Chapter 82 - Chapter 74: Five-finger Girl

Sophie had to patiently explain, "This here is the essence of ancient Chinese freehand painting. You must know that what you usually see is the exquisite painting style of the West, which is realistic, while the ancient Chinese paintings are all freehand. In other words, they are not actually painting, but rather expressing the artist's inner feelings through an image, or say, a bird... Look at this painting by Eight Great Mountains, the dim sky, just a broken tree branch between heaven and earth, with an old black crow losing feathers perched on it. This actually expresses the artist's lonely inner world and at the same time aligns with a kind of bleak beauty of old vines, ancient trees, and dusk crows..."