name: yifei gong (ιΎδΊ¦θ²) age: thirty-five years oldΒ Β Β birthdate: october 23rd 1988 gender: cis woman Β pronouns: she/her Β Β signs: β scorpio, βΎ aries, β scorpioΒ Β occupation: intellectual property and art lawyer + co-owner of the orange art gallery
ABOUT YIFEI
born in new york city, new york, to parents xiaoming and yihan gong.
her younger brother, yifeng, was born 7 years later.
being the child of a third generation immigrant family, fei never knew the kind of poverty and suffering her grandparents had to endure before her, but still grew up in a very modest family, humble beginnings, you could say.
choosing to honour their hard work and sacrifices in everything she does, fei has been hard on herself from a really young age.
her parents were always supportive, loving, but it didnβt stop her from going back to compare her own struggles to those of her family. there were never fair comparisons, really, and only lead fei to belittle her own problems and emotions as she grew up.Β
even if it helped her push through and succeed later in life, she lives with a lot of repressed emotions.Β
she has a tendency to put everyone in her life before herself and just swallow the rest down, but things bubble and pop beneath the surface.
on the exterior, fei is strong, solid. she doesnβt shy away from confrontation, accepts it readily. sheβs steadfast, focused and incredibly intelligent. itβs that very intelligence and persistence that allowed her to pursue a career in law.
when she was only 21, fei had already gotten her bachelorβs degree in business management from the prestigious zicklin school of business, and went on to the new york law school in tribeca where she studied fulltime.
by age 25, after shadowing one alecΒ fraser for the past year post-graduation, yifei was welcomed into his firm with open arms.
having specialized in intellectual property, yifei went on to take part in a few high profile cases over the years. needless to say, they were very lucrative.
she doesnβt shy away from her wealth, having built herself from the ground up. sheβs worked for every penny she has. she still lives rather simply, not one for over-indulgence. at first glance, you would never guess just how wealthy she is.
but for all the money she has, one thing has always lacked in feiβs life, and that was a family.
from as long as sheβs remembered, sheβs always admired her mother. and while her dreams of grandeur came later in life, her first dream was to have a family of her own.
but sheβs been so focused on her career that that hasnβt come to fruition.
while sheβs always been the subject of male attention, she never really reciprocated. not by lack of interest, but simply because it flew over her head.
she found love when she least expected it, during her second year at the zicklin school of business in the form of hamza khan.
fei never wouldβve admitted it to anyone, much less hamza himself, but he was her first love. she saw forever with him, had butterflies whenever they touched, but alas... it fell apart only two years after it had begun.
they tried to make it work, but their careers were tearing them apart, and hamza was the one to cut the cord. to this day, heβs the one that got away for fei.
fei intended to spend the rest of her life in new york, maybe try to adopt a child in a couple of years, maybe try to have one of her own via sperm donor. but fate had something else in mind for her.
when she was thirty years old, her father xiaoming passed away from complications of a pneumonia aged 71.Β
while she had been busy building her life in new york, her parents had moved away to barton point.Β she didnβt understand why at first, but whenever she visited, they took great pleasure in showing her all the beautiful things the small town had to offer. sheβd come to love it in her own way. its warmth reminded her of her parentsβ.
regardless, being absent for her fatherβs passing was a burden that was extremely difficult to bear for fei. she offered many times to move to barton point to be with her mother, but the latter insisted fei remain in new york. she had a life of her own to live.
even so (and before xiaomingβs passing, too), fei sent her mother money every week to make sure she wasnβt lacking anything. she tried to call as often as she could, knowing her younger brother wouldnβt be the one to entrust her care to.
it was barely a year after her fatherβs death that her mother, yihan, got breast cancer.
that sealed the deal for fei to move. she left her entire life behind, her career and decided to devote herself to the care of her mother. she could afford to do so... enjoyed doing so.
her best friend, mali bhuwakul, even decided to tag along and follow her to the small town, refusing to part ways.
for someone as glamorous as mali, it wasnβt an easy shift, but soon enough, she found a little project to distract herself: buying an art gallery.
theyβd discussed it over a few glasses of wine and jokingly suggested they buy it together... and somehow, after the haze of alcohol washed off, the idea stuck.
it helped distract mali from how bored she was of the small town, and fei of how much worse her mother was doing as days went by...
after barely holding on for the last two years, yihan passed peacefully in her sleep.Β
needless to say, yifei was devastated. no mother, no father: her dreams of having a family dashed. only yifeng remained.Β
he was enough, he always had been, but his ambition refused to let him settle in one place, so they were never really as close as they couldβve been.
her thirties started off and continued on in a rather disastrous way, but fei tries her best to keep her head held high.Β
more than ever, sheβs really determined to put down roots, and figured there were no better place to start than where her two favorite people on earth took their last breaths.
