Free Web NovelChapter 662: Chapter 201: Xiao Douya’s Shenanigans_3
"Caicai, your painting—someone on the art platform wants to buy it for five hundred million, and even the copies are going for tens of thousands."
Su Xiaocai’s pupils shook. Five hundred million? Even copies are tens of thousands? It’s worth that much—does that mean if someone has a birthday in the future, she just needs to wave her brush once...
No, she has to keep her "alt" tightly under wraps. People she knows throw birthday banquets at the drop of a hat—she’d be painting till the end of time.
Just as she thought that, Ji Li directly said, "Paint one for me."
If it’s about painting, Ji Li is a professional freeload—he’s never been polite with her.
Yu Haoming: "I want one too, and you’re not allowed to fob me off with the same painting."
"Hehe, we’ll talk when I have time."
"You’re very free right now."
"I’m not free, I’m just not free! No inspiration to paint."
Su Xiaocai finally managed to brush him off. After Yu Haoming left, she continued loafing around at Ji Li’s place and saw a particularly good-looking black-and-white plush doll. She picked it up and squeezed it. It had some weight to it, and it felt especially nice to hold.
So she didn’t put it down, and said to Ji Li, "It’s mine now, any objections?"
"No objections, it’s yours." He’d bought it when passing a plush shop. The craftsmanship around the eyes was especially good: pitch-black pupils surrounded by a ring of black, and the way it lay on its belly had a weird kind of comedic charm.
He’d originally planned to give it to her anyway, but she usually acted like she had no desires. Other than seeds and plants and research materials, she didn’t seem to like anything. Plush toys felt too childish, so he never handed it over.
Su Xiaocai couldn’t put it down. She really liked this one; mainly because the workmanship was excellent, it didn’t feel cheap at all.
Hugging it felt like hugging that sturdy fat cat downstairs from her dorm building.
After lunch, Su Xiaocai also left and headed to Admiral Bai’s home. frёewebηovel.cѳm
She didn’t know if her desire to keep her alt secret was too strong and had backfired, because when she went to Admiral Bai’s house to do acupuncture, Admiral Bai also asked her for a painting.
"You all arranged this or what? Where did you hear it from?" Su Xiaocai finished the last needle on Admiral Bai and sat to the side waiting for the time to pass. "It’s already on the hot search and you’re still pretending."
Su Xiaocai was confused. She’d just walked off with a plush doll and eaten lunch, and there was another hot search?
Admiral Bai told her that the former admiral’s house had been burglarized by two very skilled thieves.
They bypassed the alarm wall, avoided the patrols, coordinated flawlessly, and slipped into the study.
Of all the things they calculated, they didn’t calculate that there were two Magic Cube Robots in the study, a gift from Wu Qingqing.
These robots are training-type bots that usually spar with Grandma Luo, and they activate an anti-intrusion mode when it comes to strangers.
The two thieves went in upright and came out horizontal; supposedly there wasn’t a single uninjured patch of skin on them.
Someone captured footage of the two being carried out.
On the floating rescue stretchers lay two men with their butts sticking comically high in the air. The posture was extremely awkward; you could tell the medical staff were desperately holding back laughter.
Good thing floating stretchers are very stable—if they’d been carried out by hand, those butts would definitely be wobbling with every step and the joke would be even bigger.
The two thieves regretted it too. If life could start over, they definitely wouldn’t cover their faces.
Just because they covered their faces, their butts took the damage and swelled so badly they couldn’t lie down.
The medical staff had no choice but to lay them flat like that.
When they were brought out, they were shouting for compensation, saying the Luo Family had lethal weapons in their home and they almost died.
The doctors checked them thoroughly; no damaged tendons or broken bones, so there was no way to call it excessive defense on the Luo Family’s part.
All they needed were anti-swelling injections and the swelling would subside in a few hours.
In the end, forget compensation—during the fight, they’d knocked over a vase worth a hundred thousand, which was more than enough to land them in prison for a few years.
Not much physical harm, but the humiliation level was off the charts.
It all happened just before dawn and was exposed by morning.
People were extremely curious about what the thieves had gone to so much trouble to steal, and thus the "alt account exposed" hot search was born.
Fans laughed at the clumsy thieves while crying over their own poverty, and they all begged Su Xiaocai to gift them a painting.
"Smart brain, strong body, multi-talented, and rich—give me any one of those and I’ll take off."
"The way those two thieves are sticking their butts up does not look staged."
"Bro, who told you it was staged???"
"Bro, can you not tell it’s a joke?"
"Hahahahaha, I laughed till I cried. I really could’ve lived without knowing the truth. Seriously, officer bros, you can take that post down."
"Before the alt was exposed: the painting is worth five hundred million. After the alt is exposed: family heirloom; anyone who sells it is a disgrace to the ancestors."
"If it were any other living artist, that painting would’ve dropped in value dozens of times. But the painter is Su Xiaocai—welp, now it’s one painting in a million; this person is too busy to paint."
"Trillionaire Su Xiaocai: As far as I’m concerned, money from painting is not that easy to earn."
