The Pampering CEO: Don't Mess With My Secretly-Married Sweet Wife

Chapter 406 The Little Princess' Birthday Party

"Hmm?” Susan Shelby shot a confused glance at Julian. “Three years have passed? Are you counting from... the time Mr. Clark committed suicide? Is there any special significance to these three years?"

"No.” Julian Shaw shook his head.

The five-year deadline had been weighing down his chest heavily all this time.

He wanted to force himself to stop working as well and keep Susan company by giving her his full attention.

However, he could not.

The biggest reason he had been working so hard over the years was not to develop the company.

It was to ensure that he possessed an even more powerful influence in the world.

If he could not develop an antidote just by relying on the strength of Canada itself, then he would gather the strength of the entire world.

The Errol Virus Project had been given a different name and was recruiting the most outstanding experts secretly around the world.

There were many outstanding experts in this industry, but they were all working for the government.

Julian used his business tactics to form connections with the governments of different countries so that they would consent to send their experts to take part i n this project. There were already more than 10 first-rate countries that had sent their experts to Canada over the years.

Had it not been for StarTech Co.’s global success, the governments of those countries would not have supported the project either.

There was no telling how much hard work and effort Julian had put in just to be able to negotiate with other countries and be successful at it despite his status as a businessman.

Anything and everything he did, including expanding StarTech Co. and elevating his influence globally, was meant to increase the progress of the antidote research.

There had been some achievements in the past three years.

For example, the PA Virus that had once rendered the entire world helpless in the past had already been cracked. Even though the difficulty of cracking the mutated PA Virus in the Errol Virus was 100 times higher than cracking the PA Virus, this was an immense improvement at the very least.

What a pity that the progress was still too slow. It was really slow.

At this thought, Julian could not help hugging Susan

tighter.

"Why are you behaving strangely today?” Susan looked up at Julian in confusion.

Julian shook his head and then diverted the topic of the conversation. "It's Chessie's birthday in one week. Let's throw her a nice celebration this year."

"Alright." Just as expected, Susan's attention was diverted at the mention of Chessie. She chuckled and said, "Chessie has been talking about it for some time. She has a few good friends that she wants to invite to her party."

"She's made good friends already?" The corners of Julian's lips curled into a faint smile.

Chessie had just started attending kindergarten this year. When she had first enrolled, she had cried and shouted to express her reluctance to go, but it had only been a few months and she had already made some good friends.

"Hmm." Susan nodded and could not help laughing.

She felt that time was really passing quickly.

It felt like Chessie had still been a tiny infant in her arms yesterday, yet today, she was already capable of running, jumping about, and making friends.

More and more people were entering Chessie's life. Sooner or later, the day would come when she left them and had a brand new life that belonged to herself. At the thought of this, Susan felt a little sad.

Julian hugged her as if he could read Susie's thoughts. He smiled and said, "You'll still have me." This belongs © NôvelDra/ma.Org.

Susan could not help chuckling.

Yes, she still had Julian.

The moonlight elongated their tightly-hugging silhouettes. The image appeared so harmonious yet wonderful.

In the next few days, Julian took some time off and kept Chesney Shaw company. It made Chessie feel delighted beyond comparison.

Chesney's birthday was just around the corner. Julian was free coincidentally, so he would throw her a huge party.

"Daddy, where are the invitation cards? Pass me a few. I want to write them," said Chesney with eager eyes.

"How many do you want?" asked Julian.

Chesney counted on her fingers. "I will invite Girlie for sure. The lollipop she gave me yesterday was really tasty. I wanted to invite Snottie at first, yet he pulled m y hair on purpose today. He’s obnoxious. Also..."

It was interesting to listen to Chesney's childish talk. Julian could see that she was fussing over it, so he gave her a bunch of invitations. "Think about it slowly. If these are not enough, come and ask me for more." "Alright." Chesney grabbed the invitation cards and went over to the side to study them.

All the invitation cards for Chesney's birthday party were penned by Julian and Susan personally.

After writing most of the invitation cards, Susan turned her head to the side to look at Julian and penned an invitation card with slow strokes.

"Are you going to send out this invitation?”

A look of astonishment flashed past Julian’s eyes when he saw the name. "You're inviting my mom?"

Susan heaved a sigh. "It has been so many years since the incident. Chessie is growing so big now. We can’t keep stopping them from connecting with each other. It's your mother after all.”

Susan was still incapable of getting over the incident that had happened all those years ago.

Both she and Chessie had insisted on not meeting Madam Shaw even once over the years. Even when Julian had returned to Ningcheng City to see Madam Shaw, Susan had never followed him.

Madam Shaw was very stubborn as well. She had not visited Chessie even once during the festivities.

Both sides were basically caught in a stalemate.

Even though Julian had never talked about it, Susan could feel that he was caught in a dilemma in his heart.

She was his mother after all. It had to be hard for him t o be caught between them.

Susan was willing to take the first step because she was a senior.

"Thank you, Susie." Julian rubbed Susan’s head. Hesitation flashed past his eyes. "I shall check out the situation first before I decide if I'm inviting my mom over."

"Hmm, you make the decision then," said Susan with a smile.

At night, Julian called up Madam Shaw.

He explained the situation briefly and then invited Madam Shaw to attend Chessie's birthday party in Skyking City. He also stated that Susan was the one who had proposed the idea.

"Heh heh heh... Susan is finally thinking of me." Madam Shaw could not help scoffing coldly. "I've already said that I won’t meet her if she doesn't apologize to me first. Fine, I will come over, but you have to make her kneel down and serve me a cup of tea. Then, I shall consider this done."

Julian could not help furrowing his brows. "Mom! Could you still not know who was at fault all those years ago? What did Susie do that warrants that she apologizes to you?"

"She is a junior member of the family! She didn't come and see me even once in the past three years. Could this not be her fault?" Madam Shaw said bluntly. "To sum up, I won't come over if she

doesn't apologize to m e. Also, Julian, it's been so many years... Shouldn’t you be considering having a second child? You were already six to seven years old when your father was your age!"

Julian immediately felt a headache coming. He wholeheartedly felt that making this call had been a mistake.

"Mom, if you don’t want to come, don't come. It's Chessie’s birthday, and Susie and I will celebrate with her. Susie and I are not planning to have a second child for the time being. Besides, it's possible that we will not plan to have a second child in this lifetime. There’s no need for you to worry about that," said Julian before he hung up the phone right away.

Madam Shaw panicked at once upon hearing the busy signal.

'He is not planning to have a second child in this lifetime?’

'How is that fine!'

'Julian is so stubborn! Why doesn’t Susie persuade him a little then?"

'This woman is not a good wife.'

No, as a senior member of the family, she could not allow Julian to continue making this mistake.

She made the decision to head to Skyking City anyhow.