It has been almost a week since I entered China, and in the first few days of the week, I got to meet my Yao and visit my friend "Jet Lag" as I had hoped.
Like Alice who fell down the rabbit hole, after several days of dizziness and discomforts, I began to open my eyes to observe this country, which is very different from my homeland.
I am now staying in her family's guest room - a bit different from what I expected, she is richer than I thought - or rather her family situation is richer than I thought. But her parents were away on a business trip this summer because of temporary commitments. Ha, may also "count me lucky" it, otherwise I may also have to find another place to rent for living by myself.
Although she keeps saying that I don't have to pay the rent, I don't think it's a good idea, and the biggest monthly expense here in mainland China is food: it's not expensive to rent an apartment here.
Today is June 28th, and she said she was going to take me to a martial arts club - which, according to her, was equivalent to an American gym.
I was very fond of martial arts when I was a child, and, when I was in elementary school, I even used my pocket money as a supplement to the tuition for that semester at that martial arts school (because my parents did not plan to pay the full amount to support me at that time) and enrolled in a class at the "Zhen'gang Ryu" Karate school.
When I finished junior high school, I went to learn Sanshou in "Chinese martial arts" (it might also be called "Sanda").
As for Sanshou (Sanda) and Karate, the ground fighting and locking skills that are not included, so, I can only learn by sparring with my brothers and sisters at martial arts school if I have the opportunity and looking for information on the Internet.
"Hey, what are you thinking about?" A voice like a silver bell reached my ears, pulling me out of my memory and pulling me to her side.
"Haha, Yao, I'm sorry I lost my mind," I replied, "Wait, how do we get to the gym(dojo) you were talking about?"
"Actually, today I wanted you to experience the human powered tricycle in our hometown, but just now I thought it was a bit boring, so, this Missy(me) personally give you a ride with my e-motorcycle today, how about it?" Yao said with an interested expression accompanied by a smile, staring unblinkingly into my eyes.
"Haha, don't look at me like that, I am embarrassed by you even as a teen-boy." I turned my eyes away, smiled but restrained and replied, "Well, lady first, and lady's order need to be taken priority."
"Speak Chinese next time~!" With a tsunderely blaming, I was punched again on the right shoulder (I remember the last punch was on the left shoulder, ah, strange, could it be that she was afraid of hurting me?")
Hey, just stop thinking the things that hard to understand, I told myself. After a quick breakfast and change into Sanda vests&shorts, I went out with her, locked the door, went downstairs to the public parking shed.
She walked ahead of me and picked up her pace at the last few corners, so, I lost her as I approached the gate of our community.
Before I had time to start worrying, a nimble figure came to me riding a very delicate-looking motorcycle.
"Why are you dazing, big guy? Get on."
So I awkwardly used my left hand to hold the back seat to support my body, straddled it just like riding a bicycle.
Along the way, I looked at her back - a little nervous and a little excited, especially when a few strands of her long hair was blown up by the breeze and swept across my face with a hint of girlish smell around me.
So, I kept gripping on the shelf at the rear of that bike firmly - because I don't think it's good to wrapping my arms around her waist to keep my balance when I'd only met her a few days before.
My heart was pounding along the way, and I felt more "tortured" than if I get off the bike to run with it, but fortunately, the city here is small - I heard Yao said that the buildings and cities here are designed on walking.
After about 10 minutes, we arrived at the martial arts school she mentioned.
I remember someone said that American nights are cozy - people stay at home; American nights are also lonely - people can only stay at home.
And as a "lonely single dog", I, of course, "can only stay at home".
So, with nothing to do, I was once again lying comfortably in bed with my cell phone, planning to surf the Internet.
In fact, I did not like this kind of "superficial" short video website. So, the beginning of our story, started from one pen pal wedsite.
I still remember that day, when I was wandering around the corners of the Internet as I always do, when I was looking up the English name for a Chinese buzzword, a website that encourage people who speak different languages to communicate with each other came into my eyes and attracted my attention. So, after confirming that the wedsite has the value of registration, I opened an account on it, and then, I continued to wander, but the address of the wandering bacame this website.
I remember someone said, that don't look at Asian girls who are petite, cute and obedient, but you shoud never give them your back - they can't protect you relatively. Haha, maybe radishes and vegetables have their own preferences (one man's meat is another man's poison), but I do agree with that to a certain extent.
When I pulled my mind back from fantasizing about Sarah Connor, a character in the Terminator series, a profile came into my eyes and attracted my attention: She said her name was "Yao", and she was in high school in a small town in mainland China.
Well, that means she's the same age as me.
I read on: She said she likes the ghost step dance and recently practicing the butterfly step. In my image, the Chinese school girls of that era were particularly fond of wearing trendy and popular clothes, either black and white leotards, or clothes with purple dazzling star pattern prints,or similar clothes that looked particularly "social". Ha, who hasn't been a rebel in their teenage years? And, btw, the word "society" is something I learned from their social networks...
There is a set of links below her profiles. After checking that there is no problem with the domain name, a webpage owned by a company called Kuaishou. I clicked in.
The BGM (background music) in one of her videos is this one: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLioGH6YANU] (recommended to try 0.25x speed about the feeling) / or this one: [https:/ /www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dxq9qdLdNuk] (recommended to try 0.6x speed)
With the music, the cool little girl dressed in hip-hop style in the video puts a portable camera, which may be a mobile phone, on the floor to face her, and then step on the beat, toe the ground, feet move respectively, dance, like a butterfly, with the rhythm - this is the most appropriate description that I know as the people who does not know how to dance.
Hey, that's kind of fun. As I thought about it, I clicked on her other videos. Most of them were cover songs that were popular on Kuaishou at that time.
The video was obviously shot by an amateur, and when I saw the layout of her bedroom in the background, ha, it turned out that as a hight school student, she was just as cool as I was in that foreign country.
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Gradually, I became fascinated with her. Later, the first message, the more and more conversations, and then she also bacame interested in me, the boy who as a "Yankee".
Finally, I resolutely decided to go to the Chinese consulate to apply for a free-travel visa, and after passing it, I bought a plane ticket to the nearest airport to the city where she lived.
I did the whole steps first, but when I told her afterwards, she didn't express much opposition and agreed to pick me up at the airport - it seems that sincerity can be exchanged for sincerity.
Then things developed, and that period became the happiest day of my life.
I have seen the video of that YouTuber named "Ziqi Li" on YouTube. Before that, my impression of Asians, especially Chinese, was still in their Qing Dinasty-and mainly referring to Asian men.
A man named "Zukang Zhong" had ever wrote a book called "I don't want to be the Chinese anymore", I have read the English translation of it, just like reading "Chrysanthemum and the Sword" - Previous, I just relied on those documents, to get to know their nation and their temperament.
As for Asian women, all I know is that long ago, they were forced to bind their feet and then had to obey a discipline called "Three Obedience and Four Virtues."
"The first time I heard it, I didn't know the meaning of the song; but when I listened to it again, I was already the person in the song." I never expected that one day I would meet her, the one who had made me fall in love with my heart so deep like that.
A long time ago, I was so obsessed with the cultures of other nations, so I often looked for software and services to change my IP address. For example, I once got a VPN operated by a company in mainland China. In this way, I can break the GFW form outside to inside, just like the word "reversely bypassing the wall" in their mouth of the Chinese.
When I was in high school, there was an app called "KuaiShou" very popular in China. At that time, it only provided mobile application services. But, maybe that's the coincidence, I only have the mobile phone at my high school period - The first computer I owned was my mom bought it for me after the start of my college time.
So, the me who is keen to find people's real-life scenes in the corners of society, with a passion, made a lot of Chinese friends on the app "KuaiShou" - She, was one of them.
At that time, I didn't know the person "Ziqi Li", but the Chinese girl I met on "KuaiShou" was very similar to Ziqi Li's image nowadays.
She said her name was Yao, and I knew it was just a pseudonym she had given, or even just one of her pseudonyms. however, if she's such an easy girl, I don't think I'd be too obsessed with this "easy girl".
So I told her my name is Forrest, ha, it's just my nickname, but the name is real, hey, it seems I don't want to lie to her.
From her kuaishou video homepage, I learned that she grew up in a small county in China, especially when I spent several minutes digging out her earliest videos, I was shocked. That was the first time I saw her as a child so vividly, so lively and full of exotic cultural features.
I don't know if you have had this kind of experience, but when I was in high school, in that time I was not quite in the beginning of love but also retained a part of the innocence of a child, she just lived in my mind like that, bring it to this young man who may be considerd ignorant of the world about a glimmer of light and a few storms.
