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At the same time.

Ancheng, Tianyang Studio.

More than a dozen easels stood scattered at casual angles throughout the studio. Male and female students sat before them, brushes in hand, painting and sketching away.

In a corner of the studio, a single-eyelidded girl dressed head to toe in Adidas and Nike faced a completely blank canvas. With one leg crossed over the other, she leisurely cracked sunflower seeds.

Beside her, Geng Lu's nimble fingers moved across her canvas. Her loose clothes could not conceal her exceptionally developed figure, and as her arms moved, breathtaking curves appeared and vanished beneath the fabric.

Seeing this, the single-eyelidded girl's eyelid twitched involuntarily. It felt like a silent display of superiority.

She did not linger on Geng Lu for long. It would only make her feel more inferior.

She shifted her gaze to Geng Lu's canvas and saw the profile of a boy on the paper. Though it was a sketch, it carried the style of an Ink Wash painting.

The boy in the painting seemed to be gazing into the distance. His nose bridge was high and straight, while the glow around the corner of his lips painted a faint, almost imperceptible smile, giving him a uniquely captivating aura.

The single-eyelidded girl could not help asking, "I've seen you draw him several times lately. Who is he? Some celebrity you're into? What's his name?"

Geng Lu's dark eyes brimmed with affection. In this unfamiliar city, she admitted it openly, "He's not a celebrity. He's a boy I like."

The girl froze visibly at that, then looked Geng Lu over again. "You used a Beauty Filter on him, right?"

Geng Lu shook her head. "To me, he's even better-looking than this."

The single-eyelidded girl cracked another seed. She was a local from Ancheng and