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

Charlie had not expected Faith to invite him to her house for a meal.

He was thinking about finding an excuse to decline, but Faith did not wait for him to reply and quickly said, "It just so happens that tomorrow is Saturday, and Doris won't be working. You can help out at home and help me make a few more dishes."

Corwin, who was on the hospital bed, also chimed in agreement, "Yeah, Charlie, come to our house for a meal! Just treat it as a way of getting to know us."

It's just that Corwin did not know that Charlie had previously been to his house. 1

Seeing that Faith and Corwin had both said so, Charlie was somewhat caught in a pinch.

He did not want to agree to the meal invitation, but he felt that it was rather difficult to reject someone else's goodwill.

Just as he was having trouble deciding what was the best course of action, Doris quickly said, "Mother, I am not free tomorrow. I need to work overtime at the company. Can we change it to some other day?" "Ah? You need to work overtime tomorrow?" Faith said with a dissatisfied tone, "It's a weekend, why do

you need to work overtime on a weekend?!"

Doris actually didn't really want to work overtime, but seeing her parents having a good impression of Charlie made her guess that her parents might want to take the opportunity to invite Charlie over for a meal to learn more about him. 4

parents did not know that Charlie was a married man. Otherwise,

eat at her home and then clarify to her parents regarding Charlie's background. Although his true identity couldn't be

then said with all seriousness, "Mother, I truly have something going on tomorrow. Not only tomorrow, but there are still many things I have to take care of

invite Charlie over to have a meal with all three of them. If her daughter was not around, she herself and her husband having a meal with Charlie would indeed

meal this week. Depending on your work schedule, let's make an early

again and said with an apologetic tone, "Charlie, I am

appointment next week, what

replied, "Sure, Aunty, I am

"Doris, you

replied sheepishly, "It's not up to me whether I need to work overtime or not. If there

really suffering every day. Why did your boss have to arrange

side,

was abusing his employee as stated by

Charlie voiced up, "Uncle, Aunty, it's getting late. I won't