Return to 88: Starting from Marrying My Sister-in-law

Poor Xu Siqi had no idea that danger was approaching.

She was still fiddling with her television.

“Health products.”

"More health supplements..."

"Ugh, why are there so many health supplement ads?"

"Hehe, this channel isn't the same anymore, but... Huagu Opera... why are they showing Shanghai Opera again? Liu Hai chopping wood... ugh... I'm so tired of hearing it since I was a kid, can't they change it to something else?"

"TV series...TV series...I need a channel that's replaying last night's TV series..."

She doesn't ask for much.

As long as there's a decent TV series to watch, that's fine.

But unfortunately, every time she tried to find a channel on this broken TV, it was either a pig feed commercial, a health product commercial, or a traditional opera performance; there wasn't a single one showing a proper drama.

So, feeling utterly bored, he slumped onto the sofa, clutching a cushion, muttering, "Ugh, so boring! There's not even a decent show..."

The bathroom door opened silently at that moment.

Du Lingling walked out, casually tucking a stray strand of hair behind her ear with her fingertips, a barely perceptible mischievous smile playing on her lips.

She had just briefly pointed out to her second sister, Du Yuanyuan, on the phone that Siqi's sudden refusal to go home in Xingcheng was probably because she had "something on her mind."

I'm sure my second sister won't be able to wait any longer and will immediately drop everything and come over.

"Auntie, you're finally out! I'm hungry, Sisi is hungry."

When Xu Shiqi saw her, she hugged a pillow and rubbed her tummy, looking aggrieved.

Du Lingling said indulgently, "Okay, okay, Auntie will go and make you some food right away. Just wait, it'll be quick."

Poor child, your mother is about to come and get you, and you're still thinking about food?
That's it.

In the time it takes to eat a meal.

As her aunt, she still had that much patience.

So she decisively reassured the other person, telling them to take their time choosing a TV and not to rush, then turned around, tied on her apron, and went into the kitchen.

Soon, two bowls of fresh seasonal vegetables and a bowl of stir-fried pork were served. One meat dish and two vegetable dishes were just right, enough for the two of them.

"Wow!"

"It smells delicious! Mmm, it's so good! Auntie, I never knew you were such a good cook. Whoever marries you will be the happiest man in the world."

As the saying goes, "He who eats another's food is bound to do so."

As soon as she approached the dining table, fanned her nose, and smelled the aroma, Xu Siqi, before even sitting down to eat, showered Du Lingling, who was untying her apron, with compliments.

The praise made Du Lingling, the aunt, almost embarrassed.

I thought to myself: Did I go too far? Sisi doesn't want to go home, but because of my own selfish reasons, I hid in the bathroom and notified her mother. What if the mother and daughter start arguing later?
She had an impulse.

She wanted to tell her little niece, who was happily eating the stir-fried vegetables she had prepared, the truth.

I couldn't bear to see this mother and daughter start arguing in her aunt's house later.

pity……

It's too late.

"Ding dong... ding dong..."

The doorbell rang suddenly, crisp and urgent.

Xu Siqi looked up in surprise: "Huh? Who would come at this hour..."

Before she finished speaking, Du Lingling's expression changed, but she gritted her teeth and ran over to open the door.

For the sake of your own sexual happiness.

at this point.

What's done is done, and the person has arrived right at the door; there's no use regretting it now.

I can only try my best to persuade the mother and daughter to talk things out later.

Sure enough, as soon as the door opened, Du Yuanyuan, looking travel-worn but with impeccable makeup, stood outside, exuding the decisive and efficient aura of a TV station deputy director.

Du Yuanyuan's gaze was precisely fixed on her daughter, who was taking small bites of food at the dining table. She frowned slightly and said, "Siqi, is your work so easy? Mom came to chat with your aunt for a while. Since you're here too, come home with Mom later."

Xu Siqi opened her little mouth: "Mom?"

"Snapped!"

The chopsticks also fell directly onto the table.

She still had a small mouthful of rice and vegetables in her mouth, so she quickly shoved it down her throat, wiped her mouth hastily, and stood up, saying, "Mom, what are you doing here?"

God!
O earth!
Isn't this too much of a coincidence?
Didn't Mom and Auntie, who are sisters, always get along?
We rarely keep in touch!

We only get together at my maternal grandfather's house or my two uncles' houses during holidays. How come we ran into each other today?
Bad luck!

Waaaaah, this is so unlucky.

Even now, she has no doubt that this is all thanks to her aunt. Her aunt is deliberately trying to drive her away so that she can clean the house and welcome the boss she has always longed to meet in Xingcheng.

If she knew.

Her domineering CEO was actually stolen away by her aunt... well... the sky would probably fall...

For Xu Siqi, this was absolutely the heaviest blow ever.

That's why Du Lingling had to keep it from him and didn't dare to tell her the truth easily. She was afraid that her little niece would not be able to accept the reality if she knew the truth. She did what she did just now: made a phone call in the bathroom and lured her second sister over. It wasn't all just for her own personal sexual happiness.

Finally, my second sister arrived.

Du Lingling forced herself to say, "Second sister, why don't you sit down and eat something with us?"

She worried that the mother and daughter would start arguing as soon as they met, and then the second sister would blurt out the truth that she was the one who invited her, which would put her in an awkward position.

At the very least, Sisi would resent her aunt.

Sisi is a good child.

She's different from her second sister.

If she weren't forced to, she wouldn't want to strain her relationship with this little niece too much, like she did with her second sister and third brother, to the point where they would never speak to each other again.

Du Yuanyuan frowned and looked at her fourth sister, who looked slightly nervous. The sarcastic words that were about to come out of her mouth were swallowed back down after thinking about how the other sister's career had been going smoothly and she was about to be promoted again.

He said calmly, "Alright, then have some."

She is the older sister, and the other party is the younger sister. There is no reason for her, as the older sister, to lower herself to curry favor with her younger sister.

Do not speak ill of each other.

Let go of past prejudices against the other person.

Being able to patiently sit down and eat this meal with the other party was already her limit of patience. "Hmph, don't think I don't know how you got promoted. It's all thanks to currying favor with my cheap son-in-law. I don't know what kind of bewitching potion that kid has been given. When his legitimate mother-in-law asks him for some resources, he makes excuses, but his aunt gets all the credit from our Siqi. And Siqi, that girl, actually sides with her aunt. She doesn't even go home after returning to Xingcheng... It really makes me furious..."

She touched the large thunderbolt that covered her heart.

She was also making plans in her mind, but she probably never dreamed of it.

In the past few years, Lu Yang, the son-in-law she had always considered, hadn't even touched her precious daughter.

Instead, she and her younger sister, whom she didn't get along with at first, had already become entangled together.

The reason Du Lingling is where she is today, with a smooth career and continuous promotions, is not because her precious daughter is loyal to her aunt and not to her biological mother, but entirely because Lu Yang himself is helping his woman.

The truth is that simple!
But the truth is often unexpected.

Don't even think about it.

After all, look, they are both beautiful women, one is over 30 and approaching 40, and the other is just over 20. They also look about 7% alike, because one is the aunt and the other is the aunt's niece.

The time spent with Lu Yang!

Xu Siqi is Lu Yang's personal secretary. It can be said that she has been following Lu Yang around the country every day for the past few years, and they are practically inseparable.

And what about Du Lingling?
She has her own career and her own job. She is seen as an iron lady by her colleagues and subordinates, and as a career-oriented strong woman by outsiders.

Especially with his smooth-sailing political career, he should be completely different from Lu Yang, a private entrepreneur who has been working his way up in the business world.

What could possibly happen between the two of them?
Nothing could possibly happen, right?
The age is wrong too!

The woman was more than ten years older than the man.

But the truth is often unexpected. The person connected to Lu Yang was not Xu Siqi, the young and beautiful private secretary who flew all over the country with him every day, but Du Lingling, a powerful political woman who had her own career and job and whose image to the outside world was that of an iron lady.

Du Yuanyuan had suspected that her younger sister and that guy were not innocent before, but considering that her younger sister was already in her thirties and that guy was only in his early twenties, just a young man, and that her precious daughter was by his side, she dispelled the lingering suspicion in her heart.

Du Lingling was not surprised by her cold reaction. Seeing that her second sister had agreed, she ran into the kitchen and brought out another set of bowls and chopsticks.

"Eat it!"

The dishes were the same as before: one meat dish and two vegetable dishes.

And it had already been mostly scrambled open, leaving a table full of scraps and leftover sauce.

But it's good enough to have something to eat.

Du Lingling wouldn't go to the kitchen to cook another meal just because her second sister agreed to stay for dinner.

Her second sister?

Heh, to be honest, I'm not worthy...

As soon as Du Yuanyuan sat down, she frowned, staring at the table full of scraps and leftovers. Holding her chopsticks, she didn't know whether to pick up any or not, her face showing disgust.

Xu Siqi was secretly delighted, but she smiled and said, "Mom, eat! Why aren't you eating? Auntie's cooking is so delicious, especially this stir-fried pork. It tastes just like the pork you used to make when you were little. Try it, try it!"

In truth, she had no recollection of the taste of her mother's childhood.

Du Yuanyuan, as her mother, never cooked a decent meal for her precious daughter. From a young age, she always lived with her father, and whenever her mother brought her to Xingcheng for a short stay during winter and summer vacations, she always stayed at her maternal grandparents' house.

She was deliberately trying to provoke her mother to express her dissatisfaction, wanting to send her home as soon as she arrived.

Really pissed off.

What's wrong?

Can't I stay at my aunt's house for a few days?

She didn't want to go home at all, lest her mother keep nagging her, either trying to persuade her to become a mistress or to find ways to get resources from the company for her, or for her eldest or third uncle.

snort!
They didn't consider her personal feelings at all.

Despite her physical discomfort, Du Yuanyuan reluctantly picked up two more pieces of the remaining green vegetable leaves from her bowl, ate a couple more mouthfuls of rice, put down her chopsticks, and said, "Are you finished eating? If you're done, come home with Mom."

"Snapped."

Xu Siqi threw down her chopsticks and said angrily, "I'm not going back. I'm going to stay at my aunt's house. I'm going to sleep with my aunt tonight. Mom, you go back. I'll come back in a couple of days for a short stay. Is that alright?"

She thought that if she made appropriate concessions, her mother would give in.

However, he underestimated Du Yuanyuan's controlling nature towards her daughter. She threw down her chopsticks, stood up, and said, "How dare you! Your aunt is very busy with official duties. She has no time to care about you. Be good and come back with Mom. Mom has something to ask you."

Xu Siqi hates this sentence from her mother the most.

The so-called "things" are nothing more than asking her how she gets along with the boss, whether there's a possibility of her becoming the other woman, whether she's pregnant with the boss's child, and then asking for resources... It's always the same stuff, absolutely nothing else.

Hmph, do you think you can coax her like a child?

"I'm not going back, and I have nothing to talk to you about. You can leave now."

"Fine, if you won't leave, I will..."

Seeing that her mother's face was ashen and she remained completely unmoved.

Xu Siqi walked towards the door in a huff.

"You dare to come back..."

Du Yuanyuan chased after her.

Before leaving, she turned to her sister, Du Lingling, and gave a cold snort.

Absolutely, absolutely, someone must have said something bad about her as a mother to her daughter, otherwise why would her daughter treat me like this?
Du Lingling did nothing.

She just stood by and watched the mother and daughter argue, and then she was wrongly accused again, which deepened the prejudice between the two sisters.

Du Lingling pointed to her nose, "Me? Why are you glaring at me? What did I do to you? This is so strange. It's true what they say, once a woman reaches menopause..."

Before she could finish speaking, although her voice was very soft, Du Yuanyuan, who had chased after her to the door, still heard it faintly. So, with a "bang," she slammed the door shut for her.

Like a thunderclap.

It almost broke the door frame.

Du Lingling waved her fist at the tightly closed door, "Such force! Pah! You'd better not come here next time. You're not welcome here."

This second sister is still the same as before, mercenary and annoying, she hasn't changed at all.

only……

"Will Sisi be alright?"

"How about... we call that little devil and ask him if he's gotten off the plane yet?"

Du Lingling was caught in a dilemma again.

Xiao Sisi and she had a very good relationship, and it was because of her that she was betrayed and ended up homeless.

If we just abandon it like this, well, it does seem a bit wrong!
"Oh dear, it's all that little rascal's fault. Of all people to mess with, he had to mess with my niece. Now things are getting more and more complicated..."

In the end, she turned around and started looking for her phone. (End of Chapter)