The evening breeze was howling on the top floor of the Windy Thunder Hotel.
Xia Wei wrapped a blanket sitting in front of the floor-to-ceiling window looking out the window to call, see the water outside the open-air pool in addition to the spout other places are frozen.
“Alan, why did you take the little orange away?”
Sun Huck’s indifferent voice came on the other end of the line, “I don’t see any problem with my daughter being with her father.”
“Yes, no problem, little orange is your daughter, but isn’t she also sister-in-law’s granddaughter? In a couple of days, sister-in-law is planning to go back to China, little orange has to follow her back, when will you send her back?”
“Little Orange is not going back.”
“What? Not going back?”
“I’ve hired her a private tutor and she’s living in Hounslow for the time being.”
“Staying in Hounslow?” said Xavier in a tone of dismay, “For how long?”
“It depends.”
“See what happens?”
Xia Wei was about to question something when she heard a voice speaking from the other end of the phone, “Mr. Han, Miss Chambers is awake and is looking for you.”
Sun Huck immediately said, “I have things to do, so I’ll hang up now.”
“Hello?”
Before Xavier could finish, the caller on the other end had already hung up.
Looking at the hung-up phone, Xia Wei frowned.
Anya said that when Sun Huck took the child away that day, his face was very wrong, and the people planted around Sun Huck were also thrown out, and now he is hiding what they are doing, no one knows.
It’s snowing outside.
Today is New Year’s Eve. In previous years, she spent it with her sister-in-law’s family, but this night she was left alone.
My sister-in-law has been angry for the past two days, and her health has been poor, so she took her medicine early and went to bed.
The employees of WindTimers, except for the back office operation staff of the technical department, also went home from work.
The first thing you need to do is to look up and see the Big Ben clock two blocks away, which is at 10:30, only one and a half hours away from the next year.
The phone suddenly ‘dings’ and a text message pops up.
“Happy New Year – Miyagawa”
Xia Wei’s hand shook, just want to reply but suddenly thought, maybe it’s just a group text message.
But within moments, she edited a text message back with the same message – Happy New Year.
You come and go so that everyone can live without embarrassment.
There was no response on the other end. She guessed right, it should be a group text message, but the group text message was a bit too concise, just like Miyagawa’s person, four words in short and concise, looking very cold.
Putting the phone aside, she went to the bathroom and brushed her teeth, intending to go to bed early, and tomorrow she will have to take time to visit a wine estate in the suburbs, preferably to bring the little orange back with her sister-in-law back home.
What Ellen did this time not only made her sister-in-law sad, but she also found it unbearable.
The child is innocent, what is the point of asking her to leave the country she is used to living in for nothing?
Brush your teeth back to look at the phone on the table, there are two unread WeChat, casually tap open a look, drinking water action suddenly stopped.
Miyagawa said, “Are you still awake this late?”
After a minute or so, another question followed, “Are you downtown? I see everyone seems to be waiting for the New Year’s countdown.”
Xia Wei put down her glass of water and secretly swore that if Miyagawa sent a third sentence, she would run downstairs to meet him.
After a long interval, the air seemed to be quiet, and nothing inside the room moved.
“Ding” a cell phone ring in the silence of all the music seems particularly clear.
Miyagawa said, “What do you wish for, I’m downtown and can make it for you.”
The moment she saw this paragraph, Xia Wei knocked a line out, “I’ll be right there, stay there and wait for me.”
After that she used the fastest speed in her life to change clothes and shoes, not even makeup, put on a loose white down jacket, took the phone and darted out the door.
It was snowing all the way, the closer to the city center the worse it was to park, she simply left the car on the side of the road and let the traffic police shout at the back to stick a ticket, she ran as fast as she could.
Just after Christmas, the city center under the huge Christmas tree lights, look up a little further is Big Ben, at this moment is already 11:30, the square is full of people.
Miyagawa sent her a location, the map showed that she had arrived at the designated location, but around Chambers she could not find the familiar figure, a hand was frozen red, could barely hold the phone, and her mouth was constantly breathing.
The phone rang.
She pressed the answer button.
“Hello? Where are you?”
The two men asked this question in almost unison.
The moment the question was asked, both people laughed out loud, and through the crowded crowd, both people saw exactly who was answering the phone to each other.
No one went over, all stood quietly in place, still keeping the call on their cell phones.
Miyagawa said, “Twenty minutes left until New Year’s.”
Xavier said, “Well, another year has passed, do you still hate me as much as you did three years ago?”
“I’ve never hated you.”
“Open your eyes and talk nonsense, right? You don’t hate me, you steal my bid at a bidding session?”
“That’s legitimate business competition, better than you backstabbing people.”
“I haven’t done that kind of thing in a long time.”
For three years all that can be said can not be said, now seems to be able to breeze out, two people’s voices with a trembling tone.
Miyagawa said, “You’re so underdressed, why don’t you bring a scarf and hat?”
“You don’t either.”
“The countdown is on.”
“Well, I hear you.”
The whole square was cheering along, as if a mountain was crying out like a tsunami, starting from ten, counting down to five, then to three, then to one.
“Zero!”
Huge fireworks ‘bang’ bloomed over the city, people around them hugged each other tightly, saying happy new year to each other, among the embracing couple friends, Xia Wei hung up her cell phone, ran towards Miyagawa and threw herself into his embrace.
“Happy New Year.” She said.
Miyagawa stroked the back of her head and smiled faintly, “Happy New Year.”
Xia Wei said, “You know what? You are finished, today you call me out so I will rely on you, you can never get rid of me for the rest of your life.”
“How did you know I was trying to get rid of you?”
“Don’t you want to? I’m a sinister and cunning person, who never leaves anything to chance and has harmed your friends.”
“I knew this a long time ago,” Miyagawa’s voice was much softer than usual, with a slight hint of doting, “but I only look at the future, as long as you don’t harm my friends in the future, that’s enough.”
“I promise!”
“Good.”
At the beginning of the New Year, such a start seems to portend that everything will go well, but the fireworks overhead are fleeting, and the gathered crowd disperses like a tide, and eventually the once lively square turns into an empty street with no one around.
The long street fell back without a sound, only a lone figure standing on the spot where Miyagawa and Xia Wei were standing just now, looking up longingly at the distant Big Ben.