B5SB -Chapter 179 Mother-in-Law Gets Rejected

Just after lunch, Gu Yihan and Grandma Gu were sitting on the sofa, discussing what she would need to do once she went back to work.

“Thunk!”

A heavy object fell in the yard.

The next moment, hearing footsteps, both Gu Yihan and Grandma Gu turned toward the door.

They saw Lu Huailin walking in carrying a large package.

Grandma Gu was stunned. She immediately turned and walked over to Lu Huailin, asking, “Xiao Lu, how did you get in?”

She remembered that the courtyard gate was locked.

Lu Huailin’s eyes sparkled as he looked at Gu Yihan, smiling: “Wife, your man climbed over the wall to get in.”

Grandma Gu was speechless. She had asked the question, but he answered her granddaughter instead.

She walked straight out of the living room, leaving behind a single sentence: “You two chat.”

Lu Huailin set down the package, walked over to his wife, pulled her up from the sofa, and hugged her tightly.

After a while, Gu Yihan almost couldn’t breathe. She patted Lu Huailin’s chest, and only then did he let go.

Gasping for air, she said, “Are you trying to murder your wife?!”

Lu Huailin hugged her tightly at the waist, his breath close to her ear: “Wife, I missed you so much.”

After that, he carried his wife in one arm and the package in the other back to the bedroom.

He carefully laid her on the bed and nibbled on her a little more.

“Wah…”

Hearing his son cry, Lu Huailin quickly let go of his wife and hurried to change the baby’s diaper.

Once done, he handed the baby to Gu Yihan and said, “Wakes up so on time, just to disturb his dad’s fun.”

Gu Yihan glared at him: “Your son wakes up at this exact time every day, okay?”

Lu Huailin chuckled, happily unwrapping the package on the floor. Most of the items were for the baby.

There were six cans of formula, two cans of malted milk, and several sets of winter clothes for the baby.

Gu Yihan was stunned. So many things: “Sent from Jing City?”

Lu Huailin frowned while looking at the letter and pulled out the remittance slip to hand her: “Dad sent them.”

Gu Yihan took the slip and glanced at the amount—8,888 yuan. That much?

She looked at Lu Huailin: “Dad gave this much—Fang Yi okay with it?”

Lu Huailin scoffed. “Why should it matter to her? Dad can give his stuff to whoever he wants.”

Alright, Gu Yihan didn’t ask further. Watching the little one eagerly nursing, she said with envy, “So little and already almost a ten-thousand-yuan household.”

Lu Huailin laughed at her words: “Wife, don’t envy—you’re the mother of the ten-thousand-yuan household.”

He then began to explain the letter’s contents to his wife.

After Mother Lu moved into Elder Brother Lu’s home, within a few days, Fang Yi began to dislike her, saying she neither cooked nor washed clothes.

Fang Yi complained that she was already exhausted from work every day and still had to take care of Mother Lu when she returned home.

Mother Lu hadn’t done housework in over ten years. When living with Father Lu, it was Aunt He who handled all household chores.

After returning home, Mother Lu ate ready-made meals. Apart from personal clothing, all other clothes were taken care of by Aunt He.

Elder Brother Lu, caught between Mother Lu and Fang Yi, was completely exhausted. Miao Miao would often cry loudly from their quarrels.

In the end, Elder Brother Lu sent Mother Lu back, but she couldn’t enter the compound and had to call Father Lu.

Gu Yihan was listening intently when Lu Huailin suddenly stopped. She anxiously asked, “Then what happened?”

Lu Huailin glanced at his wife’s curious eyes and continued: “Dad said to have Mom reclaim all the money she lent to Aunt, and then she could come back.”

This was when Elder Brother Lu realized just how much money Mother Lu had lent to Aunt’s family. Angry, he left her there and went home.

Mother Lu cried and went to her eldest sister’s home, hoping to ask if the family could lend her some money to repay part of it.

But she didn’t see anyone; her brother-in-law kicked her out, saying she was crazy for wanting money and even trying to trick her own sister.

Gu Yihan was stunned: “Was she trying to skip repayment?”

Lu Huailin scoffed as he tidied the package: “No proof at all, of course people would try to skip repayment.”

Gu Yihan sighed: “So where did Mom finally live?”

Lu Huailin replied: “Couldn’t get into the compound, so had to stay at Eldest Brother’s place.”

Gu Yihan’s heart skipped a beat: “What if Mom comes to Kun City?”

Lu Huailin smiled and walked over to his wife: “No way, she still has work.”

Gu Yihan nodded perfunctorily but still felt uneasy.

In the blink of an eye, Gu Yihan’s maternity leave was over.

After resting for over two months, she was a little excited to suddenly return to work.

When she stepped into the accounting office, she was startled by Sister Min’s exclamation:

“Ah… Xiao Han?”

Su Yonghong and Hu Shan looked toward the door. Seeing Gu Yihan glowing white and radiant, they couldn’t help but exclaim: “Xiao Han, your recovery is incredible!”

Gu Yihan smiled but said nothing. Since giving birth, apart from once going to the military bathhouse, she hadn’t stepped outside the compound.

With the help of the space water, she had quietly been practicing yoga at home, recovering faster than most.

Hu Shan walked around Gu Yihan’s workspace, poked her firm waist, and whispered: “Xiao Han, how is your waist so slim?”

Then she couldn’t help but pinch her own waist, feeling instantly desperate. Even a new mother looked slimmer than her.

Sister Min nodded repeatedly. After her first birth, her belly was huge, and returning to the factory after maternity leave, she felt people were laughing at her. She didn’t even dare talk to colleagues.

Watching Hu Shan, Gu Yihan couldn’t help but laugh.

“Xiao Han, I heard you had a boy. Have you decided on a name?”

Gu Yihan smiled at Sister Min’s question: “Lu Chenhao. The child’s grandfather picked the name.”

She recalled how Lu Huailin had cautiously asked her opinion on the name.

She hadn’t had any strong feelings—the simpler the name, the less likely the child would complain about it when older. A complicated name would be a nightmare when learning to write. Why make life harder for no reason?

Hu Shan watched Gu Yihan cleaning her desk and worried: “Xiao Han, you came back to work so soon. What about the baby?”

Sister Min glanced at Hu Shan and teased: “Her mother-in-law must be taking care of the baby. Otherwise, Xiao Han wouldn’t even have time to work.”

Su Yonghong, seeing the three chatting happily, deliberately ignored them, pursed her lips, and snorted. “Mother-in-law? Her daughter is a neighbor. No gifts sent either. Guess she’s not fond of this daughter-in-law.”

Gu Yihan looked at Hu Shan and smiled slightly: “My grandma is watching.”

Hu Shan, hearing this, didn’t think much, just nodded with a smile: “Grandma is so nice.”

Sister Min imagined a scenario where a young daughter-in-law is disliked by her mother-in-law—even a firstborn grandson wouldn’t matter. She looked at Gu Yihan with sympathy.

She couldn’t blame Sister Min for thinking this way. She was a living example: when her mother-in-law saw she had a daughter the first time, she was so upset she left immediately.

She didn’t even glance at the granddaughter. With only 45 days of maternity leave, both parents busy, and no one to care for the baby, even inviting her mother-in-law to the city didn’t help—she refused to come.

The second time, when she had a son, there was no need to urge her. Her mother-in-law came, carrying bags of things, eager to see the baby.