The Crazy Son-In-Law

Song Linger was now full of energy but that wasn’t surprising since there was a difference in their physical conditions. Besides, Song Linger had only followed him around on this trip while Zhu Que had actually done some work; aiming took effort.

“Master, what do you plan to do with this thing?” She could sense that the Spirit Stone contained a large amount of energy and asked curiously with wide eyes.

“I haven’t decided yet. I’ll tell you when I have.” Xiao Shun casually replied.

“Oh.”

After leaving the Sikong residence, Xiao Shun handed over the two Spirit Stones to Song Linger for her to take back to her home on Eighth Avenue before hastily taking a taxi back home himself.

Yao Cen should be waking up soon at this time. What if she found out he hadn’t returned all night?

He had used some tricks last night to make sure she slept soundly so even if he danced around in the room, she wouldn’t wake up but its effects would soon wear off.

“Are you going out or did you just come back?” Xiao Shun just got home and changed into his slippers when he saw Yao Cen standing by the second-floor corridor looking disheveled and confused as she stared at him.

He smiled awkwardly before saying, “Oh, I’m going out to buy some breakfast.”

He sure could not say he had just come back now. He should have brought some breakfast on his way back so now he did not have to make another trip out again for it now.

“Can you also buy me two packs of sanitary pads?” Yao Cen rubbed her messy hair before heading off to wash up.

Xiao Shun, “…”

Half an hour later at the dining table…

Yao Cen tore off a small piece of bread and looked silently at Xiao Shun before sighing softly.

Xiao Shun’s heart skipped a beat wondering if she found out about his absence last night?

He raised his head calmly looking straight into Yao Cen’s eyes asking, “What’s wrong? Why are you sighing so early in the morning?”

“A colleague got divorced a couple of days ago. She’s been in a daze these past few days and can’t focus on work. If I don’t say anything, she’ll bring her emotions to work and affect not just herself but the whole team. But if I do say anything… She’s such a pitiful woman now.” She said hesitantly.

“Well, why don’t you give her some time off?” Xiao Shun suggested casually.

“You see, in this society, no matter what people say women are always the disadvantaged group. Her husband goes out and spends all their money on another woman while she has to work hard to pay off the mortgage and education fees for their child. Now that she’s divorced, he can still live carefree while she suffers with no savings left after paying half of the mortgage. Their child was about to go into middle school where there will be even more expenses…” Yao Cen continued.

This woman was pretty strange today; usually she never talked about such trivial matters! ‘Something must have happened; I better keep my mouth shut.’

Xiao Shun smiled as he looked up, “Not all men are like her ex-husband.”

“If you ask me,” Yao Cen said mischievously as she tilted her head slightly towards him, “Men just shouldn’t carry any money in their pockets.”

Xiao Shun was taken aback for a moment. ‘This girl seems to have quite an unconventional way of thinking; how did we end up talking about money all of sudden?’

“How much money do you have in your account?”

“I have over 400 million dollars in my account right now,” he replied earnestly as he handed his card over, “I don’t usually spend much anyway.”

‘Well, it doesn’t really matter. I’ll be able to get my three billion anyway with those pills; this amount is nothing compared to that.’

But 400 million!

Yao Cen was suddenly choked up by his answer and coughed lightly before saying, “Actually you don’t need give me your card; I trust you completely… but could you at least discuss spending decisions with me from now on? Like when you’re buying Golden Harrow? After all we’re married now so maybe sometimes, I could offer some advice?”

Yao Cen felt complicated inside. With his abilities Xiao Shun probably wouldn’t even need any money to get himself surrounded by women. Anyway, after all those things that had happened recently, she felt less confident than ever before.

As Yao Cen had said earlier, Xiao Shun had surprised her many times by all those things he did behind the scenes. Yet, they had already been like total strangers in the past three years and Yao Cen truly wanted to join him in every plan he made from now on.

Xiao Shun then said earnestly, “I have to give you this card. If I need to use money in the future, I’ll need your approval. You’re the backbone of our family after all.”

“Okay then. Since you’re so sincere about it, I’ll reluctantly accept it,” Yao Cen said without hesitation.

“Here, try this egg.”

Xiao Shun, “…”

“Oh yeah, my parents are coming back this afternoon and I have something to do. Do you have time? If you do, can you go pick them up? If not, I’ll ask Mai Yaqin to do it.” Yao Cen said while changing clothes after breakfast.

“I’m free. Let me go instead. You just left them there by themselves, your mom will probably nag at you for days when she gets back. Let me go check out the situation first and if necessary, I’ll help share some of the nagging for you,” Xiao Shun said.

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“Give me a kiss.”

“Screw off!”

…

Yao Cen drove Xiao Shun to his company.

When they arrived at the entrance, however, they saw a beautiful woman standing over the side of the road.

Mo Yibai had an elegant makeup on her gorgeous face as she wore a white down jacket and tight jeans that set off her long legs. Her hair was loosely tied behind her head.

After seeing Yao Cen’s car slowly approaching, Mo Yibai hurriedly walked over and stood in front of it.

Yao Cen stopped the car but looked puzzled as she furrowed her eyebrows at Mo Yibai standing outside her window.

Mo Yibai lightly knocked on the passenger side window before Yao Cen rolled it down with a frown saying, “Miss Mo, is there something wrong? We didn’t seem to block your way today.”

Mo Yibai smiled slyly saying “Sorry about last time, Miss Yao, I was not in the right mind; please let me apologize to you.”

She just thought that Mo Yibai might be looking for trouble again but since she apologized already so Yao couldn’t say anything more about it anymore either; thus she softened up her tone slightly, “It’s alright we all live here together so let’s all be considerate towards each other; getting along peacefully is always best isn’t it?”

She hadn’t thought about how Mo Yibai knew her name but if she wanted to find out then it wouldn’t be difficult either way anyway right?

“Oh right! It’s like this… Tomorrow’s my birthday party and I would like invite both of you – do both of you happen to have any free time?” Smiling lightly while handing over an exquisitely designed invitation card courteously

Yao Cen took a quick glance at the card after being momentarily stunned by what happened earlier. Indeed it was quite an exquisite-looking invitation card. She was puzzled. She didn’t have much interaction with this big star on a regular basis, and they had some unpleasantness not long ago. Why did she feel like this today?

“I may not have time,” Xiao Shun said expressionlessly.

At his words, Mo Yibai’s face changed slightly.

It didn’t matter if it was her real birthday or not. She just wanted an excuse to see him. She had been waiting here early in the morning just to see Xiao Shun. If he didn’t come, what was the point?