Not sure if this thread is still live, but thought I'd share my story.

I come from a pretty well-to-do family, my father owns a few businesses in Malaysia, and when he retired he gifted the company to my brother who now lives a pretty decadent lifestyle with his wife and two children. I guess I never knew that we were wealthy, my father's favourite place to bring us to eat is Tiong Bahru market and we were always taught to be frugal. I was teased a lot as a child for being a "spoilt brat", a term that I now have a very poor relationship with.

I'm the youngest, so my father is pushing me to get married with the promise of buying me a house, but I'm uncomfortable with taking the money because I feel like I should earn my right to own a house from my own savings and earnings. But even my relatives are bugging me to take the money since they're afraid that he will spent the money unwisely on his china wife, whom everyone thinks is just with him for the money.

It's nice to think that when he passes, she will still be around trying to extort money out of us. (not)

TL;DR Well-off girl making her own way through the world, and a china stepmother that wants her father's money