Chapter 28 Verse 24

  24、

  Su Ya was woken up by a ringtone from her mobile phone.

  The bedroom was empty, with no one in sight, and the mobile phone rang incessantly.

  Su Ya glanced at the caller ID display and saw that it was a call from Zhou Baozi, the president of the student union.

  "Speak up quickly!"

  Zhou Pangzi's voice was somewhat flattering: "Su Ya, the student union is organizing an event, please be sure to come to the music hall to participate."

  "What does the student union's activity have to do with me?"

  "Suya, don't be so temperamental. You're also a member of the student union, after all. Besides, as a well-known writer, you have an obligation to contribute some light and warmth to the cultural undertakings of the medical college..."

  "Alright! Stop talking! How can you be so annoying? Time, place." Su Ya was too lazy to listen to Zhou Baozi's nonsense. She knew that Zhou Baozi was the kind of person who would stop at nothing to achieve his goals and had a lot of patience. If she didn't go with him, he would pester her to death.

  "Come now, right here in the school's music hall."

  Xiaoya put down her phone and slowly went to wash up. During this time, the phone rang twice again, both times it was Zhou Chubuzi calling.

  Fifteen minutes later, Su Ya appeared in the concert hall. Zhou Baozi saw her as if he had picked up a treasure, his face full of smiles, very enthusiastic.

  It turned out that the students were preparing to put on a musical, participating in the student art festival performance. The script of the musical was very simple, called "Longing for Husband", which tells the story of Sun Shangxiang, sister of Sun Quan of the Three Kingdoms. After marrying Liu Bei, the couple was originally very loving, but due to political reasons, they were deceived by Wu Guo and returned to Jiangdong. After Liu Bei entered Shu, Sun Shangxiang often stood on Mount Dongyue, looking in the direction where her husband had gone. Later, when Liu Bei was defeated by Lu Xun, Sun Shangxiang mistakenly believed that Liu Bei had died in the chaos of war and once again climbed Mount Dongyue, her heart broken, and after mourning, she killed herself to follow her husband.

  Obviously, the protagonists of this musical are Lin Meixuan as Sun Shangxiang and Fan Zichen on piano.

  Fan Siche is a talented student in the medical school and the president of the music association. He plays the piano exceptionally well, and it's said that he almost became a professional pianist back then. Later on, considering the country's cultural soil was not fertile enough, his parents were worried that he would have no stable life in the future, so they reluctantly allowed him to come study at Nanjiang Medical College. Despite this, Fan Siche still hasn't put down the piano, and every day he spends more time playing the piano than he does with his girlfriend.

  Fan Si Zhe's girlfriend, Chen Xinyan, is also from the medical school. She looks elegant and refined, wearing glasses, speaking eloquently, and has a good reputation in the medical school. It is said that she used to practice dance when she was young. This musical was originally designed by Fan Si Zhe for her. Unfortunately, Chen Xinyan had not practiced for a long time and sprained her foot during rehearsal. Reluctantly, Lin Mei Xuan replaced her role.

  Lin Mei-xuan has a slender figure, skin as smooth as jade, a fox-like face, big eyes, and is charming and captivating, the kind of girl who easily makes men have lustful thoughts.

  Su Ya had a bad feeling about Lin Mei Xuan from the very beginning. This kind of girl is a typical fox spirit, and seeing her effortlessly socializing between Fan Si Zhe and Zhou Pang Zi, she knew Chen Xin Yan was in trouble. Although Fan Si Zhe is a bookworm, even bookworms like this kind of girl who is good at understanding people's intentions and often acts cute and dependent.

  Su Ya was surprised to find that there was another boy in the concert hall, who turned out to be Ji Zhenxuan, the one who had been pestering Fang Yuan last time. He was actually the vice president of the music association, and his first words upon seeing Su Ya were: "Where is Fang Yuan?"

  Su Ya glanced at him: "She's going to the bathhouse for a bath, are you going to follow her too?"

  Ji Zhenxuan smiled and said: "That's not necessary. However, I can wait for her outside the bathhouse."

  For this shameless and thick-skinned boy who could use his face to block knives and arrows, Su Ya really didn't have the energy to bother with him.

  Zhou Pangzi invited Su Ya to come and judge whether the musical performance still needed improvement. As the saying goes, "a person's reputation is like a tree's shadow." In the past two years, Su Ya has made a name for herself in online literature, and everyone inside and outside the medical school knows that there is such a talented woman. What makes her laugh and cry at the same time is that once, the medical school leadership actually asked her to modify the medical school's annual work summary. She honestly told the medical school leadership that novels, essays, poetry, and work summaries are two different things, one is creative writing produced by divergent thinking, and the other is a rigidly regulated eight-part essay, these two types of writing are worlds apart, and people who can write good novels, essays, and poetry may not necessarily be able to write good summaries. But the medical school leadership didn't listen to her, they just smiled and asked her to modify it, so she had no choice but to find a ghostwriter to do it hastily. From then on, whenever she saw the medical school leadership's smiling face, she felt a little nervous, afraid that he would ask her to write eight-part essays again.

  Since you're here, might as well enjoy it properly. After all, Fan Si Zhe's piano performance is still worth listening to. Su Ya sat alone in the front row, while Zhou Bao Zi and Ji Zhen Xuan tactfully kept a distance from her. Chen Xin Yan sat alone in the back row. Perhaps she didn't want others to notice her pain. Although she couldn't perform, nominally she was still Fan Si Zhe's girlfriend, with the responsibility of cheering him on.

  The curtain slowly opens, and the performance begins.

  Fan Zhihe's slender fingers danced on the black and white keys like a sprite, and pleasant melodies flowed from his fingertips. The theme of the first movement was Sun Shangxiang's love at her wedding, Lin Meixuan's slender body seemed to be a happy peacock in the beautiful melody, gently twisting.

  The rhythm of the piano sound gradually accelerated, as if something exciting was about to happen. Lin Mei-xuan transformed into a willow-like figure, her slender branches swaying gently over the lake surface. The wind began to rise, and the lake surface rippled with layer upon layer of waves, thousands of green willows swaying in the breeze, exuding countless emotions. Her body twisted and turned like a snake, radiating youthful joy and longing. It was as if she were on fire, with crystal-clear joy and lightness, releasing all her passion in an instant, more dazzling than a burst of fireworks.

  Su Ya looked at Lin Mei Xuan's dance moves and suddenly had a strange thought: such a girl, if on the bed...

  Su Ya's cheeks flushed slightly, she didn't know why she had such a strange thought. Maybe Lin Mei Xuan's body was too tempting, even as a girl, she couldn't help but feel some emotions. She stole a glance at Zhou Bao Zi and Ji Zhen Xuan.

  Zhou Baozi stared intently at Lin Mei-xuan's body, his eyes shining brightly, his mouth half open as if drooling.

  Fat pervert! Su Ya thought secretly in her heart.

  Compared to him, Jizhuan is much better. His back is straight and he looks calm and collected. However, his expression makes people feel too tense. It's just a musical performance, does he need to be so invested?

  Behind her back, Chen Xinyan was completely shrouded in darkness, just a shadow, yet seemed to be trembling slightly. Alas, she really wasn't a match for Lin Meixuan.

  The joyful melody gradually subsided, and Lin Meixuan's movements also slowed down. The sound of the piano grew smaller, and Lin Meixuan's movements became more solemn. When the piano sounded again, it was already the second movement, with the theme of Sun Shangxiang's sorrowful parting.

  Lin Mei-xuan's apricot-like eyes were like spring, gazing at the audience with a hint of melancholy. Loneliness and sorrow flowed slowly in her dance movements, as if autumn leaves lamented drifting away from their mother tree, dancing with the wind, and turning into mud. Her snow-white skin was striking under the colorful lights, and her melancholic eyes were deeply moving.

  Su Ya suddenly became irritable, as if some extremely unpleasant noise was stimulating her nerves. However, after careful listening, apart from Fan Si Zhe's piano sound, no other sounds were heard. The piano sound was somewhat melancholic, but still pleasant to the ear, and had a world of difference with the unpleasant noise.

  Su Ya looked around, the concert hall was quiet, with only the sound of the piano flowing slowly in the air. At this time, the opera had reached its third act, the theme was Sun Shangxiang's grief after learning of Liu Bei's death. The piano sounded like a stormy rain, one high note followed another, endless and continuous, as if conducting a fierce and cruel war.

  Lin Mei-xuan's body twisted and turned with increasing amplitude, her dance poses becoming more and more exaggerated, as if she were a small boat on the vast ocean, or a feather in the midst of a raging storm, being tossed about at the mercy of fate, alone and forlorn.

  Su Ya thought of the snake charmers in India. Snake charming is one of the oldest professions in India, and many people think that snakes have poor hearing, but snake charmers can make poisonous snakes dance to the sound of a short flute.

  Now, Fan Zhen is like a snake charmer, Lin Mei-xuan is the beauty snake under his violin sound, dancing with the changing rhythm of his violin sound, and behind her gorgeous dance moves, there is an inexplicable strangeness.

  At last, the dance was about to end. Lin Mei-xuan picked up the prop sword she had prepared beforehand and killed herself to follow her husband in death. The bright blade of the sword reflected a ghastly pale light under the colorful lights, which made Su Ya unable to open his eyes.

  A strong sense of unease surged up to her heart like a tidal wave. Su Ya stood up, wanting to interrupt the dance, but it was too late. The sharp blade lightly kissed Lin Mei Xuan's snow-white neck. She clearly saw that a bright red blood stained the blade.

  However, Lin Mei-xuan still had a smile on her face, as if she didn't feel the pain in her neck, and gazed foolishly at Fan Si-zhe, slowly embedding the sword blade into her own neck. Su Ya even heard the sound of the blade cutting through bone, and she wanted to scream, but it was as if an invisible hand had grasped her throat.

  On the stage, Fan Zhenyi remained bowed, immersed in his music, oblivious to everything. The piano sound continued, lamenting the unfinished melody. No one could have imagined that under such beautiful and moving piano sounds, a young and beautiful life would quietly fade away like fireworks.