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in hopes
of becoming a goose.
On her journey
she cooed to the swan...
by the loudness
of her husband's belch.
- Hi!
- Oh, Jennifer! Oh, hi!
- Hi, June.
- Hi.
Every morning,
"Wave, Wave, Waverly-a!"
I do not sound like--
She's saying I sound like my--
- No! No!
- It will fall apart!
- Someone help me now.
- Come on.
- Oh! June.
-June. Come here.
- Come on!
- It's all right.
- No, really.
- Yes.
- Come close.
- I'm close, Mom.
- Cheese!
- Cheese!
- Cheese!
Auntie An Mei...
Auntie Lindo...
For 30 years,
these women feasted...
Each week
they hoped to be lucky...
Oh.
- Huh?
- How do I know you're not cheating?
my mother's version
of believing in me...
I never practiced.
Me and Beethoven,
we both hear it in our head!
Okey-dokey.
Now, how many sharps...
- What? Good.
- Z major!
more feeling...
more gusto!
I am proud that
my silhouette is curvy
was my mother's
best friend and archenemy.
My problem
worser than yours.
If I tell June
time to wash dish...
Being a girl
Twerp.
In fact, I used to go out of my way
to prove my mother wrong...
I was a genius.
I had been discovered.
Bravo! Bravo!
Encore! Well done!
Here we come
Walkin' down the street
- Why should I?
- We're the young generation
- Get up!
- No! No, I won't.
No!
- obedient kind.
- Then I wish I wasn't your daughter!
what happened
to her in China.
And I said,
"Wait, what do you mean 'everything'?
What happened
to those babies?"
The babies.
You know?
Two babies?
It's miracle,
but we find them.
They're alive!
It say--
See here?
Yes, yes.
It says--
See here?
You're right.
I will tell them.
I-I should.
I want to.
June? June.
Am I right?
Yes, of course.
to wonder why.
That day...
Come here.
Come to Mama.
- with a husband
I had never met before.
- Come here! Come here!
my mother treated me as if
I already belonged to Huang Tai Tai.
Look at those dirty spots!
Always be careful.
Remember...
act happy.
decide whether
I was happy or not.
or I would.
I decided
underneath I knew who I was.
I promised myself
never to forget.
or too old.
I am the husband.
Do it! Do it now!
My son says...
After that,
I slept with my husband.
Every night
I slept with him...
just like brother and sister.
Huh?
Plenty for
ten thousand grandsons!
Lie down!
Lie down!
Feel this.
I'm pregnant.
That's impossible.
It's yours!
What's wrong?
Tell me quick!
It's so scary.
So angry!
in this marriage...
he will die.
if the matter is
not settled immediately...
is Tyan-yu's
true spiritual wife...
It's true!
Ah Ping!
Come over here!
on purpose,
just for money.
Well...
Get out!
All of you!
- No?
- No, I'm-- I have a headache.
Headache?
You have a headache?
- Ma!
- No, don't come.
Why should I want you to come...
I just go to wedding
with old hair.
Shit!
She always does this!
Whatever I say,
whatever I do...
whatever I think...
this power,
this belief in myself...
Checkmate.
Congratulations.
She was--
- Very good.
- Thank you.
- Good work.
- Thank you.
- You did good.
- Oh, good.
- You'll look at me
- Bye-bye.
- Bye-bye.
- Say bye-bye.
- And you will know
Waverly! Waverly!
You come back!
About time.
Boy, are you in trouble.
We not concerning
this girl.
I still won't.
I could actually
feel it draining away.
I couldn't
see them anymore.
were my mistakes,
my weaknesses.
- Check.
- disappeared.
But I can't put it all
on my mother.
I did it to myself.
Go to fancy barber
with torn-up jeans.
Darlene, we need
a shampoo here.
He was gorgeous.
He gave her a granddaughter.
that we were
living together--
This is what
I wanted to show you.
You know Rich,
the guy I told you about?
No long hairs.
He gave this to me
with all his heart.
who treated me
like I was perfect.
And this!
Or this!
All of this!
We're here!
Where is everybody?
Hi, Uncle.
How are you?
Shrimp. My favorite.
As is the Chinese
cook's custom...
my mother always
insults her own cooking...
No flavor.
It's too bad to eat.
But please--
Oh!
and proclaim it
the best she'd ever made.
How come?
Oh.
Otherwise it'll be
too tight for the wedding.
so ashamed
to be my daughter.
Ma?
- What's wrong?
- Nothing.
Nothing.
I-- I only thinking...
Your mother?
You're so lucky.
You know...
after today...
I will never...
In my memory, my--
my mother very
important to me...
Ma?
I like Rich.
Of course I do...
and I'm...
- I did it.
- Rich!
Where'd it go?
Did it go inside?
- Thank you.
- Oh, here's a fork.
- Okay.
- Well, I'm trying.
- Ta-la!
- Oh!
Oh, oh.
- Yeah!
- Should eat more!
June so happy,
going to China...
Only steamed.
Can't get you fat.
I was only 1 6.
Stop looking!
Ying Ying.
Ying Ying.
Dog fart!
Lin Xiao.
Our wedding...
our son.
Honored guests!
I have persuaded
the famous diva, Miss Bai Yen...
He became forgetful.
Who's this?
My son!
My son!
Strong...
Look at you!
Disgusting!
my youth, my heart,
everything.
In time, I remarried...
Mommy?
Mommy?
Mom?
Don't worry.
Everything's fine.
Sharing.
Everything 50-50.
- Forty-one dollars.
- Oh, total?
Each. What?
You don't have enough?
We were equals.
I remember.
Hmm.
What?
Hmm.
- Oh!
- Careful. It's not too sturdy.
- No.
- Okay.
No. Nothing.
...competition.
- What is a drag race?
- What an idiot!
It's cold.
Excuse me?
Honey, move.
What's goin' on?
I don't know.
Maybe everything.
My daughter looks,
but she does not see.
Mom?
- Mom?
- She will be scared...
because at first
her eyes will see nothing.
I am waiting
like a tiger in the trees...
Mom.
Respect.
Tenderness.
I can't..
and cherished.
- Where's Jennifer?
- Oh, her Auntie June
is putting her down for a nap.
- What's "sorrow"?
- Sadness.
"This feather
may look worthless...
- What's "intentions"?
- Oh, a good intention means...
- Like it?
- It's great.
dreaming about
their little American sister.
As a little girl,
I wondered every day.
Worst of all,
I had to wonder in secret.
I had no memory
of my mother...
An Mei.
- An Mei!
- The scar from the soup...
My grandmother, my uncle
and my aunties...
Remember, be obedient!
- Ma! Ma!
- You are going to ruin her whole life!
Mom? Mom?
Let's go.
Jennifer,
give the soup to Mommy.
Good girl.
- Meeting?
- Yeah, well, we both thought it was time...
- Both?
- Yeah, both. Absolutely.
I pretended
I didn't know who he was.
Well.
- Oh.
- I love you said that.
- Dad. Mom.
- Hi.
- Hello. Hi.
- Hello.
Sure.
- Actually, no.
- I've never heard him speak
of you until this morning.
So I hope you
won't misunderstand...
judged by people
of a different standard:
publishers, authors,
critics and their wives.
I understand you.
That's all I'm trying to say.
- Do you understand?
- Mom?
- Hello, darling.
We're having a wonderful visit.
- "Hello, darling"?
You know, you know,
I always knew you were a jerk.
I wasn't sorry
what his mother did.
In six months,
we were married.
take hold.-
I promised myself
that I could handle it.
Or us.
- Oh, hi.
- to this school I admired in Idaho.
- Because--
- Why does one cultivate their daughter?
So I tried harder.
- You decide.
- Well, uh...
if we eat in,
I-I've got lamb chops.
be happy.
even if we disagree.
I told you,
I'll do the chicken.
Of course I am.
Is she beautiful?
Because I know,
even if you don't.
like begging.
I thought I had
become so happy...
so important.
First Wife
was a ghost of a woman.
the empress
of the household...
Second Wife,
this is too expensive...
My precious
pearl necklace...
A Fourth Wife!
A low-class concubine.
But An-Mei...
You can't!
An-Mei,
go to your nanny's room.
Please.
to make offerings
in memory of my father.
to play mah-jong.
That night...
Ma!
No one believed
she was raped.
An Mei.
I stayed alive...
to keep my hope
of seeing you again one day.
But now...
Mommy?
Mama? Mama?
Mama!
only waiting
for my mother to die.
Mama! Mama!
Mama?
I am strong now.
My mother chose
the date of her death...
Or horrible tragedies
will befall you.
He promised to raise me
and my mother's son...
Mama!
I was taught
to desire nothing...
to swallow
other people's misery...
Rose, I'm--
I'm standing out in the rain...
Honey?
Honey?
I ate opium...
and I died...
- I'm listening.
- It's not your fault, none of it.
- Oh.
- Mmm, very good.
No.
- It is?
- Yeah.
- Hi.
- Oh, hi.
- Oh.
Old Chong,
everything all right?
How is everything?
Thank you.
You see?
Best quality.
Instead...
Hey, June,
how your business go?
June, I can't.
Ma!
True.
Cannot teach style.
I was so humiliated.
Outsmarted by Waverly
and betrayed by my own mother.
What?
Still mad at Waverly?
- Piano?
- Everything.
My grades, my job.
Never expect!
Only hope.
Well, it hurts.
And no matter
what you hope for...
- Uh-huh.
-June...
I wear this
next to my heart.
I see you.
I see you.
Everybody else
want best quality.
I see you.
Hey!
All right.
Oh, my god.
- Oh!
- Oh!
- To June.
- To June.
- Yeah.
Oh, no.
- Oh, god.
- Thank you.
- Oh.
- Speech, speech.
- Stop it.
- Hurry up.
Yeah.
Not on me.
Auntie Lindo,
Auntie Ying Ying...
Auntie An Mei...
long-time friends
of my mother...
Truly.
Auntie Lindo?
I have something
I must tell you.
This is my thinking:
Better hear from own sister.
Important news.
- You, only one who can--
- You--
Oh, my God.
My God.
My God.
Too late.
No way to do this.
You know,
ever since Mommy died...
Yeah.
so young, so beautiful...
Oh, yes.
Back then,
no medicine, no doctors.
Oh.
She thought...
Come, sit.
I found this
in Mommy's jewelry box.
Go ahead, open.
See?
It's a swan feather.
Swan feather?
She decided...
She transferred
all her hopes to me?
Mine too.
Hey.
When?
I'm so sorry.
Our sister.
Our family.
It was enough...