When Zhai Mu walked out of the bar, it was already dark. In late autumn, it seems that the nights are getting longer and longer, just like the rhythm before the cold winter comes. Originally, he was going to take Leng Yiyao back to the villa today, but he received a call from her halfway, saying that he had made other appointments tonight and there was no need for him to come over. As for what she had arranged for that night and who she was with, she didn't mention anything at all.
But it was like a voice in his head kept telling him to come and see what was going on. Originally, he was able to jump from the military world of D city to the imperial capital and was admired by countless people. Now it seems that it is not an easy task to truly gain the trust of the marshal.
Although the school door is open, there are not many students coming out. Most of the club activities started after classes ended in the afternoon. The security guard told him that the fastest wave of students would come out at almost seven o'clock.
He was bored, so he went to a bar near the school to kill time.
Doing the math, Leng Yiyao actually came to the imperial capital for a very short time, not even a month.
At the beginning, he still remembered that even Frey, let alone the marshal, was not particularly concerned about her life and death. The military community had its own channels to learn about the pursuit and interception with the eldest prince Lu Chen, and watching with cold eyes was a kind of exploration and test of her strength.
In fact, without moving her expression, she not only subdued Lu Chen, but also focused all the attention of Marshal and Frey on her.
At that time, he could clearly and vaguely feel that Leng Yiyao was not entirely on the side of the military community. Even transferring to another school was just a matter of smooth sailing. He was moved to her side. First, it was to facilitate Leng Yiyao to quickly settle down in a strange environment. Adaptation, on the other hand, is not a kind of monitoring of her by the military.
However, to this day, not even a month has passed, but it seems that Leng Yiyao has completely integrated into the Marshal's social circle.
From Frey to the military academy, the marshal completely brought her into his sphere of influence. And he...
Zhai Mu squinted his eyes and looked calmly at the lights of Shengde High School. Unconsciously, his position was marginalized.
This feeling is very uncomfortable, like someone who is obviously one step behind you, but turns around and has reached the destination an hour before you, eating ice cream leisurely and watching you continue to swim upstream. Unfortunately, no one knows where your end is, including himself...
"Hey, tell me, that transfer student is acting like a cheat!" Two female students carrying leather schoolbags and wearing the latest dresses of the season chewed their ears as they walked.
"I heard that the super-famous physics teacher asked her to join his club activities, but no one paid him any attention. Today, Teacher Tan from the piano class actually changed his style and gave her one-on-one guidance. , It’s like seeing a ghost.” Another female student next to her nodded vigorously, her face speechless.
"If you ask me, it doesn't matter that all the people in the special class are awesome. This can't be described as 'awesome' at all." It doesn't matter that Teacher Tan's class is super difficult to choose. The key is that it only takes a few hundred hours a week. Student No. 1, being chosen to be tutored in the piano room is simply a stroke of luck. She, Leng Yiyao, was lucky enough to be in the first piano room. The teacher stayed there for nearly an hour, but he didn't even come out for a while.
"But to be honest, this is the first time I've heard that Teacher Tan is willing to be alone with someone for so long." The female student looked surprised. After all, when the Shengde Group was able to invite this female pianist, its first thought was to ask her to be a formal teacher. Unfortunately, the other party was unwilling, saying that she would be impetuous if she stayed with this group of students for a long time. Then it was arranged as a club activity. After all, for such courses, students will have changes and fluctuations every semester.
Talking behind people's backs, this kind of thing actually happens from time to time no matter what social class you are in, but Zhai Mu didn't expect that one day he would listen to someone behind their back. The key is that the person he was talking about happened to be The one he was just thinking about.
After the two female students left, as expected, many other students appeared on the main street of the campus. It seemed that the club activities were basically over. It's a pity that every expression is similar to the two people before.
No need to guess, they should all be students who have chosen piano lessons.
This time the noise was even louder, mainly because there were so many people talking about everything. Some people said that this transfer student was so evil that he was a magician and caused all the teachers to go crazy. Others said that when he left, he went around to the piano room No. 1 to take a look. Teacher Tan, who had always been calm and bright, turned out to be... I will laugh with her...
In short, all kinds of discussions almost filled the school gate.
Zhai Mu leaned against the wall, closed his eyes, and listened quietly.
I always feel that there is something important that he has accidentally ignored...
At the moment, Leng Yiyao, who is still sitting in the piano room, is playing "Piano Prelude". This piece was specified for her to play. The music score was placed in front of her. It only took half an hour to explain, and then she couldn't wait to let the other students disperse and sit directly next to her.
Leng Yiyao's eyes flicked along another sheet of music next to the piano. Ever since "Teacher Tan" saw this entry-level piano sheet, something was wrong with him. Her eyes shone slightly, as if she was recalling the past bit by bit, or looking for something through her.
Although the name of this "Piano Prelude" is simple and unpretentious, it hides all the composer's efforts and expresses the composer's artistic pursuit in a very subtle way. The soothing and calm overture depicts the sea, clouds, mist, and moonlight, and you can even vaguely hear ancient myths, legends, and characters. It is clearly the improvisational and fantasy music of a male composer, but there is no fanaticism. It expresses the composer's personal emotions, but makes people unpredictable. The style of music is so beautiful that you can almost feel the beautiful sigh with your eyes closed. The exquisiteness of the scenery, the gorgeousness of the picture, and the vastness of the world are all there. Desirable.
If she hadn't heard her say that the composer was a man early in the morning, she would have suspected that she had fallen into a dream spun by a beautiful woman.
After the song ended, Teacher Tan stood up, clapped his hands, and his eyes were clearly filled with aftertaste. There is sadness, despair, and beauty in it, but more importantly, it is firmness.
"Your technique is perfect," the woman's elegant voice sounded in the piano room. It was obvious that she had reached this age, but she had a charming demeanor: "The most important thing is that you can express the composer's heart. When did you start learning piano?"
Leng Yiyao thought about the "tutoring" she had received since she was a child. Because of Leng Yiyang, she took up piano lessons quite early, "around six years old." Although at that time, she was mostly asked to settle down by her tutor. Sit quietly and listen to Leng Yiyan playing the piano.
"Why were they broken later?" Although her fingers were nimble, people who were used to the piano would not take that long to become familiar with the music scores. What's more, her love for music was very calm. There is a popular saying among experts - if you don't practice for one day, you will know it; if you don't practice for two days, your peers will know it; if you don't practice for three days, the audience will understand it. Although Leng Yiyao is not a real pianist, she can still hear the level of playing that suddenly relaxes after reaching a certain level.
"I find it boring and not interesting." She recalled the memory of the original owner. At that time, she must have been in the most rebellious state of mind, with Leng Yiyu taking over everything. No matter at home or outside, everyone looked at her as if they were looking at Leng Yiyu's shadow. So, out of frustration, I simply wasted what I had gained over the years. Of course, the piano was not one of her true favorites, so she just gave it up, and she didn't really feel it was a pity.
"What a pity." Teacher Tan murmured, looking at her hands. They were obviously small and slender, but they could produce such moving power, expressiveness and tension when playing the strongest notes, let alone in this Shengde High School. In the Imperial City, no matter which grade group he is in, he is definitely at the top. However, when it comes to music, whether you like it or not is the most important thing. Anything can be pretended, only love is the most difficult to conceal and disguise. Just as she said, she couldn't tell Leng Yiyao's extreme love for the piano. On the road of music, without love, there are only thorns.
"You are very talented," she said quietly, her eyes falling on the piano score that Leng Yiyao brought in at the beginning: "Just like my favorite student."
After playing for so long, I finally heard the main topic.
Leng Yiyao squinted her eyes and turned her head slightly. The light shines on the bridge of her nose, making her facial features more three-dimensional. She just raised the corners of her lips slightly and said nothing. At this moment, she chose to be a conscientious listener.
"Like you, he has amazing talent. In the music industry, talent is something that many people dream of. People often say that hard work can make up for weakness, but those are definitely not the piano. Everyone has a pair of hands, but these hands play The sound of the piano is completely different. From the moment you are born, the tone under your fingers has been determined. The rest is to learn which scale to rotate on, which note to pause, and which note is the strongest note!" She almost tremblingly held up the beginner's sheet music in her hands, her eyes full of nostalgia and sadness. "I still remember that when M first came to Shengde High School, he didn't want to talk to anyone. He would go to the piano room to play the piano silently after school. Whether it was a piano concerto or an opera score, as long as he liked it, there was nothing he couldn't perform. His hands are strong and powerful, but they can perform the most delicate vibrato. This is the first time I see a student with such a talent, and you can't imagine the ecstasy."
Appears to be a young man with extraordinary beauty and extraordinary talent. At that time, she felt that the world was so biased that it gave the best of everything to that young man.
But in fact, she was wrong. The most indispensable thing in this world is cruelty.
She watched helplessly as he had such a high talent that he could travel around the country and shock the world, but he quickly dropped out of school in the blink of an eye and disappeared. From then on, there was no news in the vast sea of people.
What chilled her the most was that Shengde High School immediately destroyed all information about him. Both teachers and students are tight-lipped about his past existence. The photos that once hung on the walls were destroyed one by one, never to be seen again.
It was an erasure-like death.
Although she didn't know his true identity, she felt how cruel it would be for someone who was obsessed with music to take away his musical future.
Everyone feels sad when they mention her past. She doesn't. She has been strong, and as a woman, she has blazed a bright path as a female pianist in this country where men are superior to women. Although her marriage was broken and ended in tragedy, that was not all she had. Her love and pursuit were picked up again after the divorce. That's when she understood. It is not terrible to lose the support of the family, and it is not terrible to be sympathized with by others as a divorced woman. What is terrible is that you have lost your original pursuit and abandoned the things you love most before your eyes.
At that time, she was so ecstatic about M, a genius and genius, and how regretful and sad she was when he left. Who would have thought that after going around in circles for so many years, here, in this piano room, he would once again see the piano score that he had given to the other party.
Leng Yiyao listened quietly to her memories. There, there was M whom she had never seen before. Young, frivolous and wanton. Obsessed with music, no regrets. It was the youth that a boy of seventeen or eighteen years old should have. Unfortunately, in the end, everything came to an abrupt end...
"You never saw him again?" She raised her head and glanced at the light of the piano room.
She could understand M's concentration while sitting in the piano room. Every corner here is carefully crafted by designers. When the beam of light above her head fell on the dark piano paint, at that moment, it was sacred and solemn, making her feel like she was in the National Center for the Performing Arts. This is the most addictive situation for a musician.
"No." Teacher Tan sighed sadly, looking at the music score helplessly, over and over again. "I thought he would just disappear from the world and never appear again."
She always teaches her students based on their taste. After all, no matter how special this place is, it is still a high school. Most real music students are in art schools. Students who are interested in music can only choose a club activity when they come to her. Although it is true that one can go directly to one of the best universities in the empire by ranking in the national competition, but here, there is nothing else that can rival M's talent for so many years except the one in front of him.
It's not that the level is not good. On the contrary, most people who dare to take her lessons are confident in their piano skills. However, she only needs to listen to it once to know that their musical attainments cannot be too high.
This is why she only randomly checks the piano rooms every time and does not stay in each piano room for too long.
Once people's eyes are raised too high, they are no longer willing to lower their heads to see the mundane world.
"Maybe he's not ready to see you yet." Leng Yiyao smiled. In the morning, the man did not hesitate to let Walker intercept her from the physics class and give her this piano score. Isn't he saving something else? thoughts. If he remembers correctly, when they first met on campus, he probably came to Shengde High School because he wanted to reminisce about the past.
This man seemed cold-hearted, but underneath his silvery white face, he had a warm and nostalgic heart.
At this moment, she suddenly felt a little curious about who sent those men in black who followed him all day long.
"I know." Teacher Tan smiled slightly, and the melancholy in his eyes was cleared away, and finally turned into a light breeze.
Leng Yiyao couldn't help but raise her eyebrows. Who said that in this country, women have long been accustomed to compromise, and reality has worn away their edges. At this moment, she saw a different kind of light in the pianist...
When the bell rang completely, she raised her head, glanced at the clock on the wall, shook her head, and stood up gently. "It's getting late, I'm leaving first. Goodbye, teacher..." She chuckled, and the last sentence seemed to bring out a touch of ridicule, like the mantra before the group of respectful students left every day.
Teacher Tan chuckled and was about to wave, but saw that she had already put on her coat and swayed away.
In the open piano room, Teacher Tan held the piano score in her hand. After standing there for a long time, she realized that Leng Yiyao had left this piano score to her.
"Actually..." In the quiet room, her voice with a slight chuckle suddenly sounded: "Leng Yiyao, you are very similar to M."
It's a pity that there is no one else in the empty venue except herself, so no one will respond to this sentence...
Leng Yiyao had just picked up her schoolbag and walked to the main road when she was surrounded by Rhodes, Liao Sijie and their group. Rhodes exclaimed almost as soon as he saw her: "Oh my God, I thought you left first. What happened to the students in your piano class today? Normally, they all want to stay until the end, but I When I came to the venue, I found that every piano room was empty! I thought I had gone to the wrong venue!"
Piano lessons have always been very popular in club activities. He had a basketball activity today and took a shower. He thought it would never be too late to come over, but as a result, it was completely different from the lively scene in the past. Not to mention the people who stayed here to continue playing the piano, there was not even a trace of a ghost. I just searched along the main intersection, fearing that I might miss Leng Yiyao. Fortunately, okay, it happened to happen.
Rhodes breathed out slowly: "My driver is already waiting at the door. Let's go, ladies and gentlemen?"
Most of the boys arrived at the door first and took their own cars to go there first. As the host, he naturally had to wait for Leng Yiyao to the end. After all, he invited it personally, so this etiquette still needs to be followed.
There were actually two female classmates from the special class next to Liao Sijie. Since everyone agreed to join in the fun together, naturally it was the girls.
Leng Yiyao smiled and made a "lead the way" gesture, so a group of girls surrounded Leng Yiyao and arrived at the school gate in an instant.
Zhai Mu saw her immediately, but unexpectedly, it was this picture.
Different from the first day when she reported to Shengde High School, there were people everywhere talking in low voices and looking at each other with complicated eyes. The eyes of several people around her looked at her with a hint of fanaticism.
Especially that boy, who was extremely tall and handsome in appearance, but following her, riding in front and behind, seemed to have an emotion of admiration fermenting unconsciously.
The other girls also centered on her, and there was no incongruity. On the contrary, they unconsciously followed Leng Yiyao's pace, and there was no trace of the arrogance of the rich young lady in the past.
At this moment, for some reason, his feet were firm.
He originally thought that with her mind, she would definitely look down on these second-generation ancestors, and that she came to Shengde High School just to deal with the situation. But in fact, it doesn't seem to be the case...
What the Rhodes family sent was a RV with three doors at the front and rear. The dark body reflected the surrounding light and shadow, making it gorgeous and low-key. The moment she lowered her head and sat on it, her eyes passed over Zhai Mu, who was standing in the shadow. The other person's position was so special that she could only see his face, flickering in and out. But he couldn't see his true expression clearly.
Before the club activities started, she had already called him and asked him not to come over. Didn't this person listen to her
However, has he also noticed that something is not quite right with the recent trend
Leng Yiyao smiled lowly. In this world, human connection is the weakest link. Whether you are in the military circles of D City or the imperial capital, whether you are the marshal's new favorite or not, the most important thing is not your attitude, but your ability. The military world has always been a place where the weak prey on the strong.
Zhai Mu, can you stay awake
The two people clearly noticed each other, but they passed each other with one bowing his head and the other lowering his eyebrows.
That night, Leng Yiyao and her classmates from the special class arrived at the Imperial Capital Harbor on time as agreed.
Rhodes' family has deep roots in the imperial capital for a long time and is a century-old family. The group's anniversary tonight is not only to celebrate, but also to connect with peers and strengthen alliance relationships. Therefore, the formation was extremely large.
Not only as Rhodes said, celebrities from all walks of life were invited to help out, but many industry leaders even came to visit.
Seeing the bright lights on the red carpet, a group of men and women who had just come out of school and were still wearing student uniforms were too lazy to make themselves uncomfortable, so Rhodes simply took them to a detour and entered the main venue.
The harbor of the Imperial Capital is actually the result of technological development. To put it bluntly, reclaim the sea and create land. This is the only location in the imperial capital close to the source of the sea. In order to maximize value creation, huge sums of money were spent to create this harbor.
In the room where celebrities gathered, media from all walks of life naturally took photos and interviews. For a moment, the spotlights and shadows intertwined, lighting up the place almost into daylight.
Liao Sijie always liked to read gossip, and when she saw handsome men and beautiful women from all walks of life appearing in groups, she pointed at the tall, fair-skinned male star and screamed: "Oh my god, he just won the best award this year." Huo Qiming is the best actor!"
Leng Yiyao had never paid attention to who Huo Qiming was. However, as soon as Liao Sijie's voice hit the ground, the other female students in the special class around her began to scream.
The boys looked at the sky one by one, looking disgusted. Who said during the day, what's so good about those stars? No matter how nice it is, they are kings and superstars. How many students in the class don't see people like them enough
Oh my God, it was such a slap in the face so quickly!
Looking at the huge difference in reactions, Leng Yiyao touched her chin and felt that tonight might be really interesting...