Rich People Problems-Kwan 2017 (WWT)

Charlie and now she wants to buy my children and buy their love and turn them into
little carbon copies of herself, with long ballerina necks and perfect couture outfits. She
wants to sit in this perfect house and look out at the perfect view of the sea with my
daughters and stroke their hair in the golden sunlight and twirl them around the garden
like they are all in some goddamn Terrence Malick movie and convince them that this is
the only life they should ever want. “You’ll always be welcome here,” she says. Like hell I
will. The day after her wedding she’s going to shut me out forever. I just know it. She
thinks she’s going to erase me from their lives, but I will never let this happen. Never
never never! With trembling fingers, Isabel jammed out a message on the gossip
columnist Honey Chai’s WeChat message board:
Astrid Leong has stolen my life. She is a cheating, husband-stealing whore. Just look at her whoring
herself in this video. She is nothing but a vapid rich girl, an heiress to an evil fortune that destroys our
planet. I curse her! I curse Charlie Wu! I curse this house built on deceit and sin! For the rest of eternity,
there will never ever be any peace in this house!
Isabel attached the video clip and hit “post,” as the video streamed out to millions of
WeChat users all over the world. Then she climbed up on the wooden Nakashima dining
table as if it was a giant surfboard, took off her long velvet gown, rolled it into a tight long
rope and threw one end around the Lindsey Adelman chandelier. She fastened the other
end taut over the white, tender part of her neck and inched to the edge of the table slowly,
step by step, gazing out the window at the moonlit sea. And then she jumped.