[Best friends marrying into the same family + realistic fiction + marriage and family + women's growth]
As they registered their marriage, Hang Zhenglang looked at Chen You, who was scowling as if the whole world had wronged her and seemed ready to tear him limb from limb. With a perfectly serious expression, he asked his wife, Sheng Shuning, “If she and I fell into the water, who would you save first?”
Sheng Shuning thought, What kind of person do you think you are, daring to fall into the same river as my best friend?
Besides, a flawed husband can be replaced, but a best friend is perfect. After thinking it over, she said, “Aren't you still missing a sister-in-law?”
Hang Zhenglang grinned foolishly. “You want to set her up with my older brother? I mean, I wouldn't be against it...”
And so, his wife's best friend really did become his sister-in-law!
Best friends became sisters-in-law, with their new homes right across the hall from each other.
On the eve of the wedding, Chen You rested her head in Sheng Shuning's lap and beamed. “I'm your ‘dowry.’ Best friends marrying into the same family, together. We're each other's greatest source of confidence as we head into marriage.”
But when the two paths of [best friendship] and [family] ran side by side, Chen You was the first to jump ship.
They could no longer be as close as they had once been.
Sheng Shuning couldn't understand why, even as her career flourished, she kept stumbling when it came to family matters.
Chen You couldn't understand why she had become so “awful,” either.
