Black Lotus - Chap 76

“Hello, I’m happy to meet you.” Phil’s unskilled Chinese had a distinctive accent, his words were a little unclear.

Wen Niannan was astonished when he heard his words, his nervous hands kept shaking, in a whisper he replied: “I…I like the way you play the piano. Your piano is the most beautiful sound I have ever heard.”

“Haha, thank you so much, do you play the piano, too?”

“Well, a little bit, I used to play a lot in a day, I also learned some of your previous songs.”

“Used to? You don’t play now?”. Asked Phil, wondering.

“No…I don’t play anymore. I have my reasons for not to play.” Said Wen, with sadness in his eyes.

Phil asked nothing more, the staff member, who brought him there, bowed his head saying a few words, turned towards Wen Niannan asking: “Would you like to come and play with my piano, it sounds amazing.”

After hearing that, surprised, Wen Niannan subconsciously turned his head to look at Gu Yansheng, Gu Yansheng was folding his arms while leaning to the side, looking at his way intentionally or unintentionally.

“What’s the matter?” Phil asked with confusion.

Out of a sudden, Gu Yansheng stood up approaching them, he stood beside Wen Niannan indifferently: “Do it if you want to play.”

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Phil took Wen Niannan to the piano, telling him to sit down, Wen Niannan sat down carefully, looking back at Gu Yansheng.

Gu Yansheng got up, walking to the rest area opposite the piano he sat down, glancing at the nervous man on the opposite side.

“Try it now, let me hear you,” Phil said with a smile while stepping aside, waving his hand to the staff to turn on the light above the piano.

In an instant, the light was turned on, now the piano was illuminated by a golden light, it seemed to be plated with a layer of golden making it exceptionally beautiful.

Wen Niannan tightened his hands, raising lightly his hand, he touched the piano key, pressing it after he exhaled.

His slender fingers fluttered with expertise between the black and white keys, an intoxicating and rich sound came from the piano, all the staff in backstage were amazed, thinking it was Teacher Phil who was playing, they paused, looking curiously, but instead, they saw a young man unknown to them.

The lively rhythm made him immersed in the sound of the piano, gradually the originally cheerful melody became sharp.

When he realized that the song was the most difficult of all Phil had ever known, there was a mind-blowing expression in every single person, that man was actually playing without great effort.

Who was that person? How it was possible that he had such a tremendous talent but he never heard of him?

When he heard the sound of the piano, Gu Yansheng’s mind blew; with shock in his eyes, he looked at the person playing the piano in disbelief.

He knew that song, the difficulty wasn’t so high, but Wen Niannan could actually play it? When he was in high school, he heard Wen Niannan play the piano several times. It was very ordinary and even the rhythm was a bit disorganized, how abruptly did it become that good…

Gu Yansheng listened to that graceful piano player. W.E also played that piece two years ago, he had listened to the version played by W.E some time ago, he made subtle changes to make the piece a unique W.E style.

With a deep look in his eyes, he looked seriously at the people under the lights, Wen Niannancould even…

Phil next to him looked at Wen Niannan, who was immersed in the sound of the piano, his eyes were filled with excitement.

Why didn’t Feng tell him that this kid had such a tremendous talent, such a great talent can’t be wasted…

As the song reached the last stage, it became more and more difficult, everyone looked at him nervously, wanting to know if he could complete the most difficult part without making mistakes.

The man who was fully immersed in the sound of the piano became more and more fascinated as he played. Wen Niannan smiled unconsciously because he was reaching to his favorite part, his eyes were shining, and that brilliant smile was being reflected in the hearts of everyone on the scene.

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The fast and smooth flutter of his fingers on the keys finished the last part perfectly.

After playing the last note perfectly, Wen Niannan sighed in relief he touched the keyboard in front of him, smiling from the bottom of his heart.

Turning his head to ask Mr. Phil how he played, he found the people around that everyone around was staring at him with shock.

Phil came back to his senses and quickly clapped, also the people around him applauded, a little lost, Wen Niannan watched them applause, he turned his head, looking at Gu Yansheng.

Gu Yansheng stared blankly at the piano, then he raised his gaze looking at him, with unreadable emotions.

“Can you tell me your name, Young man?” An excited Phil suddenly said to Wen Niannan.

“I… Wen Niannan.”

“Would you like to be my student, Wen?”

When this question was asked, everyone breathed heavily. Master Phil once said to the public that he would never accept apprentices during his career because he felt that the talents of young people nowadays weren’t enough to teach them.

Wen Niannan was shocked when he heard that Phil wanted him to be his student. Although he was very excited, he couldn’t accept it.

Just as Wen Niannan was about to refuse, Gu Yansheng who stood behind suddenly stepped forward holding his hand, staring directly at Phil in front of him, he clearly said: “No, I refuse for him, he doesn’t like playing the piano, Teacher Phil, I’m sorry, but you may choose someone else.”

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After he said that, he dragged Wen Niannan to leave. Wen Niannan lowered his head, looking at his held hand, his eyes flickered a few times.

Behind him, Phil shouted loudly: “Wen! Wen! You can come to me, if you change your mind, I’ll welcome you here anytime!”

Wen Niannan turned his head wanting to look at Phil behind him, but was slapped by a hand, Gu Yansheng said coldly and severely: “What you’re looking at! Don’t look back, we’re going home!”

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On the way back, Wen Niannan unquestionably felt the heavy atmosphere, but he didn’t say anything, he was leaning against the window in a trance.

“When did you learn that melody?”

“What?” Asked Wen Niannan in confusion looking at him when he heard a voice.

“When did you learn the piece you played just now,” he said, frowning, impatiently.

“A time ago, when I was seventeen or eighteen.”

Seventeen or eighteen…

Gu Yansheng’s grip on the steering wheel tightened, sure enough…that was to say, Wen Niannan had always played the piano like that…

“Why didn’t you play like that during the high school celebration, the rhythm of that time was constantly disordered. Now it seems that you deliberately wanted the class to be humiliated at that time. The teacher strongly recommended that you go instead of Luoan. Thinking that you would prevent him from coming to the stage like that.”

“What do you mean?” Asked him with doubts in his eyes, looking at Gu Yansheng with confusion.

“Oh, if I remember correctly, the program that Tang Shuo signed up for the class was also piano. He was behind you on stage. Did you deliberately fail to play to make him look good?”

“You…why do you think that? Why would I want to make a fool of myself?” A realization hit his mind, his face suddenly changed.

“That Young Master Tang was stick to you like a chewing gum, you would constantly see him following you everywhere, ah, that time in front of the teachers and students of the school, he declared his love to you.”

“I didn’t purposely refuse, there was a reason why I didn’t play well.”

Gu Yansheng snorted coldly: “A reason? What other reason could be than to help your little lover?

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“My hand was hurt…so I made a mistake.”

Upon hearing that Wen Niannan said that his hand was wounded, Gu Yansheng had a look of disgust in his eyes, he felt that he was lying without any piece of truth; when he was about to speak, he paused with surprise.

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He vaguely remembered that when Wen Niannan came on stage, he had a pair of white gloves on his hands, he raised his gaze, looking at the person in the back through the rearview mirror with a little questioning in his eyes.

Wen Niannan lowered his head, looking at the traffic outside without saying anything, a touch of sadness flashed in his eyes that Gu Yansheng couldn’t see.

At that time at home, he practiced many times the music that would represent his class, the teacher asked him to practice a few more times backstage, but he didn’t expect to be the target of Shen Luoan’s scheming.

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Wen Niannan played with the school piano several times at noon, he didn’t think that there wouldn’t be any problems, so he got up and went to the cafeteria for lunch.

As soon as Wen Niannan left, the door behind him was opened, Shen Luoan came out with a cold face full of jealousy.

He wasn’t happy with his teacher’s recommendation of Wen Niannan’s participation, it wasn’t bad to play a little because it wasn’t him, his original plan was to secretly spoil the piano so that Wen Niannan wouldn’t be able to play, but when he heard the music of Wen Niannan’s piano, he became jealous.

Shen Luoan didn’t expect Wen Niannan to be so good at the piano, he basically wanted to ruin the piano, but he changed his mind after he saw that pair of slender fingers flying through the keys.

Destroying the piano would only prevent him from participating in the school celebration, besides it would lead to the cancellation of the program, however, if the piano is intact but Wen Niannan, even so, couldn’t play right, he would be humiliated in front of the whole school, it would be more interesting.

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Looking at Wen Niannan’s back, a poisonous look flashed in his eyes.

In a blink of an eye, the school celebration had begun, the participants on the stage were working hard to perfect the show they have prepared for a long time.

There were seven or eight people before Wen Niannan’s turn to take the stage. Wen Niannan was sitting in the corner studying the music score. Suddenly, someone patted his shoulder, he turned his head to see Tang Shuo.

“Haha Niannan, what are you doing?”

“Classmate Tang Shuo? Why are you here?”

“I was sent by my class to perform on stage, all of them were unwilling to do the hard work, so the teacher asked me to do it because I know how to play the piano. Hey? Niannan, are you also playing the piano? What a coincidence.”

Wen Niannan gently rubbed his hands, smiling he replied: “Yeah, it’s a coincidence, what’s your number?”

“Let me take a look, ah… it’s the 15th, what about you Niannan?”

“I’m 14th, so coincidentally, just behind me.”

Wen Niannan suddenly heard someone calling him not far away, he said that to Tang Shuo, finally, he stood up, leaving.

“Classmate, what’s wrong?”

“The teacher told me to tell you to go to the classroom to bring her the program lists that are on the podium.”

The classroom was on the third floor, Wen Niannan went upstairs while thinking about the song, he approached the door of the classroom, and when he was about to enter, suddenly a figure came crashing in front of him.

There was something was going towards him, Wen Niannan subconsciously shielded himself from it with his hand, at that moment, there was a sharp pain in his hand, burning pain was all he could feel…