In that instant, Su Mo felt deeply unfilial.
Su Zhengshan followed them in, his expression still as kind and loving as ever.
“Mo Mo, come here to Dad.”
Sitting on the sofa, Su Mo walked over in small steps, linked her arm through his, and rested her head on his shoulder.
If one listened closely, they could hear Su Zhengshan’s soft sigh.
“Mo Mo, you are the daughter I cherish most. If you truly insist on marrying Lin Yuyi, your mother and I won’t oppose it.”
“It’s just that the way you went about it was too extreme. If you’re ever bullied in the future, don’t tell Dad… just call me, and I’ll come take you home.”
Su Mo didn’t understand the second half of that sentence at the time only later did she realize what it meant.
Her nose stung, tears swirling in her eyes as she held them back.
“Dad… Mom… I was wrong.”
Qin Hui felt an indescribable reluctance. She had imagined many times what it would be like to marry off her daughter but never like this.
After discussion, both Su Mo and Lin Yuyi felt that holding a banquet would be too exhausting. Young people should be free.
They decided on a destination wedding.
So, after the fake marriage certificate incident, that very afternoon,
Su Mo truly went with Lin Yuyi to the Civil Affairs Bureau to register their marriage.
Holding the two red marriage booklets in her hands, everything felt unreal.
Su Mo cried again.
“Waa… Yuyi, I almost thought I wouldn’t be able to marry you.”
Lin Yuyi reached out and wiped the tears from her face.
“Silly Mo Mo. If you didn’t marry me, who else could you marry?”
As he spoke, he pulled her into his arms and swore softly in her ear:
“Su Mo, you are the woman I, Lin Yuyi, will protect for the rest of my life. As long as I’m here, I won’t let you suffer.”
“Su Mo, I love you.”
He didn’t shout it loudly he whispered it with all his tenderness by her ear.
Su Mo cried even harder, wrapping her arms around him in return.
At that moment, she felt like the happiest woman in the world.
Who said marriage was the grave of love?
She wasn’t entering a grave she was building a little home that belonged to the two of them.
The new house had already been renovated.
On the night they received their marriage certificate, Su Mo couldn’t fall asleep.
Adding together the dowry from her parents and the cash gifts from relatives and friends, for a moment Su Mo felt like a rich woman.
She posted a nine-photo grid on her social media, the most important being the wedding photo of her and Lin Yuyi, along with the large red envelopes beside it.
The comments below were remarkably uniform:
Single coworker: “I’m so jealous. Don’t treat me like a person woof woof~”
Zhao Xiaoxiao: “Rich lady, treat me to hot pot!”
Relatives: “Happy wedding, Mo Mo!”
And under Lin Yuyi’s post, Bai Qing’s comment:
“Brother Yuyi, happy wedding.”
Just seven simple words, yet the more Su Mo looked at them, the more uncomfortable she felt.
But she didn’t want to appear petty in front of Lin Yuyi. After all, when she opened their chat history, aside from ordinary greetings, there was nothing else.
Lin Yuyi had just come out of the shower.
Su Mo took seventy thousand from the red envelopes and placed it on the table.
“Here this is seventy thousand from the bride price. Give it back to your mom.”
Thus, the Lin family had used only thirty thousand as the bride price, yet gained a huge advantage
Lin Yuyi’s name was added to the house deed.
Where else could such a good deal be found?
The Su family not only provided a house but also gave Su Mo another two hundred thousand as dowry for her to take with her, so that if she became pregnant in the future, she would have support during the early months.
Qin Hui knew Zhang Lanhua was a calculating person and didn’t expect her to treat her daughter especially well.
Most importantly, Zhang Lanhua would no longer return to her hometown.
She would stay here and live with her son.
All the reasoning she gave sounded perfectly justified no one could refute it.
“I’m old. I don’t have many peaceful years left. I just want to be with my youngest son.”
“Mo Mo, don’t worry. This old woman won’t cause you trouble.”
“With me around, while you young people are busy, I’ll take care of the housework. When you have a child, I can help raise it too.”
So on the very first day, Zhang Lanhua moved with the young couple into Jingyuan Residential Community.
The apartment had originally been bought with three bedrooms and one living room perfect to give Zhang Lanhua her own room.
Only Su Mo’s wish to turn one room into a walk-in closet fell through.
Lin Yuyi promised her that when they had more money in the future, they would move to a bigger place and then Su Mo could use two rooms just for her wardrobe.
Su Mo smiled mischievously, remembering every one of those promises in her heart.
Coming back to her thoughts, Su Mo sorted the remaining money.
Qin Hui had instructed her to keep this money in a separate bank card, so she suddenly had her own little private fund.
Lin Yuyi walked over and took the money from her hands.
Putting away the seventy thousand, he felt very guilty.
“Mo Mo, I’m sorry. You’ve been wronged because of this.”
Su Mo placed the “name-change gift” from her parents into his hand.
“Here don’t say I’m unfair. This is from my parents to you.”
She also held the one Zhang Lanhua had given her.
Once opened, the contrast was obvious.
Su Mo’s parents had given Lin Yuyi ten thousand as a name-change gift, while Zhang Lanhua gave Su Mo only two hundred!
Two hundred!
Did it really need such a huge red envelope?
Anyone who didn’t know might think it was twenty thousand!
Su Mo had naïvely thought Zhang Lanhua had become generous this time she had been completely mistaken.
Lin Yuyi grew embarrassed too and handed his red envelope to Su Mo.
“What’s mine is yours, wife. I hand it over.”
Su Mo was both angry and amused. She wasn’t the calculating type, but if Qin Hui asked about it, how could she say the gift was only two hundred?
“Forget it, forget it. Lin Yuyi, I declare that from now on, you’ll be living on plain buns.”
“Hmph!”
As a man, Lin Yuyi didn’t care about such things. He stepped forward, wrapped his arms around Su Mo, and joked:
“My little rich lady, have you decided where to go for our trip?”
Su Mo’s fox-like eyes darted around playfully. “I want to go to France it’s very romantic!”
“Alright. We’ll buy the tickets in a moment.”
“Why in a moment?”
Lin Yuyi flipped her over and pinned her beneath him.
“Because a spring night is worth a thousand pieces of gold.”
“Ah… you’re bad.”
“I didn’t know you were this kind of Lin Yuyi.”
Just as the young couple was about to get intimate, a sudden knock sounded at the door.
“My dear son, Mo Mo, are you there?”
Zhang Lanhua’s voice rang from outside. Lin Yuyi had just started unbuttoning Su Mo’s clothes, and the interruption made him anxious.
Blushing, Su Mo pushed him away with both hands. “Go see what’s wrong. Maybe your mom needs something.”
“Alright, alright.”
Hearing no movement inside, Zhang Lanhua knocked even harder.
“My dear son, Mo Mo, are you asleep?”
“Get up I have something to tell you both!”
“Mo Mo! Mo Mo!”
Unable to call her son out, she turned to shouting for Su Mo instead.
Su Mo rubbed her temples, feeling a headache coming on helpless and weary.