The Widow’s Maid

In this neighborhood, no one does not know “Sarin,” a beautiful young lady whose husband is a wealthy Chinese immigrant tycoon, Tekheng Lim, who built his fortune through rice mills and large-scale import–export businesses. Beyond her beauty and the grand Chinese wedding that became the talk of the community, there is one thing that has always followed her wherever she goes: the nickname “the Widow Lady.”

This nickname does not come from the recent passing of her current husband. Rather, it refers to her “previous” husbands. Tekheng is not Sarin’s first husband. She had been married twice before, and each time, not long after she moved into her husband’s home, those men all met with suspicious ends…