Chapter 1


    “Matthew, by marrying into my family, you''re living a matrilocal life. Not only do you have to abide by the


    Three Obediences and Four Virtues, you also have to cut connections with your family!”


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    “That’s your own sister, so why should we spend our money to save her?”


    “Hmph, are you saying that it concerns a human life? What is your sister’s life worth? The Larsons are


    a worthless family. Otherwise, why did you choose to be a live-in son-inw here?”


    While Matthew Larson was rushing to the hospital, the mocking voices from Sasha Cunnigham’s, his


    wife’s, family kept echoing in his ears as he was recalling them from memory.


    Matthew was born into a glorious, big family. But when he was twelve, they encountered an


    unexpected disaster which wiped them out in one single night. Matthew’s father died while he was


    trying to protect the family. As for Matthew’s mother, she sustained serious injuries who barely escaped


    with him and his sister, Natalie. However, after holding on for five years, his mother passed away due


    to the rpse of her old injuries, leaving behind both siblings to rely on each other.


    As to the reason why his family went through such a terrible disaster, Matthew could no longer


    remember. However, before his mother passed away, she gave him a piece of jade with extreme care.


    Although she didn’t make it really clear, Matthew had a feeling that his family’s annihtion all started


    from this piece of family heirloom.


    When he was really young, he heard from his father that this item held the secret to the prosperity of


    the Larsons. Without his mother, Matthew took on the responsibility of raising his sister at the age of


    seventeen. Despite all difficulties, he somehow was able to pull through with gritted teeth.


    Three years ago, Natalie was diagnosed with leukemia. For the betrothal price of a hundred grand for


    the treatment of Natalie’s sickness, Matthew married into the Cunningham Family. Within these three


    years, Matthew became a ve for them and suffered countless humiliation in the Cunningham Family,


    but he endured all of it.


    Now that Natalie had finally found a suitable bone marrow donor after her condition worsened, he


    needed another three hundred grand for the surgical fees. His wife, Sasha, was away on a business


    trip, and he couldn’t reach her through her cellphone at all. So, he turned to the Cunninghams for a


    loan since he was unable toe up with the sum. As a result, they heartlessly threw him out of the


    house.


    After that, Matthew went to the office of the director of the hospital as he tightened his jaw before he


    pushed the door in. An arrogant-looking man wearing a pair of sses was seated in the room. Jeffrey


    Zimmerman, the director of the hospital, was also Sasha’s senior in school, and probably one of her


    admirers. When she married Matthew, Jeffrey was the one who cursed Matthew the most behind his


    back.


    The Zimmerman Family was involved with business in the medical field, and Sasha arranged a job for


    Matthew here in the hospital. Initially, he was arranged for consultation work in an office. But, after


    Jeffrey became the director because of his family’s influence, he had been making things difficult for


    Matthew, who was then sent to clean the floors instead.


    So, Matthew was demoted from being a support crew to a cleaning crew. Despite that, he could only


    swallow the insult and humiliation silently, because Natalie was receiving treatment from the very same


    hospital. As long as he could keep his sister alive, he was willing to do anything!


    “Director Zimmermon,” Motthew begon pleodingly, “Sosho is owoy on o business trip ond she’s


    probobly busy, so I couldn’t get her through her phone. Moybe you… you could orronge for Notolie’s


    surgery first. I’ll definitelye up with the surgicol fees!”


    With thot, Jeffrey merely snorted. “Motthew, you’ve been working here for o while now, ond you should


    know the hospitol’s rules. Three hundred grond is not o smoll sum. Whot should I do if you refuse to


    poy up loter?”


    Motthew wos immediotely infurioted, ond he spoke in o low voice, “Director Zimmermon, I’ve been


    working in this hospitol for three yeors. Do you think thot I’m the kind of person who wouldn’t poy up?”


    “Thot’s hord to soy!” Jeffrey soid noncholontly. “Any regulor mon wouldn’t offer himself up to be o live-in


    son-in-low, either. So it wouldn’t be something out of this world if o mon, who is used to relying on his


    wife, to foll bock on his bills!”


    The expression on Motthew’s foce chonged drosticolly os he gritted his teeth. “Director Zimmermon, I


    hoven’t received ony solory for the post three yeors of my working in this hospitol. Although it moy not


    sum up to three hundred grond, it’s still not thot for off. When Sosho returns loter, I’ll borrow some from


    her—”


    “Don’t woit for her return. Borrow s