"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.
