Mysterious Godmother: My Incredible Wife

"Ladies and gentlemen, we regret to announce that due to poor weather conditions and the temporary close-down of Shenzhen International Airport, the destination of this flight, our plane is going to return to Shanyang Airport. Sorry for bringing inconvenience to your journey."

"Ladies and gentlemen..."

Complaints went through the cabin, mixed with the sound from the radio. Then, Li Mu was awakened from sleep. After figuring out what happened, he couldn't help frowning.

This flight had been delayed for nearly two hours before finally taking off. Yet now it was about to return to its place of departure. Everything went wrong today. He should have read the Horoscope fortune before leaving.

Looking at his watch, he found that it had already past nine o'clock in the evening. He couldn't attend tomorrow's meeting in time. Li Mu sighed and shook his head helplessly.

Since the plane hadn't been flying for long and needed fuel consumption to return, it took another two hours before landing on the runway of Shanyang Airport.

Li Mu called Mr. Yan upon getting off the plane. Mr. Yan is his direct leader. He is an affable man who treats his subordinates like an elder brother.

Having figured out his situation, Mr. Yan said readily, " It doesn't matter. Xiaoyu is on a business trip near Shenzhen. I will ask her to go there overnight. You're so tired today, quickly go back to relax."

Xiaoyu is Li Mu's junior female schoolmate. Her full name is He Xiaoyu. She graduated three years later than Li Mu, but they came to Dong Yang Company at the same time. Due to the same alma mater, the two new employees looked after each other and built a close relationship with each other.

Petite and cute, Xiaoyu has a rather straightforward temperament, making no secret of her appreciation and admiration to Li Mu. Before he got married, she has confessed her love boldly and almost scared him away.

It wasn't until Li Mu got married that He Xiaoyu suppressed her feelings. Now, only friendship remained between them. They became close friends of the opposite sex.

After arranging his work, Li Mu flipped through VChat and clicked on his wife's portrait first.

"Have you arrived, my dear? Just let me know when you arrive so I can feel reassured."

Li Mu smiled. As a 28-year-old man, he married his beloved woman Lin Wan two years ago, living happily with a perfect marriage.

Lin Wan is a music teacher of a primary school, beautiful, sexy, genial and virtuous.

His male friends all admired him a lot, saying he was lucky enough to marry such a pretty and kind wife.

Li Mu also felt quite proud, and even a little complacency about this.

He changed his mind just before telling his wife the truth, and replied, grinning, "I have already arrived in Shenzhen. Don't worry, dear, everything is ok."

The reply came soon, "Okay, I see. It's too late. Have an early rest! I'll go to sleep now."

"Okay. Lock the door and the windows. Pay attention to safety."

"Don't worry, everything is fine at home. Good night, honey!"

"Good night, sweetheart."

After sending the message, Li Mu walked out of the terminal building. He planned to give his wife a surprise. Thinking of Lin Wan's startled expression, he couldn't help smiling.

Upon getting outside of the terminal building, the phone in his hand rang. It was from He Xiaoyu. Needless to guess, she was calling for some benefits.

"What's up? It's so late yet you are still awake." Li Mu answered the phone and asked directly.

"Why I have to be on travel and can't sleep at the midnight, Li Mu? I'm doing errands for you, okay? Could you please be more polite to me?" He Xiaoyu replied with dissatisfaction.

"So it's you! Madam Yu!" Li Mu said teasingly.

"Madam Yu helped me with such a big favor today. From now on, you'll be my grandma, my timely rain, does that satisfy you? Or I can give you higher position in the family hierarchy."

"Haha!" He Xiaoyu laughed on the phone, "Not enough. I don't like flattery. You need to take some actions, otherwise you are insincere."

"What actions? Just speak out! I'll take them all."

"Well, I can barely accept that you marry me. I won't reject you."

"I'll reject you! Can you say something serious?"

He Xiaoyu giggled, and said sweetly after a while, "It's Sunday tomorrow. I was going to fly back to have a rest. But now I have to return on Saturday because of you. You must compensate me and serve me a big meal!"

"Hot pot!"

"No, I want to have seafood!"

"No problem. I'll treat you to seafood with my wife this Sunday."

"With your wife?"

"Of course. She holds the purse strings at home. I need her to pay the bill."

"You coward! I'll hang up now, bye-bye!"

He Xiaoyu hung up the phone directly without waiting for Li Mu to say anything.

"Crazy girl!" Li Mu muttered. Then he called a taxi and hurried home.

It was nearly midnight when there were very few cars on the street. The taxi drove rapidly and reached the destination in less than half an hour.

After paying the fare, Li Mu walked into the residential quarter with his suitcase in hand. It was silent at midnight with only the street lamps shedding soft light, revealing an atmosphere of tranquility and warmth.

Stepping into the elevator, Li Mu took out the key and smirked smugly.

His smile brighter as he turned the key slowly in the lock.

Click! The door was opened gently.

He pulled the door slowly. It was all dark in the house. The smell of home came to his nose. Li Mu was intoxicated in it and took a deep breath, creeping into the room.

There was no one in the living room. Li Mu walked gently to the door of the bedroom, looking inside through the open door.

Nobody!

The bedding was arranged neatly on the double bed. Obviously, no one was sleeping there.

Li Mu went to the guest room and the study, only to find nobody here again.

His wife was not at home. Night out!

He stood blankly in the living room, feeling panicked suddenly.

It was something that had never happened before. At least, Lin Wan had never done this before when he was at home.

She came from other places and had few relatives or friends in Shanyang. Where could she go at midnight? Why didn't she come back home?

"Maybe she has to participate in social activities due to school events?" Li Mu thought to himself.

He soon denied this idea. Even if that was true, how could she not go home after midnight? Not to mention that it had never happened before.

She has said that she was going to sleep and said goodnight to him, which only meant, either Lin Wan lied to him or she slept somewhere else.

Li Mu pressed his lips tightly. The surprise proved to be a failure. No wonder people suggested fewer surprises between couples. A surprise unproperly done would easily turn into a shock.

He sat on the sofa glumly and lighted a cigarette. The glowing cigarette butt flickered in the darkness, just as his feeling at the moment.

Li Mu smoked one cigarette after another, waiting quietly, not knowing how long it has passed. It was already 4 am the next day when he looked at his watch again.

His wife didn't go back home the whole night, her whereabouts unknown!

He didn't call Lin Wan. For one thing, he didn't know how to ask her; for another, since she had told a lie, could she tell her husband the truth?

Li Mu fully understood a principle that when suspicious emerged from a couple, this family would tend to fall into decline.

He was unwilling to anticipate the bad, but the facts he's got forced him to have foolish reflections.

After a long hesitation, he finally determined to figure out why his wife had stayed out all night, where she had been and what she had done. And such a case happened only once or much often.

Moreover, his job required frequent business travel. Was it possible that Lin Wan always stayed out all night when he was on business travel?

Where did she sleep yesterday evening? Was she alone? He was desperately eager to get the answers to these questions.

He picked up his phone and clicked on GPS vehicle tracker APP. Both their cars were equipped with GPS. He never thought that one day he would use it to locate his wife's whereabouts.

The system quickly responded that the vehicle-mounted GPS equipped in Lin Wan's car was turned off.

Li Mu smiled wryly and said to himself, " Lin Wan, you acted so cautiously. It seemed that you did such a thing frequently. Otherwise, you wouldn't be so careful."

The joke was that I've always had great faith in you and our love. But now it seemed that I was such a fool.

Time passed by quickly and unconsciously. It was more than six in the morning.

Dingdong, a tone came from his phone. It was a message from Lin Wan.

"Honey, are you up yet?"

Li Mu calmed himself and responded.

"I was up. And you?"

"Me too. I'm ready to set out for work. By the way, do you come home today? If yes, I will make a delicious dinner for you, then wait for you to have supper together."

If it had been before, these words from Lin Wan would have made him feel so happy. But nowadays, they only sounded like a complete mockery for him.

After a moment's hesitation, Li Mu replied, "I'm unable to come home today because I need to entertain the clients and have a drink with them tonight. I guess I can get away tomorrow and I might go home on Sunday. I will tell you in advance if the time is determined."

"Really?", Lin Wan sent over a disappointed emoji, "Then when the time is confirmed, remember to tell me in advance so that I can make some preparation accordingly. By the way, drink less and take care of yourself."

"OK! I got it. By the way, I can't find my watch. Go to the study to check whether it's left on the desk or not?"

Two minutes later, Li Mu got the reply finally.

"I've searched several rooms, but I couldn't find the watch. Did you leave it somewhere else?"

"Oh, I will have a rummage around the luggage again. It may be left in the suitcase."

"My dear, it is the love token I bought for you. If you dare to lose it, I will not definitely spare you!"

A threatening emoji was sent over along with this message.

He was no longer in the mood to continue the chat. He simply replied to her and hastily ended this conversation on the pretext of going out for breakfast.

She was still lying and continued to deceive him after a night of not returning home.

Now he could affirm that Lin Wan must have done something bad. Otherwise, there was no need to deceive him.

Did it mean that she cheated on me?

The sudden emergence of this idea startled him a lot. He shook his head vigorously, trying to banish this thought completely from his mind.

However, the more he tried to expel the thought from his mind, the more he thought of it.

What reason would keep a married wife from coming home a whole night and deliberately conceal it while her husband was away? Did she have an ulterior motive?

Now what he needed to do was to find the evidence. Li Mu was heartily unwilling to believe that his wife betrayed himself, but what Lin Wan did was totally incomprehensible, or had to explain.