Black Lotus

On the way back, Wen Niannan felt a heavy atmosphere surrounding him, but he didn’t speak, just leaning by the window.

“When did you learn to play this piece?”

“What?” Hearing the voice, Wen Niannan asked.

Gu Yansheng frowned and said impatiently, “That piece you played just now, when did you learn it?”

“A long time ago, when I’m seventeen or eighteen.”

Seventeen or eighteen…

Gu Yansheng clutched onto the wheel tighter. Sure enough… That means Wen Niannan had always been so good at it.

“How come I have never seen you playing so well in high school? When you played back then, your rhythms were all messed up, but now it just seems like you are just trying to bring shame to the class. At that time, the teacher recommended you instead of Luoan to attend, and you made her look dumb in front of the whole school.”

“What do you mean?” Puzzled, he looked at Gu Yansheng in the front row.

“Ha, if I’m not wrong, that time when Tang Shuo represented his class to play piano, did you mess up on purpose just to show that Tang Shuo, who was playing after, is better?”

“You… Why would you think that way? Why would I do that on purpose?” Wen Niannan suddenly thought of something and his face changed.

“That Young Master Tang is the closest to you, following you almost everywhere you go. Ha, didn’t he even confess his love in front of the whole school?”

“I didn’t do that on purpose. There was a reason why I messed up.”

Gu Yansheng humphed cold and said, “What what is that? What else can it be except for helping your lover?”

“That time, my hand was hurt… so I accidentally played some wrong notes.”

Hearing that Wen Niannan’s hand was hurt, Gu Yansheng’s eyes show a sense of disgust, thinking that this person spoke no truths, but just as he was about to say something, he hesitated. 

Now that he mentioned it, it seemed that Wen Niannan did wear a pair of gloves when playing on stage that day. Glancing at the person on the back seat, a slightly more meaningful look was added.

Wen Niannan just looked out the window and didn’t say anything else. At a place where Gu Yansheng cannot see, his eyes flashed in blankness.

He prepared a long time to perfect the piece of music that he was playing to represent his class, and when the teacher told him to practice a few more times backstage, he fell into Shen Luoan’s trap.

That noon when Wen Niannan used the school piano to play, he left for lunch after feeling confident enough.

When he just left, a door was pushed open, and Shen Luoan walked in with a face full of envy.

He could take it that the teacher only let Wen Niannan attend. He was just as good, planning to destroy the piano so that Wen Niannan couldn’t play, but after he heard Wen Niannan practicing, his jealousy got to another level.

Shen Luoan never thought that Wen Niannan was that good at playing the piano, so after he saw the fingers flying across the keyboard, he changed his original plan to destroy the piano. 

Breaking that piano would only cause the school concert to be canceled, but if the piano was perfect and just Wen Niannan played badly, it would solely be Wen Niannan who was embarrassed in the school. That would be much more interesting to see.

Looking at Wen Niannan’s back, his eyes flashed in evilness. 

As the day of the celebration approaches, the ones who would be performing all practiced diligently, trying to be their best on stage.

There would only be seven or eight more people before Wen Niannan’s turn, when he was reading over the music backstage, someone tapped on his shoulder. He turned and saw Tang Shuo.

“Haha, Niannan, what are you doing here?”

“Classmate Tang Shuo? How come you are here too?”

“I’m sent here to represent my class to perform. None of my classmates bothered to pick up this task, so since I know how to play the piano, the teacher asked me to come. Oh, Niannan, are you playing too? That’s such a coincidence.”

Wen Niannan rubbed his hand and smiled, “Yeah, a coincidence. When will you be playing?”

“Let me see… I think I’m the 15th. Niannan, what about you?”

“I’m the 14th. How nice is that, you are right after me.”

Wen Niannan suddenly heard someone calling his name from a distance, so he got up and left.

“Classmate, what do you want me for?”

“The teacher wants you to get her program schedule that she left in the classroom.”

The classroom was on the third floor, so as Wen Niannan walked up the stairs, he was still thinking about the music, but when he was just about to step into the door, a figure went past him, and something came flying toward him.

Subconsciously, Wen Niannan used his hand to block the object, but immediately afterward, he felt an insane pain from his hands.

Author’s Notes:

Gu Yansheng: My wife is excellent at playing the piano. Is he too good?

Nian Nian: I can’t really… My playing is really bad…

Gu Yansheng: Who said so? Pull that person out and chop him apart!

Young Master Tang is about to announce his initiative by confessing in front of the whole school? Gu Scum is about to get unhappy…

Translated by: Summit

Edited by: UnderTheMoon