When Zhai Mu walked out of the bar, it was already dark. In the late autumn, it seems that the nights are getting longer and longer, just like the rhythm before the cold winter. Originally, I was going to pick Leng Yiyao back to the villa today, but I received a call from her halfway through, saying that I had made other appointments tonight and I didn't need him to come. As for what she had an appointment with at night, and who she was with, she didn't mention anything at all.

But it was as if a voice in his head kept telling him to let him see what was going on. Originally, he was able to jump from the military world of City D to the imperial capital, and was envied by countless people. Now it seems that it is not an easy thing to truly gain the trust of the marshal.

Although the door of the school was open, not many students came out. Most of the club activities started after the afternoon classes were over. The security guard told him that the fastest wave of students would come out, and it would be almost seven o'clock.

He was idle and bored, so he went to the bar near the school to pass the time.

After doing the math, Leng Yiyao came to the imperial capital for a very short time, not even a month.

At the beginning, he still remembered that, let alone the marshal, even Frey was not particularly concerned about her life and death. The pursuit and interception with the First Prince Lu Chen along the way, the military has its own channels to know, and watching her from the sidelines is a kind of exploration and test of her strength.

In fact, she not only subdued Lu Chen, but also focused 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 world, and even changing schools was just a matter of pushing the boat with the flow. One is to facilitate Leng Yiyao in an unfamiliar environment as soon as possible. Adaptation, on the other hand, is not a kind of monitoring of her by the military.

It's just that, even today, even a month has not arrived, but it seems that Leng Yiyao has completely integrated into the marshal's social circle.

From Frey to the military academy, the marshal has completely divided her into his sphere of influence. And he...

Zhai Mu narrowed his eyes and looked at the lights of Shengde High School with a calm expression. Unconsciously, his position was marginalized.

This kind of feeling is very uncomfortable, like someone who is clearly one step behind you, turned around, and reached your destination an hour before you, eating ice cream leisurely and watching you continue upstream. But, no one at the end of you knows where, including himself...

"Hey, you said, that transfer student, is it the same as opening it!" Two female students with leather schoolbags and the latest dress of the season bit their ears as they walked.

"I heard that the super-famous physics teacher called her to join his club activities, and no one paid any attention to him. Today, the piano teacher Tan changed her style and gave her one-on-one guidance. , it's like hell." The other female student beside her nodded vigorously, her face speechless.

"If you want me to say, it doesn't matter if everyone in the special class is arrogant. This can't be described as 'cow' at all." Teacher Tan's class is super difficult to choose. The key is that only a few hours a week. No. Student, it's a stroke of luck to be drawn to the piano room for tutoring. She was Leng Yiyao, who was in the first piano room. The teacher stayed there for nearly an hour, and she didn't come out for a while.

"But to be honest, this is the first time I heard that Teacher Tan is willing to be alone for so long." The female student looked surprised. After all, when Shengde Group was able to invite this female pianist, the first thought was to invite her to be a full-time teacher, but unfortunately, the other party was unwilling, saying that she would become restless after dealing with this group of students for a long time. This was organized into a community event. After all, in such a course, students will change and fluctuate every semester.

Talking little things behind people's backs, this kind of thing actually happens no matter what social class you are in, but when Zhai Mu didn't expect it, he would have a day to listen to the corner. The one he was thinking about just now.

After the two female students left, sure enough, many other students appeared on the main road of the campus, and it seemed that the club activities were basically over. It's a pity that each expression is similar to the previous two people.

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 too many people and everything was said. Some people say that this transfer student is too wicked, and that he is a magician that attracts all the teachers to be abnormal; some people say that when he left, he deliberately went to the piano room No. 1 to take a look. Will laugh with her....

In short, all kinds of discussions have almost dyed the school gate.

Zhai Mu leaned against the wall, closed his eyes, and listened quietly.

always feel that something important has been neglected by him...

And right now, Leng Yiyao, who is still sitting in the piano room, is playing "Piano Prelude". This piece was assigned to her by the other party, and the sheet music was placed in front of her. It only took half an hour to explain it, and she couldn't wait to let the other students disperse and sat directly beside her.

Leng Yiyao's eyes flicked along the other sheet music next to the piano. Since this "Tan teacher" saw this entry-level piano score, the whole person became a little wrong. Her eyes lit up slightly, as if she was recalling the past little by little, and she seemed to be looking for something through her.

Although the name of this "Piano Prelude" is simple and unpretentious, it hides all the efforts of the composer and expresses the composer's artistic pursuit very implicitly. The soothing and calm prelude depicts the sea, clouds, fog, and moonlight. There can even be vaguely heard 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 the song is surprisingly beautiful. When you close your eyes, you can almost feel the beautiful sigh, the exquisite scenery, the gorgeousness of the picture, and the vastness of the world. Coveted.

If she hadn't heard early in the morning that the composer was a man, she would have suspected that she had fallen into a dream woven by a beautiful woman.

When the song ended, Mr. Tan stood up and clapped with both hands, his eyes clearly glowing with aftertaste. In it, there is sadness, despair, and beauty, but more than that, it is firmness.

"Your skills are perfect," the woman's elegant voice sounded in the piano room, clearly at such an age, but with a charming demeanor: "The most important thing is that you can express the composer's heart. When did you start learning the piano?"

Leng Yiyao thought about the "tutorial" she received since she was a child. Because of Leng Yixuan, she took piano lessons quite early. "About six years old." Although at that time, most of her tutors asked her to be safe. Sitting quietly on the side, listening to Leng Yizhen playing the piano.

"Why did it break later?" Although her fingers are flexible, people who are used to the piano will not take so long to familiarize themselves with the score, not to mention, her love for music is very calm. There is a popular saying among experts - if you don't practice for one day, you will know, if you don't practice in two days, your peers will know, and if you don't practice in three days, the audience will understand. Although Leng Yiyao is not a real pianist, she can still hear this level of relaxation after reaching a certain level.

"It's boring, it's not interesting." She recalled the memory of the original owner. At that time, she should have been in the most rebellious state of mind, and everything was suppressed by Leng Yixuan. Whether it was at home or outside, everyone looked at her as if they were looking at Leng Yixuan's shadow. So, out of frustration, I simply wasted years of income. Of course, the piano was not really in her heart at first, so she gave up when she said it, but I really didn't feel that it was a pity.

"What a pity." Mrs. Tan murmured and looked at her hand. It was clearly small and slender, but when the sound was the strongest, it was able to show such moving power. The expressiveness and tension were not only in this Shengde High School, even if it was a In the imperial capital, no matter which grade group it is in, it is definitely the top. But when it comes to music, whether you like it or not is the most important thing. Anything can be faked, only liking is the hardest to conceal and disguise. As she said, she could not hear Leng Yiyao's extreme love for the piano. On the road of music, without love, only thorns are left.

"You are very talented," she said quietly, her eyes falling on the piano score that Leng Yiyao first brought in: "It's the same as my favorite student."

After playing for so long, finally got the point.

Leng Yiyao narrowed her eyes and turned her head slightly. The light shone on the bridge of her nose, as if rendering her facial features more three-dimensional. She just raised the corners of her lips slightly and didn't say a word. At this moment, she chose to be a conscientious listener.

"He is as talented as you are. In the music industry, talent is the dream of many people. People often say that diligence can make up for one's shortcomings, but those are definitely not the piano. Everyone has a pair of hands, but these hands pop out. The sound of the piano is very different. From the moment you are born, the timbre under your fingers is already doomed. The rest is learned the day after tomorrow, in which scale to rotate, which note to pause, and which note is the strongest!" She almost trembled as she held up the beginner's piano score, her eyes were 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 went to the piano room to play the piano silently after school. Whether it was a piano concerto or an opera soundtrack, as long as he liked it, there was nothing he couldn't perform. His hands, strong and powerful, can play the slenderest vibrato, the first time I see a student with such talent, you can't imagine the ecstasy."

Appears to be young, attractive, and gifted. At that time, she felt that the world was so biased that she handed over the best of everything to that young man.

But in fact, she was wrong. There is no shortage of cruelty in this world.

She watched helplessly as he possessed such a high talent, clearly capable of traveling around the world and shaking the world, but in the blink of an eye he quickly dropped out of school and disappeared without a trace.

What chilled her the most was that Shengde High School turned around and destroyed all the information about him. Whether it is a teacher or a student, they are silent about his past existence. The pictures that once hung on the walls were destroyed one by one, never to exist again.

It was a kind of obliteration.

Although she didn't know his true identity, she felt how cruel it was for someone who was obsessed with music to take away his musical future.

Everyone mentions her past, and they are all sighed. She doesn't. She has been strong before, and with the attitude of a woman, she has stepped out of the road of a female pianist in this country where men are superior to women. Although the marriage was broken and ended in tragedy, that was not all of her. Her love and her pursuit have been picked up again since the divorce. Only then did she understand. It's not scary without the support of the family, and it's not scary to be sympathized by others in the eyes of a divorced woman. What's scary is that you lose your original pursuit and just abandon your favorite things.

At that time, she was so ecstatic about the genius M, and how saddened she was when he left. Who would have thought that after going around for a few years, he would actually be here, in this piano room, and once again see the piano scores he had given to the other party.

Leng Yiyao listened quietly to her memories. There, there was M that she had never seen before. Young and frivolous, wanton indulgence. Obsessed with music, no regrets. It was the youth that a seventeen or eighteen-year-old boy should have, but unfortunately, in the end, everything came to an abrupt end...

"You never saw him again?" She raised her head and glanced at the light in the piano room.

She could understand M's concentration when she was sitting in the piano room. Every corner here is created by designers. When the beam of light above her head fell on the dark piano paint, at that moment, the sacredness and solemnity made her feel like she was in the National Centre for the Performing Arts. This is the kind of situation that musicians are most addicted to.

"No." Teacher Tan sighed and she looked helplessly at the piano score, over and over again. "I thought that he would completely disappear from the world like this and never reappear."

She teaches students that she has always been eye-catching. After all, no matter how special this place is, it is still a high school. Most of the real music students are in art academies, and students who are interested in music come to her only to choose a club activity. Although it is true that being ranked in the national competition can be directly promoted to one of the top universities in the empire, but here, there is nothing else that can rival the talent of M, except for this one.

It's not that the level is not good. On the contrary, most of the people who dare to choose her class are confident in their piano level. However, she only needs to listen to it once to know that their musical attainments cannot be too high.

That's why, every time she just randomly checks the piano room, each piano room doesn't stay for too long.

People, once their eyes are raised too high, are unwilling to lower their heads to look at the mundane world.

"He may not be ready to come to see you." 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. Why didn't he save something else? mind. If I remember correctly, the first time we met on campus, he should have come to Shengde High School alone because he wanted to reminisce about the past.

This person seems to be cold-hearted and cold-hearted, but under the silvery white, he has a warm and nostalgic heart.

At this moment, she was suddenly curious as to who sent the men in black who followed him all day long.

"I know." Teacher Tan smiled slightly, and the melancholy in his eyes was removed, and it finally turned into a light cloud.

Leng Yiyao couldn't help raising her eyebrows, who said that in this country, women have long been accustomed to compromise, and reality has worn away their edges and corners. At this moment, she saw a different kind of light in the pianist...

When the bell rang completely, she looked up, glanced at the clock on the wall, shook her head, and stood up gently. "It's getting late, I'll go first. Teacher, goodbye..." 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 her hand, but she saw that she had put on her coat and swayed away.

In the open piano room, Teacher Tan held the piano score in his hand and stood there for a long time, only to realize that Leng Yiyao had left this score to her.

"Actually..." In a quiet room, her voice with a slight chuckle suddenly sounded: "Leng Yiyao, you are very similar to M."

It's a pity that in the empty venue, there is no one else but herself, so no one will respond to this sentence...

Leng Yiyao just picked up her schoolbag and walked to the main road, when she was surrounded by Rhodes and Liao Sijie. Rhode exclaimed almost as soon as he saw her: "Oh my god, I thought you were leaving first. What the hell happened to your piano students today? Usually, one by one can't wait to stay until the latest. When I came to the venue, I found that everyone in the piano room was empty! I thought I went to the wrong venue!"

Piano lessons have always been very popular in club activities. Today is a basketball event. He took a bath. He thought it would never be too late to come. As a result, it was completely different from the lively scene in the past. Not to mention the person who stayed here and continued to play the piano, there was not even a shadow of a ghost. I just searched along the main intersection, I was afraid that I would go wrong with Leng Yiyao. Okay, okay, just happened to meet.

Lord slowly exhaled: "My driver is already waiting at the door, let's go, ladies and gentlemen?"

Most of the boys went to the door first and took their own cars. As the host, he naturally had to wait for Leng Yiyao to the end. After all, but he personally invited him, so there is still some etiquette.

There were actually two female classmates from the special class next to Liao Sijie. Since everyone agreed to join in the fun together, it was naturally the girls.

Leng Yiyao smiled and made a "lead the way" gesture, so a group of girls surrounded Leng Yiyao and came to the school gate instantly.

Zhai Mu saw her for the first time, but, unexpectedly, it was this picture.

Different from the first day, when she reported at Shengde High School, there were people everywhere talking in low voices and looking at her with complicated eyes. Several people around her looked at her with a frenzy in their eyes.

Especially that boy, who is extremely tall and handsome in appearance, but following behind her, looking like a saddle and a horse, there seems to be a kind of worship that is unconsciously fermenting.

The rest of the girls are also centered on her, and there is no incongruity. On the contrary, they unconsciously cooperate with Leng Yiyao's pace, and they don't have the invincibility of Miss Qianjin in the past.

At this moment, he didn't know why, but he was sure of his feet.

He thought that with her mind, she would definitely look down on these second-generation ancestors, and she came to Shengde High School just to deal with the situation. But in fact, it doesn't seem to be the case....

The Rhodes sent an RV with three doors at the front and back. The dark body reflected the light and shadow around it, splendid and low-key. The moment she lowered her head and sat up, her eyes passed Zhai Mu, who was standing in the shadow. The other person's position was so special that she could only see his face, which flickered and dimmed. But he couldn't see his real face.

Before the club activities started, she had called him so that he wouldn't have to come. Did this person not listen to her?

However, has he also noticed that the recent wind direction is not quite right?

Leng Yiyao smiled lowly. In this world, sophistication is the weakest link. Whether it is in the military world of D city or the imperial capital, whether it is the new favorite of the marshal or not, the most important thing is not attitude, but ability. The military world has always been a place where the weak eat the strong.

Zhai Mu, can you stay awake again?

Both of them clearly noticed each other, but they passed each other with one bowed head and one brow lowered.

That night, Leng Yiyao arrived at the Imperial Capital Harbor on time with the students from the special class as agreed.

Rhode's family has been deeply rooted in the imperial capital for a long time. It is a century-old family. Tonight's anniversary of the group is not only to celebrate, but also to connect with peers and strengthen the covenant relationship. So, the battle was great.

Not only did he invite stars from all walks of life to help out, as Rhodes said, and even many bigwigs in the industry came here with admiration.

Seeing the bright lights on the red carpet, the men and women who had just come out of the school and were still wearing school uniforms were too lazy to make themselves feel uncomfortable, so Rhodes simply took them around and entered the main venue.

The harbor of the imperial capital is actually the result of technological development. To put it bluntly, land reclamation. This is the only location in the imperial capital close to the source of the sea. In order to maximize the creation of value, a huge amount of money was spent to build this harbor.

During the gathering of stars, there are naturally all kinds of media capture interviews, and for a while, the interweaving of spotlights and lights turns the place almost into daytime.

Liao Sijie has always liked to read gossip, and when she saw all kinds of handsome men and beautiful women appear in groups, she pointed at the tall, white-skinned male star and screamed: "My God, I just won the most awards this year. Huo Qiming, the best actor!"

Leng Yiyao never paid attention to who Huo Qiming was. However, as soon as Liao Sijie landed, the other female students in the special class beside her began to scream.

The boys looked up at the sky one by one with disgusted expressions on their faces. Who said that in the daytime, what is so good about those stars? No matter how good they are, they are Uranus superstars. Which classmates in their class are rare?

Oh my god, what a slap in the face!

Looking at the hugely different reactions before and after, Leng Yiyao touched her chin, only to think that tonight, it will be really interesting...