Culture Conquers Foreign Worlds

Chapter 18 Social games

Harvey took the time to look at Shirley’s sketches, and now he somewhat understands why Shirley doesn’t like painting landscapes very much. The close-up scenes in the sketches and landscapes he saw were acceptable, but the lines became messy a little further away, and the scenes became quite blurred, and the style was no longer so refined that it lost the sense of hierarchy.

The problem is with Shirley. If Harvey is not wrong, Shirley should be myopic, and the degree is not low.

Harvey Adrian himself remembers that Shirley squinted her eyes and looked at him for exactly this reason. Pairing with her taciturn appearance is indeed a deterrent.

Harvey burst into laughter inwardly, put down the sketch to consider one day if she was going to wear a pair of glasses.

Shirley’s painting skills are very exquisite, at the level of professional painters in this era, and those professional painters usually serve the nobles and wealthy merchants. They do not open for three years and eat for three years. Any famous painter’s works can basically be sold to support the painter. The leisure life of hiring servants without worrying about food and clothing.

Harvey can’t afford to hire these painters, Shirley is different. With a little guidance, she should be able to draw good fiction illustrations.

It is not uncommon for novels to have illustrations in this era, but most of them are ordinary simple strokes, which can outline characters and landscapes in a few strokes. What Harvey pursues is a sketch illustration that can rival the standards of later generations.

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El Roy Library

“History category “Epic of Bazel”, collection of poems “The Wandering Poems of Blaze”, and the novel “The Fallen Leaves of Bayes”. Three books have been registered. This is your proof of borrowing.” Diana from the librarian Li took the borrowed record book, and when he was about to leave, he hesitated to look in a certain direction on the second floor of the library, where no one was there except the empty tables and chairs.

“Did you give up?”

Diana sighed slightly with disappointment. That man is her fiancé, at least I hope he can do something.

“Madam, do you care about the gentleman who often sits over there and reads a few days ago?” The female librarian suddenly asked. Few people come here. Diana and Harvey are both very eye-catching types. The former was because of his looks and temperament, and the latter because of his weird behavior. The librarian confirmed that Diana knew Harvey.

Diana replied indifferently: “I don’t care.”

“That gentleman would rarely come here to read books now, but he would come to borrow books in the afternoon every day, borrowing six or seven books once a day, and then returning them the next day. It really makes people wonder if they have not finished reading them.” Covering his lips and explaining with a smile, he was deeply impressed by Harvey.

Diana raised her delicate eyebrows, nodded to the librarian and left here.

Anse Air University, an academy founded in Elroy by a royal nobleman hundreds of years ago, covers a very large area, and the accumulation of hundreds of years is enough. This academy is famous because it retains the glorious tradition to this day. One of the first choice schools for the children of nobles in Iraq. As for the so-called glorious tradition, the one inherited from the social world, this college does not pay attention to knowledge education.

Women are obsessed with dressing themselves up with all kinds of gorgeous clothes. When they wear heavy makeup on their faces and participate in various social activities, they seem to have found the meaning of life. The blooming flowers will naturally attract bees and butterflies.

As for men, aristocratic men of good standing basically enjoy themselves here, and those with low identities are basically flattering in order to squeeze into that circle.

Diana hates this college, but it was her father’s intention to come here to enroll. She didn’t have the right to choose when she was a female before marrying.

“You can graduate from here in one year.” Diana glanced at the iconic bronze statue of the founder at the entrance of the college and shook her head. She loathes this place and feels confused about the future. After graduating from here, she will marry her. Harvey Adrian, a disdainful male, has a bleak future.

Sometimes she also sighed that it would be great if she were a male, free to do what she likes.

Passing the school’s aisle, she saw women in costumes everywhere on both sides of the lawn. They were holding umbrellas with big smiles and wearing Krynolin skirts that were only used at banquets. The skirt skeleton doesn’t even allow them to sit down.

was originally a place for learning knowledge, but it was preaching ignorance and vulgarity everywhere.

She lives in the college’s student dormitory, but it’s quiet only in the middle of the night. She has no choice but to go to the last quiet sacred place of the college, the Ansair Library. The college’s library is not rich in books, but who cares What? Those women who wear luxurious skirts all day long? Stupid, arrogant, coquettish male aristocrat? Here, they don’t even bother to understand the knowledge used to decorate themselves, because this is the most beautiful period of their lives and they don’t need to be decorated with anything.

But today’s college library doesn’t seem to welcome her very much, and she has heard the sharp laughter of women before entering the door.

Diana frowned and walked in and saw a group of luxuriously dressed noble children sitting inside whispering to each other. It can be seen that they are not at the same level as the students outside. Even if the clothes are not so conspicuous, they can be seen in the elaborate lace and lotus leaf skirts. These clothes are expensive. Everyone is holding an exquisite folding fan. These folding fans are essential props for every lady to socialize. Different actions will express completely different meanings and are used to implicitly express their wishes. As for the men’s dressing, they are much more casual, and the confidence revealed by their dazzling looks is enough to confirm that their identity is definitely not bad.

She is going to leave here, wherever she is, just a quiet place.

“Diana.”

An aristocratic man got up and stopped him. He had broken blond hair and a handsome face. The confidence and heroic spirit he revealed was enough to make most women look at him. He got up and ran to Diana to apologize: “Sorry, we can’t find a quiet place. If you want to read, we won’t disturb you.”

Hearing him calling his name, Diana Willow, frowned, glanced at the women who used a fan to cover half of their face and revealed their smile, and said bluntly: “You are here to prevent me from reading. This is the library. , Not a playground. UU Reading www.uukanshu.com”

The handsome aristocratic man scratched his head embarrassedly and said: “We are discussing about the novel. Basically no one uses it here, so I can find a lot of reference materials.”

Diana looked coldly and said: “I’m sorry, I’m not interested in novels.”

After 　　 finished speaking, he turned and left with the three books in his arms, one of which was a novel.

Looking at the back of Diana’s departure, the handsome aristocratic male’s eyes swept past with reluctance and helplessness. When he turned to look at his companion, he changed back to the appearance of aristocratic gentleman and caused a burst of laughter.

“Kathy, how about you just abandon her? You can find as many lovers as you want. Her kind of incomprehensible woman will be worthless to marry.”

“I don’t know how long she can pretend to be so tall.”

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Of course, Diana knew what he was talking about. The Leonard Press’s essay was circulated in this college at the beginning. After all, the essay itself was initiated by members of the Leonard family in this college. It’s just a social game between the nobles, adding a little brilliance to their prominent family reputation. Who are the winners of this essay event?

Kathy Elroy, the second son of the Elroy family, is the only one in the college social circle who often shows off literature. The prominent family, handsome appearance, coupled with good literary accomplishment, this is not all women’s Is it the girl in the dream?

Diana doesn’t catch a cold very much. He hates him hundreds of times higher than Harvey. With her eyes, you can see through Kexi’s narrowness under perfect conditions. The literary accomplishment is indeed high in this college, but that’s all. Kathy’s vision is limited to this, feeling proud of everything he has, deliberately showing off everything he owns, falling into Diana’s eyes is out-and-out childish arrogance.