The art exhibitions held by the Academy of Fine Arts allow on-site transactions, but most of the students who participate in the exhibitions are there to show their works to everyone, so only a handful of works can be sold at each exhibition.

Qin Xuan originally didn't want to participate in this exhibition, but Professor Chen sent him an email and asked him to submit a painting to the exhibition. He thought that not many people would like his dark style of painting, and it would not attract much attention if he submitted it to the exhibition.

But now someone wants to buy this painting? Is there something wrong with the other party's aesthetic sense?

Qin Xuan frowned slightly, turned around and walked towards the exhibition area.

A tall man was standing in front of the painting of Vampire Castle, admiring his work carefully.

The man was wearing a well-tailored suit. He had a tall figure and looked to be about 23 or 24 years old. He was young and handsome, with a faint smile on his face. He stood out among the group of students.

The president of the student union took the initiative to introduce: "Hello, Mr. Chen, this is Qin Xuan, the author of this painting."

Chen Xiao turned around and looked at Qin Xuan, extending his hand in a friendly manner: "Hello."

Qin Xuan shook his hand and said indifferently: "Do you want to buy this painting of mine?"

Chen Xiao smiled and said, "Yes, I really like your style of painting."

Qin Xuan said calmly: "Sorry, I don't plan to sell this painting."

Chen Xiao was stunned and looked at him in confusion: "You rejected it so quickly, didn't you even listen to the price I offered?"

Qin Xuan said: "I am not short of money."

Chen Xiao: “…”

Well, I have money and I don’t want to sell it. This reason is really irrefutable.

At the corner of the stairs, Xie Mingzhe and Yu Ke were hiding stealthily and eavesdropping.

This was Xie Mingzhe's idea. He asked Chen Xiao to test the waters first to see if Qin Xuan was willing to help. He was afraid that if he directly asked Qin Xuan to join, once the other party refused, there would be no room for maneuver.

Moreover, Xie Mingzhe did not want to expose his identity as "Fat Uncle" without any certainty, so he let Brother Chen take the lead, and if there was a chance, Xie Mingzhe would assist.

But now it seems that the situation is not very optimistic?

Yu Ke whispered, "Azhe, do you really want to let Qin Xuan join? This guy looks difficult to get along with..."

Xie Mingzhe said, "He is a little bit arrogant, but it's okay once you get used to it. I really like Qin Xuan's painting style. Try to convince him to draw a few dark scenes for you."

When it comes to tailor-made scene drawings, Yu Ke immediately shuts up.

At this time, the two heard Chen Xiao said very bluntly: "It doesn't matter if you don't want to sell this painting. I came to you because I want to make friends with you - do you know how to play the game "Star Card Storm"? "

He changed the subject so suddenly that Qin Xuan was visibly stunned.

After a moment, Qin Xuan frowned and asked, "What does playing games have to do with my paintings?"

Chen Xiao explained, "I have set up a game studio with a few friends, which will develop into a professional card club in the future. We are currently creating original cards, and your painting style fits the setting of our cards very well. I would like to sincerely invite you to join us and become our art director."

Qin Xuan looked at him silently.

Chen Xiao continued, "I came to the art exhibition of the Imperial University Academy of Fine Arts today to discover talents in this field. Our club is still in its infancy. We have several outstanding players, but we are in short supply of professional artists. If you are willing to join, you can state your expected salary and we will try our best to meet your expectations."

He raised his own salary, and the conditions he offered were indeed very tempting for a college student.

However, Qin Xuan was unmoved and said, "I am not short of money, nor do I want to work part-time to earn money. I am just a freshman. If you want to find an art director, I suggest you look for one among the seniors. They will definitely be happy that you can provide them with a job."

Chen Xiao found that this guy didn't care about the money at all, so he had to change the way he said it: "Have you heard of the dark plant card?"

Qin Xuan was startled, a gleam of light flashed in his eyes. Chen Xiao looked at his eyes, smiled slightly, and said, "Why don't you come with me to the club to find out more?"

Seeing Qin Xuan hesitate, Chen Xiao said, "Our studio is in the community opposite the school, very close to here. If you are worried that I am a liar, I can show you my ID."

Qin Xuan's mouth twitched slightly. This man looked dignified and didn't look like a liar. He certainly didn't worry that he would cause any harm to him, but he still decisively rejected the other party's proposal: "Sorry, I'm not interested. I have something else to do, please do as you please, sir."

Watching Qin Xuan turn and leave, Chen Xiao shrugged helplessly at the two young friends at the corner.

Xie Mingzhe and Yu Ke looked at each other in bewilderment.

After the three walked out of the exhibition hall, they found a secluded place in the school and began to plot their plan.

Chen Xiao said, "Your roommate is really hard to deal with. I've been talking so much, but he hasn't moved at all." Looking at Yu Ke, he met the boy's bright eyes. Chen Xiao couldn't help laughing and said in a low voice, "Xiao Ke is easy to please. When I told him to make a joker for him, he came over immediately."

Yu Ke said seriously: "I'm not being easy to please, I'm being wise! I think A-Zhe and Brother Chen have the potential to be champions, hahahaha, if I join you I will definitely be a member of the championship team in the future."

Chen Xiao smiled and rubbed the boy's head: "You flatter me perfectly."

Xie Mingzhe said helplessly: "Qin Xuan's personality is very cold. I lived with him in the same dormitory for a month after school started, and we spoke no more than ten sentences. I know very little about him. He never takes the initiative to contact me, and when I take the initiative to contact him, his answers are also very brief. It's a headache to have such a roommate..."

Chen Xiao rubbed his forehead and said, "What should we do? He said he has no shortage of money. If someone can spend a lot of money to learn painting from a young age, his family must be very well off. I think he is most likely a second-generation rich man. As long as he is not happy, it will be useless no matter how high the salary we offer him is."

Xie Mingzhe was silent for a moment, and suddenly an idea flashed in his mind: "Since actively persuading him has no effect, why not let him come to me himself!"

Chen Xiao and Yu Ke looked at each other and both felt that Xie Mingzhe's proposal was unreliable.

Yu Ke scratched his hair in confusion: "Let this Ice Face come to me on his own? Is it possible?"

Xie Mingzhe said confidently: "Did you guys notice? When Brother Chen mentioned the dark plant cards just now, he was obviously a little hesitant. Obviously, he is very interested in the plant cards made by Brother Chen, but he is too cautious and can't agree to you on the spot."

"I also discovered that..." Chen Xiao paused, finally coming to his senses, "You mean, we should proactively put the cards we made in front of him to lure him into the trap?"

"Yes." Xie Mingzhe smiled and said, "For a person like him, no matter how enthusiastic we are, it will be like a cold shoulder. If we talk too much, he will get annoyed. It's better to let him develop a strong interest in our studio first, and then slowly induce him."

Seeing Xie Mingzhe's smiling face, Yu Ke couldn't help but shiver slightly, and trembled, "Why do I feel like you are setting a trap to hunt me?"

Xie Mingzhe nodded calmly: "You are right. In order for Nirvana Studio to recruit strong teammates, digging a pit and waiting for the other party to jump is also a normal way."

Yu Ke almost vomited blood. Xie Mingzhe was really shameless to be able to justify scheming against others in such a high-sounding way.

He couldn't help but feel sympathy for Qin Xuan...

***

Xie Mingzhe began to implement his "plan to seduce teammates".

The three of them first returned to Nirvana Studio to observe the new plant cards made by Chen Xiao.

In fact, Chen Xiao started making plant cards after Xie Mingzhe started school. However, in order to achieve perfection, he revised the cards he had already thought of several times and finally finalized them recently.

With the guidance of Chen Qianlin, the founder of the Wood Element, Chen Xiao made cards at a very fast speed. So far, he already had more than a dozen plant cards in his deck, all of which had passed the database review.

Compared to Xie Mingzhe's making of character cards, Chen Xiao's making of plant cards is simply exponentially more difficult.

The Alliance does not have any particularly powerful character card players, and the god cards used by Xu Xingtu of the Temple of the Gods do not conflict with Xie Mingzhe, so Xie Mingzhe can give full play to his imagination and make cards from the large number of characters and mythological legends brought from Earth.

But plants are different. First came Chen Qianlin, and then came Tang Muzhou. The master and apprentice have already made most of the common plants. Chen Xiao wants to innovate based on the massive plant card pool, which is extremely difficult. He must first find some unconventional plants that have not been made, and secondly, he must give these plants useful skills that do not conflict with other cards.

Chen Xiao had been waiting for this day for five whole years.

During these five years, he thought about the plant cards he would make in the future every day. Some of his ideas were not produced in time and were used by others during these five years. He could only swallow his anger and feel bitter.

It is a very painful process to keep adding and deleting ideas in my notes without being able to put them into practice.

It is not easy for a man to be so patient. Xie Mingzhe also admires Chen Xiao in his heart. Just imagine, if he could not make character cards due to copyright issues, and had to wait for five years with all his creative ideas in his head, he would probably go crazy.

Facts have proved that Chen Xiao's talent is indeed not inferior to that of his brother Chen Qianlin.

Xie Mingzhe was amazed by the plant cards made by Chen Xiao. The first one was the dark plant card "Thousand-leaf Alpine Pine". He painted a huge pine tree in dark green. The pine needles were extremely hard and could be used as hidden weapons.

The size of this pine tree reaches the official card height limit of "three meters", and its skill is called "Pine Waves and Ten Thousand Valleys", which is a very powerful 360-degree pine needle sweep attack.

The dense pine needles can turn all enemy targets in the range into hedgehogs, causing a large amount of wood damage and a negative "bleeding" status. It is not inferior to the range strangling effect of Tang Muzhou's "Millennium Sacred Tree"!

There is another card, which is a rare "Black Rose". The pure black rose forms a sharp contrast with Tang Muzhou's red "Desert Rose".

Xie Mingzhe clearly remembered that Tang Muzhou's Desert Rose skill was called "Rose Language", which caused a large amount of blood loss to the red rose petals within the range. Chen Xiao's "Black Rose" skill was called "Death Scent", and the pure black rose would cause fear within a 30-meter range, and also put a layer of "Death Curse" mark on all enemy targets. When the Black Rose died, the mark exploded, causing huge group damage.

The dark plant cards made by Chen Xiao are completely different from the plant cards made by Tang Muzhou.

The more Xie Mingzhe watched, the more excited he became. It was such a pity for Chen Xiao. He signed a contract with the Sanctuary Club on impulse, which resulted in him being in obscurity for five whole years.

In the fifth season, Chen Xiao, who had lost ten games in a row, met Tang Muzhou, who had won ten games in a row. He lost the game cleanly with a score of 0:2 and was scolded by many spectators. Some even said that he was bringing shame to Chen Qianli.

The boy must have felt very bad as he turned and left amid the audience's curses, right?

If he had not been forced to conceal his true strength due to contract issues, perhaps Tang Muzhou's road to the championship in the fifth season would not have been so smooth - Chen Xiao's level is not inferior to Tang Muzhou. Even Tang Muzhou himself said after the game that he would wait for you to come back and have a real showdown.

Today, the 23-year-old Chen Xiao is the founder of Nirvana Studio and the person who completely changed Xie Mingzhe's destiny.

After rising from the ashes and returning from nirvana, Xie Mingzhe believes that Brother Chen will definitely prove himself on the court - he is Chen Qianlin's younger brother, he has talent that is no less than his brother, and he is not a rookie who is despised by everyone!