My Greedy Mother-in-law

My mother-in-law, Emerald Jones, had always loved to exaggerate.

My wife’s wedding gift for me was worth 8,800 dollars, but my mother-in-law told everyone it was worth 880,000 dollars.

We only looked at cars at a luxurious car dealership. But she went around saying she spent over 200,000 dollars to buy me one.

I figured that I was going to spend my life with my wife, Emilia, so I put up with her.

On the eve of our wedding, I had a small argument with my wife. She blurted out, “My family has to pay over a million dollars for me to marry you. What more do you want?

“My wedding gift alone is 880,000 dollars. Anyone who doesn’t know better will think you’re living off a woman!”

I was utterly disappointed.

She was not directly involved in the discussion on the wedding gift. However, it was something both families had agreed on together.

My wife actually believed her mother’s ridiculous remarks and assumed I had received an outrageously expensive wedding gift.

After my mother-in-law transferred 1,000 dollars to me for the wedding banquet, she told everyone she had given me 100,000 dollars instead.

So, I swapped the luxury wedding feast for instant noodles on the day of the banquet. In addition, I showed a looped display of her stingy transfer of money to my bank account for everyone to see.

The guests were stunned when the attendants served them instant noodles.

Finding it odd, they exchanged glances and whispered among themselves. Their eyes were filled with disdain.

Emerald’s face turned pale.

I, on the other hand, pretended as if nothing was wrong. I picked up the microphone and invited everyone to start eating.

“What are you waiting for? Dig in. Do none of you like this flavor?”

Emerald’s expression kept changing. In the end, she could no longer hold back and questioned me in a high-pitched voice, “Jonathan, you’ve got to be kidding me! You’re serving instant noodles at a wedding banquet?!”

I let out a cold laugh and shot back, “What exactly were you expecting if not instant noodles?”

The guests instantly turned to us with sharp and piercing eyes.

Emerald’s face was flushed due to embarrassment. She looked like she wanted to disappear into the ground.

“Most wedding banquets serve a proper feast. How humiliating is it to serve our friends and relatives this kind of food?!”

The guests could not help but started to discuss the issue fervently.

“Come on, even the poorest families serve a better feast than this. No one would serve instant noodles at a wedding banquet.”

“Besides, they aren’t poor. This has to be some kind of joke to liven things up, right?”

“That’s right. No matter how tight the budget is, people will still put on a decent banquet spread for the sake of their dignity.”

At my wedding banquet, I only served them cheap cups of instant noodles.

I did not even add sausages or eggs for them.

I smiled and said to everyone, “You’re overthinking it. This is the menu for today.”

Meanwhile, Amelia finally snapped out of her daze. She slapped me across the face without hesitation.

“Jonathan, how could you be this wicked?! How could you do something so despicable after receiving 100,000 dollars from my mom?”

A flicker of guilt crossed Emerald’s face. Nonetheless, she did not back down and turned the tables.

“Everyone, please judge for yourselves. We’ve been treating Jonathan generously.

“His wedding gift alone is worth 880,000 dollars. Although the car was expensive, we still bit the bullet and forked out over 200,000 dollars to buy one for him.

“Why would you still pocket the money for the banquet and humiliate us in front of our relatives and friends?”

Staring with disgust, the guests pointed at me and said, “He’s been horrible as a son-in-law. If we didn’t know the story, we’d think Emerald and her family did this on purpose to humiliate us.”