The studio that Xiao Xiayan found for Shi Xi was near Jiang Tong's gallery. This area had many modern buildings with ground-floor courtyards that combined Chinese and Western styles. The most famous small Western-style buildings were rented out and transformed into galleries and art studios.

Shi Xi wore a mask and a hat and entered the studio in a low-key manner. The assistant in the lobby on the first floor saw that she was a stranger and politely asked her what class she had scheduled.

Shi Xi touched the brim of his hat with his index finger, revealing smiling eyes: "I have an appointment for Teacher Feifei's sketching class. The class is not yet time. Can I go to visit the studio first?"

The assistant recognized Shi Xi as soon as she saw her eyes, and her cheeks flushed with excitement: "Teacher Feifei has told me to take you for a walk."

"The first floor is an open classroom with four students in each class. There are sketching classes, oil painting classes and Chinese painting classes. The studio provides all painting materials."

The classrooms on the first floor were very airy. Shi Xi stood in the corridor and looked inside through the window. He saw several pretty girls holding palettes in their hands, standing in front of easels, observing the budding bouquets on the sketching table while painting. It was peaceful and beautiful.

Shi Xi already has a wealth of theoretical knowledge of painting. She comes to class mainly to practice and feel the atmosphere of the studio.

"The second floor is a more private classroom, and all courses are one-on-one customized," the assistant said to Shi Xi, "Your studio is on the third floor."

On the third floor, Teacher Feifei, wearing a tie-dyed skirt, was waiting at the door of the studio. When she saw Shixi, she smiled and said, "Can I call you Xiaoshi?"

Shi Xi took off his mask and smiled at her: "Of course, you are my teacher now."

Teacher Feifei and the assistant were stunned. Teacher Feifei said bluntly: "The real person is more dazzling than the photo. I don't dare to look you in the eye."

"Teacher, you must have taught artist students before," Shi Xi chuckled and said, "This studio is very famous."

"But you still amazed me." Teacher Feifei handed her a key and said, "From today on, this studio is yours. No one will touch anything inside before the course is over. You can let me know if you have any needs. Then, let's start the class now."

Before coming, Shi Xi said that she had some basic knowledge of painting, so Teacher Feifei skipped the basic part and demonstrated to her a plaster portrait structure diagram.

In "Muse", Shi Xi plays two roles. One of them is a profiler named Jiang Ruxing. In the movie, she needs to draw a lot of character portraits. She is not required to draw during filming, but this scene that is close to the character's growth trajectory can help her understand the character's psychology.

At this moment, watching teacher Feifei who was demonstrating, Shi Xi immediately put himself in the shoes of Jiang Ruxing who was still in her school days. The family that adopted Jiang Ruxing was well-off, and her adoptive mother discovered that she had a talent for painting, so she sent her to a studio near her home to study. Jiang Ruxing was very smart, and she could completely learn what the teacher taught her once. When she was not yet proficient in arranging lines, she showed an incredible realistic ability.

Shi Xi picked up the pen and began to paint on the paper. Her 60% artistic talent could not allow her to fully display Jiang Ruxing's abilities, but she put in 100% of her concentration.

More than half an hour later, the structural drawing was completed and she signed her name on the drawing paper.

"It's a very good painting. It captures the characteristics of the plaster statue, and there are no major problems with the perspective. However..." Teacher Feifei stood behind Shi Xi to instruct, with a puzzled look: "Why is the signature Jiang Ruxing?"

Shi Xi raised his head, his eyes were cold. At this moment, Teacher Fei Fei seemed to see another person, a person named Jiang Ruxing.

Shi Xi blinked, and the feeling of being "another person" disappeared instantly. She explained, "This is the name of the character I will be playing."

Teacher Feifei was shocked and said affirmatively: "Your acting is very good. I am looking forward to your new work."

Shi Xi comes to class on time every day. As soon as she steps into the studio, she changes from Shi Xi to Jiang Ruxing. She occasionally wears a mask to attend public demonstration classes to feel the atmosphere of the class. After class every day, she stays in the studio and finishes her homework before leaving.

After a week of classes, Shi Xi's painting skills improved greatly and his grasp of Jiang Ruxing became more and more specific, but he still had no idea how to create something new.

"The class is about to end. What should Xiguang draw for his second painting?" Shi Xi sat in his own studio, looking at the sunset outside the window, turning the pencil in his hand habitually.

Zhang Qingyu stood in the shadow of the bookshelf and ate an apple: "Junior sister, didn't you start drawing the first picture right away? Did you become more serious because you have fans now?"

Shi Xi shook his head: "No, I always feel that my inspiration is on the way."

The little blood fish jumped out of the table and clapped its tail in approval.

"Bang!" A black shadow suddenly hit the glass and disappeared in an instant.

If there wasn't a real crack on the glass, Shi Xi would have thought that the scene just now was an illusion.

The pencil spun quickly in his hand, and Shi Xi asked calmly, "Qingyu, Xiguang, did you see clearly what that was just now?"

The little blood fish wagged its tail, indicating that it didn't see clearly. Zhang Qingyu's expression turned grim: "I didn't see it, but I smelled a faint scent of blood jade."

"The boss is here to deliver food?" Shi Xi knocked on the table, producing a cheerful melody: "Is there such a good thing?"

"Bang! Bang!!" Two black shadows hit the glass one after another, making a terrifying cracking sound. The black shadows were so fast that they disappeared immediately after hitting the glass, but new cracks appeared on the glass.

Blood-red rays of light splashed into the house, and the disturbing sound of birds flapping their wings could be heard outside the window.

After a few minutes, the flapping sound became clearer and clearer, but there was no shadow attacking the window again.

"How about I open the window to welcome them?" Shi Xi pushed the chair away and stood up. Suddenly, a sharp crow cry sounded in the room. She looked back and saw a few crows standing on the bookshelf, staring at her with blood-red eyes.

"Shi Xi, window!" Zhang Qingyu reminded. Shi Xi turned his head and saw a group of red-eyed crows banging against the window like crazy.

Under this desperate collision, the glass window was suddenly smashed open, and a group of crows screamed and rushed towards Shi Xi.

The flying glass fragments scratched the white arm, leaving two bloody marks in an instant.

Shi Xi ducked for a moment, and when he stood up, the studio was full of crows, each with scarlet eyes and a beak as sharp as a knife. Ominous cries filled the entire studio, and black feathers were scattered everywhere.

"Too many." Zhang Qingyu weighed the apple in his hand and threw it at the two crows that attacked Shi Xi.

Killing two birds with one stone, the two crows fell on the table along with the apple, the apple shattered into a ball of red mist, the two crows stared with bloodshot eyes, motionless, as if they were dead.

"It's just an illusion. There's only one crow here at most." Shi Xi dipped her finger in the blood on her arm and drew a talisman in the air to suppress evil. She scanned the flock of crows hovering in the house and ready to swoop down at any time: "Qingyu, Linying, help me find it."

They were very sensitive to the aura of the blood jade, and after Shi Xi pointed out that there was only one crow, they tried their best to capture that aura.

After a moment, Lin Ying and Zhang Qingyu locked onto one of the crows at the same time. Zhang Qingyu threw out the second apple, and Lin Ying released a wisp of green smoke, trapping the crow in the smoke.

Shi Xi waved his hand and hit the trapped crow with a talisman drawn in blood to suppress evil. It screamed miserably and was suppressed to the ground by the talisman light, revealing its true form, a puppet ghost with a rotten face and black feathers on its skin.

After Shi Xi took out the blood jade embedded in its body, its soul quickly shrank and finally turned into a rotten crow corpse.

The flock of crows circling in the house turned into phantoms. Shi Xi looked towards the window and saw that there was indeed only one hole in it.

"The crow that feeds on rotten corpses merged with the lonely ghosts and was transformed into a murderous puppet by the blood jade," Zhang Qingyu wrapped the crow's body with newspaper and asked curiously, "Xiao Xiao, the scene just now was so real, how could you see through it at a glance?"

"I didn't see through it at first glance. I just felt that the boss wasn't that generous." Shi Xi showed him the blood jade he had just harvested. "Look, it's smaller than a fingernail."

Zhang Qingyu said with a "Puh!" "How stingy! Is he doing this just to disgust us?"

"It's a test, but also a warning. He's using this method to test whether there are any officials from the underworld around me, and by the way, he's telling me that he will definitely take revenge on me."

Shi Xi played with the broken jade and looked out the window: "I have to say, his method is really stupid. I said long ago that I would capture every puppet that came and save them. This broken jade will be purified by me soon, and he will be the one who is in pain."

The little fish patted his fins and wrote: "So stupid!"

Shi Xi glanced at the crow corpse on the ground, sealed the broken jade into a glass jar, wiped his hands, and spread a piece of drawing paper on the table: "I know what to draw."

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As a preview, both the little painter and the novelist are short stories.

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