bloom america

On the stage of Lincoln Center for the Arts, the little girl slowly walked out from behind.

She looked about ten years old, with a cute little face, long platinum hair tied up, and a pair of big blue eyes that were extremely focused.

She was wearing a black ballet costume, white tights and pointe shoes, and was holding a tambourine.

Then--

Music starts.

The little girl just danced.

Emma Edson and Bruce Edson sat excitedly in the audience watching their daughter's performance.

"Oh, Kate." Emma covered her mouth excitedly.

After all, this is already the final.

At this time, the little girl performed a difficult back kick, kicking her left leg over her head and touching the tambourine in her right hand. The judges sitting at the front desk nodded approvingly.

The little girl performed a ballet dance called "Esmeralda", which lasted only a little over eighty seconds.

After a series of movements, the little girl circled the field half a circle, then raised the tambourine above her head, and then started to kick. Her first kick shocked the audience, even a professional ballet dancer could not handle it.

She kicked higher and higher from 90 degrees, and finally reached 180 degrees in the last few kicks. However, from the first kick to the final ninth kick, this girl was slightly over 180 degrees. What's more valuable is that she was able to maintain every kick.

The strength of the front kick of the leg remains stable and the height remains unchanged, which is rare and valuable.

"Pah, pah, pah—"

After the performance, there was a burst of applause from the audience. The girl saluted to the audience and then walked off the stage.

After all the performances were over, the little girl undoubtedly won the championship.

…

If you were to ask me whether a beautiful woman or a handsome man is better after eliminating subjective gender factors, I would choose a beautiful woman.

But if there is such a thing as time travel and rebirth, I will choose to be a man.

I longed for the opposite sex, and imagining the beauty of women would cause my hormones to secrete.

To put it bluntly, many men who fantasize about becoming beautiful women are just out of curiosity.

Probably because I have read too many bad novels, but no matter how I read them, I felt that women were better than men, so I also felt that women seemed to be better than men.

If that were the case, it wouldn't matter.

But I'm not sure if I will still have this urge after becoming a woman.

Moreover, beautiful women are in the minority after all. If you really travel through time, who can guarantee that you will become a beautiful woman?

Moreover, women begin to look sallow after forty, while men are at their most charming at this time.

If there were a beautiful woman and an ugly man, I would probably choose to be the beautiful woman. But if there were an ugly woman and an ugly man, or a beautiful woman and a handsome man, I would probably choose the man.

When I was a child, I hated growing up, and when I grow up, I also hate getting older.

I don't hope for eternal life, but I hate the feeling of aging. It would be perfect if people could look like they were thirty or forty years old when they died while their life span remained the same.

In fact, I only thought about the so-called time travel and rebirth because I am an atheist. Even if someone told me that the Loch Ness monster is a pet kept by Martians, it is probably better than Jehovah, Lao Tzu and the like.

reality.

Maybe my idea really offended the gods, or maybe a certain god wanted to use influence to make me believe in their existence.

Obviously, they succeeded.

I started to become suspicious. When I went to church, I would bow my head devoutly. When I saw a monk, I would put my hands together. If I could go to a Taoist temple, I would probably burn incense and make a wish.

It may also be the work of aliens. They saw that I was a "loyal atheist" and gave me a chance to experience it. Maybe the star gate in Somalia should be closed to prevent those aliens from coming to the earth to cause mischief.

——If that thing really exists.

…

When she got home, Catherine put the trophy on the table and returned to the room with a tired face.

Although she has been practicing in pointe shoes for more than two years, she still cannot tolerate these shoes.

Suddenly she threw herself on the bed, and the girl stared blankly at the sky.

How should I put it, you have been here for 12 years, right?

The year on the wall calendar is 1960. Counting the time, I have been studying ballet for 8 years. Alas, who called my mother a ballet dancer? Although she stopped performing after giving birth to herself, she pinned her hopes on

On one's own body.

Her parents are both immigrants, and both were orphans of World War II - that's how they got to know each other. Her mother is of British and Nordic descent, while her father is of mixed French and Jewish descent. "Hybrid advantage" is clearly demonstrated in Catherine.

, although she is only 12 years old, she is already so cute and beautiful.

"I have to make something... Well, by the way, 'that' should have been sent by now, right?"

As a reborn person - well, plus gender change, Catherine thought she had to do something. Her home was in the suburbs of New York City, and she felt that it was middle-class. However, she couldn't just waste her life like this, even if she was now a

You're a little girl, but there are so many things you can do.

After lying down for a while, she sat up again and began to massage her feet.

Although ballet looks beautiful, incorrect methods can make calves thick and splayed, and frequent wearing of pointe shoes can also lead to toe deformities. Although Emma was once a very professional ballet dancer, and she

The New York Ballet School where I studied is also a very professional ballet study - New York Ballet School, School-of-American-ballet, referred to as sab, is part of the Lincoln Center for the Arts, and is in the same building as the famous Juilliard School of Music, with a strong artistic atmosphere.

Although it was terrible to become a woman, Catherine did not give up on herself, although being reborn in the United States in the 1950s and 1960s was really hard to adapt to.

At this moment, Emma knocked on Catherine's door.

"Kate, a Mr. Robert came to see you. He said he was a candidate for a paper book company...Kate, what happened to you?"

"Kate" is the nickname of "Katherine", and Catherine is always called this at home.

So fast?!

Catherine's face was filled with surprise. She didn't expect that she had a talent for writing - although most of the plots were "references".

"I did a little writing." She jumped down excitedly and opened the door.

Paperback Publishing Company is the oldest and largest publishing company in the United States located in New York.

Logically speaking, the publishing house should first send a letter and then call to make an appointment. Why did it come to you directly?

When Catherine followed her mother to the living room, she saw a young man in his twenties sitting uneasily on a chair. Catherine probably understood.

"Ah...oh...you...are you Miss Catherine?" Robert looked at the little girl walking towards him, but his face became incredulous.

This young man who seemed to have just debuted was frightened by Catherine's age.

"Harry Potter".

Yes, Catherine "wrote" this novel, and she wrote three of them at once and sent them all together.

After all, she was not sure whether such a novel would be popular in a different era, nor was she sure whether the other party really had that vision.

But obviously, her plan seems to work.

After all, the magical trend of "The Lord of the Rings" had just started a few years ago, and ten years later, "The Lord of the Rings" would trigger another craze.

It can even be said that the later Dungeons and Dragons series and various video games were influenced by The Lord of the Rings. Orcs, elves and the like.

But the modern background of "Harry Potter" made the editors of Paperback Publishing House shine.

Such novels and stories have obviously subverted the magical world created by Tolkien and opened up a new world.

Another reason why Catherine chose this novel is because the "Harry Potter" series can barely be regarded as fairy tales. Writing it at her age, the sense of dissonance is not too strong.

"You guessed it right, sir."

Catherine's words made Robert feel uncomfortable.

Could it be that his first business deal was with a twelve-year-old girl?

Are you... kidding?

He thought the person who wrote this book was a middle-aged woman in her thirties who exuded maternal charm!

"I think you must be here for my novel, right?" Catherine looked at the other party's embarrassed look, and she couldn't stand it anymore.

"Uh...ah, that's right!"

Robert took out a document from his briefcase.

"We will provide 10% royalties and a remuneration of US$50,000, but we hope to buy out the copyrights of all three books..."

The so-called royalties refer to the share of retail books. For example, a 10% royalty, a book priced at US$50, the author will receive US$5 for each book sold.

The 1960s was the golden age of the development of the United States. The Bretton Woods system still did not collapse. The United States was still implementing the gold standard, U.S. dollar, U.S. dollar. That’s how it came about. The U.S. dollar was strong.

Catherine really doubted how this stupid young man passed the interview. You know, the contract document said 7% royalties and 20,000 US dollars, and the other party actually quoted the bottom line at once...

After all, 10% royalty is already a lot for a newcomer.

Encountering such a stunned young man, Catherine naturally laughed.

"Kate, oh my God, Kate, you actually wrote a novel?"

The mother Emma on the side was looking at Catherine stupidly.

In fact, Emma has long confirmed that Catherine is a genius. She has been admitted to Grier-school. Although this girls' school only has more than 300 students year-round, it is indeed one of the top 100 middle schools in the United States. Can she be admitted?

A certain level of strength is not enough.

As early as when Catherine entered school at the age of 7, Catherine showed amazing "talent", with an ar (accelerated-reader-test) score of 120.

ar is a reading test. Third-grade students can probably get about 20 - which is the highest. Even in fifth grade and above, not many can get 120 points.

At that time, Catherine chose the Children's Bible.

In fact, if her English had been better, he would have even considered reading Das Kapital.

The teacher's suggestion to Emma is to transfer her to the city's talented-student-school, which is a school specially provided for students with IQ 145 and above. At least under George W. Bush, he cut the expenses for highly gifted students to use them with himself.

Before the education of the same retarded children, such schools were very complete and excellent. Education in the United States is very responsible, at least in most places, especially in the 1960s and 1970s, this was the United States

In the golden decade of China, everything is booming and changing, and education is also the top priority in these years.

But Catherine is self-aware, she is just foresight, to say that she has high iq... haha.

So Catherine rejected the plan.

She didn't react until she finished talking to Robert and signed the contract with Emma as the guardian.

"What novel did you write?" Emma asked.

"Harry Potter, a story about magic."

Emma nodded, children generally like to fantasize about weird things.

"Well, I'm really looking forward to it. I'll tell your dad about it then."

European and American education has a somewhat heuristic meaning. Parents sometimes talk to their children as friends, and then use encouraging words and expectant eyes to motivate their children.

"Of course, I am a genius." If I haven't already predicted this after more than 50 years of history, I would be ashamed of myself.

In her previous life, although Catherine was a college graduate, she was studying software, but this world was a world where personal computers had not even been born. Even the founder of the famous Intel Corporation was still at Fairchild Semiconductor.

In a world like this where you are working part-time, what is the use of your professional abilities?

Therefore, after coming to this world, Catherine has never failed to study. With her foresight, she can be regarded as a little "genius".

Catherine's goal is to earn enough wealth for 200 years before she is 20 years old, and then squander it for 50 years.

Anyway, she has become a woman, so why not try something "new and strange"? Of course, she will never touch a man.