Eric and his wife have three children, well, not kids anymore. Their eldest is a male, thirty seven years old this year. He holds two degrees and works in a good company at a responsible position that pays seventeen thousand a month(204,000 a year). As far as academics and career go, he has got it made.
However, he happened to choose a girlfriend who is so much younger than he was, a cradle snatcher. As things went, he undertook to financially provide for her tertiary education. After all, he had made up his mind to marry her. But even such an understanding would not account for a friendly loan between the two sets of parents of an amount entailing 5 digits, which was never returned. Whatever financial undertaking it was, it defies understanding that a few years after the break up (when the ex-girlfiend graduated), the son still receives bank correspondence demanding payments. Apparently the girl was not innocent, she totally made full use of him as a sugar daddy for as long as she was in college. The day she graduated, she broke up with him and switched to another handsomer younger man.
Heart break is one thing, being able to trust another person after such a betrayal must be difficult. After a few years of loneliness, he found a second person closer to his age. The potential bride is the elder of three girls, who came from a single parent household. Now Eric and wife looked at their son's situation, and are rather wary of the mother-in-law moving in with their only son. Since they contributed $200,000 to purchase a house for their son, they stipulated that the in-laws could live nearby, but never move into the house they paid a lump sum, and had a stake in.
Chinese are notorious for forcing their children to be super achievers in school and at work. Could it be that all those restrictions and discipline, would eventually limit the children's social development, as well as produce gullible adults who could not detect gold diggers?
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