
[Daily mission]
[Winning the negotiation]
Sean sees a system window pop up as he prepares to go to Najwa Wong.
"Isn't this a coincidence?" fret Sean himself.
The system provides a suitable mission when he plans to search for Najwa Wong and negotiate with the painter.
It is not a good thing to invite Najwa Wong to participate in the Ellinden Gallery exhibition with her husband's critical condition. Again Sean will be branded as having no sympathy.
Sean immediately threw away his worries and went to the intended hospital. At that place, the nurse forbade Sean to enter on the grounds that the patient's family did not want to be visited.
Without giving up, Sean waited in the hospital corridor and as Najwa Wong passed by, Sean immediately introduced himself as a representative of the Ellinden Gallery.
"I'm sorry if I came in the wrong place." Sean bowed respectfully. Apparently, Sean's polite attitude successfully took the attention of Najwa Wong."
"How did you know I was in this place? A lot of people don't know that I'm a married woman, let alone know that my husband is in a critical state."
Sean dared not look at the 30-year-old woman, he kept his head down and did not answer that Kenzo Karrin was his informant.
"I'm here to ask you to participate in an exhibition held three months later. Are you ready to accept it?"
Najwa Wong smiled wryly. "I'm not going to paint anymore. I burned all the rest of my work in the studio."
Hearing those words, Sean's gaze lifted. He was completely shocked by the actions of Najwa Wong who could be considered not thinking clearly. Sean could do nothing. Stopping in the art world is a decision of the woman herself.
Sean gave up his first job and was about to leave. However, before he left, Sean gave him a card.
It was a pity, a great painter like her had to quit her career because of her husband's condition.
As Sean steps back, the nurse comes to meet Najwa Wong. Sean could see a panicked expression on the nurse.
“Mistress, your husband ...” he said in a hurry as if being chased by a life-extracting angel.
Seeing that something was not right, Najwa Wong realized something. The expression that had been calm was now riled up. The woman immediately ran to her husband's room.
Sean can't pretend he doesn't know. He turned around and followed the departure of Najwa Wong. In that place, a man was stiffly stretched, his body was wrapped around a hose connected to the monitor and inside the monitor only appeared a dominating straight line.
The atmosphere became chaotic, doctors came and performed CPR, while Najwa Wong cried hysterically mentioning the husband's name.
At that time, the doctor stopped his actions and the patient was declared dead.
***
Sean plans to attend the funeral of Najwa Wong's husband. However, she returned to her dormitory to change out of mourning clothes.
After turning himself in, Sean went out and looked for a taxi, but the black sedan stopped right in front of him. The window opened and Kenzo Karrin gave Sean the code to enter.
“I met you on purpose. There's news of the death of Najwa Wong's husband, have you found out.” Kenzo Karrin said those words without surgery.
Sean's expression did not change, he replied with a slight reluctance. “I'm going to his burial place now.”
“Alright I will take you, but there is something important that I must tell you,” urged Kenzo. “I found something that even Najwa Wong himself did not know.”
Curiously Sean looked at Kenzo Karrin, clearly with great interest in both eyes. “What is it?”
“His husband Najwa Wong is Max Morgan. Not getting the blessing of her husband's family, they secretly married and Najwa Wong did not change her last name. Najwa Wong remains in a career without exposing her marriage.”
“Morgan?” Sean's eyes lifted, he was digging up some names in his memory that had the name Morgan.
Luis is the son of the Morgan family. I don't know what Luis's relationship with Najwa Wong's husband is, but Sean could be wrong. In this country, many people have similar names.
Sean ignored what was on his mind, he went back to Kenzo Karrin's explanation.
“As it is known that Max Morgan is a businessman, but ..he is also a painting expert. The majority of his family is businessmen are very opposed if there are family members who live as painters. That's why Max Morgan buried his talent.”
From here Sean began to understand a little about the fate of the painting from Max Morgan, “Whatever the value of the painting, will be worthless if the painter does not have a name.”
“Really! That's what happened. The gallery sold the painting to an auction. According to my colleague who works at the gallery, Max Morgan gave the painting the name ‘Hidden Treasure’.”
Hearing the word ‘Hidden Treasure’ so familiar, Sean's eyes widened, his mouth agape. With full awareness he knew that ‘Hidden Treasure’ was a painting he bought 500 million at auction.
“Turnback!” exclaimed Sean who reflexively made the sedan iti turn the road. “We have to go to the studio before meeting Najwa Wong.”
Without asking, Kenzo drove his car to the studio. Seeing that his destination was up, Sean went to pick up ‘Hidden Treasure’ and rushed to the funeral.
***
Black sedan parked in front of memorial garden. It was seen the mourners wearing black clothes coming out from that place. It seems Sean is late, but he believes that Najwa Wong will not leave so soon.
Sean got out and left ‘Hidden Treasure’ in the car. As he was about to enter, he passed by a young man who resembled Luis.
“Lu-” Hasn't had time to call a person he seems familiar with, Kenzo Karrin reminded him to immediately meet Najwa Wong before they lose him. Sean ignored the young man and went deeper into the memorial garden.
It appears that Najwa Wong was sobbing on the edge of her husband's grave, but the woman immediately wiped away her tears upon noticing the arrival of Sean and Kenzo Karrin.
“There's something I want to say,” Sean said with a serious expression.
Najwa Wong threw away her expression. “When it relates to my contribution in the Ellinden Gallery exhibition. Stopping in the art world was my decision.”
“I just said something about Mister Max Morgan's painting.” Sean's speech grew louder, but Najwa Wong confirmed it. The woman looked at Sean sharply.
“What do you mean?”
Sean fell silent and promised to explain everything to Najwa Wong. They decided to talk about it in the car and in the back seat, Sean and Najwa Wong were sitting with a stressful atmosphere.
Sean handed over the painting he had brought to Najwa Wong, without asking for an explanation, the woman was silent and her gaze could not escape the painting.
“You must know who this painting is. From its unique style, strong color strokes and rigidly drawn lines are the hallmarks of your husband's painting. Max Morgan could not paint because he had to follow his family's willingness to focus on business, but he secretly made this work and put it in a gallery.”
Seemingly silent, Najwa Wong was still lamenting over the painting, while Kenzo Karrin was secretly watching Sean and the woman through the front view.
“Do you know the destination to leave in the gallery?” The question managed to provoke Najwa Wong, he looked at Sean with an expression that was hard to explain, but the young man managed to maintain his composure.
“Your husband hopes that one day his painting will be exhibited and you will see that. He assumes that your love of art will continue to keep you in a career and you will find his paintings. With that, your husband gave you the name ... ‘Hidden Treasure-hidden Treasure," Sean continued with his final explanation.
Just then the cry of Najwa Wong broke and the two men were silent unable to calm down. The woman knew very well that the painting now in her hand was the only painting from her husband.
***
After the incident, Kenzo escorted Sean back. At this time the atmosphere in the car looks stranger than usual.
“You work at Ellinden Gallery? Did you give that 1 billion painting for your job?” knowing that Kenzo demands an explanation.
“No! I didn't do it as an Ellinden Gallery person, but as myself-Sean Herdian and the painting are now in good hands."
Kenzo nodded out of comments. “But why didn't you tell me that the painting was named ‘Hidden Treasure?”
“More important because currently we both know about the meaning of ‘Hidden Treasure’.”
It was Sean's last words before the car actually drove off.
[Congratulations! You have completed the mission]
[Gift: Ink Expression Ability]
[Able to give more expression to the artwork]
[Specification: Can only be used 10x]