The Man in Power After Being Married into Her Family by Adela

Charlie and his family next door started preparing New Year's Eve dinner after noon.

All kinds of ingredients were piled up on the entire kitchen counter. 1

Charlie was the best cook in the family, so he did not decline to shoulder the responsibility and became the main chef for New Year's Eve dinner. 2

Due to her leg injury, Elaine sat on the floor prepping the vegetables. Claire helped Charlie wash and cut the vegetables and prepare other ingredients, while Jacob chopped the dumpling fillings manually with a kitchen knife. 3

It was such a rare and harmonious atmosphere as the four of them were helping out in the kitchen. 2

As the sky gradually darkened, dishes one after another were served on the dining table. 1

At villa A04, Jennifer, Yara, and Yulia were getting busy in the kitchen as well.

lived quite a modest life. In addition to the preparation of dumpling dough and meat fillings, they also bought a chicken, a fish, and two pounds of ribs to

it was a

dedicatedly bought an incense burner, a handful of incense, and a cheap Goddess of Mercy portrait to set up a small shrine. 2 Before dinner, Jennifer took Yulia and Yara to kneel

Mercy. Thank you for blessing the three of us who had lived a bitter life, for being able to stay in such a good villa in this lifetime and live a good life that we could not even dare to dream of before. Rest assured that we will work hard and will never be lazy. Please kindly oversee our lives! Also,

behind her were Yulia and

holding three incense sticks up high, both of them

the portrait and gave three loud knocks to the ground with their foreheads in

insert the three incense sticks into the incense burner. After the other

three of them went to have dinner, Wendy and Lady Wilson, who had been hiding at the corner of the stairs, watched gingerly. They could

Year's Eve dinner, the four of them had finished them before nightfall due to

and each of them was not even half-full after the meal,

they looked at the table with home-cooked food made by