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Chapter 240 - 238, Ensemble Rhapsody (First Update)_1

Chapter 240: 238, Ensemble Rhapsody (First Update)_1

To tell you the truth, Ren He had never expected that the Divine Punishment System would issue such a despicable task. Knowing full well that he couldn’t invite any other girls to the dance, it just had to assign him this task.

If Yang Xi found out he had invited another girl to dance, he guessed his good days would be over... Plus, he couldn’t even dance!

Ren He never took much interest in dancing since he was young. Although the street dance clubs in college were full of beautiful girls with great figures, as was the case in the street dance club at No.4 Middle School, he had never paid attention to anything related to dancing.

That’s why he initially told Jiang Haoyang to have them attend on their own because he wouldn’t go.

But now, it was different. Ren He felt somewhat reluctant to use a mission exemption just for something like this, and causing Yang Xi to misunderstand was out of the question. Even without the mission exemption, he would rather endure a month of a swollen tongue than to have his life turn into some melodramatic soap opera.

In Ren He’s world, he’d avoid the melodrama of love whenever possible. Why make it like some heart-wrenching novel? What for? That’s not called a grand love story, not at all!

So he sat there and pondered hard for almost ten minutes before he thought of an idea. During Yang Lan’s class, he whispered to Jiang Haoyang while she wasn’t paying attention, "You and Liu Bing go talk to the Student Union’s Culture and Arts Department, say our Qinghe Club is putting on a performance—an ensemble of Maksim’s Croatian Rhapsody!"

There would usually be an opening performance before the dance, and not too many, generally around three. After all, dancing was the main event, and these acts shouldn’t overshadow it. This year’s lineup included the street dance club’s dance battle, a Latin dance by a senior boy and girl from second year, and a jazz dance by two second-year girls.

But Ren He thought that although the Divine Punishment System required him to invite a girl other than Yang Xi to the dance, it didn’t specify that they must dance. So bringing Yang Xi and Liu Jiamin to perform an ensemble of Croatian Rhapsody should be alright, right? That would count as inviting Liu Jiamin!

This was the solution Ren He came up with—a way to skirt around the mission. Perfect! He was just too smart!

Jiang Haoyang was stunned for a moment, "I don’t play any instruments."

"You just whistle along on the side to make a gesture, the main thing is for the 6 of us in the club to do something together, which is really fun," Ren He persuaded.

Others are playing instruments, and you’re up on stage whistling... Is that appropriate? At that moment, Jiang Haoyang was internally freaking out! But then he thought, Qinghe Club didn’t really need to care about other people’s opinions nowadays. Even if he whistled on stage, people would call it awesome!

"Alright, Liu Bing and I will head to the Student Union later, and then we’ll tell Liu Jiamin and Li Yifan about it. As for Yang Xi... are you going to tell her?" Jiang Haoyang said, his gestures suggesting he was giving Ren He a chance.

The rise of the Qinghe Club had made Ren He and Yang Xi’s relationship seem ambiguous in the eyes of others. Was Ren He outstanding or not? If he developed a world-class game in high school that brought millions in revenue to the club each year, how could that not be considered outstanding?

So sometimes people thought that Ren He and Yang Xi standing together actually looked quite compatible.

But oddly enough, these two rumored protagonists barely spoke to each other at school!

Ren He said helplessly, "I’ll tell her; you guys don’t worry about it."

Inside, though, he was laughing wildly. He’d already won over the goddess of No.4 Middle School, haha!

When he brought up the idea to Yang Xi, she agreed immediately. Yang Xi usually wouldn’t refuse anything Ren He asked of her; after all, the requests he did make were far too infrequent, always giving instead.

The current lineup was, with Liu Jiamin definitely the star of the performance on piano. The others included Liu Bing on the drums, Li Yifan on bass, Yang Xi on guitar, and Jiang Haoyang on the whistle.

This kind of mix was really out of sorts, but it was just a school performance, who would care that much? The important aspect was still the piano’s performance.

However, in the Croatian Rhapsody, aside from the piano, there is another instrument of utmost importance: the violin.

In fact, after hearing the live rendition of the Croatian Rhapsody played by Maksim, everyone would agree with Ren He’s view that the significance of the violin in this performance was undeniable!

To make the performance even more splendid, Ren He directly chose a targeted reward: violin!

"Host has selected the violin direction reward, endowing the host with Master Level violin maintenance skills," Divine Punishment System stated calmly.

Damn it, Ren He’s face turned dark instantly, as he was awarded the violin maintenance skills. Although there were plenty of violins with over three hundred years of history from famous masters, what use did Ren He have for it? It’s not like he could earn money by maintaining violins for others in the future, right?!

This damn Divine Punishment System must be doing this on purpose!

He felt a bit unwilling to give up, and used another reward, still in the violin direction!

"Host has selected the violin direction reward, endowing the host with Master Level violin playing skills," Divine Punishment System announced the reward in an indifferent tone.

Ren He felt that the Divine Punishment System was probably doing this intentionally because he had saved too many rewards, so it was deliberately disgusting him to prevent any possible future trouble.

He had to be more careful now, with four mission exemption rights and four perfect targeted rewards still in hand, who knows if the Divine Punishment System had its eye on those? He needed to use them quickly!

Otherwise, if the Divine Punishment System disgusted him a couple more times, Ren He worried his heart might not take it...

After acquiring the violin skills, he still needed to buy a violin. Ren He wasn’t too fussy, casually picking out one that cost several thousand yuan from a music store. At least he could play it to relieve boredom at home if he had nothing else to do. And about the drum set, Ren He only found out in the morning after school that Liu Bing didn’t even own one, no wonder he gave up...

At this point, Ren He was left with just over ten thousand yuan in savings, then he waited for Kunlun and the sacred script’s royalties to be paid out this month...

In the past few days, all the members of Qinghe Club rushed to the activity room after school in the afternoon. Even Yang Xi left to attend her specialty classes after rehearsing with everyone for an hour.

Many people noticed that Qinghe Club had been very secretive lately and later found out through friends in the student council that Qinghe Club had voluntarily offered a program for the dance: an instrumental ensemble!

Instrumental ensembles were nothing special, any class in No.4 Middle School could come up with such a program. But what excited everyone was the list of participants noted on the program registration form: Yang Xi!

Currently, at No.4 Middle School, any event that had Yang Xi was worth anticipating.

This news spread like wildfire throughout No.4 Middle School, and many were even more eager to attend the dance on Friday night.

Some astute people also noticed that this seemed to be the first time since the establishment of Qinghe Club that they weren’t just there to mooch food and drink, but were officially performing a program!?

If others were found mooching food and drink, one might wonder if they were lacking in food or clothing, but not Qinghe Club. Who could consider the acknowledged wealthy club short on money? Just take a look at Qinghe Club’s luxuriously decorated headquarters to know, it’s even more badass than the principal’s office!