The study-abroad agency company would still need some time before it was truly established.
It was already late January. The study-abroad services company was expected to officially begin operations sometime in mid-to-late February.
This year's Spring Festival fell in early February.
Of course, Russians had no concept of celebrating the Lunar New Year.
But the Chinese in Moscow still celebrated it. The Chinese students in the preparatory building had planned to spend New Year's Eve together at the Chinese restaurant downstairs.
Wang Ye, however, would not be able to join them, because on New Year's Eve, he had to go to the embassy.
Well, as a waiter...
During the day, Wang Ye called home.
As usual, his father and mother repeatedly reminded him to take good care of his health while living alone abroad, study diligently, strive to get his diploma and return home smoothly, find a good job, and so on...
Wang Ye could only nod again and again. He did not tell his parents about what he had been doing lately.
After all, he had not achieved anything concrete yet, and his parents would have found it hard to understand.
In their eyes, they had gone to such lengths to send Wang Ye abroad for that diploma!
Selling phone cards and doing business were nothing but distractions from his studies!
A little after four in the afternoon, Zhou Yuan, Wang Ye, Nalan Yaqi, and two girls Wang Ye did not know—apparently upperclassmen in their second or third year—set off together in a van sent by the embassy.
"I heard an important figure will be attending tonight, coming to celebrate the New Year with everyone," Zhou Yuan told them in a lowered voice.
That definitely counted as an important figure...
But Wang Ye did not feel much about