An-Mei In Popo

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An-Mei and her younger brother live with their grandmother (Popo), uncle, and aunt. There they are not allowed to bring up their mother, who has shamed the family by becoming the fourth wife to Wu Tsing after she was widowed by An-Mei’s father. It is not until An-Mei’s mother returns to tend to Popo that An-Mei is reunited with her mother. After Popo passes, An-Mei and her younger brother are brought to live with their mother at her new husband’s estate. An-Mei is in awe of the estate and its opulence and is excited for her new life with her mother, but that feeling quickly disappears. From her time there, An-Mei learns to be weary of others kindness; the second wife had tried to buy An-Mei’s gratitude with a fake pearl necklace. Then from

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