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After hanging up the phone, Xu Jiangtong was distracted for a few seconds.

"What's wrong?" Tao Xihong raised his hand and shook it in front of his eyes.

In view of the inexplicable cold war last time, Xu Jiangtong wanted to wait until all the dust settled before telling Tao Xihong, so he had to lie first: "My family called me and asked me how I was recovering."

Tao Xihong couldn't understand Italian, so he said suspiciously: "It's getting late, hurry up and rest."

Xu Jiangtong went to the kitchen to get a cup of warm water, and began to take medicine: "Xiao Tao, you don't have to stay with me at home tomorrow, otherwise it will be like taking medicine, and it will easily lead to morbid dependence. You see, I have reduced the dose of medicine today."

After finishing speaking, he raised the scissors in his hand and skillfully cut the sleeping pill in half.

Tao Xihong patted his head: "Is there really no problem?"

"Well, the quality of sleep has been much better recently."

For patients with mental illness, insomnia is undoubtedly the last straw that crushes them.Fortunately, Tao Xihong insisted on running in, and he slowly accepted the feeling of being hugged to sleep.

After all, the back is leaning on the real object, and Tao Xihong's generous chest really feels safe.

Similarly, Tao Xihong was also very relieved to see the little beauty sleeping peacefully in his arms, letting go of his guard little by little.

Seeing that he had a good night's rest, Tao Xihong went back to school the next day with peace of mind.After he left, Xu Jiangtong impatiently moved out of the computer and opened the information organized by the butler.

The blurry picture has been restored. Xu Jiangtong zoomed in on the picture and saw that it was Loki, the famous god of trickery in Nordic mythology, who was confronting Minerva.

On the screen, Loki descends from the sky with a dagger in his hand, and the dazzling black fire burns through half of the sky.

The two gods in the same painting come from different mythological systems. Such a deliberate patchwork made Xu Jiangtong firm in its directionality.

It's a pity that the author didn't hide the signature in the painting.Xu Jiangtong magnified the picture to the highest magnification, checked every corner carefully, and finally returned in a huff.

The other three documents are possible candidates selected by the housekeeper based on the clues he provided.Xu Jiangtong used Tao Xihong's birthday to deduce the time period of his mother's pregnancy, and focused on investigating people who entered and exited China and Italy during this period and were engaged in art-related occupations.

But after all, this happened 20 years ago, and a lot of information is incomplete.Xu Jiangtong also had the idea of ​​giving it a try, making a bold assumption and carefully verifying it.

Unexpectedly, I saw an impressive name in the list - Jiang Jizhe, a Chinese designer who was active in the European fashion circle.

He was only [-] years old when he died, and Xu Jiangtong was only seven or eight years old at that time.The reason why I have an impression of him is that he is also Chinese, and his mother mentioned his name, and the second is that his designs are indeed remarkable and he is quite famous in the art world.

Compared with his talent, his reputation in the circle is a mess.According to legend, he had never been married during his lifetime, but he owed a whole body of romantic debts. He did not know how many women he had slept with.

Later, when he fell to his death on the edge of a sea cliff in northern Italy, there were rumors that the possibility of love killing could not be ruled out.

However, the cause of death recorded in the official file was that he committed suicide because he was unable to repay the huge compensation due to a dispute over a commercial contract.

Xu Jiangtong compared the biographies of the other two people and found that Jiang Jizhe was the most likely candidate no matter in terms of death time, activity track, or metaphysical factors such as height and body shape.

He speculated that Tao Xihong's mother was pregnant around December 03, when Jiang Jizhe returned to China during the Christmas holiday and held an art exhibition in Jingzhou.According to the rumors of the romantic and talented man in the market, it is entirely conceivable that he will have fun with others in a certain hotel after the painting exhibition.

But after all, it has been a long time, and it is impossible to draw conclusions based on these fragmented associations.After Xu Jiangtong read the materials, he was glad that he did not let Tao Xihong participate in this matter prematurely.

Now that he has come to this point, Xu Jiangtong can only continue to try his luck on the basis of assumptions, to see if he can extract information related to his mother from the known conditions.

What is her relationship with Jiang Jizhe?Why did you abandon Tao Xihong?These two questions are crucial.

Xu Jiangtong closed the computer, looked up at the ceiling, and tried to draw a picture of her in his mind.

Maybe we met at an art exhibition?After all, it is the best occasion to get in touch with each other in this kind of exhibition where there are so many guests.

After pondering for a moment, he picked up his mobile phone and dialed the butler's number: "Can you find a way to find out the list of guests when Jiang Jizhe held an art exhibition in Jingzhou?"

"This was all 20 years ago. I'm afraid it's very difficult, right?"

Xu Jiangtong had just participated in the sculpture exhibition half a month ago, had contact with the core personnel who organized the exhibition, and talked with them about some planning details.

"This team has been hosting Jingzhou's art exhibitions for a long time, and they are very strict about the details." Xu Jiangtong didn't want to give up any possibility, "Maybe they will register guests through pen and paper."

After finishing speaking, he walked to the desk, and found the person's name letter from the drawer specially placed for business cards: "I'll give you his contact information later."

"Don't worry, young master, I will get things done."

Xu Jiangtong filtered the information again: "What is the commercial dispute Jiang Jizhe is involved in?"

"It's a perfume bottle design contract signed with Diama Group." The butler replied, "Because it collided with the design of a rival company's competing product, Diama suffered serious losses and was sued."

"Who designed that competing product?"

"To be honest, this person is Magnus." The butler said in a hesitant tone, "Felix's father."

Hearing this, Xu Jiangtong's fingers froze, he held on to the edge of the table in a daze, and managed to regain his body's support point.

The Goddess of Wisdom was killed by Loki's trick - the artistic language depicted in that painting flashed in my mind instantly.Xu Jiangtong always felt that the author was implying something, could it be this matter?

"Help me check the genealogy of Felix's family and Jiang Jizhe's case." All the incredible coincidences were gradually pieced together in Xu Jiangtong's mind, "Remember, don't startle the snake by making mistakes."

After ordering the task, Xu Jiangtong staggered a few steps and fell into the bed.The ears were surrounded by the buzzing sound, and there seemed to be some tinnitus, and even the vision was blurred.But it was nothing like the horror of that night, and he couldn't tell if he was excited or shocked.

As an artist, his intuition told him that his assumption was not wrong.

For so many years, he has been trapped in the cage carefully crafted by Felix, struggling to find a way to bring the sinner to justice; Tao Xihong also has an inferiority complex in his heart, becoming sensitive and fragile.

Two seemingly irrelevant things intersect at this moment, like a piece of jigsaw puzzle that has been lost for a long time, filling up the incompleteness and blankness in each other's lives.

When he became a partner with Tao Xihong, Xu Jiangtong never thought that this boy who is as clingy as a puppy is not only filling up his weak emotions.

And everything had been foreshadowed long before they met.

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It seems that some readers have guessed that these two things have an intersection.There won't be many similar plots, the main line is still Xiaotao's career line~