"Wait a minute, what do you mean by disappearing? Was it a kidnapping?"

Hearing Yuan Zhizhu's statement, Lin Xiuyi couldn't help but become curious.

"This, I don't know what to tell you, anyway, this thing is really strange..."

Yuan Zhizhu picked up the wine glass, first had a drink with Lin Xiuyi, and then began to talk about this matter slowly.

"The cause of the incident has to start with a Western painting!"

"I have a classmate in college who is now engaged in the collection of Western art. Probably last month, I was fortunate to receive his invitation to attend an auction of Western art together."

"So, did the cursed Western painting you mentioned just now come across at this auction?"

Lin Xiuyi asked Yuan Zhizhu seriously.

"Well, by the way, I still have a photo of this painting on my phone, but it wasn't taken against the original, but from the materials distributed at the auction site."

As Yuan Zhizhu spoke, he took out his mobile phone from his pocket, then found the photos left at that auction, and handed the mobile phone to Lin Xiuyi.

"Ah... I'm sorry!"

Lin Xiu took the mobile phone handed over by the other party with both hands, and then carefully observed the photo taken on the mobile phone.

This is a rather modern portrait of a person. In the painting, a beautiful girl is standing in front of a window with a bouquet of flowers in her hands, with a faint smile on her face. It doesn't seem like there's anything special about it?

"This... I don't have much research on Western painting, may I ask? Is there anything special about this painting?"

Lin Xiuyi asked Yuan Zhizhu a little puzzled.

"About this, I actually heard it from my missing friend, Xiu Yi-kun, could you please take another look at the smile of the girl in the painting? Tell me, what do you feel?"

"Oh... that's it! Then I'll try!"

As soon as Lin Xiu finished speaking, he picked up Yuan Zhizhu's mobile phone again, and stared at the beautiful girl in the painting seriously. I have to say that the girl in the painting is really a rare beauty, with long black hair scattered on her shoulders, and light blue eyes that have a tempting allure. The girl was wearing a black silk nightgown with golden geometric patterns on the collar and cuffs. However, when Lin Xiuyi turned his attention to the smile of the girl depicted by the creator, Lin Xiuyi couldn't help feeling a little surprised.

"This is……"

"It seems that you have found it too, right? Ordinary people would be hard-pressed to discover the mystery of this painting if they weren't reminded by professionals, but once you do, you will be curious to know what's behind this painting. Stories, I think... this may be the true charm of Western painting!"

Yuan Zhizhu said to Lin Xiuyi quite emotionally.

At this moment, Lin Xiu stared at the smiling girl in the painting. At first glance, the girl holding the flowers in the painting is smiling, and there seems to be nothing different. But when you stared at the girl's expression and observed it for a while, it seemed that the smile was not so simple. It seems to make people feel a sense of indifference and meaningfulness. Combined with the girl's eyes, Lin Xiuyi suddenly felt an indescribable sense of fear.

"It looks really complicated. The feeling I get when I see this painting for the first time is completely different from the feeling I get after watching it for a while. It's the first time I've ever seen a Western painting like this..."

Lin Xiuyi said to Yuan Zhizhu quite emotionally.

"That's true! Speaking of the famous "Mona Lisa's Smile", aren't there many people who study the truth behind the smile? Of course, this work cannot be compared with the famous "Mona Lisa" .But I am more interested in the legend of the cursed work than the value of this work."

"Curse, what's the matter?"

Lin Xiuyi asked Yuan Zhizhu curiously.

"I also heard from my friend at the auction. It is said that after this painting was created, it has experienced three owners. The first owner bought this oil painting a few years later. Drowned during a trip."

"Drowning? When did that happen?"

Lin Xiuyi hurriedly asked, and hurriedly asked Yuan Zhizhu.

"This, my book collector friend told me, it seems to have been ten years ago! I haven't investigated the authenticity of this statement, but I only heard that the drowning incident seems to have happened abroad..."

"It happened abroad? In this case, it will be difficult to trace it!"

Lin Xiuyi said to Yuan Zhizhu in disappointment.

"Yes, but the legend of the curse seems to have spread from the painting's second owner, whose family sent the painting back to auction shortly after the drowning owner's death. OK, and then at another auction, it was picked up by a wealthy retired official who became the second owner of the piece.”

"Could it be that the second owner of this painting also suffered an accident?"

"No, although the official has passed away, but his death is a natural death, there is no problem. It was the official's grandson who suffered the misfortune. It is said that his grandson was viewing the painting on the stairs. , rolled down with one foot, and broke his neck on the spot. And the official passed away because of excessive grief shortly after the loss of his relatives~lightnovelpub.net~!"

"Oh? How could such a thing happen? What a pity!"

"Yes, after this incident, the fierce name of the painting spread. The official's relatives sent the painting to the auction house again to deal with it at a low price. However, because of rumors of the curse, this The painting was not favored by collectors. However, there was still a strong interest in the painting.”

"There have been two mishaps, and there are still people willing to buy it back?"

"Well... the third collector seems to be the rich IT president. It is said that after he heard about the curse, he was bound to get this painting. He spent a lot of money to buy this painting. I went back. But just last year, the president suddenly rushed off a cliff with his car and fell to his death when he was driving out!"

"Ah... are you talking about the famous entrepreneur Takuya Maezawa who died in a car accident last year?"

"Have you heard of this too?"

Yuan Zhizhu asked Lin Xiuyi in surprise.