Chapter 3: NO! to that wedding

Chin Sun was jealous of Chin Cho because Chin Cho was more beautiful than she was. In fact Chin Cho was adjudged one of the most beautiful women in Z country. If she had gone on a beauty context, she would have won without any stress.  She was beauty with brains, but she had no interest in things like that.

On the other hand, Chin Cho was jealous of Chin Sun because their father only care for her.

She was so annoyed with her mother for interrupting her preparation for her final exams and making her travel for more than two hours to come and hear such nonsense.

She strode to the window and leaned on her elbows “am sorry mum, I would not be attending the wedding.” She said bitterly, slightly raising her voice, her anger clearly written on her face.

She disliked her father, step-mother and step-sister, so she has no reason to attend that wedding.

Observably, the dislike was reciprocal, her step-mother and sister did not like her either, but for her father, she can’t give a name to his feelings towards her. it could be dislike, it could tolerance, but not outright hatred.  

That girl Chin Sun and her mother have been the reason she had suffered all her life. Chin Sun and her mother had clearly frustrated them, yet her mother would not mind all their evil treatments.

Anyway, she did not blame Chin Sun and her mother, she only blamed Chin Elvis and Bong Ae-Cha for all the pains she had suffered in this life.

She had heard that Chin Sun was getting married to a very rich and influential man. And if Chin Sun sees her in the wedding, her shoulders would even become higher.

So she had no intention of going to that wedding.

Ae-Cha knew that Chin Cho was not the type of girl to be forced into doing anything. If you try to force her, then forget about that thing being done.

But if you plead, persuade, coerce or even sweet-talk to her, she would certainly change her mind. She has such a good nature that makes it difficult for her to harden her heart for long.

She always thought that her mother was too soft hearted and was hoping that she did not inherit such soft heart from her mother. At some point she was afraid that she might have inherited such weakness. ‘soft-heartedness.’ She had hate herself if she does.

But undoubtedly, she has actually inherited that inability to say ‘no’ to someone’s distressed appeal.

So Ae-Cha knew that so long as she is pleading with her daughter, the girl would not refuse her. so she kept pleading with her.

“Please do this for your mum. And beside your father will really be happy.” She said pleadingly.

“is this all about you or all about my father?” she fired angrily at her mother. Her eyes were red with anger.

Chin Cho was really annoyed; for the interruption of her exams preparation,

She has always found it difficult to say no to her mother in anything, but this time around, she was going to say capital NO!

she was not surprised though, but she was agitated. She knew her mother has always had a soft spot for her father, and that is why she had refused to divorce him all these years despite all the evils he had done to her.  

She had been abandoned by her father, yet she still wants to please the man who treats her so cruelly.

Chin Cho had come to the conclusion that it was stupid for a woman to be weak and submissive to a man. If she does, he would maltreat her.

“mom, am not going to attend that wedding, if I knew this was why you were calling me, I would not have come.” She said flatly, by now she was fuming as her anger was yet to be abated.

She had thought that her mother’s poor health condition has worsened, and she left everything she was doing in the school and rushed home. If only she knew that it was a matter of Elvis and his family, she would not have come.

she never refers to him as ‘my father’ but always call him ‘Elvis’

“I knew that you would not come, that is why I did not tell you the reason am calling you.” She said to her with pleas in her eyes. She even has to soften the tone of her voice more than normal just to give her the impression that she was begging and not forcing her.

The woman knew that her daughter did not like Elvis and his other family. But for her she was a matured woman, and had since abandoned childish thinking. She may not like Jane and her daughter, but she had once loved Elvis. And it gives her a sense of security and belongingness to think that she was married and have a family.

She was an orphan and grew up in the orphanage, so she had always dreamt of her own family. When she met and married Elvis, she thought she was going to have a happy family after all, but it was not to be so.

Another reason why she decided to stay with Elvis was that she did not want her daughter to grow up without a father figure.  

But Chin Cho disputed all these, telling her mother those excuses were not enough to keep her glued to a man like Elvis.

Chin Cho dislikes her father’s attitude and neglect and tries her best to live her life without him.

But her mother would not let the man go.

Chin Cho had scolded the mother several times for clinging on to a man who doesn’t want her. And the woman would always reply. “if he asks for divorce, then I would divorce him, but as long as he didn’t, then I would not be the first to do so.”

And Chin Elvis had not asked her for divorce, since 25 years now, and they have been living this way.