Cheat Awakening

Chapter 224: Chapter 224. Family Drama

After dropping Sylphy back at her house and reminding Aisha to make preparations for tonight's party without revealing the reason, and since Lewis hadn't mentioned how much money was in the bag, and Sylphy herself didn't read the parchment, she knew nothing about the final amount Myne had received. She was as confused as Aisha, behind Myne's sudden mood of giving a party.

Leaving his two curious wives in the dark, Myne quickly returned to the capital city for shopping. He first went to the kingdom's best bottle shop and bought 20 bottles of the most expensive wine, as well as a barrel of fruit wine since he didn't like drinking alcohol and preferred fruit wine.

Then he went to the biggest restaurant and bought the highest quality of dishes and sweets, enough to satisfy dozens of adult stomachs. After dealing with the matter of food and drink, he went to Maya's shop.

Jin was, as always, lazily relaxing in his chair, reading the new edition of his favourite book, which he had bought with Myne's money. Since people rarely came to his shop in the evening to buy potions and the peak hour of his business was in the morning when adventurers and hunters began their work.

Myne didn't waste any time with small talk when he entered the shop. He hung the "CLOSED" sign on the door and locked it from the inside. Just when Jin was surprised by Myne's actions and wanted to ask why he did that, a black vortex appeared under his chair, and both the chair and Jin were devoured by it.

"Ahhhhhaaaa...? I am in my kitchen?" Jin, who was suddenly devoured by the vortex, screamed like a girl. But in the middle of his ear-piercing scream, he saw familiar decorations and his wife staring at him confusedly, and he immediately calmed down.

"Otherwise? Did you really think that some high-level people were after your puny life, and will kidnap you from your home?" Myne rolled his eyes and spoke as he emerged from the vortex.

"Brat, you scared the hell out of me! Did you want to give me a heart attack or something?" Jin yelled angrily.

"Don't joke around, brother Jin. How can a thick-skinned person like you get scared to death so easily? If I searched your storage bag now and found enough potions to make you live for a hundred years without any difficulty, I wouldn't be surprised," Myne said casually with a mocking smile.

"But you could at least give me a warning..."

"Jin, what's in your hands, by the way?"

While Jin was still complaining, only God knew when Maya appeared in front of him with a frown while holding a big sharp knife.

"Huh? What's in my hand? There is nothing..." Jin stopped mid-way, realizing that, because of Myne's small prank, he was still holding his favourite book, which Maya hated the most. After all these books were the main reason why their sex life had been barren, at least from Jin's point of view.

"I... I can explain..."

"Shut up, you bastard! Are you still reading those books, even after promising me not to touch them again? If you don't burn it within 10 seconds, right in front of me, you might not be going to see your next entire year of pocket money," Maya said with a cold threatening voice while placing the sharp, pointy tip of the knife in front of Jin's nose. Clearly, she wasn't joking.

"Yes, Ma'am, I'll do it right now." Jin didn't dare to gamble with his pocket money, thanks to his past experience with Maya. He knew that if Maya said she would eat away his pocket money, it meant she already had her eyes on it. And unless he wanted to live like a beggar for an entire year, sacrificing his favourite book was still worth it.

Sigh, this was the last copy they had, and the next batch won't come for six months. I had just started reading it. All this happened because of that bastard Myne, but the money to buy this also came from him. I can't even complain. God, give your servant some peace in life, Jin thought, with imaginary tears in his eyes.

After taking a deep breath, he closed his eyes and threw his favourite book into the fire with a heavy heart.

"Ah, that's good. I'm doing it for your own good, Jin. Try to understand me. Those wretched books will corrupt your mind one day If you don't stay away from them and I can't let this happen," Maya, who had long given up hope of reviving their sexual life with Jin, nodded her head with a satisfied smile seeing him burning his favourite book with his own hands. She looked at Myne before continuing...

"So, Myne, why are you here today? Did something happen? Do you need our help?"

"Well, something did happen, but not what you're thinking. Tonight something very good happened and I was thinking of throwing a small party for just our family members. I've already bought the food and wine, and all that's left is to pick up the remaining family members. So here I am. Let's go to my home, Aisha and Sylphy might be waiting for us," Myne said as he opened a portal in front of everyone.

"Wait a minute, let me change my clothes first. I don't want to be too casual with your wives, at least not yet. For a few years, I want to play the role of a strict sister-in-law, so they don't try to climb over my head and respect me as much as they should respect their mother-in-law," Maya said with a serious tone.

"But there's no need for that. Aisha and Sylphy are nice girls, and they respect their elders very much," Myne replied, confused about what Maya wanted to do. Even during the wedding feast, when she met Aisha and Sylphy, she was very strict with them and asked various strange questions that made both of them sweat buckets.

After Myne, Jin, Maya, Waffle, Ted, and his parents were seated and non-Hume members drooling at the delicious sweets in front of them, Maya finally asked the question everyone wanted to know.

"Oh, about that..." Myne stood up and walked a little further from everyone, leaving them puzzled. He cleared his throat a bit and spread his arms widely before speaking with a big grin.

"After my painstaking hard work and with your support, today I finally said goodbye to my poverty and ascended into the realm of the wealthy people. Today, I, Myne Fortuna, have become rich as f*ck!"

Myne exclaimed the last part with excitement, and suddenly, as if having rain, platinum coins started falling behind him one after another out of thin air.

"What?!"

Everyone in the room (except Waffle and Ted's family) exclaimed with wide-open eyes. They all stared at the platinum coins piling up behind Myne which was still growing with every passing second with shock and disbelief.

Only after a full minute did the rain of platinum coins finally stop, revealing a small mountain of 15,000 coins behind Myne.

Yes, 15,000 coins. After considering for a while, Myne decided to release only half of his net worth. So, if his three women make some unreasonable demands and, in the name of safekeeping, put his money in their pockets, at least he will still have enough money to avoid crying in a corner afterwards."

"F*ck!" Jin spoke with wide-open eyes, still staring at the coins behind Myne as if he were in a dream.

"Myne, did you rob some noble family treasury or something? Where did you get so much money?" Aisha asked in disbelief. Although she had never lacked money since meeting Myne, and her small pocket was always full enough to buy whatever she wanted, such a large amount of money was still quite a shock for her.

"Wait a moment, Lord Husband, did you get this much money after selling those monster corpses to Lewis? No wonder Lewis had a face like he had lost everything when he handed you the money bag. This is definitely his entire net worth," Sylphy, who had been with Myne during the transaction, quickly realized the source of the money and relayed the information to everyone.

"Just how many dangerous monsters did you kill to get so much money? As far as I remember, someone once promised me that he wouldn't do dangerous stuff, etcetera, etcetera," Maya, who was surprised by the amount of money, quickly came to her senses and looked at Myne with an unkind expression while rubbing her fist.

"Sis, calm down. Listen to me first before jumping to conclusions. Do you really think that if I had fought with monsters, I would invite you here to get beaten by you? I remember the last lesson very well."

Myne, who had a valid reason, wasn't afraid of Maya's dangerous look. Instead, he approached everyone and explained the whole matter, where all the monsters and money had come from.

...

"So, this is what happened. I was just a hardworking, kind-hearted boy who helped a mother in a critical situation and in return she helped me deal with my poverty. This is a completely fair exchange," Myne explained the whole matter to everyone.

"Sigh, the Divine Beast is indeed too kind-hearted, but people's boundless greed made them hide away in a forbidden place, away from everything," Jin sighed deeply. But only after 3 seconds, he put his ridiculous thoughts aside and asked with an excited expression, "So, what's your plan with so much money by the way?"

Everyone's mouths twisted with the sudden change in Jin's attitude.

"Well, most of it is going to be poured into my clan's development, and some into your pockets, so you can also taste the lifestyle of the wealthy people. And if there's anything left, it's going back into my Inventory," Myne said with a smile, making everyone's eyes shine. Not out of greed, since they all had enough money to live a comfortable life, but who doesn't want extra money?

"Anyway, let's talk about it tomorrow. Now, let's start our party. Myne, the host of the party, declares, and a lot of already prepared hot food and wine appear in front of everyone."

"Huh? What are you two waiting for? Come and start serving everyone. Or do you want us to do it ourselves?"

Maya stopped Myne, who was about to serve food on her plate and looked at Aisha and Sylphy with an expressionless face before speaking.

"Sigh, sorry, we'll do it now," Aisha and Sylphy took a deep breath and spoke with forced smiles before starting to do what they were told."

Hahaha, I am going to get addicted to this, Maya happily thought as she took a sip of the wine Aisha served her.