A Big Shot Makes an Appearance

At this moment, in the embassy's grand ballroom on the first floor, many staff members were busy at work.

Obviously, they had once again recruited "volunteer workers" from among the international students.

They were usually preparatory students or first-year freshmen, coming over to join the fun and get a meal.

By their upper years, they were generally either busy studying or working, or simply disdained coming to the embassy for free food and drinks, so they stopped showing up.

Just like when Wang Ye had come for the first time, most were freshmen from Moscow University and People's Friendship University. Since tonight's banquet was fairly large in scale, there were quite a few servers—some forty or fifty students had come!

Everyone was currently making the final preparations in the ballroom.

They straightened the chairs and arranged the various tableware neatly.

After finishing up, while the guests had yet to enter the ballroom, everyone took advantage of the lull to gather in small groups and chat.

"I just heard embassy staff saying that a big shot will be attending tonight! That's why the embassy's security has been raised another level. See those guards at the entrance? They're carrying real guns and live ammunition," one male student said mysteriously to his classmates.

His words immediately piqued quite a few people's interest. Several classmates gathered around him, all freshmen from Moscow University.

"Hey, is that true, Little Liu? Isn't tonight just the embassy's annual New Year banquet? I heard from upperclassmen that they usually just invite representatives of Chinese businesses, staff from Chinese-funded organizations in Russia, and the like. At most, there might be people from departments that deal with our country frequently, such as the Ministry of Foreign Affairs or the Ministry of Commerce. Even a vice minister would be the absolute