My girlfriend is from the future!

Chapter 454 Ai Qing's Birthday Extra: Serendipity
"The extra time of this episode is scheduled for May 2028, 5, which is before the opening of the seventh volume in September, and belongs to the same timeline, not IF"

Tavistock Square, London, England.

The city has ushered in the first ray of sunshine. The morning atmosphere in Tavistock Square is quiet and pleasant. On the balcony on the fourth floor of a certain building facing the street, there is a beautiful hand-held shower. On the petals of carnations, under the refraction of the sun, the water droplets are crystal clear, and the flowers are delicate and moving.

"Mia, Amanda and the others want to come to the house to be guests in the evening and taste your specialty Chinese food. They have been talking about it for a long time. If you want, can you make a list of ingredients? I will bring them back with them in the afternoon Home."

In the living room, a Caucasian girl in pajamas came out of the bathroom. She tied her hair and asked the back of the balcony watering the flowers.

The beautiful figure on the balcony turned around after hearing the words, and showed a gentle smile to her roommate. She moved her jaw and replied:

"Of course, I'll think about sending you a message later."

"……do not move!"

"Ok?"

The white girl who got the promise was not happy yet, when she saw the scene in front of her, she suddenly called out, then swept around, picked up the phone from the sofa, turned on the camera and aimed it at the balcony, and only heard a "click" to freeze this second scenery.

On the phone, there is an oriental beauty in a white off-the-shoulder nightgown. She is turning her head, with an elegant blush on her cheeks, and the corners of her lips are curved. With golden luster, the sun shines through her thin dress, revealing the crystal clear skin and alluring curves.

She stood on the balcony, her whole body exuded a bright and soft halo, and her smile was surrounded by flowers, full of vigor and vividness.

This is Mia...

In other words, this girl named Cao Aiqing...

Has always been so sun-favorite.

"Wow~"

Looking at the photos on the phone, the white roommate couldn't help but exclaim.

"To be honest, Mia, you should play more social software such as Instagram or TikTok, you will definitely gain a lot of fans! Do you remember the boy named Hugo you met at the art exhibition last time?"

"That internet celebrity painter from your academy?"

Cao Aiqing put down the shower and walked into the living room from the balcony.

"Yes! After I met you last time, he searched all the social platforms but couldn't find your account. I told him that you don't play these. He was very disappointed, but guess what happened in the end, he relied on his memory for your account. You drew a sketch and posted it on Instagram, and commented that you met your muse, and got three 10,000+ likes, this French boy is really romantic."

"Aha, then did you tell him that I have someone I like?"

The two girls sat down on the sofa. The white girl crossed her legs and replied:

"Of course I said it, otherwise he wouldn't have given up just now. But Mia, you have always said that you have someone you like, but I have known you for almost two years, why is there no progress in your relationship?"

"There are many factors in this..."

Cao Aiqing lowered her eyes and thought for a moment.

"Emily, you think that French boy is romantic, don't you?"

"Of course!"

"But there needs to be a balance between sincerity and romance, which is romantic to him, but it may be an offense to me.

On that note, the guy I like...he's been doing really well.

You can understand it as two clouds under the same sky, they admire each other's beauty.However, they knew the power of the wind, and if they got too close, they might be sucked into the strong wind and lose their original shape.

So they prefer to keep a distance, float gracefully in their respective worlds, and watch each other silently. This is a kind of cherish and respect, and fortunately, we all tacitly understand this. "

Emily is very envious of Cao Aiqing having such a relationship, but after listening to it, she still gives a suggestion:
"Love always needs a little adventurous spirit, a little aggressiveness and initiative, Mia, you sometimes feel too calm and indifferent, which may make you lose some due relationship with your ideal person... ...Passion? And you're so far apart, you should pay more attention to that."

Cao Aiqing paused for a while after listening, then nodded, and said sincerely:
"Thank you for your advice, Emily."

"By the way, Amanda and the others also want to bring their boyfriends over tonight..."

"Ai~mi~li~!"

"Hahaha I understand, girls' parties, men are not allowed to join, I told them. By the way, I just paid the rent to the landlord yesterday..."

Cao Aiqing understood what her roommate was saying and stood up from the sofa.

"Okay, I will sort out the ingredients list and send it to you together with the rent later. Also, my Tesco supermarket membership points can be exchanged for a lot of things, and I have saved some coupons. You can use my Members, how about buying some common daily necessities with the saved money? For example, the shampoo in our bathroom is almost gone..."

"Mia~! I love you so much~!"

Bartlett College does not provide postgraduate housing, and most postgraduate students in London, including Bartlett College students, choose to rent apartments off-campus or share houses with other students.

Cao Aiqing currently lives in an apartment in Tavistock Square, which is very close to Bartlett College and other universities. This is a very popular place for students, and it takes only 10 minutes to walk to the school. The rent around here is not cheap. The rent of a studio apartment is about 1200-1800 pounds per month. Even if it is shared, the monthly rent will be around 1000 pounds.

Fortunately, Cao Aiqing's family is well-off. Her father is a university professor and the leader of the Hong Kong City Museum, and her mother is a self-media person. She doesn't feel any embarrassment in terms of living expenses. She is also very competitive and can apply for a scholarship and scholarship every year. Housing allowances, coupled with her frugal temperament, calculated in this way, her monthly expenses are not much, and even in the past few years, she has saved a lot of money for the remaining living expenses and scholarships.

After having breakfast with her roommate, the two tidied up and walked west from the apartment, then turned north into the familiar Gordon Street, and after a few minutes of walking, Cao Aiqing arrived at Bartlett College.

There was a lecture on bio-architecture in the morning, followed by a seminar between her and her classmates. It happened that their current group topic was about bio-architecture. The preparation materials for applying for scholarships from half a year to the first half of this year are perfect.

For this reason, she made an appointment with the professor for an afternoon tutorial, but the situation changed and the time was postponed to tomorrow, so her afternoon time was freed up.

Ben was ready to pass the time in the library, but Cao Aiqing was inexplicably irritable today, as calm as she was, and usually wouldn't be like this, but today...

Different.

She took out her phone, and on the opening screen, there were also two times...

It's eight o'clock in the evening over there now. He shouldn't be asleep at this time, right?

The girl thought about something in her heart, and the first person who clicked on the chat software to the top said this sentence.

Orange Sea: "I made an appointment for the professor's class today, but the appointment was missed ()..."

After a few minutes, the other party did not respond, and she sent another sentence:
Orange Sea: "What are you doing? Are you still working? Or are you playing games?"

A few more minutes passed, and this time the girl waited for a response.

Zhan Lantian: "Sorry, I was dealing with something just now. Ai Qing, I'm really sorry that I can't say happy birthday to you in person."

Looking at the text sent in the chat box, Cao Aiqing seemed to be able to imagine the scene where the other party hurriedly replied to her message after leaving work. She smiled peacefully, and the irritability in her heart quickly disappeared.

From the third year of high school to before I went abroad, on their birthday, there was each other.

This has almost become a habit, so Cao Aiqing is satisfied even if it is an online blessing from across the ocean.

She is not a greedy girl.

Orange Sea: "It's okay, you'll be happy if you remember me."

Zhan Lantian: "What birthday present do you want?"

Orange Sea: "Well... I don't want anything, don't spend money, even if you give me something, if I don't use it, it feels like a waste."

Zhan Lantian: "Hey, although you don't tell me, I know what you like~"

Cao Aiqing was taken aback, and before she could reply, the other party sent a photo, which was the one on the balcony that her roommate Emily snapped this morning!
Orange Sea: "How did you have this photo?!"

Zhan Lantian: "Hahaha, don't worry about that, isn't your school very close to Dickens's museum?"

A premonition welled up in the girl's heart, and she quickly replied, "That's right! Are you in England?"

The other party avoided talking about it, but replied in a mysterious way:

"How about we play a game first?"

"what game?"

"Hide and seek, help you pass the boring afternoon after being rejected by the professor, I left you a clue in this place, do you want to look for it?"

Later, the other party sent a photo of the residence where Dickens lived and the iconic red wooden door.

"Are you there?"

"You'll know when you come."

"Wait for me, I'll be right over."

In the library, Cao Aiqing stood up with her mobile phone in her hand, the chair rubbing against the floor made a harsh sound, and people around her looked at her, but the excited girl couldn't care less, she cleared the table He took the courseware, put on his backpack, and ran all the way out of the academy.

The Dickens Museum is not far from the Twright College, and it only takes 15 minutes to walk to the location. She has been here many times in the past few years, so when Cao Aiqing walked to the location of the photo, she looked around and did not see The expectant figure.

Orange Sea: "I'm here, where are you?"

Zhan Lantian: "Under the tree at the door."

Seeing the text sent to her by the other party, Cao Aiqing looked at the big tree at the door again according to her words. There was no one under the tree. She approached slowly and saw a Polaroid photo on the trunk. She gently Take it off, the above content is St. Martin's Church in Trafalgar Square, this place is also very close to the current museum, just two stops by subway.

Turning to the back of the photo, there is such a sentence written on it:

"If you love someone, let it be and set her free, if she comes back to you, it's meant to be."

Cao Aiqing smiled knowingly, this is a line from Charles Dickens' "A Tale of Two Cities".

If you love someone, let it be, let her be free, if she comes back to you, then that's love.

"It's so childish..."

The girl muttered softly, and put away the photo with a smile. She had already guessed what the other party wanted to do, and her heart was no longer as excited as before, but gradually calmed down.

I read such a sentence in front of Dickens's former residence, and that person prepared it for herself. This really made the girl feel a warm feeling. I knew that when Emily asked herself a question in the morning, she should use this sentence to answer. up.

An afternoon with nothing to do, coupled with a childish game of hide and seek, why not do it?

Although she really wanted to know whether the other party had really come to London, Cao Aiqing suppressed her curiosity and began to experience this carefully prepared game for herself.

Orange Sea: "I found the clue, I'll continue! If the place where you hide things is too difficult to find next, I'll just show it to you!"

Zhan Lantian: "You're so smart, I'm sure you won't be troubled~ Come on, don't worry, listen to a song to soothe your mood~!"

Orange Sea: "Weird~phase~"

That’s what he said, but Cao Aiqing still took out the earphones from his bag, and clicked on a pure music called "Dehors" sent by the other party. This is a mode of listening to songs together, and he can see the other party at the top of the APP , indicating that the two are listening to the same song now.

Accompanied by a relaxed and smart rhythm, Cao Aiqing took the subway to Charing Cross Station, officially starting this childish game of hide and seek.

Trafalgar Square is located in the center of London. It can be said that everyone who travels to the UK must visit. Whenever there is Christmas or New Year, thousands of London residents will gather in Trafalgar. The square held carnivals all night long, and the scene was quite lively.

Therefore, when Cao Aiqing came to St. Martin's Church in the northwest corner of the square, she was a little worried about whether the clues left by that person would be taken away by other tourists or local residents in advance, but she was obviously too worried.

Just as she was wandering in front of the church, hesitating whether to listen to the mobile phone to ask the other party for the location of the hidden clues, an old British lady sitting in the square feeding pigeons beckoned to her kindly.

"Son, are you looking for this?"

The old lady handed over a Polaroid photo, Cao Aiqing nodded and said she took it, she asked with a little doubt:
"Ma'am, how did you know I was looking for this?"

The old lady smiled kindly: "Because a boy came to me just now and told me that there will be a young oriental lady wandering in front of God soon, and I need my help to guide her."

After hearing this, Cao Aiqing couldn't help laughing. For some elderly people with faith, this is indeed a request that is difficult to refuse.

She turned her head and saw that there were many oriental faces in the square, and there were quite a few people wandering aimlessly in the square, so she asked jokingly:
"But it seems that I am not the only one who wanders before God."

"No~" the old lady shook her index finger and said in an elegant tone: "I was also puzzled at the time, but that boy used the word 'Serendipity' to describe that oriental lady, so when I saw you, I I knew he must be talking about you."

Serendipity, unexpected encounter with beauty.

The young girl's cheeks were flushed, and the old lady patted the seat next to her.

Cao Aiqing sat down beside the old man, and looked down at the photo in her hand. The picture on it was Buckingham Palace, which was also not far from here. This should be her next destination.

She turned to the back of the photo again, and there were also a few words on it, but this time it was changed to Chinese.

"Do you still remember the architectural drawing book you showed me when I was in high school? There are St. Martin's Church and Buckingham Palace and other buildings you have drawn on it. You must have visited many times after you came to the UK, right? You must have copied it since you were young. The lines of my dreams have become a physical building. This feeling must be great. Don’t doubt whether I understand it, because I also took pictures of the fantasy pictures in my mind last year. I know what kind of excitement it is. Feel.

PS: But to be honest, when I saw these buildings, they were far less shocking than what you described to me at the beginning, so, rather than saying that I like hearing you talk about architecture, I would rather say that I prefer the way you describe your dreams clearly.

Another PS: The name St. Martin’s Church is too bad for the street. I searched for this name everywhere, and it also exists in China. It is comparable to the name "Lanzhou Ramen". Is there any particularity in it? "

The words behind the photos made Cao Aiqing smile. She put away the photos again, thinking that if the location in each photo is the next location, then the other party came from the opposite of her own?

These scenic spots are all places I have visited specially after I came to the UK, and they all appeared in my architectural picture books in high school. Of course, the most important point is that they are all near the school, so it is very convenient to move around.

To be able to plan these routes with the school as the radius, for a person who has never lived in London, he must do his homework and step on it in advance.

that person……

It is true that before the meeting, they will step on the spot in advance.

Thinking of the other party's dedication, Cao Aiqing was moved and joyful, and at the same time worried about his actions alone in a foreign country. She asked the old man beside her:

"Ma'am, how long has that person been away?"

The old man recalled: "About... about 10 minutes."

Two 10 minutes?

So, when I was in Dickens' former residence, the other party was here at St. Martin's Church?
Cao Aiqing rested for a while, then stood up again.

"Thank you, ma'am."

Before she left, the old man asked, "Son, I'm a little curious. If it were you, how would you describe that boy?"

The girl paused for a while when she heard the words, and then said a word cheerfully:
"Iridescent~"

The old woman raised her eyebrows, her blue eyes glowed with a clear light, the corners of her mouth raised slightly, she nodded, and sent her blessing:
“Have a nice day.”

When the girl left, the pigeons that were pecking at the ground around her were startled. They flapped their wings and flew past her one after another. Amidst the exclamation of tourists, the two fountains in Trafalgar Square suddenly sprayed water jets. Under the refraction of sunlight, the splashed water droplets formed small colorful rainbows.

On this day, the weather in London, which has always been gloomy, was surprisingly sunny.

The route that the boy designed for Cao Aiqing includes not only some famous scenic spots, but also some places that the girl usually goes to. A place name, a coffee shop, a dessert shop that I didn't intend to mention...

Following these familiar trajectories, Cao Aiqing felt more and more that that person was living beside her, living in every detail of her walk, not so far away.

Time came to dusk between these walks...

The clouds in the sky were dyed a layer of golden yellow by the setting sun, and the sun slanted on the Thames River, making ripples and shining brightly.

London Bridge is full of traffic, pedestrians shuttle back and forth, their figures cast long shadows under the sunlight, and blend with the bridge body. The Palace of Westminster and Big Ben, the scenery at this moment is poetic and extremely romantic.

The shadows of the dusk time flow around Cao Aiqing, the girl's figure rubs into the waves of the river, jumping and flickering lightly and softly, the breeze blows her hair, without the photo, this should be the last stop of her itinerary today up.

The girl sitting alone on the bench by the river was quietly thinking about the message from that person at noon.

He said that although he didn't say it, he knew what he liked.

What do you like?

The girl held the photos collected today, and she flipped through them one by one. They had never been to these places together, but after walking down this road, it seemed that they had been there many times.

Yes……

Cao Aiqing is very fond of this "moment of eternity".

Whether it is a building or a photo, these momentary scenes or permanent things seem to be the foreshadowing of a trance, a smile, for many years later.

Fortunately, though, it's not years away.

She also looks forward to creating more such "moments of eternity"...

It would be best to be with that person.

Orange Sea: "I'm here, I don't have any photos, I should have reached the finish line, right?"

Zhan Lantian: "The finish line is early, so where are you going? If you don't have a photo, why don't you take one yourself?"

Orange Sea: "But you've already photographed the Thames..."

Zhan Lantian: "Then you can take pictures of yourself~"

Looking at the text on the phone, Cao Aiqing's eyelashes trembled slightly.

She thought of something, subconsciously turned on the camera and raised her hand.

The screen on the phone faithfully showed the face she expected. Of course, there was a man standing not far behind her...

A man with a dessert in one hand and even a flower in the other.

Cao Aiqing in the camera gave a "puchi" smile, and then the camera froze for a second.

"Ai Qing~! Happy birthday~!"

"He Tianran, why don't you come as soon as you come, without notifying in advance, and it takes a long time to go back and forth! I'm exhausted!"

"Isn't this romantic? How about it? Have you compared that French painter?"

"Oh~ Ever since you learned to be a director, you've been putting on these weird faces all day long!"

"Not like this next time, next time I will change the pattern~"

"Do you want to die--!"

On the banks of the beautiful Thames, there are two silhouettes.

(PS: Thank you "Just Do It Again", "The Boy Running Under the Sunset", "Ai Cao Aiqing", the three old brothers who were the leaders on Ai Qing's birthday, thank you, thank you so much~!)
　It stands to reason that today is the 10th, and Ai Qing’s birthday was yesterday, but the British time is eight hours behind ours, that is to say, the 9th is still [-] minutes away, and it is still within the scope of the birthday, so this chapter does not count as a blessing be late.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)