The end of the semester arrived in Ji Nanfeng's expectation, and the three-day exam was carried out step by step. At the end of the last subject, Ji Nanfeng put down his pen and finally breathed a sigh of relief.

He packed his schoolbag and walked to Yu Ning's examination room.

Yu Tianze caught up from afar, "Brother Nan, the brothers have made an appointment tonight, you have been in retreat for so long, you must not push it this time." ”

Yu Tianze's voice was loud, and Yu Ning came out of the classroom and happened to hear his words.

Ji Nanfeng: "I don't have time, make up the class." ”

Yu Ning: "Teacher Xu has something to do today. ”

Ji Nanfeng: "Oh, then go home." ”

Yu Ning: "Don't go to the party? ”

Ji Nanfeng: "You let me go?" ”

"That's your freedom, why don't I let it."

Ji Nanfeng: "......"

Good students are used to it, and they are still a little uncomfortable.

"You're not with me?"

Yu Ning: "I won't bother you." ”

Yu Tianze dragged him, "Brother Nan, let's go, the brothers are waiting." ”

Ji Nanfeng ignored it and said to Yu Ning: "I'll send you back first." ”

"No, I have other things to do." Yu Ning carried his schoolbag on his back and walked straight out.

"Hey, what are you anxious about? What's the matter? Where are you going? Far from it, huh? Ji Nanfeng shouted at Yu Ning's back, "Why don't I drive you?" ”

Yu Tianze patted him, "Rest, everyone has gone far away." ”

Seeing that he was still staring at the door, "Brother Nan, you can't play really, right?" ”

Ji Nanfeng: "What are you playing?" ”

"You don't really think it's someone's boyfriend, do you?"

"Fuck off!" Ji Nanfeng was inexplicably irritable, "Let's go, go home and change clothes first." ”

*

The time was a little rushed, and Yu Ning didn't have time to clean up, so he got on the train with the painting tube on his back.

Beicheng is not far from Beijing, and the high-speed rail is two hours.

Yu Ning got off the train and took the subway to the entrance of the Jingda Art Exhibition Hall.

He didn't go in, and when the exhibition was over, the visitors left, and an elderly man walked out of the hall.

Yu Ning hugged the painting tube tightly, "Professor Mei, hello." ”

The old man turned around, and the young man in front of him looked white and weak, revealing a sense of weakness, "Are you?" ”

"My name is Yu Ning, and I am a senior at Beicheng No. 1 High School. I know it's a bit abrupt, you are my idol, and I came here today to visit you. ”

"My dream is to be admitted to the Academy of Fine Arts and become your student."

For these words, Yu Ning referred to a lot of social books and carefully studied the methods of getting along with the elders.

He wrote drafts, practiced them many times at home, and even memorized them backwards.

"I know that I am just an ordinary middle school student, but I would like to ask you to support my dream of loving painting. I'm about to take the joint entrance examination, and I want you to help me see if there are any changes to my work. ”

Every year approaching the joint entrance examination for fine arts, there are countless students similar to Yu Ning.

Professor May held out his hand, "Take it." ”

Yu Ning removed the painting tube and handed the work over.

Professor Mei only looked at the top one, and he shook his head, "Kid, you lied. ”

These works are not part of the JAE or school examinations at all.

Professor Mei looked at him through the lenses of his glasses, "You painted them just to please me. ”

Yu Ning bowed, "I'm sorry, I may have admired you too much, and I unconsciously painted in the style you like." ”

Professor Mei stiffened his face, "People are not big, but there are a lot of hearts." Three months ago, you had the idea of approaching me. ”

Professor Mui has been teaching at the University for 40 years and is well-known in the field of painting.

As early as three months ago, the painting journal of the Academy of Fine Arts continued to publish his personal works called Yoing. Such a skillful and special style of painting was immediately recognizable by Professor Mei.

Although Yoing is at a high level, the purpose of currying favor with him is too obvious. Professor Mei has been honest and arrogant all his life, and hates flattery the most.

Professor May: "What is the purpose?" If you want to keep talking, don't hide it. ”

Yu Ning: "I want to be your student. ”

"With your talent, it's no problem to come to Jingda Academy of Fine Arts."

"I'm not talking about normal admission, I'm guaranteeing."

Professor Mei smiled, "The cultural class is not good? ”

"No, my grades, even as a cultural student, can be admitted to Jingda."

Professor May will be incredulous, "Then why?"

"I can't take the college entrance examination, I have to go to the escort."

Professor May: "Reason. ”

Yu Ning let out a sigh of relief, "Professor, what I'm going to say next may be a bit false, but whether you believe it or not, it's the truth. ”

"I have congenital heart disease, my health is very poor, I can't be too tired to be in a hurry, and I can't do strenuous exercise. Even when I came to look for you, I had taken medicine in advance and had a quick-acting heart-saving pill in my pocket. ”

"If I take the college entrance examination, I will most likely get ill in the examination room and will not be able to take the subsequent exams."

"Of course, with my first few cultural class results and art scores, I can still go to the ideal art school."

"But I have someone who I really like, and there is a great chance that he will give up the exam after I faint and take me to the hospital himself. He doesn't study art, and you should understand what it means for cultural students to take one less subject. ”

Professor Mei smiled, "Do you belong to planning for a rainy day? For a lot of things that don't necessarily happen, you tried everything to find me, just to get a place for a guaranteed student? ”

Yu Ning: "Yes. ”

"Child, I won't judge your thoughts, but you should know that the Academy of Fine Arts has not recruited students for many years."

Unlike cultural students who rely on real science competitions or advanced scientific research and technology to get the guarantee, the art class is too subjective.

The same work will show extreme contrast in the eyes of different people, which also gives many people the opportunity to take advantage of loopholes.

Some professors who are teachers in vain, for the sake of personal interests, abuse their power and recruit many "unworthy of the name" escort students. And those escort students, not to mention talent and painting level, some don't even have basic skills.

The number of enrollment places in the Academy of Fine Arts is limited, and the more shoddy escort students there are, the more students will be squeezed by the real level.

Escort students will be successfully enrolled in the school, and the prototype will be exposed in future courses and competitions. Elimination and criticism followed, which made the professors led by Professor Mei furious.

After investigation, the school expelled four teachers who abused their powers, and Professor Mei personally announced that the Academy of Fine Arts would no longer recruit guaranteed students from now on. This rule has been in place for four years.

Yu Ning: "The rules are set by you, and you can also break them." ”

"Kid, there are so many art academies in China, but you have found the most difficult one to get." Professor Mei looked at his painting, "Although you try very hard to please me, I think Yuanmei is more suitable for you." ”

Yuanmei is an art academy with the same reputation as Jingmei, and it is the university that Yu Ning studied before his rebirth.

Although they are all top and well-known art academies, they are very different in terms of painting style and field.

Yu Ning insisted, "Yuanmei is good, but I just want to be your student." ”

Professor Mei was unmoved, "Son, your reasons are not convincing. ”

"Professor, if I'm not mistaken, you've been preparing for an exhibition in six years' time. That should be your last exhibition. Yu Ning said: "And, you will exhibit your greatest work, alive." ”

Professor Mei's pupils dilated, "How do you know?" ”

If Yu Ning hadn't reworked, his ideal university would still be far and beautiful. But fate gave him the opportunity to start over, and he really understood that his work was nothing more than a perfect process assembly line.

The painting is delicate and beautiful, but it has no soul, just like himself.

Before he was reborn, he had a flawed personality and could not express his emotions correctly, which made him incompatible with this society. With various changes and Ji Nanfeng's departure, his life is cold and dark.

There were years when he couldn't see the light, let alone the meaning of life. It was Professor Mei's paintings that gave him a taste of life.

Professor Mei taught him that artists need to have character, but they also need to know that we are not only artists, but also human beings living in groups.

Man is a complex creature, and there are good and bad things. You can't reject all good people just because you've seen bad people, and you can only embrace a new life by going out bravely.

Yu Ning said: "Because you are my idol, this is probably a heart-to-heart connection." ”

Professor Mei scrutinized him, "You kid, it's harder than I thought it would be. ”

"Professor, I can't hide it, I want to come here, and I have selfish intentions."

Professor May: "What? ”

"Jingda not only has a top art school, but also the best finance major in the country. Not only for myself, but also for the people I like. ”

Professor May: "Is it really good to plan ahead?" Do your choices have to be the right one? ”

"I don't know if it's the best, but it won't be the worst."

Professor Mei solemnly said, "Son, you should know what it means for me to make an exception for you. ”

"You will become the only escort student of Jingmei, the focus of the teachers and students of the whole school, and face countless comparisons and criticisms. Did you really endure this? ”

"Professor May, have you ever experienced death?"

"What do you want to say?"

"Growing up, I spent as much time in the hospital as I did reading and drawing, I had countless surgeries, and I had countless critical illness notices. This time, I thought I was really going to die, but I survived. ”

"Because I've been through so much, death has become dull."

"I'm not even afraid of death, what are you talking about?"

"You kid has a maturity in your bones that is unattainable by your peers. I admit that you are excellent at drawing, and I also appreciate your character and persistence. But I'm sorry, I can't say yes to you. ”

Yu Ning: "Professor, I promise you that I can get the top three in the country in the joint entrance examination next month, and the first place in the school examination in two months." Please give me a chance and I will be your proudest student and pass on your ideas. ”

Professor Mei stuffed the painting into the tube and handed it back to him, "You can go." ”

Yu Ning breathed hard, "Professor Mei." ”

The elderly professor's spine was slightly rickety, and he waved at him against the setting sun, "I don't know what to eat in the school cafeteria tonight." ”

The back disappeared completely, and Yu Ning retreated to the wall. He swallowed the pill and pressed his chest to relieve the palpitations caused by anxiety.

Yu Ning hugged the painting tube and bit her lip.

Sure enough, Professor May didn't take a fancy to his painting.

He should have thought a long time ago that Jingmei and Yuanmei have very different styles, Jingmei pays attention to spirit, and Yuanmei cares about results. Especially in the years after working, Yu Ning painted too many commercial works, which are perfect, but they are just assembly lines, without soul.

But the soul is too abstract, and he is baptized by reality, and he gradually loses his original intention.

Yu Ning gradually slid against the wall, he took out his mobile phone, and the screen stopped in Ji Nanfeng's dialog box.

I wanted to call him, but I thought of the reminder in the book.

"To maintain a relationship, you must give the other person enough space, and a long-term connection can maintain intimacy, but things must be opposed."

*

finally finished the exam, and should have been completely relaxed, but Ji Nanfeng couldn't be happy.

Maybe he's been learning too hard lately and making himself stupid, he has no interest in the party, and he's been flipping through his phone the whole time.

As long as there was the slightest urge to contact Yu Ning, Ji Nanfeng punished himself with a bottle of beer. All night, he didn't do anything, he was completely drunk.

Yu Tianze really couldn't stand it, he snatched the mobile phone, "If you want to find him, just call directly, twist and pinch, you are hairy!" ”

"Fuck off, give it to me!" Ji Nanfeng didn't want to fight, but Yu Ning walked with a painttube on his back, and it seemed that he was in a hurry. Yu Ning hates being disturbed when he is busy painting, which affects his train of thought.

Others joined in the fun.

"What's the situation? Brother Nan has someone in his heart? ”

"It can't be the vixen from last time, right?"

Ji Nanfeng's eyes were red, and he grabbed the other party's collar, "Who the are you calling a vixen?" ”

The redhead raised his hand in surrender, "Okay, I was wrong, I was wrong, it's not a vixen, it's your sweetheart." ”

"Nan Feng, I didn't expect you to really like men."

Ji Nanfeng let go of his hand, "Fart, who said that Lao Tzu likes men?" ”

"I don't like you to be so excited?"

"It's your business!"

Cheng Xu picked up the red wine and shook it, "Nan Feng, as far as I know, people who study art are not ordinary people. They either have no desires or are overly amorous and like to get inspiration from love. ”

"Damn, don't say it's true! My first love was to learn to paint, and she chased me desperately and said she loved me, but as a result, she had someone else in her heart, and when that person came back, she dumped me directly. ”

"I was fucking unconvinced, and asked her why she liked people to chase me, and she said that falling in love keeps her inspiration, otherwise she wouldn't be able to draw."

"Brother Nan, they are all stupid people who study art, they really have to stay away, be careful of being deceived!"

Yu Tianze couldn't listen to it, "Are you a little too much?" It's a human thing to spend money or not, what does it have to do with art! ”

"We are also for the good of Brother Nan."

"yes, be careful not to be deceived."

Ji Nanfeng clenched the wine bottle tightly, "Is the fuck endless?" ”

"Brother Nan, think twice!"

"Hurry up and stop while it's just beginning."

"On your terms, you can't find anything."

"That's right, don't be seduced by him twice, just go on the pole as a spare tire and lick the dog!"

"People like them, when they get tired of playing, they can get rid of it."

"Shut the fuck up!" Ji Nanfeng overturned the table, "Let me tell you, Lao Tzu doesn't like Yu Ning at all, let alone be his spare tire and licking dog!" ”

*

The medicine gradually took effect, and Yu Ning slowly got up.

A strange call reminder pops up on the mobile phone, and the number belongs to Beijing.

Yu Ning connected, "Hello." ”

"Is it Yu Ning?"

"I am, who are you?"

"I am Xiang Lin from the Academy of Fine Arts, the Academy of Oil Painting, and I will inform you on behalf of my master's supervisor, Professor Mei, do you have time to participate in the winter sketching activities organized by the Academy of Fine Arts during the winter vacation?"

The flame in Yu Ning's heart ignited again, "Yes, I have time." ”

"Okay. If it's convenient, I'll add you WeChat, remember to pass, and I'll send you the specific time and precautions. ”

"Okay, thank you, senior."

A gentle laugh came from the other side of the phone, "Don't be in a hurry to call the senior, whether you can become my junior or not, it's still unknown." But I wish you success. ”

"Thanks, I'll try."

Yu Ning clicked on WeChat, and he first saw an unread message, and the sender was [Cheng Xu].

It's a thirteen-second voice.

Yu Ning clicked on.

"Let me tell you, Lao Tzu doesn't like Yu Ning at all, let alone be his spare tire and licking dog!"