" Where were you?" The second Doctor Lin stepped inside the house she heard a sarcastic voice which was aimed directly at her and raised her head to look at a woman who was in her seventies with grey hair and a wrinkled face which was glaring at her unhappily.
" Mother," if this was before Doctor Lin would have lowered her head and then apologised for coming late before rushing towards the kitchen to cook something but after finding out about her husband's affair she was no longer in the mood to do so.
If her husband was having an affair with her mother-in-law's shrewd personality it was impossible for her to not find out that he had a mistress and a child outside.
She clearly knew but instead of stopping her son, she tried to cover it up for Ma Yao. Lin Qing He remembered all those times when her husband was not at home at night and her mother-in-law would try to come up with a number of excuses for him back then she thought that it was her who was thinking too much but now that she knew the truth, she wished she could slap herself in the face for being so naive.
Mother Ma's brows furrowed when she heard the calm and collected voice of her daughter-in-law, she wanted to say something but because Lin Qing He did not show her usual submissive attitude, she was a bit startled and forgot what she wanted to say.
It was only when she saw that Lin Qing He had placed three bowls of cold noodles on the table did she snap out of her daze and then said, " What is this?"
" Can you not see anymore mother?" Lin Qing He did not expose her husband's affair in front of her mother-in-law nor did she throw a tantrum but she couldn't treat her in-laws as she used to in the past. "It's three bowls of noodles that I brought for dinner, I had a busy day and I do not have the energy to cook."
Her words shocked not only Mother Ma but also Ma Yao who was watching the television. He knew Lin Qing He and was very well aware of her temper, because she loved him, no matter how tired she was she would always put warm food on the table for him and his mother.
Therefore when he saw the usually passive Lin Qing He suddenly turn aggressive, he could not help but turn to look at his wife.
Mother Ma was shocked but that was only for a few minutes before she snapped and threw the bowl of noodles that Lin Qing He brought with her money and snapped, " How can you be tired? All you do is stay inside a well-ventilated room and take care of some noisy brats and nothing else, what's so tiring about it? If anything, it is my son who works hard day and night, yet you cannot even cook a warm meal for him?"
' Yes, he really does work hard…it must be hard for him to manage two families,' Lin Qing He thought in her head but she did not say anything, she calmly glanced at the spilt noddles and then nodded before sitting down as she said,
" I see, seems like running a company alone is really a hard job."
Mother Ma's brows furrowed even more when she saw Lin Qing He sitting down and eating noodles and could not help but snap, " If you know then why are you not helping your husband by sharing his burden? Go in the kitchen and cook something warm and serve him!"
Not only did Lin Qing He not go into the kitchen she also finished eating her meal in a hurry as she replied in a calm voice, " Oh but I am sharing his burden, from next Monday … I will join the company."
Absolute silence spread all over the living room causing Ma Yao who was sitting on the couch and watching the excitement to scramble on his feet as he turned to look at Lin Qing He and while masking his panic he asked, " What…What are you talking about Qing He?"
If Lin Qing He went to the company, how will he hand over money to Xiao Yin? Wouldn't he have to take his own savings out to raise the mother and son?
Lin Qing He turned to look at her husband who scrambled to his feet so quickly and curled the side of her lips mockingly. In the past when she and his mother fought, Ma Yao would silently watch and then coax her in the bedroom saying that he could not speak when his mother was scolding her.
Turns out that he could speak if he wanted to, it's just that he did not want to!
" What? Did you not hear what I said?" Lin Qing He wiped her lips with the tissue and threw it in the trash. " I will be joining the company from Monday."
When Mother Ma realised that her daughter-in-law was not joking, she could not help but snap at her, " What do you mean joining the company? How can you join the company?"
" Why not?" Lin Qing He smiled with a polite expression while feigning ignorance. " I am the owner of that company, right? The majority of shares belong to me since I was the one who gave the start-up fund for it."
Her words made Mother Ma and Ma Yao's expression twist, they really hated the fact that Lin Qing He was the biggest shareholder in the company.
Ma Yao even cursed his father-in-law to death for pitting him like that, he wanted Lin Qing He to sign over the shares to him by making an excuse that the company was not doing good, as long as he shed a few tears, he was sure that Lin Qing He would sign those shares under his name before divorcing her.
But if Lin Qing He was to join the company wouldn't she know that everything was fine?
The more he thought, the angrier Ma Yao became as he glared at his mother for speaking too much and adding oil to the flames when Lin Qing He was already angry but he did not say much to his mother since Lin Qing He was present or else!
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