Chapter 88: Wife's Best Friend
"Honey, have you prepared for tomorrow's birthday banquet? Where are we going to eat? Mom is really looking forward to it! Did you brag to her about something just now?" At this moment, Wanwan walked into the study and asked Li Bin with a smile.
"We'll eat at the Fanhai Diaoyutai Hotel. The environment there is nice, and you can see the Qiantang River. Also, I've invited your aunt's family. See if there's anyone else you want to invite?" Li Bin said with a smile as he stood up, walked over, and wrapped his arms around his increasingly beautiful and charming wife, speaking gently.
"Are you crazy? The Fanhai Diaoyutai Hotel! A meal there costs at least ten thousand yuan easily! With that kind of money, wouldn't it be better to save it for buying a house?" Wanwan immediately jumped up, saying to Li Bin reluctantly.
Wanwan's reaction made Li Bin feel even more guilty.
His wife Wanwan was truly a good woman, a rare and virtuous wife.
And he, on the other hand, was secretly having affairs with his sisters-in-law and his wife's mother behind her back.
Today, he even secretly had a fling with a married woman.
Thinking about it, Li Bin felt he was truly a piece of work.
Simply a scumbag.
Li Bin decided he had to make it up to Wanwan. From now on, no matter what, he had to be better to his wife.
"It's okay, dear. It's a rare occasion. I'm earning money now; buying a house isn't my only goal in life, is it? We have a place to live now. Making Mom happy and making you happy - I'm willing to spend any amount of money for that." Li Bin gently kissed Wanwan's cheek and said with a chuckle, "Don't worry, just give me a little more time. I'll try to buy us a villa this year!"
"You're so embarrassing! We're an old married couple, and you're still like this! Fine, fine, we'll do it your way! You, when did you become so filial and such a smooth talker?" Wanwan said, her face flushed as she leaned against Li Bin's chest, shyly adding, "Honey, I feel like you've changed recently. You weren't so sweet-talking before. Mom seems to have changed too. She seems to like you a lot now, even more than she likes me, her own daughter. You don't know, today when you weren't home, Mom wouldn't let us eat. She insisted that we had to wait for her precious son-in-law to come back before we could start. I'm even a little jealous!"
"Isn't that a good thing, my dear?" Li Bin smiled and kissed Wanwan's beautiful red lips. Wanwan immediately closed her eyes in ecstasy, actively responding to Li Bin's kiss.
The two were soon locked in a deep, passionate embrace.
"It is good... it's just that I feel it's a bit unreal... everything is changing so fast, it's as if... as if you suddenly became exceptionally outstanding, and I feel like I'm not good enough for you... I'm a little scared of losing you..." After the passionate kiss, Wanwan said, lowering her head with a hint of insecurity.
"Silly wife, you're my wife. What's all this about being good enough or not? When I was down and out, didn't you stick by me? When our parents told you to divorce me and kick me out, have you forgotten how you stood up for me? Remember, no matter what I become, you are my wife, my only wife." Li Bin looked at his wife Wanwan, with deep affection, suddenly feeling a sense of deep happiness and satisfaction?"
Wanwan was an honest, frugal, and good homemaker who didn't chase after vanity and was easily satisfied.
Although life with Wanwan might seem a bit dull, a woman like her was truly the kind suitable for being a wife.
Li Bin believed that Wanwan would also be a good mother in the future.
"Look at you! Your mouth is as sweet as honey now. No wonder Mom and Wen Lan are both on your side, treating you like a treasure now!" Wanwan smiled and gave Li Bin a peck on the lips, as if suddenly remembering something: "Oh right, my best friend and her husband invited us out for a late-night snack tonight. Do you think we should go? My best friend and I haven't seen each other in a long time."
Hearing about his wife's best friend, Li Bin couldn't help but pause. "Is it that nurse, Ling Hanrui?"
His wife, Wanwan, didn't have many friends; it seemed like she only had this one, Ling Hanrui.
However, Li Bin didn't have a very good impression of her.
Ling Hanrui's husband was a doctor. He had a high and stable income, was respected by society, and had a very arrogant attitude. Li Bin and Wanwan had had dinner with them before, and Li Bin had a very unpleasant time.
Especially Ling Hanrui's husband, Cui Tianjiao, who always had a condescending air about him. He also seemed to have ulterior motives towards Wanwan, always intentionally or unintentionally flattering her while belittling Li Bin, showing all sorts of disdain and ridicule for his work as a web novelist.
This made Li Bin very repulsed by the couple.
If it were before, Li Bin would have just made an excuse to decline.
But now, Li Bin had nothing to be afraid of. A get-together was just a get-together. With his current income level, he estimated he could soon surpass that doctor, Cui Tianjiao.
He used to be unable to hold his head up in front of this couple, but now, he had nothing to fear from them. It was time to find an opportunity to hold his head high!
Moreover, if he let Wanwan go alone, Li Bin wouldn't be able to rest easy.
That Cui Tianjiao was obviously not a good person! Being a man himself, Li Bin always felt that this Cui Tianjiao had improper intentions towards his wife, Wanwan.
Just like Cui Tianjiao, Li Bin actually had some thoughts about Ling Hanrui as well.
In any case, being men, Li Bin felt that men were truly not good things. They were all the type who wanted to have their cake and eat it too!
Now that he had the system, Li Bin also had more ideas about Ling Hanrui!
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