Synopsis and Starting Chapter Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
Chapter 41
Chapter 42
Chapter 43
Chapter 44
Chapter 45
Chapter 46
Chapter 47
Chapter 48
Chapter 49
Chapter 50
Chapter 51
Chapter 52
Chapter 53
Chapter 54
Chapter 55
Chapter 56
Chapter 57
Chapter 58
Chapter 59
Chapter 60
Chapter 61
Chapter 62
Chapter 63
Chapter 64
Chapter 65
Chapter 66
Chapter 67
Chapter 68
Chapter 69
Chapter 70
Chapter 71
Chapter 72
Chapter 73
Chapter 74
Chapter 75
Chapter 76
Chapter 77
Chapter 78
Chapter 79
Chapter 80
Chapter 81
Chapter 82
Chapter 83
Chapter 84
Chapter 85
Chapter 86
Chapter 87
Chapter 88
Chapter 89
Chapter 90
Chapter 91
Chapter 92
Chapter 93
Chapter 94
Chapter 95
Chapter 96
Chapter 97
Chapter 98
Chapter 99
Chapter 100
Chapter 101
Chapter 102
Chapter 103
Chapter 104
Chapter 105
Chapter 106
Chapter 107
Chapter 108
Chapter 109
Chapter 110
Chapter 111
Chapter 112
Chapter 113
Chapter 114
Chapter 115
Chapter 116
Chapter 117
Chapter 118
Chapter 119
Chapter 120
Chapter 121 - Portrait Of Titus (2)
Chapter 122 - Visitor From The Desert (1)
Chapter 123 - Visitor From The Desert (2)
Chapter 124 - Visitor From The Desert (3)
Chapter 125 - Visitor From The Desert (4)
Chapter 126 - Rookie Of Boston Red Sox (1)
Chapter 127 - Rookie Of Boston Red Sox (2)
Chapter 128 - Buddhist Scripture Written With Gold (1)
Chapter 129 - Buddhist Scripture Written With Gold (2)
Chapter 130 - Buddhist Scripture Written With Gold (3)
Chapter 131 - Chaebol, Painting, And Happy Tears (1)
Chapter 132 - Chaebol, Painting, And Happy Tears (2)
Chapter 133 - Chaebol, Painting, And Happy Tears (3)
Chapter 134 - Enemies Are Everywhere (1)
Chapter 135 - Enemies Are Everywhere (2)
Chapter 136 - More Paintings (1)
Chapter 137 - More Paintings (2)
Chapter 138 - To Florence, Italy… (1)
Chapter 139 - To Florence, Italy… (2)
Chapter 140 - To Florence, Italy… (3)
Chapter 141 - People Who Are After The Masterpiece (1)
Chapter 142 - People Who Are After The Masterpiece (2)
Chapter 143 - People Who Are After The Masterpiece (3)
Chapter 144 - The Medici And The Aristocrats (1)
Chapter 145 - The Medici And The Aristocrats (2)
Chapter 146 - The Medici And The Aristocrats (3)
Chapter 147 - The Medici And The Aristocrats (4)
Chapter 148 - The Medici And The Aristocrats (5)
Chapter 149 - Drawings In The Charity Auction (1)
Chapter 150 - Drawings In The Charity Auction (2)
Chapter 151 - Drawings In The Charity Auction (3)
Chapter 152 - Drawings In The Charity Auction (4)
Chapter 153 - Drawings In The Charity Auction (5)
Chapter 154 - Now, To London… (1)
Chapter 155 - Now, To London… (2)
Chapter 156 - Now, To London… (3)
Chapter 157 - Now, To London… (4)
Chapter 158 - Seeing The Light Again (1)
Chapter 159 - Seeing The Light Again (2)
Chapter 160 - Seeing The Light Again (3)
Chapter 161 - Seeing The Light Again (4)
Chapter 162 - Uninvited Guest (1)
Chapter 163 - Uninvited Guest (2)
Chapter 164 - Uninvited Guest (3)
Chapter 165 - Uninvited Guest (4)
Chapter 166 - Dark Shadow (1)
Chapter 167 - Dark Shadow (2)
Chapter 168 - Dark Shadow (3)
Chapter 169 - Change And Progress (1)
Chapter 170 - Change, And Progress (2)
Chapter 171 - Change, And Progress (3)
Chapter 172 - Appraiser Talks Through Appraising (1)
Chapter 173 - Appraiser Talks Through Appraising (2)
Chapter 174 - Appraiser Talks Through Appraising (3)
Chapter 175 - Appraiser Talks Through Appraising (4)
Chapter 176 - Appraiser Talks Through Appraising (5)
Chapter 177 - Inheritance Left By The Parents (1)
Chapter 178 - Inheritance Left By The Parents (2)
Chapter 179 - Inheritance Left By The Parents (3)
Chapter 180 - Inheritance Left By The Parents (4)
Chapter 181 - Star Appraiser (1)
Chapter 182 - Star Appraiser (2)
Chapter 183 - Star Appraiser (3)
Chapter 184 - Terms Of Return Of Artifacts (1)
Chapter 185 - Terms Of Return Of Artifacts (2)
Chapter 186 - Terms Of Return Of Artifacts (3)
Chapter 187 - Terms Of Return Of Artifacts (4)
Chapter 188 - Terms Of Return Of Artifacts (5)
Chapter 189 - Artifact From North Korea (1)
Chapter 190 - Artifact From North Korea (2)
Chapter 191 - Artifact Match (1)
Chapter 192 - Artifact Match (2)
Chapter 193 - Artifact Match (3)
Chapter 194 - Artifact Match (4)
Chapter 195 - Artifact Match (5)
Chapter 196 - What Happened In Austria (1)
Chapter 197 - What Happened In Austria (2)
Chapter 198 - What Happened In Austria (3)
Chapter 199 - What Happened In Austria (4)
Chapter 200 - Bait To Catch The Big Fish (1)
Chapter 201 - Bait To Catch The Big Fish (2)
Chapter 202 - What The Depressed Man Left (1)
Chapter 203 - What The Depressed Man Left (2)
Chapter 204 - Where The Faith Leads Him To (1)
Chapter 205 - Add Painting To Painting (1)
Chapter 206 - Add Painting To Painting (2)
Chapter 207 - Add Painting To Painting (3)
Chapter 208 - Finally, To There… (1)
Chapter 209 - Finally, In There… (2)
Chapter 210 (End) - Epilogue
Categories Genre: All, Completed, Fantasy, Supernatural Status: Completed ______
Total Chapters in book: 210
Estimated words: 468205 (not accurate)
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Chapter 145: The Medici and the Aristocrats (2)
“Nice to meet you. I’m Albert Harrington. What’s your name?”
He was in his 40s. His hair had been neatly combed with wax. He offered his hand that had an expensive watch on the wrist.
“I’m Park Haejin from Korea.”
Haejin couldn’t see what he was up to, but for now, he shook hands with him.
Albert stared at Haejin’s eyes and asked, “Park Haejin? Korean names are complicated. Well, why are you here?”
Haejin was there as a guest of the Medici family, so he didn’t want to cause any trouble. So, he just smiled and replied, “I’m an appraiser. I’ve been asked to appraise for the Medici.”
In fact, the Medici hadn’t asked him to appraise anything, but he thought they wouldn’t have invited him if it hadn’t been for that reason, so he just said so.
There was no way they were letting him spend three days here, in such a place, just to thank him. However, Albert’s face hardened.
“Appraise? You?”
“Is there a problem?” Haejin found it strange and asked, but he got his answer from someone else.
“Albert has been appraising for the Medici for the past ten years. This is getting funny.”
Haejin looked toward the direction of the voice. There was a woman wearing a red party dress walking toward them with a wine glass in her hand.
“Oh, really?”
Haejin was now turned into an unwelcome guest who had come to ruin Albert’s career. However, he couldn’t take back what he said and say, ‘Now that I think about it, I think that I was invited because I helped the Medici family before.’
Then, they would ask what had happened, but he couldn’t tell them the truth because of the Medici’s reputation, and if he were to keep his mouth shut, they would imagine things on their own.
“Before Albert, his father was the Medici family’s appraiser. It’s the first time someone who isn’t an aristocrat appraising for the Medici.”
Haejin had thought Albert wasn’t a nobleman as he was an appraiser, but he was wrong.
Then Eunhae, who had been listening, asked, “I don’t know much about the Harrington family, but it doesn’t sound like an Italian family. And you appraise for the Medici?”
Haejin thought she was touching some sensitive issues. Albert and the lady in the red dress were clearly offended.
“The Medici is much more than a family. It ruled Florence for centuries, and more than that, it is admired by the world. That kind of childish comparison is… haha! I think you don’t know much about it.”
Albert’s ego had been hurt, and he sneered at Eunhae. Everyone knew he was implying that Eunhae was too lowly to know this kind of thing.
Eunhae’s face hardened, of course. Even though she belonged to the collateral line, she was also a member of Hwajin family, and she hadn’t been overwhelmed by money or power.
Additionally, she hadn’t met anyone so rude since her nemesis Yaerin. Haejin could feel her attitude changing.
Then, the lady in the red dress sat down next to her and explained, “The Harrington Family is a historical family in England. Its wealth is no smaller than that of the Medici. However, the Medici Family has more than just wealth. So, appraising their artifacts has a great meaning.”
Haejin could understand part of that. Appraising for the Medici meant the family acknowledged that Albert had a discerning eye, so he was right to be proud of it.
However, he didn’t look that great to Eunhae.
Being a nobleman wasn’t his achievement, and he was acting as if he was so special.
Eunhae crossed her arms and looked at Albert up and down.
“Yes, I do not know much about your family and the Medici, but I think you don’t know much about manners. We never said you could sit here… aren’t the nobles from England taught manner and etiquette? Or are you just stupid?”
Haejin hadn’t seen Eunhae so hostile like this since they first met in the preview event in the Korea Auction.
She was about to criticize every mistake of her opponent.
Haejin though about stopping her, but he decided not to. Maybe backing off in such a situation to avoid a fight is what made him look like a weak person to those white aristocrats.
Albert hadn’t expected such hostility. He stammered in shock, “What, what nonsense… do you, do you think you can imagine what kind of education I received?”
Eunhae replied, “I don’t think I need to bother to imagine. My nephew is also full of himself, just like you. Oh, is he 15 now?”
Haejin remembered Yaerin saying something like that. Eunhae was using it now, so it must have hurt a lot at that time.
Of course, the white man, Albert, lost his temper at this.
“What, what?”
He jumped to his feet, but the lady in the red dress burst into laughter.
“Hahahahaha! Oh, so funny! Hahaha! Albert, she really got you!”
“Stop it!”
Albert warned her, but she didn’t stop and kept laughing for a long time.
Because of that, the other nobles who had been watching couldn’t resist their laughter. They covered their mouths and started laughing as well.
Albert couldn’t handle it anymore. He steamed and then went out. He knew arguing more would just diminish his reputation, so it was better to just leave.
Although Albert sucked, Haejin admired his judgment.
If he had kept arguing with Eunhae, who was a girl, things would have gotten worse, and if he had used violence, he would have been expelled from the aristocrat society.
“Huh! What a loser…”
Eunhae snorted as Albert left. Then, she looked back at Haejin and smiled.
“You’re actually good at this,” Haejin commented.
“Of course, I’ve been fighting with Yaerin for years now. Facing such an idiot is…”
She stopped there and looked at the lady in the red dress. The woman kept looking at Eunhae as she talked in Korean.
“Is there… anything you want to say?” Eunhae asked.
She took a sip of wine and said, “Florence Harrington. That’s my name. I’m Albert’s sister.”
“Oh…”
Eunhae was about to say something, but Florence spoke first.
“He deserved it. He needed that to come to his senses. He was humiliated by such a beautiful lady, so he won’t be able to forget that for the rest of his life. He is too proud…”
“Should I be sorry?”
Florence shook her hand and said, “No… I told you, he needed it. Or he would keep behaving so rudely like that and suffer even more, but what is your name?”
“Lim Eunhae. My English name is Charlotte.”
Haejin had learned about that when they went to America together.
Eunhae didn’t like it, so she didn’t often mention that name.
“Charlotte Lim? That sounds strange. I’ll just call you Charlotte.”
“Call me as you want,” Eunhae said.
“But what do you do? Your friend here is an appraiser, and you are…”
“I’m the director of an art museum. Mr. Park here is an appraiser, but he is also the owner of that museum.”
Florence was a little surprised and asked, “You are an appraiser with your own museum? That’s impressive. What is the name of the museum?”
“It was named after him. Park Haejin Art Museum. It was on the news a while ago because of Picasso’s painting.”
“Oh! I know it. The name was too difficult, so I couldn’t memorize it easily, but I remember now. Of course… Mr. Cavani would not invite just anyone.”
However, the other tables also started to get noisy as people found out that Haejin’s museum had Picasso’s painting.
They had thought him to just be a good Asian appraiser, but he was more than just that. They were surprised. Picasso’s paintings were very famous.
“For whatever reason Mr. Cavani invited us, I don’t think we are obliged to tell that to our fellow guests.”
Eunhae was still on guard, but Florence didn’t lose her smile and said, “You don’t have to be like that. There’s no idiot like Albert here now. But…”
Florence then turned to Haejin, she was clearly interested in him.
“I am a little curious. The Medici family has never invited a new appraiser. They have Albert. Oh, and Albert is the best of the best appraisers. I’m not saying this because he is my brother. From the ancient, middle ages, and contemporary art, if he doesn’t know about them, no one knows.”
That was a great compliment. Haejin had never heard of any appraiser getting that kind of compliment and had never thought any appraiser would get that kind of compliment.
“That’s amazing. I didn’t know such an appraiser existed…”
Haejin really meant that, but Florence thought he didn’t believe her and added, “He even helps at Christie’s auction in London. They ask for Albert’s help when their own appraisers cannot give them answers.”
Then, he really was good at his job. Of course, he was an appraiser of the Medici, so he had to be good…
“He is impressive.”
Again, Haejin really meant that, but Florence thought he was doubting her again. She crossed her arms and leaned back on her chair.
She continued, “Albert has been appraising for the Medici for ten years, but there is only one painting he gave up on. Did Mr. Cavani invite you because he thought you could appraise it?”
“I don’t know, but I am getting interested,” Haejin replied.
Florence laughed.
“This is going to be fun, very…”
Then, a boy who had been watching at another table came to them.
The boy was young, he was probably still in high school or middle school.
“Excuse me… are you an appraiser?”
“Yes. And?”
The boy hesitated and managed to talk only after a while.
“Could you appraise something for me?”
“I could if it were another time, but I’ve been invited to appraise, so I cannot do that before I meet the host, so…”
Haejin was about to refuse, but the boy spoke again with tearful eyes, “I’m sorry, but there is a painting I must have appraised.”
“That’s… I…”
Haejin didn’t know what to do, but Florence coldly spoke to the boy.
“You are so… well, the Butler family is famous for being stubborn… do as you wish, but it won’t change the truth.”
Total Chapters in book: 210
Estimated words: 468205 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 2341(@200wpm)___ 1873(@250wpm)___ 1561(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 468205 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 2341(@200wpm)___ 1873(@250wpm)___ 1561(@300wpm)
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