"Hey, hey. I was just in Piano Room 103 and heard the teacher say that Lao Xu took Han Wenbin to Piano Room 101 to challenge."
"What? Challenge?"
"Oh, it's to have a piano duel with Shen Nian. Wasn't Han Wenbin always the top in our school before? Now Shen Nian is here. He's probably very unconvinced."
"Han Wenbin is still very powerful. I heard Lao Xu say before that he might be the second Professor Chu Waning."
"Hey, how powerful? Now there's that Shen Nian suppressing..."
"I don't know what level Shen Nian is. I feel that the teachers in the school are all praising him now. The video and sound quality on the forum are too bad to hear his true level."
"..."
Chen Anhe listened to the discussion from the sophomore side and disdainfully curled his lips.
Challenge? Piano duel?
Competing with Shen Nian?
Isn't that purely seeking abuse?
As someone who had the privilege to hear Shen Nian perform live not long ago.
He felt that Shen Nian didn't need to take any professional courses now. The school leaders might as well just issue the graduation certificate directly.
With such a person around, isn't that disturbing people's determination?
Eighteen! Shen Nian is only eighteen!
He couldn't even imagine what Shen Nian would be like in two years.
I'm afraid that even the geniuses from the world's top conservatories of music won't be Shen Nian's opponents by then.
"Next, Chen Anhe, Piano Room 101"
The roll call teacher read the name.
"Here. Han Wenbin and Shen Nian came out."
Many sophomore students turned their heads to the left passage.
The freshmen and juniors did the same. They clearly heard a lot of the discussions from the sophomore side just now.
"Huh?"
"What's wrong with Han Wenbin? Why has he been shaking his head?"
Many people showed puzzled eyes.
"Impossible. Impossible. I practiced the piano for ten hours every day. I've been practicing since I was a child. How could the gap be so big... Impossible. Impossible....."
Han Wenbin kept shaking his head and murmuring in a low voice.
Beside him, Lao Xu silently patted Han Wenbin on the shoulder.
He obviously expected this result. It's a good thing to have such a blow. Otherwise, with Han Wenbin's previous temperament, he might suffer losses in the future.
Behind the two, Shen Nian also came out.
Just after playing Winter Wind and the third movement of Moonlight in the piano room, Han Wenbin was like crazy, shaking his head and murmuring, "Impossible. Impossible"
"What's impossible? Do you think you are the only one practicing the piano for ten hours a day?"
Shen Nian complained in his heart.
Do you think you are the only one working hard?
He has been practicing the piano diligently since his previous life.
To use an exaggerated metaphor, the sweat he shed on the black and white keys is more than the rice Han Wenbin has eaten.
The thing that is not lacking the most in this world is diligence. But in the field of art, that one percent of talent is often more important than the ninety-nine percent of diligence.
...
Chu Waning was still sitting in the piano room.
Besides Shen Nian's name on the record board, there were only two words left, 'Perfect' "It's still Shen Nian. Elegant. It's so elegant. It's just like listening to a concert."
Li Wei picked up his thermos cup, took a sip of chrysanthemum and wolfberry tea, and looked very comfortable.
"Do you think Shen Nian might be the child of Master Shen Nan?"
"Pff... Cough cough"
Li Wei choked and said, "No. We suspected that before, but after investigation, we found that there is no actual relationship between the two."
"Really?" Chu Waning looked suspiciously at the two big characters of Shen Nian on the record board.
"According to my observation, the quality of this year's freshmen is much higher than that of previous years. Not only is there a genius like Shen Nian, but the level of other students is also much higher than in previous years."
"That's all thanks to Master Shen Nan more than ten years ago. He pushed the development of classical music with his own efforts. It's a pity that the pieces we played back then... Sigh..."
Li Wei sighed deeply. He is already thirty-three years old this year.
If he could have played Shen Nan's pieces when he was in school, how happy that would be.
Just when several people were still sighing.
Chen Anhe walked in with a nervous step...
After a while.
"I think... I might have to take back what I just said..."
Li Wei took a sip of tea and regretted a little...
Perhaps it was because of the artistic performance of Shen Nian just now. Now listening to the performances of others, the gap is really a bit big...
It's like sitting in the Vienna Concert Hall listening to a concert one second and listening to a several-year-old child banging on the piano keys the next second.
"How did the two of them play together?"
Chu Waning looked at her record board. There were a lot of disadvantages about Chen Anhe, but advantages... She didn't see any.
...
11:47 a.m.
The reevaluation has all ended.
Shen Nian and Chen Anhe have already returned to the dormitory.
"It's over. It's over for me this time. I played wrong many notes during the reevaluation just now. The rhythm was even more chaotic..."
Chen Anhe sat on the seat, looking desperate.
"It's okay. This is just a small test. It's not the final exam. Don't worry so much."
Shen Nian comforted beside him.
"You think I'm like you. I can already predict how tragic it will be after the start of school..."
Chen Anhe held his head with both hands and scratched his hair very irritably.
"Hey, you guys are back? How was the reevaluation?"
Tan Mingjie returned to the dormitory with a spring breeze and a smile.
Shen Nian looked over. Ever since his Tan Cannon was with the JK girl, he has been grinning with a mouthful of big white teeth all day, and his lips have never closed.
"Cannon!"
Chen Anhe shouted with tears and immediately stood up quickly.
"!!"
Tan Mingjie took a step back quickly upon seeing this, with an expression of don't touch me.
Are you kidding? Want to hug him? He is a man with a girlfriend now!
"You, you, you!! Really, it was in vain that I helped you chase your girlfriend!"
"Xiaonian!"
Chen Anhe immediately turned his head. He is very sad now and urgently needs a shoulder to lean on.
"Chen Erhe, don't you have a girlfriend?" Shen Nian ignored Chen Anhe's extremely resentful eyes and, like Tan Mingjie, quickly took a step back.
"She's not by my side now. Come on, Xiaonian, lend me your shoulder."
"Go, go. Stay away. Don't use your damn bass voice in front of me!"
Shen Nian avoided it very disgustedly.
He just didn't understand why both of his roommates liked to show off that bass so much.
"OK, OK. You also dislike me~"
Chen Anhe staggered a few steps a little hurt.
"Chen Erhe, I've told you. Don't take it to heart. It's just a reevaluation."
Shen Nian comforted verbally.
He was impossible to give physical comfort. But verbally, he could still do his part as a friend.