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- Sep 16, 2014
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Inspired and drawing from dramas, tropes, cliches, Wuxia, the novels of Gu Man and 狐狸小姝 as well as Joss Whedon's Firefly and the like. Set in an alternative future, a brilliant woman killed by her powerful husband (whether accidentally or through intentional murder) is reincarnated into the body of a fifteen year old belonging to a politically important family. Finding herself loved and adored for perhaps the first time by her new family, she decides to forego vengeance and begin a new life for herself. She attends school, shops with friends, and spends hours each week building her avatar's skills in the addictive world wide virtual reality game that nearly everyone plays. But someone suspects that she isn't the innocent fifteen year old she pretends to be.
The photo below is one I took and then modified to suit my own artistic sensibilities.
Three girls in their early to mid-teens, dressed in the uniform of A-City’s most prestigious high school laughed as they walked down the exclusive Nanjing Road. They wore white face masks connected to oxygen tanks to fight the amber-hued smog of the city. Above and to the north, the sound of cargo craft taking off could be heard rumbling in the distance. A dark limousine sat parked behind the girls and two men in dark suits would follow the girls. The driver remained in the car, pulling out and moving forward every five to ten minutes to keep pace behind the girls. When a chauffeured luxury sedan pulled up beside the girls and its rear window slid down, the men following increased their pace.
Bei Wei Wei, a stunning beauty even at fifteen, recognized the man in the back of the sedan that had pulled up. He had been her stepmother’s younger brother in her previous life, so an uncle of sorts, if not a beloved uncle. He stared curiously in her direction before the window slid closed and the car sped off.
Had he found her? Reaching Wei Wei, her bodyguards moved protectively into position, but she raised a hand.
“Little Bei Miss?” The senior guard asked respectively.
“It’s fine.”
“Yes Miss,” the guard bowed his head in acknowledgement. The second bodyguard stood between his little miss and the road, watching as the foreign sedan moved off, noting its identification license.
Bei Wei Wei’s two school friends looked on nervously until Wei-Wei smiled. “It’s probably nothing.” She said slowly. “But maybe we should finish shopping late.” In these days of civil unrest, kidnappings, and inter-Group violence, even something as innocent as a car slowing down to take a look at three school girls prompted caution. “I’ll send you home.”
“Oh it’s no problem,” her friend Kiki said. “I’ll get daddy’s driver to pick us up.”
The other girl Ai Ling nodded vigorously.
While the girls sorted out the process of splitting up, Wei-Wei arranged for one of her bodyguards to stay with the girls until they got picked up. She then stepped into the back of the Bei family limousine, waving as the car slid away. Her senior bodyguard was already on the phone with the Bei family’s chief of security relaying information about the car.
Wei Wei smiled. If she hadn’t recognized Lu-Fang, she would have dismissed the incident in her mind and been frustrated with the ridiculous level of caution her family sometimes exercised when it came to her safety. But it could not be a coincidence that he was eying her. Taking out her cell, she phoned her older brother En.
“Gege,” she said, referring to En as her older brother. “You may hear of a security incident. It’s nothing to worry about. But I did recognize the man as Lu-Fang of the Ao-Young Group. Our family has no issues with them, but maybe we should increase security slightly?”
She could picture a grim frown crossing her older brother’s darkly handsome face as he took in her words. Wei Wei traditionally resisted the strict controls placed on her freedom of movement. So if she was asking for an increase in security, En must be hitting the panic buttons.
She laughed. “Don’t go nuclear on me. I just recognized the man and I was concerned maybe the Ao-Young group was contemplating some sort of move.”
Unsaid, Wei Wei couldn’t help but wonder if Lu-Fang really knew that she was the murdered Qi-Qi? Was there any point in pretending? She should have held back showing off her power in these recent months. But she never again wanted to be that poor deluded fool that she had been in her former life. The life she had before her lover’s fiancé trapped her and he murdered her, shoving a sword threw her heart. He’d seduced her over a bet and then betrayed her. The bastard!
Even so, the reincarnated Wei-Wei has vowed to forego vengeance in favor of a new life with a family that truly loved and supported her. A family that she had used all of her powers to support. Her train of thought was interrupted as she was whisked into her family’s A-City residence, a tightly secured building.
She vanished into her private suite, waiving off any attempt to gain her attention from the staff.
Meanwhile, in a VIP room in the city’s exclusive tower club, Lu-Fang sat cross-legged on the floor waiting silent as a lovely girl served him. His face was calm except for tension that showed around his eyes. He was contemplating the 5’4” fifteen year-old school girl he had recently watched from inside his armored sedan. Already famous for her beauty and breadth of skills displayed, Bei Wei Wei’s reputation had rapidly spread throughout A-City and the surrounding cities. He had investigated and slowly become convinced that Qi-Qi’s soul had alit in this young girl. But could he prove it? He needed to arrange an encounter between her and Mo Zhang. If it was truly her, surely, he’d see it in her reaction. Perhaps then Mo Zhang would snap out of the dark morass he’d sunk into after being tricked into killing the woman he both loved and hated. Since her death, he had grown increasingly ruthless, vicious, more depressed and dark than ever.
Wei-Wei meanwhile dismissed Lu-Fang and her family from her mind as she eagerly logged onto Dreams, the massive virtual reality experiential game that nearly everyone on their world played. Because of her privileged position in life, she was only allotted seven hours a week play time and was eager to learn what had happened to her avatar in her absence. God, if she’d been born a poor girl, she could spend her entire existence on line like the unemployed who were granted the right to disappear into the game 24/7! As her eyes closed, she showed her first genuine smile since seeing the window roll down on Lu-Fang’s sedan.
The photo below is one I took and then modified to suit my own artistic sensibilities.
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Three girls in their early to mid-teens, dressed in the uniform of A-City’s most prestigious high school laughed as they walked down the exclusive Nanjing Road. They wore white face masks connected to oxygen tanks to fight the amber-hued smog of the city. Above and to the north, the sound of cargo craft taking off could be heard rumbling in the distance. A dark limousine sat parked behind the girls and two men in dark suits would follow the girls. The driver remained in the car, pulling out and moving forward every five to ten minutes to keep pace behind the girls. When a chauffeured luxury sedan pulled up beside the girls and its rear window slid down, the men following increased their pace.
Bei Wei Wei, a stunning beauty even at fifteen, recognized the man in the back of the sedan that had pulled up. He had been her stepmother’s younger brother in her previous life, so an uncle of sorts, if not a beloved uncle. He stared curiously in her direction before the window slid closed and the car sped off.
Had he found her? Reaching Wei Wei, her bodyguards moved protectively into position, but she raised a hand.
“Little Bei Miss?” The senior guard asked respectively.
“It’s fine.”
“Yes Miss,” the guard bowed his head in acknowledgement. The second bodyguard stood between his little miss and the road, watching as the foreign sedan moved off, noting its identification license.
Bei Wei Wei’s two school friends looked on nervously until Wei-Wei smiled. “It’s probably nothing.” She said slowly. “But maybe we should finish shopping late.” In these days of civil unrest, kidnappings, and inter-Group violence, even something as innocent as a car slowing down to take a look at three school girls prompted caution. “I’ll send you home.”
“Oh it’s no problem,” her friend Kiki said. “I’ll get daddy’s driver to pick us up.”
The other girl Ai Ling nodded vigorously.
While the girls sorted out the process of splitting up, Wei-Wei arranged for one of her bodyguards to stay with the girls until they got picked up. She then stepped into the back of the Bei family limousine, waving as the car slid away. Her senior bodyguard was already on the phone with the Bei family’s chief of security relaying information about the car.
Wei Wei smiled. If she hadn’t recognized Lu-Fang, she would have dismissed the incident in her mind and been frustrated with the ridiculous level of caution her family sometimes exercised when it came to her safety. But it could not be a coincidence that he was eying her. Taking out her cell, she phoned her older brother En.
“Gege,” she said, referring to En as her older brother. “You may hear of a security incident. It’s nothing to worry about. But I did recognize the man as Lu-Fang of the Ao-Young Group. Our family has no issues with them, but maybe we should increase security slightly?”
She could picture a grim frown crossing her older brother’s darkly handsome face as he took in her words. Wei Wei traditionally resisted the strict controls placed on her freedom of movement. So if she was asking for an increase in security, En must be hitting the panic buttons.
She laughed. “Don’t go nuclear on me. I just recognized the man and I was concerned maybe the Ao-Young group was contemplating some sort of move.”
Unsaid, Wei Wei couldn’t help but wonder if Lu-Fang really knew that she was the murdered Qi-Qi? Was there any point in pretending? She should have held back showing off her power in these recent months. But she never again wanted to be that poor deluded fool that she had been in her former life. The life she had before her lover’s fiancé trapped her and he murdered her, shoving a sword threw her heart. He’d seduced her over a bet and then betrayed her. The bastard!
Even so, the reincarnated Wei-Wei has vowed to forego vengeance in favor of a new life with a family that truly loved and supported her. A family that she had used all of her powers to support. Her train of thought was interrupted as she was whisked into her family’s A-City residence, a tightly secured building.
She vanished into her private suite, waiving off any attempt to gain her attention from the staff.
Meanwhile, in a VIP room in the city’s exclusive tower club, Lu-Fang sat cross-legged on the floor waiting silent as a lovely girl served him. His face was calm except for tension that showed around his eyes. He was contemplating the 5’4” fifteen year-old school girl he had recently watched from inside his armored sedan. Already famous for her beauty and breadth of skills displayed, Bei Wei Wei’s reputation had rapidly spread throughout A-City and the surrounding cities. He had investigated and slowly become convinced that Qi-Qi’s soul had alit in this young girl. But could he prove it? He needed to arrange an encounter between her and Mo Zhang. If it was truly her, surely, he’d see it in her reaction. Perhaps then Mo Zhang would snap out of the dark morass he’d sunk into after being tricked into killing the woman he both loved and hated. Since her death, he had grown increasingly ruthless, vicious, more depressed and dark than ever.
Wei-Wei meanwhile dismissed Lu-Fang and her family from her mind as she eagerly logged onto Dreams, the massive virtual reality experiential game that nearly everyone on their world played. Because of her privileged position in life, she was only allotted seven hours a week play time and was eager to learn what had happened to her avatar in her absence. God, if she’d been born a poor girl, she could spend her entire existence on line like the unemployed who were granted the right to disappear into the game 24/7! As her eyes closed, she showed her first genuine smile since seeing the window roll down on Lu-Fang’s sedan.