Sakai Katsuko turned around, gently tightened the belt of her nightgown, and closed the window.
She kicked off her slippers, climbed to the head of the bed, and picked up her phone.
"Shengzi, do you want to come and paint together in the evening." Gu Weijing's invitation flashed on the screen.
"Now, I have to go to the school's studio at this time."
Sakai Katsuko blinked and glanced at the bedroom door, feeling a little moved but also a little hesitant.
"Go to the Good Luck Orphanage, which is the original site of the old church in the thunderstorm that I mentioned to you, and the place where the painter Carroll created his work."
Sakai Katsuko bites He pursed his lips and stared at the phone screen.
"Gu Jun, you were watching the rain just now and thought of the female painter, right." She typed softly.
"Yes."
The messages on the screen were replied quickly.
“I stared at the thunderstorm outside the window, and suddenly I felt that it might be a precious opportunity to feel the atmosphere of the female painter’s creation. The old church will be renovated soon, and this opportunity may be just this. Once, do you want to tell your mother and come here to pick up the news?"
Sakai Katsuko stared at the message on the screen and murmured softly, "It turns out it's great that we are all watching the rain."
Under the same sky, someone is thinking the same thing as you.
This kind of connected feeling made Sakai Katsuko feel that a soft place in her heart was touched.
She held the phone in her arms, and her eyes slowly turned into crescent moons as she smiled.
"If it's really inconvenient, forget it. It's still a bit late after all. If you want, I'll show you the painting tomorrow."
Seeing that no one had responded, Gu Weijing thought that Sakai Katsuko's time was not convenient.
He had heard about the prohibition that Mrs. Sakai gave his daughter not to run around at night.
"No, my mother has agreed, I am going."
Sakai Katsuko glanced in the direction of the bedroom door and quickly replied on her mobile phone.
For the first time, the bold idea of "home" came to her mind.
While typing,
she felt her heartbeat speeding up slightly, and her porcelain-like cheeks slowly gained a strange rosiness.
Being a good daughter for eighteen years,
Compared to her peers, Katsuko Sakai has been to many places and participated in various art exhibitions and youth art exhibitions around the world. Competition, her life is undoubtedly rich.
When other girls are chasing Korean pop stars, falling in love with boys on campus, watching concerts at Tokyo Dome, and strolling slowly in the shopping streets of Ginza with their boyfriends.
Painting, watching exhibitions, and taking classes
Sakai Katsuko’s life is always occupied by an organized schedule, which goes back and forth, leading a life with the same rhythm all over the world.
She actually doesn’t think there’s anything wrong with it.
Fast-paced modern entertainmentIt is the joy brought about by the secretion of dopamine that will dissipate in a moment, but the profound and eternal beauty of art can penetrate into the soul.
Art has become a part of her life, and she has grown up slowly with it.
Until,
she met Gu Weijing.
Secretly going out at night with a boy without telling the adults, this rebellious thought had never even appeared in Sakai Katsuko's mind before.
Even if she just went to paint, it was still exciting and made her mouth dry.
Sakai Katsuko is very nervous now, but very determined.
The moment this idea jumped into her mind, it occupied Sakai Katsuko’s mind uncontrollably like a torrent that broke a dam and could not be stopped.
The girl made up her mind without even a second of hesitation or hesitation.
You have to be bold several times in life.
"It's a little dark and it's still raining heavily. Would you like me to have someone drive to the hotel to pick you up?" Gu Weijing asked.
"It's okay, no more trouble. I'll just ask the hotel concierge for a special car. I also know the location of the old church. Please wait for half an hour."
Sakai Katsuko made up her mind.
She immediately took off her pajamas, hesitated for a moment in the wardrobe, and picked out a dark red skirt that looked more youthful.
After packing everything, I quietly prepared to slip out of the room.
When she passed by the big dressing table in the living room, the girl hesitated and stopped again.
"Well, maybe you have to wait for me for another ten minutes."
Sakai Katsuko took out her phone again and sent a message to Gu Weijing.
She glanced at her sleeping mother, sat in front of the sandalwood round stool on the dressing table, quietly turned on a small ED makeup lamp behind the mirror, and took out her mother's foundation and eyeliner from the drawer. .
She decided to tidy up her makeup carefully before going out.
While Katsuko Sakai was still painting the corners of her eyes with an eye gel pen, which seemed a little awkward, there was a call on her mobile phone.
She thought it was a message from Huan Gu Weijing, looked at the phone number, and frowned slightly.
"Hey Komatsu-senpai."
Afraid of waking up her mother, Katsuko Sakai walked back to her bedroom and asked expressionlessly.
"Shengzi, invite your aunt to have a midnight snack together. Tonight, the housekeeper of the Aman hotel said that there are folk artists performing puppet shows in the banquet hall."
The other end of the microphone There was the invitation from Taro Komatsu, and the string dubbing of a Myanmar-style puppet show.
"My mother has fallen asleep. She may be a little tired today."
"Oh, Katsuko, do you want to come?" Komatsu Taro's tone was still gentle and polite.
"Actually, I'm a little tired too. And just as it happens, Komatsu-kun, when I returned to the hotel, I was hesitant to call you."
Said At this point, Sakai Katsuko looks likeSomething came to mind.
She took her mobile 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 that Komatsu Taro asked his mother to give him on the treasure ship today.
A jade bracelet with excellent water quality.
She tilted her head and looked at the price tag on the jade bracelet, "The bracelet is very beautiful, thank you."
"Just like it, Shengzi."
< p> "But this gift is a bit too expensive. There are many people in the afternoon. I think rejecting it in person may hurt your face, senior, so I will transfer the money to you later."Sakai Katsuko said softly.
The price tag of this bracelet is extremely high.
But the Sakai couple are very assured of their daughter’s character and adhere to the principle of raising their daughter richly. The one who bound her is Professor Sakai Kazunari. Supplementary card to the Citibank charge card.
The monthly contract signing limit is US$150,000, and there is a temporary limit of US$100,000.
Sakai Katsuko doesn’t spend much money on a daily basis, but if necessary, it’s a small expense to exchange a bracelet.
"Katsuko, why should we be so clear about the difference? 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 appropriate." Sakai Katsuko shook her head.
"The gift is inappropriate" Komatsu Taro said in an unhappy tone, but still remained patient.
Sakai Katsuko shook her head slightly.
She is a well-educated girl and is unwilling to refute the good intentions of her seniors.
In the past,
Ms. Sakai might have considered using tactful words for her mother's sake.
But today she thought for a moment and suddenly wanted to talk things out completely.
"The gift is not suitable, and neither are we."
She sat on the bed, looked at the line drawing that she had framed in an exquisite photo frame on the bedside, and whispered softly Said, "I'm sorry, Komatsu-senpai, I'm very sorry, but I won't marry you."
As the layer of window paper was completely opened, both parties on the phone fell into silence for an instant.
Only Xiaosong's heavy breathing could be heard from the other end of the phone.
"Shengzi, you were not like this before."
Xiao Song said word by word on the other end of the phone.
Sakai Katsuko had previously had an indispensable attitude towards the elders' efforts to match her and Komatsu Taro.
In the Japanese upper class society, everything is like a gear running according to a specific program.
When a girl grows up, she always has to choose a husband to marry.
There is a high probability that they are people in the circle. The two powerful companies will join forces to become bigger and stronger and create greater glory.
It sounds like the operating logic of a commercial company, rather than the union between a boy and a girl.
In fact, this is the case.
Whether it is tea ceremony,Art and Go have been marrying each other in small circles since the Edo period when Tokugawa Ieyasu ruled Japan. They have been doing this for hundreds of years.
In the past, this method was called the Jiayuan system.
The "big patriarch" is jointly recommended by several famous families in the industry. He manages and rules the industry like a strict father, and everyone marries each other to consolidate their status.
For example, in Japan's large tea ceremony consortium today, the generation of tea ceremony "jiayuan" leader elected in 2000 came from a family of three thousand.
Sanqianjia has been a master of tea ceremony since the era of Yuanping War 400 years ago, and is still the industry leader today.
Regardless of the quality, the new tea cooked by the family owners at the tea ceremony conference every year, just nine drops of tea can sell for millions of dollars.
This is identity.
This industry management mechanism changed its name after the war and was changed to a certain association. In fact, it is still essentially an old set of operating thinking.
Senior Komatsu’s father has real power in terms of financial resources and runs the Komatsu Gallery, which is making a lot of money every day. In terms of status, he is the current chairman of the Painting and Calligraphy Federation.
During the Warring States Period, local celebrities would sweep their couches to greet them when they met.
Thinking about it this way, it is indeed a good match. It is understandable that Mrs. Sakai hopes to make Taro Komatsu her son-in-law.
Sakai Katsuko never objected.
Senior Komatsu seems to like me quite a lot, but I don’t really like him, and I don’t have any reason to reject him.
At least compared to marrying those political Chinese people, you might have to go home to raise your husband and children from the time you get married. It would be much freer to be responsible for managing the family's connections every day and be a graceful, decent but boring "Gong Qing's wife".
Sakai Katsuko didn’t care at all about the rumors about Kosatsu Taro outside.
It was good to break up after marriage.
She let him go if he continued to play outside.
There are really too many such things in the art circle, and Sakai Katsuko has been used to it since she was a child.
Modern artists and rock singers generally have chaotic private lives that are hardly news.
Pablo Picasso, a great master, even at fifty years old, still spends his days keeping beautiful underage female students as his mistresses, and even fights and bites his lover and wife who just gave birth to a child in front of him. Laughing loudly at the scene, enjoying it, and having fun.
Compared with the behavior of this kind of big scumbag who should simply make his avatar into a gun target paper and drag him to target and whip his body every day, Kosomatsu Taro is just a flirt with a few TV actresses and has no moral integrity. Not even a black spot, he can definitely be considered a model husband.
Because there is no talk of love,
so I don’t care at all.
I will give him a child, and he will hold a painting exhibition for me. Everyone gets what they need, which is fair.
Sakai Katsuko has long since accepted this result calmly and calmly. This is also the life that countless people yearn for, and she cannot say no.
Only now, Sakai Katsuko has completely changed her mind.
She has a thousand reasons for choosing to marry Komatsu Taro, but unfortunately, she only likes this kind of thing, but there is no reason.
"I'm sorry." Sakai Katsuko apologized softly.
"Why"
Omatsu Taro's tone was completely incomprehensible.
"Because you can't watch the rain with me."
Sakai Katsuko hung up the phone and walked out of the hotel room.
"Jerry, don't save me money, do you want to add some hoof flower soup?"
In a good local restaurant near the Dulwich campus, Mona took a napkin He licked his lips and waved to call the waiter.
"No, Miss Sandnu, I'm really full. Let me treat you." Jerry put down the silver spoon and looked at the dancing candlesticks and roses in front of him. .
This is a candlelight restaurant he specially selected that is frequented by local bourgeois couples. It is not as good as the Italian restaurant in the embassy district he went to before, but it has a good atmosphere.
Rain, piano, roses, and a couple of foreign tourists kissing silently at the next table.
Everything is very romantic.
Unfortunately, the president of the female student union opposite did not show any signs of love.
Miss Sandenou has been silently dealing with the refreshments in front of her, and she has rarely even spoken.
"No, I insist that I will treat the guests. This is what we agreed." Mona smiled and then signed on the screen of the os machine.
"Wait a minute, please take a photo 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." Jerry shrugged.
"Okay."
After accepting such an important gift, Mona didn't want to be too unkind. She politely took a photo with Jerry and then He picked up his handbag and stood up.
"It's raining really hard today. Is it safe to go home soon? Do you want me to ask the driver to take you off?" Since Jerry showed his gentlemanly demeanor, he was ready to show it to the end.
"No need, I'm calling our driver, he should be here too."
The boy from Mumbai was sitting in a Volvo xc60 across the street from the restaurant , reading beauty magazines out of boredom.
After receiving the call from the lady of the master’s family, I immediately ran over from the car holding an umbrella.
"Miss, this guy looks much richer than Mr. Gu. You guys used to eat together, but you wouldn't go to such a good restaurant. Have you stopped interacting with Mr. Gu recently?"
Seeing Mona waving goodbye to a blond young man he had never seen before, the boy from Mumbai asked curiously while opening the car door for the young lady.
The reason why I didn’t go to high-end restaurants before was becauseHe had to take care of Gu Weijing's face, whose family had limited financial resources. Today, he wanted to express his gratitude to Jerry, which had a different meaning.
This thought came to Mona's mind.
She was not in the mood to explain too much to her valet, so she just frowned and asked, "Why did you say that?"
"I haven't seen Master Gu Weijing for a long time recently. Come to play at home, you used to be together," said the boy from Mumbai.
"Yes, he probably won't come to our house again in the future." Mona looked not in a good mood and said a little irritably, "I have nothing to do with him."
She noticed the brief look of regret that flashed across the face of the Mumbai guy.
"Why, do you like Gu Weijing very much?" Mona asked with a slight frown.
"Oh, Master Gu often smiles at me, and"
The boy from Mumbai really liked Mona's former boyfriend.
In his impression, Gu Weijing was a young man who was always polite to his servant and had a gentle smile.
"He often hired my car last month to deliver things to a local orphanage, and every time I got some labor fees."
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