Chapter 6: I have to show Mr. Meng my talent when I enter the exhibition! ...

Chi Liuai knocked on the study door mysteriously, and after getting permission, he entered the room.

Seeing Chi Cheng busy with official business, Chi Cheng was ambitious and intelligent, and gradually took over the Chi family's business. Whether he could inherit the family business was secondary. What Chi Liuai hated most was that they worked so hard, making him look like a fool who had accomplished nothing.

So, she seized this opportunity, holding the gift sent by Mr. Meng's assistant in both hands, and secretly observed Chi Cheng's expression with the corner of her eyes. As usual, he told her to get out.

Humph, never mind, he will feel ashamed of having such a charming sister later.

"See? This is a gift from Brother Yuzhi!"

Chi Cheng paused, and an ominous premonition came to his mind.

Pursing his lips, he slowly took the box from the girl's hand. It was exquisitely packaged and small, not even half the size of his palm.

Then, a five-star hotel room card and a key appeared in their sight.

Before Chi Liuai could react, she felt the air stagnate for a few seconds. Chi Cheng's chest rose and fell violently, frightening Chi Liuai and making her tremble all over. The servants who received the order pulled Chi Liuai from front to back and locked her in the bedroom.

That night, Chi Cheng didn't even give her dinner.

Just let her starve to death so that the Chi family will have one less trouble.

To make matters worse, before Chi Cheng could settle the score with her, when the notice of expulsion reached Chi Cheng, she immediately took the paintbrush and sat in her sister's private studio. The paint was on her body and face, but not on the drawing paper.

"Brother Chi Cheng, what's the matter?" He acted as if to say please don't disturb me while I'm working.

You've already dropped out of school, but you're still pretending!

Chi Cheng was well aware of this man's hypocrisy and affectation. He took a deep breath and asked, "Why did you drop out?"

"I want to go home and be with my family."

False. After Chi Liuai was sent abroad, she knew her family must have despised her as a burden and was afraid that she would embarrass herself in China, so they sent her abroad to study art.

During the year abroad, Chi Liuai paid extra attention to his family every day and occasionally returned to visit.

It's not about caring about the health of my family, but about reminding them that the Chi family still has a daughter who is not dead abroad.

"Really? If that's the case, then go get married. Don't dwell on this all the time. Don't waste your status as the eldest daughter of the Chi family."

Chi Cheng was well prepared. He maximized Chi Liuai's benefits in the circle. She was a useless vase with only beautiful looks and a stupid personality. She had no way of squeezing into the upper class and adding bricks and tiles to the Chi family's career. So, doing favors was her value.

Thirty years old, plain-looking, second marriage, small business owner in Haicheng, his family has a certain say in the port city of Haikou.

Chi Cheng showed the photo to Chi Liuai and asked her what she thought of it and whether she liked it.

Chi Liuai studied the vicious face in front of her. If it weren't for the slight resemblance between her and Chi Cheng's eyebrows and eyes, she would have found it hard to believe that this vicious man was actually born from the same mother as her. If her mother were still alive, she would definitely ask how the same father and mother could give birth to two children so different from each other.

Why am I so kind, but my brother is so disgusting!

Chi Cheng was born with the arrogance of a superior person, and he experienced it all on the day Chi Liuai returned home. At the same time, she was completely unable to understand Chi Cheng's train of thought.

She wants to dress up beautifully and marry an old and poor man, and tell her father: We are true love.

Is Chi Chengcai satisfied?

"Yeah, he's really too handsome and too young, and he's a perfect match for Sister Baoyuan. Let's go get the marriage certificate tomorrow." Chi Liuai opened her big round eyes again and said this without thinking, "Then I will reluctantly marry Mr. Meng."

A rotten tree cannot be carved.

If the Chi family had not taken her home, she would still be begging in the slums with her brother who depended on her for survival. According to her vain personality, she would have been sold to the red-light district by that man to sing and dance. Chi Cheng completely felt that it was the Chi family that gave Chi Liuai a new life. Although there was a small mistake of losing her, at least they made up for it after she grew up.

Chi Liuai was not grateful at all, and even reached out, shamelessly trying to seize the family's property.

"I've said it many times! This marriage is Baoyuan's!"

Yes, the real purpose is revealed.

Chi Liuai didn't want to waste any more time talking to Chi Cheng, so he pushed open the studio door with a bang. The noise was too loud, and Chi's father happened to be returning home, with Chi Baoyuan following him. Four pairs of eyes stared at each other, and Chi Liuai's face flushed first, looking humiliated.

Chi Cheng suffered a loss in pretending to be pitiful. He rushed out of the studio with a handsome face.

Just then, Chi Liuai curled up the corners of her mouth slightly, and her tears sparkled unusually under the chandelier on the ceiling.

"Brother, please stop scolding me."

Chi Cheng: “…”

"Alright! What a quarrelsome family!"

Finally, Chi Huaiyuan spoke up to end the quarrel. He asked Chi Liuai to go back to the house. Chi Liuai ran upstairs and deliberately left a crack when closing the door. She heard Chi Huaiyuan say, "If she doesn't want to, you should coax her to come. Her marriage is not urgent. The important thing is that the Meng family has proposed to cancel the engagement now. Making Mr. Meng satisfied with Baoyuan is the top priority."

Chi Baoyuan took Chi Huaiyuan's coat and responded, "Dad, I have invited Mr. Meng to participate in my art exhibition."

Art exhibition!

Chi Liuai had almost forgotten about this. Chi Baoyuan had shown exceptional artistic talent since childhood, and the Chi family had invested heavily in her cultivation. In just over a decade, Chi Baoyuan had become a sought-after celebrity, with one of her paintings fetching high prices at auction. She also loved holding art exhibitions, using them as a platform for public benefit to build a good reputation. In Chi Liuai's eyes, her sister simply loved to establish herself as a genius.

Why do I say so?

She had clearly practiced in the studio until her fingers became weak and her eyes developed physiological problems, often painting for more than ten hours.

When a perfect work comes out, she will casually tell the public that it was just a casual drawing.

Really.

Sure enough, after Chi Huaiyuan talked about the details of the exhibition and the invitation list, he mentioned Chi Baoyuan's works.

"Baoyuan, you have to let Mr. Meng see your talent, understand?"

Chi Baoyuan nodded and said he would.

Chi Cheng was just about to tell his father about Chi Liuai's presumptuous behavior at the banquet, provoking Mr. Meng, when he noticed that Baoyuan Shen was naturally less handsome than Chi Liuai. When they were little, everyone in the family said that the younger sister was not as pretty as the older brother, but no one had considered that the child was mistaken. Chi Baoyuan's once confident and smooth life came to an abrupt end with Chi Liuai's arrival.

He thought that he could not let Chi Liuai disturb Chi Baoyuan's mood anymore.

After all, raising Baoyuan to marry into the Meng family was her responsibility since she was a child.

"Baoyuan, you've been playing too much these past few days. Teacher Rok believes you still have room for improvement. Seize the time and don't waste your time on unnecessary things. If you were a good enough painter now, the Meng family's charity event would definitely invite you. Instead, we implore Mr. Meng to participate in the charity art exhibition."

"My drawing is not good enough. I will try hard, brother."

Chi Baoyuan bit her lip; her wrist still hurt. But she said nothing more. As obedient as ever, she admitted that she hadn't practiced diligently and went upstairs to the studio.

Her footsteps were light, unlike the force with which Chi Liuai, righteously declaring her discontent, attempted to trample a hole through the floorboards of her home. This cautious approach, a rule she had adopted since the return of the true daughter of the Chi family, had been instilled in every corner of her life.

For example, he didn't dare to show off his talents, didn't dare to spend more time with Chi Liuai, and didn't dare to disobey the orders of his parents and brother.

No matter how hard she tried, her parents and brother never seemed satisfied with her. She was like a work of art, for people to view and then pick out flaws.

The studio was in chaos.

Chi Baoyuan knew exactly who did it.

She sighed and began to practice.

After a while, Chi Liuai slowly poked his head out from the crack of the door, thinking he was hiding well, and took a peek at Chi Baoyuan's paintings.

Ahhhh! Too pretentious! Chi Baoyuan is just like that! Two-faced.

Chi Liuai looked at the painting. The colors were bright, the composition was perfect, and the expression was powerful. What was especially noteworthy was that the painter had completed it from conception to completion in just a few hours.

This is not good enough?

She stared at the hand that was painting, and didn't even put on any plaster to avoid affecting the feel of the hand.

Is this called not working hard?

She must have deliberately used these words in front of her father and brother to highlight her laziness and gluttony.

Chi Liuai, feeling competitive, snorted coldly and went to Chi Baoyuan's side to work diligently. Not long into her painting, she thought of Chi Cheng's words today.

The art exhibition was opened by Chi Baoyuan, Chi Baoyuan married into the Meng family, and Mr. Meng was met by Chi Baoyuan.

What about her, what about her.

When Chi Baoyuan heard the sound of the paintbrush falling to the ground, as expected, Chi Liuai picked up the weapon she knew to harass her.

"Why are you crying again? What are you doing?" Chi Baoyuan was a little angry. "How did I offend you?"

Chi Liuai: "Why are you pretending? You draw so well, why don't you admit it?"

The crying sounded coquettish, Chi Baoyuan felt bad, Chi Liuai came to act coquettishly again, and loved to act coquettishly every day.

There is nothing she can't get after she acts coquettishly.

Chi Baoyuan didn't respond and turned around to continue painting.

"Why are you ignoring me? You're feeling guilty! You've been secretly practicing your artwork for so long, and someone even deliberately poured coffee on it, and you stayed up all night repainting it. And you have so many people praising you online, and you have hundreds of thousands of followers. What else are you dissatisfied with? You're saying you didn't work hard in front of everyone, aren't you just trying to get them to admit you're a genius? How hypocritical!"

Chi Baoyuan's hands trembled. She had never expected to hear these words from her father and brother.

The first recognition I received actually came from this arrogant sister.

Chi Baoyuan looked at Chi Liuai again with a complicated heart.

Because she had been crying, her cheeks were still red, and her pitiful face was made more charming by her watery peach blossom eyes. She seemed to feel Chi Baoyuan looking at her, and turned away in anger, not forgetting to cover her painting with her hands to prevent Chi Baoyuan from copying her.

At least she thinks her painting is superb.

Indeed, in Chi Liuai's world, she had to admit that her sister had some talent in painting, but she was definitely super good, much better than her sister.

This blocking action did not work at all. Chi Baoyuan still saw the terrible color matching and composition, which showed no technical skill at all.

She didn't want to comment too much, but she also didn't want to hear Chi Liuai humming annoyingly from time to time. She hesitated for a moment and then spoke.

"Actually, what I mean is that you haven't been studying for long." Chi Baoyuan thought that the online comments about Chi Liuai were a bit unbearable. Perhaps it was the hurt that she didn't notice that destroyed her sister's fragile self-esteem, so she put it more clearly.

"Your current painting is okay, keep working hard, and you will..." become even better in the future.

She kept the second half of the sentence in her mouth. When Chi Baoyuan saw it, Chi Liuai turned around angrily and snorted at her.

"Sister, stop being jealous of me." She even rolled her eyes, and the tears in her eyes fell down. The girl looked very proud.

"Whatever you think!"

Chi Baoyuan was also angry, and his voice was a little louder than usual.

"You finally stopped pretending!"

"Yes, as long as you are satisfied."

"No, I allow you to apologize to me."

"I'm sorry." Chi Baoyuan quickly ended the conversation.

Chi Liuai stuck close to her, holding Chi Baoyuan's uninjured left hand and preventing her from leaving.

"Your apology is insincere. I want an apology gift!"

"What do you want?"

“Put my work in the exhibition!”

This way Mr. Meng will see my talent, Chi Liuai thought to himself.

Chi Baoyuan was silent for a while, and when her tears were about to fall into her palms, she finally agreed.

"I forgive you!"

Chi Liuai ran back, shouting in his heart.

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