Chapters 2-5

CHAPTERS 2 - 5

One of the most important roles of being a wife in Chinese culture is to bear a child. This is because maintaining the bloodline and producing heirs is very important to the family. Unfortunately, based on the Chinese culture, a husband can divorce his wife if she is confirmed unable to bear him a child. The mother in law has much power and say over this matter too. The next few chapters are also summarized in five parts:

Mui Lan is threatening to kick Chan Fong Mei out of the house as she begins crying.  Mui Lan tells Chan Fong Mei that her husband would have another wife.  However she must get a divorce for this to happen.  This is all happening because of the sole reason that Fong Mei is having difficulty bearing a child.  


While Kae Ying Woo is thinking about her grandmother she is reminded of her uncle Morgan Keung Chi Wong.  When they talked on the phone her uncle Morgan began to talk about the Janet Smith murder case and this has something to do with her family.  Which raised a huge commotion in the area and Gwei Chang had to help control the crowd.  In this case the main suspect was Wong Foon Sing.  

The complex relationships among the characters make the novel more interesting and intriguing.

While Morgan and Kae are at the library working on homework, Kae begins to look at Morgan.  Morgan beings to tell Kae that her mother and him are half siblings and that Kae’s grandmother had a lover who was Morgan’s father.  Kae was very shocked and did not believe what Morgan was saying.  While Morgan Drives Kae home there is a car crash, but everyone survived.  When they were in the hospital, Kae looked at her parents and saw their faces that is when they realized that what Morgan had told her was all true.

When Fong Mei begins thinking about the affair that Choy Fuk had with a waitress working at the Moon Cafe and she gets frustrated.  She believes that it was Choy Fuk who set them together.  Choy Fuk also becomes frustrated because of his mother nagging him about having a child and fed up with his wife.  He was hoping that the waitress he was with would have a baby so his mother would finally be happy.  Ting An does not like the idea that Choy Fuk is planning to make the waitress pregnant and when he sees Fongs Mei she begins flirting and then they become intimate.

Kae’s mother and Nanny come over to her place to help her with the baby.  The waitress had a baby boy named Keeman Woo.  They baby didn’t go home with the Wong family even though the father may have been Choy Fuk.  Fong Mei also has a baby girl named Beatrice Li Ying Wong.  The story later reveals that Keeman and Beatrice are Kae’s mother and father.  During this time the waitress that Choy Fuk was with marries a gambler.  Keeman fights in World War 2 and Beatrice goes to Hong Kong and after this time they meet again and fall in love.  Later becoming engaged, however Beatrice’s father did not agree with this marriage and hit Beatrice.  Leading to Beatrice running away from home, but go back.  Keeman then goes to ask his mother about his father, however Song An is not sure of who his real father is.