Chapter 3 Such A Mother-in-law (Part One)

After leaving the Purple Bonny Coffee Club, Diana wandered the streets for a while in a moody manner, pondering the events of her day. Eventually the evening fell and the city lights were lit up, and she remembered that she had to go back home to the Mu clan's mansion. It was luxurious and beautiful, but depressing, like a golden cage.

Kay was waiting at the door. When she saw Diana's car, she rushed into the house and shouted, "Mr. Henry, Mr. Henry, Mrs. Diana is back!"

Henry Mu was generally quite blunt and plain-spoken, but he was very gentle with his granddaughter-in-law. When he heard that Diana had come back, his long face finally softened. He put down the newspaper in his hand and ordered, "Then let's have dinner."

The servants of the Mu clan began to work.

Diana's mother-in-law, Mrs. Wilson, glanced at the huge crystal clock hanging on the wall. The shorter needle was pointing to seven o'clock. She was furious that this bitch was really capable of making the whole family wait for her until then. Thinking about how her husband, whom she couldn't control, was fooling around with another woman, she was even more irritated.

"Charles, dinner is ready!" Mrs. Wilson said to her son, who was playing with his mobile phone, and then ordered Kay, "Go and ask Miss Jenny to come downstairs for dinner."

When Diana entered the house and saw everyone was about to have dinner, she was stunned.

Diana's sister-in-law, Jenny Mu, had just come down from the spiral staircase. Touching her empty stomach, she mocked, "Are you still willing to come back? Why don't you just let our whole family starve to death?"

In fact, Diana didn't really know that they would wait for her. She was at a loss and turned her head instinctively toward her husband. But Charles Mu, as if he were an outsider, didn't look at her at all. He just lowered his head and continued playing with his mobile phone.

Diana felt a little sad. Although she didn't love this man, he was her husband and the person she should be able to rely on for the rest of her life. Even though it was not a dream marriage, she still craved the tenderness and sweetness between husband and wife.

She lowered her head to hide the tears in her eyes.

With a snap, Henry Mu threw down the chopsticks in his hand unhappily and said in irritation, "Will you starve to death in such a short time? Do you even know how much we suffer when we were eating lamb?"

His displeasure was directed at his granddaughter. Under his intimidating anger, Jenny Mu didn't dare to make a sound. She glared at Diana resentfully and sat beside her mother.

Henry Mu roared at his grandson then, "You want to hold your phone all day long? Then don't eat anything and go back to your room!"

Charles Mu had been scolded by him since he was a child, so he wasn't scared or hurt. But he was afraid that his grandfather would cut off his living expenses, so he put his phone down and ate with chopsticks obediently.

He never took a look at his wife, as if she was just a stranger who had entered the house by accident.

"Diana, are you tired from work? Are you hungry? Sit down and eat." Henry Mu waved at Diana. His attitude to her was absolutely different.

He scolded his granddaughter and then scolded his grandson, but he doted on Diana, who was an outsider. Mrs. Wilson was so angry that she couldn't help but say, "Jenny has heavy schoolwork, and Charles was working at the company all day. Can't you see they are all tired? Our Mrs. Diana has so much free time that she only goes to school once a week, but you care about her too much."

The word "Mrs. Diana" was definitely the worst irony for Diana.

Henry Mu frowned. When he was about to scold his daughter-in-law, he saw Diana smiling. She sat beside him and said fawningly, "The students like me very much. Every classroom is full. I don't think I'm tired at all. Thank you for finding me this job."

Seeing this, Mrs. Wilson and her daughter rolled their eyes at the same time and cursed in their hearts, 'What a flatterer!'

Henry Mu was pleased by her words, and the sullen wrinkles on his face were transformed into a smile. He said soothingly to Diana, "As long as you are happy." He picked up the chopsticks again and waved them. "Let's eat."

Diana breathed a sigh of relief.

In fact, how could Henry Mu not understand her quiet and resigned attitude? But looking at his mean daughter-in-law and granddaughter, and his grandson who was so indifferent, he could only shake his head and sigh.

The Mu clan owed this child in the end.

After dinner, Jenny Mu went back to her room to do her homework. Mrs. Wilson couldn't wait to go out and play mahjong with the ladies she had made an appointment with. As usual, Henry Mu watched TV in the living room for a while. Diana chatted with him for a while, and then Henry Mu suggested that she should go back to her room.

Looking at the light in his eyes, Diana knew the old man's plan. She smiled and went upstairs.

The Mu clan was a big family and they lived in the best villa district in A City. The house had three floors, and the third floor was where she and Charles Mu lived. The master bedroom was spacious and bright, but Charles Mu had never been in it. He would rather live in the guest room alone.

Looking at the European-style door of the master bedroom, Diana smiled bitterly. Who would have thought that she had been single for more than a year after getting married?

She sniffed and thought that it was all for the best. After all, how could she deserve such a handsome and rich man like Charles Mu? It was better to give him up at the beginning, so as to avoid the pain of losing him in the future.

When she was about to go back to her room, the door of the guest room was opened all of a sudden. Charles Mu appeared with an anxious look on his face, and held her hand. "Diana, go out with me."

She glanced at his hand holding her wrist and asked with a frown, "What happened?"

Until then, Charles had always seemed rather abstracted and didn't care much about anything. She rarely saw him like that.

Charles pulled her and walked out, "Anne's belly hurts!"

Diana was dragged away by him with self-mockery and helplessness. She had told herself that only his lover, Anne Liu, could make Charles feel worried. However, Henry was very strict with his grandson. It was so late, and Charles had to ask her for help to make an excuse for going out of the villa.