I was worried all night, and I don't know how I fell asleep later.
She didn't know what time it was, but in her daze, Yu Nian felt like someone was taking off her clothes. The movements were very gentle. She felt itchy and stretched out her hand to push it. It felt vaguely like it was being pushed. A chest, hard.
She murmured in protest, but her eyelids seemed to be stuck with glue and couldn't be opened. Then it seemed like someone was kissing her again, and butterflies seemed to fall on her forehead and the tip of her nose, very lightly.
Later, she fell into a deeper sleep and had many miscellaneous dreams. Sometimes I dream about my childhood, and sometimes I dream about my school days. I also dreamed of the Yu family’s house in the south of the Yangtze River, covered in thin mist and rain, with the sweet smell of sweet-scented osmanthus.
It seems that I haven’t eaten authentic osmanthus cake for a long time.
Take one bite and your mouth will be full of sweetness. Looking around again, she was in the courtyard. In the long corridor with thousands of carvings and entwined branches were the uncles who had just come out of the Yu family's meeting. Seeing her eating sweet-scented osmanthus cake in the garden, they all looked at her with a smile.
The old housekeeper is Uncle Yao. He has been with my father in the house since he was young. He is an old man of the Yu family. Seeing that she was devouring her food, she sighed and said, Miss, you have to eat in a manner that is elegant and quiet, otherwise how will you get married in the future?
Uncle Yao is a very traditional person.
She smiled and said, "I won't get married in the future."
"Miss, don't talk nonsense. How can a girl grow up and not get married? What are you going to do if you don't get married?" Uncle Yao asked her with a deliberately tigerish face.
She held the sweet-scented osmanthus cake in one hand and thought for a long time. She glanced at the man under the camphor tree and said with a smile, "Then I will be at home all over the world and play everywhere. Anyway, I am not afraid at all with Ayan here."
Her words were wrapped in laughter. I don't know if Ayan under the tree heard it. He just glanced this way.
Ayan, Ayan...
When Yu Nian opened his eyes, the name in the dream was still echoing in his mind.
The camphor tree in the garden, Ayan remembers the camphor tree from his first encounter as a boy to the disintegration of youth, and she also remembers it.
Yu Nian felt melancholy in her heart when she sat up, as if all the past events had become the pain that pierced her heart. Every time it reappeared in dreams, it would bleed in reality.
The other end of the bed was empty.
Yu Nian was startled. One side of the quilt was flat. Didn't Jiang Nian come back from the banquet?
but……
She squinted slightly.
She remembered clearly last night that the curtains were not closed. Now the white gauze curtain filtered the morning sunshine, making it warm and tranquil. She didn't remember that she had pulled the gauze curtain.
When he looked down, he saw that he had been changed into a comfortable nightgown.
Nightgown?
Not hers.
But it doesn't look like someone else has worn it, it looks more like it's new, and the size is just right for her.
Yu Nian was excited.
Did you come back for the Jiang Nian Banquet? And then left again?
It seems like she didn't spend the night here. Was the nightgown she was wearing bought for her?
When the butler called to deliver breakfast, Yu Nian asked specifically. The butler looked embarrassed and said, "I don't know Master Yan's schedule. I'm sorry."
In addition to the sumptuous breakfast, there is also a very exquisite cake box on the dining table. It is made of pure wooden beams and is very Chinese-style. It has two tiers.
Yu Nian didn't know what it was and asked what it was.
The butler said, "This is the sweet-scented osmanthus cake that Mr. Yan ordered the hotel cake room to make. It was prepared early in the morning and delivered to you."
Yu Nian was stunned.
Osmanthus cake?
"Mr. Yan asked the hotel to do it?" she hesitated.
"Yes." The butler smiled.
Yu Nian walked to the dining table and opened the box. What he smelled at that moment was the strong scent of osmanthus, which was elegant and sweet, and quickly pulled Yu Nian back to the old Yu family home.
Her throat was blocked.
She has loved eating sweet-scented osmanthus cakes since she was a child. She is almost obsessed with it. She likes the sweet and greasy taste. Her parents were worried that the taste of the sweet-scented osmanthus cakes bought from outside would be impure, so they hired a master who made the sweet-scented osmanthus cakes alone. The master came to cook at home, and her days in the old house were spent in the fragrance of osmanthus.
Because I eat this all year round, I don’t even need to taste many sweet-scented osmanthus cakes. I can tell whether they are authentic or not just by looking at them and smelling them.
The sweet-scented osmanthus cake in front of me is very authentically made, with a rich floral fragrance, and it can be seen that the ingredients are solid.
Yu Nian sat down, took a piece of cake and took a bite. The aroma of osmanthus instantly soothed her uneasy emotions.
The fragrance lingers on the lips and teeth, and even after swallowing, the sweetness is still lingering in the throat, and it has not dissipated for a long time.
"Why... did he ask you to make sweet-scented osmanthus cake?" Yu Nian murmured.
The butler couldn't answer this question and was stunned for a long time.
Only then did Yu Nian realize that his question was quite strange. He couldn't ask Lao Liu about the situation of the Jiang Nian Banquet but the housekeeper.
But the butler still replied, "I'm sorry. I don't know the reason. Master Yan personally called last night and ordered breakfast this morning."
Yu Nian suddenly raised his head, "Last night? What time was it?"
The housekeeper thought for a moment and said, "It's quite late, almost midnight."
Yu Nian roughly understood.
Last night when Jiang Nianyan returned to the hotel, she wasn't dreaming. He was taking off her clothes just to change her clothes?
But the kiss that I felt in a trance... was it Jiang Nian Banquet?
She was confused again, unlike him.
He's not that gentle.
If he came back last night, why was he gone?
Yu Nian didn't want to think about it anymore. At least she had a good sleep and had delicious osmanthus cake this morning.
After taking off the first layer, she was startled by what was at the bottom of the box.
It's a small round box with no label on it.
"What is this?" she asked.
The butler was unclear, "It was someone from the banquet master who put it in the cake box. I don't know exactly what it was."
After the housekeeper left, Yu Nian gently opened the lid of the box.
Very light herbal flavor, but well sealed in the lid.
Yu Nian was no stranger to this smell, and suddenly returned to the ambiguous scene.
The man's slender fingers were dipped in ointment and he gently applied it on her. She wanted to close her legs several times, but was forced back by his slightly raised eyes.
So she watched helplessly as the man's eyes gradually became darker, and a look of indifference emerged between his cold and ascetic eyebrows.
Yu Nian felt choked and slammed the medicine box on the dining table.
This man had a clear mind. How could he put medicine and sweet-scented osmanthus cake in the same snack box?
Just as I was thinking about it, my phone vibrated next to my hand.
When the words "Jiang Nian Banquet" flashed on the screen, her hands shook and the medicine box fell to the ground.
He sent the message and measured the time very accurately——
Apply medicine on time.
Simple, direct, and orderly, this is Jiang Nianyan's consistent tone.
Yu Nian held the phone and stared at the words he sent, his teeth itching with hatred. There was a moment when she wanted to reply: I will give you the medicine on time and let you continue to mess with me?
With his fingers hanging above the screen, he resisted the urge several times.
I don’t want another message to pop up on my phone——
answer.
Another very strong tone.
Yu Nian could even imagine Jiang Nianyan frowning slightly on the other end of the phone.
She tried her best to hold back her emotions and replied with one word: OK.
After a long time, Yu Nian sent him another message: Do I still need to be in the hotel tonight?
After saying this, my heart was in a state of confusion.
Thinking about how to go back to the Jiangnian Banquet?
It's like there are two villains fighting in my heart. One villain said that he will definitely not let you go, and the reply will be very unpleasant; the other villain said that since he has asked you to take medicine, he should not stay. Are you done? And it seems that he is quite busy.
Just, keep fighting.
There was no movement on the other end of the phone, so Yu Nian didn't even have the heart to have breakfast, and his heart was just wandering there, not to mention how uncomfortable it was.
He didn't know how long he waited, but when the phone screen came on again, Yu Nian felt that he was hallucinating.
I picked up the phone and saw the reply from Jiang Nianyan: Lao Liu will take you home.
The heart hanging in his throat finally fell to the ground. Yu Nian breathed a long sigh of relief and almost thanked the Lord for his kindness on his phone.
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This year's CO.NO Jewelry Appreciation Dinner has begun. This jewelry event will cause a sensation every year, because the world's latest products will be displayed at this award, and often the most valuable jewelry will appear in on site.
In addition to jewelry, the appreciation dinner is also a top priority. Celebrities from all over the country and even the world will gather here. While celebrating the feast together, it is also an important opportunity to build personal connections.
The CO.NO Jewelry Appreciation Dinner is held in different countries and cities every year, but no matter where it is, the event can attract powerful and famous people from the very beginning, and this year is no exception.
This year it was set up in Bei City, and it was said that many dignitaries flew in on private planes.
While the nanny car was still on the way, Qiao Min said to Yu Nian while holding a makeup mirror while touching up her makeup, "It would be great if this event was held abroad, or even in other cities in China. At least I can take you out to have fun." .”
Yu Nian looked at the neon lights splashing outside the window and said softly, "If it were in another city, I wouldn't have participated. I wouldn't have the energy to play."
Qiao Min is a master of fashion magazines and a very important presence in the fashion industry. She is definitely indispensable for such an occasion. The dress is naturally luxurious and the makeup is exquisite.
Qiao Min is very beautiful, the kind of very cold beauty, in other words, she is like a cold rose with thorns. Her fame and beauty in the fashion industry also attracted the covetation and pursuit of many men. The most exaggerated suitor knew that she liked to watch Twilight and directly bought a castle for her.
Qiao Min was frightened so hard that she blocked that person completely. Yu Nian laughed at her and said, what kind of suitor has she not seen in these years? Why is she still scared by a castle?
Qiao Min was aloof and elite outside, but in front of Yu Nian, her true nature was exposed and she didn't hide it at all. He said to Yu Nian, "Is that a castle? Oh my god, it looks like a cage. I have never seen a castle before when I was abroad. This is the first time I have seen such a spooky castle. Later I asked about it, and guess what? ?”
"The previous owner of the castle is dead and hanged in the castle."
Yu Nian didn't think it was a big deal, "This kind of thing is inevitable in an old castle, right?"
Qiao Min rubbed the goosebumps on her arms, "It's different. I heard that the old lady must have joined some kind of cult. We don't know what rituals she performed before she died. She stabbed herself several times and her blood was all over the wall. Oh, baby, it was a castle, painted all over the walls, and then hung himself with his last breath."
After her explanation, Yu Nian felt creepy and thought for a moment, "Maybe the suitor thinks you like this kind of thing?"
"I like watching it, but that doesn't mean I want to experience it." Qiao Min waved her hands repeatedly, "I can't, I just want to have a normal relationship."
In this circle, it is too difficult to have a normal and ordinary relationship.
Yu Nian helped her adjust the brooch. This brooch was provided by the organizer and was priceless. Qiao Min gently held her hand and said earnestly, "I know the difficulties the Yu family is facing now, but you can't push yourself too hard. You must relax when it's time to relax, and tonight,"
She sighed softly, "Don't force yourself, just stay with me tonight."
Yu Nian hummed.
"As for you, in the past, getting along with people in this circle was just for fun, and there was no entanglement of interests. Now the situation of the Yu family is that snobbish masters are inevitable in the field, so you don't need to coddle them when you can't stand it."
"Okay, I got it." Yu Nian chuckled, "Don't worry, I will look at the situation."
Celebrities, ladies and dignitaries were all present at this dinner. Some of the remaining properties of the Yu family are related to the jewelry industry, which was the key to the Yu family's success in breaking out of the circle and becoming a well-known wealthy businessman in Jiangnan in the early years. After that, his father inherited the family business and did not throw away the foundation even if he expanded the investment industry.
This is why Yu Juanzhou now wants to retain this industry.
In fact, Yu Nian is very repulsive to such occasions. How big can the circle of celebrities and powerful people be? You can always run into a few old acquaintances, and a few overt and covert conversations are inevitable.
Or maybe Yu Nian knows this circle too well. Wasn't the reason why she became the center of attention before relying on the Yu family's family fortune? Now I'm afraid it has become an inside joke.
Yu Nian has participated in CO.NO jewelry appreciation since he was a student. It should be said that he has participated in it for several years in a row. Quan Dang has traveled around the world and always picks up a few new products when he encounters them.
Later, she felt it was boring. No matter how valuable the jewelry was, she only had so many body parts. She couldn't hang them all up like a Christmas tree, so she stopped participating. But the organizer always thought of her, even if he knew she wouldn't go, he would still send out an invitation ceremoniously. It was difficult to get an invitation for this jewelry appreciation dinner.
But when Yu Nian thought about it today, she couldn't let Yu Juanzhou fight alone. Network expansion was the key, especially for this gathering that attracted global attention.
The funny thing is that she didn't receive the invitation. It was Qiao Min's face that she could come.
Qiao Min felt that she was too lightly dressed, so she put this brooch on her. Yu Nian wanted to refuse, but Qiao Min refused and said softly, "You don't know how snobbish this industry is."
"It can't be decided by a brooch." Yu Nian sighed.
Qiao Min had already put the brooch on her securely and said meaningfully, "Not everyone can wear this brooch easily."
Yu Nian understood what she meant and said thank you softly.
Qiao Min raised her eyebrows and was polite.
"I heard..." Qiao Min seemed hesitant to speak as she approached the banquet venue.
Yu Nian looked at her.
"I heard that people from the Jiang family can come to the banquet, but I don't know who can come." Qiao Min revealed the internal situation. For a gathering like this, the more important it is, the more confidential it is.
"But I only heard this, because," Qiao Min whispered, "Maura's name was on the leaked list."
