What is your name, beauty?

Author: Xiaoli Hua
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Publish Date: 2004-06-01
Features: Countless girls in coffee, orange-red, and pink hues chatter and squeeze together. Everyone holds a form to register their names, ages, heights, and weights, as if filling out a boarding pass for a flight into the city. I can see the same features in their flamboyant bodies. On the surface, they pretend to be serious, but in reality, they are only interested in SK-2, men's cologne, and handsome men with well-stocked wallets. I don't like them at all. I like girls who are truly moral and live in seclusion. But they all desperately want to be famous and make a lot of money, seeking out many men, just like chocolates placed on a shelf—vulgar. I know they don't like me either. I just want to record a story. Because of youth, there is recklessness; because of cruelty, there is nostalgia; because of reflection, there is growth. Dedicated to the protagonist Meng in the book, to the Persian cat Songzi, and to my beautiful yet troubled friends.