Sun Xiaomei pursed her lips. Watching Lin Zhou counting the money, and then thinking about the bride price she had received, she felt much more at ease.
Her parents had taken more than half of it, but they had left some for her, which wasn't bad. Today, while on stage, she had specifically looked down at Fang Zhiyi and Chen Xuan in the audience. Seeing the envy and jealousy written all over their faces, she couldn't even describe how happy she felt.
"Where are we going for our honeymoon?" Sun Xiaomei asked.
Lin Zhou frowned. "Why travel? It's tiring and expensive."
"Everyone else goes traveling! How can you say that?"
Lin Zhou glanced at her, his eyes darting around evasively. "Let's talk about it tomorrow. I'm too tired today." As he spoke, he stuffed the counted money under his pillow.
Sun Xiaomei noticed this action and felt a flash of unhappiness.
The night passed without another word.
Early the next morning, Father Lin, who had specially prepared breakfast, was waiting for his son and daughter-in-law to eat. However, only Lin Zhou appeared; Sun Xiaomei sat on the sofa with a gloomy expression.
"What's wrong here?" Father Lin asked.
Lin Zhou looked at Sun Xiaomei, also baffled. He wasn't quite sure himself; he had woken up to find Sun Xiaomei sitting by the bed looking upset, refusing to say anything when asked.
Sun Xiaomei was just getting angrier the more she thought about Lin Zhou refusing the trip. She had given so much for him, even married him, yet he wasn't even willing to go on a honeymoon!
Lin Zhou eventually called her over to eat.
Sun Xiaomei turned her face away.
Father Lin looked displeased. In his view, marrying into their family meant she was one of them. "Little Zhou, discipline your wife properly. Who is she showing that attitude to early in the morning?" He stood up and walked out of the house.
"What are you doing?" Lin Zhou couldn't hold back either. The dust had settled on the wedding, and he actually had something important to discuss with Sun Xiaomei today.
"You don't understand me at all!" Sun Xiaomei suddenly shouted, tears bursting from her eyes.
Lin Zhou frowned. "How can I understand if you don't tell me? You've been unhappy since you got out of bed."
"True understanding doesn't require words!"
"I only understand if you say it."
"You should understand even if I don't say it!" Sun Xiaomei felt incredibly aggrieved. "You've changed. You changed as soon as we got married."
Lin Zhou felt like he was on the verge of a breakdown. Why was this woman so weird? Did she reveal her true form the moment they got married?
"Fine, fine, whatever you say is right. I need to tell you something." Lin Zhou deliberately glanced at the door.
Sun Xiaomei turned her head away in a huff.
Lin Zhou stopped caring about niceties and reached out his hand directly. "Give me the bride price."
"Why?" Sun Xiaomei was surprised.
"Let me ask you, are you married to me?" Lin Zhou said. Seeing Sun Xiaomei remain silent, he continued, "Yours is mine, and mine is yours. Give me the money, I'll keep it for you. If you need it later, I'll give it to you."
Sun Xiaomei got agitated. "No way!"
"Why are you so selfish? We are a family now; we have to consider the whole household," Lin Zhou said. "Can't you stop just thinking about yourself?"
Sun Xiaomei was caught off guard by his words. "I'm selfish?"
Lin Zhou dropped the act. "I'll tell you the truth. That money was borrowed. It has to be repaid."
"What?" Sun Xiaomei was completely shocked. "Borrowed?"
Lin Zhou looked at her without speaking. If he cared about saving face in front of outsiders, Sun Xiaomei was no longer an outsider, so there was no need for that. "Borrowed. You are my wife, so you have to bear the debt too."
"You, you..." Sun Xiaomei was dumbfounded. The image of Lin Zhou in her heart cracked completely.
"It's just over three hundred thousand. I'll do a few projects with my good big brother later and earn it back easily. Give it to me first."
Lin Zhou was confident now. Fang Zhiyi's words that day made some sense. Although Fang had only suggested this method, Lin Zhou had thought it through further. Sun Xiaomei had a job and her family's financial condition was decent. Couldn't he ask her to help repay the money he got from mortgaging the house earlier?
This was a joint marital debt!
Little Hei had come specifically early to watch, and ended up seeing something exciting. This "perfect match" of a couple accused each other, then dug up old grudges, going from money to looks, and from looks to character, until both were too exhausted to continue.
Sun Xiaomei held her head; she really hadn't expected to fall so easily into such a huge pit!
And Lin Zhou, realizing the bride price had been taken by the Sun family, also panicked and immediately told Sun Xiaomei to go get it back.
His thoughts returned to that day.
"I can't borrow that much money."
Fang Zhiyi had looked like he wanted to say something but stopped, simply sighing heavily.
"Good brother, help me think of a way. You have many friends, borrow some for me." Even at that moment, he was thinking of taking advantage of Fang Zhiyi.
Fang Zhiyi shook his head. "I can't borrow anymore either. You know my situation, I owe money everywhere..." As he spoke, he showed Lin Zhou the lending platforms on his phone, which he had carefully selected.
Lin Zhou immediately had an idea. He just needed to borrow it for a few days and then pay it back, right?
So he reached out and took Fang Zhiyi's phone, searching accordingly.
During the process, when it wasn't enough, he "coincidentally" found contacts like "AAA Low Interest Loans" and "AAA Fast Lending Brother Li" in Fang Zhiyi's contact list, and immediately took those numbers too.
As luck would have it, by scraping funds from here and there, he managed to gather exactly three hundred and eighty thousand, not a penny more, not a penny less.
But now you tell me you gave it to your family?
Yes, Sun Xiaomei still hid the fact that she had some money in hand.
"Anyway, divorce is impossible. Divorcing right after getting married? Don't you find it shameful? Think about those people watching our joke," Lin Zhou said.
Sun Xiaomei's face also turned ugly. She knew her family; they were vampires. Money that went into their pockets would never come out, especially since she had a younger brother.
The two looked at each other, both feeling that their partner was incredibly strange.
Lin Zhou's tone softened a bit. "It's all Fang Zhiyi's fault. It was his idea, otherwise I wouldn't owe so much money."
Hearing Fang Zhiyi's name, Sun Xiaomei said hatefully, "He is just jealous! I told you not to hang out with him! What do we do now?"
"Can you ask your family for it, or borrow from someone?"
Sun Xiaomei thought of her best friend and immediately took out her phone to call. However, as soon as she mentioned the need to borrow money, Chen Xuan sounded troubled. "Xiaomei, I don't have any money left..."
"How is that possible?" Sun Xiaomei remembered that Chen Xuan was very good at saving money.
"Well, you know that Fang Zhiyi, right? He suddenly told me about a project that makes a lot of money. I thought what he said sounded pretty good, so I... invested. I have two thousand left for emergencies, do you want it?"
"Fang Zhiyi again!"
Listening from the side, Lin Zhou's eyebrows were about to stand on end. "She was scammed! Where would Fang Zhiyi get a project now!"
host is extracting the Celestial Bone of the Destiny's Female Lead! The Destiny's Great Villain System has successfully bound!] Mo Tianxiao: "Destiny's Great Villain? Me?" Looking at the radiant Celestial Bone in his hand and the beautiful woman lying on the bed, Mo Tianxiao felt somewhat confused. How could he, a law-abiding citizen, become a villain? Mo Tianxiao: "Fine, villain it is then. With the system here, even a Chosen One isn't unbeatable." [Ding! Detected 18,653 Chosen Ones in this world. Please seize the destiny of all protagonists to become the true Destiny's Great Villain!] Mo Tianxiao: "Seize how many?! What kind of lousy great villain is this? I'm a perfectly good citizen!"
] This is a dark fantasy-themed dating simulation game. The main gameplay involves containing various monster girls and investigating the truth of a world shrouded in mist alongside your companions. However, due to his love for the dark and bizarre atmosphere, Luo Wei ended up turning a dating game into a detective mystery game. Women? Women only slow down his quickdraw! To Luo Wei, the female leads in the game are more like tools to perfectly clear levels and squeeze out rewards. For Luo Wei, flirting with every girl he meets and then discarding them is standard procedure. Worried about characters losing affection points? No need. With his maxed-out charm stat, Luo Wei is practically a "human incubus." A little psychological manipulation and those points come right back. It's a bit scummy, but the paper cutout heroines in the game won't actually come at him with real cleavers. However... Luo Wei has transmigrated. He's accidentally entered the second playthrough of this game. His past actions have caused all the girls to transform into terrifying yanderes. Due to the game's setting, most of the heroines he once contained are "troubled girls." Obsessive, twisted, mentally unstable, all aggressive yanderes... The type who will kill you if they can't have you... Luo Wei wants to cry but has no tears left. "I really just want to survive..." In short, this is a story of battling wits and engaging in a love-hate relationship with yanderes.
mance] After transmigrating for eighteen years, Lin Qi lived as an utterly ordinary herbalist in the countryside. One day, he kindly brought home a sickly, beautiful girl covered in blood. They married in a flash and began their blissful, intimate life together. Right then, his long-delayed system finally activated. [Warning! Host detected in contact with the "Crimson Calamity," the world-ending witch!] Lin Qi looked at the adorable wife currently curled in his arms, who couldn't even open a jar lid and trembled at the sight of a mouse. Lin Qi: "System, are you insane? This is clearly just a weak and delicate sickly girl!" Thus, Lin Qi treated the system as a "Contrast System," where taking care of his wife made him stronger. Combing his wife's hair rewarded him with [Free Attribute Points]. Taking his wife out for sunshine rewarded him with [Forbidden Spell: Arcane Explosion]. Lin Qi: "This soft life tastes so good!" ... Yet, in the eyes of outsiders: The strongest Beastkin Assassin: "That man dissected a Beast King with a common skinning knife! That was a show of force towards the powerful!" The Holy Son of the Radiant Church: "I infiltrated his home as a tutor, but he had me babysit the children... He must have seen through my disguise!" The World-Ending Witch, Felucia: "I hid all the way in the countryside. How is it that the husband I married on a whim is stronger than I was at my peak?"
grated, and just when he finally managed to get into an elite academy, he discovered that he actually had a system, and the way to earn rewards was extremely ridiculous. So for the sake of rewards, he had no choice but to start acting ridiculous as well. Su Cheng: "It's nothing but system quests after all." But later, what confused Su Cheng was that while he was already quite ridiculous, he never expected those serious characters to gradually become ridiculous too. And the way they looked at him became increasingly strange... (This synopsis doesn't do it justice, please read the full story)
