Song Baiyan was in conversation with Bai Chongming when he casually turned his head and noticed Tang Li making her way through the countless banquet tables, heading straight towards the orchestra’s position.
Then, she quietly stood to the side.
After one piece of music concluded, she went forward to communicate with the conductor.
At state banquets, the program played by the orchestra is prescribed.
It was unclear what she said to the conductor, but suddenly he glanced their way. It was only a fleeting look; he dared not stare at them and quickly shifted his gaze away. Even so, Song Baiyan still caught their "sneakiness."
Following Song Baiyan’s gaze, Bai Chongming noticed a girl standing beneath the orchestra’s stage and asked, "Do you know her?"
Song Baiyan didn’t deny it; he only smiled.
Coincidentally, at that mont, the conductor waved his hands, refusing Tang Li’s request.
Bai Chongming beckoned his secretary: "Go tell the conductor to cooperate with whatever that girl wants to do. Tonight’s banquet is about enjoynt; we’re not so bound by rules."
The secretary nodded and quickly made her way towards the stage.
Subsequently, Tang Li got her wish to stand on the performance stage on the left side of the banquet hall.
Many of the guests stopped their al.
Fury was burning inside Lai Wenyan as he instructed Ouyang Qian: "Get her back here quick, causing a scene without considering the occasion!"
At this mont, Tang Li represented the Lai Family.
If Tang Li caused any trouble, it might affect the entire Lai Family in the aftermath.
Aware of the stakes, Ouyang Qian was just about to stand up when Tang Li’s voice spread throughout the banquet hall: "Excuse my intrusion on your dining pleasure. I am honored to attend the state banquet and to encounter a certain soone here."
As these words were spoken, all the guests were startled.
Lai Wenyan’s temples throbbed—how shaful!
Lai Yuaner, sitting with her friends, heard Tang Li’s confession-like words. Catching a glimpse of Han Jifeng dining at the sa table with Ouyang Qian and the others from the corner of her eye, she understood and snickered: "Embarrassing herself at a state banquet, she will pay for it later!"
She didn’t believe her father wouldn’t punish this illegitimate daughter to death this ti!
Han Jifeng’s gaze was locked on the performance stage, his expression inscrutable.
"Suddenly, I want to sing a song for that person," Tang Li, holding an old-fashioned microphone, said to the many people below the stage. Perhaps because of the influence of alcohol, she forgot her nervousness and grinned unwittingly: "Thank you for eting you in the most helpless mont of my life."
As her voice fell, soone started clapping.
Then, applause spread throughout.
Such a public declaration at a state banquet was unprecedented and unrepeatable.
Applause—
For this invaluable courage alone.
As the applause faded, the orchestra began to play, no longer national music, but jazz with the piano and trombone gently starting in the banquet hall. The lodious trombone paused, followed by the drum set accompanint.
Tang Li sang an old song.
"...
How many bends I’ve walked through, each segnt of the path of love proving disappointing.
I can’t bear to part, still longing for a legendary love.
...
It’s your voice that accompanies my dreams every night.
To offer a true heart is truly beautiful.
Endlessly, day after day, I think of you.
In this life and forever—
I’d rather cast away fa and fortune, carefree to soar with you.
Laughing in the wind, singing in the wind, grateful to fate for eting you.
Even the bitterness becos sweet.
May the sky grow old and the seas wear out,
Only hoping this love never grows old,
Willing in this life, promising the next, to embrace again.
..."
At the main table, Song Baiyan leaned back in his chair, jazz music swirling in his ears, his gaze fixed on the performance stage where the girl’s silhouette rged with the band behind her.
As if—
She was ant to be the star singer of the evening.
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