Chapter 22.03 (1/2)
Chapter 22.3: Two People’s Time Machine (两个人的时光机)
In the summer of the first year of university, Xiao He He tried hard to fill up every minute of her time. From taking part time study cla.s.ses to serving as a volunteer, she worked hard to try to forget her unhappiness.
The art festival, one of the brains of the school of art is all to be blamed!
Xiao He He is the kind of person that reflect the fresh, clean, soft and sweet. Although her look is comfortable, she does not stand out when she is among the crowd. This is especially when she is in amidst the vibrant and offbeat characters of the Art Inst.i.tute. She chooses to be quiet and rarely show person in the public. In any community activities, she is the person that would stand behind the scenes concentrating on decorating the venue, design painting that is not outstanding.
The performance at the art festival shocked the whole university, not because it is more exciting or excellent but because the programs are too far ahead of alternative modern that is also too violent and b.l.o.o.d.y. Greatly stimulate the nerve of the audience. After the end of the show, across the campus BBS posting were throughout the crusade: the Academy for Performing Arts is normal aesthetics which we humans gravely insult and so on. This is the response to the public.
When the condemning posts started to fade, everyone’s attention turns the school famous boring literary young man’s post: pandemonium in the touch of the sun, the macabre an angel, showing eyebrow light like willow brush bank. She smiled like spring flowers s.h.i.+ne on the water… Below each post are the stills of smiling Xiao He He.
As it turns out, on the day of the show, He He has been hiding in the station at the side while helping with the show. There are times where she helped to pull the curtain. The campus arena is shabby but the school reporter was taking the photos from the side, so in many of the photos, the stage is accommodating black with a silhouette in the background. Near the station is the clear light of white Xiao He He that is reverently watching the performance. Indeed a sharp contract between heaven and h.e.l.l.
Therefore, the ‘mystery woman’ Xiao He He became the topic of discussion. People started searching for her. Suddenly she becomes famous.
She is not a person that like to stand in the spotlight, it is just the university’s bored idlers that is too much.
人怕出名猪怕壮. Thus in the daily teaching building, dormitory and cafeteria, always only hanging out with girls, the quiet and well-behaved Xiao He He suddenly had a large number of suitors.
人怕出名猪怕壮 (pin ying: rén pà chū míng zhū pà zhuàng) – this is a proverbs that brings the meaning of, one fearing to arouse trouble after being famous, just like how a pig was fatten up before being slaughtered. It could also mean that one that is timid and lacks in creativity even after becoming famous.
He He was enjoying the attention but was also trying hard to avoid them. Eventually, she was attracted to the versatile boy named Cen s.h.i.+.