A Relentless Pursuit for Love
Chapter 721

Chapter 721 This was another shocking piece of news for Sage to replace out that the artist actuallyneeded five years to complete the painting. It was no wonder that the painting gave an impressionof time passing as if many centuries had passed. However, the artist was just 15 years old when hecompleted the painting. That meant that he was just a teenager.

“What's his name? Where is he? Is he still painting?” Sage asked.

The act of imitating was different from creating one’s own art. It was not a glamorous occupationand most people could never understand the reason behind it. Most imitation artists preferred tostay low-key and often did not like to disclose their names and occupation to other people.Nevertheless, it did not stop Sage from being curious and eager to want to know this teenager thatwas able to imitate such a legendary piece of art.

With a pair of sorrowful eyes, Wayne stared at Sage with a regretful expression, “He... he's passedaway.” “Passed away?’ Sage squinted her eyes and looked at how desolate her grandpa was.Suddenly, a nerve in her brain began to uncontrollably spark. This caused her to have an oncomingmigrane.

She lowered her head and looked at the painting in her hand. The little people in the painting werelaughing, screaming, shouting, and some even looked angry. However, in her vision, these littlepeople became another person. That person smiled and called out her name lightly, “Sage, Sage...”“Sage, are you surprised?”

“Sage, please talk to me.” “Sage, it's all my fault. Could you please forgive me?”

"Sage, can we start all over?”,

"Sage, would you mourn my death if I died?”

Her body shivered from the thoughts that came. She had to bite her lip so strongly until she tastedblood in her mouth to ground herself. As she tried to speak, the only thing that came out was air.After a while, she managed to make some sounds, but only with a hoarse voice.

“This painting, he was the one who painted it?” She paused a while, “Was it Jace?”

She looked at Wayne. Although she knew the answer in her heart and it was a rhetorical question,she did not want to believe it until she was given the final confirmation. Wayne closed his eyes.When he found out, he did not believe it either. It took him a moment to digest the informationbefore he finally accepted it.

“It's him,” Wayne confirmed it.

“It's hiin. But, how could it be him?’ Sage shook her head and tried hard to throw away all thethoughts in her head. “I've touched his hand before. There were thick calluses on his fingers andthey were real.”

The calluses on her hands appeared because she used a carving knife for art and the calluses onJace’s hands were formed from being in the army.

Wayne replied, “That was after. When he painted this painting, he had not served in the army yet. Orhe had never thought he would become a soldier. Mendoza mentioned when Jace was little, he hada huge interest in antiques and painting. His art teacher was actually an elite in imitation art that noone else knew about. He saw the talent in Jace and secretly taught him. No one else other thanSimon and Mendoza knew it.” “Then what happened?” Sage furrowed, “Why did he give up?” “Iheard his teacher offended some people and went missing all of a sudden. Till this day, he hasn'tbeen found. This painting, The Starry Night, Jace completed it under the guidance of his teacher.”Wayne downed the remaining red wine before speaking again. “When those people found nothingfrom his teacher, they targeted Jace instead. He was nearly kidnapped. Simon and Mendoza wereterrified that something bad might happen to Jace so they sent him to the army. First of all, it wasfor his safety, and secondly, it was to prevent those people from wanting to try again. Once hishands started to form calluses, it was also when he gave up on imitating, and forgery. Slowly, thosepeople gave up and no longer target him.”

While Sage listened on, she remembered his hand and the first time he entered her office and sawthe painting, Still Forests, hanging on the office wall. His eyes were sparkling and she thought hewas surprised and only just wanted to admire the painting. Come to think of it, he did not not looksurprised, instead it looked like he was yearning for something. He was also probably surprised toreplace someone who had a common interest with him.

“Common interest... There were so many similarities in their experience. So much that she evenbegan to wonder if it was a good or bad thing for them to meet each other in this life.