CHAPTER 264: CHAPTER 219: SAY WHAT NEEDS TO BE SAID PROPERLY

After a full three seconds of silence.

The audience at the scene came back to their senses and gave a standing ovation.

An unprecedented thunderous applause echoed throughout the entire Qingtian Music Hall!

"Such rich emotions, it’s like listening to several different pieces..."

"My heart is trembling... This is too shocking!!"

"Gan Yanyu is so strong!!"

"No, dude, why are you crying?"

"Ah? Why were you smiling when you finished listening to this piece??"

"....."

In the audience seats, everyone was praising it while discussing with their neighbors, displaying various reactions, and they were very surprised to realize others’ emotions were different from their own. Just like the nature of the music piece itself, winding and turning, with highs and lows... causing peoples’ emotions to fluctuate repetitively.

At the judges’ table, He Shumo couldn’t help but quip,

"It felt like it just started... how did it end already!"

"I haven’t even savored the flavor yet!"

The feeling of an interrupted emotion is very uncomfortable.

Why end it there?

Just when it ended here!

Just a little more... a bit more and as a scholar, He Shumo seemed to be on the verge of tasting the true emotions Gan Yanyu wanted to express.

But why has it ended!

"Is it over?"

Yao Han seemed speculative, with a smile that was not quite a smile,

"Why do I feel... it’s just getting started?"

"Just started?"

He Shumo was even more puzzled,

"But hasn’t the performance already ended?"

"What comes next, is not for us judges to worry about."

Yao Han rose from his chair,

"As judges, we just need to score based on the stage performance."

"As for their story, let them continue playing it out..."

Yao Han looked at Lin Tian on the stage.

His expression grew more and more interesting.

Teacher Lin Tian...

Even you, with such talent.

Faced with such expression, you could also misjudge it.

After all, in your eyes.

Your way of expressing such emotions is completely different.

"Yanyu..."

Lin Tian immediately walked up and supported Gan Yanyu, who was gasping for air.

In the midst of the blinding lights surrounding the stage and the noise,

The girl squeezed a faint smile onto her already red cheeks,

"We did it... Lin Tian, we did it..."

After speaking, the girl’s body went limp and she collapsed into Lin Tian’s arms.

"..."

Backstage.

Lin Tian poured a cup of hot water and watched Gan Yanyu swallow her medicine, lying on the couch.

After a while, Gan Yanyu’s complexion finally eased a lot.

"You lie down and rest for a bit, now we just wait for the judges to announce the results."

Lin Tian said.

This period, it’s always the most unbearable.

It’s like awaiting a sentence, waiting for the judge to announce that moment of death sentence.

But...

After that performance just now, Lin Tian felt that all the results no longer mattered.

Lin Tian fixed his gaze on Gan Yanyu, lying on the couch.

"Mr. Gan."

He leaned over by the girl’s side and earnestly said,

"What you just played was—life, right?"

"Eh?"

Gan Yanyu was taken aback, looking at Lin Tian.

"I heard it."

Lin Tian said.

Within that "Hungarian Dance No. 5 in G minor."

It should have been a vibrant, cheerful, and exciting atmosphere.

According to Lin Tian’s original plan.

He intended to enter Gan Yanyu’s world and immerse himself with Elder Gan in such an atmosphere.

In this atmosphere, Lin Tian would pour out an unprecedented amount of love.

To make Gan Yanyu understand.

Your "joy" is different from mine.

We are not just partners, but also......

That was Lin Tian’s plan.

But in reality, during the performance, Lin Tian hadn’t yet found the opportunity to enter the mood with Gan Yanyu.

Gan Yanyu, however, took the initiative one step ahead and gently pushed him away.

Then she carefully whispered into his ear.

She told many stories.

All about herself.

Regretful, unsatisfied, sweet, happy, delighted, joyful... Gan Yanyu seemed to want to share all her experiences and stories growing up with Lin Tian.

From those turbulent emotions...

Lin Tian saw a girl whose spiritual world was in shambles, a journey of the heart from childhood to adulthood.

A complex mix of flavors, containing the emotions of sweetness, bitterness, and spice.

That’s life.

Perhaps, only someone like Gan Yanyu.

Could express such profound and intense emotions through the sound of the piano...

Is this what you wanted to tell me?

Through the sound of the piano.

Lin Tian had never felt Gan Yanyu’s pain so deeply before.

What kind of frenzied spiritual world had this 18-year-old girl been carrying to have made it to this day...

Had it not been for that chance encounter, when Lin Tian rushed to the rooftop.

Perhaps the girl’s world would have already been destroyed.

For such a pained Mr. Gan...

How could Lin Tian bear to hurt her again?

This competition.

There were so many complications; wasn’t the essence of the issue the lack of honest communication between them?

To lay bare one’s life, unguarded and shared in its entirety with another.

This was the breakthrough tactic chosen by Gan Yanyu...

"..."

Gan Yanyu stared blankly at Lin Tian, then, she smiled slightly.

"Mr. Gan!"

Lin Tian pressed down on the girl’s shoulders.

He hesitated for a moment, but still hugged her.

He embraced Gan Yanyu’s upper body into his arms,

"From now on, let’s speak openly, don’t hold things in, okay?"

Lin Tian said softly into Gan Yanyu’s ear.

As partners.

Lin Tian really disliked this feeling.

One suffers pain.

While the other lingers in hesitation.

As partners, we should properly say what needs to be said, we should understand without holding back!!

"Mmm..."

This time.

Gan Yanyu didn’t struggle.

Her face flushed, she lay on Lin Tian’s chest, letting out soft whimpers.

The girl gently nodded her head, the warm breath she exhaled brushed against Lin Tian’s chest,

"Lin Tian, the words you said you would tell me after the competition... is that it?"

Hearing this, Lin Tian suddenly came to his senses.

He released his hold.

This 185 cm tall youth with abs, at this moment, showed a rare blush on his face.

"Uh, not exactly."

"Then what is it?"

Gan Yanyu tilted her head, looking at Lin Tian with puzzled eyes.

"Mr. Gan, this, still..."

Lin Tian’s words were cut off mid-sentence.

The door to the rest room was pushed open.

A staff member stood at the doorway, calling out loudly,

"Teacher Gan Yanyu, the competition results are about to be announced, it’s time to go on stage!"

"Go ahead."

Lin Tian said.

"Okay."

Gan Yanyu stood up, stood in front of the mirror, and tidied up the hair that had become disheveled from lying on the couch due to the seizure, combing the stray hair behind her ear.

Then, she straightened the necklace engraved with "Rainy Day" on her chest, placing it at the center of her collarbone.

Seeing herself restored to an elegant appearance in the mirror, Gan Yanyu scribbled on her thigh, pinching herself.

Reinvigorated!

"Let’s go."

The staff member said respectfully,

"Teacher Bai Xi is already on stage, just waiting for you."

"Alright."

Gan Yanyu took two steps forward, but didn’t head towards the door. Instead, she came straight to Lin Tian and reached out her hand.

Lin Tian was puzzled.

"What’s wrong?"

Gan Yanyu didn’t wait for Lin Tian to respond, but directly grabbed his arm, pulled him up from the chair,

"As partners, no matter what the final results are, we should stand on stage together to witness it, right... Lin Tian."