The portrait spread, and the women in the city were immediately captivated upon seeing it.
With the current level of development in Great Xia, some women now have the privilege of appreciating beauty.
With beauty fleeting and youth ever passing, women naturally care about their appearance. A portrait that can preserve their youthful image for a long time and can be viewed from time to time has an enormous appeal to them.
Thus, a new business of creating portraits for people was born.
Initially, the painters only painted women, but now they have expanded to paint the elderly, men, and children, almost accepting anyone. It's said that a very few have already started to fall in love with landscape painting.
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Since his mother Shi Lu fell in love with portraits, Yuan Cheng had been painted three times. His resistance stems from having to maintain the same pose for a short duration of half an hour or a long duration of an hour, which is incredibly painful for a child his age.
