Chapter 1 UIMI

Fifteen years ago, in the middle of nowhere, in the middle of the street in Seoul, South Korea, at the entrance of an old residential area, at twelve o'clock in the night. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoThere is no sign of warming in May, the temperature difference between day and night is large, although the moonlight is bright at the moment, but the cold wind blows on the body or the bone-eating cold. A little girl in long pants and short sleeves, clasped her hands together, rubbed her arms hard, and walked back and forth under her feet to keep warm. Her hair was disheveled, her face was scratched, and there was a look of despair in her eyes, a look that shouldn't have been in a child's eyes.

Suddenly, there was the sound of a car behind him, and a headlight hit the thin figure. The car drove away with the wind, leaving only empty streets, as if nothing had happened just now, and the night returned to calm.

Uimi is 20 years old and has lived in the United States for as long as she can remember, but her father often taught her that she is a Chinese and cannot forget her homeland. In addition to studying at school, his father will also teach him Chinese, and he also uses Chinese to talk at home, so her English level and Chinese level have always been comparable.

Because of his father, UIMI has a strong interest in all things Chinese. When she was fifteen years old, she came across a photo of the Forbidden City in the newspaper and was fascinated by the exquisite traditional ancient architecture of China. Her father's support for her hobby had a huge impact on her later achievements in the art of architecture, but that's all for later.

UIMI's parents are very affectionate, although her father and mother live in the United States all the year round, they are a traditional Chinese couple, and her parents' respectful lifestyle makes her yearn for this kind of "Chinese-style couple". It's just that she didn't expect that this would create the tragedy of her later relationship.

In 2002, at Harvard University in the United States, UIMI met a Chinese boy, an international student from China. The boy told her a lot of stories about China, which made UIMI, a girl who had never been to China, feel a sense of admiration for him.

"Tell me what you eat every day in China!"

"There are many kinds of Chinese cuisine, and the most famous ones are the eight major cuisines...... In the morning, we usually eat steamed buns and drink porridge, and sometimes it is fried dough sticks and soy milk....."

"China is so good, I want to see it too."

"Okay, I'll take you to China in the future."

"Eun! I must go to the Forbidden City to see, you said, all of them are wooden structures, and there are all kinds of complex mortise and tenon structures, how did people think of them at the beginning, it's amazing. ”

"The Forbidden City is also called the Forbidden City in our place, it has a history of nearly 600 years, and twenty-four emperors have lived in this palace......

"I like the Forbidden City the most, and when I graduate from university, I will go back to China with you and go to the Forbidden City to feel the charm of ancient architecture."

"Okay, I'll go with you."

UIMI is still immersed in her own beautiful yearning for the future, and she has no idea what will happen in the future.

Summer in Boston is beautiful, and the city flower, clover, can be seen everywhere in the city. There is a legend that if you find a four-leaf clover, you will have happiness, and I wonder if this legend comes from this city.

Two young and energetic Asians who have left a lot of sweet memories in this city this summer.

"uimi, you're so beautiful, the most beautiful girl I've ever seen, can you be my girlfriend?" On a deck chair in the park, a boy said to UIMI, who still had a green expression on his face.

"Yes!" After UIMI answered in a whisper, her face instantly turned red, revealing the traditional subtlety of the Chinese.

“uimi,itisreallysobeautiful!” A black girl says in English next to UIMI.

“ye! myfathersaidthattheforbiddenistheworldfamousmasterpiece,。 uimi replied seriously

“oh.. e.. isthatyourboyfriend。 The black girl pulled Umi and said, "Whatahandsomeguy."

At this time, UIMI was no longer in the mood to listen to what the black girl next to her said, her eyes were firmly focused on the figure across the street, the figure was so familiar, but why did it seem so strange now. With a white girl in his arm, he walked into a nearby hotel with ambiguous movements.

“mygod!itisjulie?” The black girl screamed in surprise.

"Shut up!" uimi was in no mood to speak anymore at this time, and the black girl became cannon fodder, but I don't know if she can understand this sentence in Chinese.

uimi crossed the street and walked into the hotel, and in the lobby she saw her boyfriend sitting at the window table, where they had sat when they had eaten together, but now the person opposite was not herself. She didn't walk over right away, she sat down behind them, hiding behind the screen.

"Well, where are we going after dinner?"

"I'm going back to school this afternoon, so you can go back first after dinner!"

"Are you going back to school and looking for that woman?" The woman's voice raised suddenly.

"Baby, I said a long time ago that I have broken up with her, how can I go to her, besides, you are so beautiful, how can I go to her again, do you see that you don't believe me again?"

"That's pretty much it!"

"Baby is the prettiest and best, and you are the only one for me." The man speaks touching love words in a charming voice, but for uiimi, listening to it will give people a very disgusting feeling.

Smack, a glass of water suddenly splashed in the man's face.

"UIMI, why are you here?" UIMI walked over to their table, and the sitting man looked at the girl who suddenly appeared with a look of surprise

"Lin Haoran, we broke up? How did I not know? You understand, what's going on? UIMI asked.

"Yo! Who am I? It's you! What are you doing here? Interrupt our appointment. The woman next to her stood up.

"You're dating? I'm his girlfriend. ”

"Really!" This sentence had a bit of a vicious tone, as if it was said to UIMI, but her eyes looked at Lin Haoran, and the meaning of the question and threat was self-evident.

"No, I broke up with her a long time ago, she has been pestering me, she has been pestering me, baby, you know that I only love you." Lin Haoran's words caught UIMI by surprise.

"Hear me! He said he didn't want you anymore, why don't you get out of here, are you embarrassed to stay here? ”

uimi didn't know how she got out of the hotel, and no one knew what kind of baptism she went through. She walked towards the school in a daze, her mind blank. This is how the relationship ended abruptly.

A month later, Lin Haoran's dissertation was recognized by his supervisor, and he was recommended to work at the Royal Cultural Foundation of the Blue Ocean "Royal Garden" on Wall Street in the United States, and the recommender was Julie's father. UIMI was recognized for a thesis on ancient architecture and went to Cambridge University in the United Kingdom as an exchange student for a year.

Far away on the other side of the Atlantic, in the Forbidden City in Beijing, a young boy officially entered this place to work today.