Outside the comprehensive piano building.
The teacher in charge of roll call read the names expressionlessly according to the roster in his hand.
"Next"
"Chen Anhe, Piano Room 101."
"..."
"It's my turn, it's my turn."
Chen Anhe's heart rate rose instantly.
"It's okay. Relax. Don't be nervous."
Shen Nian comforted beside him.
"OK"
Chen Anhe took a deep breath, exhaled slowly, and then took a step forward.
However, a middle-aged man ran to the teacher in charge of roll call.
Then...
"Wait, Chen Anhe go back. Next, Shen Nian."
The roll call teacher said without changing his expression or breathing heavily.
"Ah??? Teacher, isn't it me?"
Chen Anhe looked puzzled. He had already walked out in big strides.
Why was he called back?
"Ah what ah. You are the next one. This time let Shen Nian go first."
The roll call teacher put on a stern face.
After hearing his name behind him, Shen Nian immediately walked out.
There was even some commotion among the crowd.
"Is he Shen Nian?"
"Shen Nian who the dean said would definitely have a place in classical music in the future?"
"Why doesn't he look like the one in the video?"
"Nonsense. The video leaked on the school forum. The picture quality is worse than the one taken by my phone five years ago. What can you see from that?"
"..."
Shen Nian has been very famous in the piano department of their school in the recent month.
Some sophomores and juniors returned to school after the summer vacation and had their lessons with their professional teachers.
Halfway through playing the piano, they were criticized by the professional teacher, "What are you playing? If you were one-tenth as good as Shen Nian, I wouldn't be so worried!"
"Student Shen, come with me. You should remember Teacher Li, right? We met when you took the art entrance examination."
Li Wei said with a smile.
"Yes, I remember."
Shen Nian smiled.
If he could remember someone he met once a few months ago, that would be strange!
"Good, good, really a good kid. Come with me."
Li Wei was more and more satisfied with Shen Nian.
He suddenly thought of his cousin's daughter who was about the same age as Shen Nian. After going back, he could have a good talk with his cousin.
"OK"
For some reason, Shen Nian suddenly felt a chill down his back.
"Oh, by the way, there is a senior who wants to have a competition with you, a piano duel."
Before entering the piano room, Li Wei turned back and signaled to Shen Nian.
"Is his surname Han?"
Shen Nian had already guessed who the senior the other party was talking about.
"Yes. But you just perform normally." Li Wei patted Shen Nian on the shoulder and then continued, "He just played the Winter Wind Practice Piece and the third movement of the Moonlight Sonata."
"...."
After hearing this, Shen Nian's eyes shook.
Goodness.
He specially chose the pieces that Shen Nian was good at?
These two pieces were also the ones he played during his art entrance examination in his previous life.
It's been nearly twenty years since he played them...
It's no joke to say that if you ask him to play them backward now, there probably won't be any problem.
He thought Han Wenbin would choose a piece from this world. But unexpectedly... The other party hit the muzzle himself.
But he could vaguely sense the purpose of the other party doing this.
Want to defeat him by stepping on his face?
Shen Nian sneered and walked into the piano room door.
Because of the line of sight, the first thing he saw when entering the room was Chu Waning who was playing with a pen.
"Shen Nian."
Han Wenbin murmured in a low voice.
Shen Nian, who just entered the piano room, glanced at him and then didn't look at him anymore.
That gaze was really intense!
It reminded Shen Nian of Tan Cannon's gaze at the JK girl during the military training.
"Wenbin, learn well."
Lao Xu folded his arms.
Chu Waning crossed her long legs, unscrewed the cap of the signature pen in her hand, wrote Shen Nian's name on the record board, and then looked at Shen Nian.
"..."
Sitting in front of the piano, Shen Nian held his right hand.
It should be fine.
Huh
Shen Nian let out a breath of foul air.
Then his hands landed on the black and white keys.
Winter Wind Practice Piece.
The front starts with a short introduction, with the strength ranging from weak to extremely weak.
It's like the darkness before dawn and the tranquility before the outbreak.
Just this short beginning made Li Wei, Chu Waning and others gasp in amazement.
Then all the notes burst out at an extremely fast speed. The right hand starts to descend from the treble range, and the left hand presents the theme in the form of chords...
Shen Nian's handling of these note groups seemed to really make people feel the winter wind rolling up the dead leaves, and the dead leaves dancing in the air.
Chu Waning held the pen in her right hand. Besides the name Shen Nian on the record board, she didn't write anything else.
Her small lips were wide open.
Li Wei, Lao Xu, and the other teacher were excitedly blushing and their necks were red.
Yes, so right!
This is the feeling!
Han Wenbin's black-framed glasses had already slipped down along the bridge of his nose, but he seemed to be stupid and let the black frames block his sight.
"Is this really the level that an 18-year-old freshman should have?"
There was a strong question flashing in Chu Waning's mind.
She had also played the Winter Wind Practice Piece. She asked herself that even if she handled this piece, at most, she could reach Shen Nian's level. You should know that Shen Nian is only 18 years old now!
If a few more years pass? How could it be possible?
Just like what someone said on the school forum, they might be playing the piano, while Shen Nian is playing art.
Shen Nian seemed to want to vent all the indignation contained in this piece.
A few notes were hit particularly hard.
And this was also like hitting on the hearts of Li Wei and others.
"No... Impossible..."
Han Wenbin murmured in a low voice.
Chasm
A huge chasm.
Suddenly appeared between Han Wenbin and Shen Nian.
"Sigh..."
Lao Xu came over and patted Han Wenbin on the shoulder.
Didn't I tell you? Don't provoke others if you have nothing to do.
You insisted.
You insisted on thinking that you were the best and the most outstanding.
Well, now you have been taught a good lesson.
But thinking from another perspective, this might be a good thing.
At least Han Wenbin will have the motivation to learn and improve in the future, won't he?
"How could such a young kid be so powerful?"
Chu Waning even suspected whether Shen Nian was the reincarnation of some old professor.
Otherwise, being so young and having piano skills far beyond his peers.
She thought she was a genius among geniuses when she was 18 years old. But Shen Nian far exceeded herself at that time.
Wait
"Shen Nian... Shen Nan?"
There was a hint of suspicion in Chu Waning's eyes, as if guessing some possibility.
This Shen Nian... Couldn't he be Shen Nan's son?
Yesterday she read Shen Nian's information.
Regarding the column of parents, Shen Nian didn't fill it in but filled in his sister.
"..."
Shen Nian's performance was coming to an end.
At the end, a double-handed chord with fff strength reproduced the motif of the introduction, becoming the finishing touch of the entire piece, making the entire piece echo from beginning to end and bringing the music creation to the extreme.