Undesirable Future Daughter-In-Law

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"Must you do your bachelorette party in Hong Kong? Couldn't you just do it on the island? I can have the summer house ready by this weekend."

Laurie folded her 501 jeans and threw them together with her Chanel plaid jacket on her bed. She pulled her make-up tray to get her toiletries and her stash of travel-size makeup.

"Mother, most of my friends had been at the beach for weeks. We wanted to stay in a city, and they all voted for Hong Kong because they wanted to go shopping while we were there."

With the reason she gave, her mother didn't insist on the venue for her bachelorette party to be at their summer house.

The said party is actually too early to be considered as her bachelorette party since her wedding won't take place until next year. Mrs. Tan — Andrei's mother, her future mother-in-law is still pushing the wedding date to be on the 28th of January of the year 2008

According to Mrs. Tan, the date is an auspicious date for a wedding. The problem was that there were a lot of couples who wanted to get married on that date too. And the church she wanted her son to get married to has already been fully booked on that date!

She is using her connection to get what she wants. Laurie frankly doesn't care. She just smiled and agreed to everything her future mother-in-law thought was the best. Her agreeing to everything made Mrs. Tan extremely happy.

This confirms her belief that she is the perfect wife for her precious son, Andrei.

Because Mrs. Tan already loves her as her own daughter, even though the wedding will not happen until next year and it was just mid of August. She agreed to the super early bachelorette party that she wanted and decided to shoulder all the expenses for her friends who had come home for their fall semester break from university.

Her mother thinks of it as distasteful. She has been nagging her to not abuse the generosity of the Tans when she was not yet an official member of their household. Thus, her mother was pushing for the bachelorette party to happen in their summer house and not outside the country.

She felt guilty about the idea that she is not going to be a member of the Tans household in the near future since there is no wedding that is going to happen— if Andrei is doing his side of the bargain.

She was expecting Andrei to be more aggressive in sabotaging their upcoming wedding, but no, he has been agreeing to everything his mother decided.

She wasn't sure if Andrei was doing it to make his mother leave him out of all the crazy preparations or if Andrei has no balls when it comes to his mother.

Laurie doesn't care. If Andrei won't actively make this wedding fail, she will!

She already started doing that by asking for a super expensive engagement ring!

Last June, they all flew to Shanghai to meet a world-renowned jeweler from Shanghai, who happened to be one of Andrei's grandfather — old Tan business partner.

They wanted to show their appreciation to the Tans family and so they wanted to be the one to make Andrei's fiance's engagement ring - her engagement ring!

When they were at the store she made sure to pick out the engagement ring with the biggest diamond on it. She also made sure to be as difficult as she could be in choosing the jewelry to the chagrin of her mother.

She had lost count of how many times her mother discreetly pinched her waist in an attempt to stop her from acting like a primadonna.

She was expecting Mrs. Tan to be the one disappointed in her, not her mother. She wanted Andrei's mother not to like her and cancel the wedding.

But with the heavy diamond displayed on her left ring finger, her plan didn't go as planned. Maybe because Andrei was acting like an enamored lover who can't get enough of her during their trip to Shanghai.

He had probably taken more photos than her of the enormous diamond on her finger. She didn't get the help she wanted from him to make his mother — their mothers to change their mind about the wedding.

Instead, Andrei's action made it more difficult for her to make Mrs. Tan changed her mind.

She agreed to this engagement because Andrei promised her that the wedding will never happen. He would do something to make sure that it won't happen. She was thinking that to stop the wedding, Mrs. Tan should see her as someone not appropriate for her darling son.

However, with Andrei acting like a lovesick puppy towards her in front of their mothers, it almost impossible to make Mrs. Tan hates her, for the woman would buy the whole Pacific Ocean to make sure her precious second son is happy.

And she has a feeling that Mrs. Tan doesn't truly like her, but because of what Andrei was doing, she is now being treated as a snotty princess in the Tan household.

This unnecessary bachelorette party is another failed attempt to make Mrs. Tan hates her. Or at least see that she is not the best option for a wife for her precious son.

She was hoping that there will be a fuss about her wanting to have a bachelorette party as early as August, and she even made sure that Mrs. Tan understands that she was planning more than just one bachelorette party.

She made sure to ask the most unreasonable thing she could ever think of, such as; a yacht party, a two days shopping spree all-expense-paid not just for her but for her ten other friends who were invited to the said party, a private party in one of the hottest club in Hong Kong.

The amount including the airfare and the accommodation, which she also chose to be in Grand Hyatt was staggering!

Although she expected to hear negative words from Mrs. Tan about it, she heard nothing. The secretary of Mrs. Tan booked and paid everything she had requested, and now she is packing for a bachelorette party with ten girls that are not even all her friends!