Chapter 138 (2/2)

“Oh, come on in.”

“Sorry to disturb.”

Zhao Youyue followed Liu Yuxi into her house. What she saw was a very messy common area. The floor was littered with various kinds of cans and bottles of drinks, junk food packaging and plenty of clothes that had been tossed here and there She was already used to it.

Liu Yuxi did not need to justify her laziness for anyone.

Why would she need to do the chores? All she needed was to let the hourly paid maid clean them up every week, because Liu Yuxi would only leave her house once a week.

This was not the first time Zhao Youyue would start doubting the capabilities of this violin teacher that her mother had enlisted. However, with confidence, Wang Hua had said that she is the best violinist ever. During her school days, Liu Yuxi was a musical goddess who was on par with an elite scholar goddess like her!

Musical goddess?

This woman who never dress up herself and wore pajamas forever!

Besides, Zhao Youyue has never seen Liu Yuxi playing violin even once. She seemed to love playing the guitar more. Sometimes, during breezy nights, she would pick up a guitar and indulge herself at the balcony she did not seem to be particularly good at it, and would hit the wrong notes at times, but her guitar would sound kind of unique, something that expressed delight.

This day, Liu Yuxi taught Zhao Youyue entirely by the book as per usual, and then left her to her own devices. Her attitude to the task was still as flippant as before.

Before this, Zhao Youyue had activated “Xu Jing Card” and learned with earnest. This time, she finally asked, “Teacher Liu, it seems like you do not truly want to teach me.”

“Right,” Liu Yuxi replied without covering up.

Erk, she admitted it!

Although Zhao Youyue had a high tolerance level, rage started boiling up within. This time she was actually trying to learn seriously!

“And why was that?”

“Because you do not truly want to learn although you have an upright attitude.” Liu Yuxi sneered and replied. “Let me guess the reason of you wanting to play the violin. For higher chances of advancing your studies? To show off in the school? Or to impress your parents? For such parlor tricks, I can simply teach and you can simply learn, only to achieve that.”

Zhao Youyue fell silent, she had been outguessed…

“You did not have the sincerity,” Liu Yuxi said softly, “And you have poor talent in music.”

Zhao Youyue felt belittled. She had great musical talent, no matter how difficult the song is, and she could perform it smoothly!

“Indeed you could have gotten the top level violin certificate easily. But you have no creativity; even if you try harder, you will never reach a certain realm that you will never comprehend. That realm is something you either understand or don’t.”

“Even if you practice your violin skills to the peak, at most you could become a good enough violinist. Your music does not have any life in it!”

“Alright, do you now realize your own mediocrity? Keep practicing.”

Liu Yuxi did not need to show mercy to anyone else.

Suddenly, Zhao Youyue understood the possibility of not having stellar musical talent. Her eye-hand coordination was good, that’s about it. She was indeed playing the violin like a robot, precisely keeping form. However, she never understood what creativity in music truly was.

It turns out that some things could not be learned, no matter how hard one tries.

It turns out that she was a side character in music too.