Katsuko Sakai turned around, gently tightened the belt of her dressing gown, and closed the window.

She kicked off her slippers, climbed to the head of the bed, and picked up her phone.

"Katsuko, do you want to come and paint together at night." Gu Weijing's invitation flashed on the screen.

"Now, are you going to the school's studio?"

Katsuko Sakai blinked and glanced at the bedroom door, a little moved and a little hesitant.

"Go to the Good Luck Orphanage, which is the original site of The Old Church on a Thunderstorm that I mentioned to you, and where the painter Carol was created."

Katsuko Sakai bit her lip and stared at the phone screen.

"Gu Jun, were you watching the rain just now? Then I thought of the female painter's predecessors, right? She typed softly.

"Yes."

The on-screen messages are replied to quickly.

"I watched the thunderstorm outside the window, and suddenly it occurred to me that maybe it was a precious opportunity to feel the atmosphere of the female painter's work. The old church will be renovated soon, and this opportunity may be this time, do you want to talk to your mother and come here to collect style? ”

Katsuko Sakai stared at the message on the screen and whispered, "So we're all watching the rain...... That's great. ”

Under the same sky, someone is thinking the same thing as you.

This feeling of refreshment made Katsuko Sakai feel that a soft place in her heart was touched.

She held her phone in her arms, and her eyes slowly smiled into a crooked moon.

"If it's really inconvenient, forget it, it's still a little late after all. If you want, I'll show you the finished picture tomorrow. ”

Gu Weijing saw that no one replied for a long time, thinking that Sakai Katsuko's time was not very convenient.

He had heard of Mrs. Sakai's ban on her daughter not to run around at night.

"No, my mom has agreed, I'm going."

Katsuko Sakai glanced in the direction of the bedroom door and quickly replied on her phone.

For the first time, she had the bold idea of "home" in her mind.

When typing,

She felt her heart beat a little faster, and her white porcelain cheeks slowly rose with a strange rosy.

has been a good daughter for eighteen years,

Compared to her peers, Katsuko Sakai has traveled to many places, participated in various art exhibitions and youth art competitions around the world, and her life is undoubtedly rich.

But when other girls are chasing K-pop stars, falling in love with boys on campus, watching concerts at Tokyo Dome, and slowly strolling around the shopping streets of Ginza with their boyfriends.

Drawing, exhibitions, classes......

Katsuko Sakai's life is forever occupied by an organized schedule, and the cycle repeats itself, living the same pace of life all over the world.

She didn't really think there was anything wrong with that.

Fast-paced modern entertainment is nothing more than a momentary pleasure brought about by the secretion of neurodopamine, while the thick and eternal beauty of art can sink into the soul.

Art has become a part of her life, and she has grown up with it.

until

She met Gu Weijing.

Hiding from adults and quietly going out with boys at night, this rebellious thought has never even appeared in Sakai Katsuko's mind before.

Even if she just went to paint, it stimulated her to have a dry mouth.

Katsuko Sakai is nervous now, but determined.

The moment this thought jumped into my heart, it was like a torrent of bursting embankments that irrepressibly occupied Katsuko Sakai's mind and could not be stopped.

The girl didn't hesitate or hesitate for even a second, and then made up her mind.

You have to be bold a few times in life.

"It's a little dark and it's still raining heavily, do you want me to have someone drive to the hotel to pick you up?" Gu Weijing asked.

"It's okay, it's not a hassle. I am directly in charge of the concierge of the hotel to ask for a special car, I also know the location of the old church, please wait for half an hour. ”

Katsuko Sakai made up her mind.

She immediately took off her pajamas, hesitated for a moment at the closet, and picked out a dark red skirt that looked more youthful.

After packing up, he lightly prepared to sneak out of the room.

As she passed the large dresser in the living room, the girl hesitated and stopped.

"Hmm...... Maybe wait me another ten minutes? ”

Katsuko Sakai took out her mobile phone again and sent a message to Gu Weijing.

She glanced at her sleeping mother, sat in front of the sandalwood stool on the dresser, quietly turned on the small LED makeup lamp behind a mirror, and took out her mother's foundation and eyeliner from the drawer.

She decided to carefully clean up her makeup before going out.

When Katsuko Sakai was still drawing the corners of her eyes with an eye gel pen a little jerky, a call came from her mobile phone.

She thought it was a message from Gu Weijing, and glanced at the phone number, but her brows furrowed slightly.

"Hello? Komatsu seniors. ”

Katsuko Sakai was afraid of waking up her mother, so she walked back to her bedroom and asked expressionlessly.

"Katsuko, call Auntie over for a supper, Aman's hotel housekeeper said there was a puppet show in the banquet hall tonight."

On the other end of the microphone came the voice of Komatsu Taro's invitation, and the string dubbing of the Burmese puppet show.

"My mother is already asleep and she may be a little tired today."

"Oh, do you want to come?" Komatsutaro's tone was still gentle and polite.

"Actually, I'm a little tired. And it just so happens that when I returned to the hotel before, I was hesitant to call you. ”

Speaking of which, Katsuko Sakai seemed to think of something.

She took her phone and walked to the gift box on the coffee table in the bedroom, opened the package, and revealed the jewelry inside.

This is a gift from his mother to his mother on the treasure ship today.

A jade bracelet with an excellent water head.

She tilted her head and looked at the price tag on the jade bracelet above, "The bracelet is beautiful, thank you for ......"

"Katsuko, if you like it, it's fine."

“…… But this gift is a bit too expensive, and there are a lot of people in the afternoon, and I think that refusing in person may hurt your face, so I'll transfer the money to you later. ”

Katsuko Sakai said softly.

This bracelet is extremely expensive,

However, Mr. and Mrs. Sakai were very relieved of their daughter's conduct, and adhered to the principle of enriching their daughter, and bound her to the supplementary card of Professor Kazunari Sakai's Citibank charge card.

The monthly signing limit is capped at $150,000, with a temporary limit of $100,000.

Katsuko Sakai doesn't spend much money on a daily basis, but if you need it, it's still trivial to turn a bracelet for money.

"Katsuko, why are the two of us so clearly divided? It's just a small gift. Komatsu Taro's tone on the other end of the phone was very helpless.

"I don't think it's a good fit." Katsuko Sakai shook her head.

"Bad gifts?" Komatsu Taro's tone was unhappy, but he remained patient.

Katsuko Sakai shook her head slightly.

She is a well-bred girl, and she is unwilling to refute the kindness of her predecessors.

If it was in the past,

For her mother's sake, Miss Sakai may have considered using a more euphemistic remark.

But today she thought about it for a moment, and suddenly she wanted to say it completely.

"The gift doesn't fit, and neither do we."

She sat on the bed, looked at the line drawing at the head of the bed that she had framed in a delicate picture frame, and said softly, "I'm sorry, Komatsu-senpai, I'm very sorry, but—I won't marry you." ”

As this layer of window paper was completely pierced, the two sides of the phone fell silent in an instant.

All you can hear is Komatsu's heavy breathing coming from the other end of the phone.

"Katsuko, you weren't like this before."

Komatsu said word by word on the other end of the phone.

Sakai Katsuko had more of an indispensable attitude towards the elders for her and Komatsu Taro.

In Japanese-style high society, everything is like a cog that runs according to a specific program.

When a girl grows up, she always has to pick a husband to marry.

There is a high probability that it is a person in the circle, and the two will join forces to become bigger and stronger, and create brilliance.

It sounds like the logic of a commercial company more than a combination of boys and girls.

In fact, this is what it is.

Whether it's the tea ceremony, art, or Go, since the Edo period when Tokugawa Ieyasu ruled Toei, everyone began to marry each other in small circles, and they all did this for hundreds of years.

In the past, this method was called the "family yuan system".

The "big patriarch" jointly elected by several famous families in the small circle of the industry, such as the majestic management of the strict father, commands the industry, and everyone marries each other to consolidate their position.

For example, Dongying's tea ceremony consortium today, the generation of tea ceremony "family yuan" masters who were elected in the past few years, and he was born in a family of 3,000.

The 3,000 families have been the patriarchs of the tea ceremony since the era of the Yuanping War 400 years ago, and they are still leaders in the industry today.

Regardless of the level, every year the head of the family cooks new tea at a tea ceremony conference, just nine drops of tea can sell for millions of dollars.

That's identity.

This kind of industry management mechanism, after the war, changed its name to a certain association, in fact, it is still an old set of operating thinking.

Komatsu's predecessor's father talks about financial resources, runs the Komatsu Gallery, which is making money every day, and is the current chairman of the Calligraphy and Painting Federation, and the real power in the real power.

During the Warring States Period, local daimyo had to sweep the couch to greet each other when they saw it.

It's really a good match when you think about it this way, and it's understandable that Mrs. Sakai wants Komatsu Taro to be her son-in-law.

Katsuko Sakai has never objected.

Komatsu's seniors seem to like him quite a lot, and he doesn't like him, so he has no reason to refuse.

At least than marrying those political Chinese, if you don't get it right, you have to go home to marry and teach your children from the beginning of marriage. It is much more free to be responsible for managing the family's contacts every day, and to be a graceful and boring "Mrs. Minister".

Katsuko Sakai didn't care about the rumors that Komatsu Taro was outside.

It's good to break off after getting married,

Keep continuing to play outside...... She went with him.

There are really too many such things in the art world, and Katsuko Sakai has been used to seeing them since she was a child.

Modern artists and rock singers are in general, and there is no news about the chaos of their private lives.

Picasso, a master of the road, was still fifty years old and kept beautiful underage schoolgirls as his mistress all day long, and laughed at the scene of his lover and wife who had just given birth to a child wrestling and biting in front of him, so as to be satisfied and amused.

Compared with this kind of scumbag behavior who should make his avatar into a target paper and pull him to shoot the target and whip the corpse every day, Komatsu Taro is just a little flower heart who hooks up with a few TV actresses, and he can't even be regarded as a moral black spot, and he can be regarded as a model husband.

Because there is no love to talk about,

So don't care at all.

He gave him a child, and he held an exhibition for himself, and everyone took what they needed, which was very fair.

Katsuko Sakai has long accepted this result calmly, and this is also the life that countless people yearn for, and she can't say no.

It's just that now, Katsuko Sakai has completely changed her mind.

She has a thousand reasons to choose to marry Komatsu Taro, but unfortunately, she only likes this kind of thing, but she doesn't give a reason.

"I'm sorry." Katsuko Sakai apologized softly.

"Why?"

Komatsu Taro's tone was full of incomprehension.

"Because you can't watch the rain with me."

Katsuko Sakai hung up the phone and walked out of the hotel door.

……

"Jerry, you don't have to save me money, do you want to add another hoof flower soup?"

At a good local restaurant on the edge of the Dulwich campus, Mona wiped a napkin from the corner of her mouth and waved to a waiter.

"No, Miss Sandenu, I'm really full, so let me have a treat." Jerry put down the silver spoon and looked at the dancing candlesticks and roses in front of him.

This is a candlelit restaurant that he specially selected for local petty bourgeois couples, which is not as good as the Italian restaurant in the embassy area he went to before, but the atmosphere is also very good.

Rain, piano, roses, and a couple of foreigners at the next table are kissing silently.

Everything is romantic,

It's a pity that the president of the girls' student union opposite didn't show the appearance of spring.

Miss Sandenu kept silently dealing with the refreshments in front of her, and even spoke very rarely.

"No, I insist that I have the treat, that's what we said we would." Mona smiled and signed on the screen of the Pos machine.

"Wait a minute, you can take a picture of us."

Jerry handed the phone to the waiter on the side and motioned for the waiter to take a group photo.

Mona hesitated.

"Just to commemorate it." Jerry shrugged.

"Okay."

Accepting such an important gift, Mona didn't want to be too unkind, she politely took a photo with Jerry, and then picked up her handbag and stood up.

"It's raining so hard today, is it safe to go home in a while? Do you want me to call a driver to see you off? "Since Jerry has shown a gentlemanly demeanor, he is ready to show it to the end.

"No, I'm calling our driver, he should be here too."

The Mumbai guy was sitting in a Volvo XC60 across the street from the restaurant, bored reading beauty magazines.

After receiving a call from the old lady, she immediately trotted over from the car with an umbrella.

"Miss, this guy looks much wider than Young Master Gu, you used to eat together, but you wouldn't go to such a good restaurant. Have you stopped interacting with Young Master Gu recently? ”

Seeing Mona waving goodbye to a blonde young man he hadn't seen before, the Bombay boy asked curiously as he opened the car door for the young lady.

In the past, I didn't go to a high-end restaurant because I had to take care of Gu Weijing's face, which had limited family conditions, but today I expressed my gratitude to Jerry, which has a different meaning.

The thought crossed Mona's mind.

She wasn't in the mood to explain too much to her manservant, so she just frowned and asked, "Why do you say that?" ”

"I haven't seen Young Master Gu Weijing come to play at home for a long time recently, and you used to be together a lot." Bombay brother said.

"Yes, he probably won't come to our house again." Mona didn't look very good, and said with some irritation, "I don't have anything to do with him anymore." ”

She noticed a brief look of regret on the Bombay boy's face.

"What, do you like Gu Weijing very much?" Mona asked with a slight frown.

"Oh, Young Master Gu often smiles at me, and ......"

The little brother in Mumbai really likes Mona's former little boyfriend.

He had the impression that Gu Weijing was a young man who was always polite to his manservant and smiled gently.

“…… Last month, he used to hire my car to deliver to a local orphanage, and each time I got some money for my labor. ”

The little brother in Mumbai was a little embarrassed, but he still said honestly: "I can make some money from him." ”

(End of chapter)