Genius Club-Chapter 271 - 78 The Heartbroken_3

As she spoke, the female companion pressed the button to turn on the electronic radio on the McLaren’s center console.

...

"Donghai City officials have decided, a commendation conference for advanced individuals’ deeds will soon be held at the Donghai Grand Auditorium. XXX will personally present Mr. Lin Xian with the titles of Youth with Righteous and Courageous Acts and one of Donghai’s Top Ten Citizens, and grant him the corresponding certificates and a cash prize..."

Chu Anqing was scrolling through short videos on her smartphone when the business van’s electric door slid open. She jumped out of the vehicle and arrived at the Linhu Villa complex.

"Hmm?"

She looked up and saw that Ji Lin’s villa was surrounded, several large trucks were parked nearby, and there were some uniformed workers who seemed to be vacating the villa, confiscating assets.

She slowly walked over.

The workers kept moving various types of furniture and collectibles out of the house.

"Hello."

She approached a man in the enforcement bureau’s uniform and politely asked,

"What is happening here?"

The man turned his head, immediately recognized Chu Anqing, and said with a smile,

"Miss Chu, this is the seizure and confiscation of Ji Lin’s assets. The verdict has already been delivered, involving fines and compensation. Ji Lin doesn’t have much in the way of bank deposits domestically, hence his real estate and collectibles are being subjected to mandatory execution."

"Oh, I see."

Chu Anqing responded, watching as a worker walked out of the house carrying a very expensive-looking picture frame—

"Huh??"

She blinked her eyes in disbelief at the sketch inside the frame!

That that that that...

Wasn’t that the sketch drawn from a photo taken on her birthday?

What’s going on?

Hadn’t Senior Lin Xian said he didn’t have time to draw, that he hadn’t done it?

Then, who drew this sketch?

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"Please... May I have that drawing?"

Chu Anqing pointed at the framed picture and asked the enforcement bureau’s staff member.

"This ... Miss Chu, it’s probably not possible,"

the worker’s expression was one of difficulty:

"These items are all to be sealed according to regulations and then auctioned. According to the rules, they cannot be taken casually. And that picture frame looks quite expensive, so ... I’m sorry."

"Then... can I just have the sketch itself? It’s not worth any money."

Chu Anqing stepped forward, pointing to the girl with a cheerful smile and scissors gesture in the glass frame inside the sketch:

"Look, that’s me, hehe, it’s just a casual drawing between friends, not any famous artist’s work. It won’t fetch much at an auction, it’s inherently worthless, I just want it for a keepsake."

The enforcement bureau worker looked at the drawing and finally nodded:

"Okay, indeed, the valuable part is the gilded frame. This sketch is basically worthless... You can take it."

He unlocked the rear clasps of the frame, pulled out the picture, and handed it to Chu Anqing.

"Thank you!"

Chu Anqing, holding the sketch, walked past several villas and entered her own.

She laid the sketch out on the table...

"Indeed, this penmanship, this technique, it’s definitely Senior Lin Xian’s work, no mistake."

She had an idea.

She ran back to her room, took out her watercolor brushes, paint palette, then opened the photo gallery on her phone to find the photo. She looked at the photo while mixing colors on the palette and then added the colors to the sketch.

Soon...

As the watercolor dried, a colored portrait of three people vividly emerged on the paper.

Looking at this "masterpiece," Chu Anqing couldn’t help but giggle:

"It turns out Senior Lin Xian was right after all... Sketch plus watercolor, it’s just too much of a mix-match."

She went upstairs and randomly chose a frame, mounted the watercolor sketch inside it, then went to her bedroom and hung it on the wall.

"Hmm... It doesn’t look bad from a distance."

Chu Anqing was very satisfied with the work.

Then, her gaze shifted to the left, to another sketch in a frame beside...

It too was a sketch.

The girl in the drawing had her hair up, her beautiful eyes smiled like crescent moons, and the two small dimples at the corners of her mouth were faintly visible.

This sketch was Ji Lin’s birthday gift to her.

Of course, she knew that Ji Lin had stolen it from Lin Xian... If she remembered correctly, that drawing had previously been in Lin Xian’s black notebook; she had seen that notebook on the desk when she went to the police station to deliver food for them both.

Although she had once fancifully wondered about it...

It was only after speaking with Gao Yang that she truly dared to be sure, the girl in Lin Xian’s drawing... was indeed herself!

Because!

He didn’t have a single high school female classmate who looked like her!

Every time she thought of this,

Chu Anqing couldn’t help but feel her heart race and her cheeks grow warm...

When had Senior Lin Xian drawn this sketch?

Was it...

Was it after their first encounter at the MX celebration party that evening?

Does that mean...

Chu Anqing hurriedly shook her head, too embarrassed to continue the thought.

She diverted her attention and looked again at the right-side sketch with portraits of Lin Xian, Ji Lin, and herself in watercolor.

"So this sketch... When did Senior Lin Xian finish it?"

Her father had told her a few days ago that when Lin Xian went to interrogate Ji Lin, he had all the surveillance equipment turned off, and nobody knew what they specifically talked about.

But when Lin Xian emerged from the interrogation room, his eyes were much more resolute, with no hesitation, ready to carry out the subsequent plan to lure the snake out of the hole.

It must be... he definitely got some kind of answer.

And later on, when Ji Lin came out of the interrogation room, he had with him a sketch that Lin Xian had given him.

That, presumably, must be this one.