To celebrate his prosperity, fellow employees and friends urged him to take a young concubine to 'serve him'. Even Ye Ye's boss, the London-educated K. C. Li, jokingly volunteered to 'give' him a couple of girls with his bonus. Ye Ye reported all this in a matter-of-fact way in a letter to his wife, adding touchingly that he was a 'one-woman man'.
— Adeline Yen Mah