Lu Xun’s Stories : The Luxurious World (Temporary Title)
Chapter 1: The Past
It was just another normal morning. Tiney was having breakfast with her family, which was composed by her husband, Verand, and her son, who was a fourteen-years old boy, named Tulio. She also had a daughter, Kenya, who was nineteen-years old, but recently, they’ve had a terrible discussion, and she expelled her from home.
“Mother, I must tell you something....” she said, with a tone that started worrying Tiney.
“Stop fooling around and speak up, baby. Go, go.” she said, almost forcing her to tell what she had to say in the quickest way possible.
“I have a boyfriend -- his name is John..” he replied, as she started looking at the ground.
“Oh, my little baby, and what’s so wrong about that? I’m sure he is just like us --” she said, while passing her hands through her face, making she raise her head, and look directly at her eyes.
“Wait -- that’s not all about him -- he is from a poor family, but they’re really nice -- honest, educated and --” she was interrupted by her mother.
“WHAT? A POOR FAMILY? HAHAHA. Today’s not April’s fool day, baby. Stop joking. Go ahead, tell me how rich his family is -- I bet they’re exactly like us. So?” she replied, at first screaming, but then starting to laugh alone.
“I am not kidding, mom. Do you have any problem with that? I love him -- and I think you should simply accept that.” she said, as she looked in her mother’s angry eyes.
“NEVER. YOU IDIOT. YOU’RE SUPPOSED TO MARRY SOMEONE THAT WAS BORN RICH, JUST LIKE OUR TRADITIONAL FAMILY. You’ll have to choose -- either this magnificent house, and your rich family, or your poor little boyfriend. Say what you prefer, NOW!” she screamed, as she held her daughter’s arm with a strange strength, almost taking it off her body.
“I prefer to be happy!” she replied, as she ran from the house, with lots of tears on her eyes, feeling like she had committed the worst sin in this world. Her heart was involved by a terrible sadness, feeling like a marionette, being controlled by her mother, who would not accept any ‘no’ to her commands.
Tiney was not entirely normal according to most of people; sometimes she had some attacks, and loved to badmouth people, and treat them as if they were nothing -- just like trash -- and that was only because she was very rich, thanks to the fortune that her grandmother had left just for her, after passing away. Many just saw her as an exaggerated rich lady, but was it just as simple as that? For now, the answer was not clear.
However, her mother, daughter of her rich grandmother, had been really angry with her -- since in her mind, she thinks that everything should have belonged to her, once her mother left this world, but in her testament, she decided to give ‘100% of everything that I, Marlene, have to my beloved granddaughter, Tiney...’.
It had already passed many years since her death, but she still could not forgive her mother for taking her away from the list, and also could not yet apologize her daughter -- for the enormous scandal that she made once she discovered about her mother’s last wishes.
The scandal was really terrible -- since Tiney’s grandmother was a really important to woman to the country they lived in, the press started visiting her house day after day, in order to try to find out anything wrong about that situation.
Strangely, the reason of Marlene’s death was said to be ‘unknown’, since according to the doctors, she appeared to be simply asleep, when in reality, she was dead. Tiney, Verand, Josephine, who was Marlene’s only sister, and the housekeeper were with her at that time. The housekeeper, named Vilma, tried to notice anything strange around that scene -- but unfortunately, she was not able to.
After discovering that everything was now at her hands, the first thing Tiney did was fire Vilma, who also said that she would never want to work for a woman like Tiney, before leaving the house. However, recently, Vilma bought a small house near Tiney’s house. The reasons for that were still unknown for everyone. Actually, Tiney wasn’t aware of that yet.
Another strange fact was that Josephine moved to a very distant country two months after Marlene’s death -- and what’s stranger -- she did not earn anything from her sister, and she was not rich. Many people kept wondering about how she was able to do that, but surprisingly, no one could answer that question. There haven’t been any news about Josephine since she left the country.
However, in that calm morning, a man that served Tiney came to tell her that Josephine had called her, but as he did not want to interfere in her breakfast, he replied that she wasn’t at home.
“What? Josephine just called me? Sorry, family, I need some time alone in my room.” she said, as she almost ran over to her beautiful and large room -- the best room in the entire house.
“What does that old hag want with me? Isn’t she happy with everything she’s got years ago? This can’t be good -- I’ll flee from her -- and by the time I’m no longer able to do that, I’ll have already thought on something to do with her.” she thought to herself, as she started to smile and laugh alone.
Lu Xun’s Stories : The Luxurious World (Temporary Title)
Chapter 1: The Past
It was just another normal morning. Tiney was having breakfast with her family, which was composed by her husband, Verand, and her son, who was a fourteen-years old boy, named Tulio. She also had a daughter, Kenya, who was nineteen-years old, but recently, they’ve had a terrible discussion, and she expelled her from home.
“Mother, I must tell you something....” she said, with a tone that started worrying Tiney.
“Stop fooling around and speak up, baby. Go, go.” she said, almost forcing her to tell what she had to say in the quickest way possible.
“I have a boyfriend -- his name is John..” he replied, as she started looking at the ground.
“Oh, my little baby, and what’s so wrong about that? I’m sure he is just like us --” she said, while passing her hands through her face, making she raise her head, and look directly at her eyes.
“Wait -- that’s not all about him -- he is from a poor family, but they’re really nice -- honest, educated and --” she was interrupted by her mother.
“WHAT? A POOR FAMILY? HAHAHA. Today’s not April’s fool day, baby. Stop joking. Go ahead, tell me how rich his family is -- I bet they’re exactly like us. So?” she replied, at first screaming, but then starting to laugh alone.
“I am not kidding, mom. Do you have any problem with that? I love him -- and I think you should simply accept that.” she said, as she looked in her mother’s angry eyes.
“NEVER. YOU IDIOT. YOU’RE SUPPOSED TO MARRY SOMEONE THAT WAS BORN RICH, JUST LIKE OUR TRADITIONAL FAMILY. You’ll have to choose -- either this magnificent house, and your rich family, or your poor little boyfriend. Say what you prefer, NOW!” she screamed, as she held her daughter’s arm with a strange strength, almost taking it off her body.
“I prefer to be happy!” she replied, as she ran from the house, with lots of tears on her eyes, feeling like she had committed the worst sin in this world. Her heart was involved by a terrible sadness, feeling like a marionette, being controlled by her mother, who would not accept any ‘no’ to her commands.
Tiney was not entirely normal according to most of people; sometimes she had some attacks, and loved to badmouth people, and treat them as if they were nothing -- just like trash -- and that was only because she was very rich, thanks to the fortune that her grandmother had left just for her, after passing away. Many just saw her as an exaggerated rich lady, but was it just as simple as that? For now, the answer was not clear.
However, her mother, daughter of her rich grandmother, had been really angry with her -- since in her mind, she thinks that everything should have belonged to her, once her mother left this world, but in her testament, she decided to give ‘100% of everything that I, Marlene, have to my beloved granddaughter, Tiney...’.
It had already passed many years since her death, but she still could not forgive her mother for taking her away from the list, and also could not yet apologize her daughter -- for the enormous scandal that she made once she discovered about her mother’s last wishes.
The scandal was really terrible -- since Tiney’s grandmother was a really important to woman to the country they lived in, the press started visiting her house day after day, in order to try to find out anything wrong about that situation.
Strangely, the reason of Marlene’s death was said to be ‘unknown’, since according to the doctors, she appeared to be simply asleep, when in reality, she was dead. Tiney, Verand, Josephine, who was Marlene’s only sister, and the housekeeper were with her at that time. The housekeeper, named Vilma, tried to notice anything strange around that scene -- but unfortunately, she was not able to.
After discovering that everything was now at her hands, the first thing Tiney did was fire Vilma, who also said that she would never want to work for a woman like Tiney, before leaving the house. However, recently, Vilma bought a small house near Tiney’s house. The reasons for that were still unknown for everyone. Actually, Tiney wasn’t aware of that yet.
Another strange fact was that Josephine moved to a very distant country two months after Marlene’s death -- and what’s stranger -- she did not earn anything from her sister, and she was not rich. Many people kept wondering about how she was able to do that, but surprisingly, no one could answer that question. There haven’t been any news about Josephine since she left the country.
However, in that calm morning, a man that served Tiney came to tell her that Josephine had called her, but as he did not want to interfere in her breakfast, he replied that she wasn’t at home.
“What? Josephine just called me? Sorry, family, I need some time alone in my room.” she said, as she almost ran over to her beautiful and large room -- the best room in the entire house.
“What does that old hag want with me? Isn’t she happy with everything she’s got years ago? This can’t be good -- I’ll flee from her -- and by the time I’m no longer able to do that, I’ll have already thought on something to do with her.” she thought to herself, as she started to smile and laugh alone.
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