This painting truly lives up to its name, "Warm Sunshine."
Tranquil, warm, simple yet happy, it gives people an extremely warm sense of satisfaction.
The warm color palette, the few strokes that capture the expressions of the figures, and the overall atmosphere of the painting are full of spirit.
It looks as if the figures in the painting have been given a real soul.
Even though Gu Xinghe didn't have much knowledge of art appreciation.
At this moment, he also seemed to understand why Mia had given the painting such high praise before.
This painting is like the relationship between the creator and their work proposed in some hypothetical scenarios.
Some works are not actually fictional, but exist in a parallel world and dimension.
Most of the time, the sudden inspiration that creators have is simply a matter of depicting the fragmented information about these works that they obtained through some accidental means.
Undoubtedly, this was exactly the impression that the painting in front of him gave Gu Xinghe.
The things it describes, by right or wrong, exist in some real world or dimension.
The woman depicted in this painting is likely Ingres's long-lost wife, whom he had been searching for.
"Merry, my Merry..."
At this moment, Ingres looked at the woman painted in the painting as if he were gazing at his real wife.
At this moment, Gu Xinghe finally learned the name of the female protagonist who had caused the conflict in the family in front of him.
But at this moment, after Angell came out of the basement.
Gu Xinghe looked at his expression as he gazed at the figure in the painting, and saw a deep and sorrowful emotion in his eyes.
Deanie, who had been arguing with his father, saw his expression and actions and then...
She no longer had the will to confront him, and simply turned her head to one side in a huff.
【Merry, my Mary... why did you go and live in the wheat field that we all once imagined, all by yourself...?】
At that moment, Gu Xinghe, who had heard Angell's inner thoughts, suddenly realized—
This man, according to outside rumors, has gone somewhat insane because of his wife's disappearance.
He killed the imposter wife who had the same appearance.
He believed that the figures in the painting, which did not actually exist in the real world, were the true embodiment of his wife's soul.
Perhaps there was some truth to the rumors he had heard in the town—
Will the demon painter Mia capture the soul of the person being depicted in her paintings...?
“Take me…take me to Miss Mia, the painter…”
However, Angel's sudden, pitiful plea to Gu Xinghe interrupted his thoughts.
At this moment, Ingres was holding the stolen painting in his arms.
She almost collapsed to the ground, looking up at Gu Xinghe who was standing to the side and pleading.
It was obvious that Angell recognized Gu Xinghe's identity as someone representing Mia's side during Gu Xinghe's conversation with Annie and Deanie.
That's why he deliberately showed up from the basement with the painting he had stolen.
But he clearly didn't recognize that Mia standing next to Gu Xinghe was the real person.
At this moment, Mia clearly had no intention of revealing her true identity, and simply watched quietly as Gu Xinghe and Angel conversed.
After understanding her attitude, Gu Xinghe directly asked Angel.
"What exactly happened to your wife?"
Right now, Gu Xinghe's question seemed to have pulled him back into his memories—
"Merry and I met and got together 17 years ago."
At that time, she once told me that her biggest dream was to own a house in an endless wheat field and live carefree with her beloved family.
This is actually the goal and direction I have been striving for all along.
A year after our marriage, we had our first child, Deanie.
When Deanie was four years old, we had our second child, Annie.
That period was indeed the happiest time for our family.
Although Annie has been in poor health since birth and is often sick, our family is not well-off.
But Mary and I are also doing our best to take care of and try to cure Anne's illness.
Thanks to years of effort, the treatment has made considerable progress recently, and Annie's health has improved significantly.
Bright red blood, rotting flesh, sharp blades...
At this moment, Gu Xinghe could sense that various incomplete words flashed through Angel's mind.
It seems that, just like the strange feeling Annie had given him before, this treatment method is also clearly wrong.
At this point, Ingres's narrative also takes a sharp turn for the worse—
"But half a month ago, I suddenly discovered that Mary, who had always been at home, had been replaced by some unknown entity."
They have the same face, the same way of speaking, and even the food they cook tastes the same.
She seemed to be just like Mary in every way, but I knew she wasn't my wife.
Perhaps because he didn't want to argue with his son again, Angel skipped over the process of how he killed the man who was impersonating his wife.
In fact, everyone present already knew this information.
"So, before we knew Mary was missing, or rather, before that imposter appeared."
Only after she had contact with the painter Mia did I…
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