Which one do you want?
(Chuckles) You just want me to… do a ranking or something?
(Nodding) (Smiling) Yeah, sure, do a ranking. Let’s see it…
I’m googling this… there’s… some options but… do you want to buy it… this year?!?!?!
(Nodding) I’ll buy it this weekend.
THIS WEEKEND?!?!?!?!
(Smiles) Okay… maybe I’m now a bit of a shopping addict… when it comes to real estate… (devilish grin)…
(Weirded out by this)… but… can you AFFORD it… can you MAINTAIN it…?
(Nodding) — I buy them with Older Brother’s approval, every time. He looks at the specs and talks to the real estate agent, too… I do react emotionally, “Oh!!! THIS IS GREAT!!!” — And then I call Older Brother, he talks to the real estate agent — he listens to all the info, he gets emailed more brochures and breakdowns of the investment portfolio potential, etc — and then… badda-bing-badda-boom! (BIG SMILES)
Please… don’t…
You don’t like “badd-bing-badda-boom” ?!?!
It’s a bit cringe, these days? Isn’t it?!?!
(Chuckles) Okay fine… anyway… it’s just that simple, with Older Brother’s approval…
(Smiling, laughing, sighing)…
You really want a Penthouse? A luxury penthouse?
I don’t know, actually — it feels… so far away from my current reality…
We can buy a luxury penthouse. That’s NOT a problem at all. WHERE do you want it? What style? Which one??!! Specifically, would be even better…
It’s… insane… the price tag…
Which one are you looking at?
If you bought it… I doubt we’d even live there — I think we’d PRETEND to live there — like in an Architectural Digest magazine interview or something — but we wouldn’t actually live there… it’s too far from our reality — we just don’t LIVE like this… it’s not even real…
WHICH PENTHOUSE ARE YOU LOOKING AT?!?!?!!
I’m not sure if it’s even still for sale? This is just from a quick google… there’s a… 4-level Penthouse that is trying to be sold by the founders of Culture Kings?!
(Smiling)
(Shaking her head in disbelief) You’re NOT buying THAT penthouse…
(Smirk)
You’re NOT buying that penthouse. I doubt Older Brother would even approve… You’d be put on a THIRTY-YEAR MORTGAGE! NOT ONLY TWENTY YEARS!!!
(Pffftt~~~~ hahahahahahahahah…………)
There’s… no… friggin…. WAY!!!
(Giggling to himself)
If you buy it — I DON’T EVEN WANNA KNOW ABOUT IT. We’ll draw those lines in the sand in the post-nuptial agreements — I DON’T WANT TO BE A PART OF THIS.
Okay?!?! Why not!?!?!?
I don’t want to handle “that much” money — I’m not that kind of person. I could never be that rich. I just can’t handle it…
(Surprised) What?!?!!?
I really, really feel uncomfortable with how much money that Penthouse is valued at. And also — the full on luxury experience of it all — I can understand, like, luxury hotels — okay, you get a week in there as a luxury honeymoon — that’s nice. But to actually OWN it?!?! For ourselves?!?!?! Like just HOARDING WEALTH like this?!?!!? I don’t know if I have it in me, babe… I don’t know if I can be the WIFE of “this” — ?!?!?!
(Really, REALLY surprised)….
Can you draw those types of lines in the sand in post-nuptials?
(Shrugs shoulders) I don’t know, I’d have to ask some lawyer friends…
Yeah… just ask them first, before you actually sign that dotted line…
You don’t want any part of it?
(Shaking head)… we can enjoy a luxury penthouse HONEYMOON… I don’t think we need to actually OWN one… not be tied to a thirty-year mortgage just for the sake of — what?! What would it be!?!?! Some kind of “thing” to “show off” — ?! We don’t need that…
What if we owned it but we RENTED IT OUT to other celebrities to “show off” — ?
(Shrugs shoulders) I’m still uncomfortable with that… maybe it’s something you and Older Brother can discuss together — but again, that’s got nothing to do with me, then… that’s part of drawing those lines, making it clearer, in a post-nuptial agreement…
(Hugging her tighter)… (Kiss kiss kiss kiss kiss)… I LOVE YOU…
I love you too…
xoxoxoxoxoxoxooxoxxoxoxoxxx
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I don’t like the number 4… it’s got 4 levels, babe… you can’t buy it…
Oh… shit… yeah… 4-levels…
(Shaking head)… DO NOT… buy that penthouse!
4-levels isn’t good?
(Shaking head)… Nope… not for Chinese superstitions…
But Culture Kings is doing really well, I don’t think the 4-levels affected them at all…
(Shrugging shoulders) It’s just not us, babe… it’s not us at all…
(Thinking about it some more)… Okay… maybe not that one…
Nope… not that one…
But we’ll find another one?
(Nodding) Sure, we can find another one… we can make it a dating activity — like in Sex and the City, she just goes on dates with rich guys, looking at luxury properties…
(Chuckles)
We don’t need THAT penthouse, but maybe we can find another more suitable one… more suitable for us… and way more affordable, too…
Then do you still need it drawn up in the post-nuptials?
(Nodding) Yes, I think so… probably?
Where’s this line? What are you really thinking about in terms of these “lines” in the post-nuptials?
I think that — I don’t have the capacity to worry about more than… three? Properties? Probably not more than three…
You don’t want to worry about more than three properties…
Yes, and that even includes MY PARENTS — and their properties…
(Thinking… remembering…) Isn’t that already MAXED OUT in your brain, then?!?!?!
(Sigh) Yeah like I’m trying to make sense of this for myself as well… maybe not more than three on either side — parents’ side, and our side… not more than six properties in total…
You can’t handle worrying about more than six properties at any given point in time…
Yeah… like, can we just say that as a general rule? I’m not worrying — as your wife — about more than six properties at any given point in time… and this includes my parents’ properties, yes…
I think your Dad has more than six properties…
Yeah but I don’t have to WORRY about all of them. I only worry about the ones that I’m staying in — in Australia, in Taiwan — those ones…
So your Dad has all these other properties that you don’t even stay in?
(Shrugs shoulders) They’re rented out — they’re investments… we don’t stay in them, no… some other property manager is worrying them, not me…
Oh I see… so you don’t want to be the property manager for ALL of the real estate that I’ve been buying…
(Fuck~~~~) HOW… MUCH… REAL ESTATE… HAVE YOU “BEEN” BUYING?!?!?!?!!?
(Heeeheeheeheeheee…. giggling to himself like a giddy little kid)…………. All with OLDER BROTHER’S APPROVAL — remember this! — He approved!!! — They are GOOD investments!!!
(Sigh) (Smiling)… I’m not mad… but it’s a little overwhelming…
It is?
(Nodding) For sure — it’s VERY overwhelming…
(Shaking his head) No, baby, I don’t want you to feel overwhelmed…
Okay, well — you’ll have to introduce them to me gradually… and we need to draw SOME LINE in the post-nuptials… a line has to be drawn… I don’t want “all that” —
(Nodding) Okay… I’ll talk to Older Brother about this…
Yeah, like, even if you change the co-ownership — let OLDER BROTHER have those properties — I just, I don’t think… I don’t think I can handle it…
You just want to show up in your delulu as if we’ve simply booked it as a really cool AirBnB and we’re only staying in it for one or two weeks as a luxury honeymoon…
(Nodding) OH MY GOD YES… That would make me SO MUCH MORE COMFORTABLE… 1000%!!!!!!
(Smiling) Okay… I’ll talk to Older Brother about this…
Thank you… (hug hugs… kiss kiss)…
(With her arms around his neck) (Kiss kiss kiss kiss kiss) I don’t want to scare you away…
It’s okay… we just need to communicate… you need to tell me… and then, I need to let you know, where the line is… what I’m comfortable with…
Okay…
Post-nuptials…?
(Kiss kiss kiss kiss) Okay… I love you.
I love you too… xoxoxoxoxooxxoxxx

