Almighty painter

Chapter 806 Two People's Response
Mrs. Sakai is both powerful and beautiful.

She walked with a brisk pace and spoke, especially in Spanish, very quickly, with her eyebrows raised and her eyes moving.

The dividing line between a person with a bold and mercenary temperament and a person who is both powerful and beautiful is often the difference between who is more calculative and uncompromising when talking to people of lower status than him, or who can remain uncompromising in facing those who are superior to him.

Shengzi felt that the young man in front of him was extremely handsome at this moment.

months ago.

He even broke down and cried because of Tang Ning's ridicule.

Today is the day of reunion.

Gu Weijing sat across the coffee table and talked.

He talked about love, art, his conversation with the manager of Oil Painting magazine, and the reasons behind the sentence "Irina's family should all go to hell". His voice was gentle and powerful, his eyes were calm and peaceful, and there was no trace of hesitation or anxiety.

[He is talking about the Elena family! ]

As Gu Weijing was narrating, this sentence kept echoing in the girl's mind.

Some people also speak disdainfully behind the backs of others who are in higher positions than themselves.

The tone sounded like a child trying to point fingers at a whale sticker with their toy plastic sword.

“He’s really different.”

She picked up the kettle and filled the man's empty teacup with water.

Gu Weijing was telling how Anna Elena, the new manager of Oil Painting magazine, who was in a wheelchair, first offered him 300 euros to endorse her family. After he refused, the price was raised to million euros, and then for the last time... a check worth million euros from a Swiss bank was placed on the coffee table.

This was the last offer. If he dared to refuse, the Elena family would close the door to him forever.

"The Elena family should go to hell, because I don't know if you have done as many evil things as Brother Hao, but I know that you are as hypocritical and arrogant as Brother Hao, and you dare not face your true self. No matter how you get your reputation in the art world, it is all fake - I said to Miss Elena."

The man held up the glass.

"No, turn around and walk out of this coffee shop. I told her that I would reject the olive branch from the Elena family in every way I could think of. Miss Anna, I sincerely hope that I have made my meaning clear enough."

"Please rest assured to close the door to me, because no matter what happens, I believe that I will never be able to step into the door of the Elena family in my lifetime."

These words speak volumes.

As each note fell on the solid wooden table, Katsuko Sakai could hear the clear texture of a century-old piano.

The young man fully understood the significance of Oil Painting magazine and was also aware of the glorious history of Irena's family.

His acceptance of the friendship of Oil Painting magazine meant that his future would be smooth sailing. Being disliked by the most authoritative review magazine in the industry meant that his future would be full of thorns, and even if he put in more effort, he might not necessarily gain the favor of those collectors.

What lady would want to wear a dress that Karl Lagerfeld or Coco Chanel would consider tacky?

Which multi-millionaire would be willing to pay a high price to collect an oil painting that is considered by Oil Painting magazine to lack artistic aesthetics?
He was not showing off his power in front of the whale in the picture.

What Gu Weijing was facing was a real whale.

In front of the most powerful person in the industry, he rejected the other party's refusal firmly and mercilessly.

Katsuko Sakai said nothing.

She did not say whether Gu Weijing handled it well or not.

Shengzi simply picked up the tissue, lowered his head and continued to carefully clean Awang's ears.

Miss Elena once made Katsuko Sakai nervous, and made the girl feel more pressured than Brother Hao.

No matter how evil Chen Shenglin is, he is nothing more than a money launderer who started out by counterfeiting artworks.

There's nothing weird about Anna, and that's exactly the scariest thing about her.

Without any fancy decoration, she is just plain and simple strong.

The young woman in the wheelchair and her last name seem like a huge and untamed force, a violent and gorgeous whale king.

No one can control the other, and anyone who wants to get close must hold their breath and be cautious.

Sir Brown Levinson, who considered himself an experienced sailor, was hit on the cheek by a tail as soon as he tried. His face is still swollen now.

Katsuko Sakai doesn't like the other party.

No matter how much she dislikes the other person, the most you can do is to quietly back away and tell her, sorry, we are not suitable to be friends.

just now.

You can dislike me too.

But what Gu Weijing did was not to retreat quietly. He actually jumped high and stabbed the big whale's tail with a harpoon.

The new female manager of Oil Painting has never been an easy person to get along with.

Miss Elena is not in the article. It would be strange to just hang him up and use the tail to whip Gu Weijing back and forth like a ping-pong ball.

When she first heard about this, Katsuko Sakai was terrified.

Its occurrence disrupted all of Shengzi's plans for what was to happen next.

However, gradually, listening to Gu Weijing's gentle voice, her pounding heart followed the rhythm of his tone and finally calmed down.

It is because of recklessly sailing into unknown waters that we feel fear, tremble, and regret.

Know what you will face, understand the cost of the choice, and still do it.

So--

That's all.

It’s just a matter of facing it.

My mother followed my father to Japan, and during those years when she was the poorest, least successful, and not recognized by galleries, she never expressed any regrets.

Gu Weijing is able to face his own fate, and he is willing to pay the price of saying face to face that "Elena's family should all go to hell."

And she.

Yesterday, Katsuko Sakai was standing on the third floor of the Esplanade and said to Anna, "You don't have to dislike me either."

Didn't she also figure out what was most important in her heart?

Fate arrived in a more drastic way.

She chose to surf the waves of fate, so why should she lose sleep over the strong winds and waves caused by the giant whale?

Katsuko Sakai lowered her head, her eyes gentle, and she was petting the cat peacefully.

“I see. It seems that we may not be able to gain anything from the Singapore Biennale. It’s a pity. We have put so much effort into this exhibition.”

Her voice was calm, there was pain at the corners of her mouth, but there was a peaceful smile in her eyes.

Yeah.

There was no need to worry about offending Miss Elena too much, or the consequences of offending the Oil Painting magazine team. Sakai Katsuko's voice was calm, like comforting a seriously ill patient.

Lying on the ICU bed is their professional career. If they still have a breath left to stay in the grave after being beaten by the sharp pen of "Oil Painting" magazine - in that case, it would be more appropriate to describe them as the peaceful tone of a priest praying at a funeral.

"It doesn't matter."

Sakai Katsuko said.

"Awards are very important to us, but they are not everything to us, nor are they everything to the art field. When Impressionism was first born, its novel way of painting was not accepted by critics in Paris. They could not even participate in art exhibitions and had to organize their own exhibitions. In the end, they still conquered the entire city. We offended Miss Irena and did not agree to her bribery..."

Miss Sakai felt a little hesitant about this section.

Could something have gone wrong?
Miss Elena also contacted her yesterday.

While chatting.

The other party did not seem to pay much attention to the paper in "Asian Art" beyond normal interest. Besides, the girl was also one of the co-first authors of the paper. In the eyes of outsiders, because she was Katsuko Sakai, she was most likely the more famous and influential one among the first authors of the paper.

If one wants to bribe the author of the paper to endorse the Elena family, wouldn't it be more logical to bribe Sakai Kazunari's daughter first rather than bribe a nobody?

Could it be that he really just wanted to buy a painting?
Katsuko Sakai was confused.

She shook her head again.

There's no point in thinking about this.

The moment Gu Weijing said that Elena's family should all go to hell, he had irreparably offended Elena's family to the point where he could no longer offend them.

Ms. Sakai paused for a moment and made up her mind: "Then, I will talk with Oil Painting magazine at the lecture later-"

"I really need to ask for your help on this, Shengzi."

Gu Weijing opened his mouth and looked out the window.

"I hope that by helping you, you don't mean that you want to go to the interview with Oil Painting alone."

Katsuko Sakai was not surprised. Based on her intuition and her understanding of Gu Weijing, she realized that the other party had something to say to her about this matter.

Gu Weijing turned around and smiled.

The smile was implicit but revealing helplessness.

"Gu Weijing."

Katsuko Sakai read his full name, "I don't understand what you're thinking. We wrote the paper together, and our names were both on the paper. Do you think you're brave? Courageous? Strong? Able to face all this alone? I just thought we've grown up, but your idea is really super childish."

The woman sounded angry.

The tabby cat raised its head, glanced at Gu Weijing, then raised its butt, changed to a more obedient posture, and curled up in Sister Sakai's arms, just like Uncle Sakai who smelled his wife's sharp gaze sweeping over him.

Meow.

"I don't understand. If you look at it from the perspective of interests, if Oil Painting magazine throws dirty water on the paper and says there is academic misconduct, can I avoid it by not participating in the interview?"

"We have not committed any academic misconduct. Even in the case of Oil Painting, the most they could do was not acknowledge that Carroll was the first female Impressionist painter. Research conclusions are always right or wrong. At our age, even if we really wrote a paper with inaccurate conclusions, it would not be a big deal. At most, we would just say some sarcastic remarks."

Gu Weijing replied.

"In that case, let's go together," said Katsuko Sakai.

"Different."

He put down the glass and spread his hands.

"What's the difference."

Gu Weijing said: "I am a nobody in the art industry. Who says it is a bad thing for an unknown person to be named and criticized by Oil Painting?"

"You are not speaking your mind."

Shengzi said unceremoniously.

Gu Weijing was silent for a moment.

According to common sense, at most he would just be ridiculed in an interview, but he couldn't help but think of Lao Yang's warning, and always felt that there was something else going on.

He recalled the scene yesterday when Miss Elena handed the cash to the waiter at the cafe and walked away.

"I was the one who cursed the Elena family and said they should go to hell. This is a personal grudge between us."

The man said softly.

"Personal grudge, so you don't want to involve me, you feel you owe me?" Sakai Katsuko was not satisfied with this answer, but looked even angrier. "You are so clear about everything and don't want to be involved with me, why did you go to write a paper with me? If you think I can't bear it and you want to protect me, why did you say last night that the Elena family should go to hell?"

"Gu Weijing. I'm telling you, I'm already involved. From the moment you said that Elena's family should go to hell, I was involved. From the moment we started writing the paper together, I was involved—"

From the moment love was born in our hearts, I was already involved.

No one can control the direction and outcome of love.

Katsuko Sakai frowned and stared at the young man across the table - after saying so much, he still didn't understand.

Love is not desire.

Desire is a mirror of the lake. It reflects a heart and the heart in the mirror together. They seem to be beating at the same speed, but people are always just embracing the shadows in their imagination.

The lake surface was wrinkled by wind and rain, and the mirror surface was stained with dust by time.

This resonance will disappear immediately.

Love is a bond.

It binds one heart tightly together with another. Sometimes they beat out of sync, have their own beats, quarrel, and conflict.

But as long as this bond exists, no matter how the wind blows or how hard the rain falls, they will eventually rely on each other, dance to the same frequency, and become more like each other.

So-called love.

It just doesn't matter who owes whom more.

Doesn't he care about himself at all?

Doesn't he feel that I care about him at all?
Did Gu Weijing think that by not attending the interview, he could avoid the wrath of Elena's family, just like he thought that by sending himself on a plane, he could completely stay away from Brother Hao's mess?

That might be the case physically, but wouldn't she feel similar pain if her heart, which was tied to her, was buried in the dirt and weighed down by the dust, unable to beat, or was being burned by flames?

Katsuko Sakai doesn't like being treated like a fragile vase.

She was not moved at all.

Instead, I was shrouded in a strong sense of loss.

"You misunderstood, Shengzi."

Gu Weijing turned his head.

(End of this chapter)