Riding the wind of rebirth

This auction was organized by Christie's Swire in Hong Kong in order to expand its business in the East and build its reputation. Ten Chinese paintings alone sold for more than HK$15 million. One of the paintings, "White Night" by Ding Shaoguang, was sold for HK$2.2 million, setting a record for the highest auction price of a Chinese painting by a living Chinese painter.

Zhang Daqian's huge painting "Wu Gorge Clouds and Mountains" was finally sold for HK$3 million, setting a record and was bought by Zhou Zhi.

Although these auction results cannot be compared with those of world-famous paintings, they are, after all, a welcome step for Chinese paintings to enter the world market.

Ms. Yuan Shuhua, the head of Swire Christie's, is a collector who is well versed in oriental art. She supported the auction from design to participation, and helped Swire Christie's gain a firm foothold in Hong Kong Island. Yuan Shuhua later expressed her gratitude.

This action also caused Lin Wanqiu to call and ridicule Zhou Zhi as a traitor. In the end, Zhou Zhi had to surrender and agreed to give her a jade sculpture as an apology.

In fact, these are all jokes. It is impossible for a real powerful collector to only choose one auction house as a partner for his whole life. The reason is simple, because it is impossible for all the good things in the world to be auctioned only by Hanhai. Zhou Zhi is still the chief appraiser of Hanhai, but he just bought something he liked from Swire Christie's.

There are several reasons why Zhou Zhi wanted to show his support.

First of all, Zhou Zhi has been collecting works by painters from Shu and works on the theme of the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River. Zhang Daqian's "Wu Gorge Clouds and Mountains" fits both of his collection directions and is indeed attractive.

Secondly, Zhou Zhi may not value Swire Christie's, but he cannot ignore the shipper who chose Swire Christie's as the agent this time, An Siyuan.

After all, no one knows better than him what will happen in the next few auctions.

However, these things were arranged two months ago, and the benefits had been basically estimated a month ago. Now it’s just the harvest, so the happiness that can be brought to Zhou Zhi is not strong.

On the contrary, he is now eager to find something to do, but his heart is empty and his attention is often distracted. This state is noticed by Mr. Gu, who reminds him not to take it lightly. Although there are not many courses left this semester, there are still two or three courses that are quite heavy.

Another thing is the thesis. It would be best if you can come up with a new thesis of relatively high quality. Zhou Zhi now has quite a few projects that combine arts and sciences. This direction is the easiest to achieve results. Of course, the school's intention is to encourage as many papers as possible.

Zhou Zhi actually knew that he was not in good shape, but he had no choice. Many things could only be left to time to fade away. He acted one way in front of others, but in fact, only he could experience the true ups and downs.

Moreover, the aftereffects of the breakup have begun to show up. There is no impenetrable wall in the world. Many people care about him and Jiang Shuyi. They write letters and call them almost every day.

Ye Xin called and scolded Zhou Zhi, and Liang Hong ran to Shu University before the weekend. These two girls were relatively calm, and although they often had quarrels with their boyfriends, they had never thought about breaking up.

In their eyes, the way Zhou Zhi and Jiang Shuyi get along with each other is even something they envy. They never get angry or quarrel. It is impossible for them to break up just like that.

Zhou Zhi didn't know why, he just said sorry to Jiang Shuyi.

However, Liang Hong felt even more strange: "Why did Shuyi also say sorry to you? What's going on between you two?"

"Shuyi talked to you on the phone?" Zhou Zhi sensitively captured this information.

"I called her home, but she didn't answer before. But she did yesterday." Liang Hong said anxiously, "She said she was going to go abroad to relax and have a look."

"That's why she said sorry to you?" Liang Hong said this and continued to chase Zhou Zhi for an answer: "Because she insisted on going abroad, so you broke up?"

Things like this are actually quite common among college lovers nowadays, but Zhou Zhi shook his head: "It's not what you think. I'm afraid you won't understand our situation even if I tell you." But he felt a little relieved: "Now it seems that our decision is right, at least Shuyi's condition is much better."

"In fact, you both still care about each other, right? If that's the case, why bother..." Liang Hong couldn't help but sigh: "Alas! But you're right, I feel Shu Yi's spirit... at least on the phone, it's much better."

"Did she say where she was going?" Zhou Zhi asked back.

"She didn't say that, but she said that she seems to have a classmate in Europe who studies art. They are in contact now."

This is Xu Hui, Zhao Zhonggang's first love. Zhou Zhi nodded: "She was a classmate of ours when we went to No. 7 Middle School for study tour."

"I can tell from Shuyi's words that she is a little worried about you." Liang Hong asked suspiciously, "Looking at you now, are you still... okay?"

After sending Liang Hong away, Zhou Zhi received another call from Zhang Xinyi.

On the phone, Zhang Xinyi's attitude towards this matter was much more tolerant than Liang Hong and Ye Xin.

Zhang Xinyi has experienced emotional setbacks, and she just felt sorry over the phone: "I never thought you would break up."

"Maybe we thought of our relationship too simply before, or maybe we made it too complicated now." Zhou Zhi said, "In the end, we became a burden to each other."

"I can't let Shuyi get into trouble because of me, so I have no choice but to let go."

"Zhou Zhi, do you think we will love each other again?" Zhang Xinyi didn't know what she was thinking about and sighed again.

"Let's just work hard." Zhou Zhi could only cheer each other up now.

"Sometimes I think about it." Zhang Xinyi's voice was a little confused. "That time, I used you as a shield to go out. If you had insisted on following me, I would have given up, and the things that happened later would not have happened."

"Xinyi, I actually followed you quietly that time." Zhou Zhi said, "I followed you all the way to the ferry terminal, and I left only after I saw you meet that boy."

"Ah? But you never told me." There was a gasp from the other end of the phone, which sounded like both surprise and sobbing.

"I haven't told anyone. Today is the first time." Zhou Zhi said, "We grew up together. You suddenly called me and asked me to meet you at your house. After we met, you asked me to leave by myself. Do you think I will feel relieved?"

"Sometimes I think you're cunning, even a little bad." There was silence on the other end of the phone: "But thank you for not telling my mom that time."

"Xinyi, isn't that all in the past? Now that it's all in the past, don't think too much about it."

"Maybe you guys will be like this." Zhang Xinyi said: "We girls...may think about it for a little longer and feel the pain for a little longer." (End of this chapter)