Chapter 1: Oriental Beauty

Two paths split in the woods,

It's a pity that I can't get involved at the same time,

I stood at the intersection for a long time,

Looking towards a road,

Watch it disappear into the depths of the jungle.

But I chose a different path,

It's barren and very lonely,

appear more seductive and beautiful;

Although on this path,

Travelers are rarely left behind.

That morning the leaves fell all over the ground,

Both roads are unpolluted by footprints.

Oh, leave a path and see you another day!

But I know that the path is endless,

I'm afraid I'll have trouble getting back to where I came.

Also many years later somewhere,

I will look back with a soft sigh:

Two paths split into a wood

And I chose the one with fewer people,

From then on, the path of my life was determined.

- The Unchosen Path [Beauty] Robert Frost

With a history of more than 800 years, C University is a federal university of research colleges located in country Y, although the university itself is public, but it is composed of private colleges with a high degree of autonomy, and the colleges have their own management framework, admissions, and curriculum and activities.

C-University recruits students from all over the world, so C-University students come from different countries and have different races.

In 2003, Jiang Jingtong was 20 years old and had been studying at C University for a year.

Jiang Jingtong's father died in a traffic accident when he was nine years old, and his mother also died of illness when he was eleven years old. Although his parents are gone, Jiang Jingtong also has an older brother Jiang Jingyu.

Jiang Jingyu is thirteen years older than Jiang Jingtong, because his mother repeatedly told Jiang Jingyu to take good care of his younger brother when he was dying, Jiang Jingyu promised his mother, so after the death of his mother, Jiang Jingtong fully realized what it means to be an eldest brother like a father - when a brother loves you like a father - Jiang Jingyu loves Jiang Jingtong and almost spoils him to the sky - to give the wind to the wind, to the rain to the rain, to the stars not to the moon, Jiang Jingtong wants to go to the house to uncover the tiles, Jiang Jingyu will not take him to the sea to fish - it is completely a younger brother.

Later, Jiang Jingyu married Ye An'an, and there was one more person who loved Jiang Jingtong, and now Jiang Jingtong realized what it means to be an eldest sister-in-law.

Ye Anan is the youngest child of the Ye family, she has been loved and cared for by her family since she was a child, and when she was in a relationship with Jiang Jingyu, Jiang Jingyu also doted on her, and when the two got married, there was finally a Jiang Jingtong who could be loved and cared for by her, so Ye Anan almost concocted Jiang Jingtong's father and brother and Jiang Jingyu's love for her.

Jiang Jingtong is also very powerful, just so hurt, spoiled and stunned, he is not crooked, his exam scores are the first, and he is excellent in mathematics, physics and chemistry - of course, this is due to the Jiang family's super good genes and super high IQ, even if he does not count his deceased parents, his brother Jiang Jingyu is also an outstanding elite talent.

Because of his good schoolwork, Jiang Jingtong also took the time to learn calligraphy and martial arts, which made a group of scumbags in the school who were still desperately gnawing on books jealous!

Jiang Jingtong learned calligraphy, Jiang Jingyu is very in favor, because to practice calligraphy, we must eliminate distracting thoughts, concentrate and calm down, forget everything and me, and use the strokes through scientific fingering, arm method, wrist method, and body method.

Moreover, practicing calligraphy requires full dedication, single-mindedness, eliminating distractions, and writing down words on paper through a soft brush to make people enter a relaxed and comfortable state, which is very beneficial to physical and mental health, and is also a good precipitation for young people's impetuousness.

Calligraphy is the quintessence of China, Jiang Jingyu himself is also very fond of it, so Jiang Jingyu thinks that his younger brother learning calligraphy helps to condense his temperament and self-cultivation; Ye An'an will not object, Ye An'an's father, Ye Laozi is a fanatic of calligraphy, and the old man has a thin gold body and a silver hook iron painting comparable to calligraphy.

However, for Jiang Jingtong to learn martial arts, Ye Anan has a little bit of a whisper - learning martial arts is a must work hard, Ye Anan is reluctant to raise his own slippery and slippery children to endure hardship, what should I do if I bump into it?

However, Jiang Jingyu supported his younger brother because he was worried that Jiang Jingtong would spend too much time studying, lack of exercise, and would not be good for his health, so it would be good for Jiang Jingtong to learn some martial arts to strengthen his body, so Jiang Jingtong went to learn martial arts again with the support of his brother and the slight worry of his sister-in-law.

Later, Jiang Jingyu's son Jiang Jianhui was born!

Jiang Jingtong likes the round Jiang Jianhui very much, because, with Jiang Jianhui, he is finally not the youngest in this family.

Jiang Jingtong's treatment of Jiang Jianhui is completely a copy of Jiang Jingyu and Ye An'an's self--almost spoiled by the sky--even Jiang Jingyu's father, who occasionally wants to educate his son, can't do it, and is protected by Jiang Jingtong like something.

Originally, Jiang Jingtong thought that his life would go on like this, with a brother, a sister-in-law and a nephew, how beautiful his life is!

Until, our country joins the WTO!

China officially became a member of the World Trade Organization (WTO) on December 11, 2001, and foreign economic exchanges have been fully opened and deepened day by day.

Why will China's accession to the WTO affect Chiang Ching-tung's life?

Because after China's accession to the WTO, with the increasing frequency of foreign trade exchanges, trade frictions, and economic disputes, the requirements for the lawyer industry are more diverse and complex, and there is an urgent need for high-level talents in related professions.

Jiang Jingyu runs a very large-scale law firm, with China's accession to the WTO, many transnational economic disputes, trade cases need Jiang Jingyu's law firm to take care of, Jiang Jingyu has to spend a lot of time to learn and be familiar with foreign laws, but also to arrange for its lawyers to do relevant study and training, but also to deal with the legal problems of domestic enterprises and explain China's legal process to foreign enterprises, etc., so that the time to accompany his family has been sharply reduced!

Jiang Jingtong watched his brother busy and lacked skills, Ye Anan was worried that Jiang Jingyu was too hardworking, Jiang Jianhui complained because his father didn't have time to accompany him, and finally made a ruthless decision - he was going to go abroad to study law and help his brother after returning to China!

Jiang Jingtong told Jiang Jingyu about his decision, Jiang Jingyu is reluctant, Jiang Jingtong has been carefully taken care of by Jiang Jingyu since he was a child, and he is even more pampered in life, Jiang Jingyu is reluctant to let his younger brother go overseas to study!

Jiang Jingyu is a leader in the domestic lawyer industry, how many large enterprises and large companies ask his law firm to represent the case, many bigwigs have to give him a little thin face, Jiang Jingtong under his wings not to say that he can be powerful, at least no one dares to provoke easily, in foreign countries, Jiang Jingyu feels that he does not have this influence!

Moreover, Jiang Jingtong's studies are so good, he can be guaranteed to study in the best universities in China, and there is really no need to go to a foreign country where he is not familiar with his life to suffer foreign crimes.

But Jiang Jingtong talked to his brother for a long time, he said that his brother and sister-in-law love him so much, he doesn't want to live only under the wings of his brother and sister-in-law, he wants to be his brother's helper, he wants to contribute to this family!

Looking at his younger brother's young and handsome face, Jiang Jingyu knew that his younger brother, who had been cared for by him, had grown up and was going to choose his own path in life!

Finally, Jiang Jingyu nodded, but Ye Anan disagreed!

As the eldest lady of the Ye family, Ye Anan married Jiang Jingyu for seven years, and treated Jiang Jingtong as his own child for seven years, although Jiang Jianhui was later born, but Ye An'an's love for Jiang Jingtong was not less than half a point, as soon as he heard that Jiang Jingyu agreed to Jiang Jingtong to study abroad, Ye Anan blew up, and almost did not commit domestic violence against Jiang Jingyu's barrister, but fortunately he was stopped by Jiang Jingtong, Jiang Jingtong said something bad, and persuaded Ye An'an to let Jiang Jingyu go.

Jiang Jingtong took a lot of time to get Ye Anan to reluctantly agree to his study abroad!

But Ye Anan still said: Tongtong should go abroad to play, if you can't get used to it, come back, sister-in-law will arrange the best escort school for you, and when you graduate, you will get an idle job, don't be born like your brother!

Jiang Jingtong agreed with a smile!

Then Jiang Jingtong's plan to go abroad was stuck in Jiang Jianhui's shell again!

Jiang Jianhui is 5 years old, he is very smart, although he is young, he faintly feels that his uncle is leaving home, and when Jiang Jingtong packs his luggage and really wants to leave, Jiang Jianhui will not let go of Jiang Jingtong when he hugs him, crying so that the world changes color, the sun and the moon are dark, and he is frightened, almost making Jiang Jingtong give up his plan to study abroad!

Ye Anan still made a decision to take his son off Jiang Jingtong and throw him into her husband's arms, so she said goodbye to Jiang Jingtong with tears in her eyes!

On the day Jiang Jingtong left, Jiang Jingyu, Ye An'an and Jiang Jianhui didn't go to see him off, because Jiang Jingtong didn't allow them to go, and he was afraid that he couldn't bear to leave the house when he saw his brother, sister-in-law and beloved little nephew - it was the family driver who sent him to the airport!

The moment he got on the plane, Jiang Jingtong told himself that parting was for growth, so that he could be with his family with a better attitude when he came back, and he couldn't just enjoy the love of his family without giving - but the thought of leaving home for so long, Jiang Jingtong almost burst into tears......

The time of the year passed quickly!

This is already the autumn of Jiang Jingtong's second year of studying in country Y.

The autumn in country Y is still relatively comfortable except for some humidity, but Jiang Jingtong wrote a paper for the day before - "On the Structural Characteristics of the Common Law System", and as a result, his super good memory made him "offer", "ban", "court organization" and other terms keep running in his mind for a night when he went to bed at night, so that when he got up in the morning, Jiang Jingtong felt a little dizzy.

In fact, there is no pressure on Jiang Jingtong in schoolwork, his smart brain, super high intelligence and scientific learning methods make him comfortable in his studies, and what Jiang Jingtong is not used to is daily life!

As Jiang Jingtong, who has always been carefully raised by Jiang Jingyu and Ye An'an, to reach out for tea, to open his mouth for food, to have a driver in and out, and to have a nanny at home, he is really not used to campus life in the UK: the difference in diet, the inconvenience of independent life, and the gap in cultural cognition make Jiang Jingtong, who has just arrived in the UK, a little busy - even hygiene and cleanliness are problems.

For Jiang Jingtong, who is a little bit of a cleanliness fetish and is used to being served, cleaning up the dormitory is simply hellish torture - the school does not allow students to live in such creatures as "cleaning staff" or "nannies" - fortunately, after getting to know other classmates, Jiang Jingtong learned from other students in the school who are financially well-off and hired a cleaning staff near the campus to help him wash his clothes and clean the dormitory regularly.

The health problem has been solved, but eating and drinking tea still have to come by yourself, fortunately, Lang Fei, who is in a dormitory with Jiang Jingtong, is also Chinese, and the living habits of the two are still relatively compatible, unlike other students in the same dormitory as European and American students, because of differences in culture, diet, and living habits, it is easy to produce friction, and slowly, Jiang Jingtong's study abroad life is on the right track.

In the past year or so, Jiang Jingtong has made two good friends in school, one is Lang Fei in the same dormitory and major, and the other is Ouyang Le, who studies anthropology.

Different from domestic school education, C University attaches great importance to students' club activities, and some club activities are also counted as admission points. The school gives students a lot of autonomy, and you can see how much the school attaches great importance to club activities in a 9-storey activity center that the school has specially approved for student club activities!

Jiang Jingtong also participated in club activities, the club he chose was the Debate Club - completely pragmatist, and Lang Fei joined the campus football team - the choice of children's shoes is interest-oriented.

As a century-old famous school in country Y, there are about 13-15% of international students on the campus of C University, and Jiang Jingtong is one of the few Chinese, with a slender body, a handsome face, and a smart brain and a temperament bred by a good background, which makes him attract attention on campus - this is Jiang Jingtong's own opinion.

If you ask his friends, then Lang Fei and Ouyang Le agree that Jiang Jingtong's popularity is because he first splashed ink and wrote a big "sword" with a brush in the talent show of joining the debate club word, next to the inscription of a small poem, calligraphy to deter the rare and strange foreign students - no way, Chinese calligraphy, unique charm, for most foreign students, this may be the first time in their lives to see someone write with a brush, feel very fresh, but you must know that calligraphy is a unique scenery of Chinese characters, that is a work of art composed of lines, you need to use different lines of thickness, shade, strength and weakness of the line to show the coordinated color and mood, in order to bend the image.

Although Yang students could not understand what Jiang Jingtong wrote, in the words of the late French-Chinese artist Mr. Xiong Bingming: "A Westerner who does not understand Chinese can also appreciate calligraphy, and we cannot say that he does not understand calligraphy because he does not understand Chinese." "Every Chinese character in calligraphy is not only the form, sound, and meaning, but also a person's character and mind, and each person's writing flows with his soul, his temperament, his desire, and his ambition......

Therefore, the beauty of calligraphy, or elegant, or depressed, or vigorous, or fine, the scenery of mountains and rivers is contained in it.

Jiang Jingtong won the true biography of the old man Ye, the pen walked the dragon, chic to the extreme, after writing, the brush was handsomely thrown away, the big "sword" word hanged, with this as the background, danced a set of Bagua Taiji Sword - that's right, it is the Bagua Taiji Sword - we often see a group of grandparents dancing in the park - but Jiang Jingtong is young and handsome, gestures and flowing water, elegant posture, rigidity and softness, for a time to surprise the four, so that the foreign alumni who have never seen the world are mysterious, ancient, The beautiful Chinese kung fu is amazing, not to mention the cold and glittering Longquan sword and the background of the word "sword" in the silver hook iron painting, which complement each other and add more charm!

And this Jiang Jingtong exudes his own beauty, yes, it is beauty, beauty beyond gender: goose egg face, bright eyes, delicate skin, and a white dress makes his whole person exude a soft light.

Appreciating beauty knows no borders, and the foreign students were amazed by the beauty of Jiang Jingtong, the beauty of calligraphy, and the beauty of sword dance, and they were deeply shocked!

I don't know which good thing the classmate used DV to record Jiang Jingtong's talent show in a small community, and passed it on the campus forum.

Jiang Jingtong: Khan, overdressed!

In fact, this talent show is because Jiang Jingtong wants to join the debate club, and one of the conditions for the debate club to recruit members is that they need a personal talent show - Jiang Jingtong doesn't understand why he wants to show his talent when he joins the debate club, but he follows the local customs, and he has to prepare the talent that needs to be shown--However, Jiang Jingtong sings incompletely, he has never learned to dance, and he feels a little silly when he recites, and after thinking about what he is good at, he kneaded the calligraphy and the Bagua Tai Chi sword for exercising, how do you know that this is the effect- Especially after knowing afterwards that as long as he pays a 700 pound entrance fee, the talent show is just a formality, and he will definitely be admitted, Jiang Jingtong's intestines will be repentant!

Jiang Jingtong really doesn't want to be in the limelight, he just wants to read quietly, but the development of some things is not transferred by people's subjective will - country Y is a poetic, romantic, and dramatic country, where countless poets, writers, artists, the most famous Shakespeare's four tragicomedies, even the people of our country are familiar with - the people of country Y have an obsession and pursuit of beautiful things, so after Jiang Jingtong showed the beauty of oriental art, the men and women who pursued him on campus were like crossing the river!

Yes, you read that right, it's men, men, women, women!

This made Lang Fei and Ouyang Le feel a little comforted in their hearts!

We are tired of seeing it in China, so what is so strange -- every time I think of this, Lang Fei beats his chest, knowing that Chinese martial arts are so marketable and Chinese calligraphy is so attractive, why should he learn taekwondo; Ouyang Le hates himself for thinking that practicing calligraphy is easy to get his hands dirty, so he is too lazy to learn it!

Lang Fei and Ouyang Le agreed that calligraphy and Chinese martial arts are simply excellent artifacts for pretending!

They jointly gave Jiang Jingtong a nickname - "Swordsman".

Jiang Jingtong didn't let go of the two bad friends, he didn't have the anger to unilaterally decide that he and Lang Fei and Ouyang Le were a combination, and their combination name was - The Three Musketeers of China, which stimulated Lang Fei and Ouyang Le to roll their eyes directly - but shouldn't good friends love and kill each other like this?

In the afternoon, Ouyang Le said that there was a dance party in the activity center tonight.

Jiang Jingtong doesn't really want to participate, he likes to read quietly, write, drink tea, and participate in social activities like proms, he doesn't like it, especially as a campus celebrity, every time he participates in a prom, some beauties or handsome guys will jump out to confess - Jiang Jingtong feels that he is here to read, not to engage in object or base!

But socializing is part of the campus culture of country Y, and dealing with European and American people still requires familiarity with other people's habits, so despite reluctance, Jiang Jingtong still decided to attend, not to mention that Ouyang Le also warned him that he was one of the organizers of this ball, and he needed Jiang Jingtong, the "Oriental beauty", to come out to "pay respects" to everyone, and if he dared not come, he would break off the relationship!

After knowing each other for more than a year, Jiang Jingtong has become accustomed to Ouyang Le's threat of breaking up friendship at every turn, but he thinks it's not bad to go to the dance party: it's not bad to divert his attention, relax his brain, and let those legal terms not always pop out of his mind to interfere with his sleep!