Chapter Seventy-Five: Mary and the Dragon Lady
The World Cup ended with Andre's complete victory, and after a few days the excited people started to get out of that frenzy, and Andre started to circle around me again.
It was still very hot in Moscow in July. When Andre came back from swimming, he saw me lying on the bed reading the day's Chinese Daily. He couldn't read it, but he knew I was reading the job posting. Smiled and asked me:
- "Did you find the right one?" ”
- "Nope! I sighed, my face full of sadness.
- "How about we go on vacation?" Maybe you'll have a suitable job when you come back, after all, the vast majority of people are on vacation now, and except for a few Chinese companies, no company will hire people. Andrei said.
Europeans, including Russians, seem to feel that they deserve to take a vacation in the summer.
- "Maria and her friends have gone to Venice, should we go too?" Andrei asked me.
Venice was a temptation to me, but Maria ???
I'm hesitant!
Don't I like Mary? Yes, so to speak.
I lived with Andrei, which gave me the opportunity to learn more about Andrei's contact with his family. Andrea had two video sessions with his mother, and even though I couldn't understand Italian, I could sense that Andrea didn't want to answer so many of his mother's questions.
On the eve of the World Cup, there was a video of Andre and Maria, and that was the first video of Andre and Maria that I saw. Naturally, I wouldn't be on camera, maybe Maria thought she was just chatting with Andrea. Maria also pulled her two girlfriends into the camera for Andre to know, saying that they were going to Germany together to watch the World Cup, and asked Andre if he was going. André naturally had no plans to go to Germany.
Afterwards, I asked André if Maria wanted to introduce her girlfriend to you, and André said that he also thought that Maria had this plan, and then, André smiled and shook his head, saying that Maria was always willing to do wishful thinking, which really inherited his mother's genes.
I also asked Andrey before, you came to Moscow to pick up your Christmas presents, what do your families think about this? Andre said that his family thought he was delusional and would be fine for a while, so he didn't pay much attention to it.
They even thought that Andrei's girlfriend in Moscow might be Russian, so, not much attention. Andrei didn't say much about my situation to his parents either.
Maria was more curious about Andrei's girlfriend, and Maria was surprised when Andre told her that Lina was Chinese. However, André did not tell Maria that there was anything special about me. Perhaps, in Maria's eyes, Andrei was just a casual girlfriend in Moscow. I think Maria thought that Andre might have broken up with his Chinese girlfriend he met that Christmas. That's why I wanted to introduce him to a girlfriend during the World Cup.
I asked Andrey, did you never tell your family about me at all?
André said that he later told Maria about me. Maria listened to Andrei's description of me, and her reaction was "Andrei, don't meet the Dragon Lady".
Andrei has an older brother who is five years older than him. Maria is his younger sister who is three years younger than Andre, perhaps due to age, Andre and Maria have been closer to each other since childhood than to his brother. André said that when he was a child, he almost always played with Maria, and their amazing big brother didn't want to take care of them. Therefore, Maria is also Andrei's most intimate person in their house.
I've seen pictures of Maria, who has hair and eyes the same color as Andre, and Maria's body is the same size as most European girls, slightly plump, but also well-proportioned and sexy. The eyes are not as deep as Andrey's, so they look bigger, and the lines of the face are much softer. In short, like Andrea most European boys, Maria looks like most ordinary European girls.
When André said that Maria called me "The Dragon Lady", I had a feeling that I might not be able to get along well with Maria. Maybe I have the trait she hates the most.
I told André about my concerns before, but André said: What does Maria know, and what is "Dragon Lady"? I think she's jealous of your beauty! Andrei's words only made me even more uneasy. At this moment, I was really resistant to hearing that he was going to take me to Venice to see Maria, and I didn't want to go to see Maria as Andre's girlfriend and let Maria look at me with that kind of scrutiny. I don't think Mary is qualified to look at me yet.
"Dragon Girl" is another name for an Oriental woman who is very tempting in appearance and cold in the eyes of Westerners. This is the most terrible evil force of the East in the minds of Westerners.