Rich People Problems-Kwan 2017 (WWT)

“She’s my wife—she tells me everything, Mum. I can’t believe you actually asked her
what kind of birth control we use!”
“What’s wrong with that?” Eleanor asked.
“Have you gone completely mental? She’s not some Singaporean girl you can
interrogate about every bodily function. She’s American. They don’t discuss things like
that with just anyone!”
“I am not just anyone. I am her mother-in-law. I have a right to know when she’s
ovulating!” Eleanor snapped.
“No you don’t! She was so appalled and embarrassed, she didn’t even know what to
say.”
“No wonder she hung up so quickly.” Eleanor giggled.
“This whole grandchildren business has to stop, Mum. We won’t be pressured into
having kids just because you want us to.”
Eleanor banged down her chopsticks irritatedly. “You think I’m pressuring you? Hiyah,
you don’t know the meaning of pressure! When your father and I came back from our
honeymoon, your darling Ah Ma commanded her maids to ransack our luggage! When
she found our French letters, * she got so upset, she said that if I wasn’t pregnant within
six weeks, she would throw me out of the house! Do you really want to know what it took
for me to get pregnant? Your father and I had to—”
“Stop, stop! Boundaries, please! I don’t need to know any of this!” Nick groaned, waving
his hand in front of his mother’s face frantically.
“Believe me, I’m not trying to pressure you to have a child. I’m only trying to help you!”
“Help me how? By trying to ruin my marriage again?”
“Don’t you see? I thought if we caught Rachel at the right time in her cycle, we could
just fly her to Singapore. Auntie Carol already offered to loan her new Gulfstream G650—
it’s very fast and Rachel can be here in eighteen hours. She can even come this weekend.
And my kang tao at Capella Resort can get me a nice ocean-view suite.”
“And then what?”
“Aiyah, you do your job and get her pregnant, and we can announce it immediately. And
then maybe, just maybe, Ah Ma will agree to see you!”
Nick looked at his father incredulously. “Can you believe this?”
Philip simply put a char siew bao on Nick’s plate in a silent show of commiseration.
“Believe what? I am trying to do anything I can to get you into that damn house! Your
best chance now is to get Rachel pregnant. We need to prove to Su Yi that you can actually
produce the next heir to Tyersall Park.”
Nick sighed. “I don’t think that’s going to matter at this point, Mum.”
“Hnh! You don’t know your grandmother—she’s so old-fashioned. Of course it will
matter to her! It will restore you into her good graces. She will have no choice but to see
you!”
“Listen to me, Mum. Rachel is not going to get pregnant just so I can see Ah Ma. That’s