Picking the Golden Romance

Singapore, Golden Villa
Palin led Rachel and her mother into the library, shut the wainscot door firmly behind her, and went to the patio bar overlooking the pool to make margaritas for herself and Nick. "I think we both need a glass of this, right?" She handed him a goblet with condensation on the outside.

The room was surrounded by bookcases stuffed with gilt leather bound volumes, and Rachel took a window seat, sat in an upholstered chair, and stared angrily out at the rose garden.All she wants now is to get on a plane and fly to China, and Nick is messing things up again.Kari grabbed a dark green leather chair that leaned against the reading table and turned it around to face her daughter.Even though Rachel didn't want to look at her, she took a deep breath and began to tell the story she had flown halfway around the world to tell.

"Daughter, I have never told this story to anyone, and I have kept it from you. I hope you will stop judging me as a person, and open your heart and listen with an open heart.

"When I was 17, I fell in love with a man who was six years older than me. Yes, this man was Zhou Fangmin. His family was in Xiamen, Fujian Province. His family was rich—at least it was considered a wealthy family at the time .His father was the general manager of a construction company at the time, and he was assigned a good position. One of his older brothers was a high-level leader in the local area, so their company got the franchise to build a school in our village.

"Fang Min was sent to oversee the project. It was his summer job. At that time, I was in my last year of high school and worked as a waiter at the only tavern in our village at night. That's how I met him. Before that , I've been staying in that small village on the outskirts of Zhuhai, and I've never even left that province, so you can imagine what it was like when this 23-year-old man walked into the tavern. He had smooth black hair and was dressed in Western style Clothes - I remember his clothes were all from Sergio Tacchini or Fred Perry. He also wore a gold Rolex watch. Fang Min had a very expensive motorcycle, he was a big smoker and used to smoke one of his relatives Kentish cigarettes smuggled into the village. He would brag to me about his family's mansion and spacious Japanese car and tell me about his vacations to Shanghai, Beijing and Xi'an. I've never met a more handsome or worldly man , so I fell in love with him deeply. Of course, at that time, my hair was very long and my skin was fair, so Fang Min also had a good impression of me.

"When my parents heard that this rich man went to the pub every night and had a crush on me, they tried to stop us from seeing each other. My parents were different - they didn't care about his rich family background, but I hope that I can concentrate on my studies and go to university. It was very difficult to get into university at that time, especially for girls, and that was the only dream of my parents-they hoped that their children could go to university one day. But after so many years Come on, I have always been a good daughter and studied hard. I decided to resist. Fang Min began to secretly drive me to Guangzhou on a motorcycle, where I discovered a whole new world. I had no idea that there were many people living with Fang Min's life - they would go to special restaurants to eat and go to specialty stores to buy things. Fang Min invited me to expensive restaurants and sent me expensive clothes, and I became fascinated by this world. My parents also noticed Minor changes in me. When they found out he took me to Canton, they banned me from seeing him and of course I wanted to be with him more. We were like Romeo and Juliet, I would sneak out of my house at night If you go out to meet him, you will be punished if you are caught, but after a few days, you will return to your old ways.

"A few months later, when the construction project was over and Fang Min was going back to Xiamen, we made a plan to elope, which is why I didn't finish my studies. I fled to Xiamen and married him soon. My Parents were disappointed, but I felt like my dream had come true. I lived with his rich and powerful parents in a mansion, in a Nissan with white curtains on the rear windows. You see, Rachel, you're not the only one with People from rich families.

"But my dream took a different tone and I soon found out that his family was terrible. His mother was a very traditional woman, she was a snobbish person. She would constantly remind me that I was just a person flying on a branch. Thanks to my pretty face, I am a peasant girl. At the same time, I have various duties as a daughter-in-law, such as preparing her tea every morning, reading the newspaper to her, and giving her a massage after dinner every day. Shoulders and feet. I went from a student to a servant. Then they started putting pressure on me to get pregnant, but I never got pregnant, so my mother-in-law was very annoyed - she wanted grandchildren desperately. Take a daughter-in-law and come home and give birth What can I do if I don’t have a grandson? Fang Min’s parents are very dissatisfied with me because I am not pregnant, so we often quarrel.

"I don't know how I did it, but I persuaded Fang Min to let us both move to our own apartment. My life has since become a nightmare: after not living with his parents under the same roof, my husband suddenly Lost interest in me. He would go out every night, drink, gamble, start seeing other women as if he was still single. Then he would come home late, drunk and sometimes hit me Dayton. Later he even brought other women home...it was a horrible day.”

Rachel shook her head in amazement, meeting her mother's eyes for the first time: "I don't understand how you put up with it."

"Gee, I was then! I was so naive and scared of my worldly husband. The point is, I felt ashamed to tell my parents I made a mistake. After all, I ran away and abandoned them just to marry To this rich man, so I had to try my best to bear it. At that time, a family downstairs from our apartment had a son named Gao Wei, who was one year younger than me. My room happened to be next to him, so every night He heard everything that happened. One night, Fang Min came home angrily. I don't know what made him so angry-maybe he lost money in gambling, maybe one of his girlfriends was with him Arguing. Anyway, he decided to take it out on me. He started smashing all the furniture in the house, and when he smashed a chair and walked towards me holding the broken leg, I escaped. I I was afraid that he would take advantage of his drunken anger and beat me to death. Gao Wei probably heard me leaving the room. When I ran down the stairs, he opened the door and pulled me in. Fang Min ran outside, Yelling in the street. That's how I met Gao Wei.

"In the next few months, every time we had a heated argument, Gao Wei would comfort me and even help me find a way to fight my husband. I would buy sleeping pills, crush them and put them in his wine, and he would Sleep to death before committing violence; I will invite his friends over for dinner, and try to ask them to stay until he passes out. Gao Wei even helped me install a stronger lock on the toilet door, so that Fang Min can It was hard to break in. Slowly, Gao Wei and I fell in love with each other. He was the only friend I had in that building, and in fact the only friend in the entire city. Then, as you can imagine, we started I had an extramarital affair, and was almost caught once. For Gao Wei’s sake, I decided to end the relationship because I was afraid that Fang Min would kill him if he found out. A few days later, I found out that I was pregnant and also It was you later, I know Gao Wei is your father."

"Wait a minute, how are you so sure he's my father's?" Rachel folded her arms around her chest and leaned against the window.

"Trust me, Rachel, I just know."

"How do you know? At that time, there was no way to test DNA."

Kari shifted her position awkwardly, and said deliberatively, "One of the reasons I have trouble getting pregnant is that Fang Min has a certain quirk, Rachel. I know I can't get pregnant that way."

"Oh...oh!" Rachel blushed when she realized what her mother meant.

"Anyway, you look a lot like Gao Wei. He is your father. Gao Wei has a beautiful, angular face just like you, and your delicate lips are exactly like him."

"Then if you fell in love with Gao Wei, why didn't you divorce Fang Min and marry Gao Wei? Why did you kidnap me?" Rachel leaned on the table with her chin in her hands, completely attracted by her mother's tragic life story.

"Listen to me, Rachel, and you'll understand when the time comes. So I—a girl—married to an alcoholic, violent man, and got pregnant with another man's child. I was afraid that Fang Min would find the child If it wasn't his, he would have killed me and Gao Wei, so I kept the pregnancy a secret for as long as possible. But my stern mother-in-law caught the signs and announced after a few weeks that I looked like I was pregnant up.

"At first, I was terrified, but you know what? Things just didn't go my way. My in-laws were so happy to finally have their first golden grandson, and my wicked mother-in-law suddenly became everything you could imagine Kindest person ever. She insisted that I move back to the big house so that the servants could take care of my food and clothing. I was relieved like I was delivered from hell. She wanted me big even though I didn’t need it. Bed rest part of the time, let me drink traditional stewed medicine all day to strengthen the baby's health. I have to eat three kinds of ginseng every day, and drink soup made of tender chicken, I think that's why you are a healthy baby, Rachel——You are not always sick like other children. You have no ear infection, high fever, or any ailments. At that time, there was no ultrasound equipment in Xiamen, so my mother-in-law invited a famous prophet to come At home, he said that I will have a son who will be very promising when he grows up. So my in-laws are even more excited. They hired a special nurse to take care of me. This girl has natural double eyelids and a pair of big eyes with copper bells , because my mother-in-law believes that if I look at this girl all day long, I will give birth to a child with double eyelids and big eyes. Every Chinese mother wants her child to have big eyes. They paint the whole room light blue Put in baby furniture and boy's clothes and toys. There are airplanes, trains, and toy soldiers—I've never seen so many toys in my life.

"One night my water broke and I started having labor pains. They rushed me to the hospital and you were born a few hours later. It was easy when you were born - I told you so many times - at first I was worried that they would see that you looked nothing like their son. Turns out I didn't have to worry about that at all. My in-laws were so taken aback that you were a girl, they were mad at the prophet, but they were mad at me Because I didn't do my duty. Fang Min was also very upset, and if I didn't live with my in-laws at that time, I think he would beat me to death. Because of China's one-child policy, based on the law , I can no longer get pregnant, but my in-laws desperately want a grandson - a male heir who can carry on the family name. However, there is a legal loophole in this policy that allows another child if born with a disability .

"I didn't know there was such a rule, but my evil mother-in-law had a plan before I got out of the hospital. My mother-in-law thought the best thing to do would be to throw acid in your eyes—"

"What-what?" Rachel screamed.

Carrie swallowed sharply, and continued, "Yes, they want you to be blind in one eye, and if they do it when you're newborn, that blind eye will look like a birth defect."

"Oh my god!" Rachel put her hand over her mouth in horror.

"So she started making plans with some old servants who were loyal to her, but the special nurse she hired to take care of me when I was pregnant wasn't as committed to her. We became friends when she learned that they told me the day I was discharged from the hospital and brought you home. I was in total shock - can't believe anyone would want to hurt you like this, let alone your grandparents! I was going crazy, though The body is still weak from the new birth, but I am determined not to let anyone blind you, no one can hurt you. You are a beautiful baby girl born to me and the man who saved me - the one I really love people.

"At lunch time a few days later, I walked down the corridor to the toilet downstairs under the guise of going to the toilet, and the opposite was the servant's room. When everyone was eating, you were put in a baby sheet inside. Bed. The servants were all eating lunch in the kitchen, so I went into their room, took you in my arms, and walked straight out the back door. I walked all the way to the bus stop and got on the next bus. I don't know which bus goes to Where, I just want to take you away from Zhou's house as far as possible. I got out of the car and found a public phone to call Gao Wei. I told him that I just gave birth to a child and was running away from my husband He came to my rescue right away. He hired a taxi—hiring a taxi was expensive in those days, but he managed it anyway—and came to pick me up.

"During that time, he helped me think of a plan to escape from Xiamen. He knew that once my in-laws found out that the child was missing, they would definitely notify the police. The police would track down a woman with a baby, so he insisted on following me. Walking together so we could pretend to be husband and wife. We bought two tickets for the [-]pm train, the busiest train. We squeezed into the busiest carriages, trying to blend in with the other families. Thank goodness the police didn't Get in the car and check. Gao Wei took me back to the village where I was born, and made sure that my parents and I were safe before leaving. He is such a person. I have always been very happy that it was your biological father who saved us. Finally, I had the opportunity to spend a few days with you."

"But doesn't he mind leaving me?" Rachel said with tears welling in her eyes.

"He didn't know you were his daughter, Rachel."

Rachel looked at her mother in astonishment: "Why didn't you tell him?"

Kari sighed: "Gao Wei has been involved too deeply with me, and I am another man's wife. I don't want him to know that you are his daughter, which will increase his burden. I know he is that kind of desire Righteous man, he will find ways to take care of us mother and daughter. But ahead of him is a bright future. He is very smart and has a brain in science. I know he will go to college, I don't want to ruin his future."

"Don't you think he's going to suspect he's my father?"

"I don't think he did. He was, remember? I think at that age, being a father was the last thing any boy wanted to think about. Besides, I was on the run and I was a kidnapper, more than anything else. Wei is more worried about us being arrested. My horrible husband and in-laws will take this opportunity to blame everything on me and put my name in the major newspapers. I don't think they really care about you-they Glad the baby girl was out of their lives - but they wanted to punish me. The police came to my parents' village looking for me."

"and then?"

"Well, my poor parents have been interrogated for weeks, and I have long been in hiding. Your grandparents sent me to a distant relative named Zhu who lived in Shenzhen, and it was through her that I had the opportunity to take You fled to the United States. A relative named Zhu in California who heard what happened to me—your uncle Walter—provided a way for us to travel to the United States. He funded our travel expenses, so I put our two last names They were all changed to Zhu."

"So what about your parents? My real grandparents? Do they still live in Guangdong?" Rachel asked nervously, not sure if she wanted to know the answer.

"They passed away very early, when they were in their sixties. I heard that the Zhu family used their power to ruin your grandfather's career, and his health plummeted as a result. I never saw them again, Because I dare not go back to China or try to contact them. Even if you flew to meet Zhou Fangmin this morning, I dare not follow. So after Nick told me your plan, I decided to fly directly to Singapore."

"Then what happened to Gao Wei?"

Cary's face became heavy: "I don't know what happened to Gao Wei. In the past few years, I sent him letters and postcards from the United States as often as possible. I always used the pseudonym we came up with together, but I never received a reply .I don’t even know if he ever got my letter.”

"Don't you want to find him?" Rachel's voice was hoarse with emotion.

"I did my best not to look back, daughter. When I got you on the plane to America, I knew I had to leave the past behind."

Rachel turned her head to the window, her chest heaving involuntarily.

Kari got up from his chair and walked slowly towards Rachel.She put her hands on her daughter's shoulders, and before she could make the next move, Rachel jumped up and hugged her. "Oh...Mom," Rachel yelled, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry for everything...I'm sorry I said something bad to you on the phone."

"I know, Rachel."

"I don't even know... I can't imagine you ever going through this."

Kari looked at her daughter affectionately, tears streaming down her cheeks: "Sorry, I never told you the truth, because I never want you to bear my fault."

"Oh Mom." Rachel sobbed, hugging her mother tightly.

The sun was high above Bukit Timah when Rachel and her mother walked into the garden arm in arm.They walked slowly to the bar by the pool, and Rachel made a point of walking around the pool so Kari could admire all the golden statues.

"Looks like mother and daughter reconciled, doesn't it?" Palin said to Nick.

"It seems that's right, I didn't see blood or clothes were torn."

"Better not. That dress on Rachel is from Lanvin. It cost me seven thousand dollars."

"Glad I'm not the only one spending big bucks on her and she can stop blaming me for it," Nick said.

"Let me tell you a secret, Nick, although a girl may say no, it's absolutely right to buy her a brand name and nice shoes."

"I'll remember," Nick said with a smile, "I think I should go too."

"Oh wait, Nick, I'm pretty sure Rachel would like to see you. And don't you really want to know what they talked about?"

Rachel and her mother approach the bar. "Pei Lin, you look so charming standing behind the bar! Can you make me a Singapore Sling?" Kari asked.

Pei Lin smiled a little embarrassedly: "Uh, I don't know how to adjust it—I've never drank it."

"Really? Isn't that the most famous bartending here?" Kari said in surprise.

"For tourists."

"I'm a tourist!"

"Then, Mrs. Zhu, how about I take you to drink Singapore Sling?"

"Okay," Carrie said excitedly, putting a hand on Nick's shoulder. "Are you coming, Nick?"

"Uh, I don't know, Mrs. Zhu..." Nick looked at Rachel nervously.

Rachel hesitated for a moment, then said, "Let's go, let's go together."

Nick's face lit up. "Really? I know where we can go."

Soon, all four of them boarded Nick's car and headed to Singapore's most distinctive architectural landmarks.

"Wow! What an amazing building!" Kari Zhu looked in awe at the three huge towering buildings in front of him.

"That's where we're going. The top floor is the tallest man-made park in the world - a total of 57 floors," Nick said.

"You're not going to take us to the sky bar of the Marina Bay Sands Hotel, are you?" Pei Lin wrinkled her face.

"What's wrong?" Nick asked.

"I thought you were going to take us to the Raffles Hotel - the place where the Singapore Sling was invented."

"Raffles has too many tourists."

“Is there no Marina Bay Sands? Just wait and see, it will definitely be full of Chinese and European tourists.”

"Trust me, the bartenders there are amazing," Nick said domineeringly.

Ten minutes later, the four of them were sitting in a quiet white cabin, halfway between two half-acre patio bars in the clouds.The entire space is filled with samba music, and a few steps away from them is a vast infinity pool that spans the entire park.

"To Nick!" said Rachel's mother, "Thank you for bringing us here."

"I'm glad you like it, Mrs. Zhu." Nick said, looking at everyone.

"I have to admit, the Singapore Sling here is even better than I thought." Pei Lin said, taking another sip of her dark red slightly bubbly cocktail.

"So next time a tourist sits next to you and orders a drink, you won't be intimidated?" Nick said with a wink.

"That depends on how they dress up," Pei Lin said.

For a while they sat admiring the view.Looking across the bay, the sky was beautiful and the skyscrapers that towered over the pier seemed to glisten in the warm breeze.

Nick turned to Rachel, looking in her direction.After leaving Pei Lin's house, she didn't say a word.After their eyes briefly met, Rachel looked away again.

Nick jumped off the bar stool and took a few steps toward the infinity pool.The others watched him silently as he walked along the pool in great silhouette against an overcast sky.

"He's a good boy, that Nick," Kari said to her daughter.

"I know." Rachel replied quietly.

"I'm glad he came to see me," Carrey said.

"To see you?" Rachel asked suspiciously.

"Yes, he showed up at my house in Cupertino two days ago."

Rachel looked at her mother, eyes wide with surprise.Then she jumped off the stool and went straight to Nick.He turned to see her walking towards him, and Rachel slowed down and turned to watch a few swimmers running methodically around the pool.

"Those who were swimming looked like they might fall over the horizon," she said.

"They did fall over the horizon, didn't they?"

Rachel took a deep breath. "Thank you for bringing my mom here."

"You're welcome—she needs a good mix."

"I mean come to Singapore."

"Oh, that's at least what I can do."

Rachel looked at Nick tenderly: "I can't believe you would do something like this, and come back after traveling half the world in two days for me. What made you do such a crazy thing?"

Nick showed his usual smile: "Well, you should thank a little bird."

"Little bird?"

"Yes, a blue jay that hates Hearst."

At the bar, Kari was slowly biting the pineapple slices on the third glass of cocktail she ordered, when Pei Lin suddenly shouted excitedly: "Mrs Zhu, don't turn your head now, I saw Nick and Rachel kissing passionately !"

Carrie turned around cheerfully and sighed, "Oh, that's so romantic!"

"Oh, don't look! I told you don't look!" Pei Lin said angrily.

When Nick and Rachel returned, Kari looked Nick up and down for a moment, then pulled off his slightly wrinkled linen shirt. "Oh, you've lost a lot of weight, your cheeks are sunken, let me feed you. Can we go to the famous outdoor food court in Singapore? I'm going to eat a hundred plates of satay while I'm here."

"Okay, then let's go to the food market on Smith Street in Chinatown later." Nick smiled.

"Oh, Nick, there are so many people on Smith Street on Friday night that there's no room to sit." Pei Lin complained, "Why don't we go to the open-air hot food center by the sea?"

"I knew you would say that. You spoiled princesses want to go there!"

"No, I just happened to think that there is the best satay there." Pei Lin retorted.

"Nonsense! Satay is the same anywhere. I think Rachel's mom would find Smith Street more colorful," Nick said.

"What a colorful figure! If you really want to be colorful..." Pei Lin said.

Rachel glanced at her mother: "They can go on and on, as long as we sit down and eat."

"But why do they keep fighting over these things?" Kari asked in disbelief.

Rachel rolled her eyes and smiled. "Leave them alone, Mom, just leave them alone. That's how they live."

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