Chapter 108: Good Intentions Backfired?
After Fu Mingxue dressed the two children, she carried them out.
By then, Mrs. Fu had already prepared the baby formula.
One bottle for each of them.
"This stuff is great. It must be expensive."
Fu Mingxue: ...
’I don’t know if it’s expensive, but it didn’t cost me any money.’
Moreover, her task panel had already refreshed.
Teach the children to walk.
Fixed reward of one thousand, with several randomly dropped rewards.
Fu Mingxue: ...?
’So this is what they mean by pushing your kids relentlessly. It doesn’t give me a moment’s rest!’
’Still, this was too good to pass up.’
’One thousand!’
’A regular person on a typical factory salary of about thirty a month would have to work for two or three years to make that much!’
’I have to take it. I absolutely have to—besides, at a little over a year old, they should be practicing walking anyway.’
With such a high-paying source of income, she had more than enough to support her mother and the two children, let alone herself.
"Mom, I need to go out this afternoon."
"What for?"
"I’m going to the editorial department to submit a manuscript." She wasn’t lying; one of her new tasks was to submit an article to a newspaper office.
It would help solidify the identity she had fabricated earlier.
This time, however, she was just going to the newspaper office to scope things out.
She needed to buy some newspapers and see what kind of work was getting accepted these days.
The system’s reward was also very generous.
The reward was based on the manuscript fee.
In other words, if she earned one dollar from the manuscript fee, the system would also give her a one-dollar reward.
She had to take this task.
When Mrs. Fu heard this, her eyes instantly lit up.
"Since you’re going, it’s the perfect opportunity to bring some celebratory candy for that editor friend of yours."
She was still thinking about the eight thousand.
They had done her such a huge favor; wasn’t it only right to give them some candy?
Fu Mingxue: ...?
’So, the price of telling one lie is having to tell countless more to cover it up?’
"—Alright, Mom!"
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"What’s going on? Is the Qin family really not coming to get her?" Mother Lan had expected her son-in-law to show up this morning, at the very least.
But after waiting all this time, no one had shown up.
Not a single other member of the Qin family had been seen either.
The expression on Lan Qingman’s face was awful.
She was miserable—and deep down, she was even more worried about her two children.
’I wasn’t home last night. I wonder if the two kids kicked off their blankets?’
’And this morning—who dressed them when they woke up?’
’Did they eat a proper breakfast?’
The moment she thought of this, she couldn’t sit still.
’In hindsight, I shouldn’t have been so impulsive and run back to my parents’ home last night.’
’And that damned mother-in-law—she clearly saw me leaving last night, but she didn’t even try to stop me.’
’If she had just tried to stop me, even a little—would I have still been able to leave?’
The Lan family’s sister-in-law glanced at the mother and daughter.
She noticed the regret on her sister-in-law’s face and said, "Mom, I say we stop waiting for the Qin family. Let Qing Man go back by herself. It’s not something to be ashamed of. If she goes back now, we can act like no one else even knows it happened."
Her words were like a match to the powder keg in Mother Lan’s heart.
She immediately shot her daughter-in-law a fierce glare.
"What are you talking about? If Qing Man goes back like this, what will the Qin family think of her? What kind of status will she have in that family from now on?"
"She’d be even more beneath that Fu woman then, wouldn’t she?"
Lan Qingman agreed. Of course she couldn’t go back on her own.
’Otherwise, what would that make her look like?’
Her face turned grim. "I’m not going back."
"You’re her sister-in-law. It’s bad enough you don’t stick up for her, but why are you trying to sabotage her?"
After being berated by her mother-in-law, the Lan family’s sister-in-law’s expression turned foul.
’What? So I did something wrong by offering a well-intentioned reminder?’
’Hmph. Fine, just wait here then! We’ll see if the Qin family ever comes to pick you up—’