The first time Joanne had met Shawn's mother was when she was in her sophomore year.

On that day, she and Freya back to school after dinner, walking through the remote North School gate. From a distance, they saw Shawn and a woman standing next to a black car, and they looked quite close.

When they got closer, they found that the madam was still very young, well-dressed, graceful, and elegant.

The car parked next to them was a top-assembled Mercedes-Benz, and in the driver's seat was the driver in dark suit.

Freya pulled Joanne over and greeted Shawn. She asked curiously, "Shawn, is this your sister? I haven't heard that you have a sister."

Mrs. Jameson's smile almost bloomed on her face, and she dragged them to have afternoon tea.

After that, no matter what food was sent to Shawn, Mrs. Jameson would never forget to prepare some for Joanne and Freya. Occasionally, she would ask them what they wanted to eat and ask them to order as much as they wanted.

Unlike the rich and powerful women on TV who were deliberately shaped to create a drama effect, Mrs. Jameson was not only good at cooking, but also very friendly. She always spoke gently, making people feel comfortable as if they were bathed in the spring breeze.

Joanne told Shawn that she was envious that Shawn had such a mother, and even more envious that his mother could accompany him like this all the time.

This sentence had reached the ears of Mrs. Jameson. So in Joanne's senior year, Mrs. Jameson seemed to be joking or seriously telling Joanne that as long as Joanne wanted, she could be Joanne's mother. In this way, Joanne could eat the dishes she cooked every day!

Until today, Joanne had thought that Jiang's mom had intended to recognize her as her goddaughter, fearing that she could not bear the kindness. As a result, at that time, she had deftly avoided the topic.

Perhaps Mrs. Jameson had discovered her fear, so after that, Mrs. Jameson and Shawn never mentioned it again. Joanne had thought that she might never be able to eat the food made by Mrs. Jameson again.

I didn't expect that Mrs. Jameson would prepare soup and ask Shawn to bring it here.

Joanne smiled. "Help me express my gratitude to auntie."

"You don't have to thank me," Shawn said casually. "She's busy preparing for my wedding. Otherwise, she would have come personally to deliver it to you. Your drinking up the soup is the best gift for her. I'll leave first."

Joanne nodded. "Okay."

Shawn turned around and left the room. In the living room, he happened to meet Brian, who had just made a phone call.

Brian looked at his watch. It seemed that Shawn had only stayed for half an hour, which was much shorter than he had expected. He felt confused. "Are you leaving?"

Shawn put his hands into the pockets of his casual pants. "What's wrong? Do you want me to stay longer?"

Brian smiled coldly. "You think too much."

"I want to stay a little longer and have a look at the two little guys," Shawn changed the subject, "But I have to hurry back to accompany my fiance to try on the wedding dress."

"Fiance, wedding dress?"

These two phrases caught Brian's attention at once. He looked at Shawn with a little surprise. "Are you getting married?"

"That's right," Shawn said frankly, "The wedding date is set for half a month later. If you have time, you are welcomed to the wedding."

Brian said ambiguously, "Sure."

Shawn did not say anything more. He left the suite, went downstairs to the parking lot, took the car, and drove towards the villa area in the suburbs.

He had told his mother in advance yesterday that he would come to the hospital to see Joanne this afternoon and send the marriage invitation to her on his way.

Early in the morning, his mother woke up and did her work in the kitchen. When he was about to go out, she stuffed him with a thermos bucket and said, "I know Lambert Family will take good care of Joanne, but this is a gift from your mother. Please help me bring it to her."

Shawn smiled and said, "She has always liked to eat the dishes you cook..."

"I know." Mrs. Jameson didn't realize that she had interrupted her son's words. She sighed and said, "I once gave her a hint that as long as she was willing to be with you, she could eat the dishes cooked by me every day. But she actually misunderstood that I wanted to adopt her as my daughter."

Mrs. Jameson said while laughing while Shawn fell into silence.

After laughing, Mrs. Jameson realized that she shouldn't have mentioned it again. She patted Shawn's arm and said, "You and Lanlan are going to get married. We should forget these things."

Shawn nodded. "Mom, don't worry. They already have children now. So I won't keep thinking about her anymore. Also, since I have decided to marry Lanlan, I know what to do."

Mrs. Jameson was relieved and smiled. "Go ahead. Don't talk for too long. Lanlan will be waiting for you to pick her up to try on the wedding dress."

The white BMW ran on the highway for more than half an hour. Once it got off the highway, it drove into a villa area before finally stopping in front of the gate of a villa which was in a European style.

Before Shawn got out of the car, he saw a girl dressed in a light blue dress come out of the villa, open the door and get in the passenger seat of his car.

Before he could speak, the girl said with a smile, "I saw your car from upstairs. Let's go. Don't waste time."

Shawn also smiled, turned around the car, and took Riana to the wedding dress store.

Joanne first became Brian's wife, and now she became the mother of two children. Her life was very different from before.

It was time for a new chapter of his life.

In the hospital ward.

Joanne couldn't help reminding Brian, "You have been reading it for five minutes. It's just a marriage invitation, not a cooperative project of the company. Is there so much content to read?"

Right after Shawn left, Brian came in. He saw Shawn's wedding invitation at a glance and picked it up to look at it for five minutes.

After being reminded by Joanne, he finally put down the invitation card. He raised his eyebrows and said, "I was just surprised that Shawn is getting married."

"Pfft..." Joanne couldn't help but look at Brian incredulously. "What do you mean? Since you can get married, why can't Shawn?"

Brian said, "It is a little earlier than I expected."

"... How could you have predicted when Shawn would get married?" The more Joanne said, the more she wanted to laugh. "Three years ago, even you didn't expect that you would marry me in a year, did you?"

Brian glanced at Joanne and naturally changed the topic. "Who is his fiance?"

Joanne did not answer. Instead, she looked at Brian in confusion. "After you became a father, why did you become a gossipy person?"

Looking at Joanne, Brian speculated, "Do you know his fiance?"

Joanne raised her hand to surrender and said truthfully, "I don't know her. I just heard Shawn mention that they met on a blind date."

"A blind date?" Brian snorted. "Shawn is more willing to compromise than I thought."

The more Joanne listened, the more she felt that Brian was laughing at Shawn, and then she said, "That girl is called Riana."

"..."

"..."

Surprise flashed across Brian's face. "Riana? The eldest daughter of the Zhou family who just came back from abroad?"

This time it was Joanne who got surprised. "Do you know Riana?"

"The current Chief Operating Officer of Zhou's Group. I've worked with her for several times. She is very capable and has a wide range of contact," Brian said, "She actually likes Shawn?"

Joanne almost vomited blood. "Didn't you just say Shawn had compromised?"

Brian explained calmly, "I didn't expect Riana to have anything to do with Shawn."

"..."

No matter how she listened, Joanne didn't think that Brian was explaining. Instead, he belittled Shawn again so she asked, "Do you mean that Riana is the one who compromised?"

"..." Brian did not comment, but Joanne knew him very well. His attitude was equivalent to affirming Joanne's words.

By the way, it seemed that this was the first time that Brian had such a good opinion of a girl.

Joanne suddenly wanted to pick out something wrong and waved to Brian. "Honey, come here."

Brian did not find anything strange. He came over and asked, "What's wrong?"

Joanne seemed to be really curious but not jealous at all. "In your eyes, Riana is very good."

Brian looked at Joanne and said, "For Shawn, Riana is really good."

He actually replied in such a way, successfully avoiding the trap!

Joanne simply did not stop and continued to ask, "If you think she is good, there should be a lot of men who like Riana, right?"

Brian did not deny it. "There are indeed a lot of men pursuing her."

"Sure enough, a lot of men like her. Then you..."

Joanne was about to ask Brian if he liked Riana. Brian suddenly kissed her and said, "For Shawn who doesn't want to inherit the family business, Riana is a good choice."

Joanne looked at Brian blankly. "You know what I'm about to ask?"

Brian rubbed Joanne's hair, and the affection in his movements was the same as before. "Fool, don't ask that silly question. The reason why I praised Riana is that-she is a very good business partner."

Joanne looked at Brian with an innocent look. "I just wanted to set you up..."

Now she understood that there was a wide gap in IQ between them. It was basically impossible for her to trick Brian.

Brian's smile deepened when he saw Joanne's frustrated look. He kissed her lips and said, "You've already trapped me 15 years ago. Are you still not satisfied?"

Fifteen years ago, he was sixteen years old, and Joanne was ten years old. He had been in contact with Joanne for less than a month before parting with her.

For the next 14 years, he had never forgotten Joanne.

Couldn't that be counted as having trapped him successfully?

Joanne thought for a moment and then realized what Brian meant. She couldn't help but laugh out loud.

Her smile was still the same as before. Her eyes were as bright as stars, and her smile was clean without any impurities.

Brian looked at her, and he could still feel his heart beating fast.

Joanne was familiar with Brian's gaze. She closed her eyes and Brian naturally lowered his head. Just as he was about to press their lips together, a baby's cry suddenly resounded in the room and cut through everything ambiguous.

It was the cry of Aiden. This was the second time that he had interrupted Brian and Joanne.

Brian looked at Joanne and said in a deep voice, "Should we send them to another room and have the nurses and Martha take care of them?"

Before Joanne could answer, another burst of crying came.

"Waaa-"

This time, it was the voice of the little girl. The little girl's voice sounded so innocent.

Joanne pushed all the responsibilities to Brian as if it had nothing to do with her, "You must have scared Romy!"