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Chapter 199 - 197. The Early Arrival of Carnival Night (Third Update)_1

Chapter 199: 197. The Early Arrival of Carnival Night (Third Update)_1

Liu Jiamin just stood quietly below the piano room, listening to the powerful sounds freely drifting from the second-floor window, as if they were vibrating her entire soul.

Originally, she was able to join No.4 Middle School exceptionally because the principal heard emotion in her piano playing, and now she stood here transfixed because she heard even more intense and richly fervent emotions in this piano music—not scalding, but rather heartwarming.

Liu Jiamin seemed to see long-tailed fireballs like meteors whistling past above the piano room, with gunshots erupting not far away, people continuously falling, homes shattered and in disarray.

And there was that person, sitting stubbornly, playing the piano amidst it all.

This was true spiritual resonance, this feeling was so magical, it was as if two people’s spiritual worlds were slowly merging. In an instant, Liu Jiamin entered the other person’s inner world!

A kindred spirit? No, Liu Jiamin even felt a trace of admiration in her heart, a level she could not yet reach.

And furthermore... this piano piece was so unfamiliar. Why had she never heard it before? Could it be an original composition by the performer?!

That would be too incredible. Liu Jiamin told herself she had listened to countless piano pieces, both newly released and classic, but she had never heard this particular one. If such a stunning piano piece had appeared in the public eye, it wouldn’t make sense for it to be unknown, for it was genuinely outstanding!

In the world of composition, it’s not the difficulty but the popularity, and Croatian Rhapsody already had its place among the well-known piano pieces in Ren He’s past life.

Astonishing piano technique, abundant emotion, a nearly perfect piano piece.

For Liu Jiamin, this was a triple shock. Now the piano piece was reaching its conclusion and finally stopped, and the gunfire and chaos in the spiritual world also came to an abrupt halt. She rushed toward the stairs without a second thought, Liu Jiamin figured this was probably a teacher from Fourth Middle School; how else could someone play such a beautiful melody? The only thing on her mind at the moment was one thing: to become an apprentice!

The path to greatness for a genius also requires a great teacher, and what Liu Jiamin had longed for the most in her journey of learning was to have a truly outstanding teacher to guide her. However, the great masters in the country either weren’t accepting students, or their fees were incredibly high—she had heard sums up to hundreds of thousands per year.

For a student like Liu Jiamin, who couldn’t even afford a piano, how could she dream of those? Times had changed; now, in the economic era, everything revolved around money.

Of course, there were also many highly respected teachers who taught students selflessly, but she didn’t know any of them.

Now that she had finally encountered one, Liu Jiamin had to seize the opportunity. Judging by that piece just played, the person at the piano was truly no less talented than those masters!

As she dashed up the stairs, a clean-cut and uniquely charming young man was coming down, who gave her a smile before continuing on his way, and they passed each other by.

But when Liu Jiamin reached the piano room and saw the empty classroom, she was stunned, feeling a hollow sorrow. The teacher had left.

Liu Jiamin had never considered that the piece she had just heard could have been played by the young man who had just passed her by. She knew full well that piano required painstaking practice, and he was just a first-year student like herself; how could he possibly possess such skill?

There were four exits in this teaching building, so it was entirely possible that the teacher had left through another route, but Liu Jiamin couldn’t stop to think about that now; she had no deductive abilities, she just wanted to know who the teacher was.

Left with no other choice, she turned to the school forum for help, posting for the first time, and using her real name.

"Dear seniors, hello, I’m Liu Jiamin from the class of ’06. Today, after military training, I heard someone playing an unfamiliar and perfect piece in the piano room. The pianist had reached a level where skill transcended to infuse emotion into the music. I would like to ask if anyone knows which teacher it might be. I wish to become an apprentice."

Initially, the post didn’t attract much attention; after all, there were many students at No.4 Middle School who could play the piano, quite a few at grade ten level. To them, perhaps some non-pianists had heard a pleasant melody, which seemed quite common, and didn’t view these help-seeking posts as anything special.

No one laughed about Liu Jiamin wanting an apprenticeship; the learning atmosphere in No.4 Middle School was commendable. Some top students naturally acknowledged that asking and being asked was their main way to learn. Sometimes a top student would find someone and say, "I want to study for a while, do you have any questions for me..."

By senior year, even students from other classes would come to ask questions, and those asking could be either underachievers or top students.

The ones asking and being asked generally had no personal relationship, possibly a boy and a girl, possibly not even close.

So an enthusiastic person also replied to Liu Jiamin, "As for which teacher plays the piano well, I’m not sure. Could it be senior Lin Zhichen? He’s the best pianist in the school. But that’s not right either, is senior Lin Zhichen not leading a study tour in Africa right now?"

"It’s not senior Su Tiexi either; she’s in senior Lin Zhichen’s team..."

At this moment, someone suddenly asked, "Liu Jiamin? Is it the Liu Jiamin who astounded the whole school with her piano performance last month and was specially admitted by the principal to join the Tao Essence Class?"

Holy shit, only now did someone suddenly recall this incident. Back then, quite a few higher grade class groups had homeroom teachers who, after listening to Liu Jiamin’s performance, sighed in the group chats that a new piano prodigy had emerged among the freshmen, calling the rest of you slackers.

So many people knew about this!

To astonish the principal, what level would that be? At least much better than the average student, right? The person who everyone felt was astonishing, even described with the word "perfect," how freaking strong must they be?!

"It can’t be the principal, damn!"

"It’s possible..."

However, what nobody expected was that the principal’s ID ’Fourth Middle School Liu’ suddenly replied underneath the forum post, "It’s not me; I can’t play the piano."

The post immediately blew up!

"Holy shit, it’s Liu in the flesh!"

"Caught Liu red-handed!"

Liu responded to the post, "The one above who cursed, and the one who wants to catch me, junior from 2nd Grade Class 3, Yuan Chao, come to my office once school starts."

"Hahaha, no way!"

An ordinary post turned out to be so popular, and many teachers also bizarrely followed suit with their comments for fun.

At No.4 Middle School, the atmosphere was sometimes so good; teachers encouraged students to balance work and leisure, to enjoy life. One year, when the snow was particularly beautiful, the school, which normally forbade snowball fights due to a past accident, specifically canceled morning self-study and asked all students from the three grades to come downstairs for a snowball fight. Students still vividly remembered a teacher shouting from downstairs, "Seniors, come on down, stop studying!" and after morning self-study, seeing the principal and vice-principal looking down from the window, fondly watching the students on the field...

Nobody thought that because of such an event, No.4 Middle School would experience an online frenzy before the school term even started.

Yet Liu Jiamin was still disconcerted, as she still had no clue who that person was.

At this moment, she suddenly realized, could it really be that good-looking boy who smiled so beautifully?

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