Rich People Problems-Kwan 2017 (WWT)

CHAPTER TWO
TYERSALL ROAD, SINGAPORE
Goh Peik Lin turned to Rachel from the driver’s seat of her Aston Martin Rapide. “How do
you feel?”
“Well, I didn’t manage to sleep a wink on the plane, so it’s 7:30 a.m. New York time for
me right now and I’m about to crash the funeral of a woman who didn’t approve of me
marrying her grandson and meet all of her possibly hostile relatives that I haven’t seen in
five years. I feel great.”
“You’re not crashing the funeral, Rachel. You’re part of the family and you’re here to
support your husband. You’re doing the proper thing,” Peik Lin tried to assure her. Peik
Lin was her closest friend from their Stanford days and had always been such a pillar of
support.
Sitting beside Rachel in the backseat of the sports sedan, Carlton squeezed her hand in
a show of support. Rachel leaned her head against her brother’s shoulder and said,
“Thanks for flying down from Shanghai. You really didn’t have to do this, you know.”
Carlton made a face. “Don’t be daft. If you were going to be anywhere in this
hemisphere, did you think I could stay away?”
Rachel smiled. “Well, I’m glad I get to spend a few moments with you both before I get
sucked into the matrix. Thanks so much for picking me up, Peik Lin.”
“Don’t even mention it. Poor Nick, I know he wanted to come get you but he’s totally
trapped at the night visit,” Peik Lin said.
“So what is this night-visit thing, exactly?” Rachel asked.
“Night visits are like sitting Shiva, Singapore-style. It’s officially for family and close
friends to come to the house to pay their last respects, but really, it’s a chance for all the
kaypohs *1 to get in on the family gossip and start scheming. I guarantee you everyone at
Tyersall Park is furiously speculating about what’s going to happen to the house now that
Shang Su Yi has dearly departed, and there are plenty of shenanigans going on in every
corner.”
“Unfortunately I think you may be right,” Rachel said with a slight grimace.
“Of course I’m right. When my grandfather died, all my uncles and aunties came out of