Chapter 18: The Thousand-Mile Youngster (An additional update for @HuanYu's Silver Fans)_2

Punctuation was added later.

That era didn't have it.

The number of characters in this passage is 77, but the first ten characters have nothing to do with Wang Ximeng himself.

This record speaks of an eighteen-year-old youth named Ximeng, who was originally a student of painting.

He presented several paintings but none stood out particularly.

Emperor Huizong of Song discovered the boy's unlimited potential in these "mediocre" paintings.

Therefore, under the personal guidance of Emperor Huizong, the youth's painting skills advanced by leaps and bounds.

In less than half a year, he completed the eternally celebrated "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains".

Cai Jing's postscript seems to say a lot, yet nothing at all, being very vague.

"Mr. Nie, are you trying to ask if Wang Ximeng was a real person, if he really existed in history?" Meng Xin Zhi attempted to sort out Nie Guangyi's words.

Mr. Nie...

This title made Nie Guangyi somewhat uneasy.