Chapter 77: Advancing by Retreating

As soon as Xia Yu entered, Han Yue Kong grabbed his hand.

“You actually managed to play the ‘Wild Bee’ in 66 seconds. How did you do it?” Han Yue Kong examined Xia Yu’s palm repeatedly.

Xia Yu didn’t answer; he couldn’t respond to such a question.

After squeezing Xia Yu’s hand for a while, Han Yue Kong let him go.

“You should push the record forward by a few milliseconds when the world record certification starts. Then you can become the fastest violinist in the world!” she said.

“No, forget it,” Xia Yu refused.

“Hehe,” Han Yue Kong smiled mysteriously.

Before she could speak, Xia Yu pinched her face.

“This is prohibited,” he warned Han Yue Kong.

“Really that strict?” sighing, Han Yue Kong led Xia Yu to the Guzheng room.

Originally neat and tidy, the Guzheng room had become somewhat messy since Han Yue Kong started coming here often, with chips, cola, and Pocky scattered everywhere, along with many stuffed animals.

Initially, Xia Yu helped her tidy up, but after discovering that it only took two or three hours for everything to become messy again, he gave up.

“By the way, you actually had such a big move as ‘Wild Bee’ hidden and didn’t tell me, your dear mother!” Han Yue Kong looked at Xia Yu angrily while eating chips.

“…I practiced it in the piano room. You weren’t interested and didn’t listen properly,” Xia Yu defended himself.

“I won’t listen, I won’t listen! You calculated my psychology and used various psychological hints I didn’t notice to make me leave the room and not listen to your practice pieces!” Han Yue Kong lay on the floor, rolling around.

Xia Yu felt that Han Yue Kong had become increasingly childish lately. Maybe it was because she hadn’t fully let go before? Was she only now truly revealing her nature?

Without paying attention to her, Xia Yu started playing the Guzheng.

After the piece, Han Yue Kong sat up and said to Xia Yu, “Try playing ‘Wild Bee’ on the Guzheng.”

Without much thought, Xia Yu began playing ‘Wild Bee’ on the Guzheng.

Due to the differences between violin and Guzheng music, combined with it being Xia Yu’s first attempt, although the rhythm was correct, the pitch was somewhat strange.

Han Yue Kong thought for a moment before saying to Xia Yu, “You’ve basically met the conditions.”

“What conditions?” Xia Yu asked.

“The conditions for going to the secret realm for cultivation!”

“Speak in human terms.”

“There’s a piece that requires extremely high finger sensitivity, but I can’t play it,” Han Yue Kong said. “I’m going to have my teacher come teach you.”

“What piece?” Xia Yu asked.

“Ending E.”

“Isn’t that a duet?” Xia Yu questioned.

“You’ll understand when my teacher arrives.”

She then hugged Xia Yu and said seriously, “But before that, you need to understand one thing.”

Looking at her serious expression, Xia Yu also became serious: “Hmm.”

“You are a disciple of the Kong family. This time, you’re going to steal someone else’s secret techniques to strengthen our Kong family. You must not genuinely devote yourself to someone else’s school, understand!”

Looking at Han Yue Kong’s solemn expression, Xia Yu picked up a nearby book and hit her on the head.

“What was that for!” Han Yue Kong exclaimed.

After practicing with Han Yue Kong until ten o’clock, Xia Yu returned home.

The next day, he went to school and was once again surrounded by classmates offering congratulations.

“I watched the live broadcast; it was really amazing.”

“I saw it during Saturday’s live stream. It wasn’t obvious on Sunday. Compared to the people from Saturday, it was truly impressive.”

His classmates said.

The live broadcasts they referred to were not from Xia Yu’s previous life’s streaming platform, but rather from television stations.

In this world, television stations frequently broadcast various competitions.

After escaping from these classmates, Xia Yu met Yan Wei, who simply offered her congratulations, but was then teased by several curious girls.

This time, Yan Wei didn’t ignore them as she had done previously. She proactively said, “We’re just ordinary friends. Xia Yu already has a girlfriend, and they’ve promised to go to Lan University together in the Lan City.”

The students around were greatly surprised and turned to Xia Yu for confirmation. After some thought, feeling it wouldn’t bring him any disadvantages, Xia Yu agreed.

He looked at Yan Wei again. What he had told her was that he would go to Hua University with his non-existent girlfriend, but Yan Wei had changed it to Lan City.

This was because Hua University was difficult to get into, and saying so might invite ridicule from those who were envious.

Thoughtful, good at cooking, (indescribable details), except for her somewhat outdated style of dressing, she seemed to have no other obvious flaws.

But she was too down-to-earth and ordinary, lacking the lively charm of girls like Si Yao An and You Xiang Xu. Xia Yu wasn’t interested in this type.

Seeing Xia Yu agree, Yan Wei was delighted.

She was thinking to herself: Gui Zixiao said I was pushing too hard. Now that it’s clearly stated, “I know you have a girlfriend,” it creates necessary distance. Plus, now that everyone knows Xia Yu has a girlfriend, there won’t be any romantic rivals.

After all, the girlfriend is fictional. When they get to Hua University, do you think Xia Yu can just conjure up a real girlfriend out of nowhere?

She happily sat down at her seat.

Spending an ordinary day and reaching ten o’clock at night, Xia Yu logged into Si Yao An’s body.

Si Yao An was waiting for him in the piano room.

Xia Yu exchanged the remaining game points for four experience cards and began playing the piano.

What he wanted to learn today was a piece called “Cicada.”

It was a sorrowful love song, with a melody that sounded like weeping. This piano piece had also been adapted into flute and xiao versions, which conveyed the emotion more effectively than the piano.

After seven and a half hours, Xia Yu stopped using the experience cards and started chatting with Si Yao An.

“When are the Feng sisters going to pull you to hang out?” he asked.

Previously, when they talked about the school trip, Si Yao An said she didn’t want to go, so the Feng sisters said they would go out together when others went on their school trips.

“They haven’t mentioned it again. The school trip is next week,” Si Yao An said.

“What about Yun Xin Zhong? Is she still behaving herself?”

“She hasn’t caused any more trouble,” Si Yao An hesitated for a moment before adding, “But I heard she’s recently been bullied.”

“Bullied?” Xia Yu was surprised.

“It seems like those she previously bullied have teamed up to get back at her,” Si Yao An wasn’t entirely sure about the details. She had heard this from Yu Jia Feng.

Xia Yu thought for a moment. The previously arrogant Yun Xin Zhong had been subdued by him, and those she had bullied before, seeing she was now powerless, had united to confront her. It was normal for them to vent their anger, and it was also normal for them to feel a sense of satisfaction when they overstepped their bounds.

Besides, even if she wanted to resist, she wouldn’t be able to fight back if they united.

They scatter and flee when being bullied but gather in groups to bully others.

He was thinking whether he should get involved in this matter.

Han Yue Kong definitely wouldn’t care, and he didn’t have much of a relationship with Yun Xin Zhong.

He would just watch for now.