Corinne had never heard about that painting before.

“How did you discover that painting?” she asked.

“I saw it at a friend’s house. Moreover, the paint on the canvas isn’t completely dry yet.”

Corinne’s eyes became focused. “And you think it was painted by Nellie Nymphaea?”

Lucas nodded sombrely. “Yes. Nellie Nymphaea’s style and brush strokes can be imitated, but there’s one habit that our mom has that no one else knows about.”

Corinne did not have much memory about her mother so she looked curiously at Lucas. “What habit?”

“Mom always adheres to a very standard way of holding her brush when painting, but when it comes to signing her works, she’ll put her hand down, causing her to pick up some paint from the canvas. And this will show up as a ‘C’ shape next to her signature.

same thing would happen again and again. The painting I bought this time has a little ‘C’ paint mark next to the signature.

was sitting in the front passenger seat on stand-by—passed Corinne a

a look at this,

the tell-tale ‘C’ mark

folds of the side of a hand running through it. This meant she would be staring

years, she finally came face-to-face with

your friend get

frowned. “My friend said this painting was drawn by her art teacher when she came over to her house to teach her a lesson.

you ask your friend to arrange a meeting with her art

trip to do some

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