As Luo Yunxi guessed, Rong Yue didn't want to stay in the same room with the four of them.
Also, she wasn't as famous as the other two. When she entered the room, she was given a card that gave her a number.
Rong Yue picked one of the extreme seats at the end of the room and read the theme.
[Loss is one of the greatest and most experience. Use your brush to tell the world why they can recover from their loss.]
She read the theme three times before closing her eyes.
As she sat there, Rong Yue's mind was transported to when she had lost her mother. To the time that she had experienced a great amount of pain in the organisation.
To watching Tong Yang enjoy everything that she owned. Everything that was hers.
She could easily be one of the people who had experienced the greatest loss. But she had also been unable to recover from it.
More precisely, she didn't want to recover from it. She wanted the pain to keep fueling her determination to seek the revenge that she wanted.
Before knowing it, the two people supposed to monitor the room she was in entered.
"If there's no problem with any of the equipment in front of you, you can start."
Rong Yue sighed gently and then arranged the available colours.
After thirty minutes, the originally white and blank canvas in front of Rong Yue had been painted a deep shade of black.
She leaned back to check her work and then picked up three other colours.
She mixed them carefully and then started to paint on the black paint.
The time they were given was two and a half hours. So in a way, the test also tested their ability to act on the spot.
The trickiest part about the Art Gathering was that up until that day, none of the participants knew how they were to be tested.
Luo Yunxi was in the same room, and even he couldn't deny that Du Yating's painting was really impressive.
In less than two hours, he had painted a person on a dark and desolate road.
The road was extremely lonely, and he had a bag that was even bigger than him while walking this path.
However, he had also created a curved route with his brush and strokes. From the angle that the man in the painting was on, he couldn't see that route, but for anyone looking, they could see that route was lit up and looked much more welcoming than the one they were on.
A painting like this would do exactly what the theme asked them to do.
It would comfort someone that had just experienced loss.
They now had to walk a path of their life that they used to walk with the person, and it would feel incredibly lonely.
The burden of also carrying the loss was great and would weigh the person down like the baggage the man in the painting was carrying.
But he also made the viewer understand that there was another path right up that was better.
Like a message to tell the person that they should keep pushing and it would eventually get better.
When Du Yating stepped outside, his master, Master Pei, was happy, and he got down from the stage they were seated at.
"Yating, how was it?"
"Master, a theme like that can be considered easy for me. I spent more time on the techniques and not the message itself."
To Du Yating, this kind of thing was child's play, and he was sure he would win. After chatting with his master for some minutes, he found a corner in the hall to sit down.
As for Rong Yue, she had gotten carried away with chatting with Qin Heng from texting. He had even pulled her to play a game with him.
By the time she finished playing the game, two hours from the competition's time was already up.
As soon as she finished the last round, she stood up from her seat and walked out of the room.