"Good that you know. You can be useless, but don't be an embarrassment."
Shen Ruyu, that shrew, immediately climbed all over him, cursing and scolding:
"Don't be ungrateful. This job was found for you by your eldest sister's husband. If you can't even handle being a security guard, you good-for-nothing, you might as well just wait to die."
"Mom, what about the medical fees?"
Yao Nan asked timidly.
"He can get them when he goes back to work," Shen Ruyu snapped.
She seemed to get angrier the more she looked at Yuan. She snorted and said, "Alright, get out of here and go wash up. You reek of bad luck."
"Let's go!" Yao Nan didn't dare stay a second longer. She quickly pulled Yuan upstairs.
The second floor had three rooms and a very small living room.
The couple's bedroom was the smallest, originally a child's room.
With a bed, a wardrobe, and also Yuan's computer, it was very cramped. A faint smell of smoke still drifted in from the small window.
The younger sister, Yao Le'er, had just started high school and only came back on weekends.
The eldest sister, Yao Xin, was already married, so usually the second floor was a quiet little haven for the young couple.
As soon as Yuan sat down, Yao Nan went back to the room to find clothes, then said, "Husband, you should wash up first."
Remembering the newbie task the system issued, and looking at his beautiful wife who had now transformed into Suzuki Airi, Yuan felt a surge of heat. He grabbed her hand hoarsely and said, "I still can't get my head wet. Help me wash."
"Mom is still home!!"
Yao Nan said, a bit embarrassed, her habitual timidity showing.
That previous submissive, spineless fear she showed towards everyone at home had gradually made Yuan resentful.
But seeing that expression on Suzuki Airi's face was truly pitiful and enough to make a beast go wild.
"She'll probably go out for mahjong soon!" Yuan lit a cigarette and tempted her, "Go down and ask, you'll see. If it's just the two of us at home, she definitely won't want to eat here."
"Then I'll go check!" Yao Nan was actually a bit excited too. She gave a shy, charming smile and headed downstairs.
Facing this beautiful face, even though he knew her soul was still the same Yao Nan, Yuan found it hard to be as intimate as he wanted right away.
Happiness had come too suddenly; he needed time to adjust.
'System, how exactly is the task completion judged?'
Yuan, being cautious by nature, asked in his mind.
[Newbie Task: The Beautiful Wife's Climax. Time limit: One week. Your wife, Yao Nan, has never experienced an orgasm since marriage. Please complete the task by giving her a sexual climax. This will also unlock the side-quest 'Developing the Slutty Wife'.]
"Just one orgasm?" Yuan was a bit startled.
[Yes, one. Satisfying a wife who has never never had an orgasm after marriage is the price for the Newbie Gift Pack.]
The system's voice was very firm, making Yuan light another cigarette and fall into deep thought, or perhaps it was a guilty reflection upon being tempted by lust.
He and his wife were high school classmates.
Back then, Yuan had exhausted himself chasing the school beauty, Luo Xin.
He was a total simp.
Following her whim, he had even set up candles in a heart shape under the girl's dormitory to confess his love.
The result?
The school bully had walked up to him with his arm around the beauty, kicked over the candles, and mocked him in front of the whole school.
After that, Yuan voluntarily dropped out.
He was all alone in the world with no support. He knew clearly that even if he got into university or college, he had no money for tuition.
So It was better to start working early to support himself.
Yao Nan was a classmate, an "ugly girl" with very low presence in the class. But she silently started comforting Yuan.
He wasn't sure if she had just caught him at his weakest, but with his looks, he was actually quite handsome, he never would have looked at her normally.
But back then, in his lowest moment, he was starving for affection. He managed to bed the virgin Yao Nan.
The "dry wood and raging fire" of two virgins, combined with Yuan's frustrated, aggressive state at the time, made their first night very painful.
It was so bad she was scared she might need to go to the hospital.
But even then, Yao Nan had followed him with nothing but tender affection.
Eventually, after she, an average student, graduated from college, she came clean to her family about their relationship and brought Yuan home to meet her parents.
Yao Baichuan, her father, was very dissatisfied but didn't outright object.
Shen Ruyu, however, had her own little scheme at the time; it should be said it was a moment of crisis for her.
The eldest sister, Yao Xin, was already married.
The youngest daughter was beautiful enough to marry into money.
This middle "ugly" daughter was her biggest headache, she felt embarrassed every time she looked at her, especially after that DNA test incident.
Mainly because, back then, her husband's mistress was scheming to take her position, and even the traditional Yao Baichuan was wavering.
Shen Ruyu got desperate and decided to bring the useless Yuan in as a live-in son-in-law.
The reason was simple: if all three daughters married out, what would happen to her?
Yao Baichuan already had another family outside. If she couldn't even hold onto this house, she'd have nothing left.
Back then, The naive Yuan had signed the marriage papers.
Yao Nan was thrilled to be with the man she loved, but life after marriage was far from happy.
The main reason Yuan agreed to the security job was that it provided a dormitory so he wouldn't have to live here.
"Husband!"
Yao Nan ran back up after a short while, saying a bit happily, "Mom said Big Sister and Brother are coming to see you. They're eating dinner here tonight."
"They're being that kind?" Yuan's first reaction was very negative.
Eldest Sister Yao Xin had always been arrogant. She married early to the son of an official.
Though the guy had been in jail for two years for fighting and was just released, his family was wealthy.
He had always looked down on them for being poor.
If he cared about this family at all, it was only about the sexy mother-in-law and the little sister-in-law with a loli face and huge breasts.
Before Yuan could process it, Yao Nan said softly, "I'm going to buy groceries. Big Sister and Brother will be here soon. You should lie down for a bit."
Yao Nan finished speaking and hurried back downstairs, busy as can be.
As soon as she went down, Yuan heard the signature shrill voice of his mother-in-law:
"Don't be stingy with the groceries! Your brother-in-law loves seafood. Buy some good mud crabs and large shrimp, you hear?"
"Oh, and get a roast duck from the shop at the intersection. Your big sister loves that specific one, and I've been craving it too."
Yao Nan agreed meekly. Upstairs, Yuan burned with rage.
If only the three of them were home, Shen Ruyu would scream about "wasting gas" just to cook a meal.
Occasionally, if his wife tried to be filial and buy her something, she'd scold her for having no sense, for picking cheap seafood, for following a poor bastard.
Yao Nan did all the cooking, and Yuan was her assistant. Even then, Shen Ruyu would find reasons to complain.
The most disgusting thing was that roast duck shop at the intersection.
The worst was the roast duck. If the eldest son-in-law bought it, she'd praise it. If Yao Nan bought it, she'd claim it was "too greasy" and that Yao Nan didn't know how to pick a good one.
She was a two-faced bitch to the core.
There were too many little details in daily life, but the treatment was completely different. Wife Yao Nan had it even worse than he did.
Yuan also realized that while he was resentful and unhappy, his wife had also suffered plenty of grievances, all to maintain their relationship.