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[Sakura Parfait]

⋤ XIAO MAI LI ⋥
FILLERFILLERX↳ Xiao Mai or just Mai

⇢ sensitive • kind-hearted• quiet ⇠

Have A Look Into My Heart

XSeventeen years have passed.
XThe Rainy days of Mondays December 17th
XMy father said,❝That's my girl ❞
XAnd I ended up chasing cars

XMy mother once said,❝Your my special little sorceress ❞
XLittle did she know, I had a secret all of my own.
X ♪ summoning • aura sensing • spellsongs ♪



ღ MILLENIA267OWNSTHISAnd SECRETLY in Love with?!?
NOSTEALINGMILLENIA267OWNSTHIS﹙ not anyone in particular at the moment, sorry ﹚


&& Pierce Through The Wounds

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX⇤ playing piano • anime and Asian dramas • green tea • singing • cherry blossoms ⇥
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX⇤ foul language • konnyaku (gelatinous cake) • academic pressure• bullies• anyone who cheats and lies ⇥



First of all, I’m a quiet person. I rarely ever talk to people I meet in the hallways, unless it's people I'm very close to. In class, I'm almost never the one to raise my hand if I have something in mind. I usually let people ask my question for me if they're thinking the same thing as me. I've always been that person who would go to class, sit down, be quiet, take notes, and then leave once the bell rings. No interaction with my fellow classmates or anything unless I'm assigned groupwork. And if I do speak in class, it’s usually to answer the teacher’s question if it’s directed at me. I'm also shy. When I first meet new people, I don't even talk. At all. The most I could do is either nod or shake my head if someone asks me a simple "yes" or "no" question. If they ask for my name, I'd flash my student I.D. Eventually, I'll start talking to them and open up a little. But that takes a bit of time and patience.

And you know what the funniest thing is? I am extremely shy when it comes to approaching people I don't know or public speaking, but I'm not scared or intimidated whenever I'm singing in front of people or performing with the choir onstage. I don't know---I guess singing in front of people is more comfortable for me than going up to someone and say, "hey, what's up?"

You could say that I'm a crybaby as well. I cry over the littlest things, such as if my possessions are taken away from me. You may find me a "spoiled little princess" for that, but in truth, those possessions aren't the latest stuff that every teenage girl wants to own. They're things that I've had ever since I was a child. Things that I value over the new stuff. You know how in the Peanuts cartoon, the character Linus finds security in his little blue blanket? That's the same for me. Though my own blanket has a few rips in it, I still treasure it. Why? Because it was the first blanket given to me when I outgrew my crib, and also because my parents worked together to make it for me. It's just something that can't be bought in stores anywhere. Again, I sound silly for saying that, but that's just me. Go ahead; laugh at me if you want.

Oh, and I'm hardly ever athletic. Have you ever seen a girl on the tracks who look like she's all out of breath? Yeah, that's me. I'm horrible at keeping my breathing steady whenever I start running, because I make those loud heaving noises. I also can't swim to save my life, either, so I just stay on the shallow ends of the pool. And I may be book smart, but I'm nowhere close to street smart. I can barely go out into the world on my own without someone holding my hand.

I find peace in music and tea, which is probably why I enjoy playing the piano and participating in tea ceremonies that my best friend’s (she’s Japanese) grandmother hosts every 1st weekend of the month. If I’m ever feeling agitated or stressed and need to get away from reality, I turn to these two activities. If anything, I’m most calm when playing piano or drinking powdered green tea.

Well, now that I’ve told you my personality, let me tell you about my life so far. I was born at midnight to Chinese parents in a hospital in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. Funny thing is, my parents had a little argument over whether to name me Yu Xin or Wen Hsuan, but in the end, they settled on “Xiao Mai,” which means “Little Elegance.”

The Li family are very wealthy. My parents own large estates in Taiwan, Japan, and South Korea. The estate in Taiwan is our home, and the other two are our vacation homes that we go to during winter or summer vacation. Usually, we go to Japan in the summer and South Korea in the winter. I don’t know why, but that’s how my family has been doing it for years. My dad is chairman of the Li Empire, a rather large chain of companies. On the outside, he seems intimidating, stubborn, and demanding, but he’s actually a cool person who would take time off work to spend time with his family. My mother, on the other hand, is a renowned classical singer and pianist. My dad met my mother when she was performing at the National Kaohsiung Performing Arts Center in Taiwan one day (he was invited to it by his work colleague). As he always says whenever I asked why, "it's because there was indescribable beauty in her when she performed.”

I'm not the only child in the family. I actually have four brothers--all of them older than me, and their names are Jin, Yunhai, Rui, and Xiaolang. Jin's the oldest of them all, and is the most quiet and protective brother of them all, though he comes off as cold and emotionless most of the time. The second oldest is Rui. He likes to read a lot and study. Next are Xiaolang and Yunhai. They’re twins, but are complete opposites of each other. Yunhai’s loud and abrasive, and Xiaolang is hard-working, dedicated, and a loner.

When I was three years old, my parents started signing me up for piano lessons when they found me in the piano room banging away at the keys one time. The sound I produced was pretty horrible, so they wanted me to turn my horrible playing into something that sounds beautiful. At school, I was a so-called perfect student. I had straight A's in all my courses, was on the honor roll, missed only 5 days of school in the entire year (due to extreme sickness like the flu), and participated in school extracurricular activities. I was even vice-president of the National Honors Society in middle school for a year before I gave up the position due to it being too much work. However, being a good student isn't always easy. There were nights where I didn't get any sleep at all because I'd be slaving over the overloaded pile of homework on my desk. Nights where I'd cry myself to sleep and wake up the next morning with red, puffy eyes. My parents were your typical Asian parents; they put a lot of pressure on me in order for me to be that perfect student in school.

During one summer vacation, I met someone who soon became my best friend. Her name was Tomoko Sasaki, and she came from an average Japanese family. Neither of us could speak each other’s language at all, but we were able to communicate with each other through non-verbal communication and body language. Unlike me, shy and quiet, Tomoko was often outgoing and energetic. She wasn’t afraid to speak out and stand up against what’s right and what’s wrong. She was someone who would comfort me whenever I felt stressed to the point of crying, or if I ever wanted a shoulder to cry on. Then, on my 10th birthday, she invited me to her grandmother’s tea house in Kyoto. It was the first time I've ever experienced a tea ceremony. Never did I think that drinking tea could be taken as an art form. Since then, whenever I visited Japan over the summer, I'd always go to Tomoko's house everyday to play and hang out with her as well as drink tea with her family.

Little did she know that I was secretly a sorceress. My entire family line on my dad's side of the family are sorceresses. Wait, wouldn't that make me half-sorceress, half-human, you ask? Sorcerers and sorceresses are really just human with magical abilities, so I'm still full human, except I have magical blood in me. Anyway, my friend didn't find out about my secret until one summer festival night when I summoned fireflies to dance for us in the field a little far away from the booths. Needless to say, she was astonished and at the same time scared. She wouldn't even speak to me for the next four weeks. At that point, I thought the friendship between us was fake, that as soon as I revealed my secret, she showed the true side of her. Then, just before my family left to go back to Taiwan, Tomoko came looking for me in the airport. She'd wanted to apologize for the way she avoided me like she was an outcast, and promised me that she wouldn't ever tell my secret to anyone.

I haven't seen her since I entered Sainoo No 'Aru Gakuen, a school my parents sent me to. I was excited about being in Japan again for my high school education, but because I was going to a school for special people with powers, I didn't see Tomoko very often. I don't know what she's doing now, but I hope she's doing well.





XThe Hues That Caught My Breath Metallic Gold

FILLERFILLERMy Heart's Melody
XXXXXXXXXXXFILLERXXXXX○ Nukumori no Kioku/ Memories of Warmth


♪ Creative Writing, Astronomy, Japanese, Choir
♪ Power Control, Sewing Class, Orchestra, Life Skills
♪ Junior
♪ Animal Club/ Gardening Club/ Music Club



XThe strings I pull ｛ 1litreoftears_sakura ｝

[Sakura Parfait]

❝I find peace in tea and music❞

●Hello there, my name is: Xiao Mai Li
●I've been alive this long: Seventeen
●I am a: lady
●I have this strange ability: summoning, aura sensing, spellsongs, water-based magic
●I know, it's weird I'm a: sorceress
●I like the: males
●I was born on: December 17th
●I'm living up the: 11th grade
●I tend to act a little:
First of all, I’m a very quiet person. I rarely ever talk to people I meet in the hallways, unless it's people I'm very close to. In class, I'm almost never the one to raise my hand if I have something in mind. I usually let people ask my question for me if they're thinking the same thing as me. I've always been that person who would go to class, sit down, be quiet, take notes, and then leave once the bell rings. No interaction with my fellow classmates or anything unless I'm assigned groupwork. And if I do speak in class, it’s usually to answer the teacher’s question if it’s directed at me. I'm also shy. When I first meet new people, I don't even talk. At all. The most I could do is either nod or shake my head if someone asks me a simple "yes" or "no" question. If they ask for my name, I'd flash my student I.D. Eventually, I'll start talking to them and open up a little. But that takes a bit of time and patience.

You know what the funniest thing is? I am extremely shy when it comes to approaching people I don't know or public speaking, but I'm not scared or intimidated whenever I'm singing in front of people or performing with the choir onstage. I don't know---I guess singing in front of people is more comfortable for me than going up to someone and say, "hey, what's up?"

You could say that I'm a crybaby as well. I cry over the littlest things, such as if my possessions are taken away from me. You may find me a "spoiled little princess" for that, but in truth, those possessions aren't the latest stuff that every teenage girl wants to own. They're things that I've had ever since I was a child. Things that I value over the new stuff. You know how in the Peanuts cartoon, the character Linus finds security in his little blue blanket? That's the same for me. Though my own blanket has a few rips in it, I still treasure it. Why? Because it was the first blanket given to me when I outgrew my crib, and also because my parents worked together to make it for me. It's just something that can't be bought in stores anywhere. Again, I sound silly for saying that, but that's just me. Go ahead; laugh at me if you want.

Oh, and I'm hardly ever athletic. Have you ever seen a girl on the tracks who looks like she's all out of breath? Yeah, that's me. I'm horrible at keeping my breathing steady whenever I start running, because I make those loud heaving noises. I also can't swim to save my life, either, so I just stay on the shallow ends of the pool. And I may be book smart, but I'm nowhere close to street smart. I can barely go out into the world on my own without someone holding my hand.

I find peace in music and tea, which is probably why I enjoy playing the piano and participating in tea ceremonies that my best friend’s (she’s Japanese) grandmother hosts every 1st weekend of the month. If I’m ever feeling agitated or stressed and need to get away from reality, I turn to these two activities. If anything, I’m most calm when playing piano or drinking powdered green tea.
●So this is how my life was like:

I was born at midnight to Chinese parents in a hospital in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. Funny thing is, my parents had a little argument over whether to name me Yu Xin or Wen Hsuan, but in the end, they settled on “Xiao Mai,” which means “Little Elegance.”

The Li family are very wealthy. My parents own large estates in Taiwan, Japan, and South Korea. The estate in Taiwan is our home, and the other two are our vacation homes that we go to during winter or summer vacation. Usually, we go to Japan in the summer and South Korea in the winter. I don’t know why, but that’s how my family has been doing it for years. My dad is chairman of the Li Empire, a rather large chain of companies. On the outside, he seems intimidating, stubborn, and demanding, but he’s actually a cool person who would take time off work to spend time with his family. My mother, on the other hand, is a renowned classical singer and pianist. My dad met my mother when she was performing at the National Kaohsiung Performing Arts Center in Taiwan one day (he was invited to it by his work colleague). As he always says whenever I asked why, "it's because there was indescribable beauty in her when she performed.”

I'm not the only child in the family. I actually have four brothers--all of them older than me, and their names are Jin, Yunhai, Rui, and Xiaolang. Jin's the oldest of them all, and is the most quiet and protective brother of them all, though he comes off as cold and emotionless most of the time. The second oldest is Rui. He likes to read a lot and study. Next are Xiaolang and Yunhai. They’re twins, but are complete opposites of each other. Yunhai’s loud and abrasive, and Xiaolang is hard-working, dedicated, and a loner.

When I was three years old, my parents started signing me up for piano lessons when they found me in the piano room banging away at the keys one time. The sound I produced was pretty horrible, so they wanted me to turn my horrible playing into something that sounds beautiful. At school, I was a so-called perfect student. I had straight A's in all my courses, was on the honor roll, missed only 5 days of school in the entire year (due to extreme sickness like the flu), and participated in school extracurricular activities. I was even vice-president of the National Honors Society in middle school for a year before I gave up the position due to it being too much work. However, being a good student isn't always easy. There were nights where I didn't get any sleep at all because I'd be slaving over the overloaded pile of homework on my desk. Nights where I'd cry myself to sleep and wake up the next morning with red, puffy eyes. My parents were your typical Asian parents; they put a lot of pressure on me in order for me to be that perfect student in school.

During one summer vacation, I met someone who soon became my best friend. Her name was Tomoko Sasaki, and she came from an average Japanese family. Neither of us could speak each other’s language at all, but we were able to communicate with each other through non-verbal communication and body language. Unlike me, shy and quiet, Tomoko was often outgoing and energetic. She wasn’t afraid to speak out and stand up against what’s right and what’s wrong. She was someone who would comfort me whenever I felt stressed to the point of crying, or if I ever wanted a shoulder to cry on. Then, on my 10th birthday, she invited me to her grandmother’s tea house in Kyoto. It was the first time I've ever experienced a tea ceremony. Never did I think that drinking tea could be taken as an art form. Since then, whenever I visited Japan over the summer, I'd always go to Tomoko's house everyday to play and hang out with her as well as drink tea with her family.

Little did she know that I was secretly a sorceress. My entire family lineage on my dad’s side of the family are sorcerers. Wait, wouldn't that make me half-sorceress, half-human, you ask? Sorcerers and sorceresses are really just human with magical abilities, so I'm still full human, except I have magical blood in me. Anyway, my friend didn't find out about my secret until one summer festival night when I summoned fireflies to dance for us in the field a little far away from the booths. Needless to say, she was astonished and at the same time scared. She wouldn't even speak to me for the next four weeks. At that point, I thought the friendship between us was fake, that as soon as I revealed my secret, she showed the true side of her. Then, just before my family left to go back to Taiwan, Tomoko came looking for me in the airport. She'd wanted to apologize for the way she avoided me like she was an outcast, and promised me that she wouldn't ever tell my secret to anyone.

I haven't seen her since I entered Kokusai High, a school my parents sent me to. I was excited about being in Japan again for my high school education, but because I was going to a school for “special” people and non-human creatures, I didn't see Tomoko very often. I don't know what she's doing now, but I hope she's doing well.

●I love these!: playing piano • anime • Asian dramas • green tea • singing • cherry blossoms • classical music • Japanese music • Chinese music • Korean music • reading • the spring season
●I can't stand these: foul language • konnyaku (gelatinous cake) • academic pressure• bullies• anyone who cheats and lies • large crowds • loud noises • pork • beef • most vegetables
●Please keep this far away from me: spiders • heights • cockroaches • large insects • thunderstorms
●My Theme Song: Nukumori no Kioku/ Memories of Warmth
●Oh, and I forgot: Nope

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