There was an uproar.
Everyone looked at the extra spot and didn't know what to think.
There are those who don’t understand why, there are those who are envious, and there are also those who cannot accept it at all.
"What's happening here?"
"It's so unfair. What's going on with this extra person?"
"Maybe she draws exceptionally well?"
"Exceptionally good? Huh, this is obviously added later. I also think my painting is exceptionally good. Why can't Professor Cruz give me an extra spot?"
Kou Kou, who was watching on the side, played with her hair with her fingertips and threw a piece of bubble gum into her mouth in dissatisfaction.
Her painting skills were limited, and she knew that there was a high probability that she would not be able to get into higher classes, which was only provided to a few people in the school. She simply came to watch the fun.
At this time, she saw that good luck fell from the sky and fell on Mona's head. Koko muttered in dissatisfaction.
Mona couldn't care less about this.
She looked at the extra name at the bottom of the list, covered her mouth with her hands, and couldn't help but burst into tears.
now,
Mona finally felt that the humiliation she suffered that day in Mrs. Sakai's office had been sufficiently repaid.
"Mrs. Cruz still remembered my name."
She felt that there was no other reasonable explanation for this incident.
It was clear that Mrs. Sakai was very talkative and she went to visit the other party's office in advance that day. Even though the professor was harsh in words, she actually left a good impression on him after all.
Life is like this sometimes.
If you work harder at the right time and in the right way, your destiny may be different.
Gu Weijing, who has always been excellent, is exactly the opposite. He worked hard for more than ten years, but made the wrong choice at the last moment.
then,
Each other's lives have reached completely different dividing points.
Mona felt a touch of sadness in her heart, but more of it was excitement and joy. She knew that starting from today, a brighter and more magnanimous future was waiting for her.
Being Mrs. Sakai's student, no matter how much improvement she can get from one semester of guidance, one thing is certain -
With this connection from a great artist, she has taken a shortcut whether it is studying or finding a job.
One step is slow, each step is slow.
Whether it was Gu Weijing or the other students around him. It is almost impossible for them to catch up with themselves.
In the painting industry, connections are more important than hard work, and noble people are more important than talent. Having the wife of a big shot in the industry as a mentor will definitely save you years of hard work.
This is cruel and fair.
The opportunity was presented to everyone, but unfortunately, Mona took it, but her little boyfriend did not.
"We are no longer in the same world."
Mona thought to herself and sighed, feeling that it was extremely naive for her to consider Gu Weijing as the person she would entrust her life to.
"Congratulations, Mona. Let's have dinner with everyone tonight. All the students admitted by Professor Cruz will gather together. It doesn't hurt to get closer to each other. I'll treat you. My dad can book a good Italian restaurant in the embassy district. "
Jerry sent the invitation at this time, his face full of the awesome feeling that we are all elites.
"Everyone will support each other on the road to becoming artists..."
"Be an artist... stop being funny, Mr. Jerry Conrad, this is the funniest joke I've heard today."
A voice said calmly.
Jerry's eyebrows raised slightly, and a trace of displeasure and irritation flashed across his face.
At this time, if you say such disappointing words, you are obviously suspected of being beaten.
But the voice came out so calmly, and she continued to speak more mocking lines in a cold tone.
"You are just generals among a group of dwarfs. What qualifications do you have to talk about art?"
But no one in the crowd had the courage to raise objections.
Even Jerry, who was annoyed in his heart, immediately calmed down and lowered his head respectfully after seeing clearly who the speaker was.
The visitor was wearing a light brown Chanel women's single-breasted suit jacket, white classic bell-bottom pants, and a pair of two-inch beige Prada high heels. He held a pair of dark toad mirror frames in his hands and glanced at them expressionlessly. Everyone.
His whole person was filled with a sense of pride that came from his bones.
"Good afternoon, six frogs in the well, I will be your teacher for the next semester. I won't say welcome to my advanced class, because I actually don't like teaching mediocre people like you at all."
Mrs. Sakai crossed her arms.
Mona and others were stunned. They had just been selected by Professor Cruz to be her students, but now they were belittled by him as useless.
Mrs. Sakai pointed at the Dulwich students around her with the temples of her sunglasses, "Look at your classmates around you. You should thank them. It is because of their poor performance that I had to choose you to be my students. If you have a choice, in the art circle - compared with those geniuses who really make people look at you, I actually have no interest in even taking a second look at you."
Even though Mrs. Sakai comes from a family of great artists with billions of dollars in income, these students, who were considered to be good students whose painting skills were much higher than others in the eyes of their classmates, still feel a little uncomfortable.
"A true genius...Professor, although we come from a small place, we usually work hard, so we are not so bad."
Miao Angwen muttered unconvinced.
"Only 0.1% of people in this industry can become professional painters, and the remaining 99.9% are destined to be insulated from the term artist."
Mrs. Sakai shook her head, "It's meaningless to talk about how bad it is. As long as it's not outstanding enough, everything is empty talk. Titian had already become famous in Florence at the age of nineteen. Masaccio could paint the Pope's portrait at the age of twenty-one. Andrea painted the dome frescoes for the Venetian Cathedral at the age of seventeen... I can give you many, many examples of this."
"That was during the Renaissance period five or six hundred years ago. It was different. Painters at that time generally became famous early."
Miao Angwen's tone was sarcastic.
"Even the classmates around you are much better than you. Not long ago, even Mr. Cao Xuan praised one of your peers during the Shwedagon Pagoda restoration project not long ago. "
Mrs. Sakai shook her head. She was not interested in honoring Gu Weijing here, so she just mentioned it casually.
"You can't claim to be my students now, because I will only teach you for one semester. How much you can learn depends on your ability. But if you perform well enough, then everything you want... is not impossible. If you get it, I can consider giving you a letter of recommendation, and even recommend you to participate in art exhibitions and to intern in my husband's studio. These are all easy to do, provided that you have the ability."
Jerry and others suddenly became excited.
"However, at least from what I have seen of your works so far, it is still far from this goal."
Mrs. Sakai shook her head.
"Miao Aung Win. What ghost did you draw for your holiday homework? It's an imitation of Arnold Bocklin's "Island of the Dead," right. It's not that you can't draw imitations, but if you only imitate the surface and don't draw the spirit, you won't be as good as the future Go sell fake paintings. Marley..."
Mrs. Sakai has never been an easy person to get along with.
At this time, the immature works of these middle school students were sprayed, and they were immediately scolded in a bloody battle.
"...Jerry, you are even more ridiculous. Did you use the principle of color complementation? The color matching is not bad. Unfortunately, with your painting skills, the proportions of the characters are like a gorilla. Even Turner and Cézanne himself To mix colors for you, it’s just a flower stuck in cow dung.”
"Miss Sandnu."
Mrs. Sakai turned her eyes to Mona at the end.
"Professor, please guide me."
Mona waited nervously for the professor's criticism. She was mentally prepared to face Mrs. Sakai's vicious tongue.
"As for you..."
Mrs. Sakai stared at Mona. When she casually criticized the other five students as useless, this noble lady did not act so seriously.
Her tone was thoughtful, as if there were stormy waves rolling in it.
The students watching the excitement all became serious.
They wanted to see how Professor Cruz would evaluate her, a classmate who made exceptions and made many mistakes.
"Ms. Sandnu, I heard that you have a rich love life?" Mrs. Sakai asked.
Ahem...
While chewing gummies and popping bubbles while watching the fun, Kou Kou almost choked herself to death. She bent down and coughed vigorously, causing an uproar among her classmates.
Originally, everyone was watching a professional art class, but why did it suddenly turn into an emotional channel?
"professor……"
Mona's face turned red, her fingertips pinched the corners of her clothes, and she was at a loss.
She had no idea why Mrs. Sakai would suddenly ask such a damn question.
Examine the character and style of your students?
But Mona is not the type with a rich love life at all.
Throughout her student career, she had never had more than one boyfriend.
Not to mention compared with the cheerleader Kou Kou,
She was not considered average among the girls at Dulwich International School, which had a relatively open campus atmosphere. She was even jealous of Mona's female classmate who viciously made her into a stone girl with a cold personality.
Why is Mrs. Sakai so curious and concerned about this issue? Is it because of the farce at the opening ceremony?
"No such thing, Professor, Jerry and I have nothing to do with each other."
"What about you and the boy named Gu Weijing who grew up together?" Mrs. Sakai didn't seem to care much about Jerry.
"Then there is no such thing. He is him and I am me."
Mona's face was cold.
She was even a little bit glad now that Gu Weijing was not selected for the improvement class.
That's the total number of people, even if Mrs. Cruz added one more place because of her visit.
But if Gu Weijing is selected, his chance may be squeezed out.
Mrs. Sakai studied Mona for a moment and nodded.
"Very well, miss. I like attentive students."
The lady smiled happily.
…
"Hey, Gu Weijing, wait a minute."
Gu Weijing was carrying his schoolbag and was waiting for the bus at the corner of the campus gate when he was suddenly stopped by a breathless voice behind him.
He turned his head and saw a girl with a cool single earring standing behind him, looking at him with scrutiny.
"HI, Kou Kou. What's the matter with you?"
He was not familiar with Kou Kou, and he didn't know why she suddenly came to him.
The girl took a step forward, made a pistol shape with her thumb and index finger, and pressed it against Gu Weijing's chin from bottom to top.
"Tell me the truth, what is your relationship with Mrs. Sakai?"
Kou Kou narrowed her eyes and sounded suspicious.
I saw the scene in front of the notice board not long ago.
Miss Kou Kou, who comes from a family of military and police officers and has rich emotional experience, is more keen than other classmates in detecting a strange smell of bloody emotional drama in the air.
This made her, a little bitch, extremely itchy. She happened to see Gu Weijing on the way home from school and immediately chased after him.
"What does it have to do with it?"
Gu Weijing had seen strong winds and waves recently, so naturally he would not be fooled by the little girl so easily. He asked instead.
Koko stared at Gu Weijing with some suspicion for a moment, shook her head and muttered: "Forget it. I thought it was you who arranged for that girl Mona to enter Mrs. Sakai's advanced class."
She threw this ridiculous thought out of her mind.
"Waiting for a taxi?"
Kou Kou looked at the poor man who had just been dumped by his girlfriend, and pointed to a police car on the roadside: "I remember stopping by your house, and I just wanted to give you a ride, right?"
Parked across the road was a Toyota Land Cruiser in police livery.
Every day when Kou Kou goes to school, a driver drives a Myanmar police car to pick her up. She is no less popular than those rich boys who drive big Porsches.
"No, I'm waiting for someone."
Koko nodded, turned around and walked towards her own car opposite.
interesting.
When she got in the car, she was still thinking about what happened this afternoon.
Kou Kou always felt that there was some gossip that she didn't know about.
Koko opened the door and the driver started the car, but did not rush out of the parking space.
"Hey! Whose car is this? The rich second generation who went to school at Dulwich College is so rich now?"
The driver looked in the rearview mirror and whistled softly.
Coco turned around and saw a beautiful dark Bentley Limo (concierge car) driving through the street like a giant blue whale.
Even though there are many wealthy students at Dulwich College, there are really very few whose families have luxury cars like Bentleys worth billions of kyats.
Everyone was looking at this ultra-luxury car with admiration.
The driver stared at the Bentley for a moment, started the car, and turned around on the road.
Suddenly, Kou Kou rolled down the car window and stuck her head out.
Unlike those boys, she didn't have much interest in luxury cars. Originally, Kou Kou just glanced at her curiously and then withdrew her eyes.
However, when the two cars met, she saw it out of the corner of her eye.
The Bentley had stopped on the street, and the driver wearing white gloves opened the door and made an inviting gesture.
And the person they invited, if she read it correctly,
yes……
Gu Wei Jing.
(End of chapter)
