White Tigress by Jade Lee

Author:Jade Lee [Jade Lee]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: ePublishing Works!
Published: 2012-03-17T13:00:00+00:00

From the letters of Mei Lan Chang

22 April, 1876

Dearest Li Hua—

Mr. Lost Cat is gone and I am despondent. I cannot believe that I would miss a barbarian, but I do. I miss him terribly. No one else notices the difference. No one, except perhaps Ru Shan. He has been extra good lately, studying very hard not for himself, but because he knows it makes me happy.

Dearest Li Hua, what am I to do? I cannot even bring myself to end my studies in English. In fact, I am applying myself even harder than before. Ru Shan, too. We are studying English like fiends, all because of one whiskered barbarian.

I should take opium. Let it kill me as it has begun to kill my mother-in-law. Do not ever touch that evil substance, Li Hua. It will kill you, and you will not even realize what it is doing. My mother-in-law is never happy unless the pipe is in her hand. And yet, bit by bit, she is dying. It is ugly and brutal, but only to those who watch. She is in bliss, she says. And, corrupt woman that I am, I enjoy the peace the opium brings. At least the children know now not to touch it. Even my daughter sees its devastation and has stopped asking for it.

Aii, Li Hua, I am so lonely. I wish you could come for a visit.

—Mei Lan

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