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One rainy evening, I knocked on the door of the house with a duffel bag as small as a cat. The house was a bit bleak, and the damp smell of potion filled the whole room. The faint light from the narrow dark white horizontal wooden window reflected half of her face. She called me in a hoarse voice: "Come in." She spoke in Chinese. Putting down the duffel bag, she followed her through the corridor to the bathroom to wash her feet and face. For such a small house, the corridors are surprisingly long. When she took off her shoes and walked with her white Ao dai skirt with her bare feet, it felt like she was walking through the cool giraffe's neck. My room was on the other side of the giraffe's neck. "Can you take a bath?" "Yes." I said.

"Once Upon a Time in Saigon" is a type of "Bhuhu Novella", which includes three novellas by Wen Wenjin, "Once Upon a Time in Saigon", "Nezha, Lover" and "Hotel Girl". "Once Upon a Time in Saigon" won the 5th Chinese World Film and Novel Award. The novel is set in Saigon, Vietnam, and tells the story of a young girl, Xiaowan, who is a simple and well-behaved high school student with a faint rebellious mentality. Her mother and stepfather have been working hard to maintain the warmth of the reorganized family, but Xiaowan always feels that this is not the life she wants. After failing the college entrance examination, Xiaowan went to live alone with his uncle's family in Saigon, whom he had never met. Xiaowan, who has just arrived, lives with his mysterious foreign cousin Ruan Fuzhen. As they get along day and night, Xiaowan gradually learns about several of Fuzhen's emotional experiences...