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ALSO BY KEVIN KWAN Crazy Rich Asians This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, organizations, places, events, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental. Copyright © 2015 by Kevin Kwan All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Doubleday, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, and in Canada by Random House of Canada, a division of Penguin Random House Ltd., Toronto. www.doubleday.com DOUBLEDAY and the portrayal of an anchor with a dolphin are registered trademarks of Penguin Random House, LLC. Cover design and illustration by Joan Wong LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA Kwan, Kevin. China rich girlfriend : a novel / Kevin Kwan. — First edition. pages; cm ISBN 978-0-385-53908-1 (hardcover) ISBN 978-0-385-53909-8 (eBook) 1. Fiancées—Fiction. 2. Rich people—China—Shanghai—Fiction. 3. Socialites—Singapore—Fiction. I. Title. PS3611.W36C48 2015 813′. 6—dc23 2015003996 eBook ISBN 9780385539098 v4.1 a Contents Cover Also by Kevin Kwan Title Page Copyright Dedication Epigraph Prologue: Beijing Capital International Airport Part One 1: The Mandarin 2: Cupertino, California 3: Scotts Road 4: Ridout Road 5: Tyersall Park 6: Morton Street 7: Belmont Road 8: Diamond Ballroom, Ritz-Carlton Hotel 9: The Locke Club 10: Arcadia 11: Four Seasons Biltmore 12: Arcadia Part Two 1: Ko-Tung Consulting Group Social Impact Assessment 2: Rachel and Nick 3: Astrid 4: The Baos 5: Charlie 6: Carlton and Colette 7: Nick and Rachel 8: Colette 9: Michael and Astrid 10: The Bings 11: Corinna and Kitty 12: Astrid 13: Save the Seamstress Fashion Show 14: Trenta 15: 28 Cluny Park Road 16: Paris 17: The Mandarin Oriental 18: The Shangri-La Part Three 1: Shek O 2: Changi Airport 3: Jinxian Lu 4: Riverside Victory Towers 5: Pulau Club 6: Imperial Treasure Restaurant 7: The West Lake 8: National Library of China 9: Ridout Road 10: Queen Mary Hospital 11: Bukit Brown Cemetery 12: Mar Vista 13: Triumph Towers 14: Central Police Station 15: Ridout Road 16: 188 Taiyuan Road 17: Newspapers Around the World Acknowledgments A Note About the Author For my brothers and my cousins LONDON, 8 SEPTEMBER 2012, 9:00 A.M. GMT A red Ferrari 458 Italia crashed through the window of the Jimmy Choo shoe boutique on Sloane Street sometime between 4:00 a.m. and 4:30 a.m. last night. No one witnessed the accident. Metropolitan Police reported that two passengers were taken to St Mary’s Paddington, where they are being treated for serious but noncritical injuries. The vehicle owner’s name was not released pending further investigation. —SARAH LYRE, The London Chronicle