Chapter 22: The Match Begins

  "Come on!" My sister and Shang Yue clenched their fists and said to me.

  "I will!" I smiled at them with a grin.

  This afternoon is the annual school flower competition. The match is about to start.

  My opponent is Murong Fei, because I was the only one who signed up. So my only competitor is her!

  "The first competition event is piano, are you ready?" asked my sister.

  "Of course!" I replied with a smirk. Practicing piano for two hours every day, how could I not be good at it...

  "Don't embarrass me!" My sister patted my shoulder.

  "Wow! Fox spirit. We meet again!" We looked in the direction of the voice and saw Murong Fei dressed up, looking very charming and alluring. There were also a few girls standing next to her.

  "Hmph!" I gave her a cold glance and looked away. If I look at her for another second, my eyes will be uncomfortable.

  "How dare your defeated general be so arrogant?" She walked over and pointed at my shoulder.

  "Underestimating me? Don't be so arrogant! The game hasn't even started yet, who wins or loses is still uncertain!" I swatted her hand away with a disdainful face.

  "Is that so...... I dare guarantee that I will win!" After saying that, she left. Before leaving, she also revealed a sinister smile. This sinister smile was very brief, only two seconds, and if you didn't look carefully, you wouldn't catch her two-second sinister smile.

  "Come on! Let's go backstage."

  In the background, we saw her again, she didn't know what to say with others, and looked very strange. When they saw us coming, the people next to her walked away without knowing where to go.

  "What is Feathered Head looking at?" Xiang Yue took out her hand and waved it back and forth in front of me.

  "Uh...no." I hastily came back to myself.

  "The competition will begin in five minutes. Please have Murong Fei and Gong Yu Meng get ready, the first round is a piano match..."

  "It's going to start..."

  "Uh-huh..." I nodded.

  Five minutes passed in my tension...

  "Great! The competition is starting!! First, let's invite Mu Rongfei to perform her piano piece for us."

  Murong Fei walked onto the stage and sat down at the piano without even nodding her head, starting to play.

  What a pretentious girl! You're so arrogant just because your boyfriend is the boss of an underworld organization! Just you wait, I'll teach you a lesson!

  One piece down, and everyone applauded, I have to say that her piano foundation is pretty good...

  Uh... it's finally my turn!

  "Add oil!" Shang Yue said to me.

  After she nodded confidently at me, she slowly walked onto the stage. As she brushed past Murong Fei, I heard her say to me, "You're definitely going to lose!"

  I stopped in my tracks and turned around to look at her. She gave me a smile! This smile made me very uneasy!

  I walked onto the stage, nodded and greeted my fellow students below, then walked to the piano. I sat down, counted three seconds in my heart, and raised my hands to place them on the piano. My hands began to move across the keys.

  It started with a slow prelude, gradually approaching the climax. I wore high heels and my feet approached the pedals because it was almost time to step on them.

  At that time, I didn't know. The piano had been tampered with by Murong Fei. The wire of this pedal was cut off. So this pedal couldn't be stepped on at all.

  Unknowingly, I lifted my foot and stepped on it.

  How can it be so awkward? I exclaimed in my heart.

  Is the accelerator pedal broken?

  I stepped on the pedal again, but the sound of the pedal just didn't come out. It sounds terrible! What to do? I anxiously looked around left and right.

  "What's going on? It sounds terrible!" Someone in the audience was dissatisfied.

  "Really! Can she play or not?" Someone in the audience pointed at me and whispered.

  How did this happen? I'm so anxious that I've broken out in a sweat.

  I replayed this song, but failed again when I got to the pedal part!

  "Everyone, please be quiet... something unexpected may have happened. Give her some time." The host came up to help ease the atmosphere on site. I saw this and quickly ran off stage...

  (Mistake! I originally wanted to post this chapter tomorrow, but accidentally pressed the publish button. Ah... everyone... lately I've been busy with some things and haven't had time to update. Sorry... when I have time, I'll make up for it.)