AN: ok ok, i admit i'm weak. i had finally succumbed to my urge to write a MG fanfic. . .

Disclaimer: MG and all it's characters doesnt belong to me, if it's owner ever decide to give away their characters, i'd be happy to marry dao ming si!!!!

"How beautiful."

Yang Xiao You was staring at a shadowy portrait of a woman. The woman had her face turned on one side but with long ebony curls tumbling down her shoulders, a Grecian nose, a pair of perfectly-shaped lips and a long slender neck, the woman was no doubt a beauty beyond compare.

Xiao You's brows creased into a frown. 'Weird but she looks familiar.'

Of course that couldnt be so. For the last two and a half years of her stay in Toronto, Xiao You had not gone out to a single social event where she could have met some new people aside from her classmates at the university.

And if her Design 402 professor had not required her students to see this art exhibit by the graduating Fine Arts students, Xiao You would never had gone. As it was, she was more than perplexed how uncanny the woman in the painting looked to her. Xiao You was positive she had seen this woman before.

'But where? In one of my classes? In my neighborhood?'

"Or maybe she's from Taipei," Xiao You said, noticing some hint of Chinese features in the woman. Xiao You had not realized she had talked out loud until a voice interrupted her thoughts.

"Whose from Taipei? This woman?"

Startled, Xiao You turned to her left to meet a pair of chocolate brown eyes. It was a man about six feet tall with medium built body and a slightly tanned complexion. He had a very good-looking face and a smile that could warm the loneliest of hearts.

Xiao You began to blush a light scarlet color as she realized what she had just been doing. She was checking the man out! What was she thinking?

For but some reason, Xiao You couldnt turn her eyes away. Something in this man attracted her at once and no man had ever attracted ever since Taiwan. . . ever since Ximen Zhong er Lang. . .

Finally noticing the expectant smile in the man's face, Xiao You blushed a light scarlet color. "Yes," Xiao You managed to answer, "I noticed that the woman looked Chinese and looked awfully familiar to me so I thought maybe she's from Taiwan too."

The man's smile grew bigger. "From Taiwan too? You mean you're from Taiwan too? What a coincidence, I'm from Taiwan myself." The man turned his head to examine the painting.

"Well, you're right this woman is from Taiwan."

"You talk like as if you drew this portrait."

The man turned back to face Xiao You. "Why? Don't I look like an artist?"

Xiao You thought for a moment. Actually, the man looked very much how Xiao You always thought artists ought to look like. Mysterious. Strange. Eye-catching. The man looked so much like an artist that Hua Zhe Lei's image suddenly came into Xiao You's mind.

"No, it's not that you don't like an artist, it's just because this exhibit are works from the graduating Fine Arts students and you look. . ."

"Older?" the man supplied.

Xiao You smiled apologetically. "Yeah. You look like you're twenty-five."

"Twenty-six actually. See back in Taiwan, my parents, especially my father had forced me to take a business course instead. Now I'm here in Tornoto and I'm taking Fine Arts to indulge myself."

Xiao You stared at this man, both amused and confused. Amused that he had easily talk to her about his life when they haven't known each other for more than five minutes! Confused too that this man's parents would force their son to take business.

Unless this man was a heir to a big business empire like Dao Ming Si and Mei Zhou Ling and needed proper education on the market, Xiao You thought there was no need for parents to force their childrento take such a course.

Suddenly, a smile appeared in Xiao You's face as she remembered how Mr and Mrs Dong had forced Shan Cai to take business too. But then again, their intention was to have

Shan Cai meet a young and rich bachelor to marry that's why they had send her best friend off to Ying De University.

"What's wrong?" the man in front of Xiao You asked as he noticed how her face furrowed in thought.

"Nothing. I just remembered who this woman reminds me off. She looks a lot like Teng Tang Jing."

The man didnt say a word, he just turned back to stare at his painting.

Xiao You could sense reluctance in the man and it made her thought of Ximen. How he too was once reluctant to tell her a story from his past, the story of Xiao Gen.

Ximen. Xiao You still thought of him every day. Still reminisce those brief yet wonderful moments when he had held her in his arms. Like that time at the rooftop after she showed him Xiao Gen's message. Xiao You knew Ximen was thinking of Xiao Gen then, but it didnt matter, Xiao You had only been aware of her pounding heart.

Xiao You was pulled from her reverie as she heard the man ask her a question. She shook her head, trying to clear off any more thoughts on Ximen.

She realized that was futile though when she noticed once more the man's warm smile. Xiao You could have sworn it was Ximen's! Just as the man's eyes mirrored Ximen's brown orbs.

"I said I'm getting hungry, it's way past lunch time. I would be very happy if you could join me, Miss. . .?"

Xiao You stared at this man, debating whether she should give him her name and accept his invitation. Before she knew what she was doing, she heard herself answering him.

"Yang Xiao You," she said extending her hand. "Thank you for the invitation, I'm a bit hungry myself."

The man took her hand. "Tian Li. Ximen Tian Li."

AN: so that's for the prologue. dont know when i can update next so as to not drive you guys thinking who this man is, i'll answer it now. ximen tian li(tian for our dear ken and li from my 2nd fav ccs male[yukito is my 1st fav]) is ximen's older brother. that's why he kinda look like ximen. in ximen pian, he had said something about an older brother that's why i suddenly came up with this idea. that's all i can say for now. hope to hear some

comments, xie xie in advance!