Dropped

"Yes, mom. I'll clean it up immediately after eating," Riana replied.

As Riana stepped closer to the dining table, she found no side dishes or vegetables there. Everything she had cooked was gone, causing her to shake her head softly.

"It's a good thing Rey didn't bring lunch, so I can eat," Riana said to herself while tightly hugging the lunch box in her hands.

There was indeed a feeling of disappointment in her heart, but Riana didn't want to think too far. Because according to her, thinking about it is not good for oneself, so as much as possible she restrained herself so that it would not become a burden of thought that would make her think badly.

Riana ate with gusto, she really liked the food menu this morning. Because, every time after Serly came Mayang would buy delicious side dishes, and vegetables in large quantities, so when she cooked them yesterday, there were still leftovers for breakfast this morning. When else would the woman eat well, usually every day she would eat simple dishes like salted fish or eggs. However, Riana was the only one who ate at home, Mayang, and Reynald never touched the food at all.

After finishing the meal, Riana would clean the dining table first, and then she would pile the dishes in the sink. The woman would wash the dishes when the other work was done, because according to Riana, washing dishes was not that hard. So she chose to prioritize cleaning the house, such as sweeping and mopping.

"Riana! Ouch my ass!" Mayang shouted in pain.

Riana hurriedly ran over with the mop handle when she heard her mother-in-law screaming inside. When Mayang screamed, Riana was on the porch mopping because she had finished inside.

"What's wrong, Mom?" asked Riana with a gasp.

"Are you going to kill me?!" shouted Mayang in annoyance, she was still sitting on the floor right in front of her room.

"What do you mean kill?" Asked Riana in surprise, she extended her hand to help Mayang up.

Mayang brushed off Riana's hand that wanted to help, she chose to stand up herself. "Don't pretend not to know, I know you intentionally mopped the floor with slippery like this. That's why I slipped on my way out!" Mayang accused irritably.

"I didn't have any bad intentions like you told me. The floor was slippery because I had just finished mopping it," Riana refuted Mayang's accusation.

Mayang chuckled, "What a useless daughter-in-law! You can't even mop, you can only eat, and sleep!" Mayang swore as she walked away.

Mayang walked out to her car clutching she sore waist from the fall with her mouth agape.

Riana sighed heavily, she never felt right in her in-laws' eyes. There was always something wrong according to Mayang, even though she had tried her best to do the best. She chose to continue the work that was still unfinished, there was still a lot of work piled up to be done by Riana.

Like washing clothes, there was a basin full of clothes soaking in the bathroom. Mayang never allowed Riana to wash with the washing machine, the washing machine was used to dry the clothes only. Because Mayang felt that washing there was never clean and wasted electricity, so Mayang always suggested scrubbing manually.

"Ugh! My waist feels like it's going to fall off," Riana complained as she gently massaged the sore spot.

However, she continued scrubbing the clothes that still had a lot left, because she had to make sure there wasn't a single stain on them.

"I've done my homework every day, but instead I'm told to just eat, and sleep," Riana muttered to herself.

Riana bemoaned her fate of not working right away, even though someone had offered her a pretty good job in the past. Riana got a scholarship because her grades were always good, even on campus she was one of the model students.

However, her love for Reynald made Riana let go of the opportunity, and she accepted her husband's proposal instead. Without spreading her wings in the career world because Reynald wanted her to, her husband only wanted a housewife, not a career woman.

**

Meanwhile, in the car, Mayang kept complaining about her aching waist, wanting to go to the masseur. Unfortunately she was already late for the socialite gathering, which was held every Monday.

"Hi," greeted Mayang as she sat on an empty seat.

"Hi," Mayang's friends replied in unison.

"That's why her hand keeps sticking to her waist, gout?" asked Santi, Mayang's socialite friend.

"No, Santi. It's just that I slipped at home," Mayang replied with a grimace.

"How come?" asked Desi.

"It's normal, Desi. That's Reynald's wife Riana, she's really incompetent as a wife, how could she mop the floor so slippery, that's why I fell," explained Mayang with a sad face made up.

"Oh my. You want to accept Riana as a daughter-in-law. If it was me, I'd have fired her as a daughter-in-law!" grumbled Santi, "do you want us to teach her a lesson?"