There is a building blocking it, and except for some wind and snow blowing in through the open design opening, there is no snow accumulation.

Besides, it didn't snow very much last night, but the temperature dropped quite a bit.

This villa is in an excellent location, with easy access to Central Park, Madison Avenue and other shopping and dining areas.

It only takes ten minutes to walk to both places.

On the third floor, Li Xinyu sat at the main seat of the beautiful and huge Italian Byzantine-style dining table in the restaurant.

Byzantine style is a style of Italian furniture, which can be regarded as furniture design in the early Renaissance.

It is famous for its elegance, simplicity, solemnity and majesty in styling design, with pure and beautiful lines and appropriate classical proportions.

The previous owner of this house was either Italian or a crazy Italian style lover.

The decoration of the entire house is a fusion of various Italian styles.

Li Xinyu, who has always had a petty bourgeois sentiment and was born in a wealthy family but has a certain literary talent, loves this kind of sentiment the most.

She likes it here very much.

While waiting for the maid to prepare the food, Li Xinyu noticed a stack of newspapers next to her.

She knew this should be her man and looked at it while having breakfast this morning.

Imagine this morning, when I was still sleeping soundly in Simmons.

My man came out of the room, leaving me exhausted by him last night.

I sat in this position, eating breakfast and reading the newspaper, and spent a fulfilling morning.

Subconsciously, Li Xinyu also picked up the newspaper and imitated what her man might do in the morning.

She even pretended to read it, and the newspaper she picked up happened to be a "Wall Street Journal" with today's top headlines——

【Abel Smith and the Future】

I saw the name of my man in the title.

Li Xinyu, who was just pretending to be a man, immediately started reading with interest.

News that can be used as a front-page headline by the Wall Street Journal is certainly not too simple.

In this news report, although Abel Smith is used in the title.

But most of the news content in it is related to the "2001 New York Financiers Charity Christmas Reception" held yesterday at the Hilton Hotel in midtown Manhattan.

The New York Financiers Charity Christmas Reception is a well-known party in New York and the American financial circles.

It is said that in the early days, it was a public wine ceremony initiated by the Morgen family.

It mainly invites elites from the financial circles in New York or the United States to gather together, have a meal, and talk about their vision for the industry in the next year.

Developed over decades.

This has become a super small "Davos Forum" similar to the New York financial circle or even the American financial circle.

However, as time went by, Morgan, Rockefeller, etc. gradually faded away from the stage.

This cocktail party for financiers is becoming more and more "civilian".

The guests who participated in it have gradually changed from the financial tycoons back then to the middle and high-level people on Wall Street.

Later, it even degraded to a level similar to other well-known social drinking parties in New York.

Just like the famous "Metropolitan" cocktail party.

Most of the financial tycoons didn’t come to participate much.

The people who attended this public reception were mainly middle- and high-level people in the financial circle and people from outside the circle.

But because of the organizer of the reception, some big names in the industry are still invited to attend every year.

These big guys also attract a large number of financial elites to pay fees to participate every year.

This allowed the style of the reception to be barely maintained.

In addition, the cost per participant is US$6,500, excluding alcohol expenses.

The rest will be donated as charity donations. The word "charity" in the reception is reflected here.

The qualification to participate is $6,500, which is very high no matter how you look at it.

But most of the time, tickets sell very well, and sometimes there are even scalpers who increase the price several times.

When this happens, usually a really top boss will participate, and this will have this effect.

Like this year's event, it was originally scheduled to be held on the evening of December 17, hosted by the New York Times.

The organizer of this cocktail party is not fixed. Every few years, the organizer will be changed.

Well-known local newspapers in New York, such as the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the New York Post, and the New York Daily News, have all held it in the past.

Usually no one grabs it, because if you can't invite the big guys to attend, holding this kind of cocktail party is a bit thankless.

Many times you will even lose money, or at least lose some favors.

After all, it's not that easy to invite the big guys to attend.

The result was on the 16th.

This year's organizer, The New York Times, suddenly announced that the reception would be hosted by the New York Observer.

Dylan, the editor-in-chief of the New York Observer, quickly acknowledged the news and announced that the meeting would be held at his home in the Hilton Hotel on the evening of the 17th.

There are a total of 1,000 attendees, and other terms are almost the same as the previous reception.

After noon on the 16th, the New York Observer published the list of invitations from the organizer of the reception on its official website.

The arrangement of names in the United States has always been based on the arrangement of the first letter of the name in the English alphabet.

So those who are interested discovered that the first one on this list is Abel Smith.

Abel is Abel in English, and the first letter is A.

It's so normal to be ranked first.

Then after the first guest Abel Smith, the names of Warren Buffett and George Soros were also among them.

Even more exaggerated, there are names like Leo Melamed, David Rene Rothschild, and Alan Greenspan.

Even names like David Rockefeller and John Chris Morgan appeared.

Almost immediately after the news was announced.

This has always existed before. But many times it was regarded as a social gathering in New York for celebrities, outsiders, and the hotness of Wall Street and financial circles.

Its level of attention and popularity increased infinitely in an instant.

It's almost like a cocktail party in the White House.

From noon on the 16th to noon on the 17th.

There are countless people in New York and even across the United States who originally only needed $6,500 to get this.

Now that it has increased tenfold, there is no guarantee that you will get the quota to participate in the reception, so you have to fight for it through various activities.

Yesterday morning and yesterday at noon.

Someone even called Li Xinyu.

I want to trouble her and get an invitation or two.

Li Xinyu was bold enough to mention it to Abel.

Abel conveniently gave her 5 places.

This made Li Xinyu feel very happy, she felt very proud, and felt that she had received great attention from him.

She, who had always been very passive in this matter, took the rare initiative last night.

And now the newspaper Li Xinyu is reading contains the content reported in it.

This is a summary of the speeches of the big guys who participated in the cocktail party last night.

The Wall Street Journal directly listed Abel's name first and reported it as a front-page headline.

It can only be said that in order to attract traffic and sales, these media companies all know whose names Americans like to see nowadays.

Li Xinyu read the whole article and only noticed her boyfriend's speech at last night's cocktail party. She didn't bother to read the others.

The Wall Street Journal claimed that at the cocktail party last night, Abel Smith was very optimistic about China's development.

He said he would support and urge the White House to grant China permanent normal trading country status.

Statements in this regard are very common on Wall Street and in the international financial community.

Because since the 1990s, too many big figures on Wall Street have said similar things.

The fact that capital has no borders is itself the best portrayal of Wall Street.

China can make Wall Street make money and capitalists make money.

It would be too easy for the capitalists to say a few good words about China in newspapers and media.
To be continued...