Leader of the Ark Raiders

Shen Cangye stood behind Bai Jin, holding her shoulders.

"When you sit down from now on, you have to point your navel to the middle C, which is the white key, understand?" Shen Cangye pressed Platinum's shoulder and moved to the left.

"What belly button? Can't you use another metaphor?" Platinum was obviously dissatisfied with the way the dirt was described.

"When I was four years old and started learning the piano, the teacher told me in the first class that when I was told to sit down, I should use my, uh, that or something... aim at the middle C." Shen Cangye hesitated.

"Then what?" Platinum didn't understand.

Shen Cangye shook his head, "Anyway, just sit upright."

…Actually, every time I play the piano now, I can’t help but use this method to align the central C key.

"Okay, put your hands up like this." Shen Cangye grabbed the girl's hands and placed them on the keyboard.

"I'll teach you a scale first, the right hand is like this, do-re-mi, and then the thumb is passed through like this, and the left hand is like this..." Shen Cangye stood behind Bai Jin, with his left and right hands placed an octave away from her, and played. A C major scale.

Platinum ignorantly played along with it once.

As soon as she moved, a faint fragrance wafted over.

Shen Cangye nodded against the ear on the top of the girl's head, "Well, not bad, you learned it quickly, now play this scale and two octaves together fifty times."

"Fifty times!?" Kuranta was stunned.

She fluttered her ears suddenly, and Shen Cangye was startled by the hairiness.

Shen Cangye nodded, "When you have mastered this scale, I will play another Hanon etude for you, twenty times will do."

"No, how boring!" Miss Assassin was unwilling all of a sudden, and immediately withdrew her hands, stood up and left the piano bench.

"Hey, hey, you've only been playing for 2 minutes!" Shen Cangye said, "Three-year-olds are not as impatient as you!"

"It's so boring!" The Kuranta girl returned to the bed and wrapped herself in the quilt again.

Shen Cang also looked at her with vacant eyes, "An impatient guy like you is a music teacher's nightmare. If you can play the guitar, why can't you play the piano? With a little practice, you will definitely be able to play well."

Kuranta hugged the pillow and shook her head like a rattle, "Stop learning! I will ask you to play it for me if I want to hear it later!"

"It's free, it's free, it's not a free service!" Shen Cangye walked to the bed and pulled the quilt for Bai Jin.

Little Tianma turned over and looked at him, "Then what about the song just now?"

"Five thousand Longmen coins." Shen Cangye said expressionlessly.

Platinum-ranked assassins should be quite rich, why not help me, Shen Cangye thought.

The Kuranta girl sat up, "how about this, you give me a good night kiss, we write it off, how about it?"

107. A man like a rainbow

The knight killer raised his face and waited expectantly.

Shen Cangye chuckled, "Did you get some strange habit from your roommate?"

Miss Assassin lowered her head and muttered a little hurt, "Why are you so serious..."

"If any company asks you to be an accountant, you will be fired the next day." Shen Cangye hugged her with a smile.

"Now you are the debtor, and I am the creditor. You owe me the debt. I have the final say on when to repay the debt." He said, bowed his head and kissed the girl, "Okay, pay it off, and go to sleep."

Shen Cangye was about to get up, when Bai Jin suddenly grabbed his lapel and forcibly searched for another one, "Now I owe you again, I will pay it back next time!"

She snorted and pulled the quilt contentedly.

"Hey, you..." Shen Cangye was speechless.

"I'm already asleep, don't talk, I can't hear, can't hear, can't hear!" The quilt made a sound.

"Tch." Shen Cangye returned to the desk and called again, "Platinum."

The girl didn't respond.

"Did you really fall asleep?" Shen Cangye said, "I still don't believe it, you still have the ability to fall asleep in seconds?"

Still no answer.

"Platinum, can't you hear me?"

no response.

Shen Cangye smiled, "Okay, then I will tell you a secret quietly."

Seeing that the girl was silent all the time, Shen Cangye started to talk.

"When I first came back to Rhode Island, I submitted your resume to the HR department, and the HR department asked me to fill out a referral form.

"I feel that I know you quite well, and there shouldn't be any problem filling out this form.

"But I got stuck on one of the questions, stuck for a full 10 minutes - he asked me to write down my objective evaluation of the recommended person.

"That's when I realized that I can't judge you objectively—you know, once you have feelings for someone, it's impossible to be objective again.

"'She's a wonderful person'—I want to write that sentence ten, twenty times, all over the page.

"I can't think of your shortcomings, I can't think of any of them. Just like a rainbow, even if there is only a faint touch, even if it lacks a curved arc of color, it is still beautiful.

"I used to be full of work and didn't understand it, but now I seem to understand it a little bit.

"I thought, I'm sorry if I did something stupid before to upset you.

"You fell asleep, it doesn't matter if you heard it or not, maybe this is what I want to say to you, Miss Assassin."

After Shen Cangye finished speaking, he saw the quilt suddenly move.

"Little doctor, I love you."

A girl's small voice came from under the bed.

Shen Cangye said in a daze, "So you didn't fall asleep—"

"Fall asleep! I can't hear anything from now on!"

"I said you..." Shen Cangye was a little bit dumbfounded.

"No comments! No talking! No laughing at me! I fell asleep!"

She is shy.

Shen Cangye walked to the bed in two steps, and pulled back the platinum quilt.

Ignoring the girl's blushing cheeks and astonished eyes, he pressed her shoulders, "We've already talked about this, and if we don't do anything, it doesn't seem appropriate?"

108. Play with me

Kuranta touched Shen Cangye's chest with his hand, and said deliberately: "Do something? I don't understand what you are saying!"

"Don't you owe me one more time?" Shen Cangye said, "I don't like paying it later, I want you to pay it now."

He pressed down and moved a little closer, "Also, didn't you agree to me, you can't refuse me a request?"

Platinum was stunned, with fear in his eyes, "Wait—what request do you want to make, tell me first, and I'll make a decision!"

"No way." Shen Cangye nodded her smooth forehead, "You agreed to it yourself, and you also said that there is no room for rejection."

He smiled, let go of the rough action of holding her down just now, and turned to reach for her wrist.

The hand playing the piano clasped the hand playing the guitar.

Come on, let's play a song, my girl.

Right here, right now.

The prelude of this piece of music is soft and delicate, like the breeze in spring and the warm sun in winter; it is a light kiss on the lips and a light embrace.

The main melody of the piano is deep and soothing, the accompaniment is smart and playful, but it accompanies the main melody harmoniously.

The accompaniment texture and the main tune are tied forward, sometimes intertwined with the main tune, and sometimes harmonizing meekly.

The prelude comes to an end, the main key is down, and the accompaniment is in the form of arpeggios, rising bar by bar, as if appealing for something.

The accompaniment was finally faded out of chords and ended with a naked single note.

At the beginning of the first movement, the main theme of the piano is played, and then the accompaniment texture follows.

Gradually, the two merged into one.The rhythm of the music changes gradually and enters the Allegro.

The melody slowly rises, advancing in the form of a rondo.

The same melody and the same rhythm nail the main tune and accompaniment together.

The accompaniment is led forward by the main tune, and the faster it is, it seems that the main theme is dragging the accompaniment along, and the accompaniment weakens and turns into a rapid vibrato.

Repeat, loop.

Repeat and repeat.

Throughout the ages, music with the theme of "love" has more or less cyclical tunes.

Like Beethoven's "Fur Elise".

The passage repeated sixteen times in the track may be the composer who regarded this beautiful melody as the name of his beloved when he wrote it, and couldn't help calling it over and over again.

At the beginning of the second movement, the instrument that was originally used as an accompaniment climbed up with the notes and became the lead.

The piano falls in the middle and low range and becomes an accompaniment.

The music stretches freely, with cadences and cadences.

The music has a crescendo and a rapid rhythm.

The melody becomes more intense and rapid as the music advances.

In the end, the music ushered in an overwhelming explosion as the lead and accompaniment advanced——

The main tune falls, and it runs parallel with the accompaniment again, composing a soft serenade.

The music fades out and the rhythm is slightly slower.

As if in a peaceful night, a harp accompanied by the chirping of cicadas came from outside the window, tinkling, warm and soothing.

The long sustain of the notes at the end gives people the illusion that the music is not over yet, still staying in the aftertaste of the most shocking bars of the movement.

———PS———

Platinum's story is almost finished, and she still has many opportunities to appear in the following volumes.

After all, who doesn't love cute office workers who love to touch fish?

Sorry for the misplacement, it should be this one.

109. Stop saying 996 is a blessing

Shen Cangye opened his eyes in a daze, but the room was still dark.

what time is it?

He squinted at the digital clock inside the house.

One o'clock.

"I only slept for a while, why did I wake up?"

Shen Cangye's mind was still a little fuzzy, his body was dripping with sweat, he remembered to take a shower.

As soon as he moved, he was stopped by a soft moan.

Platinum was still curled up in his arms, hugging his back.

Shen Cangye's movements made the girl's deep sleep a little lighter, she leaned against him, hugged him tightly and refused to let go.

Shen Cangye gently stroked her almond-white long hair, and couldn't help but bowed his head and kissed her.

Bai Jin subconsciously responded to his kiss in a half-dream and half-awake state, affectionate and tender.

Shen Cangye kissed her forehead again, then sat up.

Looking around, he understood why he couldn't sleep well, and the quilt was kicked under the bed.

The temperature dropped at night and it was freezing cold.

Shen Cangye got out of bed, took a shower by himself, brought a basin of hot water, and used a warm wet towel to wipe off the thin sweat on Bai Jin who was still sleeping...and other things that were stained.