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Chapter 291 A Thousand Hamlets
"Then how did Adele meet Klimt?"

Xu Yiru browsed the Wikipedia pages carefully.

"Wikipedia... doesn't seem to have mentioned it."

"I also asked Joshua this question. He briefly talked to me about his point of view... It's not a historical fact, it's just his point of view. He has been responsible for maintaining the painting since it arrived in the United States in 06. It. He was also responsible for negotiating and signing the two leases with the New York Gallery and MoMA."

"It was rented to MoMA?" Xu Yiru was a little surprised.

"It's still there."

"Then why didn't I remember seeing it last time?" Xu Yiru stroked the hair beside her ears, frowned slightly, and tried hard to retrieve the memories related to this painting in her mind.

"There are so many treasures at MoMA, and all the attention must be on Van Gogh's "Starry Night" or Monet's "Water Lilies." It's normal not to remember." Han Yiru analyzed.

"That's right." Xiao Ru pondered thoughtfully for a moment and smiled, "But this buyer is quite strange. After taking the photo, he doesn't collect it himself, but hangs it in the museum for others to see."

"Actually, many buyers do this, and I only learned about it today. Renting to a museum not only allows you to have a stable income, but also has professionals to help you maintain your works, which saves you money and effort," he said. Here, Han Yi paused briefly before continuing, "But it probably wasn't to save money. After all, she is considered the No. 1 self-made woman in the United States."

"Who is it?" Xiao Ru became more and more curious.

"Oprah."

"Oprah?!" Xu Yiru's eyes widened in disbelief, "How much did this painting cost in 06?"

"Five million dollars."

"It's hard to connect Oprah with... Klimt." Xiao Ru sighed softly, "But if I think about it carefully, there doesn't seem to be anything strange about it."

"After all, she is the richest female celebrity in the world." Han Yi shrugged, "Michael Jordan's total net worth is 12 billion U.S. dollars, and Oprah is 28 billion U.S. dollars. The only person who can be ranked in front of her is Steven - Spielberg and George Lucas. It is said that she has been selling her collection since last year, and only took part of it for sale. What is the total number of this part?"

"How many?"

"Five hundred pieces. The external selling price of each piece is at least twice as high as before. One-third of them are consigned by Christie's, one-third by Sotheby's, and the remaining one-third are consigned by several private individuals. It’s up to the traders to divide it.”

"She really knows how to do business." Xiao Ru nodded clearly, "No wonder she rented it out immediately after buying it... To her, this isn't an art collection, it's just an investment."

"It's not...it's totally an investment." Han Yi drawled and recalled, "I don't know if it's true, but Joshua told me that Oprah was at Christie's New York in November 06. At the auction, she actually never thought about buying this painting. After hearing Joshua's story about Adele and Gustav's unconfirmed love story, she felt that she and Steadman It’s a bit like a love story, so I decided to participate in the auction.”

"'Ye'?" Xiao Ru keenly captured the key information in Han Yi's words, "Who is 'Ye'?"

"Before getting together with Stedman, Oprah could often see him having sex with the same girlfriend at parties, so Oprah didn't pay special attention to him at the time. However, because Oprah La and Steadman have a close mutual friend, so they can't avoid dealing with each other."

"One day, Steadman visited that friend's house alone, and so did Oprah. The two started chatting over wine. They had a very happy chat and got along well, but Oprah was still wary of Steadman. She thought the 6-foot-6 man was so handsome that he looked like a professional player in the NBA. Her production team was also skeptical of Stedman, thinking that a man who looked like this might be an asshole. , or they have other intentions.”

"Adele had the same idea when she first met Klimt."

In 1898, for many conservative royal supporters, the devil seemed to be dancing in the skies over Vienna.

The mistress of Emperor Franz-Joseph I was the most famous actress in the capital, Katharina Schlatter.A few months ago she threatened to quit the stage for good unless the Reich's Burgtheater staged a play celebrating free love written by the scandal-plagued Artur Schnitzler.Everyone knows what he wants.

But there was no way Vienna's most acclaimed starlet would retire on the occasion of the Austro-Hungarian monarch's [-]th anniversary celebrations.Therefore, when Schnitzler's "Beatrice's Veil" opened, the emperor himself arranged for his mistress to appear on the stage wearing a black veil and play the role of the seduced woman.

At the premiere, Gustav Klimt and Adele Ball sat in the same box.

Klimt was not a person who liked to socialize. He was a homebody in the true sense of the word among modern people.Unlike his contemporaries who caroused in cafes and bars every day, Klimt's favorite thing to do was to wear a robe and sandals, naked underneath, and study his art at home.

But today is not an occasion that can be avoided with illness or other excuses. There is a mural of him in the castle theater, and the heroine on the stage is an important person who can help him get more royal commissions. He must support her.

Adele Bauer didn't have so many work matters to worry about, but her reason for attending was almost the same as Klimt's - her father, as the general manager of the Eastern Railway, needed to attend such a gathering of celebrities. Appearing in social situations with his wife and daughter.

Adele Ball, who didn't like to be in the limelight, had no other choice but to ask her father to arrange for her to sit in a balcony box on the second floor to stay with her good friend Alma Schindler, who could make her feel at ease.

The first meeting between the two was there.

There was no spark of lust. Adele just took a quick glance at the famous artist rising to fame next to her and turned her attention to the stage.Because, Gustav Klimt had a female companion, Emilie Frog.Emily is Gustave's sister-in-law and Helen Frog's youngest sister.Gustav's brother Ernst died suddenly of pericarditis in December 1892. According to the law at the time, Gustav became the guardian of Helen and her daughter, and his interaction with the Frog family became It became more frequent.

Gustav Klimt, a born lover, spent several unforgettable summers with the Frog family at Lake Attersee.Over the course of several summers, he gradually won the heart of Emilie Frog.

Therefore, Adele Bauer never thought about what would happen between her and Gustav Klimt, but Gustav Klimt's eyes kept lingering on her.Admire this girl who is wearing a milky white Greek robe and has a figure as delicate and slender as a vase.

"What about you?"

Hearing this, Xu Yiru interrupted Han Yi softly.

"What about me? What's wrong with me?" Han Yi was a little confused.

"Did you feel like this when you first saw me?" Xu Yiru's lips overflowed with a trace of sweet memories.

"It's the first time I've seen you. Her mental activity is actually closer to that of Adele." Han Yi rolled his eyelids, "The first time I went to class, I saw a man sitting next to you. I thought he was Where's your boyfriend? I don't have this habit of breaking up other people's families."

"That's not what I want." Xiao Ru snorted through her nose, "I have to sign up for a class anyway, and even wait for me at the door of the classroom in advance. He will sit wherever I sit. What should I do?"

What Han Yi and Xu Yiru mentioned was the mainland boy in the COMM206 discussion group who later confessed his love and was rejected by Xu Yiru.

"I didn't know it at the time. So when we first met, I didn't think about it at all...I didn't even look at it."

"That's quite a pity." Xu Yiru nodded to express understanding, then held up her cheeks and sighed, "The floral shirt I wore that day was so beautiful."

"Where are you wearing a floral shirt? It's not a white jumpsuit..."

Before he finished speaking, Han Yi stopped talking under Xu Yiru's playful eyes.

"Mr. Han, you remember it so clearly."

"Did you dig a hole on purpose?" Han Yi couldn't laugh or cry.

"What if someone insists on jumping in?" Xiaoru said proudly.

"Okay... I admit, I did... take it more seriously that day." Han Yi made his words as subtle as possible.

"After reading this, what are your thoughts?" Xiao Ru raised her index finger and said seriously, "Tell the truth."

"It's too good-looking." Han Yi replied honestly, "I don't deserve it."

"You..." Xiaoru, who deliberately sounded irritated, said with a hint of helpless sweetness in her voice, "Let's continue talking. What happened after the first meeting?"

"You mean us...or Adele and Klimt?"

"Is there a difference?"

Xiaoru folded his hands on the table and winked at Han Yi on the phone screen.

Knowing so much and being as smart as she is, how could she still not guess why Han Yi finally chose this one after seeing so many world-famous paintings?

It must be because he... saw the reflection of life in the painting.

"There is still a difference...at least I hope there is."

After such an ambiguous response, Han Yi continued to share with Xu Yiru the story of Adele Ball and Gustav Klimt told by Joshua Glazer.

Adele originally thought this would be the last time she would be in the same room as Klimt, but soon she found herself seeing the artist more and more frequently.Because her lively and outgoing sister Theresa hit it off with Emily Frog at a certain waltz, and they soon became best friends. Emily and her lover Gustave -Klimt also entered Adele's life.

Emily was a costume designer and an early career woman in Vienna.Her fashion house liberated women from the constraints of Victorian corsets and replaced them with loose kaftan-style dresses that allowed women to move freely.For the women in Adele's circle, Emily's unrestrained design style is a symbol of their free lifestyle.However, in the more conservative circles of the girls' elders, there is another fashionable way to describe women like Emily Frog.

Degenerate.

Depraved.

Women who pursue higher education are “degenerate.”Women who agitated for suffrage were caught up in a "degenerate mania for women's liberation."

As for Emily Frog, who fell in love with her brother-in-law's brother and walked around the world with him, they were called "shameless fallen lambs."

Adele also wants to fall.

Of course, she didn't want to find a man twice her age to have sex with, she just envied Emily's freedom.She is free to choose love, career, and life trajectory, and she can choose to leave her mark on the world.She also envied her best friend Alma Schindler, who she had played with since childhood. Alma was the daughter of the late painter Jakob Emil Schindler, and her stepfather was also a well-known artist Karl Schindler. More.Under the influence, Alma was very eager to become a composer, and her family also took her musical ambition very seriously. The music teacher they found for her was the famous Zemlinsky.Under the guidance of excellent mentors, Alma began to gradually make a name for herself in the Viennese music world.

And what about Adele?
Her parents, immigrants from the much more conservative Bavaria region, believed that the best way to protect young girls was to never leave them alone with men for a moment.Because as long as women are not aroused by men, they cannot have physical desires.This reclusive, conservative family believed that one could tell the difference at a distance between a young, innocent girl and a woman who had already been with a man, judging by the way they walked.They also believed that a young woman had to be kept in "completely sterilized surroundings" until she took her husband's arm at the altar.

A rich girl is like a gem, and she can only accept the fate of never seeing the light of day until her family finds a buyer with the right status and wealth level for her.

The Balls' ambition for Adele was a product of that era.

"It's not just a product of that era." Xu Yiru pointed at herself and reminded Han Yi with a chuckle, "Look at me."

"Then you..." Han Yi licked his lips, thinking about how to make the second half of his sentence sound less narcissistic, "At that time... you made up your mind to be with me, did you also think... that would be okay? Bring you freedom? Some freedom that you wouldn’t have if you followed the original plan.”

"This is a small part of the reason." Xiao Ru thought for a while and responded, "Although I don't know what I want to do, I believe that if I am with you, you will definitely support every decision I make."

"Then what is the other...large part of the reason?"

"Of course it's because I like you...you idiot?"

Xu Yiru tilted her head, wrinkled her nose narrowly, and smiled with her flashing eyes, observing Han Yi, who was blushing because of her and was strategically drinking water.

"I don't know if Adele is like this, but I hope she is." Xiao Ru then added, "Otherwise, these paintings... may lose their intended meaning."

"I don't know."

“Didn’t Joshua analyze it with you?”

"He can only talk about the historical details he learned. Only she knows why Adele became obsessed with Klimt."

Although he said this, Han Yi had already written a version of the story in his mind.

In this story, Adele, like Xu Yiru, fell in love with Gustav Klimt, not only falling in love with his freedom, but also falling in love with everything about him.

At first, only Emily Frog would play with the girls.Emily would take the trouble to share with them the highlights of Klimt, how wonderful his painting skills were, what a considerate lover he was, how lovely his silence was, how many costume designs he helped her complete... Adele could see that Gustav Klimt was everything to Emilie Frog, a key factor in launching and flourishing her career as a fashion designer.

For Emilie, Klimt was a god full of love and inspiration.

This made Adele curious about him.

Later, Emilie would drag Klimt into social gatherings.It can be seen that the latter really doesn't like loud music and drunken dancing. He will choose a corner where he doesn't look so embarrassed, and then borrow books or paintings to become invisible.

Normally, Adele would be in that corner too.

The rest can only be seen after the time machine is invented.No one knows what Klimt and Adele talked about in those corners.People only know that this 17-year-old girl, called the Flower of David by the Viennese social circle as a "petite and charming pagan goddess", fell in love with Gustav Klimt without reservation. .

Introverts can't hide things. They don't speak, but their emotions will flow quietly from the corners of their eyes and mouths. Soon, Adele's friends noticed her unusual attention to Klimt.

"They warned her that Klimt was a dangerous guy and a playboy. He had at least three relationships going on at the same time and was definitely not a suitable suitor."

"One of the girls who warned her was her best friend, Alma Schindler, who was the last victim."

"Did Alma fall in love with Klimt?" Xiao Ru asked.

"It's not a relationship, it's just a fling."

While Adele was falling in love with Gustav Klimt, Alma was struggling with the desires aroused by his kisses and caresses.Alma had been fantasizing about Klimt for months when her mother mentioned that spring that the charming genius would be traveling to Italy with the Schindler family.Alma's mother repeated admonitions similar to those given by Alma and Adele.

But when Klimt dined with the Schindler family on his first night in Italy, “we devoured each other with our eyes,” Alma wrote in her diary.

On a drizzly afternoon in Florence, Alma and Klimt were riding in a covered carriage. Under the blanket, the latter caressed the former gently.That night, Alma was unable to sleep due to "sheer physical excitement."In their hotel, Klimt was combing Alma's waist-length hair with his hands, but suddenly stopped because he was afraid that he would "lose control and do something stupid."

At the Bridge of Sighs in Venice, Alma's heart skipped a beat because among the crowd, Klimt was sneaking his hand up her waist.

In Genoa, Klimt sneaked into Alma's room and "before I knew it, he took me in his arms and kissed me."In Verona, Alma brings Klimt's ironed clothes to his room, and they kiss passionately until Klimt stops and tells her, "There's only one thing that can end this for us: Complete physical union."

Overwhelmed with desire, Alma "wobbled and had to steady herself on the railing."Klimt told her that God would not mind if they had intercourse inspired by love.

When telling this story, Han Yi tried his best to keep his tone calm and collected, for fear that Xu Yiru would find the slightest clue, although she would definitely not be able to detect it.

But Han Yi knew in his heart that the stories of Klimt and Alma were very similar to each other.

That stunner who is still in Italy today.

By coincidence, both Alma Schindler and Barbara Pavin were born in the homeland of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

"The love between Alma and Klimt was too obvious, which made Alma's stepfather Karl Mohr very unhappy. He asked Klimt, who was much older than Alma, to stop his inappropriate behavior immediately. The romance between the two ended abruptly.”

"Klimt returned from Italy early, and after he came back...he wrote a long and emotional letter to one of his young models, Maria Zimmermann. Maria, nicknamed Mickey , her parents live in an ordinary residential area far away from the Ring Road, and her stepfather is an officer in the Royal Guard who can only get a meager salary."

"Miqi's family is very poor, Catholic, and has many children. Her mother has high hopes for Miki. She knows that her daughter hangs out in various museums every day, dreaming of becoming an artist... Her mother, I also hope she can become an artist.”

"Klimt was very famous at the time. Due to the limitations of the times, Mickey's mother believed that if her daughter wanted to become an artist, she must marry a male artist. She was not in the upper class and had never heard of Klimt. All that was visible of Rimt's love affairs was his glamour. Midge's mother mistakenly took Klimt for an eligible bachelor. She encouraged Midge on the tree-lined streets of Josefstadt. Take a chance, because that’s where Klimt’s studio was.”

"One day, Klimt opened the garden door and noticed a girl with light braids wandering among the maroon flowers. He invited Mickey into the house."

"Later, Midge told her mother, Klimt carefully combed her thick ginger hair and gently twisted her head and shoulders with his warm hands while he meticulously sketched her with his brush. Klimt told Midge, whom he wanted to use as a model in his painting of Schubert. He gave Midge a soft, silky gown to wear in the painting, and Midge eagerly She took off her inappropriate street clothes."

"Micchi was ecstatic to be taken seriously by a great man. Klimt invited her to be his exclusive model, painting them all, nude or not. Micci warmly invited Klimt Klimt came to her home as a guest, and Klimt also invited Midge to play an important role on the holiday parade float around Vienna. On both sides of the street, Midi's family members cheered along with the crowd. They thought - —Mickey finally got the fame and status she deserved."

Similarly, although Xu Yiru could not tell the difference at this time, everything was so clear in Han Yi's eyes.

Each of Gustav Klimt's muses seems to be inextricably linked to the emotional entanglements that occurred in his real life.

Emilie Frog, who chose a career and worked side by side with Klimt in the mall.

An unexpected encounter during travel, a summer romance with Alma Schindler.

There is also Mickey, who dreams of becoming famous overnight, and is finally pushed onto the stage by Klimt.

Need to be more obvious?

"Emily, Alma, Mickey, plus Adele..."

Xu Yiru frowned.

"In other words, is it unclear whether Klimt was dating four women at the same time?"

"……more or less."

Yes, four.

"Forget about one, there will inevitably be accidents. Three is really... it's an exaggeration. I don't know how Adele doesn't mind." At this point, Xiao Ru glanced at Han Yi intentionally or unintentionally, and painted lightly He drew a red line, "If it were me, if I liked...you, and there are three other Yingying Yanyans, I would definitely turn around and leave. Whoever wants you wants it, but I don't want it anyway."

A very intimidating red line.

It's a pity that it was painted late.

"I'm not as...sexually active as he is."

Leaving behind a vague reply, Han Yi hurriedly continued telling Klimt's story.

"Despite the advice of her friends, Adele immersed herself in Klimt's art world without hesitation. They fell into a close but unknown relationship that would remain with them for the rest of their lives. It went on and on. Much of it took place in the quiet studio. Neither of them left a written record of what happened."

"But we... seem to be able to find clues from Klimt's paintings. Didn't you just say, Xiaoru, Judith was painted according to Adele's face and figure, almost like It’s the same as the photo, a one-to-one reproduction.”

"But at that time, Adele was already married to her husband." Xiao Ru reminded in a low voice that "Judith and the Head of Holofernes" was created in 1901. At that time, Adele Ball The name has been changed to Adele Bloch-Bauer.

"This is the limitation of the times. In order to gain a certain degree of autonomy for herself who has always been under strict supervision, she must get married. There is no other way. Moreover, her marriage partner cannot be Gus. Taft Klimt. Even if Klimt was a loyal man, he was still an artist. In that era, artist was a title that was even more unpopular with the real aristocracy than playboy. It can be compared with They drink together, but they must not be admitted into the family.”

"My best friend Alma can marry Gustav Mahler, because they are from artistic families and are well matched. But there is a natural gap between Adele and Klimt, so even if she is unwilling, it is hers. All her friends thought Ferdinand Bloch was ugly, she was a princess who married a frog, and she had to have a wedding with Ferdinand and start a family."

"You can cheat if you don't love me." Xu Yiru curled her lips with a slight smile, "What a lame excuse."

“Joshua said something to me that I remember very clearly. He said that although in public places, the etiquette in Austria-Hungary was as strict as the golden mosaic shell in Klimt’s painting, in fact, the Viennese intellectuals His deviant behavior was an open secret at the time. Social schizophrenia was his exact word."

"It's a common phenomenon, it doesn't mean that individuals should follow it."

"What if it's me?" Han Yi asked her seriously, "What if you have to get married but you still like me?"

"Then I won't get married at all."

"Well... what if you met me after you got married?"

"You can't have a chance." Xiaoru bared her teeth at him, "I'm very principled. We may be a bit similar to... Adele, but don't really think of me as her. Behind her back If my husband goes out and messes around, I would never do such a thing in 1 years."

"Then what if... we go back to the situation we were in last year, and in another five years... no, ten years, then I come to Taipei to find you and tell you that I have always liked you?"

When he said this, Han Yi was obviously assuming the role of himself in the previous life.

Hearing Han Yi's question, Xiao Ru was slightly startled, and then forced out a bitter smile: "How could such a thing happen... In ten years, I will come to Chengdu to ask you this question..." almost."

Xu Yiru in this time and space would not know the situation in that time and space.In the only reality she knew, Han Yi and his family were the ones whose wealth and power were obviously higher than her own, and who were more likely to be unable to compromise their dignity to accommodate the other party.

In Han Yi's version, Xu Yiru is Adele Bauer, and he is the one who strives to become Gustav Klimt.

In Xu Yiru's version, Han Yi is Adele Bauer. She...maybe she couldn't become Klimt no matter how hard she tried.

What kind of outstanding achievements can be worthy of all that Han Yi has shown now?

This assumption caused Xu Yiru and Han Yi to fall into silence.

Before having an in-depth understanding of "Portrait of Madame Adele Bloch-Bauer No. [-]" and the life of Gustav Klimt, Han Yi's understanding of artworks was actually quite one-sided and shallow.There are painters he admires, but only for the presentation style of their works, such as Caravaggio and Rembrandt.What impressed Han Yi was their accurate capture and faithful presentation of the real world.

But Gustav Klimt's emotional entanglement, which was too similar to him, gave him a new kind of inspiration, or, to be more precise, a rediscovery of a famous saying he had heard.

"In the eyes of a thousand people, there are a thousand Hamlets."

Han Yi once believed that a thousand Hamlets in the eyes of a thousand audiences were their different interpretations of the story itself.But now, he discovered that these thousand Hamlets are actually the audience themselves.

A thousand people have a thousand different fate lines.There are a thousand pasts buried deep in my heart, and a thousand futures waiting to be opened.The audience regains the past and gets a glimpse of the future in the world woven by the artistic creators.They will insert themselves into the protagonist of the story, but they will not completely let themselves follow the creator's story line.They will pick up the wooden boards left by the creator and use their imagination to build a simple but warm wooden house in their own little world.

Then, let yourself live in it and let your lover live in it.

Let the unrealized beginning live in, and let the ending they want live in.

This is the most crucial function of all literary and artistic works, including novels, movies, music, and paintings.Describe scenes and characters that resonate with viewers, turn these scenes and characters into keys, hold their shoulders and give them a push, allowing them to open the door to their imagination.

Imagination is the only way for human beings to achieve infinite immortality in limited time and space.

This is also the main reason why the popularity rate of the first three categories of literary and artistic works is much higher than that of paintings.The novel presents the story through text description. As long as you are literate, you can understand the message the author wants to convey.Movies provide the picture, and everything the audience wants to see can be brought to life on the big screen.Music is auditory, using singing to convey ancient themes that have been praised by human civilization for thousands of years.Lyrics and arrangement are the core of the creator's emotional expression.

There is only painting. If you want to understand the story in the painting and understand the emotions in the story, for ordinary people, you cannot just look at the lines on the canvas, but you must also understand the master behind the canvas and the ups and downs that the master has experienced. A different life with ups and downs.

Through the story of Joshua Glazer, Han Yi gained an in-depth understanding of the life of a painter for the first time, and also truly understood the emotions and information a work wanted to convey for the first time.

It was for this reason that Han Yi chose to write a check and take the painting back to Los Angeles.

"Yi Yi, let me ask you."

After a while, Xiaoru took the lead to break the dead silence.

"This afternoon, you have obviously learned about Klimt and Adele's... these things from Joshua. Why do you still say that you took this painting because of the dispute between Ferdinand and Adele? love?"

"Why did you lie to me?"

"I didn't lie to you." Han Yi shook his head firmly, "I told the truth."

"I'm a little confused."

"We buy something because we want it to make us better. You see, the villa in Bel Air is better than the student apartment across from USC. The Ferrari sports car is better than the Ford Escape. Going to graduate school , better than not going to graduate school." Han Yi explained softly, "Maybe this is just our wishful thinking. The Ferrari sports car will not make me happier, the villa in Bel Air will not make me sleep more soundly, and the villa at USC will not make me happier. As a graduate student... I'm not going out to look for a job now, and it's actually useless to have a graduate degree. These things we pursue so hard may not bring us substantial help or improvement in the end, but from ancient times to the present , why are there still so many people going one after another to give it a try and try to realize that tiny possibility?"

"Because people live just to live their thoughts."

"This painting is just a thought."

Han Yi took a deep breath and said slowly.

"Its real background is the misfortune of a family and the entanglement of five people. But at least on the surface, it is a proof of the long-lasting love of a couple."

"Normally, I like to get to the bottom of things, but this time, I want everything... to be as good as it seems."

"You want Ferdinand and Adele in your imagination, but not Adele and Klimt in reality, is that right?" Xiaoru thought for a long time before asking.

"Yes. Everyone prefers Portrait No. 1912 of Adele. I used to be the same. It was golden. Adele in the painting is more beautiful and more attractive. Why don't you like it? But it's different now. Now I prefer the [-] Adele No. [-], she was completely different."

This is an older Adele, with world-weary eyes and teeth blackened by cigarette smoke.

This Adele is not Salome, she transcends worldly lust.

This is a serious Adele who bids farewell to her golden youth and grows into a formidable woman who deserves respect.

"understood."

After hearing Han Yi's answer, two very shallow dimples appeared on Xu Yiru's cheeks, and her smile blended with her eyes, making her look complicated and obscure.

"Well, I'm sorry, let me ask again... In reality, what happened to the other three girls in the end?"

"Emily stayed with Klimt. After his death, Emily inherited half of his property. Alma Schindler first married Mahler, and then married an architect and a painter. , a novelist, and the partner of several other famous people, who have been romantically involved for a lifetime. As for Mickey..."

"She was pregnant with Klimt's child, and was kicked out of the house by her stepfather in order to prevent her scandal from affecting the marriages of her other sisters. She checked into a small hotel and begged Klimt for financial support. Gram Rimte gave her some paintings, and she sold them all to raise her son, but in the end, she could not get him out of her class."

"understood."

Xiaoru looked up at the ceiling and faintly uttered a sentence with unclear meaning.

"If you are Klimt... don't let yourself be Klimt."

"Will not."

Han Yi's answer was equally vague. I didn't know whether he was referring to the first half or the second half of Xiao Ru's sentence.

"That's good." But Xiaoru didn't intend to go into details. She took a deep breath and smiled sweetly from the heart for the first time in nearly an hour. "Then...congratulations, Yi Yi, you have gained something." A world-famous painting.”

"There are still a lot of processes to go through." Han Yi scratched his scalp and smiled, "But I am very happy."

"My pleasure too...last question, if you want to answer it."

"You ask."

"What was the final price of this painting?"

"The transaction price..."

"1.5 million."

"Dollar."

(End of this chapter)