Chapter 444 (2/2)
“You won’t know him even if I tell you!” Yi Lianyan answered with a smile.
“Bah…” Three middle fingers were raised, as they stopped discussing the topic.
As the performances ended one by one, Tang Xiu’s turn quickly arrived. Then, the hostess announced, “Next one, the show presented to us now will be brought by a new student from the History Department, Tang Xiu! He will sing ‘Fairy Dream’ accompanied by a zither he himself will play. So, let’s invite Tang Xiu to the stage!”
Inside the auditorium, Chi Nan’s eyes lit up, while Mu Wanying’s group stopped moving, and Yue Kai’s group had their eyes turn wide. However, Yi Lianyan looked blank for a while, yet she shook her head, as she felt that it was only someone with the same name.
However, when a familiar figure walked onto the stage while holding the zither that had been set up, Yi Lianyan abruptly stood, looking in disbelief as she saw Tang Xiu sit in front of the zither. She rubbed her eyes as to make sure that her eyes were not seeing things.
_It’s … really him?_
_He turns out to be a freshman at Shanghai University, too?_
After making sure that she wasn’t dreaming, Yi Lianyan trembled due to excitement. If not because Tang Xiu was about to perform, she wouldn’t have been able to stop herself to immediately rush toward Tang Xiu, interrogating him as to why he didn’t tell her that he was also a new student at Shanghai University.
On the side of the stage, Han Qingwu calmly held her arms, looking at Tang Xiu’s face from the side. While in the dark corner about ten meters away from her, Zhang Xinya, wearing a mask and a duckbill cap, watched Tang Xiu with sparkling eyes.
Tang Xiu sat on the chair in front of the zither. As the light gradually faded and only a spotlight shined on him, his eyes slowly swept over the teachers and students under the stage.
Afterward, he slowly shut his eyes under everyone’s watchful eyes. A few seconds later, as his eyes suddenly opened, his fingers glided over the strings like running water.
In the wake of the zither’s musical melody, the sounds of running water, the white birds’ happy chirping flowed. Within just a dozen seconds, the vibration and tremulous zither music had pulled everyone into a wonderful world.
The wonderful world filled with green hills and blue waters; waterfalls and various colorful butterflies. It was like the fairyland in a dream.
In the misty hill amidst the fog, someone sat cross-legged playing the zither. Amid the wonderful, soul-stirring zither music, more and more white birds were flying and dancing in the air, as they sang and let out longing, joyful cries.
“Brr…”
Standing at the side of the stage, Han Qingwu’s delicate body suddenly shook. Her pupils instantly contracted as her body turned rigid and stiff in an instant.
She knew those music tunes!
This zither music was familiar to her the moment she heard it. She was sure that she had never heard this music before, yet she didn’t know why it brought such an inexplicable familiarity to her.
Afterward, under the pull of the zither music, Han Qingwu felt that the world before her disappeared. As her sight returned and turned clear and bright, she was already standing in the summit of a hill.
There, she saw herself, or rather, a woman that looked almost exactly like herself. She stood on the side of a person playing the zither. She then rose, dancing lightly and gracefully. Her white dress fluttered in the wind as a beautiful fairy moving as in a dance. She was like the fairy from the Ninth Heaven, moving and dancing heartily in harmony with the zither music.
_“Time and years pass by in a hurry like a dream for the immortals…”_
The strange tone could actually make everyone understand the meaning of the song.
From this strange angle and perspective, Han Qingwu watched the fairy dance, and then gazed at the back of the person playing the zither. She couldn’t hear the song, yet her mouth incited the words in the song ahead of time. It was as though she already knew the lyrics, knew this magical-like musical note.
At the same time, it seemed like a flash of lightning bolted inside her mind. In that sudden moment, fragments – like flying butterflies – gushed out from the crack of lights. It was like she recalled a memory she once had, as the present world fused with the Immortal World before her.
_“In the boundless immortal ocean, I have poured out my feelings, as Qingcheng’s beauty dances like dust in my fairy dream…”_
The soft singing voice reverberated, giving off gentle and tender feelings.
From the zither music, everyone could feel the zither player’s love. It was a deep, profound love toward the dancing woman.
It seemed like the moment was froze in time, as the warmth of love seemed to moisten everyone.
Gradually, everyone was captivated and enthralled therein.
Tang Xiu sang and played the zither, while rising the curtain of memories, recalling the scenes past. His fingers moved and sprung more smoothly. As the scenes continued to wander in his mind, it soon entered the last arc. When the song was coming to an end, the pictures in his mind suddenly changed.
It changed into the scene when he crossed the tribulation! When he got ambushed!
By his most intimate friend! By the woman he loved the most!
His fury and rage suddenly exploded in his chest. The sound of the zither changed, as the world in front of everyone suddenly transformed.
Heinous fiends and demons torrentially dashed to the heaven, as an ocean of blood and mountain of corpses filled the infernal hell.
All of a sudden, everyone was screaming, whether it was in the hellish inferno or inside the auditorium in reality.