Wang Hao had his own little calculations in mind. He suggested staying in the city for a few days:
"Let my older sister and my mom handle the chores at home. Honey, let's take Keke and enjoy a few quiet days here."
Lin Wanyi didn't want to go back and deal with the Wang family's attitudes anyway.
So, she stayed in the new house just like that.
Lin Jiajun called her:
"Sis, if you're not coming back for New Year's Eve, you can at least come back on the second day of the New Year, right?"
Lin Wanyi hesitated. She was thinking about going back only after finalizing the divorce procedures.
Lin Jiajun continued:
"If you don't have money, I'll transfer some to you. If the Wang family won't let you come back, I'll go find Wang Hao.
"On the second day of the New Year, daughters all over the country visit their maiden homes. He can't stop you."
Hanging up the phone, Lin Wanyi started to rethink her plans.
She could also send Keke back to the Lin family first, and then come back alone to handle the paperwork.
Otherwise, what if the Wang family used Keke to threaten her like last time?
She had been feeling off these past few days, her whole body aching.
But she hadn't done anything strenuous, and she hadn't even slept in the same bed as Wang Hao.
She wanted to go to the hospital for a check-up, but she didn't know what to have checked.
So, she just buried herself in studying the script Chen Tingting had sent her.
She needed to make money; making money was her top priority.
After two comfortable days, Wang Hao cooked, washed clothes, and did the dishes every day. He couldn't have been more diligent.
Liu Chunlan called again:
"Are you two still not coming back? We are incredibly busy preparing goods for the New Year at home, and you two are hiding in the new house enjoying a life of leisure.
"Hurry back and help."
Wang Hao quickly agreed, and Lin Wanyi also thought that since it was almost the 28th of the twelfth lunar month, it was time to go back.
After all, Chen Qingxiu was going back that day.
As soon as they got home, Wu Qin from next door immediately pulled her into a room.
She carefully closed the door and whispered to Lin Wanyi:
"Have you noticed anything wrong with your Wang Hao?"
Lin Wanyi shook her head:
"No. He just became more hardworking, helping me cook, wash dishes, and do laundry. There are no other changes.
"Why do you ask?"
Wu Qin hesitated and stumbled over her words, finally gritting her teeth and asking:
"Have you two been doing it every day recently?"
"Doing it? Doing what?"
Lin Wanyi was even more baffled.
Wu Qin blushed:
"Oh, you know, the intimate things couples do."
Lin Wanyi suddenly realized what she meant and immediately blushed as well, but she shook her head:
"No, since I went back to my maiden home, I haven't done it with him once.
"To tell you the truth, I'm planning to get a divorce, so how could I still do that with him?"
"Really?"
"Of course it's true. Why would I lie to you?"
Wu Qin frowned, and Lin Wanyi didn't understand:
"Why are you suddenly asking this?"
Wu Qin looked out the window:
"Because I heard your mother-in-law bragging to my mother-in-law, saying that you will definitely be pregnant with a big grandson for her after the New Year.
"My mother-in-law didn't believe it, and she added that Wang Hao is working hard every night, so you will definitely get pregnant."
Lin Wanyi's heart skipped a beat, and she had an ominous premonition.
"I really haven't done it with him, but recently I wake up every morning with my whole body aching, feeling even worse than when we used to do it."
Wu Qin told her:
"Don't worry, I'm telling you this just so you can be careful. If you've made up your mind to divorce, you absolutely cannot have another child.
"I'll find a way to sound out my mother-in-law and see if she can get any information out of her."
Lin Wanyi kept thinking about this on her way back.
It was absolutely not normal for her body to ache every day.
As an experienced woman, she knew this pain felt exactly like the soreness after intimacy.
Just as she was lost in thought, Wang Meijuan suddenly threw a rag in front of her:
"What are you spacing out for? Did you forget how to work after enjoying life in the city for two days?
"Hurry up and clean. It's almost the New Year, and the house is still a mess."
Lin Wanyi threw the rag right back onto Wang Meijuan's face:
"Older sister, if you care so much about cleanliness and like doing it, then do more of it.
"After all, you're living under someone else's roof right now. How could you not feel embarrassed if you don't do more chores, right?"
Wang Meijuan went crazy with anger. She pulled the rag off her face and spat frantically:
"You, you! Lin Wanyi, you are going too far."
Lin Wanyi was in a great mood and hummed a song as she went to tutor Keke with her homework.
Wang Meijuan stomped her feet in anger:
"Mom! Mom! How can she be like this?
"Look how arrogant she is! She's a woman, a daughter-in-law married into this family, why shouldn't she clean?"
Hearing this, Lin Wanyi's voice floated out from the room:
"Older sister, you're the daughter-in-law married into the Li family, why don't you go back to the Li family to clean?"
As soon as she finished speaking, Li Jun actually called Wang Meijuan.
Wang Meijuan thought Li Jun was calling her back for the New Year and was overjoyed. She answered the phone immediately.
Unexpectedly, Li Jun launched into a scolding tirade:
"Wang Meijuan, it's the damn New Year and you're still not back for the spring cleaning. What are you trying to do?
"Not coming back to help for the New Year, huh?
"I'm warning you, if you don't come back to help my mom, I'm divorcing you after the New Year."
Wang Meijuan was furious and almost smashed her phone.
Crying, she went to Liu Chunlan:
"Mom, he's bullying me. Li Jun is bullying me too much. I have to go back and get an explanation."
Liu Chunlan was also indignant.
She immediately called Wang Hao and prepared to go to the Li family.
But before they could leave, Li Jun arrived at the Wang house first.
Not feeling guilty at all, he grabbed Wang Meijuan's arm:
"There are so many things to do for the New Year, how can my mom handle it all by herself?
"As the daughter-in-law of the Li family, you live at your maiden home every day. What are you trying to do?
"Wang Meijuan, if you want a divorce, come with me to the Civil Affairs Bureau right now."
Wang Meijuan had never thought about divorce, but she also didn't want to go back in such a cowardly way.
She had been waiting for Li Jun to apologize and beg her to go back. She didn't expect that while Li Jun did come, he showed no signs of apologizing at all.
Liu Chunlan pulled Li Jun's hand away:
"You treated Juan'er so poorly, and you still want her to go back and be your nanny?
"Li Jun, you can't bully people like this.
"Let me tell you, I'll give you two options. Either bring fifty thousand yuan to apologize to us.
"Or let Juan'er divorce you immediately and leave you a bachelor. You choose."
Li Jun sneered:
"I'll give you an option too. Either go back and obediently serve my whole family, or get a divorce.
"If we divorce, you have to return the 388,000 yuan bride price I gave back then, not a penny less. Do you hear me!"
"On what grounds?"
Wang Meijuan screamed at the top of her lungs:
"I've been married for ten years, and our child is 9 years old. Return my ass!
"Li Jun, you're going too far!"
Li Jun sneered: "Think about it carefully yourself, are you coming with me or not!"
Of course, Wang Meijuan wouldn't go. She knew Li Jun was humiliating her.
For so many years, every time they argued, Li Jun would bring up the bride price.
He would mention it, scold her, and sometimes even hit her over it.
But Wang Meijuan refused to accept this.
She hadn't received a single penny of that money, so why should he take all his anger out on her?
Thinking of this, she suddenly shot a glare at Lin Wanyi.
She said to Li Jun:
"The bride price you gave ultimately ended up in this woman's hands. If you want it, go ask her for it.
"Make her return it all to you!
"Go ask her for it!"
