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There, on the bottom of the page, was the notarized seal, accompanied by the following<br />

words:<br />

Signed in the presence of FIONA TUNG CHENG and ALFRED SHANG<br />

on this the Ninth day of June 2009<br />

Eddie’s eyes almost bulged out of his head. “Fucky fuck, my wife was a witness?”<br />

“Indeed she was,” Freddie replied.<br />

“That bitch never told me! And the will was signed in 2009? How is this possible?”<br />

Eddie said, almost shrieking.<br />

“Stop asking stupid questions, you goblok! *4 She took a pen and signed it!” Alfred<br />

scolded him, getting fed up.<br />

Eddie ignored his great-uncle. “But this means she never changed her will? Not even<br />

when Nicky married Rachel?”<br />

Nick realized his cousin was right. After all the endless speculation about being<br />

disinherited, it turned out his grandmother never once waivered from her original plan.<br />

She left a majority stake of Tyersall Park to his father, knowing one day it would be<br />

passed down to him. Suddenly he felt an enormous wave of guilt wash over him. Why did<br />

he waste so many years being mad at Ah Ma?<br />

But Eddie wasn’t done with his tirade. He stormed over to Freddie Tan’s chair and<br />

looked him in the eye accusingly. “The other day when you came to see my grandma, you<br />

told me I was going to be the main beneficiary!”<br />

Freddie looked startled. “I have no idea what you’re talking about. I said no such thing.”<br />

“You told me I was the ‘man of the hour’!”<br />

Freddie almost began to laugh, but seeing the look on Eddie’s face, he tried to soften<br />

the blow. “Eddie, I was making a pun about the Patek Philippe you were wearing. You had<br />

on the 150th-anniversary Jump Hour Reference 3969 watch. One of my favorite models.”<br />

Eddie glared at him incredulously before crumbling into his chair in embarrassment.<br />

Alix gave her son a pitiful look, and then turned to the lawyer. “Freddie, I’m not clear<br />

about how my mother’s financial holdings are going to be divvied up. What about her<br />

other stocks and her share of Shang Enterprises?”<br />

Freddie looked very uncomfortable and swiveled his chair in Alfred’s direction.<br />

“Your mother had no other stocks, aside from Ling Holdings,” Alfred said.<br />

“But Mummy had a huge stock portfolio—she told me she had every blue-chip counter!<br />

Wasn’t she the biggest private shareholder in Keppel Land, Robinson’s, Singapore Press<br />

Holdings?” Felicity argued.<br />

Alfred shook his head. “No, I am.”<br />

“But doesn’t she share all that with you? As co-owner of Shang Enterprises?”<br />

Alfred leaned back in his chair and looked at Felicity. “You need to understand<br />

something…Shang Enterprises—the shipping company, the trading firm, all our various

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