Chapter 1515: Chapter 1515: Whimper Whimper Whimper
Cherry stared at the painting silently for a while and said, “If there’s really something wrong with this painting, it wouldn’t be possible for the couple who often interact with it to be unharmed.”
“Hmm.” Gavin Graves nodded slightly, “I plan to visit her home after we get back and see if I can find any clues…”
Cherry immediately said, “I want to go too!”
Gavin Graves smiled, ruffling her hair, “Okay, we’ll go together.”
Cherry rehung the oil painting on the wall, then sat down next to Gavin Graves, admiring from a distance, “Not considering the curse, the painting is quite beautiful.”
“Naturally.” Gavin Graves said blandly, “Moissanite is a well-known domestic artist, skilled in historical, religious culture and other themes. His works are popular both at home and abroad.”
Cherry, unacquainted, looked up and asked him, “Who?”
Gavin Graves lowered his head, lightly pecked her lips, “Moissanite, my friend’s husband, both are painters.”
“Why would he paint such a painting? It’s so strange.” Cherry leaned against Gavin Graves’s chest, her gaze fixed on the painting.
Gavin Graves said, “The name of his painting is Kalinga. Kalinga was an ancient country from the third century BC, later destroyed by Ashoka of the Maurya Dynasty. Look at those elephants, they are Kalinga’s war elephants.”
As he spoke, he paused, furrowing his brow, “However… the battle of Kalinga is only sporadically recorded on Ashoka’s stone inscriptions, and apart from that, there’s almost no related historical material. The painting’s characters’ clothing and architectural details are so vivid, I wonder where he found the information.”
Cherry quietly leaned in his arms for a while, then suddenly said, “Gavin Graves, I want to see your right hand.”
At her words, Gavin Graves took off his glove, revealing the Octopus. They were currently full and content, meandering on the skin surface, relatively peaceful.
Cherry confirmed this is the state of the evil creature fully matured, just like those on the elephants in the painting.
If they hadn’t grown and matured, even if Gavin Graves saw this painting again, he likely wouldn’t associate it with himself. After all, no one would deliberately remember an accidental participation in an art exhibition, much less think that just a touch would lead to a curse parasitizing him.
Cherry held Gavin Graves’s ink-dyed right hand in silence for a moment and said to him, “Actually, I have an idea… but I’m not sure if it can succeed, why not give it a try now?”
Gavin Graves didn’t understand, “What?”
“Do you know about pulling turnips?” Cherry’s eyes sparkled as she looked at him, “Before the turnips grow properly, what you pull are just leaves. You pull one and grow another; you pull one and grow another, never finishing. But once the turnips are grown, you can pull them out together with the leaves.”
She lowered her gaze onto Gavin Graves’s hand, “I want to try… to see if this time we can pull them all out in one breath!”
Gavin Graves listened, stunned for a moment.
He was an ordinary person, transformed into a living creature devourer by this thing. Being able to remove it would undoubtedly be wonderful, but now, suddenly getting rid of them… inevitably felt somewhat unreal.
He thought about it and asked Cherry, “Could it be dangerous?”
“I’m very capable!” Cherry said, “The little ghosts I’ve eaten, each is bigger than it!”
After saying that, she seemed to think of something, her expression became hesitant as she looked at him sheepishly, “But… if I fail, will you drive me away?”
Her cautious demeanor reflected in Gavin Graves’s eyes, making his heart swell with a bittersweet ache…
Gavin Graves gently stroked her face, silent for a moment, then got up and walked aside, took something from his coat pocket, and returned to the bed.
He took Cherry’s hand and slipped a ring onto her ring finger.
Cherry’s eyes widened in disbelief, “You redeemed it?”
It was her wedding ring!
“Hmm.” Gavin Graves said with a faint smile, “I won’t buy you a new ring anymore, if you dare to pawn it again, I won’t want you.”
Cherry sniffled, hugging Gavin Graves tightly, “Wuwuwu… I won’t pawn it, I’ll wear it a lifetime.”