Two of the abstract paintings on the 1st floor had already unlocked the plot in the painting, leaving two <Dreams> and <Anna’s Light>.
Both paintings were minimalist, with only a few black lines drawn on the white canvas of <Dreams>, and the curved lines were drawn so casually that it was impossible to tell what shapes were being drawn; And <Anna’s Light> was even more bizarre, a red canvas with a thin white line standing in the middle, splitting the canvas in two.
Ke Shaobin walked to the two paintings, adjusted his glasses, observing carefully. “How do we unlock these two paintings?”
Xu Feixue said, “I think Xingwen’s analysis just now is correct, the first painting is unlocked with an eraser, the second painting used a color palette, and the remaining two paintings may use the brush skills of the Arts Department. As long as the students of the Arts Department successfully pass the previous courses, they can basically learn these three skills.”
Yue Xingwen agreed. “Try it, copy it with a paint brush.”
Xu Feixue took out a pen, turned the brush into black, and traced along the lines of the third painting, <Dreams>, from beginning to end. When she finished drawing the lines, an illusion did appear in the painting!
The black lines in the abstract painting <Dreams> split, and scrambled around at a speed visible to the naked eye, eventually converging to form a single character that made up a black and white diary.
—— It was a diary written by Leah as a teenager.
“I had another dream last night. In the dream, I became a 7-year-old child and went to a garden full of sunflowers. My parents accompanied me to play in the garden, the family was happy, and my mother even said that I was her most cherished baby.
However, after I woke up from the dream, I saw my mother going to the garden with my brother and shoveling out the sunflowers I had just planted yesterday, and she planted a lot of vegetables in the garden, saying that she would give my brother the healthiest food.
The dreams really were deceiving.
Mother and father only liked my younger brother Kevin, and they only bought toys for my younger brother, but they were reluctant to buy me a set of brushes, saying that it was a waste of money for me to practice drawing. My younger brother’s toy cars cost thousands of dollars for one, and he had a house full of them, but my set of brushes only cost a few hundred dollars.
Every year on her younger brother’s birthday, his mother would buy him new clothes, take him to the amusement park, set off fireworks for him at home, and call his friends to throw him a birthday party. And my birthday, they didn’t even remember.
The painting that I had painstakingly spent a month copying was ruined by Kevin, the bastard, with red ink, and my mother would only say, don’t blame your brother, he was just careless, who let you put the painting there.
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Lan Yarong was helpless and said, “The damage done to the child’s psyche by biased parents is hard to heal. Leah’s relationship with her parents should be terrible, so, after her parents died, she was willing to be adopted by Mr. and Mrs. Roland?”
Ke Shaobin said, “So, after Leah came to Roland’s home, she hugged that cat every day to eavesdrop on the family’s movements, not to find out the truth about her parents’ deaths and avenge them?” He paused and turned back to his teammates. “Leah mentioned in her diary that she couldn’t wait for the death of the entire family. Could she have had something to do with her parents’ deaths?”
Liu Zhaoqing made a speculation, “Leah also had a younger brother named Kevin, but in all the plot clips we have seen so far, this younger brother doesn’t appear. Is it possible that her younger brother died in that car accident along with her parents?”
Xu Yishen narrowed his eyes and said, “If both parents and her younger brother died in a car accident, then she would become the sole heir to the property. Remember the gossip I heard before, Leah’s parents are quite rich, right?”
Several students looked at each other in disbelief.
With the appearance of the ‘younger brother’ and the diary, things became more and more confusing.
Yue Xingwen whispered, “Look at the fourth painting.”
Xu Feixue turned her brush to white and followed the white line in the center of the fourth canvas and traced it from top to bottom, then the red canvas looked like it had split open a door in the middle, revealing the illusion world inside.
A strange episode began to play on the canvas. The time went back to middle school, and Leah went to summer camp in her school uniform. Since she swapped groups with Alice before, she reported to Group A with the blue card she got from Alice.
There were more than 30 students in Group A, half men and women. Among them, there was a tall and handsome boy with blond hair holding a guitar, sitting there and singing softly, and many girls around him showed their smitten expression.
Leah stood alone in the corner, staring intently at the handsome boy in the sun, until the other party noticed her gaze, smiled and stepped forward, taking the initiative to extend his hand to her. “Hello, I’m Jack from Class 10, what’s your name?”
Leah fled away in a bit of a panic.
During the days at summer camp afterward, Jack always came to talk to Leah with a smile on his face, and every time Leah sat silently in the corner to paint, he would come over and take the initiative to praise her. “Your paintings are so beautiful.”
“You will definitely become an excellent painter in the future. When the time comes to open a solo exhibition, remember to give me a ticket oh”…
The fragmented clips were constantly shaking on the screen, like promotional clips of youth movies.
The smiling boy, the depressed girl, met that summer day and became friends. The boy played the piano and sang, the girl painted seriously, and the scene was as beautiful as a dream.
On the day of the end of the summer camp, Jack said goodbye to her with a smile and took the initiative to say, “Come to my house on the weekend!”
Leah hesitated for a moment and finally nodded in agreement.
On the weekend, Leah picked out the most beautiful dress from the closet and came to Jack’s house. To her surprise, Jack actually prepared a romantic candlelight dinner, and gave Leah a gemstone necklace, and said gently, “Today is your birthday, you are the most beautiful girl in the world, happy birthday.”
Leah was so moved that she almost burst into tears, so she didn’t avoid it when Jack leaned in to kiss her. As the adolescent boy and girl grew out of control, Jack took Leah to his bedroom and closed the door.
Yue Xingwen looked at the candlelight bouncing in the dining room and analyzed. “Anna’s Light, this painting should represent the only light in Leah’s heart. She had not been valued by her parents since she was a child, and her personality is withdrawn, and only Jack cares about her, celebrates her birthday alone, and carefully prepares gifts for her. She must have liked this boy at that time, and felt that the other person was her to save her.”
Jiang Pingce frowned. “It’s a pity that Jack is not a lover, and we also know that he later married Alice. He didn’t necessarily like the other party when he approached Leah in the first place… look here.” Jiang Pingce pointed to a picture frame placed in the inconspicuous corner of the living room, and said, “The family portrait of the four must be the parents and the brothers Jack and Rhodes.”
Yue Xingwen was keenly aware that in the photo, there was a boy with a very familiar necklace around his neck. He carefully thought about the plot that appeared in the <Blackboard> painting and said, “The crescent-shaped necklace around this boy’s neck is exactly the same as the necklace worn by the little boy who deliberately painted the blackboard.”
Ke Shaobin said excitedly, “I understand! When he was a child, he deliberately messed up the blackboard that Leah drew on, and when he was in middle school, he sat in the corner of the classroom and peeked at Leah, a boy who had a crush on Leah, and always wore a crescent-shaped necklace around his neck—— he is Rhodes!”
Jiang Pingce nodded. “That’s right. I guess Jack should know that Leah is her brother’s crush, so he approached Leah. His purpose is not pure, most likely just for fun.” He looked at Yue Xingwen and said in a low voice, “Actually, as soon as Jack appeared in the plot of this painting, I felt that he was a womanizer.”
Qin Miao said coldly, “Indeed, sticking to Leah every day and saying ‘your paintings are beautiful’ and ‘you will be an excellent painter in the future’, his mouth is like honey, and only a simple girl like Leah will be fooled by him.”
Qin Lu said angrily, “He took the girl straight to the house on the first date, and he looked experienced at first glance! He knew that Leah is the girl his brother has a crush on, most likely, he went to approach Leah just to prove that he is stronger than his brother?”
The girl that his elder brother had been crushing on for years but hadn’t gotten after, but whom he had slept with so easily, might have been a brag-worthy talking point for Jack, and only Leah at that time would treat him as a light.
Ke Shaobin said with a complicated mood, “There is no good thing about this pair of brothers. After Rhodes married Daisy later, didn’t he also keep a mistress outside? Can this scumbag gene of this family be inherited?”
Xin Yan said calmly, “So, the murderer of Leah, who exactly could it be?”
At present, the abstract paintings on the 1st floor and some of the hanging paintings on the 2nd floor had been unlocked. There were two paintings left for them to open the mechanism, namely the wall painting <Mona Lisa> at the entrance on the 2nd floor, and <Sunflowers> on the 2nd floor.
Yue Xingwn said decisively, “Go to the 2nd floor and take a look at the most crucial painting of <Mona Lisa>.”
Everyone followed the stairs to the 2nd floor.
This painting at the entrance was the weirdest, sometimes the picture flipped and the second face appeared, and sometimes the woman in the painting cracked her bloody mouth and let out an eerie laugh. At this time, the woman in the painting stared at them, slightly raising the corners of her mouth.
Ke Shaobin’s spine tingled with her smile and whispered, “Where is the mechanism of this painting?”
Yue Xingwen looked at Xu Feixue, who shook her head, indicating that she didn’t have a clue either.
Jiang Pingce came to the painting calmly, he carefully observed the corners of the woman’s curved mouth in the painting closely, and after a moment, he suddenly said, “There is an illusion shadow at the corner of her mouth, and this painting should be made of multiple layers.”
Ke Shaobin was stunned. “Multiple layers?”
Jiang Pingce said, “Draw several layers of paintings, stack them together, and then change the frames quickly, we can see different dynamic changes. I remember Xu Feixue said that when Leonardo da Vinci also layered on the original painting when he first painted it, that’s why Mona Lisa has the legend of the second face, right?”
Xu Feixue’s eyes lit up. “I know! The way to unlock this painting should be to peel off. Each time we peel off a layer, a layer of clues appears until we strip off the original version of the picture!”
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Leah’s life is miserable ah. TY FOR THE TRANSLATION