Chapter 3
The next morning, Wu Fan opened his eyes and let out a startled cry.
He realized he was still lying on the bed adorned with the "double happiness" character, with the stunning Lin Miao beside him, dressed only in her undergarments.
"Am I married? Did I spend my wedding night with her?"
Everything felt surreal. He had met this woman just the day before, and now she was lying next to him. None of it seemed real.
Wu Fan shook his head, but he still couldn't remember anything about the previous night.
However, looking around the room, he concluded that he must have consummated his marriage with Lin Miao. He had simply drunk too much and couldn't recall anything when he woke up.
Gazing at the graceful face of his new wife and catching a hint of her subtle fragrance, a feeling of happiness welled up in Wu Fan's heart. He couldn't help but murmur tenderly, "My darling!"
Slap! Lin Miao, startled awake, slapped him. Seeing Wu Fan's satisfied smile beside her, she glared at him furiously.
"I'm warning you, don't touch me without my permission! Starting tonight, you'll be sleeping on the floor!" she ordered coldly before getting up to get dressed.
"But... aren't we married?" Wu Fan, utterly baffled, couldn't understand.
"Yes, my parents want a grandson, so they forced me to get married. Since we consummated the marriage last night, I might already be pregnant. Therefore, for the next few weeks, I'm focusing on my pregnancy. Got it?"
Wu Fan scratched his head, even more confused. A one-night marriage and already pregnant? And now she was talking about protecting the pregnancy? Something didn't seem right.
Just then, the door was suddenly kicked open.
Wu Fan quickly sat up, and seeing his mother-in-law, Hu Xiaoying, burst into the room, he hurriedly pulled the covers over himself, expressing his displeasure, "Auntie, what are you…"
"Good-for-nothing! You don't even have money to treat your father, so you have no choice but to become a live-in son-in-law. How can you be so pathetic? And you dare to keep sleeping? You're both poor and lazy! Get up and make breakfast, then clean up and do the laundry!"
Hu Xiaoying yelled as she violently tugged at the covers.
Wu Fan, completely disoriented, wondered what was happening. What kind of mother-in-law treated her son-in-law this way?
Moreover, even though Hu Xiaoying was nearing forty, she was still very attractive, with radiant skin. She and Lin Miao looked more like sisters. And now, on the first day after the wedding, she was pulling the covers off her son-in-law? Didn't she find it embarrassing? It was highly inappropriate.
"Mom, at least give him time to get dressed!" Lin Miao pulled her mother out of the room.
Taking advantage of their absence, Wu Fan quickly got dressed.
That's when he distinctly heard Hu Xiaoying ask, "He didn't manage to touch you, did he?"
"Don't worry, Mom. I know what I'm doing!" Lin Miao replied.
Meanwhile, at Tian'an Municipal Hospital, Meng Jiangmei, who had arrived the day before after her son's departure, finally opened her heavy eyelids.
She had stayed up all night with Wu Dahai.
In the middle of the night, Wu Dahai had woken up and exchanged a few words with her.
She had told him it was the village chief who had managed to borrow the money, and that their son had stayed back in the village to watch over the house, explaining his absence.
How could she admit that their son had become a live-in son-in-law for another family?
"Huh, where's Lao Wu?"
Opening her eyes, she saw the bed was empty, and a cold chill ran down her spine. She rushed to the bathroom to check. No one. She looked toward the door, but he wasn't there either.
Where could he have gone, gravely ill as he was? Could he have jumped out of the window to avoid being a burden to his family?
"What? Your husband is missing?" The nurse she
reported Wu Dahai's disappearance to seemed equally shocked.