All-rounder Artist-Chapter 919 - 857: Tear It All Down

Lin Yuan found that since November, when he challenged Maestro, there had been a constant stream of people congratulating him.

Just like now.

No sooner had the music festival's nominations been announced than he was overwhelmed by countless congratulations.

[Got used to it]

Singers from the Yu Dynasty also sent congratulatory messages, of course.

While congratulating Lin Yuan, Jiang Kui didn't forget to remind him, "Teacher Admirable Fish, you promised to accompany me on the red carpet!"

It seemed there was such a matter.

Lin Yuan was quite serene about being nominated for thirteen categories.

Because Lin Yuan understood:

Nominations are one thing, winning is another.

The real value still lies in the actual trophy corresponding to the nomination.

Lin Yuan vaguely remembered that "The Shawshank Redemption" had once earned seven Oscar nominations, the crew went to the event with high hopes and came back empty-handed.

He certainly wouldn't end up like that, but it was hard to say how many awards he'd actually win in the end. Better to keep a low profile.

They say being low-profile helps accumulate good karma.

For the next few days, Lin Yuan blatantly skived off work and didn't show his face at the company at all.

[Low-profile]

It wasn't just for the sake of being low-profile, though.

Mainly because the New Year was coming and Lin Yuan wanted to slack off a bit.

After all, he had gotten almost everything he was due for the year.

Wasn't rewarding himself with a few days of rest reasonable?

While Lin Yuan was resting, Sun Yaohuo suddenly got in touch with him, "Junior, are you free today? I've just built a five-star hotel, which is basically finished with the renovations. All the paperwork is also done, and it might open by the end of January. So I'd like to invite you to give some feedback. There's a suite that I'm not planning to put up for guests. You can come over to rest whenever..."

"Sure."

Lin Yuan remembered Sun Yaohuo mentioning wanting to open a hotel before, but he hadn't realized it was almost complete at the time he brought it up.

Half an hour later.

Sitting in Sun Yaohuo's car, Lin Yuan headed to his new hotel.

The hotel was about six kilometers from Lin Yuan's place, and they arrived after a short drive.

A man greeted them at the door:

"Director Sun!"

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Lin Yuan found it quite amazing.

Senior Yao Huo had become Director Sun?

The man quickly noticed Lin Yuan too, and his face immediately lit up with excitement, but he quickly suppressed any unprofessionalism and showed enough professionalism, "Teacher Admirable Fish, hello, I'm Wang Yu, the hotel manager appointed by Director Sun, but you can just call me Little Wang!"

Lin Yuan's face was one that basically no one failed to recognize.

Lin Yuan nodded and politely said, "Hello, Manager Wang."

After the greeting, Lin Yuan looked up at the hotel name and couldn't help but read it out loud:

"Yu Dynasty?"

Sun Yaohuo laughed, "I originally wanted to call it Yuanhuo Hotel, after all, that's what our gaming company is called. But later I thought that having 'fire' in the hotel's name didn't sound very auspicious, so I simply used our Yu Dynasty as the hotel name."

Wang Yu had a strange look on his face.

Before, Director Sun had actually considered renaming the hotel "Linyuan Hotel," but in the end, a bunch of people advised against it, and they finally settled on the current name.

"Good name."

Lin Yuan said with a smile.

Sun Yaohuo said, "Manager Wang, show us around."

"Sure, this way please!"

Wang Yu led Lin Yuan and Sun Yaohuo into the hotel.

The hotel covered a vast area, the exact size of which Lin Yuan had no concept of.

Upon entering, a sense of extravagant modernity hit them, the decor was of a similar standard to the Wisdom clubhouse where Maestros hung out for free.

Wang Yu started to introduce the hotel's features to Lin Yuan.

Sun Yaohuo added, "The elevator goes down two floors and directly connects to a food street, half the restaurants along the way are mine..."

As they toured.

Half an hour passed.

After visiting several luxurious suites, Sun Yaohuo finally led Lin Yuan into one of the rooms:

"There are eight luxury suites of equal size in the entire hotel. This one is the best, with a lakeside view from the floor-to-ceiling windows that's the finest in Qin Continent. I was planning to keep it for Junior."

"No need."

Lin Yuan smiled and said, "I definitely stay at home when I'm in Su City. Just open it up to the public as usual."

"Is that so."

Sun Yaohuo nodded, "Then I'll try to keep this suite available. We from the Yu Dynasty can also have gatherings here. I'll have musical instruments ready; it should be quite fun to hang out here."

"Hmm."

Lin Yuan felt a warmth in his heart.

He could sense that Sun Yaohuo was always looking out for the Yu Dynasty and had a very strong sense of belonging to it.

In fact, he felt a similar sense of belonging.

Looking up at the wall, Lin Yuan spoke softly:

"These paintings..."

"If Junior likes them, he can take them."

"No need."

"Junior doesn't like them?"

"Hmm."

"It was really the right call to have Junior come over and take a look. Before, I never realized it, but now that Junior mentioned it, I also think these paintings are not up to standard. I'm going to take them all down later!"

Sun Yaohuo agreed wholeheartedly.

Wang Yu, who was standing nearby, twitched at the corner of his mouth, wanting to say something, but ultimately held it in, with a very odd expression on his face.

"Take them down?"

Lin Yuan thought for a moment and said, "That's fine."

These paintings are on the same level as Luo Wei.

Since Senior Yao Huo is planning to take them down, then when I get back, I'll have Shadow create some good paintings to hang in Senior Yao Huo's hotel.

After all, it was because of my evaluation that Senior Yao Huo is taking down these paintings.

Anyway, Shadow's skills are definitely better than the level of these current paintings.

Lin Yuan was still very supportive of Senior Yao Huo's business ventures.

...

After touring the hotel and having a meal with Sun Yaohuo, Lin Yuan went home.

After Lin Yuan left.

Sun Yaohuo returned to the hotel and started taking down the paintings.

Manager Wang Yu was completely bewildered: "Director Sun, what are you doing!"

"Taking down the paintings."

Sun Yaohuo said matter-of-factly: "What are you standing there stunned for? Help me out. Let's take down all the paintings in several suites. They're just an eyesore."

"But..."

Wang Yu was almost in tears: "You're really going to take them down? You know that just any one of these paintings in the suites cost us hundreds of thousands to buy!"

That's exactly why Wang Yu had felt so distressed earlier.

While Teacher Admirable Fish was there, Wang Yu didn't dare to speak out; he did have some emotional intelligence.

In truth, each of the paintings in these suites had cost hundreds of thousands to purchase!

Wang Yu had gone to great lengths to have several famous painters from Zhao Continent create them, and relationships had to be specially sought to acquire these genuine artworks...

Did Teacher Admirable Fish understand the value of these paintings?

How could Director Sun decide to take them down just because Teacher Admirable Fish didn't like them?

"Small change."

Sun Yaohuo said: "If Junior says they are no good, then they are no good. Junior's judgment is definitely infallible."

"Director Sun..."

"You have a problem?"

Sun Yaohuo's voice grew cold.

Wang Yu was startled, knowing that if he dared to continue opposing, he might have to go home and write his resignation letter tonight.

"No..."

Wang Yu stammered: "No... no problems... well... I'll go take them down now!"

God knows what was going through Director Sun's head!

He didn't dare to ask, he didn't dare to object; he just did what he was told, since it wasn't his money being lost.

...

Meanwhile.

After returning home, Lin Yuan started to prepare for painting: "This is a good opportunity to create more paintings and also finish the one I owe the Chairman to send over."

Having made up his mind.

Lin Yuan began grinding ink.

After busying himself for a few days, Lin Yuan finally received a message from Gu Dong.

"Mr. Lin, are you ready? We are going to attend the music festival this afternoon, and we should head over early to do makeup since you're definitely going to be going onstage to accept an award!"

"Hmm."

Lin Yuan stopped painting and got ready to leave.