"This place is just across the street from Qingtian Music Hall. After the competition, bring her to this restaurant."
"The backyard of this restaurant is pretty spacious, and usually empty, so you can give a full play to it."
"I’ll have a bouquet prepared for you here in advance."
"Besides, I’m very familiar with the owner of this restaurant. We can use the surveillance caras to record your MVP victory replay....."
Inside the restaurant.
Xu Yong rambled on to Lin Tian about the plan and arrangents for the ti.
But Lin Tian couldn’t help but interrupt him,
"Wait, you’re very familiar with this restaurant’s owner?"
"Yeah."
"Is it owned by your relatives?" Lin Tian wondered why he had never heard about it.
"No, he’s an online friend."
"Online friend?"
"More precisely—a forum buddy."
As Xu Yong said this, at that mont, a man ca out from the backyard. Upon seeing Xu Yong, he excitedly raised his hand and said,
"Xu Yong!"
"Ruan!"
Xu Yong happily waved his hand.
"What a strange nickna?" Lin Tian puzzled.
When the man approached, Xu Yong put an arm around his shoulder and introduced him to Lin Tian,
"This is the owner, his forum ID is ’Even the hardest mouth is soft when kissing’... so we call him Ruan."
"Mr. Moonlight, I’ve long admired you! I’ve been envious of you for a long ti!"
The man shook Lin Tian’s hand excitedly and said.
"....."
Shouldn’t normal people say "I’ve liked you for a long ti"?
What’s with this new fangirl culture of "I’ve been envious of you for a long ti"!
"You two seem... pretty close."
Observing their buddy-buddy deanor, Lin Tian was surprised at how close online friends could get.
"Actually, we’ve only known each other for a month, surprising, huh?"
Xu Yong chuckled, "Last month, I posted in the forum ’Are cosplayers all hookers’, and in that whole forum, only Ruan enlightened over a hundred replies, telling that..."
"Don’t underestimate the bonds of us mousey people!!" Ruan said earnestly.
Don’t just start getting all fired up out of nowhere!
"....."
Now Lin Tian began to suspect if Xu Yong had posted soone’s photo as an example when he posted that forum topic.
"Anyway—don’t worry, Mr. Moonlight! That night, my restaurant will be open only for you and Miss Cat!"
Ruan said,
"Whatever you need, just boss around!"
...
...
Final countdown: 2 days.
After arranging everything, the training also entered the final phase.
"....."
"Lin Tian."
At night, after rehearsing the piece once again.
Gan Yanyu was hesitant to speak.
There seed to be sothing she wanted to say, but the words just wouldn’t co out.
In the end, the girl just said softly,
"Have you been out of it recently... or is it just my imagination? I feel like you’ve been distracted these past few days..."
Let’s not talk about whether I’m distracted or not.
You’ve been doing the sa.
Lin Tian smiled helplessly,
"Not really?"
"Yes!"
Gan Yanyu said earnestly,
"Haven’t you noticed? Now, your playing can’t keep up with my pace."
Well, your pace has to be open to as well...
Lin Tian massaged his forehead.
But the subsequent sentence.
Choked Lin Tian a bit—
"Lin Tian, are you still thinking about the competition now?"
"....."
Indeed.
Gan Yanyu was right.
Lin Tian admitted it.
These past few days, because of various things: debuting, live streaming, confession planning, his focus had indeed shifted away from performance itself.
Gan Yanyu was focused on the competition, while his mind was filled with other things.
It was indeed a bit sneaky.
Even though they had written "Hungarian Dance No. 5 in G Minor" a few days ago.
Apart from going to the company to record the piece, there were no further actions taken.
The video versions for Douyin and Bilibili had not been fild either.
The truth is.
Several practice sessions had failed to produce satisfactory results.
Yet.
Their style of dance music.
Should be a perfect fit for Lin Tian and Gan Yanyu!
In "One Step Away", the two had honed such rapport to the extre.
So why is it still turning out this way?
Lin Tian felt that not keeping up with Gan Yanyu’s pace was only a superficial reason....
The real reason.
Seems to be that their hearts have started to drift apart.
This drift is subtle.
Lin Tian couldn’t plainly state it.
Similarly, Mr. Gan has been avoiding this topic as well.
Should they go into the finals with such a state?
"..."
"Let’s continue!"
Regardless.
The competition is imminent, there’s no use thinking about other things, they have to keep practising.
Gan Yanyu looked at Lin Tian, mouth slightly open.
As if she wanted to say sothing, but in the end, she swallowed it back.
"Okay."
...
...
January 20th.
Today is a big day for the music scene in Qingjiang Province, the biennial cellist event.
Yingqin Cup had started a month ago from the preliminary rounds and finally reached the finals!
After eliminating hundreds of participants.
Only Gan Yanyu and Bai Xi remained in the final round.
Before the match, various music dia and producers in Qingjiang gave their predictions!
A total of 14 authoritative music dia outlets voted on their predictions for the match.
dia outlets believed this final would be won by the cellist Bai Xi.
Only 3 dia believed Gan Yanyu could win.
Before the competition, many well-known musicians, magazine editors within the industry accepted interviews.
A famous Qingzhou composer and producer, Wei Zihang, said in an interview:
"Although Teacher Gan Yanyu’s performance in the semifinals was quite spectacular, her consistency is still not enough. In contrast, Teacher Bai Xi’s prowess has been witnessed by all the cellists in Qingjiang over this period."
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