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Beijing Blues, Part 2

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Shady Sands
Profile Blog Joined June 2012
United States4021 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-09-10 05:38:30
September 09 2012 18:56 GMT
#1
Read Part 1 here: http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?id=367411



Before we go any further, let me mention that Banker Girl lived on the 30th floor of this apartment complex called Central Park Towers. Remember this number, because it becomes important near the end of that summer.

Anyhow, she leaned over and asked me if she was still uncultured. The alcohol had turned my sketch-radar way down, so I laughed a little, said she never was uncultured--I was just trying to get her to study harder.

Like I said, my big mouth gets me into trouble.

She immediately giggled like schoolgirl, then stood up and poured the rest of the wine bottle down her throat like a wino from Skid Row. Now was she uncultured, she asked. I stood there and didn't say anything.

She sat down and lit up a cigarette. She took a puff, then immediately apologized for the smoke. I sat down at her piano and asked her if she knew how to play anything. She said no. The keys were dust-free and a book of Liszt's Transcendental Etudes lay atop the piano. I should have figured it out right there, but I didn't.

Somehow we ended up on the couch together watching her collection of--get this--Doraemon. It was getting late and I didn't want to pay the 100RMB cab fare all the way up to Beiyuan, where I lived (and basically house-sat my friend's real estate investment.) I told her I had to go. She looked at me quizzically. I made some noises about the subway stopping at 11PM. She laughed and offered to drive me home. I politely pointed out that she'd just drunk two thirds of a bottle of wine. She laughed, said she had plenty of practice driving like that. I didn't say anything, preferring instead to watch a blue robotic cat dance around her 45 inch plasma.

She disappeared into the bathroom. I heard retching noises, then silence for ten straight minutes. A little curious, I knocked on the door. No answer. I asked if she needed a glass of water. She opened the door; she'd been crying again.

I asked her what was wrong. So she spilled the beans on her predicament.

Apparently she had a boyfriend, surprise surprise. But her boyfriend didn't love her (or so she claimed), instead preferring to spend his time sleeping around with college students. Who was this jerk, I asked, and she said he was a high-ranking exec with a Chinese PE firm.

Then she started talking about how she should have never left that local guy back home. What local guy, I asked. Apparently she grew up in Shanghai and worked in marketing for some Western multinat before Columbia. She dated this local Shanghai boy who was sweet but "wouldn't amount to anything", she thought, so she left him the week after he took her to the Maldives with his life savings.

I was beginning to think she was uncultured.

So, she was sad. And she wanted out. By this time, it was way past 11PM and she'd sobered up already, so I decided to hitch a ride back. Right outside my apartment, as I stepped out of her Porsche, she gave a cigarette-scented kiss on the cheek.

I got back and fumbled with my phone for about ten minutes deciding whether I should call Sylvia or not. Then I assumed she was asleep already and went to bed with a clouded conscience.



Part 3: Matchmaker

http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?id=367572

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EtherealDeath
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
United States8366 Posts
September 09 2012 19:10 GMT
#2
Oh god what the hell you tease part 20 now. First world blog problems...
Shady Sands
Profile Blog Joined June 2012
United States4021 Posts
September 09 2012 19:17 GMT
#3
On September 10 2012 04:10 EtherealDeath wrote:
Oh god what the hell you tease part 20 now. First world blog problems...

This is a long ass story bro. I still haven't gotten to the part where she was threatening to commit suicide yet
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Jaaaaasper
Profile Blog Joined April 2012
United States10225 Posts
September 09 2012 19:23 GMT
#4
Good story, you may be one of the best un featured bloggers on tl.
Hey do you want to hear a joke? Chinese production value. | I thought he had a aegis- Ayesee | When did 7ing mad last have a good game, 2012?
kollin
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United Kingdom8380 Posts
September 09 2012 19:41 GMT
#5
For fucks sake shady I want to read it now.
Fix637
Profile Joined February 2011
United States256 Posts
September 09 2012 19:46 GMT
#6
Cloudy conscience? No wrong doing on your part brother. Yet...

I am enthralled. Continue.
EtherealDeath
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
United States8366 Posts
September 09 2012 19:46 GMT
#7
On September 10 2012 04:17 Shady Sands wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 10 2012 04:10 EtherealDeath wrote:
Oh god what the hell you tease part 20 now. First world blog problems...

This is a long ass story bro. I still haven't gotten to the part where she was threatening to commit suicide yet

fuufffuffuufuuufuufifygifufyfufurjdinsgddggkag

Btw how old are you in this story?
Shady Sands
Profile Blog Joined June 2012
United States4021 Posts
September 09 2012 20:04 GMT
#8
On September 10 2012 04:41 kollin wrote:
For fucks sake shady I want to read it now.

You might have to wait, unfortunately
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Shady Sands
Profile Blog Joined June 2012
United States4021 Posts
September 09 2012 20:04 GMT
#9
On September 10 2012 04:46 EtherealDeath wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 10 2012 04:17 Shady Sands wrote:
On September 10 2012 04:10 EtherealDeath wrote:
Oh god what the hell you tease part 20 now. First world blog problems...

This is a long ass story bro. I still haven't gotten to the part where she was threatening to commit suicide yet

fuufffuffuufuuufuufifygifufyfufurjdinsgddggkag

Btw how old are you in this story?

Twenty
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Aerisky
Profile Blog Joined May 2012
United States12129 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-09-09 20:10:13
September 09 2012 20:09 GMT
#10
Yeah Shady you are too beast. Not to mention shamelessly good at dropping hooks and foreshadowing stuff that makes your audience want to continue to read as well. ^^
Jim while Johnny had had had had had had had; had had had had the better effect on the teacher.
EtherealDeath
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
United States8366 Posts
September 09 2012 20:09 GMT
#11
On September 10 2012 05:04 Shady Sands wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 10 2012 04:46 EtherealDeath wrote:
On September 10 2012 04:17 Shady Sands wrote:
On September 10 2012 04:10 EtherealDeath wrote:
Oh god what the hell you tease part 20 now. First world blog problems...

This is a long ass story bro. I still haven't gotten to the part where she was threatening to commit suicide yet

fuufffuffuufuuufuufifygifufyfufurjdinsgddggkag

Btw how old are you in this story?

Twenty

hot 20 on 28 action, must've been her subconscious way at getting back at bf for sleeping with college girls oo. Or maybe you are irresistible.
Kalingingsong
Profile Joined September 2009
Canada633 Posts
September 09 2012 21:12 GMT
#12
On September 10 2012 05:04 Shady Sands wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 10 2012 04:46 EtherealDeath wrote:
On September 10 2012 04:17 Shady Sands wrote:
On September 10 2012 04:10 EtherealDeath wrote:
Oh god what the hell you tease part 20 now. First world blog problems...

This is a long ass story bro. I still haven't gotten to the part where she was threatening to commit suicide yet

fuufffuffuufuuufuufifygifufyfufurjdinsgddggkag

Btw how old are you in this story?

Twenty


so how old are you now? lol
Dess.JadeFalcon
renzy
Profile Joined April 2010
Canada781 Posts
September 09 2012 22:39 GMT
#13
Can we please get Parts 3,4,5,6 7, and 8 soon? I really don't like cliff hangers. =[
Bisu is the man
Loanshark
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
China3094 Posts
September 09 2012 23:22 GMT
#14
I've lived in Beijing for the past 9 years or so and it's nice to see place names like Guomao and Hu Jia Lou (both from Part 1) show up on a TL blog haha.

I live in Haidian District, just north of the National Library.
No dough, no go. And no mercy.
EtherealDeath
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
United States8366 Posts
September 09 2012 23:34 GMT
#15
On September 10 2012 08:22 Loanshark wrote:
I've lived in Beijing for the past 9 years or so and it's nice to see place names like Guomao and Hu Jia Lou (both from Part 1) show up on a TL blog haha.

I live in Haidian District, just north of the National Library.

Somehow from your name I expect you to turn up in this story. Would be such a plot twist on two levels.
Loanshark
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
China3094 Posts
September 10 2012 00:09 GMT
#16
On September 10 2012 08:34 EtherealDeath wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 10 2012 08:22 Loanshark wrote:
I've lived in Beijing for the past 9 years or so and it's nice to see place names like Guomao and Hu Jia Lou (both from Part 1) show up on a TL blog haha.

I live in Haidian District, just north of the National Library.

Somehow from your name I expect you to turn up in this story. Would be such a plot twist on two levels.


That would be awesome .... and unexpected

I've never talked to Shady beyond the occasional comment in his blogs (all of which are great reads, keep it up man!)
No dough, no go. And no mercy.
BigFan
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
TLADT24920 Posts
September 10 2012 03:44 GMT
#17
Such a cliffhanger, hope you plan to write the other parts soon. I'm dying to know how this ends >< Thanks for the story so far
Former BW EiC"Watch Bakemonogatari or I will kill you." -Toad, April 18th, 2017
Shady Sands
Profile Blog Joined June 2012
United States4021 Posts
September 10 2012 03:47 GMT
#18
On September 10 2012 06:12 Kalingingsong wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 10 2012 05:04 Shady Sands wrote:
On September 10 2012 04:46 EtherealDeath wrote:
On September 10 2012 04:17 Shady Sands wrote:
On September 10 2012 04:10 EtherealDeath wrote:
Oh god what the hell you tease part 20 now. First world blog problems...

This is a long ass story bro. I still haven't gotten to the part where she was threatening to commit suicide yet

fuufffuffuufuuufuufifygifufyfufurjdinsgddggkag

Btw how old are you in this story?

Twenty


so how old are you now? lol

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Xiahou
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
Singapore80 Posts
September 10 2012 06:16 GMT
#19
And now we have the classy, ruthless femme fatale archetype with a soft spot for foreign-raised men!

This is easily television material.

Shady Sands
Profile Blog Joined June 2012
United States4021 Posts
September 10 2012 06:21 GMT
#20
On September 10 2012 15:16 Xiahou wrote:
And now we have the classy, ruthless femme fatale archetype with a soft spot for foreign-raised men!

This is easily television material.


Heh heh unfortunately I don't think a story like this would ever get past the censors =/
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