Married to a Disabled Man in the 70s - Chapter 128
After graduating from university, Xi Shu had already found a very good boyfriend who she met at work. The two were rivals at work who had been in a love-hate relationship. In the end, they became an item.
She didn’t give up her career after she got married, but Song Qinghan and Xi Shu still went in different directions. Xi Shu switched to the clothing business, while Song Qinghan concentrated on the food industry.
It would be a waste to have a treasure in the family and not use it.
Feeling that she could make a contribution, Su Jiaojiao was proud of herself, and officially gave herself a position under Song Qinghan’s company name -as a culinary advisor.
When the others saw it, their faces were full of shock and awe.
She also got paid every month, which made people even more envious and jealous.
The two took advantage of the golden period of the eighties and became the dominant force of the Beijing restaurant scene, with all the various restaurant chains bearing the name of the company Song Qinghan later set up – Jiaoyue. [1]
Ji Ya who joked, “Are you afraid people won’t know you have a wife?”
Song Qinghan nodded vigorously, “Yes!”
Su Jiaojiao covered her mouth and laughed.
Song Tianning raised his hand in response and said, “Mom, in the future I’ll open a company too, and it’ll be called Mama!”
The rest of the family couldn’t hold back their laughter.
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Of course, Song Tianning’s naive thoughts didn’t come true in the future.
Song Qing Han was extremely successful and shone brightly in the food industry. Meanwhile, Su Jiaojiao quietly worked on literature. Because she had good fundamentals, she began to write various books during university.
There were no e-books in the 70s, only paperbacks. The publisher would send her a bunch of copies for each book she published, and compared to the son’s great achievements, Ji Ya and Song Huaijin thought their daughter-in-law’s books gave them more bragging rights. Each time new copies were sent to the family, they’d keep two and give the rest to their family and friends.
So everyone around knew that the Song family’s daughter-in-law was a formidable writer.
Authors were very rare in the 70s, and things that were rare were priceless. These books would be well-received in the modern day, needless to say how popular they were then.
Su Jiaojiao was complimented by her family members and friends to the point where she was afraid to mention that she had published a book.
It’s too humiliating!
Song Tianning’s PoV
In the eyes of the young Song Tianning, his parents could be said to be an inseparable pair, and his presence as their son wasn’t very strong. It wasn’t that they didn’t accompany him, but rather he felt like he was a third wheel in their relationship.
To the casual observer, they seemed like a power couple who were busy all the time. One had gone into business and became extremely successful, while the other was a wildly successful author.
But in reality, their lives were uneventful. His father would always come home to rest no matter how busy he was, as long as he wasn’t on a business trip. While his mother was very lazy and sometimes didn’t even bother leaving her room when her husband was away, asking her young son to help her bring food.
But she occasionally followed her husband on business trips, partly for work and partly to relax and find inspiration.
So Song Tianning was mostly raised by his grandparents.
Even if he didn’t realise it as a child, he would subconsciously choose to play with his grandparents, because in their eyes, he was their everything.
This started when Song Tianning went to primary school, as Su Jiaojiao believed that children had begun to officially grow up and were less dependent on their parents so didn’t need all their attention.
As Song Tianning grew up, this feeling became more and more apparent to him, but he didn’t feel too dejected but instead grew up with a vague envy.
This envy reached its peak after he graduated from university.
Because his dad gave him the company!
Just gave it to him!
”It doesn’t matter if you bankrupt the company.”
That’s what Song Qinghan said when he was leaving, and then he took Su Jiaojiao and went off to travel the world without looking back.
Song Tianning didn’t know what to say.
The good thing was that he didn’t bankrupt the company, because he didn’t like the feeling of lacking money. He had been taken to the company by his parents since he was a child, and would occasionally help out when he grew older. Although he was unskilled and tired at first, he quickly learned the ropes.
So he became an ATM for his parents.
It was heartbreaking.
Thankfully, they were still good to him and never forgot to send him a bunch of souvenirs from wherever they went, although a lot of it couldn’t be used by the time they got there because of the long delivery times.
But because of his parents’ good relationship with each other, he didn’t become spoiled like other second-generation rich people and treated relationships like toys. Instead, he was extremely serious in this regard and wanted to find someone who he’d get along with.
It was not until the year he turned twenty-five that he met a girl, understood what it felt like to feel love, and started wooing her, eventually winning her over.
It was then that Song Tianning understood why his parents always stuck together and thus ignored him.
When the person you liked was here, there was no room for anything else in your eyes.
His parents died of old age peacefully,and their funeral was not a big affair.
Song Tianning held his wife’s hand, and then hugged his son. His mood was unexpectedly calm.
He was even able to smile and say, “After this, there will be no one to disturb your two-person world.”
Armos D. Platypus: This story cut so quickly it was like it cut from a second ‘rising action’ to ‘epilogue’. And then the author made another spin-off.
[1] Yes, it was named after Su Jiaojiao.
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