Publisher's Synopsis
This is the first book of a series entitled Cuo Luan Nian Hua (Disoriented Generation). In this series, the author reveals the epic picture of the turn of the 21st century, both in Beijing and in Philadelphia, from which twelve young Chinese (mostly college graduates) experiencing their love and pursuing their personal success. The story extends a timespan of twelve years (a cycle of Chinese Zodiac). To pursue her American dream, Langxin, a married young lady, came to the University of Pennsylvania to study her master's degree. She was a self-paid student at PENN. Soon, she found herself under substantial financial difficulty after she depleted all her money on the tuition and lost her cafeteria job at PENN. She went to Long-Tan Chinese Restaurant in China Town for a waitress job. The owner of the restaurant A-Sheng, a handsome, hardworking, and successful first-generation immigrant and business owner, felt that Langxin had a special appeal of maturity that attracted him. He almost immediately fell in love with Langxin, but Langxin struggled between loyalty to her marriage in China and the financial security brought to her by A-Sheng. She chose to hide her marital status from A-Sheng and hesitated back and forth in front of A-Sheng's innocent love for her. At the same time, A-Zhu, a childhood friend of A-Sheng, had been in love with A-Sheng since her father passed away and A-Sheng's family adopted her. However, A-Sheng had always treated A-Zhu like a sister and didn't return the feeling. A-Zhu grew envious of Langxin and attempted at trying to kill her...... Soon after Langxin went to America, her husband Zhongping was dismal. Zhongping didn't want to come to America at all. Before the National Holiday, Zhongping was invited by a group of his college friends to visit the Fragrance Hill of Beijing. During the picnic, Huangyan, the girlfriend of Zhongping's best friend Dapeng, was spotted by ZhangDa, the owner of the influential fashion company ZhanQi (means Battle Flag). ZhangDa invited Huangyan for a competition. If she won, she could become instantly famous as ZhanQi's supermodel. Huangyan's boyfriend Dapeng objected her from becoming a model under Zhanqi because it was widely gossiped that ZhangDa manipulated his models---A rising star of ZhanQi never lasted long. But Huangyan was driven by the greediness and decided to attend the competition anyway. She did well and won the 1st place. She was almost sure that she was the one to be crowned as the Seasonal Supermodel of Zhanqi until Zhangda approached her with a deal that caused a series of mishaps and misunderstandings...... A novel of love. It makes you sleepless, tremble, weep and transform......
