Chapter 694: Premiere

The highly imitated painting that had been on display at One Gallery had imitated almost 80% of her technique and style, and was extremely deceptive.

If she had not personally revealed her ident.i.ty, those people probably would not have believed that the painting was fake.

Of course, being able to fool the many examiners in a gallery had already proved that the painter of the painting was definitely of high quality.

Otherwise, they would definitely not be able to achieve such a degree of authenticity.

In the painting market, fakes had never stopped being produced.

The higher the value, the more imitators there were.

As long as a fake painting could be sold, there would be huge profits.

This kind of temptation was something that many people could not resist.

Shen Li replied.

[ Send me the results of the investigation. ]

Three minutes later, she received a reply.

[ Name: Mu Xinye. Gender: Male. Age: Unknown. ]

Staring at this line of words, Shen Li frowned.

There was only one name, and the gender was confirmed. The rest of the information was unknown?

[ There’s nothing more? ]

[ Yes. The other party tasked a third party to send the high-quality imitation painting to One Gallery, so the information was very limited. That’s all that we have been able to find out for now. ]

Shen Li narrowed her eyes.

The other party had obviously come prepared. From the moment they had made their move, they had made thorough preparations. They had even specially entrusted a third party to conceal themselves well.

Moreover, this name might not even be the true name. Or perhaps, this was not the real painter of the painting.

“Where did that painting come from?”

This was also very important.

To be able to transport such a large painting to an art gallery, involved a lot of processes.

This time, the other party replied very quickly.

[ According to the information from the art gallery, that painting came from the Capital. However, according to the clues we found later, it is very likely that it came from overseas. We still need to investigate further. ]

Overseas?

Shen Li’s eyebrows twitched slightly.

The name Tree’s Shadow only started to show itself in the domestic art circle in the past two to three years.

If the painting had really been sent from overseas, then what was the ident.i.ty of the artist?

She sat and thought for a while before replying to another message.

[ Continue to investigate. Also, send me a copy of the information from One Gallery, including the founder of the gallery and so on. Try to be as specific as possible and give me all of it. ]

Half a minute later, the other party sent an ‘OK’ emoji.

It was not an easy task to sort out the information.

After Shen Li received the reply from the other party, she knew that it would take some time, so she put her phone down. She wiped her hair a few times and went to bed to rest.

…

The next day was a Sat.u.r.day, so Shen Li did not have to wake up very early.

However, because she had just started a new project and had a bunch of experiments to do, she woke up very early.

However, Shen Zhijin had woken up earlier than her.

As soon as she came out of the bedroom, she saw Shen Zhijin standing by the dining table with breakfast on the table.

“You’re up?”

Shen Zhijin looked up at her.

“I wanted to let you sleep more, so I didn’t wake you up.”

Shen Li walked over and saw that the breakfast was exceptionally sumptuous.

She looked at Shen Zhijin in surprise.

“Dad, what’s happening today–”

Shen Zhijin helped her set the dishes, then pulled out a chair and sat down.

“I’m going back to Bai City for a business trip this afternoon. It’ll take about three days.”

Shen Li was stunned for a moment before she understood.

Actually, Shen Zhijin would spend more than half of his time abroad every year. During this period of time, he had been busy with their research team and matters involving her. He had not left the capital for a long time.

“I see. Then, shall I send you off?”

Shen Zhijin did not really want to go on this trip.

He had only just reclaimed his daughter, so of course, he wanted to spend as much time with her as possible.

However, this part of the related work had been delayed for a long time. He really could not put it off anymore, so he decided to go over.

“There’s no need. There are two other researchers at Fino Lab who will be going with me.”

Although Shen Zhijin was reluctant to part with her, he did not want to burden her with such a task.

“Just stay at home and rest.”

Shen Li’s eyes curved as she smiled.

“I know, but I do still plan to go to the lab later.”

Shen Zhijin knew that she had always been diligent in this aspect, so he merely nodded and let her go.

…

After lunch, a car sent by Fino’s laboratory personally came to pick Shen Zhijin up and he left with them.

Shen Li spent almost the entire day in the laboratory.

At around five in the afternoon, Fu Niannian returned.

“Junior Sister, your express delivery.”

Shen Li turned around and saw that Fu Niannian was holding an express delivery letter in his hand.

He handed it over.

“Here.”

Shen Li took it. “Thank you, Senior Brother.”

Fu Niannian smiled.

“I don’t know what it is. It’s very light.”

Shen Li looked at the address on it and was able to make a guess.

“It should be from Mian.”

Fu Niannian was instantly surprised.

“… Lin Fengmian?”

“Mm.”

As Shen Li spoke, she opened the delivery letter.

Fu Niannian was not the only who had reacted. Tang Yi, who was also in the lab, was looking at the computer as he changed his thesis. When he heard Lin Fengmian’s name, he looked over curiously.

Then, they saw Shen Li take out an invitation card.

It was black and gold in color, simple and exquisite.

Shen Li opened it and pulled out two thin sheets of paper.

They were… two tickets for a movie premiere.