I did it for you' and 'it's for your own good'. 

Those were the favorite words of her mother and the only thing that she remembered from her. At first, she utters such words as if to keep reminding Wei Yi Yi. Later, when Wei Yi Yi stopped her 'daughter' act, those were said while crying. 

You decided on your own and done it alone, in reality, isn't that being selfish. To sugar coating it like that, it's an attempt on making me feel guilty for condemning you, right?

Actually, except for her parents not being there as she grew up, Wei Yi Yi had a family that others could only be envious of. In fact, she had no reason to dislike her parents. They were successful people. And in the calculating world of business, they were married for love, together for years, and conceived Wei Yi Yi as proof of their deep affections. For her to treasure outsiders and disregard her own family, people speculated that Young Miss Wei had a few screws loose.

Instead of spending time and catching up with her parents, Wei Yi Yi run around living with her friends. Male friends at that. Many pointed fingers at her and the whispering turn louder and louder as she came of age. 

'The Wei Family, a prestigious family, owning a business empire in their name, has a loose daughter living with four men.' 

Of course her family didn't stay idle, and tried to remove the ones badly influencing their daughter, but Wei Yi Yi cut ties with them resolutely. She did it without turning back. Coercion, threats, nor acting sick worked on her. 

Finally, as her mother turn hysterical from shame, those words were said thru gritted teeth, full of blame, anger, and desire to cut her. They express their disappointment, list down all their sacrificed for her, and how she repaid them with ingrat.i.tude, that she was being naive. All harsh words were spoken in hopes that it will hurt her conscience.

Lan Zhuang tried to salvage his sister's broken view. "A parent might not necessary be right but they surely didn't mean to hurt their child. Although it failed, they did what they did with their best judgment."

Wei Yi Yi, with an obedient smile, nodded and agreed. Lan Zhuang turned mute. What more to say, ah?

They raised her, accompanied her, but they had forgotten that they too, were still children going through their life. They had, unknowingly, took Wei Yi Yi on their own tribulation. No matter how they wish to share both sadness and happiness, they never dreamed of dragging her down.

There are things she understood but shouldn't understood. There are heartache that she shouldn't had experience but felt. There are a lot of things they weren't able to protect her from. Wei Yi Yi, whose childhood was supposed to be peaceful, unknowingly had a front row seat watching them lost their love ones and experience their dark days.

She vividly remember a family crumbling, a marriage ending in divorce, a couple of cheaters, as well as that time she enter a court room and watch the adults fight for custody, tearing at each other's face.

She also vividly remember those that died. That He Lian had an older brother. That this older brother was hardworking, had multiple a.s.signments to do, always burning the midnight oil, goes to cram school and always, always busy studying. She vividly remember walking in their living room with shredded paper, written in few pieces stick together were that older brother career plan.

And on the day of the college results, he jumped off their apartment window. He Lian stood on that pool of blood, his shoes turning red, and an irony smell knocking their souls out. 

Gone in a blink of an eye. Gone too soon. Gone because he wasn't as smart as He Lian, because he hid chocolates and gave them to his younger brother, because he made them milk when they were supposed to be asleep, because he couldn't be a model older brother, always lacking and a bad influence to He Lian. Because he was so gentle, born to a family with late stage face paralysis.

Wei Yi Yi bore it all to mind. He Lian figure, his tearless eyes, and the tone that carried his true feelings. "If I cry, would he know of my sadness?"

No, he won't.

Using the same words that killed him in his funeral, their parent tearfully laid their hearts out, and even this, he no longer hear.

So to such a Wei Yi Yi, her mother's words were the most malicious. Those words were meant to control, to guilt you, and to hurt your conscience, so that you'll remain in their palm. If it's really with me in your best interest, you won't said that to reproach me.

Wei Yi Yi express, she didn't hate her parents. Whom she hated, were those people whose words were heavier for them than hers. After all, she grew selfish and doesn't like others who could easy shatter the heart of her most precious people. Didn't they taught her, that such power should be held by one's own self?

So for Jiang Cheng, he better learn not to be her most hated person. Regardless of the questionable guilt she felt, Wei Yi Yi never hesitate once on her rage.

Thinking about it, her Boss is about to become a parent too. That unreliable guy finally knocked someone but it wasn't his self-proclaim treasure, Ye Ai Ning! Still so unreliable! Wei Yi Yi teeth itched.   

The crowd gave way for the empress and greeted her. They were to rise but pause at her words. "Who gave permission to rise?"

Such tone were biting cold and unexpected. Was she mad? Surely she is as a consort got pregnant first. If she gave birth to a son, how big of a scandal is that?

Looking at the sea of gossiping people and the wrong timing, Wei Yi Yi head throbbed. Should she beat her Boss or should she kill him? Seeing the pale Consort Shen and the beat red, Boss' beloved cousin, Consort Ye, Wei Yi Yi face twitch. Better yet, she must castrate him!

Boss, you're more troublesome than me! Clean this up yourself!