Marry a female star at a bargain price

Lin Xiao didn't mind at all that his father-in-law listened to his daughter but didn't give his son-in-law any face.

This is totally normal.

The father and daughter have known each other for over twenty years; their friendship is far deeper than that of someone like me, a mere third party who has only been involved with the mayor for almost two years.

I remember when I first married Xixi.

Lin Xiao had always been worried that people would say he married the mayor's daughter to climb the social ladder.

After he was exposed, such rumors and speculations did continue, and these unpleasant voices only gradually disappeared this year.

To be honest, Lin Xiao was actually a little bothered by it.

After all, men care about their image; who wants to be accused of climbing the social ladder by relying on their wife?

But now, Lin Xiao is content to live off his wife without a care in the world.

We've taken advantage of our father-in-law's official position, and we've lived off our wife's money.

What's wrong? I'm just asking you what's wrong!
Lin Xiao was in an exceptionally good mood. After receiving his father-in-law's affirmative reply, he happily went to the kitchen to prepare lunch.

Create some alone time for the father and daughter.

He had just finished cooking a dish when Xixi came in quietly, startling him.

"Why did you come here? You didn't even talk to your dad for a while!" Lin Xiao said.

"What's there to say..."

Xixi was still clearly a little embarrassed, but her face was already smiling. "I'm starving! How long will it take me to eat if you're all alone?"

Lin Xiao pinched her nose: "You're such a glutton!"

Xi Xi cried out in pain and scolded, "You dare to curse me! You kidnapped me here today, and I haven't even settled the score with you yet!"

Lin Xiao hurriedly said, "Heaven and earth bear witness, I never intended to use you! Yesterday's events happened so suddenly that I did contact your father to complain and ask him for help, I admit that. But at that time, I didn't know you were coming back, let alone that your plane flew directly to Yizhou. Before that, you always went to Ninghai to see Xie Xiaowei. Today was purely a coincidence. I arranged to meet your father at ten o'clock, and I was almost late picking you up. I couldn't possibly leave you behind, so I had no choice but to bring you along..."

Lin Xiao explained earnestly.

Xi Xi chuckled upon hearing this: "I was just teasing you, but you actually took it seriously and are in such a hurry to explain!"

Lin Xiao rolled his eyes: "How can I not take it seriously! Even if I'm going to be a kept man, I should at least get something decent. I can't just take the blame for nothing, that would be like eating stale food!"

Xi Xi found it both funny and helpless, and gave him a coquettish glance.

While Han Haijun was on the balcony making a phone call, she became bolder and actually wrapped her arms around Lin Xiao's waist from behind, pouting coquettishly as she said, "Honey, even if you deliberately brought me here to be your advocate, it's okay. We're husband and wife, we're one. I'll support whatever you want to do. I'd be unhappy if you kept us so separate!"

Lin Xiao felt a warmth in his heart upon hearing this.

He wasn't used to this warm and sweet atmosphere and always felt it was pretentious, so he subconsciously started acting like a jerk.

"You don't want me to break up with you?" he countered.

"of course."

"You said we are one?"

"Yup!"

"Then... let's become one and not separate..."

"OK……"

After agreeing, Xixi realized something was wrong.

Looking up, she met Lin Xiao's lecherous and sly gaze, and only then did she understand the profound meaning behind his words.

In an instant, her face turned red to the roots of her ears, and she bit her lower lip, looking both innocent and alluring.

"Lin Xiao!! You're going to die!!!"

Xixi gritted her teeth and stomped her feet.

Lin Xiao found his wife particularly adorable and couldn't help but tease her.

So he continued his shameless act: "I want it!"

Xi Xi was completely bewildered: "Huh?"

Lin Xiao leaned closer and whispered in her ear, "It's like being in heaven!"

Han Xixi: "..."

I’m convinced, completely convinced!
Xixi only admitted today that she married a lecherous old man!
But it was too late for regrets; all that was left was to train the wolves.

"what!!!"

Lin Xiao exclaimed in surprise as Xi Xi pinched a tender piece of flesh on his waist.

The sudden scream made Han Haijun on the balcony turn around. Seeing the young couple playfully bickering, he smiled and turned back.

Lin Xiao clicked his tongue in surprise: "You really pinched me!"

Xi Xi retorted confidently, "Who told you to be so cheeky? You deserved to be pinched!"

Lin Xiao hissed, "She can be so ruthless to her own husband. That's why they say the most poisonous heart is a woman's. I've learned my lesson today!"

Xi Xi snorted coldly and said arrogantly, "I have many more tricks up my sleeve. You'll have plenty to learn from me in the future!"

Lin Xiao pursed his lips, telling himself to calm down, calm down, and calm down again. He absolutely must not act foolishly again.

Xi Xi looked at him strangely and said, "What bad things are you hiding now? Tell me the truth!"

Lin Xiao grinned and turned his head away.

"I won't tell you, or you'll pinch me again!"

"I promise I won't twist it, just tell me now!"

"you promise?"

"I promise!"

"Then I'll tell you!"

“Hurry up and tell me!!”

"Hehe, didn't you just say you had many more moves you wanted me to learn from..."

As Lin Xiao spoke, he couldn't stop grinning lewdly.

Xixi had a bad feeling.

It was too late to stop. Lin Xiao whispered in her ear, "Tonight, I'll show you what I'm made of and see just how good your moves are..."

As soon as he finished speaking, Lin Xiao laughed triumphantly and jumped away, his face full of smug satisfaction at his successful prank.

Xi Xi had no intention of chasing him down.

One after another, her husband's seductive tricks had her heart fluttering and her soul swaying.

On the way out of the airport, she misunderstood Lin Xiao's words about "doing something important," revealing her expectations of a reunion after a short separation and her true feelings of longing for rain after a long drought.

With great difficulty, the flame was finally extinguished.

This time, Lin Xiao provoked it repeatedly, and naturally, flames shot into the sky and burned fiercely.

Now.

She had no time to argue with her husband; she just wanted to push him down and settle the score in another way.

However, the current conditions do not allow it.

She could only force herself to remain silent and left the kitchen without saying a word.

Seeing his wife's reaction, Lin Xiao thought he had gone too far with his joke and quickly chased after her to coax her.

Xixi went straight into the bathroom, locked the door from the inside, and kept saying nothing was wrong no matter how many questions were asked from outside.

Lin Xiao was skeptical, but had no choice but to give up.

During lunch, Xixi ate in silence the whole time, without saying a word.

While chatting with his father-in-law, Lin Xiao observed his wife's reaction, becoming increasingly guilty as he watched.

"Oh no, oh no, I've really gone too far this time, I've really angered my wife!"

Lin Xiao felt extremely regretful and hesitant.

Not daring to let his father-in-law see through his act, he could only pretend to be calm and chat with him, while preparing to kneel on a washboard when he got home.

It was already 1 p.m. after lunch.

Han Haijun wanted the two of them to stay for a while, but Xixi said she missed her daughter and had to go back quickly.

The South Korean navy did not linger any longer.

She took out a lot of children's toys that she had bought in advance from the small bedroom. They were all pink and red, and she filled several large bags with them.

Xi Xi's eyes welled up with tears.

Without being polite to his father, the young couple accepted everything, then went downstairs, got into their car, and left.

……

On the way back to Mashan County, the couple escorted each other the entire way.

The concept of "absence makes the heart grow fonder" was embodied at this moment. The two of them transformed into lecherous wolves, their eyes practically forming a spiderweb of longing.

Lin Xiao wished he could just find any hotel in the city and get things done.

But no.

The couple is so famous that, in addition, they have become role models for the whole internet because of their donation of more than 4000 million yuan to establish an art education fund for rural primary schools. They can be recognized wherever they go and easily cause traffic jams.

The experience at the airport this morning is a good example.

Although they are a legally married couple, it doesn't matter if they are photographed in a hotel, it's not like they are driving without a license.

But... precisely because their marital relationship is legal, going to a hotel in broad daylight only makes things more controversial and fuels speculation. No one wants their private sexual affairs to be discussed and commented on extensively online.

That's too social.

Even Lin Xiao, who is usually open and honest about online opinions, found it unbearable, let alone the introverted and shy Xi Xi.

So neither of them dared to take that risky step and obediently went home.

Then, late at night when everything was quiet, he chuckled.

Throughout the journey, the couple kept swallowing their saliva, especially Lin Xiao, who almost made his bladder burst from swallowing so much.

We sped along at high speed.

I arrived home at 3 p.m., but found no one there. I guess they went to sunbathe in the neighborhood.

Lin Xiao's eyes lit up immediately: This is a golden opportunity!

He kicked off his shoes, grabbed his wife, and pounced on the sofa, showering her with passionate and thirsty kisses.

It took Xixi a long time to push him away: "No...they could come back at any time..."

Lin Xiao thought about it and agreed.

If you open the door and the old and young see them naked on the sofa, that scene would be even more embarrassing than being the subject of online gossip about having sex in a hotel room.

"Shall we go to the room?"

"Go to hell! Is that all you have on your mind?!"

Xi Xi was annoyed, her eyes filled with resentment, a stark contrast to her demeanor on the street.

At this moment, her longing for her daughter took precedence, and the kind person who helped her give birth to her daughter could now be sidelined.

Xi Xi quickly called her mother and asked them to bring Ms. Lin Xiaoxi back.

No one answered the phone.

I called the nanny again, and she didn't answer at first, but she finally answered on the third call.

At this point, Xixi was already very anxious, worried that something unexpected might have happened, and imagined all sorts of bad scenarios in her mind.

When the call connected, she immediately asked about the situation.

The answer was indeed unexpected—the three women took Xiaoxi back to Ninghai.

Xixi asked a bunch of questions excitedly before finally understanding the whole story.

In short, Lin Xiaoxi is sick.

In fact, Xiaoxi had been coughing on and off since last month. At first, we thought it was an allergic cough caused by the change of seasons, since Ms. Lin had been diagnosed with allergies since birth.

When the whole family brought her to Mashan County, one reason was to reunite the family of three, but the more important reason was that the doctor said that breathing more fresh air would help improve allergy symptoms and allow the child to grow up healthier.

In the past six months since I came to Mashan County, things have indeed turned out as the doctor said.

Breathing in the fresh mountain air every day, Lin Xiaoxi's rashes quickly subsided and rarely recurred. The little chubby girl was carefully fed and quickly gained weight. In less than a year since birth, her weight had more than doubled, and she is now a real little chubby girl.

Seeing the changes in her daughter, Xixi was very gratified and glad that she had made the right decision.

It was only because Xiaoxi's condition was improving that she, as a mother, was able to find the time to focus on her work and expand the boundaries of her career.

Everything went smoothly.

So much so that since last month, Lin Xiaoxi's occasional cough did not attract the attention of her family, who simply thought it was caused by the change of seasons.

My cough got a little worse last week, so my grandma took me to the hospital.

The doctor diagnosed me with bronchitis, but the symptoms weren't severe. He prescribed some traditional Chinese medicine and I went home.

After taking it for two days, there were signs of improvement.

Unexpectedly, Lin Xiaoxi suddenly developed a fever this morning, became listless, and her cough worsened.

At that time, Lin Xiao had already set off for Yizhou.

Liu Liyun felt that the hospital in the small county was unreliable, so she made a quick decision to take her child back to the children's specialist hospital in Ninghai for diagnosis.

The three women then returned to Ninghai and went straight to the children's hospital.

Registration, diagnosis, and tests took up the whole morning.

Final diagnosis: whooping cough, and the symptoms were already quite severe.

In other words, the diagnosis of bronchitis at Mashan County Hospital was a misdiagnosis, and the prescribed medicine was naturally not the right treatment. It only relieved some of Xiaopangya's symptoms by accident, but it did not cure the root cause.

Upon hearing the diagnosis of "whooping cough," both Han Xixi and Lin Xiao felt as if struck by lightning.

This feeling is something that only parents can understand.

Without saying a word, the couple grabbed their phones, went downstairs, and drove straight to Ninghai.

On the way, Lin Xiao focused on driving.

Xixi video-called her mother and saw her daughter through the video.

Because Lin Xiaoxi's symptoms were quite severe, she had to be hospitalized for intravenous treatment and could only be discharged after her vital signs stabilized.

Moreover, being discharged from the hospital does not mean recovery.

Whooping cough, as its name suggests, requires a full three months of coughing to get better.

Even after being discharged from the hospital, the child's cough will not stop, but it will be less severe than it is now. He will still need to take medication and do nebulizer treatments.

Of course, these are all things for later.

The current situation is that Xixi is watching her daughter lying on the hospital bed in the camera. She is very small and has an IV drip in her arm. When she sees her mother's face, she waves her arms and legs a couple of times, but perhaps because of her emotional excitement, she immediately starts coughing, and the little girl's face turns red from coughing.

Seeing this scene, Xixi burst into tears.

She didn't know how to coax her daughter. The little games and interactions that mother and daughter usually played were completely useless at this moment.

Lin Xiao was driving beside her, and hearing his daughter's violent coughing, he felt a pang of heartache.

That was her own biological daughter, her own flesh and blood.

Theoretically speaking, the little chubby girl is the only blood relative she has in this world, because her parents and younger brother were matched before she transmigrated, and they are connected to the original soul of this body.

These clues are, of course, no longer important now.

Even from the bond between father and daughter, he felt a pang of heartache as he listened to his daughter's violent coughing.

This level of heartache is only doubled when it comes to a mother.

The video call ended because Lin Xiaoxi suddenly started coughing violently.

Xi Xi put down her phone, feeling even more heartbroken, and covered her face, bursting into tears.

Lin Xiao remained silent, secretly tightening his grip on his wife's hand, forcing himself to remain calm and drive the car smoothly.

Galloping all the way.

After a long while, Han Xixi calmed down and wiped away her tears.

"Wife, I'm sorry!" Lin Xiao said.

"Ok?"

Xi Xi asked in surprise, "Why apologize?"

Lin Xiao said remorsefully, "If it weren't for me, you wouldn't have brought Da Bao to such a poor place as Mashan County, Da Bao wouldn't have been misdiagnosed, and might not even have gotten whooping cough. Even if he did get it, it would have been detected immediately in Ninghai, and it wouldn't have developed into this serious condition. So... it's all my fault, I'm sorry!"

Xi Xi paused for a moment, then gently placed her palm on the back of his hand and caressed it lightly.

"Honey, don't say that, it has nothing to do with you!"

"How can it be nothing...?"

"It's normal for kids to get sick, don't take it too seriously!"

Xi Xi smiled gently and patiently comforted him, "Six months after a child is born, the immunity from the mother is almost gone. From then on, he has to deal with various viruses on his own. Every time he gets sick, it is a process of rebuilding his immunity and making his body stronger."

"So from this perspective, it's actually a good thing for children to get sick, because if they don't get minor illnesses, they'll definitely get serious illnesses in the future. This isn't me trying to comfort you, it's a natural law, and we have to follow the laws of nature, right?"

This novel idea caught Lin Xiao's eye.

Xixi continued, "Xiaoxi is nine months old now, which is a time when her immunity is low. It's also during the change of seasons, so it's normal for her to have some minor health problems!"

Lin Xiao frowned: "You were coughing so badly in the video just now, and you call that a minor ailment?"

Xixi shook her head and said, "That's how whooping cough is. It looks like a terrible cough, but it's actually not a serious illness. It's just agonizing and makes you cough for three months. Xiaoxi should have gotten the whooping cough vaccine earlier, but she had a severe rash at the time, so she didn't get it until three months later. I was worried that there would be problems if it was delayed, and now it seems that she did get it..."

As Xixi spoke, she shook her head helplessly again.

Lin Xiao then realized that his wife was very knowledgeable about the symptoms of these common childhood illnesses, while he, as the father, knew nothing about them.

He felt both heartache and shame.

"Since you understand everything, why were you crying just now?"

"cry……"

Xixi wiped her eyes sheepishly. "I know, but as a mother, seeing my child cough like that, even if I know it's nothing serious, it still breaks my heart. It's not something I can control. Now that I've calmed down a bit, I'm not so worried anymore, so I'm trying to comfort you, my dear husband!"

Xi Xi deliberately gave him a bright smile.

Lin Xiao chuckled, feeling much more relaxed, but then felt even more guilty and ashamed.

When a child is sick, the mother should be the one who feels the most pain, but Xixi has to endure her own anxiety while also comforting the person who caused the illness...

Lin Xiao felt guilty towards the mother and daughter for staying with him in this remote mountain village, letting their minor ailment develop into a serious illness.

At this moment, online glory, career conquests, and the mission of cadres all pale in comparison.

For the first time, Lin Xiao began to doubt his own choice:
Is it really worthwhile for me to insist on becoming the town mayor? (End of Chapter)