After I Woke Up to Find I Had a Wife - Chapter 5

By the time Lin You finished dealing with her sudden work, it was already around four or five in the afternoon.

Lin You spread her arms and stretched widely. Ah… She even yawned wildly without stopping.

Ever since retiring, how long had it been since she had worked at a desk like this?

Knock, knock.

The knocking interrupted Lin You’s rare moment of leisure.

In one second, she transformed back into the refined and noble head of the Lin family. She cleared her throat, nodded slightly, and said in a low voice, “Come in.”

“Youyou, Madam has slept for the whole afternoon. If she keeps sleeping, she won’t be able to sleep tonight. You should take a break too. What do you think?” Aunt Gui stood at the door with both hands placed in front of her stomach, smiling as she asked tentatively.

Lin You tilted her head and thought for a while before agreeing.

After receiving a satisfactory answer, Aunt Gui happily left. Tonight, she was going to make something delicious to nourish Madam’s body.

Lin You took a deep breath. Although she had told herself inwardly that she had to become good sisters with Fu Xinran, how exactly did one act as good sisters?

Lin You stroked her chin solemnly, took out her phone, and searched online.

How do best friends act?

The following were listed:

When she is happy, you laugh with her.

When she is sad, you cry with her.

When she goes crazy, you can follow the crowd and go crazy with her.

When your best friend has troubles, you must be anxious about what she is anxious about and always pay attention to her fragile heart.

When she is sick, you will be so worried that you cry, wishing the pain were on your body instead.

When she does something foolish, you can always protect her at the first moment.

You know what she likes to eat and what she dislikes.

You know when her heat period will arrive and always prepare suppressants for her in advance.

You can always keep up with her topics.

…

Hiss. Being a best friend was also pretty difficult.

Lin You troubledly tugged at her hair. Sigh, forget it. She would take it one step at a time.

The webpage listed a long passage, and to summarize it, it basically meant: treat her well. As for how well, she had to judge for herself.

So Lin You did not scroll down any further. Naturally, she also did not see the final sentence at the end.

Congratulations. If you can do all of the above, you will gain a cute wife. Wink.

Following the system’s directions, Lin You found Fu Xinran’s room. She stood at the door and mentally prepared herself for quite a while before suppressing the nervousness in her heart.

She really had never made friends with anyone outside her teammates before, and this was even a friend with a complicated relationship. It was too hard.

She brought her index fingers together and gently knocked on the door.

Knock, knock.

Then she quietly waited for a while.

Hm? Was Fu Xinran sleeping too deeply?

Lin You knocked several more times, but no one answered.

Her heroic brows furrowed slightly. She directly opened the door and strode inside, but she did not see anyone.

Lin You walked toward the bathroom, but no one was there either.

Her gaze fell on the bed. The blanket was neat, but the pillow on the bed was gone.

Huh. Could Fu Xinran have changed rooms today? Aunt Gui had not mentioned it.

“System, help me find her.” Lin You did not want to go downstairs and ask Aunt Gui, lest she receive yet another grand gift package of nagging about how she did not care enough about her wife.

The original body trusted and respected Aunt Gui, who had raised her since childhood. She allowed Aunt Gui to interfere in all sorts of daily matters, and the fact that Aunt Gui assisted Fu Xinran in managing the household also showed this.

Aunt Gui also doted on the original body like half a daughter. In order not to expose herself, Lin You decided that the less she faced Aunt Gui, the better, to avoid slipping up.

“Uh, Fu Xinran is resting in the host’s room,” the system said after scanning around and finding her.

“Aren’t they sleeping in separate rooms? Does Fu Xinran not hate me anymore?” A huge question mark appeared in Lin You’s mind.

In the plot, the relationship between the original body and Fu Xinran at this stage should not have been considered good. Could there have been a change?

Sunlight slanted across the curtains, and a gentle breeze softly stirred the gauze drapes. Shattered patches of light and shadow fell inside the elegant and simple room.

On the bed lay a sleeping beauty, her body naturally curled on one side, graceful and shapely. Her hair scattered over the silver-gray bedding, stirring one’s imagination.

Lin You quietly pushed the door open and saw the beauty lying on one side of the bed. The pillow beside her did not match the color or style of the other pillow, but it still went well with the silver-gray bedding.

My bestie really is beautiful. Lin You unilaterally claimed the title of best friend.

She tiptoed forward and stood beside the bed. Then she gently patted Fu Xinran’s arm. “Ranran, wake up. It’s time to eat.”

Half-asleep and half-awake, Fu Xinran heard the voice and opened her eyes in a daze. When she saw the person half-bending in front of the bed, she instantly woke up.

“What time is it?” Fu Xinran asked while looking at Lin You’s worried face, her own face flushed from sleep.

“Almost five. If you keep sleeping, you won’t be able to sleep tonight.” Lin You’s expression was normal, but her tone was more than two degrees softer than usual.

“I’ll go out first. Take your time waking up. There’s no rush.”

Fu Xinran watched Lin You walk outside and fell silent for a moment. “Lin You, we should talk.”

Hearing Fu Xinran’s slightly hoarse voice, Lin You stopped in her tracks.

Did I expose myself? Impossible.

The thought circled through her mind, but her body very honestly turned around. She silently looked at Fu Xinran, waiting for what came next.

Fu Xinran looked at Lin You standing in the shadows. For a moment, she felt that Lin You was both very unfamiliar and very familiar.

“The child. Do you want it?”

Her clear, cold, hoarse voice was like a bolt of lightning on a clear day. Lin You could no longer care whether she was exposing herself or not. She rushed to Fu Xinran’s bedside in a few steps and sat down with a thud.

Her handsome and elegant face was full of panic. Her heart, which had finally calmed down with great difficulty, started thumping wildly again. She had not even succeeded in becoming her bestie yet—was she about to die?

Lin You wailed with a “wah.” “The child is innocent! She didn’t do anything wrong!”

Fu Xinran was caught off guard by Lin You’s reaction. Looking at the pitiful person whose eyes were almost filling with tears, Fu Xinran seemed to return in a daze to that afternoon when she was ten years old.

At that time, Lin You had not yet differentiated. She had been cheerful and open, her smile bright and unrestrained, branded into Fu Xinran’s heart.

After differentiating, Lin You seemed to have become a different person, as if she had turned into a machine afraid of people getting close. Every day was spent working.

Lin You looked at Fu Xinran staring blankly at her and asked pitifully, “Do you really not want the child? I can earn money to raise her.”

At this moment, Lin You had once again forgotten that she was the head of the Lin family with countless assets. Even if she had a hundred children, she could afford to raise them.

“Even if we have to sleep together in the future, can you endure it?” Fu Xinran asked faintly, voicing the question she most wanted to ask.

Lin You hurriedly nodded. As long as the child could be kept, so what if they slept together? Even sleeping while hugging was fine!!

Fu Xinran’s fingertips tightened. She gripped the blanket hard, her arm trembling slightly. She took a deep breath and looked at the person before her, who was staring at her pitifully like a large wolfdog.

Fu Xinran’s direct gaze made Lin You’s hair stand on end. She had no idea what was going on. Could it be that her answer still was not satisfying enough?

Lin You immediately promised, “From now on, I’ll take good care of you and the child. I absolutely won’t let either of you suffer any grievances. Not even from me. We’ll live properly from now on. The things from before are already in the past. The future belongs to us.”

Fu Xinran nodded without speaking and moved her gaze away from Lin You’s face.

Only after seeing Fu Xinran leave did Lin You let out a tiny sigh of relief.

She rubbed her chest hard. That was close. She almost died.

Back in her own bedroom, Fu Xinran stood in front of the mirror, her gaze flickering.

“Does a child really have that much magic?”

If she had not smelled Lin You’s pheromones, she really would have thought that Lin You had been replaced by someone unknown.

The difference was too great.

“Maybe this is a good beginning?” Fu Xinran murmured to herself. She had been willing to marry Lin You.

But a stone that could not be warmed, along with Lin You’s ever-present guilt, made it hard for her to breathe.

Following Aunt Gui’s reminder, Lin You also did not want Fu Xinran to work so hard. She directly announced the news of Fu Xinran’s pregnancy in the family group chat on her own.

It instantly blew up a whole crowd of people.

A continuous string of red envelopes exploded from beginning to end.

Cheerful emoji stickers appeared.

“Congratulations to Eldest Cousin and Sister-in-law for gaining a precious baby.”

The moment she tapped them open, each red envelope was the maximum amount.

There were more than thirty people in the family group, and a whole row of identical red envelopes appeared in WeChat. Lin You happily collected more than ten thousand yuan in red envelopes.

“Is our family really this harmonious?” Lin You was extremely happy tapping the red envelopes. After all, she was an unlucky soul who, regardless of the size of the red envelope, could only ever get at most eighty cents each time.

She loved these exclusive red envelopes the most.

“This is my first time seeing Cousin snatch red envelopes. She’s even so fast. I’m a little weirdly unused to it.”

“Exactly, exactly…”

“You think everyone is like you all? The most obedient one in our family is Youyou. She got married early. Your elder sister already has a child, while you people don’t even have girlfriends. Aren’t you ashamed?”

“Right, Lin San’er, look at yourself. How old are you already? Your mother doesn’t even hope for you to get married anymore. At least bring your mother a granddaughter back.”

…

What followed was endless marriage and baby urging. The lively family group was filled entirely with sixty-second voice-message formations. Lin You’s scalp went numb, and she immediately closed the group chat.

It seemed that no matter what world it was, being urged to marry was always a terrifying thing.

Looking at the fifteen thousand yuan in red envelopes she had received, Lin You happily admired it for a while before planning to send it all to Fu Xinran.

This was to show the thoughtfulness of a bestie. Look at all these blessings.

She tapped open Fu Xinran’s profile picture. The last chat record between the two of them had been during New Year’s, when they had simply wished each other Happy New Year.

This paper-thin marital relationship left one at a loss.

Although the extra two taels of flesh down there were hard to accept, Lin You still could not stand this kind of person who married a wife yet still felt wronged.

If you did not want to marry, then just refuse directly. What were you pretending for?

Wasting everyone’s feelings.

Fu Xinran’s phone vibrated. When she opened it, she saw a new message on WeChat. Seeing who had sent it made her even more surprised.

Her brows lifted slightly. Her slender, fair fingers tapped open the chat box, and what entered her eyes was a fifteen-thousand-yuan transfer, marked as “blessings from the whole family.”

Fu Xinran accepted the red envelope and sent a question mark.

“This is the blessing the family group sent for our child. I saw you hadn’t accepted it, so I helped you collect it first.”

When she heard Lin You say “our child,” Fu Xinran smiled brightly, like the sunlight of early spring—cold yet warm.

Mm. Her performance was not bad.

Fu Xinran nodded in satisfaction.

She was starting to look forward to their life from now on.