Hong Kong Young Writers Anthologies Fiction 12 | Page 103

experience the same life as her! So she went back to the pier where she got off with Fleur. The next ferry arrived
and it couldn’t have been more of a lucky coincidence when she saw the same handsome lad come off. She ran
toward him and explained everything she had seen. He took her to his other friends and together they went to the
building where Fleur was kept. Obviously they knew how to fight and it wasn’t long before Fleur was free.
Fleur was really shaken and asked to be taken to her home. In front of an enormous mansion, Fleur said to the lad,
“I think it is time I introduce you,” and to Mei Ling she said, “Please come in so my parents can thank you.”
Fleur’s parents were very shocked but grateful. As the story goes, the handsome lad was a Chinese gangster.
However, in this time in Old Shanghai, it was very useful to have protection of the gangsters. And when they
heard the other news, they welcomed him into the family. And Mei Ling? She went South and found her
grandmother.