My Mother-in-Law Suddenly Wants to Host a Dinner? I Cancel the Marriage Registration and Somehow Escape Disaster

I had barely missed registering our marriage when my mother-in-law called.

“Qingwu, I booked a family banquet at a hotel for noon. Come straight over as soon as you and Xu Zhou get your marriage certificate!”

I clutched my phone, my heart filled with unease.

We'd gotten up late that morning, and Xu Zhou and I hadn't managed to register our marriage at all.

I planned to keep that to myself, get through the family banquet, then sneak off to register another day.

But halfway through the meal, my mother-in-law suddenly set down her chopsticks and smiled at me.

“Qingwu, we're family now. Take the dowry your parents gave you and use it to buy your brother-in-law a house.”

I froze.

When I didn't answer, her tone turned cold.

“Once you marry into the Xu family, you're one of us. Naturally, the money belongs to the Xu family too. What's wrong with letting my younger son use some of it?”

She paused and lowered her head to tease the grandson in her arms.

“If you won't pay up, this child can just get a different mother!”

Sure enough, there was no such thing as a free lunch.

But who told her

that my child belonged to the Xu family?