The Chi Family didn't have a rule about being silent during meals. It wasn't that Mr. and Mrs. Chi weren't proper, but that they were too busy with work. Mealtimes and bedtime were the only times they could all be together.
As a result, dinner became a daily meeting to discuss their lives and work, with all three actively taking part.
Today, however, Chi Yun'er had something on her mind. She merely listened with pricked ears, wolfing down her food.
Mr. and Mrs. Chi were discussing the day's wedding banquet—which family's child was going to which high school, where another's was working, who had found what kind of partner, and who was now a grandparent.
Parents were always nudging their children from one life event to the next. They used to worry she wouldn't find a suitable partner, and now they were already asking when the wedding banquet would be, urging Chi Yun'er to get settled in her job quickly and have two children in three years after getting married...
