Ying-Ying St. Clair - Waiting Between the Trees The chapter begins with Ying-Ying visiting Lena and her husband in their new home, which she finds too expensive and poorly built. Ying-Ying is able to see how unhappy her daughter is in her marriage. Ying-Ying also experienced a miserable marriage and is therefore able to understand the kind of suffering her daughter is going through. At her aunt's wedding, when she was sixteen, Ying-Ying saw a man and knew he would become her husband. He tried to lure Ying-Ying by cutting a watermelon right down the middle with a knife. Soon, Ying-Ying married him. When he found out she was having a baby, he left her. Ying-Ying was so upset that she killed the baby before it was even born. Later in life, while working in a store, she met Clifford St. Clair. It was obvious that Clifford liked her, but she didn't feel the same way, but when the news of her first husband's death came, it left a hole in her heart. To fill this void, she married Clifford and moved with him to America where she soon gave birth to...