Ch15 - Is it cheating?

In love with a rich godfather_15: Is it cheating?

Editors: lyrenoia, schwarzel

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Tao Yuan took pictures for two days and got a lot of inspiration. Chinese paintings of figures, landscapes, flowers and plants, fishes and insects, figures were also prevalent for a while in the ancient era, but are rarely painted in modern times.

He was planning to turn in a pair of light-colored floral drawings for the class project when he got back. Then he would be able to paint his latest inspirations and spend more time drawing them with his heart.

On the third day, students are free to relax and have fun, either in the hotel’s garden pool, or at the beach.

Liu Xiujie’s friend had a private yacht, so Xu Shaoyan invited the class to go with him. Although these students’ families were all rich, there are still very few who have yachts at home. Moreover, they are all fun-loving young people who are less than twenty years old. As soon as they heard about going out on a yacht to play, they all happily agreed.

Because there are only 20 or so people in a class, Xu Shaoyan let them invite their friends from other classes, saying that the yacht is big enough, so more people could have fun.

The group of students on the yacht were quite excited. The yacht is a maritime yacht party so not only it has music and barbecue, but also champagne drinks and fruit.

Liu Xiujie had wanted Xu Shaoyan to invite Tao Yuan as well. But even after all the people came on board, he still didn’t see Tao Yuan. Even though it was expected, he felt a little disappointed.

The students who were invited all went to greet and thank Xu Shaoyan. Xu Shaoyan dealt with them with a smile, but when he turned around and saw Liu Xiujie’s lost expression, he couldn’t smile.

Walking to Liu Xiujie’s side, Xu Shaoyan said, “Xiujie, let’s talk about it after we go back.”

Liu Xiujie looked at him and said, “Good.”

Tao Yuan woke up early in the morning and went out on the yacht with Wei Shicheng. They spent their time at sea together.

After Tao Yuan got on the yacht, he put on a pair of swim trunks and one of Wei Shicheng’s white shirts that barely covered his thighs. Wei Shicheng, on the other hand, only wore swimming trunks showing his strong and powerful arms, as well as pecs and abs. He was almost forty years old, yet he still had such a good body, making many other CEOs who were entering middle age feel envious.

Wei Shicheng was lying on a recliner, wearing sunglasses while sunbathing. Tao Yuan straddled his lap, touching his pecs for a moment then poking his abs with his fingers, being mischievous.

The yacht was anchored at the sea. Wei Shicheng casted the fishing rod into the sea, and after catching a fat and tender fish, it was cut into thin sashimi and eaten directly with the sauce.

After eating the sashimi, the yacht turned set on automatic mode and they were headed to the private island ahead.

Tao Yuan was carried to sit on the deck and hugged Wei Shicheng’s neck, kissing him with his eyes closed, feeling the temperature of the sun, the sound of the waves, and the feel of the sea breeze on his body.

“Look! Is that Du Qingyu?!” A student who was looking at the ocean view suddenly pointed at the luxury yacht that overtook them and shouted loudly.

He was loud enough to get the attention of most of the people around him, and everyone looked over.

Tao Yuan, who heard the voice, shed a large drop of sweat in his heart and thought to himself, “This student, you have good eyes so you can recognize me. But don’t shout so loudly! Even I heard it, okay? What’s there to talk about?

The luxury yacht soon drove ahead of them, but most of them saw Tao Yuan and gossiped.

“Who is that man holding him? Is it Chairman Wei?”

“Sure it is, can’t you see the two kissing? He’s in a public affair with Chairman Wei, would he still cuddle and kiss with another man?”

“That’s not necessarily true, there are those with several boats on their feet, let alone two boats. They are not yet married anyway, so they are still free to have fun.” One of Liu Xiujie’s friends interjected.

When some students still had proper three world views heard him say something like that, they all looked at him with caution. But everyone didn’t know him well, and they were invited to play, so they couldn’t say anything.

“It’s not necessarily them, maybe it’s someone you don’t know, let’s go over to the barbecue.” Xu Shaoyan quickly changed the topic. Since the yacht had already passed them, he didn’t want the topic to still revolve around Tao Yuan.

“Although I only saw the side, that person should be Du Qingyu. It’s just that I didn’t see the man holding him. But I think it must be Wei Shicheng. Who would be foolish enough to leave Wei Shicheng aside and run off to have an affair with another man.”

It was mainly because after Tao Yuan became the focus of the school, they had seen him more and were familiar with him. And they hadn’t seen much of Wei Shicheng in person, so they couldn’t immediately identify him.

“I feel the same way. If I could find a man like Wei Shicheng, I’d be dead set on holding onto him and not letting go.”

“Living in an ocean view villa arranged by his boyfriend, knowing that there are eyes all over the neighborhood, and still going out to sea with another man, how insane does one have to be to do that?”

“That’s not necessarily true, isn’t cheating all about a thrill? The more exciting, the more interesting.” That same friend of Liu Xiujie’s interjected again.

After looking at him, those students silently move away from him, thinking that it was better to stay away from such people.

After arriving at Wei Shicheng’s private island, Tao Yuan woke up the dog sleeping in the cabin, and one person and one dog ran to the beach to play in the water. Wei Shicheng went to the freezer room below the cabin to get some fresh seafood, meat and other ingredients to prepare for the barbecue on the island.

There were many islands in the area, and where Xu Shaoyan and the others were going was a communal island provided by the hotel to its guests. As they passed by Wei Shicheng’s private island, they looked from afar to see one person and one dog playing on the beach, and someone immediately suggested coming closer to see if Tao Yuan and Wei Shicheng were on it.

After the yacht approached, they could clearly see that the people playing in the water on it were Tao Yuan and his big white dog.

When Tao Yuan saw the yacht getting closer and closer, he thought to himself, “This group of people are really a ghastly bunch, do they have to be such an onlooker?”

In his last life, although he won a newcomer award right out of the gate, he didn’t have many fans because it was a literary film. In this life, he was not even a star anymore, but he had a deep understanding of the frustrations of public figures.

He thought he should get on the yacht first and come out after those people left, but Wei Shicheng was already coming down with his stuff.

“Look look look, I told you that man must be Wei Shicheng.” A student took a cell phone and zoomed in on the image he had taken.

“Wow, what a great body, what beautiful muscles!”

“Let me see, let me see, alas, I thought Chairman Wei would be quite old, I didn’t expect him to be so fit ah.”

“Du Qingyu must be very happy, hehehehe.”

“You’re creepy.”

“You’re the creepy one, I’m just envious.”

Wei Shicheng was setting up the barbecue, when Tao Yuan walked up to him and pulled his hand, sounding somewhat unhappy. “Let’s go to the cabin first, those people are so annoying.”

Wei Shicheng looked at Tao Yuan, then raised his eyes and frowned unhappily.

“Hurry up, hurry up, they are upset.”

“Hurry, drive away, Wei Shicheng is angry.”

“Hurry up, hurry up!”

Although they were separated by a distance, the momentum that Wei Shicheng’s exuded was too oppressive. After they shot a picture of him frowning, they were frightened and quickly fled.

Tao Yuan looked at the yacht that drove away faster as if it was fleeing for its life, and felt unconvinced, these people were really bullying the weak and fearing the strong. Wei Shicheng just frowned, and they fled. Tao Yuan mumbled, I hid my face everyday but still had to be watched by them.

Liu Xiujie lowered his head and walked into the cabin alone. Xu Shaoyan looked at his back and had lost all confidence in himself.

Originally the yacht could have been driven away directly, after all it was rude to surround people like this, but Liu Xiujie didn’t know what the reason was, so he let his friend drive the yacht over. Perhaps it was because, in his heart, he hoped that the man was not Wei Shicheng. He wanted to catch the picture of Tao Yuan cheating on him, so that Wei Shicheng would definitely break up with him, and then he would have another chance.

After eating seafood barbecue and diving for a while, Tao Yuan felt tired so Wei Shicheng took him back.

The cabin’s room had a large waterbed on which Tao Yuan laid on after his shower. The sea breeze blew in through the open window, making him lazy and comfortable.

Wei Shicheng came out of the bathroom and laid down beside Tao Yuan. Although feeling tired, Tao Yuan couldn’t help but provoke Wei Shicheng. After Wei Shicheng lay down beside him, he suddenly said, “Go close the curtains and hurry back.”

It was when the arrow was on the string, how could Wei Shicheng just get up.

Tao Yuan didn’t want to be suddenly surrounded by spectators again, and it was also such a restricted performance, he kept on urging. “Hurry up and go, please, hurry hurry.”

Wei Shicheng had no choice, and after sighing, got up and quickly pulled the curtains close.

Tao Yuan and Wei Shicheng returned that night, as Wei Shicheng had to leave the country the next day and couldn’t postpone it any further.

Wei Shicheng had gone to deal with the foreign company’s affairs, and he wouldn’t be able to return in ten days to half a month’s time. Tao Yuan could use this time to paint in peace, and this time he wanted to paint an amazing work.

He was inspired by the pictures taken in the mountains. He perfected the picture using the system, and then completed the piece with the help of the system.

All of Tao Yuan’s current works, except for those selected to be exhibited at the National Gallery, were displayed and sold at the school’s gallery. The National Gallery at Dongjing University was considered to be a high level gallery in the art industry, and many Chinese painters who graduated from this school and had now become masters still display and sell their works there.

However, Tao Yuan had great confidence in this work, so after admiring it himself for two days, he took the painting directly to the National Gallery.

In order to display the works at the National Gallery, they had to be approved by more than ten national level painters.

Tao Yuan brought his work to the National Gallery, first to be approved by the director of the gallery. Then it would be displayed internally, where within a month, more than ten painters would have to be willing to sign his work before it could be officially exhibited.

Two gallery workers, wearing gloves and holding Tao Yuan’s painting, slowly unfolded it.

The gallery director’s mouth slacked, he was unable to return to his senses for a long time.

“Oh God!” He didn’t know how to express the shock in his heart and could only keep repeating, ” Oh, God! Oh. My. God!”

Tao Yuan once again saw his own hand-painted work, so he also still felt very satisfied. This was the best painting he had ever painted, and it might be hard to paint better than this in the future. However, since it was an amazing work, there was no need for too many to appear, too many would make one feel numb.

“Did you, did you, really, draw that?” The Master had become so excited that he was speaking incoherently.

“I’ve emailed you the recording of the painting process, so you can always make a confirmation.”

“No, no.” The master said evenly, “I mean, how can you imagine such a picture, it’s hard to even imagine such a picture, how do you do it, to paint such a picture?”

“It’s an image that has appeared many times in my dreams, and because it keeps appearing, I slowly remembered it.” This reason of Tao Yuan’s wasn’t exactly a complete lie. When he was in his last world, he always dreamed of some fairy tale images, but after waking up, he couldn’t remember them very clearly.

“And how much are you going to sell this painting for?” As soon as he finished speaking, he immediately denied his words. “No, no, no, it should be put up for auction, it will probably become the highest priced piece of work among contemporary painters!”

”I’m not going to sell the painting,” Tao Yuan said.

“What?” The director looked at him unexpectedly. “You are not going to sell it?”

“I like this painting too much so I’m going to keep it, or at least it’s definitely not for sale right now.” Tao Yuan looked at the painting like he couldn’t get enough of it.

The director nodded his head in understanding.

There are many works in the National Gallery that are not for sale. Some of the masters, who are not short of money to spend, would want to keep a work that they are particularly happy with or some wealthy businessman who has bought the painting, still keeps it here for exhibition.

After Tao Yuan left, the director immediately called a number of masters to invite them to see the paintings. The excitement in his words, as well as all kinds of extreme praises, made the masters curious as to what kind of works he could praise so unreservedly.

This painting by Tao Yuan,《Elysium Punctum》, would be celebrated and remembered for a long time to come.