"I had just received a call from the North American headquarters, and at breakfast, Mr. President was in front of the television and happened to be watching the speech that Sir Brown had just delivered. He congratulated the "Little Prince" project on its achievements this year. But as for my candidacy for the Masters of Writing and Art Award, he wanted me to think again. ”

The on-stage speech caused dominoes to collapse in the market, and they were pressed at them faster than expected.

A lot of big people who are closely related to events.

I've been paying attention to what is happening at the European Art Festival.

At the same time, Gu Weijing felt that he had no hope of winning the award.

A text message from Osborne, vice president of the Scholastic Group, had already been sent to Anna's phone, confirming the terrible news.

"As long as I have the power to decide on the affairs of the entire European zone, I will do my best to keep the Detective Cat's contract unaffected, I assure you of that."

"But I think it's better to keep a low profile and not put pressure on yourself and the publisher at this time. The president is still waiting for my reply. Anna, because I promised you, if you really have to stick to it, I'll try again. ”

"But if you don't get any results if you nominate you, then why bother trying again? At least let's change the time, in a few years, wait for this controversial topic to pass, and then see which way the wind goes? ”

Osborne said it very tactfully, but the meaning was clear.

He thinks that judging from the current situation, it is really not suitable to try again, and risk the world to give a valuable award nomination to the detective cat.

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

Nor is it possible for the publisher to give an award to the detective cat.

This has to do not only with Sir Brown's influence, but also with the nature of the Scholastic group, as evidenced by the fact that they contain the same prefix as the word School.

Even in terms of market capitalization, they are among the top 10 publishing houses in the world, and they have also produced "Harry Potter", a god-level hit book in the publishing industry in the past three decades.

But......

It is actually a youth-oriented education enterprise.

Its official registered name is "Scholastic Education Group".

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

Even when it entered many Asian countries, it was directly in the form of a foreign language education and training institution that promoted the all-round development of youth literature and art.

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

Status and Olympiad gold medals are on the same level.

It has attracted a lot of attention from the people, 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] seems to be an incidental product in the eyes of the group to improve the style of the award.

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

The publishing group must not have been willing to present an award that had placed the reputation of the Scholastic Group on an illustrator who had been labeled a "vulgar liar" in front of thousands of parents.

Doesn't that make them look so discerning!

Parents are their biggest customer group.

"Hurry up and let the influence of the detective cat sister really go up, and you have to hurry up and become stronger."

Anna looked at the text message from Osborne and sighed softly in her heart.

The other party didn't say that ugly fact-

Ultimately

They don't matter.

If you don't really gain a foothold in the upper art circles of a turnip and a pit, your name won't bring enough benefits.

Naturally, they will be bullied.

From a distance, the art world is detached and fluttering.

When you walk in, you will find that everyone is desperately rolling in the red dust of fame and fortune, which is very realistic and cruel.

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

But if it were Sir Brown's speech today, it was Hearst who was the target.

Look at Gao Guxuan's jokes with you.

He definitely wanted to be like an old cat with his tail stepped on, pounce on the stage, and bite the old bastard's nose in a rage.

Similarly.

If Sir Brown had nothing to find fault with on stage, it would be the 21st century, and J.K. Rowling would still be there to make a model of race theory as the big devil, and he would not dare to satirize the more bitter and cruel modern social problems.

Even if the head of the Scholastic Group is about to retire this year, people will unceremoniously flick their noses on the TV screen and give them a middle finger.

What kind of bullshit Sir Brown, what kind of bullshit is the Pope.

You kid wants to move the cash cow worth tens of billions of dollars in your IP, and as long as you still have a breath, you have to step on the in your intestines.

In fact, with the size of Harry Potter fans.

Chances are, people don't bother to care about what Sir Brown says on stage, and it will only make him act like a clown.

But detective cats.

For all the art masters in the venue, they are not important at all, and they are insignificant little painters.

For the publishing house, he is just a good illustrator.

Millions of copies sold, tens of millions of dollars in bills, very impressive results, that's all.

There are no detective cats, and Jane Arnold.

If knife painting is a new outlet in the field of fairy tales, then ask Professor Boggs to paint it, for them, there are thousands of people who can replace her, but they can definitely find it.

It's definitely not their basic interests.

When her presence in turn affects their core customer base.

Immediately, it will be thrown into the trash like garbage.

Sir Brown is going to fight mosquitoes with anti-aircraft guns, pinch the softest persimmons with the most brutal means, and completely crucify the detective cat at the stake.

It will not affect the core interests of the allies and provoke a backlash.

Only she is in Anna's heart, she is the cat lady who can never be replaced, the star that grows her roses in the starry sky.

Spiritually, she said she wanted to hug her.

Therefore, in reality, Anna tried everything to bring her under her wings, even if the Elena family used to be in the field of art, the white angel wings that covered the sky and the earth, in today's era of falling influence, looks like an old hen just waiting to be put into the pot.

But even if she's really an old hen.

Anna believes that she is also the old hen who has been touched and cherished, and is full of anger.

She had to pounce and giggle at the falcon-like man on the stage who was stretching out his claws towards Sister Cat.

Whatever the cost will be.

"I know I'm not qualified to ask anything from you, Uncle Osborne, and I just want to ask to wait for my speech to end before making a decision. Sir Brown has unveiled his muse plan and I have my news to be announced. ”

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

Osborne sent a message.

The other party looked stunned.

Now that Chairman Brown is in the ascendancy, the other side is a genuine alliance of interests, not the kind of high school debate team where you can rely on eloquence to conclude a debate and make a few clever words to regain the disadvantage.

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

Osborne changed his mind immediately after the message.

"Anna, you're the one of the most goddess-angel-looking people I've ever known, and you've always been a kid with your own ideas. Whatever you want to do, I wish you the best of luck. ”

"I hope you really have angelic powers, too."

——

"The surname Yelena always brings endless magic, right?"

On stage, Sir Brown had already begun to briefly introduce the identity of the young woman who would continue to speak on behalf of the founding family of the painting.

The finale of this annual meeting.

If the importance is to be judged purely by the order of her speeches, her social status is even higher than that of Sir Brown.

Of course, this must be the credit of the ancestor Yu Yin.

Sir Brown is convinced that this will be the last time in his life that the name "Elena" will be crushed on his head.

From now on.

He is the best in the world in the field of art.

"Miss Elena, graduated from high school at Theresia Girls' High School, one of the twin stars of Austria's private school. She is an alumnus of many of our senior leaders in the Ministry of Arts and Sports, having been awarded the Austrian Cross of the Order of Science and Art by the President in '18, the same honour as musician Karl Czerny and conductor von Karajan. Therefore, at the age of seventeen, she was exempted from the examination to enter the Vienna Academy of Arts, where 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 was born with one of the most unfortunate fates in society. Professor Michael of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital asserted that her right leg would never be able to exert its normal force and would have to stay in a wheelchair for the rest of her life. ”

But Anna never had a moment when she chose to give in to her fate. Her family for her from the American Sports Rehabilitation Team, she is one of the most disciplined people I have ever met in my life, ten years of media control and training...... She was even on the Vienna Professional Fencing Varsity's women's foil exchange visit list to France. Some newspapers called her, the Helen Keller of our time......"

Sir Brown once said.

He is going to give a speech on stage, and he will completely destroy Anna's public image.

He did the same.

The sinister speech that Ole showed to his cousin in Yelena's manor was not groundless.

A lot of the time.

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

In addition, Sir Brown has been guided by deliberate words that have not existed all the time since he took the stage.

These words of praise.

Each of these items appears fake.

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

"The magic brought by the surname Yelena, hehe, I just laughed, this is obviously the ability of money."

"Isn't this the traditional way of taking shortcuts and gilding your resume to a prestigious university? Don't you blush when you blow it? ”

"Helen Keller in modern society, how can there be such an exaggeration, how much money is this to pay someone to write an advertorial, why doesn't she say that she is the first super genius in the universe."

Before, the comment area was still arguing around Miss Elena, and there were still some fans who would jump out of the spray.

Right 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. Would I like to cut off a leg right now and trade with her, for her? ”

"I would too."

"I'm willing to cut off two legs."

"I'm willing to cut three!"

“eeeeh…… Brother upstairs, or you are more ruthless to yourself, you win. ”

"No kidding, what kind of badge can this woman take, in fact, I can really accept it, she is a rich tycoon, there are always some means that can be used. It's okay to go to college without exams, and it's not uncommon to have a school director at home. Each Ivy League has more than 1/5 of its students, who are recruited through special care. There will always be injustices in society, she was born in Rome, and I put up with it. But...... What the hell is fencing! Isn't she lame? You can't plating everything with gold, it's too fake. ”

"How many social resources is this encroaching on!"

"The elite and the rich are like this, greedily grabbing social resources for their own enjoyment, and a name can replace the countless sweat paid by others."

"Sir Brown doesn't think it's outrageous to read it himself. It's also too abstract. ”

"Who knows, if it was written by the Elena family themselves, let the chairman of the family 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 fake? How could he make some obvious mistake on such an occasion? ”

Anna replied to the message with a cruel soberness on her face.

She loves the comfort she receives from the other person.

But there is no point in providing comfort based solely on the convergence of interests.

There is no difference between the cheers and praises of Sir Brown on the Internet.

She doesn't think that the detective cat can understand her life as complex as a labyrinth, and she doesn't want the other party to leave a wrong impression of herself based on wrong judgment.

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

Doesn't intersect.

"No, I've just been through something like that. Criticism is not necessarily true criticism, and praise is not necessarily true praise. ”

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

"I hear it harshly, so I don't think he will praise his enemy as a saint from the bottom of his heart."

"Guess calmly. I think Sir Brown's claims are all true. It's just that he is very selective and only tells a small half of the truth. ”

It's a good match!

Anna finally smiled.

She really felt that she and the detective cat sister had an inexplicable and unexplained tacit understanding.

They can always be in places that are completely unexpected, and they have a clear heart.

Obviously, the other party doesn't know anything about the life of "Miss Elena", but he can go through the layers of labyrinths, with an intuition that is almost naïve and reckless, and pierce the heart with one stone.

Not bad at all.

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

Anna did receive the Austrian Cross of the Order of Science and Art, but that was in 2018 because of the Elena Charitable Foundation's long-standing contribution to cultural exchange.

Awarded to the President of the Foundation.

She did go to a university without exams.

But her results are also almost always top performers.

Of course.

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

With her family background.

She does have a lot of educational resources that her peers don't have, and it's a fact that not everyone can grow up surrounded by a tutor from a young age.

But unless it's those who have completely chosen to be a gentleman, a playboy who doesn't want to be motivated.

People like Anna who come from a family are also very demanding by their elders, and the competition is fierce.

Don't talk about Anna.

Even Ole, who looks prodigal and frivolous, when he was a student, talked about a girlfriend of a company.

But people can speak six languages, and the Abitur score (German college entrance examination) is also in the top 0.5% of Germany.

He didn't 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, hardest-working, and the most top-notch heir among his brothers and sisters, no matter what ability.

On this occasion, however, Sir Brown understands that he is bullying you and has no way to defend himself.

Could it be that Anna and the others will rush to the stage and accuse the chairman of the board of directors of touting herself and not working hard enough to be comprehensive, and showing her high school transcripts on this occasion where the masters gathered?

That's like a big-grown, brainless idiot.

Anna held her phone to her heart.

Even if everyone in the world is accusing her, even if she is wronged.

But as long as Sister Cat understands her, Anna feels aggrieved.

People on both sides of the screen are typing with social software.

The camera camera had moved to Anna several times, and it was in the eyes of all the viewers who were watching the live broadcast.

On stage, Sir Brown constantly praised the "incomparably good" Miss Daughter.

At this moment......

I've been playing with my phone!

The audience, who already had a bad impression of her, was like a powder keg that had been ignited, completely fried.

"Fuck, why should I listen to someone like this! She didn't even have the most basic courtesy to a gentle elder like Sir Brown. What qualifications does she have, on such a serious occasion, to let the world hear her voice! ”

"It's so annoying."

"How many people have never had the opportunity to touch the scene of the art temple in their lifetime, and she just swiped her mobile phone so carelessly."

"I seem to have seen the female version of Justin Bieber, and the two of them are just as rude."

……

"Now, let's give the stage to Anna Elena."

Sir Brown bowed one last time, then rose.

He was bathed in applause, staying longer than all the other guests.

He scanned the entire venue, and finally narrowed his eyes slightly, casting his gaze to the distant sky beyond the plastic glass dome.

Enjoying it all, enjoying every minute, every second.

As long as he doesn't walk off the stage, the applause won't stop.

It's as if it's going to come to the end of time.

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

Sir Brown's whole life was made for this moment of great pleasure for him.

"What's that?"

"Wow!"

"How is it possible, is there a mechanical exoskeleton?"

Sir Brown suddenly heard a discordant discussion or two in the tide of applause.

It's like a symphony conductor who suddenly conducts the wrong key.

And then.

The sound of discussion spread throughout the venue.

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

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

He saw the man who was walking towards the podium......

Yes, Anna.

She walked slowly, slowly, like a rickety clockwork doll, or a butterfly trying to stretch its broken and curly wings, trying to fly.

It is far from the dragon and tiger steps when he took the stage, and the momentum is calm.

But that's not the point.

The essential.

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

"Miss Elena, come on, you will definitely be able to do it, haven't you practiced at home several times, less than thirty meters away, you will definitely be able to do it."

Anna said in her heart.

She felt the feeling of stepping on stilts from the knee of her right leg below the knee because of nerve conduction problems, as if she was stepping on a stilt with only a spring.

Walk as smoothly as you can towards the stage.

She was born with a nerve problem in her right leg, and the doctor said that there were two options, or she chose amputation.

Trivia.

Many disabled people with leg injuries can actually run and jump if they have a prosthetic leg if they have an amputation, such as the famous "Blade Warrior" in the Olympic Games.

But if you choose to preserve the physical integrity of your limbs, you can only use a wheelchair for life.

She chose the latter.

Anna undergoes rehabilitation and physical traction day after day.

Her right leg, even though usually immobile, does not have the usual muscle atrophy and degeneration.

Therefore, theoretically, it is possible for her to walk to the rostrum completely on her own.

It's certainly not easy.

The feeling of a normal person's legs being completely numb, or cramping, and feeling that the legs are completely different from their own, is somewhat similar to how Anna feels now.

"Ms. Cat, see how I can go on stage and send your name to the clouds."

Anna bit her lip and cheered herself up in her heart.

The audience stopped talking.

Everyone looked at the young girl quietly, and 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 stage, suddenly felt that this scene was a little shocking.

It's also a little unprovoked.

The Observer of Economics, in a news report that would affect the entire art era in a few minutes, called the scene "the metamorphosis of a gorgeous swan."

And it wasn't until many years later.

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

He just told a secret.

Gu Weijing mentioned that he had recalled countless times that he was young when he watched the live broadcast at home and saw the footage of this century.

He doesn't think the description of "the metamorphosis of a swan" is wrong.

This is not the story of an ugly duckling who shows remarkable beauty by some chance and transforms into a white swan.

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

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

It's just that.

Being too delicate with something delicate will make people feel less real and not intimate enough.

Like a sculpture on an altar, a ruby in the hands of a jeweller, a doll worth a thousand gold, or a thin piece of porcelain in a museum.

When it is beautiful to a certain extent, it will cut through others like a sharp blade, making people afraid to approach.

Until that day.

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

The ruby reflects the sunlight, the doll is infused with soul, and the perfect porcelain is dyed with the moisturization of tea.

She.

Suddenly he came back to life.

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

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

It's also far from being as sweet as the mouth of the day after tomorrow.

He's there right now, typing on the keyboard in shock, as if he had seen a UFO, sharing his big findings with his agent.

Oddly enough.

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 of the annual meeting, slowly became quiet.

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

Or rather faith.

Sir Brown went to great lengths to convey to hundreds of thousands of viewers the silhouette of a fluttering, feigned suspended in the clouds and pretending to be a silhouette.

It took her only a short 30-metre journey.

successfully pierced this phantom and fell back to the world.

Most viewers still don't have a very good impression of Anna in their hearts, but gradually, there is a lot less abuse in the comment area.

Even at the beginning, some people cheered for Anna in the comments.

This society is becoming more and more hostile, and because of different concepts and different attitudes towards life, they have become hostile and insulting to each other.

But when the scene full of power appeared in front of everyone's eyes.

Regardless of race, regardless of geography, regardless of cultural differences.

Most people are still kind.

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

However.

Maybe today is her lucky day.

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

So.

She finally walked to the podium step by step.

(End of chapter)