Colette Bing is one of the main characters in the book series by Kevin Kwan. She is a famous fashion blogger and the spoiled daughter of the second richest man in China, Jack Bing.
Colette serves as a secondary protagonist for most of China Rich Girlfriend before showing her true colors at the end of the book and becoming one of the antagonists in Rich People Problems.
China Rich Girlfriend[]
She is introduced as Carlton Bao's on-again, off-again girlfriend in the second book of the series, China Rich Girlfriend. A control freak and spoiled child, she uses her father’s fortune to take advantage of others and live a careless life.
Her father insists she marries Richie Yang, son of a multi-billionaire father who's also one of the top richest men in China. However, she continues dating Carlton until he realizes the kind of person she is. Their breakup officially happened after Colette's assistant Roxanne tries to get rid of Rachel Chu, Carlton’s half-sister, by poisoning her.
After Rachel rejected Colette's please to help her win back Carlton, she had a public breakdown that gets recorded and published across all Asia, leading to her exile in England.
Rich People Problems[]
In Rich People Problems, it seems she changed so much from her old ways since her scandal. She has married to an environmental lawyer, and the son England's fifth-largest landowner, Lord Lucien Plantagenet Montagu-Scott, Earl of Palliser. She goes now by Colette Bing, Countess of Palliser.
She also has amended her relationship with her father, Jack Bing, whom she had become estranged from due to his affair with Kitty Pong and divorce from her mother. This leads to the sidelining of Kitty, to Kitty's immense displeasure.
Colette also attempts to ruin Carlton's relationship with his new love interest, Scheherazade Shang, by telling Scheherazade's parents about Carlton's car accident that had led to the death of a girl.
At the end of the novel, Kitty gleefully reveals that Colette had been the victim of a horrendous freak electrocution accident at her Save the Orangutans Proust Ball and was currently undergoing rehabilitation at a facility in England.