At the province-wide intensive art training camp for top students, Lin Ji's watercolor painting got splattered with Jiang Yan's oil paint.
"It's all dull and gray anyway. Might as well cover it up." Jiang Yan grinned arrogantly, tossing his red hair.
Lin Ji quietly wiped the paint box his mother had left behind, not noticing the smile freeze on Jiang Yan's face.
That tube of cobalt blue was a rare, out-of-print collectible stolen from Jiang Yan's father's gallery ten years ago.
Late at night in the studio, Lin Ji opened an anonymous note in the moonlight: "Your way of mixing grays... looks a lot like hers."
Jiang Yan suddenly snatched Lin Ji's sketchbook. Every page was filled with Lin Ji's sleeping profile. "This is so ugly. It's not even one ten-thousandth as good as the real thing."
The paint tube grew hot in his palm. The calico cat on the windowsill meowed softly.
Theme: An art student and the class representative for academics team up for a provincial competition. During their plein-air training camp, they are forced to live together. One has insomnia, the other sleepwalks, making them a complementary pair.
