The New Year is approaching in the blink of an eye.

Christmas can be kept private, but New Year's Day is not a good place to continue.

In addition to the monetary connection of large bonuses at the end of the year, the most important means to maintain a more harmonious and popular relationship is to socialize.

After Christmas, Simon and Janet begin to sort out and plan the Westeros system, while Jennifer and Sophia are in charge of preparing the Westeros family's New Year's Eve party.

The official party on the West Coast was run by Amy Pascal of Los Angeles and Tim Berners Lee of San Francisco, respectively.

On the East Coast, the executives of Westeros Company, Cersei Capital, Verizon Telecom, Daenerys Entertainment East Coast Branch, AOL and other companies in the Westeros system have been invited, along with many important partners and political and business celebrities, because of the private agreement with a certain woman, and Simon also wants to pave the way for Sophia's son Daniel, and the invitation to this party also stated that you can bring the children of the family over 12 years old to participate.

The venue for the New Year's Eve party was again chosen at a manor house in the northern suburbs of Greenwich.

According to the number of invitations distributed and the feedback before the party, there will probably be more than 300 people in attendance, which is not too large, and it is definitely not small, and it is basically the core executives and key contacts of the Westeros system on the East Coast.

The official holidays at the end of the year in the United States are only one day each for Christmas and New Year's Day.

Coincidentally, this year's Christmas and New Year's Day are on Sunday, and many people can make their holiday arrangements more calmly.

On Manhattan's Upper East Side, just after lunch, the Spurts began preparing for the evening's party. The Spurts both know why they received the invitation to this New Year's Eve party, but the two children have been excited for several days, and their daughter Rita has been more active when she hears that her boyfriend's family has also received an invitation.

In order to avoid being rude at that time, Grace also specially arranged for her two children to attend several etiquette classes.

In the past, there was no such condition.

Nor is it necessary.

Now, or in the future, it will be different.

However, entering high society, the deepest feeling of the Spelts is burning money. If nothing else, the family has spent more than $60,000 in recent days just to buy a trip for tonight's party, and that's when Grace used her fashion connections to get her hands on a variety of luxury brands at discounted prices.

At the end of the year, the couple's income has increased significantly this year, however, in order to maintain the family's expensive life on the Upper East Side, they have an additional debt of $110,000.

Onlookers inevitably find the division of Manhattan's Upper East Side, Upper West Side, Midtown, and Lower Side into the life circle seem boring, as if they can step into it with just one foot, and only when they are in it, can they understand the threshold. It's like the Upper East Side, where everyone else is Chanel and Gucci Hermès at social gatherings, and if you wear an affordable FMCG brand, no one will pay attention to you.

If you want to think that others can't see it, that's even more of a joke.

At four o'clock in the afternoon, Grace, who had sent away the stylist who came to her door to put on her makeup, returned to the house, saw her daughter sneakily hanging up the phone again, and asked with a smile: "Are you ready over there?"

Rita Sprout was a little embarrassed, but nodded and said expectantly, "Mom, shall we leave now?"

Grace stepped forward to help her daughter tidy up the evening dress on her body, and stroked her head dotingly, and found that if she hadn't worn high heels, it would not have been so easy to do this action, as if the little girl who had been crying her nose a lot yesterday was suddenly slim, smiled, and said, "Soon, the car should be here." ”

Naturally, the words were about the Levison family.

Grace was responsible for handing over the invitation letter from the other party, and when they got the invitation, the Levison family, who were quite cold to this side, immediately became warm, and they didn't mind that Grace had said something that was not familiar with Simon Westeros before, and agreed to rush over together tonight.

The Spurt father and son came down from the upstairs together, and Grace thoughtfully stepped forward to check on them and sit down for them, listening to her son Ray ask what he was doing when he joined the party tonight, he was inexplicably distressed, and on the surface he had to encourage his son to communicate more with other peers as if nothing happened.

Bill Sportett also stepped forward to enlighten his son, but he was thinking about how to discuss the matter of Igrett's IPO with Simon Westeros tonight.

From being a middle-aged person to being unexpectedly promoted to the first Boston core executive of UBS, in the past six months, Bill Spurt is inevitably high-spirited and seems to be walking on thin ice, fortunately, because of the recovery of the U.S. stock market, coupled with some projects implied by the Westeros system, the stock trading department led by Bill Spurt has performed quite gratifying this year.

If he can get the underwriting rights for a portion of Igret's IPO shares next year, Bill Spurt will once again have a lot of experience and may go one step further in the future. In fact, this matter has already been raised, and it is clearly part of the initiative of the Westeros system. However, you should always check it out for yourself from Westeros to be reassured.

At half past four, the courtesy car arrived on time, and the Levison family happened to arrive, and the two families left Manhattan for Greenwich together.

Arriving in Greenwich City, upstate New York, in Connecticut, it was not yet six o'clock.

The New Year's Eve party was at 7 p.m., and it was not appropriate to rush there too early, so the two families chose a café for a short break, which is a café inside a country club in Greenwich that is not open to the public, and the Levison family has a membership card here. After entering the café, I found that there happened to be other guests with the same purpose who were also 'waiting', and everyone was worried about being late and rushed early, and it was not suitable to rush to the northern suburbs too early.

It's the same two families, and Grace happens to know both.

The heirs of the Hilton family, Richard Hilton and Cathy Hilton, and their two daughters, Paris and Nikki Hilton, are the heirs of the Hilton family.

The other is Jenner and his wife, TV personalities who participated in "Housewives of New York", who also brought their three daughters, Courtney, Kim and Kohler. In her spare time, she watched some episodes of "The New York Wife", and Grace vaguely remembered that all three girls were Bruce Jenner's stepdaughters, and her surname seemed to be Kardashian.

Compared with her beautiful Rita and Hilton's two daughters, Grace only felt that Bruce Jenner's three stepdaughters were still a little ugly even after being obviously well-dressed.

Of course it won't show itself.

After everyone got to know each other, it was natural for them to get together and chat.

The difference is also imperceptible.

Hilton and Levison are both typical old money families, even if the Levison family has roots in Florida in the south, the two families have faintly and quickly come together and become more enthusiastic. As TV personalities who have been very active in recent years, Jenner and his wife also have enough confidence in front of these old money families.

As a result, on the contrary, the background of the Spurt family is the most shallow, and the family background is not famous.

The housewives of Manhattan are pampered on weekdays, and their ability to intrigue without a trace is also perfected unconsciously.

Although she got the invitation from Grace's side, and it was quite enthusiastic on the surface, Grace could easily detect the difference in the attitude and tone between Mrs. Levison and Cathy Hilton, Chrissy Jenner, and the three of them during their conversations.

I still don't think much of you.

Moreover, the beautiful woman who was ten years younger than her husband and happened to be remembered by a certain little man made it obvious to Grace that she was doing it on purpose, and she did not hide it at all.

Glancing around occasionally, Grace was even more depressed when she found her husband's low posture when chatting with several other men.

Fortunately, there seems to be no show of the adult-like sophistication among the children, because Michael of the Rita and Levison families is the oldest and still dominates for a short time. The daughter is like herself, confident enough, and the son's expression when he looks at the little girl in the Hilton family is obviously a little strange, but the little girl with the same name as 'Paris' ignores her son a little, but her eyes are shining with a little green light when facing her daughter's boyfriend.

No matter what your mind is, after a communication, you still get acquainted with each other.

It's really networking.

It was not until 6:40 a.m., when it was already dark in the winter, that everyone left the café and arrived at the manor in the northern suburbs of Greenwich ten minutes later.

When entering the door, I checked the invitation, the courtesy car passed through the long corridor, and finally stopped in the small square in front of the main villa of the manor, there were dozens of cars parked here, but there was no congestion at all, a group of waiters were directing the dispatch, just got out of the car, feeling the lively scene in the brightly lit villa, and the cold around seemed to be irrelevant.

Holding her husband's arm and carrying her two children, she entered the villa, as if she had suddenly entered another world.

The first feeling is warmth.

It's the coldest time of year on the East Coast, and the outside temperature is already below zero, but it's warm as spring inside the huge villa.

This is still the foundation.

The manor at the foot of the house, if many rich people want to buy, they probably can afford it, but for most of the rich, affordability does not mean that they can afford it, and many old aristocrats in Britain continue to donate or even abandon their family castles, and this is the reason. A certain guy has purchased top mansions all over the world, and the annual maintenance tax and other expenses are probably enough for some ordinary billionaires to declare bankruptcy directly.

Inside the hall, Grace soon saw Mr. and Mrs. Simon, who had come to greet the guests in person, walking over with her husband and two children with the Levison family.

Greeting each other, shaking hands with his wife, looking at the eyes that seemed to penetrate everything, Grace inevitably felt a little weak, but fortunately, Janet Westeros did not show any abnormality, and took the initiative to remind Grace to introduce her two children when she was momentarily stunned.

"Oh, Simon, Jenny, this is my son Ray and daughter Rita. Simon, they're all your admirers, they've seen all your movies. ”

Simon smiled and shook hands with the boy and girl in front of him, and smiled gently, "Hello, Ray, Rita, have some fun tonight." ”

Rita waited for her brother to shake hands with Westeros, and took the initiative to step forward and shake the other party's hand, opposite the young man in this legend, after all, she was inevitably restrained, and just said, "Thank you, Mr. Westeros." ”

Grace stood aside, and saw that Mrs. Levison had a humility in her fawning over a young man, and she felt a sense of relief inexplicably.

Knowing that Simon had to greet other guests, the two families didn't stay long, and after greeting them, they walked into the hall.

All rooms on the ground floor of the villa are completely open, with hundreds of guests and a team of waiters in the room. Guests greeted the host's family and naturally took the initiative to find their own circle, even the children. A boy who introduced himself as Daniel Fesse stepped forward, introduced himself, and then left with Rita.

Grace didn't know Daniel, but when she heard the surname Fercy, she immediately understood the identity of the other party.

Son of Sophia Fesse.

I didn't expect a guy to be so good to his lover's son, and then I remembered what he said before that he wanted to support his daughter, and I thought he might have bad intentions, but now that I think about it, it's probably true.

With the children away for a while, the Spurts were able to intersect more freely, as Bill Spurt soon mingled with Cersei Capital and some other Wall Street executives in a room on the east side of the villa because of the cooperation for more than half a year.

Grace accompanied her husband to socialize in the crowd when she also saw Sophia Fercy, and also knew that Fercy's fashion executives were her circle, and more contact with the other party could expand and consolidate her network and strive for more opportunities for her customers. However, Grace did not stay, but stayed with her husband, hoping that he could go to the next level, which was good for the Spelt family.

The Levissons, who had followed the Spurts into this small circle, also had no potential arrogance.

A young man had spoken of investigating the situation of the Weyson family, and Bill Spurt had done the same.

Levison Group is a privately held company with a number of sizable real estate projects in Miami, Florida, with total assets of about $7 billion and accumulated liabilities of $5.3 billion. In other words, the Levison Group now has a debt ratio of 75%.

Although the series of projects developed by the Levison Group are of high quality, due to the continued downturn in the real estate industry, the company's capital chain has been very tight, and it is almost on the verge of breaking at any time.

The Levison family owns about 15 percent of the Levison Group, with nominal total family assets of $1 billion, but if the liabilities are removed, there is basically not much left.

Many investors in the circle are optimistic about the prospects of the Levison Group, but no one dares to take this risk, after all, if you don't pay attention, you may lose all your money. This time, if we can climb the behemoth of the Westeros system, all the problems faced by the Levison Group can be easily solved.

The Levison Group has not tried to contact the Westeros system before, but this kind of investment involving high risk is often passed in front of Simon if it can't reach Simon at all, and if you want to solve this problem, you can only meet Simon Westeros in person. This is also why the Levison family would take advantage of the situation to use the small means of letting their son and Grace's daughter have a relationship.

Basically, it's cornered.