A blackout!
A fucking blackout!
At this moment, everyone was angry.
"It is the Mid-Autumn Festival gala!"
"It is the moment that the campus belle Jiang Miaoyu was going to open her mouth and sing a song!"
"But a power cut happened!"
The audience remained deathly quiet for a few seconds before bursting into thunderous roars of complaints, venting their infinite rage.
"Fuck! How come the power failure occurred at this moment? Do they have no compassion at all?"
"My Goddess is just about to sing. The power cut really picked its timing well! "
"What is the power supply bureau doing? Giving us a blackout on the 15th day of the 8th lunar month, during the Mid-autumn Festival! Don't they fear incurring the public’s wrath?"
"Return my electricity! I need electricity! I want to hear Jiang Miaoyu sing!"
The furious protests grew louder and louder.
Hearing the violent howls of rage, the dean, who had been sitting in the audience, was also taken aback. Scowling, he hastened to ask a nearby staff member, "What's wrong? Why is there a sudden blackout?"
The staff member answered in a hurry, "At present, we don't know the details. But the surrounding communities are also experiencing a blackout. I'll investigate the specifics right away!"
After saying so, he took off in haste.
After the staff member went away, the dean stood up. He felt the need to step forward at this moment and appease the raging audience. Otherwise, if something bad happened, as the dean, he could hardly absolve himself from the blame.
Precisely at this moment, Jiang Miaoyu spoke on the stage.
"Please quiet down!"
Although it was she who was speaking, in comparison with the indignant snarls coming from all over the audience, her voice was like a pebble being tossed into the sea: too insignificant to make any waves.
"Please quiet down!"
"Please quiet down!"
Jiang Miaoyu let out three anxious shouts in a row, but no one responded.
Now she became quite worried.
At this point, a voice as loud as a clap of thunder suddenly sounded over the sports ground.
"Jiang Miaoyu is asking everyone to quiet down!"
The voice instantly drowned out all the noises.
It was Fang Qiu who spoke
However, he did not allow others to detect that he was the speaker, because he changed his voice and let it burst out directly into the air.
When they heard that it was the campus belle who wanted them to be quiet, the whole audience, who had been overwhelmed by fury, immediately became silent and cast their eyes upon Jiang Miaoyu, whose figure looked mistily beautiful in the pool of the bright moonlight of the Mid-autumn Festival.
The dean also let out a sigh of relief and sat down, emotions rising in his heart.
"Seems that I'm living in a world where good-looks prevail!"
"Thanks, everyone!"
Jiang Miaoyu did a little bow and tried to speak as loudly as possible, "The song I'm supposed to sing is 'Hélène', Cai Chunjia's version. I wonder if any of those students who performed with musical instruments is familiar with this song. If so, can you accompany me to sing this song?"
Nobody replied.
Apparently, none of them had ever heard of it.
Li Qingshi could play the guitar, and he was really eager to accompany his Goddess onstage. But he knew nothing about the song.
"Well then, let me sing it without musical instruments."
Just when Jiang Miaoyu finished those words, an abrupt shout suddenly broke out from the audience.
"Fang Qiu!"
At this, Fang Qiu froze.
But the eyes of everyone on the scene lit up.
"Exactly!"
"Fang Qiu!"
"The show he just did was truly amazing. If he can play this song and accompany our campus belle Jiang to perform it, they will make a perfect pair!"
"Fang Qiu! Fang Qiu!"
The crowd suddenly broke into a chorus.
Many turned to look at the area where class three was sitting.
The whole school was staring at class three, while the whole of class three was staring at Fang Qiu.
Fang Qiu looked around in a daze.
He could not figure out why everybody's train of thought was so odd—naming him as the candidate!
Onstage, Jiang Miaoyu was looking expectantly at the position where Fang Qiu was in her memory. She asked, "Fang Qiu, can you play the song 'Hélène'?"
Offstage, Li Qingshi looked a bit nervously towards class three.
How he wished Fang Qiu did not know the song.
"If he knows it, then, the Jiang Miaoyu will be even more impressed by him.”
But Fang Qiu nodded and said, "Yes, I can."
Although his voice was not loud, all the people on the sports ground heard it clearly.
"Then, could you accompany me for the song?" asked Jiang Miaoyu.
Sun Hao and Zhou Xiaotian rapidly looked over their shoulders to stare at Fang Qiu, their eyes rather sharp.
As if they were telling Fang Qiu that if he refused, they would never let him off the hook.
As everyone was watching him intently, Fang Qiu slowly got onto his feet and strode up to the stage nervously.
"It will be my honor."
"Clap, clap, clap..."
Seeing Fang Qiu head for the stage, the audience immediately applauded enthusiastically.
At this, Li Qingshi’s heart skipped a beat. A very bad feelings crept across his body, and a bitter sensation started to spread in his heart.
But Liu Feifei felt very happy for Fang Qiu.
"Good for you, kid."
"Seems that you're bound to shine today!"
Arriving at the edge of the stage, Fang Qiu directly leaped up to the stage that was one meter and a half high.
Due to the darkness, few saw Fang Qiu's movements. Instead, he appeared onstage and people were curious about how he had done it.
But Jiang Miaoyu saw it quite clearly. She was a bit amazed by Fang Qiu's leaping ability.
"Thank you, Fang Qiu."
After getting over her amazement, she gave a courteous bow to him to show her gratitude.
"You're welcome."
Fang Qiu also did a little bow in return.
"The musical accompaniment is up to you," said Jiang Miaoyu with sincere gratitude, her eyes following Fang Qiu.
With the bright moon shining, the two could clearly see each other's expression.
"No problem."
Fang Qiu said, "Shall we begin?"
"Yeah!"
Jiang Miaoyu turned around to face the audience and announced, "Please enjoy the song 'Hélène' performed by Fang Qiu and me. The sound might be a little low, so please pardon us."
"It's OK!" many in the audience responded.
Jiang Miaoyu gave a smile, and nodded at Fang Qiu.
Fang Qiu saw the signal and pressed his palms together and put them on his mouth.
In a pool of white moonlight, the two stood there motionlessly, looking like a wonderful picture.
An elegant melody slowly streamed out through Fang Qiu's fingers.
Jiang Miaoyu's fabulous voice broke out into a wonderful melody.
"Hélène, sitting by my side."
"Thick longing for you, spreading along the moonlight."
Although she only sang two lines, the whole audience was dumbfounded.
"What a beautiful voice!"
"The campus belle is such a good singer!"
"She is not less than any professional singer!"
"Her voice and Fang Qiu's hand flute complete each other."
"They have created a kind of ethereal beauty!"
"The two's joint performance is perfect!"
After some cheering and applauding for Jiang Miaoyu and Fang Qiu, the audience fell silent.
Some students took out their smartphones and lit up the screens. Then, they raised the smartphones up in the air and waved them in silence.
More and more students did the same.
Very soon, the entire sports ground was turned into a sea of light.
It looked as if clusters of fireflies were fluttering in the night sky.
Fang Qiu was also surprised that Jiang Miaoyu could sing so melodically. Her pure and flawless voice made the song sound so warm and touching.
The music continued.
"Hélène, being at your side."
"Watching your smiling face, kissing the edge of your lips."
"If love is a swing."
"Then you're my pivot."
As Jiang Miaoyu's sang, a smile involuntarily spread on everyone's lips.
They envisioned girl in white sitting on a swing and swaying gently. That girl was the one they had a secret crush on from their innocent middle school days.
"I just want to be with you, and you're my starting point."
"Hélène, is a stack of yesterdays."
"How I wish I didn't hear the sorry you said to me."
"Hélène, is an antennae."
"And only captures the past, the pictures from memories."
"Without you, how do I perform?"
"Those forevers that you said to me."
Love at puberty is always fragile. The "forever" lovers promised each other was prone to end with apologies.
Everyone could not help but heave a sigh for their faded love.
Wafts of bitterness surged up in their mind.
After all, whose adolescence was not full of hope and dream?
And whose dream did not have the presence of the one they loved?
"Hélène, let me stick to love."
"After all, I used to have it for a bit."
"Or perhaps, parting is another kind of help to you!"
"Love, will remain in my heart."
"Some things don't have a time limit."
Everyone thought. "Exactly!"
"Perhaps, parting is just another kind of help. I used to have your love for some time, and that is enough for me."
"I'll put the love in my heart and treasure it forever. No time limit is set. I'll do so until the end of time."
"No matter where you are in the world."
"You'll always live in my heart."
After singing, Jiang Miaoyu, with everyone gazing at her, reached out a hand towards Fang Qiu.
Fang Qiu obviously froze for a second when he saw this gesture. His mind started to race:
"What does she want?"
"Is she asking me to sing?"
"Didn't she merely want me here to accompany her?"
"Why did she change her mind and want to turn this into a chorus?"
But there was no time for Fang Qiu to think it through. He just began to sing.
"Hélène, is an antennae."
"And only captures the past, the pictures from memories."
"Without you, how do I perform?"
"Those forevers that you said to me."
Gasp!
The whole audience was shocked.
His voice captured everyone's heart!
The most astonishing thing was that his singing was not inferior to Jiang Miaoyu's at all!
Jiang Miaoyu's soft tune was as if a girl was murmuring in her sweet dream, while Fang Qiu's magnetic voice was more like a young man confiding his thoughts to the wind.
This guy's hand flute skills were already quite amazing. Now, his singing skills were also fantastic. How could anyone compete with him?
At this point, Liu Feifei was already at a loss of what to think of Fang Qiu.
That kid had been hiding some great talents!
If she had known that Fang Qiu could sing so well, she would have signed up two shows for him.
Meanwhile, Li Qingshi's face turned rather nasty.
Fang Qiu was far more brilliant than he had imagined, which made him feel a lot of pressure.
Jiang Miaoyu blinked her gorgeous eyes several times and looked at Fang Qiu in amazement. She never expected Fang Qiu to be so good at singing.
In fact, she had only meant for Fang Qiu to do a solo with his hand flute.
Instead, Fang Qiu had misinterpreted her gesture and went straight into singing by himself.
But his singing was even better than any music solo!
"Hélène, let me stick to love."
"After all, I used to have it for a bit."
Although there was no music with his singing, it was still incredibly beautiful.
The girls underneath the stage started to gaze at Fang Qiu with ever glistening eyes.
Meanwhile, all the boys were hoping to take Fang Qiu’s place on the stage.
This guy was just too cool and too awesome!
"Or perhaps, parting is another kind of help to you!" "Love, will be put in my heart." "Some things don't have a time limit." When Fang Qiu finished his last line, he beamed and held up a hand toward Jiang Miaoyu. Jiang got the hint and replied with a smile, then, went on singing. "Hélène, sitting by my side." "Thick longing for you, spreading along the moonlight." Her singing seamlessly followed his, while Fang Qiu's hand flute accompaniment continued to go on. "Hélène, being at your side." "Watching your smiling face, kissing the edge of your lips." "If love is a swing." "Then you're my pivot." "Without you, how do I perform" "Those forevers that you said to me." As the accompaniment faded, the fabulous singing drew to an end. The whole audience broke into thunderous applause. "So beautiful!" "The show they presented can be said to be perfect!" "They are si
The top four were as expected. And these four people's popular scores were even higher than those of several people in the "sophomore" column, and only slightly less than that in the "junior" column. Their popular scores had reached this level in less than a week. It was the first time this had happened since Jiangjing University of Chinese Medicine BBS got online. And they did not know that the boy of justice and Fang Qiu were the same person who Chen Cong wanted to duel with. And tonight, both topics had arisen directly or indirectly because of Fang Qiu. After the party, he directly went back to the dormitory with his three roommates. As soon as they returned to the dormitory, the oldest, the third oldest and the fourth oldest started to discuss which dorm's girls they wanted to socialize with. But Fang Qiu turned on his computer directly and bought a horsetail fly whisk on the Internet as well as few copper coins. A horsetail and c
Under the gaze of everyone, Fang Qiu smiled and did not refuse. He directly stretched out a hand and said, "Give it to me!" Jiang Miaoyu delivered the letter with a smile and said happily, "My task is done." Then she took the water from the other hand of Fang Qiu and said, "Thank you for the water." But when she took the water, she felt the water was cold. She could not help frowning and said, "Drinking ice water is harmful to the body in summer because people's bodies are cold inside. There is a saying: carrots in winter and gingers in summer. Drinking cold water makes people colder and colder inside. So, you shouldn’t drink this water." But Fang Qiu smiled mysteriously and said, "Give me the water." Jiang Miaoyu puzzledly handed the water back to Fang Qiu. "Could it be he is angry at her for a few caring words?" Fang Qiu took the water, clenched one hand and closed his eyes. His whole body was instantly full of internal Qi, rushing
"Come on, Chen Cong! Come on, Chen Cong!" Class Three burned with rage and cheered loudly for Chen Cong. Chen Cong now shut out his surroundings. He could only see the opponent. Even if he knew the opponent was not as good as himself, he still went all out like a goshawk fighting a rabbit. Wang Kang stepped in front of Chen Cong and found that Chen Cong still held out his hands without any movement. With a cold smile, he quickly got close to Chen Cong and directly punched Chen Cong in the face with his left fist. The punch was quick, accurate and relentless! But this was still not his deadly kill action. This punch was only on Xu Huang's level. The real deadly kill action was the round house kick from his right leg. Just when his left fist was pulling back, his right round house kick had already hit Chen Cong's head hard from the side. Chen Cong seemed not to realize. He was still motionless. Wang Kang was very happy and thought he wo
Looking at Chen Cong who was wearing a confused expression, Fang Qiu could not help heaving a sigh. In light of the strike Chen Cong just made, Fang Qiu had a general idea of his level—all he knew was some rather shallow Kung Fu, and was far from obtaining proficiency. He had not practiced the internal force, let alone the internal Qi! With his method of practice, it was possible for him to generate the internal force when he reached his fifties, but producing internal Qi was definitely beyond his reach in this life. Although he had practiced for so many years, he was actually heading in the wrong direction. What a pity! Clutching his chest, Chen Cong slowly walked up to Fang Qiu. He was not wearing the arrogant look that was characteristic of a martial man. Instead, he made a deep bow and requested. "I know you haven't revealed all your strength. But I really want to learn your real power. Please enlighten me! Could you?" Fang Qiu did not e
"At 6:50 p.m., Chen Cong came in. He stood on the rostrum as motionless as a mountain." "At 7 p.m., people started to gather. They were murmuring, hoping to see a good fight." "At 7:10 p.m., members of the Martial Arts Association arrived. A big crowd of onlookers began to kick up a fuss, yelling that those members should go onto the stage. Some who could not bear the taunting got up to challenge Chen Cong. Chen Cong told them they were not capable of winning. Those from the Martial Arts Association threatened that they would beat him to death if he kept saying that (The dialogue was my own deduction). Then, they started the fight. Chen Cong defeated all the opponents simply with one move, putting every onlooker in shock." "At 7:20 p.m., which was the agreed time for the real challenge, no one turned up. Everyone was extremely disappointed. Suddenly, someone pointed at the roof of the high rostrum and cried out in alarm. Others looked in that direction only to s
"Start-of-Term Ceremony?" "Perform with Jiang Miaoyu?" Fang Qiu gave a small scowl and asked, "How long will the rehearsal take?" Liu Feifei's eyes rounded, as though she just met Fang Qiu for the first time. She eyed him from head to toe and said unbelievably, "Seems that I need to think afresh about you. You're performing with the campus belle, but your face is saying that you don't want it, is that it?" "Well, I just want to focus on study,” said Fang Qiu in resignation. "Good boy!" Liu Feifei clapped Fang Qiu on the shoulder in fake solemnity. "There are two rehearsals. At the last one, we will go through all the shows, which shall take up a whole afternoon. As for the specific duration of your rehearsal, it depends on the cooperation between you and Jiang Miaoyu." "Since your first joint performance turned out to be flawless, I assume you won't have problems with cooperation." "Without the need of a breaking-in period, the
This entire time, he had taken the words of his bodyguards with a pinch of salt. But now, he completely believed it. Well, he had no other choice. Have you ever seen anyone who could spot your shoulder joint dislocation at first glance and cure it with a tap? "Brother, how did you do that?" asked Tang Heng. Fang Qiu did not reply. He just patted Tang Heng on his shoulder and took off with a smile. Gazing at Fang Qiu's back, a rush of awe suddenly washed over Tang Heng. He felt like he had utterly wasted the past eighteen years. Apart from the wealth of his father, he had nothing to show. "But look at Fang Qiu. He is powerful and mysterious." "That's the way I shall live!" If Tang Heng's father knew the current thought of his son, he would want to thank Fang Qiu a thousand times. He had employed all sorts of method to educate his son in the hope that his son could be something. But it turned out that all his efforts were not as