Silly Bride

Chapter 181

short lifespan? Wait a minute. Why are you laughing? Did I say anything wrong?”“No. In fact, you’re right. But then, you only managed to understand half of my painting.”“Really? What about the other half? Where is it now? Is it in your imagination?”Winnie smiled, saying nothing. Immediately, she turned her painting upside down.As soon as everyone fixated their gaze on the inverted painting, they were stunned. After all, no one expected that painting to look exactly different when it was inverted. Every creature in the artwork showed signs of revival and vitality.For example, the rising sun, growing grass, budding branches, blooming flowers, and flying mayflies.Everyone in the room was so shocked that they couldn’t make a sound, especially Yolanda.After everyone fell silent, Winnie started introducing her painting, “The title of my painting is ‘Endless.’ Apart from the meaning behind my artwork, I think I’ve completed it better than you, Ms. Xander. What do you think?”Yolanda was speechless for a moment. She couldn’t believe that Winnie managed to include both the situations of life and death in her painting in just an hour. Moreover, Winnie’s artwork was so perfect that Yolanda couldn’t find any flaws in it.Following that, Sebastian started commenting on both paintings, “Yolanda, your artwork, ‘The Cycle,’ is a painting about the continuation of lives. Your understanding of this theme is indeed correct. However, your understanding is too superficial, as you only included humans in your painting. We all know that every creature in the world will go through life and death. Besides, you chose to draw a painting with line art when you already know you’ll have insufficient time to complete it. You lack self-awareness. That’s why your painting is barely completed. Hence, this becomes your shortcoming in this competition.”After saying that, he turned around and looked at Winnie’s painting. “As for Winnie, her ‘Endless’ has included everything in this world in the painting. She used only a few strokes to illustrate the signs of death and lifelessness. We can see that by observing the person in the house, the animals, and the plants. However, when we turn the painting over, we’ll see a painting that symbolizes the resurrection of lives. Everything comes and goes, and there’s only a thin line separating life and death. She didn’t violate the rules and theme of this competition. As we look at the flying mayflies in the painting, we can tell that they have no complaints, even though they can only live for one day. Moreover, they are enthusiastic about their life when they have the chance. Isn’t that such an elegant attitude to deal with death? With that, I announce Winnie as the winner of this round. She has won two out of three rounds in this competition. Yolanda, you lost. In that case, you have to keep your promise and let me accept Winnie as my student. You’re convinced now, aren’t you?”Yolanda fell silent. She stared at Winnie’s painting for a long time.Suddenly, she took her painting over and tore it into pieces. Finally, she crumpled it hard.“I admit defeat! Grandpa, congratulations on finding such an impressive student. Winnie, I’ll always keep an eye on you when you’re learning medicine skills from my grandpa in the future. If you upset him, even for a little, I’ll make you pay for it a hundredfold.”“Don’t worry. I won’t give you the chance to do that.”“You’d better keep your promise.”After saying that, Yolanda headed back to her room straight. It was as if she didn’t even want to spare Winnie another glance.As soon as she went back to her room, she shut the door and window tight. Upon making sure that no one would hear her talking, she dialed Nate’s number.However, Nate didn’t pick up the phone. Instead, he disconnected the call instantly.Yolanda was infuriated.Instead of giving Nate any chance to explain anything through text messages, she started spam-calling him.It was hard for Nate to hang up her call one by one. Left with no choice, he could only pick it up.“Why didn’t you pick up my call?” With a grim expression, Yolanda asked.Nate tried to suppress his anger. “The entire crew is waiting for me. It’s almost time for me to shoot my part. Can you be more reasonable?”“I’m not here to reason anything with you. It’s just that I have something to inform you.”“Hurry up and tell me, then. Everyone’s waiting for me.”“My grandpa has treated Xavier. He also prescribed some medicine for Xavier and gave him an acupuncture treatment. Besides, Winnie is now my grandpa’s disciple.”“What do you mean? Your grandpa’s disciple?”“That means my grandpa is going to start teaching her all of his medical skills. In the future, not only will my grandpa treat Xavier, but even Winnie can also treat him herself. That woman is actually way smarter than I thought. You should’ve known that