Chapter 3

“It’s good that you know. You can be useless, but don’t embarrass yourself.”

Shen Ruyu, that shrew, immediately got cocky and started ranting. “Don’t be so ungrateful. This job was found for you by your eldest brother-in-law. You can’t even stick it out as a security guard, you worthless loser really will be waiting to die.”

“Mom, what about the medical bills?”

Yao Nan asked cautiously.

“Wait until he starts work, then go get them.”

Shen Ruyu seemed to get angrier the more she looked at Xu Bin. She snorted and said, “Fine, get lost and wash yourself off. You’re a walking bad omen.”

“Let’s go!”

Yao Nan didn’t dare linger either. She hurriedly pulled Xu Bin upstairs with her.

The second floor had three rooms and a very small living room. The couple’s bedroom was the smallest, a former child’s room. With a bed, a wardrobe, and Xu Bin’s computer crammed inside, it felt cramped. Even with the tiny window open to air out the room, the smell of smoke was still there.

The youngest, Yao Le’er, had just started high school and only came back on weekends. The eldest, Yao Xin, was already married off, so on ordinary days the second floor was actually the little couple’s quiet hideaway.

As soon as Xu Bin sat down, Yao Nan went back into the room to look for clothes, then said, “Honey, you should go wash up first.”

Thinking of the newbie task the system had issued, and looking at the beautiful wife in front of him who had already become Suzuki Airi, Xu Bin’s heart heated up. He suddenly grabbed her hand and rasped, “My head still can’t get wet. You wash me.”

“Mom’s still at home!!”

Yao Nan said shyly, her face turning awkward with embarrassment.

Her habitual timidity, the way she had always been meek with everyone at home, had gradually started to annoy Xu Bin. But when that expression appeared on Suzuki Airi’s face, it was so pitiful it made a man want to turn beastly.

“She’ll probably go play mahjong in a little while.”

Xu Bin lit a cigarette and tempted her. “Go downstairs and ask her first. If it’s just the two of us at home, she definitely won’t want to eat here.”

“Then I’ll go take a look!”

Yao Nan was actually a little expectant too. She gave him a shy, coquettish smile and went downstairs first.

Faced with that beautiful face, even knowing that the soul inside was still Yao Nan, Xu Bin still couldn’t bring himself to show the kind of intimacy he should have. He could only say that happiness had come too suddenly, and he needed time to adapt.

“System, how exactly is task completion judged?”

Xu Bin had always been cautious, so he immediately asked in his mind.

“Newbie task: climax for the wife. Time limit: one week. Wife Yao Nan has never had a climax after marriage. Host is to complete the newbie task by giving her a sexual climax, and put the task of developing the lustful wife on the branch task list.”

“Just one orgasm is enough?”

Xu Bin was a little taken aback.

“Yes, one. Comforting the wife who has never climaxed after marriage is the exchange price for the newbie gift pack.”

The system’s voice was very firm, and it made Xu Bin light another cigarette as he sank into thought, or rather into guilty reflection over how lust had gotten the better of him.

He and his wife had been high school classmates. Back then, Xu Bin had gone all out chasing the school beauty, basically a total bootlicker. At the school beauty’s pitifully demanding request, he had even set up candles and a heart-shaped confession outside the girls’ dormitory.

The result was that the school’s local thug came swaggering up to him with the school beauty Luo Xin in his arms, kicked over the candles, and mocked him in front of the whole school.

After that, Xu Bin took the initiative to drop out. He had no one to rely on, and he knew very well that even if he got into university or junior college, he wouldn’t have the money to study. It would be better to come out early, work, and support himself.

Yao Nan had been a classmate too, an ugly girl with a very weak presence in the class. Quietly, she began comforting Xu Bin.

Whether it counted as taking advantage of him while he was down, Xu Bin had a somewhat handsome face and usually wouldn’t have looked at her twice, but during that low point he was so desperate he actually managed to sweet-talk the still-virginal Yao Nan into becoming his.

When a virgin man and a virgin woman met, it was like dry tinder meeting fire. And with the man in such a fiery, irritable state, the first night was doomed to be painful, so painful it even scared them enough to wonder whether they should go to the hospital.

After that, Yao Nan followed Xu Bin with a tenderness like water, all the way until she graduated from junior college with her average grades. After she came clean to her family about their relationship, she brought Xu Bin home to meet her parents.

Yao Baichuan was very dissatisfied, but he didn’t really object either. At the time, Shen Ruyu had her own little scheme in mind, or rather, it was a very critical moment.

The eldest daughter, Yao Xin, had already married off, and the youngest daughter was beautiful enough to find some rich family. Only this supposedly ugly second daughter had become her worry. That time with the paternity test had left her feeling too ashamed to show her face.

Mainly because the second wife was pressing step by step, trying to fight her way into power, and the old-fashioned Yao Baichuan had wavered too. Shen Ruyu panicked and immediately wanted to take the man she looked down on, Xu Bin, in as a live-in son-in-law.

The reason was simple: if all three daughters married out, what would she do then? Yao Baichuan already had another family outside the home. If even this house could no longer be held, then in the future they’d be left drinking northwest wind.

At that time, the young and ignorant Xu Bin registered his marriage with his wife, and Yao Nan was overjoyed to be together with the man she loved. But the so-called married life after that was far from satisfying.

The main reason he had been willing to take the security guard job this time was that it came with lodging, so he didn’t have to live here.

“Honey!”

Before long, Yao Nan ran back upstairs and said happily, “Mom says my older sister and brother are coming to see you. We’re eating at home tonight.”

“Them? Being that considerate?”

Xu Bin’s first reaction was a very bad one.

Yao Xin had always been arrogant and haughty. She had married early into a rich official’s family. Although her husband had once gotten into a fight and spent two years inside, he’d just been released, and their family conditions were very good. He had always looked down on this second sister and second brother-in-law.

If he cared about this family, then he cared about the sexy mother-in-law and the little sister-in-law with a baby face and huge breasts.

Before Xu Bin could react, Yao Nan said softly, “I’m going to buy groceries. My older sister and brother will be here soon. You rest for a bit.”

After saying that, Yao Nan quickly went back downstairs and became busy beyond belief. As soon as she reached the bottom floor, she heard mother-in-law Shen Ruyu’s signature voice:

“When you buy groceries, don’t be stingy. Your brother-in-law likes seafood, so buy some good blue crabs and prawns, got it?”

“Oh, and get a roast duck from the place at the intersection. Your older sister likes that, and I want some too.”

Xu Bin’s wife, Yao Nan, agreed submissively, and Xu Bin upstairs was burning with rage.

If there was only his mother-in-law at home, she would even scold them for wasting gas just to cook a meal. And if his wife occasionally wanted to show some filial piety, she would still say the wife had no sense, that the seafood she picked was all cheap trash, as if she’d married some poor bastard.

Yao Nan did all the cooking, while Xu Bin helped from the side. Even when it was just the three of them eating, she still found fault with everything.

The most disgusting thing was the roast duck shop at the intersection. If the eldest son-in-law bought it, she’d say she liked it. If Yao Nan bought it, she’d scold her for not knowing how to pick, saying it had already gone greasy and she was sick of it. She was a textbook piece of trash with double standards taken to the extreme.

There were too many little details in daily life, but the way she treated people was completely different. Yao Nan had lived far more miserably than he had.

Xu Bin realized it too. He was unwilling, unhappy, but his wife, in order to maintain the relationship between them, had endured grievances of her own for a long time.