“You can’t generalize between people.”
When twelve-year-old Masakazu Tanaka lost for the first time to Katsuko Sakai, who had just turned ten, in the children's calligraphy and painting competition, he was unconvinced.
Until he saw the winning work published in the newspaper.
He understood, either there was someone ghostwriting it, or else - there are some geniuses in this world after all.
【Tokyo Metropolitan Museum Children's Artist Finals】
fail.
【All Japan Junior High School Students Sketch Award】
fail.
【New Generation Youth Illustration Competition】
Failed miserably.
…
For Masakazu Tanaka, every time he sees the other person's quiet, porcelain doll-like face, it means the beginning of his own disastrous defeat.
If ordinary people encounter this kind of thing, their confidence will be frustrated and they will have self-doubt.
Otherwise, I would have given up my desire to compete with the other party early on.
But Tanaka Masakazu has never been a person who only works hard on one path.
An honest victory is also a victory.
The victory of cunning is also a victory.
His father relied on practicing this sentence throughout his life, and he evolved from a bad guy who was ugly, poor, didn't like dogs, and talked with a baseball bat on the street to an ugly guy who protected three seafood restaurants. At the fish market, Team Leader Tanaka, the Third Generation of the Yakuza, sells millions of yen of fish every day.
Even with the district councilors who come to the house to canvass votes, they can sit together, drink and talk.
After confirming that he could not win the prize in a serious competition by relying on secret operations, the super genius Sakai Katsuko, who was known as a once-in-a-century event in the Japanese painting world, decided to hold a competition of his own.
Don't think it's funny, there are many people with dark minds in this world, but few have ideas, actions and the ability to actually put them into practice.
Relying on the title of "Hyogo Prefecture - Seafood Beauty Painting Award" ("Hyogo Prefecture - Beautiful Seafood Painting Award"), Tanaka Masakazu easily killed one vote in seconds under the manipulation of his father and a congressman. Outstanding high school students and small-town painting masters were admitted to Tama Art University, which is famous for its strict admissions, without taking entrance exams.
This time in Myanmar, Tama Art University is one of the partner universities of the project, and it is also an important gold-plating opportunity.
The total number of students in the project is limited. Originally, only students who were about to graduate in their junior or senior years had the opportunity to participate.
But Tanaka Masakazu has learned to use "adult experience" to deal with this kind of problem.
After he invited the school's boy student council president to entertain him and played happily in the kabuki booth several times, his name was added to the list of projects.
Tanaka Masakazu, who has mastered means beyond the rules, feels like the omnipotent Zhuge Kongming in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" or the famous strategist Takenaka Hanbei in the Warring States Period, simply omnipotent.
Unfortunately, the plan could not keep up with the change, and he had already followed the professor at the school to Yangon.
However, I learned that local painters from Myanmar, who had always had the least presence, suddenly wanted to increase the number of young painters participating in the project.
There were already a lot of people working on the project, but considering that the other party was a local coward, the professors after discussion changed his name badge of Tanaka Masakazu from a painter to a staff member.
The gold content here is completely different.
After this kind of project is completed, the Myanmar government will send a special thank-you letter or specially carve a monument. Each official painter who participated in the project can have his or her name engraved in gold lacquer on the commemorative stone tablet.
In the world of calligraphy and painting, it is a good qualification to be ranked alongside a master like Cao Xuan, even if he is ranked last.
This is just like a seventh-tier actor playing a few roles with a certain big star and then becoming a sixth-tier actor.
This is why the quota of official painters has been fixed for a long time, and every additional person means one less person.
Although staff can also mention it in their resume, it is similar to whether your name appears in the author column of the paper or the special acknowledgment column. It is completely different.
What was originally a good job suddenly turned into an ordinary internship.
When Tanaka, who is the best at conducting secret operations, learned that his spot had been snatched away by someone else, he was in disbelief and at the same time had mixed feelings in his heart.
"Excuse me? Who are you?"
Gu Weijing didn't know that he had offended someone to death a long time ago.
His whole body was inexplicably strange now, and he looked at the guy who suddenly appeared next to him like he was looking at an idiot who looked like the popular actor Shun Oguri.
The Sakai siblings next to them also looked confused.
Sakai Shengzi shook her head at Gu Weijing, indicating that she didn't recognize this unfamiliar face at all.
"Miss Sakai, finally... we... meet again."
Tanaka Masakazu didn't even look at Gu Weijing. He lowered his head and looked down at Sakai Katsuko with a deep tone.
With the blessing of the outstanding students of Tama Art University,
He felt like the male protagonist of Wang Dao Man at this moment. After experiencing repeated failures, he finally stood on a high position and walked in front of the big devil again... If only the theme song of "Neon Genesis Evangelion" was in the air at this moment. Such exciting music would be even more perfect.
"Who are you."
Sakai Tsunamasa rolled his eyes, "Does my sister know you?"
"Don't you know me anymore? I... am the winner of the Seafood Beauty Award, a student of your father, Professor Sakai's Tama Art Academy, Masakazu Tanaka!"
Tanaka didn't feel surprised that the Sakai siblings couldn't recognize him, because he had discovered early on that the art world valued faces.
He took a look at the scarred face of his father, Team Leader Tanaka, with the fishy smell of a hairtail man, and his disfigurement could be considered plastic surgery, and he knew that he would not inherit the handsome boy gene.
He is a decisive person. After judging that there is no future for unknown young painters who look like Huoyunxieshen, he went for a medical aesthetic surgery right after graduating from high school.
No wonder Gu Weijing felt that he looked a bit like Shun Oguri. As the most popular man among women in RB, he was originally an important template for the selection of plastic surgery hospitals.
"Tanaka...Masakazu." Sakai Katsuko repeated the name.
Have you remembered, Demon King?
Do you remember the name of your defeated general?
You wouldn't have thought that after so many years, I would already be a student at the most famous art university in RB.
Tanaka Masakazu stared at the other person's face, waiting for a look of surprise and admiration on her face.
"Well, I have to say, this Demon King is really cute."
Masakazu Tanaka tilted his head slightly, letting the sun shine on the side of his face, completely revealing the bridge of his nose that had been lifted up by the doctor's filler and the small stubble that gave off a masculine look with a green beard.
"Sorry... Mr. Tanaka, I don't know you. Seafood Awards, is that some kind of cooking competition?"
Sakai Katsuko shook her head in confusion and frowned slightly, "Besides, I was talking to someone else, and what you just did was really rude."
Tanaka Masakazu's face immediately turned cold.
"Hmph, is this the arrogance of a once-in-a-century art genius?"
With a stinky face, he didn't dare to vent his anger on the other person, and turned his head to look at Gu Weijing.
It's really infuriating.
Tanaka Masakazu carefully checked the Gu Weijing and his grandfather Gu Tongxiang who took his place.
He is just a painter with a household registration who is unknown in the world and has become a general among the local dwarfs in Yangon.
If the Shwedagon Pagoda hadn't been in Myanmar, even a young painter like his grandfather would never have participated in such an international project.
He didn't know what the other party had done to make the devil, who was always unattainable in his eyes, praise him so well.
"After all, she is a young girl and can be easily deceived."
he thought in his mind.
"Gu Weijing, right."
He called Gu Weijing's name in Chinese that he was not proficient in, "I'm sorry, but I am an artist, and my respect is only for seniors who have real talent and learning. As for you -"
"——This Rangoon native. Do you really think you are a painter?"
Tanaka Masakazu turned his head, looked at Gu Weijing arrogantly, and emphasized the words "Yangon native".
"Is there something wrong with your brain? Whether I am a painter or not is none of your business."
This guy must be a lunatic.
Gu Weijing didn't know how he provoked the other party. He was a little angry, but he didn't want to spend time fighting with this kind of person.
He stood up and was about to leave.
"Sure enough, I feel guilty."
Tanaka Masakazu nodded secretly, and suddenly he had an idea.
"You are as unworthy of publicity as your grandfather Gu Tongxiang."
At the moment when they were close to each other, his lips moved slightly and he spoke softly.
Gu Weijing nodded without changing his expression, and then punched him in the stomach.
"Hitting people! Beating people! Some hooligans are beating foreign students! Police! Police!..."
Tanaka fell to the ground clutching his stomach, rolling around screaming.
There was some real pain in his eyes, after all, Gu Weijing really punched him in the stomach, but more of secret joy.
Tanaka Masakazu originally planned to anger him, but was afraid that the other party would not take action.
No matter how chaotic Myanmar is, beating foreign scholars and students invited by the government cannot be suppressed easily.
Doesn't it look like he hasn't gone to college yet?
Just this punch,
He would have the confidence to bring a case to the other party and his future would be ruined. A good art university would not want students with a record of assault and violent tendencies.
Even at the worst, Tanaka felt that the other party would be completely unable to stay in the project.
Boy, you are too young.
