Chapter 93 (2/2)

Without giving them time to react, the voice spoke again.

“Qi Mu.” The man repeated, carefully, solemnly.

Qi Mu’s hand on the record player’s arm froze. He returned to his senses but still couldn’t figure out what was going on.

Why did Min Chen record his voice? Why did he keep repeating his name. . . ?

A strange emotion surged in his heart, and Qi Mu’s fingers clenched. He almost understood, but it quickly escaped his grasp.

Qi Mu didn’t realize it was this hesitation that prevented him from stopping the record.

“Qi Mu. . .”

“I like you.”

The young man’s eyes widened. He instinctively lifted the arm and removed the needle from the record. In his two seconds of hesitation, the pleasant voice already reverberated in the lounge. Farrell heard it clearly.

Even if it was in Chinese, Farrell had been to Huaxia more times than he could count in the past 40 or 50 years of his music career. He couldn’t understand complicated words after such a long time, but he could speak simple greetings like “Hello” and “Good Morning.”

And among what he understood. . .

The phrase that expressed love in such a simple sentence——

『I like you.』

The maestro, who was always gentle and ever-steady, looked at the youth beside the record player in a daze. After a long while, he asked, “. . . Angel. . . That, what Auston said. . . Does he like you?”

The young man before him had his head tilted down. He turned his face toward the wall.

From that angle, Farrell couldn’t see that the young man’s eyebrows were knitted and his lips were pursed. But, his ears were red, almost dripping blood. The blush spread to his cheeks until his whole face was scarlet.

Qi Mu’s heart pounded in his chest, his face burned and his fingers trembled as he moved the record player’s arm away.

The whole world was covered in a veil, and his ears felt waterlogged. Even Farrell’s voice seemed far away. The only thing he heard——

『I like you.』

It echoed in his ears.

This. . . What the. . . What the heck was going on?!

Just now. . . What he heard just now. . . What exactly was that?!

Qi Mu kept trying to hypnotize himself. Though, there was no way he could have misheard at such a close distance, not with his ears.

Farrell’s exclamation fished him out of his thoughts.

“Good heavens! Reed!!! Auston confessed to Angel!!!”

In an instant, the 【Little Angel’s Violin Room] group chat exploded.

Min Chen: 【. . .]

Daniel: 【Ah?!!!!!]

Daniel: 【Ah?!!!!!]

Reed: 【Damn it, Auston!!! You really eyed my lovely student!!! You devil!!!]