When Yue arrives at her parents' house, it is dinnertime already. The Shens are eating at the table when their daughters come in, surprising them.
Lina picked Yue up at the airport with her husband and their little toddler, Yue's niece, Mei. Lina promised she wouldn't leave Yue alone and she plans to keep her promise. She will stay in her old bedroom as well.
Yue's parents are strict, demanding and authoritarian. They had a plan for each of their daughters, but Yue rebelled in the end. Lina, on the contrary, has been the perfect child. Truth be told, she had the great advantage of falling in love with the man that the Shens wanted her to marry. Yue did not have that privilege.
Yue's immature husband, Peng, is a selfish dude. He was a spoiled only child and was brought up thinking that the world stood at his feet. Since Peng's dad is Mr. Shen's best friend, when Yue and Peng were still in diapers, they decided their kids would marry right after college, and so it happened.
Yue agreed to the marriage because all through her life she has been trying to please her parents and get their approval. However, when she found herself living alone in China -a country that was not her home anymore-, with a man who was a stranger to her, who treated her as though she was household personnel, and only sought her for marital duties, Yue began to feel physically and emotionally ill.
Marriage should not feel like a cage.
At that point, she realized that her life belonged to her and not her parents, and that she had the right to make her own choices.
Since being happy is a choice, Yue decided to pursue happiness, convinced there was no alternative but to leave the hell of her marriage once she found Peng with a paid escort in their house.
Today, Yue's parents refused to listen to her. They have no clue about what Yue went through in China, but they also do not seem to care much. They are only worried about the reputation of the family and how Yue has made them look in front of Peng's rich family.
Tomorrow, Yue will try again to voice her motives, hoping that they will at least hear her out.
Around midnight, Yue is lying in bed unable to sleep, staring at the ceiling, and missing the giant human teddy bear that warmed her nights in Key West...
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Chaos.
Published July 4th, 2021
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