My daily life with the Shiina sisters

PS: I'll save Karuizawa for a separate chapter later, otherwise it feels like I'll have to wait a long time until the next semester.

Imagawa Kaede always knew that he would not fall in love with a vase. He was long past the age of falling in love at first sight, or rather, he had forgotten how to love.

He maintained his relationship with Mahiru more to please his parents. Of course, in his opinion, Mahiru was indeed a partner who made him feel "relaxed". She was gentle and considerate, caring, simple, easy to understand and easy to deceive, submissive, and had a good mind and potential. Of course, more importantly, she had no background, or her family background was dispensable to Imagawa Kaede. Even if he bullied her or did something to her, no one would do anything to him because of such things.

Yes, her only shortcoming is that her family background may not be that good. If the Imagawa family has more than one heir, Imagawa Kaede, this would indeed be a big shortcoming. But there are no ifs. Shiina Mahiru is a very suitable candidate.

She is like a piece of fine porcelain, emitting a dazzling light. However, in certain circumstances, some flaws on this porcelain also become its unique charm. What she lacks now is a deep understanding of her circle and some experience in the ways of the world.

Imagawa Kaede can see this, and so can the Imagawa couple.

Mrs. Imagawa had great expectations for Shiina Mahiru, the daughter-in-law she specially chose. To some extent, she even had more expectations than she did for Imagawa Kaede.

However, with the presence of Kaguya Shinomiya, Imagawa Kaede was not really interested in Shiina Mahiru. Her original plan was to train Shiina Mahiru, who should be called Imagawa Mahiru, after they got married.

Mrs. Imagawa didn't ask Mahiru to become a strong woman or something. She only asked that Mahiru could prevent her son from doing evil to a certain extent. After all, according to the original plan of the Imagawa couple, they wanted to carefully train the next generation.

It’s not that Imagawa Kaede was useless at that time, it’s just an emotional matter. He was unconditionally loyal. Who could trust such a person to be the heir?

Under the island nation's system of cross-shareholding by conglomerates, unless you have serious intellectual problems, it is very difficult to squander the family fortune if you are born into a chaebol family.

Many aspects of national economy and people's livelihood are under its control to a certain extent. For the consortium, it may earn less or suffer losses on some projects, but it is generally difficult to make them bankrupt.

But now, Imagawa Kaede has "come to her senses" and is sweet with Mahiru again. Mrs. Imagawa is thinking about whether she can train Shiina Mahiru in advance. After all, parents are willing to give their children a chance after seeing their prodigal son turn over a new leaf.

Instead of planning to raise grandchildren who you haven’t even seen yet, it’s better to train your son and daughter-in-law directly.

And now there just happens to be such an opportunity.

"Mrs. Imagawa, you must come when the time comes."

"Oh, what time will it be?"

Listening to Mrs. Sumitomo's tea party invitation on the phone, Mrs. Imagawa didn't really want to go. She asked for the specific time and refused on the grounds that she had something to do that day. For her, staying with these old women in their 29s and 76s for a long time was not a good thing for a young person like her, who was years and months old. She would feel a little flustered when she saw their faces, which were carefully groomed but still showed signs of aging.

"How about this Saturday afternoon at my house?"

Her mind raced as she suddenly remembered that some time ago, her son brought two more girls to the villa in Karuizawa to escape the summer heat.

So when he spoke again, he didn't refuse.

"Okay, but I will bring two more people to bother Mrs. Sumitomo."

"That's fine, but may I ask..."

"Oh, it's my sister, and Xiao Feng's fiancée."

"It's these two. Then we should separate them and let them get to know each other. I'm sure they won't be able to let go if we're here."

Look, it means that she doesn't like being with this group of old ladies. Not only is she not young, she doesn't even have the mentality to be younger.

"Okay, then it's settled, Mrs. Sumitomo. I have something else to do here, so I'll excuse myself first."

"Ah, I am sorry to bother you."

……

After hanging up the phone, Mrs. Imagawa sighed and called her sister first. After the call was connected.

"Are you free on Saturday afternoon?"

"Is it okay if I say no?" Mito Kisaragi said in a slightly mischievous tone on the other end of the phone.

"If you don't have time, forget it. I don't have anything else to do. Do you have anything else to do? If not, I'll hang up."

She knows her sister's temper quite well. The more you want her to do something, the more conditions she will negotiate with you.

"What are you doing? You are not as busy as before. You will be a mother soon. By the way, sister, I recently found a sports car for my niece. I plan to let my niece experience it first."

"Haha, if you said you wanted to experience it for Xiao Feng, I would believe it."

"Isn't that because I'm afraid you'll really buy it for me? Hehe, tell me, what do you want to do on Saturday afternoon?"

"The old woman of the Sumitomo family said that she would hold a tea party at her house. You should accompany Mahiru then."

"Aren't you going?"

"She said she wanted to separate them so that you young people can get to know each other better."

"If that's what she said, no wonder you don't like her very much."

"If you have nothing to do on Saturday, you can come early and we can go together. I'm a little uncomfortable with my free time lately."

(Let’s stop here for today. I’ll skip ahead because the plot connection is not very smooth. Good night.)