
"You good?" The next day, Brother Cheng called me.
"I'm good, don't worry."
"He didn't see you again?"
"He came to see me the next morning trying to make a deal with me, then threatened me."
"Threatening what?"
"Hmm. she would choose to marry my step-sister if I didn't accept her."
"Ohh..."
"My family was a disaster. I'm dizzy hearing it."
"Your father is against your mother, not."
"Yes of course. Papa defended the woman. She is willing to divorce Mama, Mama is also willing to divorce her but there will be a lot of notes behind her. Mama was smart enough to put a lot of assets on her behalf, but the company was a different thing. There will be a struggle once the two majorities are separated. And imagining one of the girls would be sitting in the main position makes .. the feeling of not being willing of course."
"Your mother has her own plan for how to deal with this." I don't know why I feel like I can talk to this Brother Cheng. He seemed like the right person to exchange ideas.
"I wish he had, but over the years I can say I didn't want to get involved, but I'm starting to think my attitude is wrong now. I'm going back to Hong Kong..."
"That's great, you're the first kid, you can't just stay quiet about your family. Maybe your mama meant well, but you can't leave her alone either..."
"That's what I think."
"Yes well, you're safe. If you need anything, just say it."
"You still owe me dinner, Brother Cheng, I pay." Now he's laughing.
"Yes okay, just tell me where you are. We move between two cities, it'll be confusing."
"Thank you, Brother Cheng."
"Bye. Take care of yourself."
I cut off her phone. He's good isn't. I think I like it.
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Mama found out what was going on, and she called Papa right away and got angry right now.
"Your father is outrageous! He sold his own son to get what he wanted! If that son of a bitch bothers you again, Mama herself will come to her mother!"
"Yes, it's okay. I'm not gonna let him talk to me again Mama, last night I was lured into an emotion. Good thing there's Brother Cheng there."
"Sir Cheng? Who?" I told Mama who she was and how we met.
"Ohhh second son of the Cheng family, widower?"
"Yes, he's good. Better than a forced Nathan and using all those means to force me to like him. He's making me unable to breathe."
"He's good to you? You likey?" Why did you suddenly ask me if I liked it. Don't-don't he....
"Mama, wait a minute I don't want you to arrange something like Papa did."
"You think he's good, it's okay not to set." Mom laughed at the end.
"Mama..."
"Yes.yes well, Mama was just kidding a little. Don't be so uptight Cherrie darling. No, Mama won't set anything." I let out a sigh of relief.
"Alright, I have to work Ma. I'll call you tonight."
"Be careful if he bothers you again say it directly to Mama."
"Yes." Yeah."
I went downstairs to breakfast. Nathan was there I saw him. I turned and took the last seat away from him after taking my breakfast.
But it didn't seem to help, she looked at me and moved to my desk with a coffee cup in her hand.
I need to breathe out myself now.
"Okay, sorry about last night... I'm wrong to force you to just do it." A half-hearted apology, it's easy to apologize afterwards. Just shut up, lazy to respond. I eat fast
"You want him to be accompanied today."
Maybe he felt slighted, all this time the girls were after him, expecting him, he was in control of the game, but now he has to be nice to me and I refused it all out.
"It's up to you. You seem to dislike me a lot right now. Where's Anthony Cheng? Not having breakfast?" He made me have to breathe again.
"Do I have an obligation to answer your questions? Why don't you just sit in your place?"
"If I help your father in the race for CEO of your company your mother will lose, you don't want a chance to help your mother?"
"My mom can take care of her own business. He didn't involve me."
"Ohh yeah, you'll regret saying that. You have a little sister by your stepmother's side who's 19, she's probably more willing to compromise than you."
"No matter what you do, Nathan." You sick shit, he did it all for the family business.
"You'll regret saying that. And when you're sorry there's no compromise. Maybe next time we'll meet at your dad's office and you're just a minority shareholder who can't do anything. I'll give you a month to think, think carefully before you regret."
"Thank you for your kind offer, now can you go and enjoy my breakfast in peace."
"I'm going to go. Don't worry." He left my desk. I saw him with
The girl who is my father's other child, will probably be the wife of the CEO who controls the running of the company. This family drama makes me sick, I think I should go back to Hong Kong to see how Mama is doing.
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"What mom is sure you won?" I finally landed back in Hong Kong. Lunch with my mom at our favorite restaurant.
"The road is still far away Cherrie, can not say win or lose. Actually it's tiring, sometimes Mama think you should not try so far. But sometimes heartache makes Mama move forward again..."
"You Mama, Nathan Chow threatened me, if I didn't want to be his wife, he would turn to the girl.
"No, Mama will let. Your mom and uncle will be looking for allies as well. Honey, that Anthony Cheng could actually be a good ally as well. Her family once approached Mama in fact offering implied help, she and Chow are comparable,... If you two .. can be together,..." Mom laughed and smiled later. "But more important is that you're happy Cherrie. Even if Mama loses, but if you can live happily in your path that's enough. Money may never be enough. So don't worry about Mama okay."
"There's a first lady here." An unpleasant tone of hearing made me look over. It turned out that the famous singer named Emily Leen had been hiding the identity of the Father of the Princess and her Son, before finally deciding to come out of hiding and demanding her right to be recognized.
The news exploded like a boom when he met my mother and immediately asked for her son and another woman to be included in the company's heirs.
My mother who was too shocked immediately left the house at that time. I was in Jakarta and what he told me made my world turn upside down once again.
Mama is raging at Papa of course, one family is accusing Papa, and at that time he appeared with the news in the media announcing everything, with his daughter, he was the one who made the news that my Mama was cruel, and all sorts of other fake news, even though she knew her whereabouts Mama did not.
"What do you want?"
"Madam, I just said hello. It's okay not to greet you, ohh yeah baby, say hello to Aunt Janice Chan."
"Auntie..." This girl, the girl he said he'd be paired with Nathan Chow.
"And my son will in the future be the wife of the new CEO of Shing Wang Corp." Apparently Nathan gave up on me. And the others took their chance.
"Don't dream too much, CEO Shing Wang's wife, you make me laugh."
"Snake woman, steal someone else's husband with pride and pretend to be taller." I'm defending my mother.
"I didn't steal your daddy baby, he came to me himself, I just accepted what came to me. So take care of your own bad luck."
"You're just here to say that? Are you done yet? So go now."
"Old woman, don't think we'll lose to you." Mama sighed at her words while I wanted to edit her wavy hair.
"We're eating, you're ruining our appetite." My mom doesn't even want to see her face right now.
"I'm the one who won now, Big Lady." My mother didn't think of it, but I wouldn't stay still, I'd grab tea on my desk and I'd splash it in her face.
"Go from here, cheap lady! Or I'll take your fake hair out!"
"You and your mother will pay this cocky girl." He wiped his wet clothes. Her daughter looked at me with hate.
I looked straight at the stupid beautiful girl. He thinks he can win me over by marrying Nathan Chow.
"Dumb girl, I hope you marry Nathan Chow soon, you'll know what he can do to you. He became CEO at Shing Wang, step over my body."
"Mama let's go, seeing them here makes me lose my appetite."
I pulled Mama's hand. Around the table we were talking whispering about what was happening at our table. All this time what you face is not easy.
I don't think I can escape this anymore. I have to do something to help my mom.
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