Please Confess to Me

5

Chapter 5
My Mother-in-Law Doesn't Like Me
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The hospital Mrs. Shen was recuperating in was a very famous private hospital in S City. The cost for a single room was more than the cost in a five-star hotel.

When Shen Xi was a child, she had followed her mother as she took part in some charity works. As she grew older, she began to follow along when they went to the countryside or to mountainous areas. She had always understood how good her life was, so she continued participating in as much charity works as she could. But she never thought that one day, she would feel that her mother's hospitalization fees were expensive and that they would struggle to pay them. If it wasn't for Su Hang...

"What's the matter?" Su Hang looked puzzled as they stood before the hospital doors.

"It's nothing." Shen Xi came back to herself and looked at Su Hang sincerely. "Thank you."

"Ah? You're welcome." Su Hang automatically responded, but he didn't understand why Shen Xi suddenly decided to thank him.

"This is for you," Shen Xi handed him the pot of aloe vera.

Su Hang accepted it.

"When we get in there, you give it to my mother and say I chose it for you." Shen Xi said.

"Thank you..." Su Hang wasn't an idiot. He understood the meaning of Shen Xi's words. She was helping him win over Mrs. Shen. But why would she do this? Did she hope that he could get along with her family? Thinking of this, Su Hang's heart became a little nervous and excited.

"You're welcome." Shen Xi's eyes curved, and she looked very beautiful smiling like this.

Su Hang felt himself losing control of his expression. He hurriedly looked down to the potted plant in his arms, his back becoming stiff.
　　
Shen Xi blinked with dismay, wondering why the fine atmosphere they just had suddenly turned awkward.

She smiled, embarrassed, and finally said: "Let's go up."

"Alright." Su Hang's expression remained flat as he followed Shen Xi, but in his heart, he was scolding himself to death.

Su Hang you blockhead, acting so obviously, are you deliberately showing your unsightly side to Shen Xi? She smiled at you and you dare not look at it? Didn't you marry her in the hopes that she would stay with you?
　　
"Here we are." As Su Hang berated himself, they quickly arrived at Mrs. Shen's door. Shen Xi reminded Su Hang again, before raising her hand and knocking on the door.

When Father Shen opened the door and saw that it was his daughter and Su Hang, his expression changed from joy to a somewhat complex face. "How come you're here?"
　　
"Coming to see my mother." Shen Xi replied.

"It's just your mum's old illness acting up, she's fine." Father Shen said.

"I know Dad, I just wanted to see her." Shen Xi smiled at her father, then went inside, leaving the two awkward men outside the room.

"Cough...well, go on." Father Shen coughed and broke the silence first.

"Thank you....Dad." Su Hang remembered Shen Xi's advice and was also preparing himself mentally during the entire drive. So when he saw his father-in-law, he hadn't been too embarrassed.

Father Shen was somewhat surprised. He looked at Su Heng with a serious expression, then finally nodded in response.

The two men went inside the room one after the other, only to hear the mother-daughter pair engaged in a friendly conversation.

"Xi Yan, Su Hang came by too." Father Shen reminded Mother Shen.
　　
When Mother Shen heard her husband's voice, she looked up with the same complex look Father Shen had been wearing when he looked at Su Hang moments before. She felt resentful towards the person that snatched their daughter away and hated her body that dragged her husband and daughter down, allowing Su Hang to take advantage of them. She knew that Su Hang didn't really do anything wrong, but she just couldn't like him.