[pussluver]

Ep 3


I wanted to go to Freya's work place, her perm job, and speak to her but I didn't want to come across that I was stalking her. As such, I had to try to find out where her part-time company was sending her to, for her weekend job.

The next time I saw her was 2 weekends later and she was shocked to see me again. Just the like previous time, she avoided me like the plague.

When she was done with work, I was waiting for her again. Unlike the first time, this time, she was really harsh on me.

She told me that she would never hang around any rich person and told me to stop bothering her or she would report me to the police for harassement. It was only after I told her that I was invited by the client that she calmed down.

Freya: anyway, just stop bothering me....


This last encounter with her made me curious. She had now said that she did not want to associate with rich people twice and I decided to try to find out the reason for this.



It wasn't easy to find out. PIs could no longer get their hands on such information these days and there wasn't any companies that could just dig into someone's background especially with the PDPA requirements nowadays. As such, I had to ask around subtly, trying to find out if there was any way to do it. Help came from an unexpected quarters.



During Covid time, I had bought my shophouse at a very good price from this owner, Uncle Kim, along the Geylang stretch. After that, I found out that he was also trying to sell another 4 other shops in the same stretch. I advised him not to sell those other shops then and he actually listened to my advice.

Last year, he sold 2 of those shophouses and made 20% more than what he would get previously. Since then he appreciated that I helped him to make more money.


I had gone to my shophouse to speak to my tenant for some renovation matters. After I was done, I was walking on my phone as I walked past Uncle Kim's shop down the same stretch. Uncle Kim was in his shop and overheard my conversation. He stopped me and asked me why I needed to dig up someone background. I told him the reasons and he laughed. He told me he had some contacts and would be able to help me.


Uncle Kim helped me to arrange a meeting with a guy named Jabil.



I walked down a few streets and met up with Jabil alone. When I saw him, I was uncertain if he would be able to help me. His arms and legs were full of tattoos and looked like someone from the underworld but I trusted Uncle Kim and decided to trust Jabil as well.

After I told him what I needed to find out about Freya, he said he could help only because I was introduced by Uncle Kim. His charges were $20k and I knew it was on the high side. When I told him that I did not want to get involved in any illegal stuff and he assured me that nothing would be done illegally. He also told me that I need not pay anything until the work had been completed.



Jabil got 2 girls from his gang or what he called "gong shi" ("company"), to enrol into the same part-time company that Freya was working over the weekend. From there, those girls would try to get close to Freya.

It was a long process as these girls needed to get close enough to Freya before she would start confiding in them. I wasn't in a rush and waited. Finally, after about 4 months, I got the answer.



Freya's ex-boyfriend from her University was a rich man's son. She liked him a lot but after 1 year, she found out that he was 2-timing her. When she confronted him, he insulted her and even spread malicious rumours about her when he broke off with her. She was devastated and her father confronted the guy. The guy was not happy about it and felt that he was being bullied by her father. As such, he went back to his rich father and complained.

The rich father found out that Freya's dad was working in one of his business associates's company. So the rich father went to have a chat with the associate and in the end Freya's father was sacked from the company.

Her dad tried to find other jobs but no company was willing to hire a man in his fifties at that salary. So her dad remained jobless for an extended period of time but there was nothing they could do. He went to become a PHV driver.

After that incident, rumours continued to spread and her University life became extremely toxic. All her friends also began to avoid her.

It was from this experience, that she started to hate rich people and wanted nothing to do with them. I also deduced that was the reason she did not want to be an influencer because once she started gaining followers, someone from her university would recognize her and the rumours would start again.


I paid Jabil the full sum of money and he told me to look for him again if I needed any more help in future.




Over the past few months, although Freya and I were not even acquaintances, she had already left my emotions in a trail of turmoil.

I was initially attracted to her beauty and when I met her, I was curious and amused by her fiesty character. Her rejection to wealth, intrigued me and now that I found out about the woes she suffered, it made me feel bad for her. I did not know why but I felt a compelling need to protect her and at that moment, I knew I had to make her mine.

However, with all the information I had about Freya, I knew that she would never accept me as a friend, much less as a boyfriend. As I've already said before, I was not a person that gave up easily and so I wasn't going to give up on her. I decided to take some drastic actions.




It took another 4 months but I waited until there was an opening in her mum's company for a salesperson and I applied for the position. After I got the position, I resigned from the bank. My colleagues were surprised because I was doing extremely well but I told them that I needed a break.

After I left the bank, I sold off my sportscar and bought a humble Honda.


You might think that I was crazy to have done so and maybe I was but I was really interested in Freya. If you remember, I was already considering retirement but was afraid that I had nothing to occupy my time. With this new objective, I was sure that I would not have nothing to do.

The main different between my current job vs when i was a private banker was the amount of money I was getting. Also, the stress level was many times more back then. I'm not saying that the current job was stress free but if you were handing millions of dollars from the clients as a banker, you would get what I meant.

Anyway my life had never been easy before I became successful.

My parents passed away in a traffic accident and I had been living with my aunt. She didn't treat me well and if not for the money that she received from my parent's insurance, she would not have allowed me to live with her. Being depised and looked down upon, I didn't let my head drop. Instead, I studied extremely hard, got a scholarship and went to the University.

At 21, when I received the full inheritance that my parents had left me, I moved out from my aunt's place. I did not need to worry about my tuition fees and living expenses as I had more than enough money. I fully focused on my studies and also started to make my first investments.

By the time I had graduated, I had built up quite a substantial sum in my portfolio even before I started working. I did not need to rush and took my time until I found a good job in a bank and had not turned back since then. Since I wasn't born with a silver spoon in my mouth in the first place, I had worked extremely hard to get to where I was today.


In this new company, Freya's mum was working as a procurement person for the company. She was in her early fifties and I suspected that she was as pretty as Freya in her younger days.

I joined her clique for lunches and gossipy sessions and it took me another 6 months to be on friendly terms with her. I would buy coffee for her in the morning and treated her for teabreaks in the afternoon went I came back to the office from meetings.

She was pleasant and kind and when I shared with her that my business had failed and that was why I was working there, she genuinely tried to console me.

Despite our age gap, I became rather close to her and she treated me like a god-son.


At the end of the year, our company had a D&D and we were allowed to bring a partner along. I went alone and Freya's mum told me that she would be bringing her daughter since her husband would be working. She laughed and said that maybe she would introduce her daughter to me as the both of us were still single.