"He can paint a hundred kinds of flowers and plants in just half an hour, and each one is lifelike and vivid. Whether it is composition, brushstrokes or ink, it is impeccable."

Miss Wei's paintings truly bear the mark of her father!

The only downside is that something is missing.

Forty-nine points. "

"What? Forty-nine points?!?" Wei Jianjia's lips curled up slightly upon hearing what Headmaster Ouyang had said earlier.

But in the last two sentences, the smile on her lips suddenly froze, and even her usual gentle demeanor seemed to falter.

Her beautiful eyes narrowed slightly. "I wonder what Headmaster Ouyang means by 'something is missing'?"

“That’s right,” Liu Yuxian chimed in. “Jianjia’s painting of a hundred flowers is just as good as Su Hua’s painting of the other shore flower. Why does Su Hua get a perfect score while Jianjia gets a point deducted? That’s not fair!”

Su Hua's lips twitched.

Wei Jianjia is indeed very skilled at drawing hundreds of flowers and plants in a short time, but as she had thought before, most people who draw a garden full of flowers are just full of water.

True beauty lies in the bone structure, not just the skin, and the same applies to flowers.

Although the painting technique for this Hundred Flowers painting is exquisite, how could one pour so much inner meaning into each flower within half an hour?

“It’s missing a soul.” Headmaster Ouyang shook his head. He had seen too many impetuous young people, and he was not surprised at all by Wei Jianjia’s reaction. “A flower without a soul is incomplete, and that is precisely why Miss Su’s Lycoris Radiata got full marks.”

"Missing a soul?" Wei Jianjia murmured softly.

Suddenly looking up at Su Hua's spider lily, she refused to believe that a flower could actually have a soul, not that it had become a spirit!

Ouyang Shanzhang ignored Wei Jianjia and the other person, coughed lightly, and arranged the next steps, "Alright, the second painting competition is over. Congratulations to the Su siblings for winning first place again."

Next came the piano duel, a total of thirteen groups, who competed in pairs according to the draw results. The competition went from thirteen to seven, then from seven to four, with one group receiving a bye each time. The final winner was the first group to emerge victorious.

The contestant with the highest total score in the three rounds won first place at the Hundred Flowers Banquet.

He had barely finished speaking when he walked somewhat awkwardly up to Su Hua and asked, "Miss Su, would you mind giving me this painting of the red spider lily?"