At this moment, Gu Xinghe could sense that countless memories of his past interactions with his sister flashed through Di Anjie's mind.
The older brother favors his younger sister, who in turn favors their father, while the father pays no attention to his children but only cares about his wife.
In Dean's mind, the mother at the end is a "philanthropic" figure who loves her husband, children, and family.
Even Gu Xinghe had to admit that this was a very complicated four-way family relationship...
Although the three people currently appear to be in a silent standoff, it seems like they are performing a dramatic family drama.
But in the heated conversation between DeAngelo and his son Angel, the situation changed.
Gu Xinghe still tried to piece together the fragments of information they shared with the clues he had previously gathered into a complete story.
In this small town where missing persons have been frequent recently, the woman of this family unfortunately became one of the missing.
But in reality, Angell's wife's disappearance was caused by himself.
One day, Angell discovered that his wife seemed to have been replaced by someone else.
At the same time, he firmly believed that the woman who appeared in his home and had the same appearance was not actually his wife.
So Angel cruelly murdered the woman who was impersonating his wife.
However, due to the frequent disappearances in the town.
He also successfully led the other people in the town to believe that his murdered wife had also become one of the missing persons.
After all, in Angell's mind...
He also believed that his real wife had indeed simply disappeared, and that the person he killed was just an imposter impersonating her.
Deanie happened to witness her father murdering her mother.
In his anger, he ultimately did not betray his own father by reporting him, but this caused him to become enemies with his father, Angel.
After that, Angell abandoned his two children and began searching for his wife, whom he believed was still alive but had simply gone missing.
That's why he only contacted Mia after learning about the imposter's appearance and his wife's disappearance.
Sending Mia a so-called "threatening letter" and subsequently stealing the painting.
Now, Angel has successfully evaded the sheriff's pursuit by hiding in the basement of his home, a place unknown to anyone.
But perhaps they heard Gu Xinghe and Mia's arrival in the underground space and learned that they were representing the painter Mia.
That's why Angell came out of the basement on his own initiative.
His current movement, bringing the painting with him as he emerges from the underground space, is exactly as Mia had described to Gu Xinghe—
"I believe the thief will return the painting to me in person soon."
In fact, when Mia said those words, Gu Xinghe still found it hard to believe.
Aside from a certain phantom thief in a white suit who would voluntarily return the stolen jewels.
Are there really such kind-hearted thieves in this world?
Right now, Gu Xinghe was indeed seeing this thief who only existed in his imagination.
But at the same time, he still remembered what Mia was thinking when she said those words—
Because that man also loved his wife very much.
But this is precisely what puzzles Gu Xinghe the most.
It was precisely because of Angell's love for his wife that he did this series of things that seemed extremely crazy to outsiders.
But if that's really the case, why would Ingres, who went through so much trouble to finally steal the painting, return it?
In one of their past conversations, Gu Xinghe still remembered Mia's assessment of the painting:
The stolen painting, "Warm Sunshine," was one of her most satisfying recent works.
Moreover, no other work can replace it, making it more suitable for display in an art exhibition.
Now that he could finally see the true face of the painting, Gu Xinghe couldn't help but examine it carefully—
The stolen painting, Mia's recent masterpiece, is just as its name, "Warm Sunshine," suggests.
The overall color scheme is warm, with orange and yellow as the main colors.
Although the title of the painting seems to describe the time of day when the sun is at its brightest in the morning.
But actually, looking at the painting that Ingres was holding at this time...
The time period described therein appears to be before sunset in the afternoon.
Large swaths of orange-yellow sunset rays bathed the painting before my eyes.
In this warm-looking painting, a large area of golden wheat field is depicted.
In the middle of this wheat field, there is a slightly dilapidated house and a middle-aged woman standing in front of the house, drying quilts.
The house depicted in the painting is exactly the same as the one Gu Xinghe saw before entering the house.
It looks as if the entire house here has been moved to the golden wheat field in the painting.
Although there are no other family members present in the painting except for a woman doing housework.
But wisps of smoke were rising from the chimney above the house, and several quilts were drying in the sun.
Some toys were casually placed in front of the house, and the woman's face was beaming with happiness.
It seems that her husband is probably out working, while the children are likely playing with their friends.
She, on the other hand, stayed home alone, happily preparing a sumptuous dinner for her family.
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