Almighty painter

Chapter 418 Anna, Anna

"I just received a call from the North American headquarters. During breakfast time, Mr. President was in front of the TV and happened to watch the speech just delivered by Sir Brown. He congratulated the "Little Prince" project for its achievements this year. But regarding the submission I submitted As a candidate for the [Writing and Art Master Award], he hopes that I can reconsider it.”

The speech on the stage triggered a domino collapse in the market, and it was coming towards them faster than imagined.

Many important figures closely related to the incident.

I have been paying attention to everything happening at the European Art Annual Conference.

While Gu Weijing felt that he had no hope of winning the prize.

A text message from Osborne, Vice President of Scholastic Group, was sent to Anna’s mobile phone, confirming the bad news.

"As long as I have decision-making authority on matters throughout Europe, I will try my best to ensure that the Detective Cat contract is not affected, I guarantee you this."

"But I think it's best to keep a low profile. Don't put any more pressure on yourself or the publishing house at this time. The president is still waiting for my reply. Anna, because I promised you, if you are really sure If you insist, I will try again here.”

"But if you are nominated, you will definitely not get any results, so why bother trying again? At least let's change the time, a few years later, wait until this controversial topic has passed, and then see which direction the trend is?"

Osborne said it tactfully, but his meaning was clear.

He believes that judging from the current situation, it is really not suitable to try again and risk the world to give a precious award nomination to Detective Cat.

At this time, under the guidance of this kind of public opinion.

The publisher is also unlikely to give Cat Detective an award.

This is not only related to Sir Brown's influence, but also to the nature of the Scholastic Group, which can be seen from the fact that they contain the same prefix as the word School.

Even in terms of market value, they are among the top ten publishing houses in the world, and they have also produced "Harry Potter", a god-level blockbuster book in the publishing industry in the past thirty years.

but……

It is actually a youth-oriented education company.

Its officially registered name is "Xuele Education Group".

They receive a large number of purchase orders from European and American governments every year, and their most profitable products are various textbooks.

Even when it enters many Asian countries, it appears directly as a foreign language education and training institution that promotes the comprehensive development of youth literature and art.

[Scholastic Writing and Art - Youth Award] is the most valuable youth art competition award in North America. Students who win this award are almost equivalent to receiving an admission notice and a full scholarship from an Ivy League school.

The status is on the same level as Olympiad gold medals.

It has received great attention from the public, and the ratings of the live TV broadcast of the awards every year are very high.

On the contrary, the more serious and high-end [Master Award], in the eyes of the group, seems to be a side product to improve the style of the award.

Therefore, their top management attaches great importance to the reaction of public opinion.

The publishing group is definitely not willing to award an award that relies on the reputation of the Scholastic Group in front of thousands of parents to an illustrator who is labeled as a "vulgar liar."

Doesn’t this seem like they have very little vision?

Parents happen to be their largest customer group.

"We must hurry up and let Detective Cat Sister's influence really increase. We must hurry up and become stronger."

Ana looked at the text message sent by Osborne and sighed softly in her heart.

The other party did not say that ugly fact——

After all,

They are not important.

You have not really established a foothold in the upper-class art circle that is a carrot and a pit, and your name cannot bring enough benefits.

Naturally, you will be bullied.

The art world looks very otherworldly and ethereal when viewed from a distance.

When you walk in, you will find that everyone is wallowing desperately in the world of fame and fortune. It is very realistic and cruel.

Some ordinary people think that Damian Hirst or Andy Warhol are just third-rate art speculators.

But in Sir Brown's speech today, Hirst is the target.

See if Gagosian is still laughing and joking with you.

He absolutely wished he could jump on the stage like an old cat whose tail was stepped on, and bite the old bastard on the nose in a rage.

The same reason.

If Sir Brown had nothing to do to make trouble on stage, it would be the 21st century, and J.K. Rowling would still be using a racial template as a devil, not daring to satirize the more poignant and cruel modern social issues.

Even if the head of Scholastic Group is about to retire this year, he will still flick his boogers on the TV screen and give him the middle finger.

Don't care about that shit Sir Brown, don't care about that shit the Pope.

If you want to touch our IP's cash cow worth tens of billions of dollars, I will step out the shit in your intestines as long as I'm still alive.

In fact, as a Harry Potter fan.

There is a high probability that people will not bother to pay attention to what Sir Brown said on stage, and it will only make him act like a clown.

But Detective Cat.

To all the art masters in the room, he is not important at all, an insignificant little painter.

To the publishing house, he was just a good illustrator.

Sales of one million copies and billings in the tens of millions of dollars are impressive results, but that's all.

No Detective Cat, and Jane Arnold.

If drawing knife drawing is a new trend in the field of fairy tales, just ask Professor Boggs to draw it. For them, there are thousands of candidates who can replace her, but they can definitely find it.

Definitely not considered their basic interest base.

When her presence will in turn affect their core customer group.

Immediately, it will be treated as garbage and thrown into the trash can.

Sir Brown wants to use anti-aircraft cannons to kill mosquitoes, use the cruelest means to pinch the softest persimmon, and completely nail the detective cat to the stake.

It not only establishes authority, but also does not affect the core interests of allies and provoke backlash.

Only she is in Anna's heart, she is the cat lady that can never be replaced, the star with her own rose in the sky of thousands of stars.

Mentally, she said she wanted to hug her.

Therefore, in reality, Anna tried her best to take her under her wings. Even though the Irina family once had white angel wings that covered the sky in the art field, now that their influence has fallen apart, they look like It's an old hen waiting to be put into the pot.

But even if she is really an old hen.

Anna believed that she was also the old hen filled with anger at being touched and treasured.

She must flutter up and give the falcon-like man on the stage who is stretching his talons towards Sister Cat a hard blow.

No matter what the cost may be.

"I know I am not qualified to ask you for anything, Uncle Osborne. I just want to ask that you wait until my speech is over before making a decision. Sir Brown has announced his muse plan, and I also have news of mine to be announced."

"What are you going to do??? Anna. Don't be impulsive."

A message from Osborne.

The other person looked shocked.

Chairman Brown's situation is now established. The other party is a genuine interest alliance, not a high school debate team where they can regain their disadvantage by relying on their eloquence and rhetoric during the debate.

"Forget it, no matter what, there's nothing I can do about it. I don't want to know either."

Osborne changed his mind shortly afterward.

"Anna, you are the one who looks most like a goddess and angel among the people I know. You have always been a child with your own ideas. No matter what you want to do, I wish you good luck."

"I hope you really have the magic power of an angel."
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"The name Jelena always brings endless magic, right?"

On the stage, Sir Brown has already begun to briefly introduce the identity of the young woman who will succeed him and continue to speak on behalf of the founding family of "Oil Painting".

The guests who made the final appearance at this annual meeting.

In terms of importance purely based on the order of speeches, her social status is even higher than that of Sir Brown.

Of course, this must be the contribution of the ancestors.

Sir Brown firmly believes that this is definitely the last time in his life that the name "Elena" will be on his head.

from now on.

He is the best in the art field.

"Miss Jelena graduated from high school from Theresia Girls' High School, one of the twin jewels of Austrian private schools. She is an alumnus of many senior leaders in our arts and sports department. She was awarded the [Austrian Science Award] by the President in 18. The same honor as the Cross of Arts], the musician Carl Czerny and the conductor von Karajan. Therefore, when she was seventeen years old, she entered the Vienna Academy of Arts without examination when her great-grandfather was the chairman of the school board. .”

Sir Brown smiled.

"The magic, in addition to showing her career achievements, is also shown in her personal life."

"She had one of the most unfortunate fates in society when she was born. Professor Michael of New York-Presbyterian Hospital asserted that her right leg would never be able to function normally and she would have to stay in a wheelchair for the rest of her life."

"But Anna never chose to surrender to her fate for a moment. Her family received medical treatment from the American Sports Rehabilitation Team for her. She is one of the most self-disciplined people I have ever seen in my life. She has been controlled by the media for ten years. Body shape, training... She even appeared on the women's foil exchange visit list of the Vienna Professional Fencing School Team to France. Some newspapers called her the Helen Keller of our time..."

Sir Brown once said.

In his speech on stage, he will completely destroy Anna's public image.

He did the same.

The insidious speech Oler gave to his cousin in Elena's manor was not groundless.

most of the time.

To really make a person's reputation in the public opinion field suffer a devastating blow, you don't need to speak ill of them very deliberately and clearly, you only need to say good things about them very deliberately and clearly.

In addition, Sir Brown’s special words and guidance have been present at all times since he took the stage.

These words of praise.

Every item seems fake.

It will naturally produce a "hate the rich" mentality in people's ears, and it will become very harsh.

"The magic power brought by the name Elena, haha, I just laughed. This is obviously an ability."

"Isn't this the traditional way of taking shortcuts and gilding your resume to get into a prestigious university? Don't you blush?"

"How can Helen Keller in modern society be so exaggerated? How much money did she spend to hire someone to write this soft article? Why doesn't she say that she is the number one super genius in the universe?"

There was still a quarrel surrounding Miss Elena in the comment area before, and some fans would jump out to criticize her.

just now.

Public opinion on TIKTOK has become completely one-sided.

"Sitting in a wheelchair in a palace-like home is the most unfortunate fate in society? What about those who sleep on the street? I am willing to cut off a leg now and trade it with her, but will she trade it?"

"I would like that too."

"I'd chop off both legs."

"I'm willing to cut three!"

"eeeeh...brother upstairs, you are more cruel to yourself, you win."

"No kidding, I can actually accept that this woman can get that nagging medal. As a rich tycoon, there are always some tricks that can be used. It's okay to go to college without taking the exam. There is a school director at home, so this kind of thing is okay. It's very common. More than 1/5 of the students in every Ivy League school are recruited through special care. There will always be unfair situations in society. She was born in Rome, and I can't bear it. But... what the hell is fencing? Ah! Isn't she lame? You can't just plate everything with gold. This is too fake."

"How much social resources have been occupied by this!"

"This is how the elite rich are. They greedily seize social resources for their own enjoyment. A name can replace the countless sweat paid by others."

"Don't you think what Sir Brown said is outrageous? It's too abstract."

"Who knows if the Irina family wrote it themselves and asked the chairman to read it."

Gu Weijing looked at the one-sided condemnation comments in the live broadcast room.

"It sounds like Miss Elena's resume is a bit harsh." He sent a message to Mr. Sloth.

"Sounds like that? Isn't it really harsh? Do you think Brown's resume is false? How could he make obvious mistakes on such an occasion."

When Anna replied to this message, there was a sobriety on her face that was particularly cruel to herself.

She likes the comfort from the other person.

But comfort based solely on convergence of interests is meaningless.

There is no difference between the cheers and praise for Sir Brown on the Internet.

She doesn't think the detective cat can understand her complicated life like a maze, and she doesn't want the detective cat to leave a wrong impression about herself based on wrong judgment.

Even though their lives in the real world are like two parallel lines.

Will not intersect.

"No, I simply experienced similar things. Criticism may not be true criticism, and praise may not be true praise."

Gu Weijing remembered that he was on campus three days ago. During the interview, he was deliberately portrayed as a privileged class person who rode in a luxury car worth more than 100,000 US dollars and committed evil and deceit on campus.

"It sounds harsh to me, so I don't think he would sincerely praise his enemy as a saint."

"Let's take a calm guess. I think what Sir Brown said is all true. It's just that he selectively told only a small half of the truth." What a match!

Anna finally smiled.

She really felt that she and Detective Cat Sister had an inexplicable and unexplained tacit understanding.

They always find a connection in completely unexpected places.

Obviously the other party didn't know anything about the life of "Miss Elena", but he was able to pass through the maze of layers, with an intuition that was almost innocent and reckless, and pierce the heart with one arrow.

Not bad at all.

Almost everything Sir Brown said was true, but it was said with great skill.

Anna did receive the ultra-high-level honor of the Austrian Cross of Science and Art, but that was in 2018 because of the Ileana Charitable Foundation’s long-term outstanding contribution to cultural exchanges.

Awarded to the President of the Foundation.

She also admitted to the university without taking any exams.

But her results are also almost always top-notch.

of course.

Anna didn't feel that this was something she was proud of.

Given her family background.

She does have many educational resources that her peers do not have. This is a fact. Not everyone can grow up surrounded by tutors.

But unless they are those who completely choose to be a playboy, a playboy who does not seek advancement.

People from families like Anna are very demanding from their elders and the competition is fierce.

Don't talk about Anna.

Even Ole seems to be frivolous and frivolous. When he was a student, he had a girlfriend from the same company.

But he speaks six languages, and his Abitur score (German College Entrance Examination) is among the top 0.5% in Germany.

He does not need to rely on this to go to Oxford or Cambridge.

But he needs to rely on this to prove to his banker father that he is the smartest, most superior, the hardest-working among the brothers and sisters, and the heir to the top no matter what ability he has.

However, on this occasion, Sir Brown understood that you were bullied and had no way to defend yourself.

Could it be that Anna is going to rush to the stage later, accuse the chairman of the board of directors of praising her, not doing enough and comprehensively, and show her high school transcript in this gathering of masters?

That would make him look like an immature, brainless idiot.

Anna held the phone to her heart.

Even if everyone in the world is accusing her, even if she is so wronged that it is hard to explain.

But as long as Sister Cat understands her, Anna won't feel wronged.

People on both sides of the screen are typing on social media.

The camera lens has moved to Anna's body several times, so it is in the eyes of all the viewers who are watching the live broadcast.

On the stage, the "incomparably excellent" daughter-in-law whom Sir Brown praised endlessly.

At this moment...

He has been playing with his mobile phone all the time!

The audience, who already had a bad impression of her, were completely blown away like a powder keg that was ignited.

"Fuck, why should I listen to this kind of person's speech! She doesn't even have the most basic courtesy towards a kind-hearted elder like Sir Brown. What qualifications does she have to let the world listen to her voice on such a serious occasion! "

"How annoying."

"How many people have never had the opportunity to touch the scene of the art temple, and she just scrolled through her mobile phone so casually."

"I feel like I'm seeing a female version of Justin Bieber, both of them are equally rude."

……

"Now, let us hand over the stage to Anna Elena."

Sir Brown bowed one last time and rose.

He basked in the applause, staying longer than any other guest.

He scanned the entire venue, and finally narrowed his eyes slightly, casting his gaze towards the distant sky outside the plastic-steel glass dome.

Enjoy it all, enjoy every minute, every second.

As long as he doesn't leave the stage, the applause will not stop.

It seems like it will ring until the end of time.

It is the symphonic prelude to the coronation of the Brown dynasty and the death knell for the end of the Irina family.

Sir Brown's whole life was born for this moment that made him feel extremely happy.

"what is that?"

"Wow!"

"How is that possible? Is there a mechanical exoskeleton?"

Sir Brown suddenly heard one or two discordant comments in the wave of applause.

It was like the conductor of a symphony suddenly conducted the wrong tune.

then.

Discussions spread throughout the venue.

The continuous applause became sparse, and after a moment, they all stopped.

Sir Brown turned his head in annoyance, and then he saw a scene that shocked him for the rest of his life.

He saw the man walking towards the rostrum...

Yes, Anna.

She walked very slowly, as if she were a rickety wind-up doll, or a butterfly trying to stretch its broken and curled wings, trying to fly.

Far from the dragon-like pace when he took the stage, his momentum was calm.

But that's not the point.

The essential.

Fuck, she actually stood up! She actually walked towards the podium.

"Miss Elena, come on, you can definitely do it. Haven't you practiced at home several times? You can do it at a distance of less than thirty meters."

Anna thought in her mind.

She felt the feeling of numbness and weakness in her right leg below the knee due to nerve conduction problems, as if she were stepping on a stilt with springs only.

Walk towards the stage as smoothly as possible.

She was born with nerve problems in her right leg, and the doctor said she had two options, or amputation.

Trivia.

Many disabled people with leg injuries can actually run and jump if their legs are amputated and replaced with prosthetic legs, such as the famous "Blade Runner" in the Olympics.

But if you choose to keep the appearance of your limbs intact, you will have to use a wheelchair for life.

She chose the latter.

Anna received rehabilitation training and physical traction day after day.

Even though her right leg is usually immobile, it does not suffer from the usual signs of muscle atrophy and degeneration.

Therefore, in theory, there is a possibility that she can reach the rostrum completely on her own.

It's certainly not easy.

Normal people's legs are completely numb or cramped, and the feeling of moving when the legs are completely different from their own is somewhat similar to what Anna is feeling now.

"Ms. Cat, watch me walk on stage and send your name to the clouds."

Ana bit her lip and encouraged herself in her heart.

The whole audience stopped talking.

Everyone watched silently as the young girl walked towards the stage with difficulty and persistence.

The participating artists, reporters in the media area, and even Sir Brown who was a little overwhelmed on the stage suddenly felt that this scene was a bit shocking.

I was also a little moved for no reason.

The Economic Observer will call this scene a “gorgeous swan transformation” in a news report that will be published in a few minutes and will affect the entire art era.

And not until many years later.

Gu Weijing and Miss Elena were having breakfast together in the manor.

He just told a secret.

Gu Weijing mentioned that he had recalled countless times how he felt when he was watching live broadcasts at home when he was young and saw the footage of this century.

He believes that the description "the metamorphosis of the swan" is incorrect.

This is not the kind of story about an ugly duckling that by some chance, shows its eye-catching beauty and transforms into a white swan.

"You have always been beautiful. In my heart, from the first time I saw you in Mr. Hyperion's video, to now, and in the future, you are a perfect white swan."

Gu Weijing said this to Anna who was looking at him with a smile.

just.

Excessive and exquisite things will make people feel that they are not real enough and not close enough.

Like a sculpture placed on an altar, a ruby ​​in the hands of a jeweler, some kind of doll worth a thousand gold, or frivolous porcelain in a museum.

When you are beautiful to a certain extent, it will cut through others like a sharp blade, making people afraid to come close.

until that day.

When the camera showed Anna staggering towards the stage, biting her lips slightly, and there was a layer of light sweat on her forehead.

The rubies reflect the sunlight, the dolls are infused with soul, and the perfect porcelain is stained with the moisture of tea.

she was.

Suddenly came alive.

"Wow! Look, Mr. Sloth, look, Miss Elena can't walk! She actually stood up! It's amazing!"

At this moment, Gu Weijing was far from having such a profound understanding.

It is far less sweet than the mouth will taste later.

He is currently typing on the keyboard in shock, as if seeing a UFO flying saucer, sharing his great discovery with his agent.

the strange thing is.

This time, Mr. Sloth did not reply to his message as quickly as before.

But the comment area of ​​the entire video, like the scene at the annual meeting, slowly became quiet.

Many people have felt the profound power conveyed by Miss Elena.

Or belief.

Sir Brown spent a lot of time conveying to hundreds of thousands of viewers a fluttering and pretentious silhouette of Anna suspended in the clouds.

It only took her a short distance of 30 meters.

He successfully broke through this illusion and fell back into the world.

Most viewers still don't have a very good impression of Anna, but gradually, the abuse in the comment area has decreased a lot.

Some people even started to cheer Anna in the comments.

This society is becoming more and more hostile. Because of different concepts and different attitudes towards life, people hate and abuse each other.

But when a powerful scene appeared in front of everyone.

Regardless of race, region, or cultural differences.

Most people are still kind.

The 30-meter walk was not easy. Anna felt like she was about to fall several times.

however.

Maybe today is her lucky day.

Maybe the invisible shadow of Sister Cat is really with her, holding her behind her.

and so.

She finally walked to the podium step by step.

(End of this chapter)