London, United Kingdom.

The last day of 2028.

"Mia, it's good that I can still see you at home on New Year's Day, at this time in previous years, we could only share happiness with each other through video, do you have any arrangements today? I love that you can come to our New Year's Eve party. ”

Cao Aiqing was in a rented apartment in Tavistock Square, the dressed girl walked out of the room, and the roommate in the living room immediately sent an invitation to join us on New Year's Eve in the evening, but obviously, Cao Aiqing already had an appointment today, and looking at the posture, this was about to go out.

"Excuse me Emily, I'm ...... at night Make an appointment with someone very important. ”

A polite refusal made a trace of regret flash on the white girl's face, but when she looked Cao Aiqing's formal dress up and down, she smiled:

"Could it be that your lover in China has come to London to see you again?"

"It's not."

Emily was stunned for a moment and hesitated:

"That'...... Are you coming back tonight? ”

Cao Aiqing smiled helplessly, "I guarantee that you can see me at home in the early morning of the first day of the new year to help you make breakfast." ”

After hearing this, Emily smiled and praised again and again.

A British-style brown windbreaker with horn buttons, an off-white turtleneck, Cao Aiqing, who was walking in the entrance, squatted down, folded the hem of her jeans meticulously, stood up, she took out a white knitted hat behind the mirror in the hallway, put it on and took a look in front of the mirror, I felt that this dress was a little more cute and green, thinking of the person she was going to see later, she took off her hat again, grabbed a part of the hair on the back of her head and tied it in a low bun, and tucked the rest into a bun or coiled around, Finish finishing with shredded hair and pull out some of the volume.

In this way, it looks formal, but also relaxed and casual.

"How do I look like this?"

Cao Aiqing, who leaned out from the entrance, asked her roommate's opinion.

"It's just the heroine who came out of a Korean drama~! Mia, Sarah Hei~! ”

"Aha, although I'm not Korean, I accept your compliment~!"

Cao Aiqing, who was recognized, was a little more confident in dressing today, she took off a scarf from the hanger at the door, and after thinking about it for a while, she still put the knitted hat in her backpack and went out.

This girl is actually very afraid of the cold.

London is snowy in winter, the city is covered in snow, today's temperature is only minus four degrees, out of the apartment and downstairs, Cao Aiqing looked at the sky and planted falling snowflakes, she exhaled a white heat into the palm of her hand.

It rarely snows in the port city, and when she first came to London, the girl looked forward to winter the most, but every year when the snow was at its highest, she was not in England, maybe this was providence.

But this is not a pity, because whenever she returns to China, she can always be arranged by someone to do something more pleasant than watching the snow.

It's just this year......

Even if he returns to China this year, that person shouldn't be able to spare time to accompany him like in previous years, right?

I heard that the investment scale of that drama is very large, and the lineup is luxurious, which is a very good opportunity for that person, if the series is successful after it is launched, then he can be regarded as a complete foothold in the domestic film and television industry.

I can't be left too far behind him, and I'm going to have to work harder!

The kind and motivated girl encouraged herself in her heart, pulled up a little scarf to cover her lips, put her hands in the pockets of her trench coat, and the cold wind blew her cheeks slightly red.

Cao Aiqing found a café that was still open, asked for a cup of hot cocoa to drink, and while warming his hands, he took a taxi and went to Duke Street.

This is the most traditional art street in London's West End, home to the famous White Cube Gallery, designed by world-renowned minimalist architect Claudio Silvestrin, and one of Europe's most influential commercial galleries, despite its slightly smaller exhibition space.

Cao Aiqing has been to these places many times, because today is the New Year, many shops on the street have been closed for rest, but there are still some Christmas decorations on both sides of the street, and the customers of the shops that are still sporadically open have not decreased, although the whole street is bustling a little, but it is not deserted.

A small truck pulled up on the side of the road, and several workers carried some renovation supplies back and forth, an unnamed gallery that Cao Aiqing had also traveled to.

She followed the workers in, the overall area of this gallery is not large, but the space under the duplex design is very large, and the opening of a personal gallery in this inch of land on Jazz Street can definitely be regarded as a "celebrity" level existence in the entire European art trading circle.

"Ai Qing, you're here."

Above, a greeting was heard.

Cao Aiqing raised her head and called out to herself a woman with an elegant and noble temperament, her hands propped up on the guardrail made of fair-faced concrete left and right, a flannel coat casually draped over her shoulders, lined with a slim white suit to modify her whole composure and neatness.

At this moment, she was smiling and looking down at the girl.

"Sister Bai~"

"Well, come on."

The girl whispered cheerfully, and after receiving a response, she walked up the stairs beside her.

This woman is the important person in Cao Aiqing's mouth, and at the same time, she is also He Tianran's biological mother, Bai Wenyu.

In this timeline, the acquaintance of these two women was in the year when Cao Aiqing first came to the UK, He Tianran talked about his mother working in Europe, and if there is a chance, the two can get to know each other, so that the girl who has no relatives and no support overseas can have an elder who can rely on.

It just so happened that Bai Wenyu also knew that there was such a person as Cao Aiqing in the news of contacting the housekeeper Wang's mother, and she had long wanted to meet this son's sweetheart.

Bai Wenyu was a professional auctioneer and curator at Sotheby's auction house in her early years, and was promoted to director five years ago, based in the United Kingdom, where she accumulated a lot of contacts and fame through her perennial art trading activities, and resigned from the auction house last year to officially become an independent art dealer.

After the past few years of contact, Bai Wenyu has become more and more fond of Cao Aiqing's child, which has nothing to do with whether she is her son's girlfriend or not, but if she insists on pulling it to this level, it may be that this girl who is very similar to herself when she was young chose the opposite path to herself at the same age as herself at that time.

Bai Wenyu knew that Cao Aiqing did not confirm her relationship with He Tianran in order to study abroad, even if the two really loved each other.

In this regard, as the boy's mother, Bai Wenyu did not exert any pressure on Cao Aiqing in this regard, but affirmed and supported such an approach.

Because she knows too well what a woman will give up for love......

She herself is a living example.

What's ...... Before I even started, I was already in pain......

(End of chapter)