Damn, How could my family be so wealthy?!-Chapter 372 - 371: Missed by a Whisker

Four Eyes, initially reveling in the coffee in his hands, snapped back to reality upon being questioned by Su Mu.

He had come to Xinghuan Entertainment to find someone, not to drink coffee.

Of course, Four Eyes did not really want to drink coffee.

Four Eyes just felt that this cup of coffee affirmed his presence.

Seeing that Su Mu was looking at him, and He Qiya was also staring at him,

even Zhou Lina and Wang Yiming, who stood to one side, were firmly fixing their gazes on him.

Four Eyes felt slightly embarrassed.

It appeared he had indeed become too entranced by his modest cup of coffee, forgetting his main purpose.

In fact, Four Eyes felt somewhat aggrieved inside.

With the status of Four Eyes as Young Master Mu, how could he be so fixated on a cup of coffee.

Besides, the coffee wasn’t anything special; Four Eyes really wouldn’t make a big deal of it.

What Four Eyes truly appreciated was the feeling of not being ignored for the first time since entering Xinghuan Entertainment.

However, seeing Su Mu, Four Eyes thought he might be acting a bit too childishly.

With Su Mu’s presence, who else could even dream of feeling significant?

Four Eyes was somewhat relieved that he was Su Mu’s friend, so he wasn’t completely forgotten in a corner.

Hastily setting down his coffee cup, Four Eyes picked up the drawing paper he had placed to the side.

Strangely, Four Eyes felt a bit guilty.

Su Mu brought Four Eyes to Xinghuan Entertainment specifically to help him find his silhouette girl.

Su Mu could help with the drawing because of Four Eyes as well.

Yet Four Eyes himself had delayed Su Mu for quite some time over a trivial cup of coffee.

Four Eyes felt he owed an apology to his good friend.

Of course, with others present, Four Eyes thought it best to save his thanks and apologies for when he was alone with Su Mu.

"Su Mu, I completely forgot to praise you, your drawing skills are truly exceptional, it’s exactly like the silhouette girl I described."

"Su Mu, how come there’s such a huge difference between us when we were classmates and taught by the same art teacher?"

"Moreover, you haven’t even seen the silhouette girl, just listening to my description and you could draw her."

"I, at the very least, have personally encountered the silhouette girl’s true face, so how come I got not even one detail correct?"

"Su Mu, isn’t this too unscientific?"

"Or is it that your drawing skills have reached the pinnacle, just like your singing? It’s just that you usually don’t show it, so I didn’t know you had such an impressive skill?"

Perhaps because Su Mu had already produced the likeness of the silhouette girl he was searching for, Four Eyes’s mood noticeably relaxed.

Once relieved, Four Eyes, true to his talkative nature, began spouting off without restraint.

A barrage of questions was thrown at Su Mu, firing off like rapid gunfire.

Luckily, three years as classmates and friends was not for naught.

Facing Four Eyes’s relentless questioning, Su Mu remained quite composed.

Leaning gently against the sofa, Su Mu had no intention of explaining away all of Four Eyes’s numerous questions.

After all, Su Mu had distilled from Four Eyes’s incessant ramblings the most valuable piece of information.

And that was that the portrait Su Mu drew closely resembled the silhouette girl.

According to Four Eyes, they were exactly alike.

If they were identical, then the search for the person should be quite straightforward, shouldn’t it?

Su Mu’s calm contrasted sharply with Four Eyes’s excitement, clearly striking a nerve with He Qiya, Zhou Lina, and Wang Yiming on the side.

He Qiya had no idea that Su Mu possessed such high artistic talent; could he really have drawn the silhouette of a girl just from the few words Four Eyes had mentioned?

Of course, He Qiya wanted to learn as much as possible about anything related to Su Mu.

Her beautiful eyes fixated on Su Mu intently.

If it hadn’t been for the fact that Su Mu wasn’t interested in He Qiya, and his attention wasn’t on her at the moment...

He might have sensed something from the intense look in He Qiya’s eyes.

He Qiya was interested in Su Mu, so naturally, her attention was all on him at that time.

As for the drawing of the girl’s silhouette that Four Eyes had said resembled the real thing, He Qiya had lost all interest in it now.

But it was different for Zhou Lina and Wang Yiming.

Even though Zhou Lina was also a woman.

After all, Zhou Lina’s age was a factor.

Zhou Lina knew about the age gap between herself and Mr. Su, guessing it was more than a generation difference.

The first time Zhou Lina saw Mr. Su, she too was deeply shocked by his appearance.

But Zhou Lina was self-aware.

Knowing that it was impossible, Zhou Lina naturally wouldn’t have any extravagant hopes.

Besides, the way the young heiress of her company looked at Mr. Su was unnoticed by him,

but it did not escape Zhou Lina, who had been through it all herself.

Zhou Lina knew Miss He was filled with love for Mr. Su.

If Mr. Su was willing, she guessed that Xinghuan Entertainment would likely end up belonging to him in the future.

Of course, Mr. Su was the heir to the Su Family conglomerate.

Zhou Lina also understood that Mr. Su wouldn’t develop any specific thoughts about Miss He just for the sake of Xinghuan Entertainment.

Zhou Lina might not be familiar with Mr. Su, but she had noticed that Mr. Su’s attitude towards Miss He was quite normal.

One could say that, at least for now, Mr. Su had no feelings for Miss He.

This also indicated that Mr. Su didn’t really care about owning Xinghuan Entertainment, right?

Therefore, Zhou Lina was now even more curious about the portrait Mr. Su had drawn.

This portrait that Mr. Mu had claimed was an exact likeness.

Zhou Lina had originally thought it was based on a portrait drawn by Mr. Mu that didn’t look like the subject at all,

and on some characteristics of the girl from behind that Mr. Mu had described verbally.

Zhou Lina believed that it would have been quite remarkable if Mr. Su could have sketched a vague outline.

She had not expected that what Mr. Su had drawn now was actually the girl herself.

This, of course, made Zhou Lina very curious.

Zhou Lina had not expected the seemingly young Mr. Su to be a hidden master of painting.

Wang Yiming was equally shocked.

He had already admired Mr. Su’s singing talent to the point of adulation.

And now, Mr. Su had revealed another impressive skill.

Wang Yiming was even more regretful that Mr. Su had refused to appear on his "Happy Sunday" show.

But there was nothing Wang Yiming could do, given Mr. Su’s status.

He couldn’t force him even if he wanted to.

He could only watch helplessly as a talented and handsome man slipped through his fingers and missed appearing on "Happy Sunday."

Zhou Lina and Wang Yiming both craned their necks, wanting to see for themselves what the girl in the drawing by Mr. Su looked like.

At the same time, they were also secretly competing in their minds to see who could recall something first.

Seeing Zhou Lina and Wang Yiming stretching their necks to look at the portrait in his hands...

Four Eyes also knew that to find the girl from the silhouette, the stars had aligned perfectly for him.

The ’right timing’ was that Su Mu knew He Yuguang, the boss of Xinghuan Entertainment, and now even the company’s heiress, He Qiya, had personally come forward to greet him.

But this wasn’t because of the respect Four Eyes commanded.

Of that, Four Eyes was very clear in his heart.

Before Su Mu introduced him to He Qiya, Four Eyes knew that she knew nothing about him.

He Qiya’s presence at Xinghuan Entertainment and her willingness to help him find the silhouette girl.

All of that, of course, was thanks to Su Mu.

As for He Qiya’s admiration for Su Mu, it seemed everyone but Su Mu himself was aware of it.

’Being so close, yet unaware’ might just explain the situation.

But the public has sharp eyes.

Even Four Eyes, who had never been in love, could clearly see He Qiya’s feelings for Su Mu.

’Local conditions,’ well, that was Su Mu’s miraculous painting skills.

Four Eyes never imagined that his high school classmate of three years possessed such a multitude of excellent skills.

It seemed that being a top student for Su Mu wasn’t just limited to academics.

Four Eyes even felt that besides painting and singing, Su Mu was a master in other areas as well.

Now there was no opportunity to explore these talents of Su Mu’s.

But Four Eyes wasn’t in a hurry, as his friendship with Su Mu wasn’t developed overnight.

Although they would be attending different universities, Four Eyes felt that with technology being so advanced nowadays, distance wouldn’t affect his friendship with Su Mu at all.

So Four Eyes was much more relaxed.

The portrait Su Mu drew, which looked exactly like the real silhouette girl, was what Four Eyes considered ’local conditions.’

With the right timing, conditions, and people, what couldn’t be achieved when all three elements came together?

As for the last element, ’people,’ weren’t Zhou Lina and Wang Yiming right in front of him the perfect choices?

Zhou Lina was in charge of the talent show seeking the most elegant girl, and Wang Yiming was a judge.

Four Eyes truly felt that these two were the final ’people’ element he had been looking for.

Thinking of this, Four Eyes generously handed over the portrait of the silhouette girl drawn by Su Mu to Zhou Lina and Wang Yiming.

"This is the silhouette girl I’ve been searching for. The girl Su Mu drew is identical to the one I’m looking for. Take a good look, do you recall anything?"

Four Eyes looked at Zhou Lina and Wang Yiming with hopeful eyes.

Whoever could provide him with a clue first, Four Eyes would be overjoyed.

"Really identical?"

Wang Yiming asked in disbelief.

Could it be that miraculous?

Just based on Mr. Mu’s few descriptions, to paint a stranger they had never seen?

If Wang Yiming hadn’t been involved in this incident personally, he would never believe it.

Instead, he would think that the person talking about it was exaggerating.

Wang Yiming wasn’t disbelieving now; the revelation was just too shocking, and he subconsciously wanted to confirm it.

Since Mr. Mu had already said so, deep down, Wang Yiming knew there was no doubt about the accuracy of the portrait.

"Of course it’s identical. I saw the silhouette girl’s face clearly, how could there be any mistake?"

"If I wasn’t clear about what the silhouette girl I’m looking for looks like, would there be any point in searching for her?"

Four Eyes felt that Wang Yiming’s question was somewhat redundant.

Four Eyes came to Xinghuan Entertainment to look for someone today, he certainly wouldn’t make up stories just to save face for Su Mu.

If what Su Mu painted didn’t resemble her, Four Eyes wouldn’t firmly claim it was an exact likeness.

So, was Four Eyes able to find someone in the end?

"That’s not what I mean, mainly because I’ve also met quite a few of those painting masters."

"I even conducted several in-depth interviews with top domestic painters."

"But to be honest, I have never come across anyone with painting skills as high as Mr. Su’s."

"Now that I think about it, Mr. Su truly is a hidden master, modest and unassuming, yet his painting skill is exceptional."

Wang Yiming couldn’t help but give a thumbs-up involuntarily.

This was not just flattery.

Wang Yiming was being very sincere when he said this.

It was a form of respect for art.

Wang Yiming felt that even if you combined the painting skills of the several masters he had filmed, they would still not surpass Mr. Su.

It’s not just because Mr. Su was able to paint the portrait of the girl from behind based on just a few words from Mr. Mu.

Before recording those professional programs, Wang Yiming had done his research as well.

There was a reason why Wang Yiming could become a major director at Xinghuan Entertainment.

The biggest reason was that Wang Yiming was very dedicated to his work.

This dedication also included his attitude towards his job.

No matter what program Wang Yiming was filming, he always did his homework in the preparatory phase.

Wang Yiming didn’t have a formal education in fine arts.

But he had consulted a great deal of information about art.

After filming a few programs, you could say that Wang Yiming was now half an insider.

When Wang Yiming saw the portrait painted by Su Mu, he knew that Mr. Su’s craft was quite extraordinary.

Wang Yiming had interacted with quite a few masters.

He knew in his heart that Mr. Su’s painting skills were probably not just extraordinary in a simple sense.

If Mr. Su were willing to display his true talent, those white-haired, white-bearded old predecessors would have to step aside.

Because of Su Mu’s identity, of course, Wang Yiming couldn’t possibly speak again of wanting to invite Su Mu to a program or to record some special feature.

Although it was something that Wang Yiming truly regretted.

Such wonderful singing and painting skills, just hidden away like this.

Wang Yiming even felt it was a kind of tremendous waste.

Regrettably, Wang Yiming’s own status was clear.

Even though Wang Yiming was an important figure at Xinghuan Entertainment.

In front of Su Mu, Wang Yiming was nothing at all.

Swallowing the words he wanted to say, Wang Yiming felt it was more important to first sharpen his memory of the girl Mr. Su had painted.

In this office, Wang Yiming wasn’t the only one at the scene of yesterday’s most beautiful girl beauty pageant.

Wang Yiming knew he had another formidable competitor in Zhou Lina, who was watching eagerly.

Because Su Mu showed no reaction to Wang Yiming’s flattery, which was somewhat akin to bootlicking.

Wang Yiming instead truly focused all his attention on the portrait in Four Eyes’ hands.

Su Mu actually knew that what Wang Yiming said was the absolute truth.

The things given by the system were the top of the line to begin with.

Being described as having unsurpassed painting skills wasn’t an exaggeration at all.

Su Mu was still leaning comfortably against the back of the sofa, with no particular expression on his face.

It was as if he hadn’t heard Wang Yiming’s praise at all.