Reborn as His Intellectually Disabled Wife-Chapter 607 - 608: Tricked into Bed

"This is not urgent," Shi Mei whispered, "I’m not ready yet, and my career is still on the rise. The matter of marriage can wait a few years."

"In a few years?" Old Lady Shi’s voice rose a bit, "How old are you this year?"

"Grandma, I’m almost twenty-four."

"Twenty-four, that’s a bit young," Old Lady Shi understood, but added, "But Ling Yan is nearly thirty now, if he wants to get married, it should be sooner."

"Are you afraid he might run away?" Mr. Shi couldn’t help but laugh, "There’s nothing wrong with young people wanting to pursue their careers. Weren’t you the same, always fussing about needing to travel everywhere?"

Back in the day, Shen Qianjiao was a famously sophisticated socialite who had studied abroad, extraordinarily stylish in her era, always talking about starting businesses and being independent, which made the elders of the Shi Family quite unhappy.

But Mr. Shi adored her back then and, wanting to make her happy, let her do whatever she wanted.

Unfortunately, Shen Qianjiao was just indulging a whim to have fun. Once she got pregnant, he kept her confined until their only son was born, after which she started creating disturbances again. 𝚏𝕣𝕖𝚎𝚠𝚎𝚋𝚗𝐨𝐯𝕖𝕝.𝕔𝐨𝕞

"How can these be the same? I just wanted to tease you then, who knew you would actually buy me a plane ticket and take me to the United States!" Old Lady Shi declared indignantly, "If it weren’t for that, I wouldn’t have been tricked by you into bed only to have to obediently return to the country to have the child!"

Back then, their marriage was a political arrangement, and they didn’t consummate it after the wedding.

Indeed, only after Mr. Shi struggled to trick her all the way to San Francisco did he finally achieve the most important step in his life.

The difference was, Senior Sister was a true career woman, while Shen Qianjiao was merely a spoiled debutante.

Now that these old matters were being brought up again, even if Mr. Shi had thick skin, he couldn’t help feeling a bit embarrassed, lightly coughing and saying, "That’s ancient history now, why bring it up again?"

"Why can’t I mention it? It’s all true. If you hadn’t tied me down with a child, I’d have made a name for myself a long time ago," Old Lady Shi retorted angrily, "And later you said the company would be managed by me, which also turned out to be a lie—after I messed up a single deal, you took back control of the company. All deceivers."

Shi Mei was hearing Old Lady Shi talk about this for the first time.

Beside her, Ling Yan struggled not to chuckle as he explained to Shi Mei, "Back then, Grandma lost twenty million, and almost bankrupted both our family’s companies. Grandpa had to take back the company and manage it himself. Because of this, Grandpa had to face the board’s disapproval for a while, but luckily, after Grandpa took over, he turned losses into profits, and things improved."

Mr. Shi didn’t think these were shameful matters, but since it was the first, or rather the second time meeting this Senior Sister... Even if Old Lady Shi was angry, she shouldn’t be exposing their old issues in front of her.

Yet Old Lady Shi didn’t think she had said anything wrong, huffing at her grandson, "Anyway, he wouldn’t let me touch anything after that. Ugh, it made me so mad. Senior Sister, you should pursue business if you want, after all, a woman’s youth is only so long, you mustn’t let men and children delay you, that would be too much of a loss."

Shi Mei held back a laugh and nodded her head.

You were just saying the opposite, and changed so quickly.

But Shi Mei didn’t voice this.

Just then, it was time for dinner, and Aunt Chen had already prepared the meal, saying, "Come and eat, I didn’t know what Senior Sister likes, so I just made a few dishes."