Thursday, continued ...As the press release was in the process of being sent out to the media outlets, Hou Yi, telephoned the ancestral home, to speak to everyone who was there.
Unluckily for him, the only people present were his grandfather, grandmother and father. His mother and aunt, having found the joys of the tourist markets for shopping, decided to throw their bodyguards into fits of terror.
Now, they were not only willing to enter simpler restaurants for meals, but were willing to walk around the streets looking not only for bargains but tailors who can make them quality tailored casual wear and were willing to make more formal wear. They recognised with one trip with Anna that they would indulge in their shopping pa.s.sion much more by doing this, than simply going to the malls. In just a week, they had even convinced four friends to join them.
Hou Jang put the call on speaker phone so that the whole conversation could be heard from everyone.
Hou Yi, spoke up "Grandfather, Grandmother, Father, I have to tell you something. Father I think you may know some of this, as I guess Uncle Feng spoke to you, rather than leaving things alone."
"Yi, he did say that you would need to talk to us about something."
"Anna and I have just issued a press release about an initiative, to support funding of services for victims of intimate partner violence. You all know what happened to my friend in England. To cut a long story short, Anna in her relations.h.i.+p before me, was emotionally and financially abused by her former partner."
"Anna"s former partner manipulated her emotionally, cut her off from friends who dared challenged him, and despite his personal and family wealth, had her bare all the financial responsibility for the relations.h.i.+p. After she split with him, as she would not submit to him maintaining his control over her, he hit her."
Hou Jang, saw the reaction on his parent"s face, they could not believe that someone would do that to their lovely granddaughter-in-law. "Son, I can saw without us having to speak, we have no problem. We will support you, not only in what you are doing, but anything Anna needs us for."
"Thanks dad. We are going to leave the office now, and spend a quiet night in, and see what comes from the situation." Hou Yi ended the call and realised that he still had a couple of meetings to go. Rahter than letting Anna go home on her own, he urged her into the bedroom, to rest. Anna fell asleep almost immediately, and he continued with his meetings.
However. within 5 minutes of the press release going out to the public, it became the talk all levels of the community. For some victims of intimate partner/domestic violence, it dawned on them that they were not to blame. Some people could not believe that the simple belief of the man she loved allowed Madam Hou to confront her past and start to deal with what had happened
Some people stated to wonder about Madam Hou. She was not named other than by her t.i.tle, but she had caused someone most considered to be cold, a level of devotion women wanted in their partner and for men, concern that they would not live up to that standard.
For those who considered themselves the elites of City T, telephones started ringing hot. People wanted to know who had seen or met this Madam Hou, and who they believed was her ex was. The woman thought he was an idiot to do so, and the men knew that they would not allow him near their daughters sisters or cousins. They wold kill him before that happened.
For one couple however, they missed the news. The were having to deal with a crisis that had just come to them from Australia. Lu Jinhu, finally received from his Australia Lawyer, a copy of all the material and the court order.
"How in the f**king world did she do this. She had no right. Everything was foolproof, yet she found some f**king way. It was meant to be mine, and she was meant to have nothing. How could a f**king court overturn something that she apparently agreed to. She had to manipulate the system, as the plan was foolproof."
"Jinhu, calm down. We can still deal with her and ruin her, we just will have to take a little bit of extra time. Think of it this way, that b**th will now go down slower that we wanted, but she will go down as we intended. Given how she believed you, psychologically we will only have to push her a little, and I think she will not cope and try and commit suicide. That will completely mess up not only her life but screw up her career. Still goo."
"Yang, you are right. I have to stop focusing on these little road blocks. Anyway, one thing she has to go to get her orders is personally serve them on me. No way that she is going to be able to do that as she will not get near me, therefore she will not have complied and we can argue that she cannot get what she wants. Success."