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- Herausgeber: BookRix
- Kategorie: Gesellschafts- und Liebesromane
- Sprache: Englisch
Having achieved success, a a thirty six year old millionaire Chinese business woman, turns her focus to finding a husband. Strangely the death of her sister brings her close to her goal.
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Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2016
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Chen Li returned to her flat in the Jingan district. She took the express lift to the 20th floor.
It had been a difficult day; the business expansion had taken a lot of input. She needed to relax in a bath then eat. She keyed the lock. All was still and dark except for the large illuminated fish tank in the hall. There a solitary goldfish wove back and forward.
At 36 she lived alone, and by Chinese standards she lived well; the owner occupier flat was a relative luxury.
She crossed the parquet floor to the coat hooks to remove her winter coat. Before she did so she admired it in the mirror; the fur collar added a lot of style and spoke of wealth. She examined her face. She still had her youthful looks and a good figure.
The matchmaker said she was too choosy- that she measured each man against her driven self.
When she was 35 she had become a millionaire but, while it had brought material wealth, emotionally she was in a desert.
In China she was a “leftover woman”, a female without a husband and children.
She had chosen a “liberated path” to seek status and wealth, but at a cost.
Men were frightened of her power and riches. The Chinese male ego couldn’t take the difference in status. They felt they had to be earning more than their spouse; they had to be the bread winner. But was there more?
She had gone to the matchmaker who also had a training as a psychologist.
The matchmaker got her to fill in an attitude questionnaire.
“Your standards are too high,” the matchmaker concluded after marking it. “Few men would meet them in wealth, power and status. So, by this you exclude 95% of the men in China.”
She added,
“Perhaps the way you measure these men is wrong- perhaps they are worthy in other ways, perhaps they are caring, talented, nurturing.”
“But these are more Yin characteristics,” said Chen Li.
“While you are feminine, Chen Li you have adopted many Yang characteristics.
To get a balanced relationship you need a man who is more Yin.”
“Where shall I find such a man?” said Chen Li.
The matchmaker looked at her.
“He might be a musician, a healer, a doctor, a grower of trees and flowers, a biologist.”
“Hmmm,” said Chen Li.
“And another thing you need to be less aggressive and demanding to let someone into the Dragons Lair.”
Both women giggled.
The Dragon’s Lair thought Chen Li still looking in the mirror. It was a long time since anyone had entered her Dragon’s Lair - perhaps five years now since Wu Fu had been a partner.
He was, she reflected, by the matchmaker's reckoning too Yang; physically attractive, yet a pushy, successful man, sporty and competitive.
