They are in the music show, but I am a stranger to them

Aiyin tried her best to change the topic to this direction. When she finally caught the topic of playing guitar, she was ecstatic in her heart. However, she still kept a perfect control on her appearance. She just tried hard to suppress her smile and said softly with a very humble and slightly embarrassed look:

"It's just so-so. I think it's a bit of a stretch to use it in a band."

Passerby classmate C: "No way, Chihaya-san, you are willing to come with your guitar, so you must be very good. We all want to hear it, right?"

"I want to listen!"

"Chihaya-san! Come on!"

"Come on! Come on!"

"Okay, okay, then I'll just do a little bit."

Aiyin looked at the enthusiastic classmates, and her eyes were almost full of love with joy. She thought that this was a godsend opportunity, which would not make her look vain in the eyes of others, and she could take this opportunity to show off her skills.

But even so, Aiyin still took out the guitar from her guitar bag with some embarrassment. When she skillfully put the guitar on her back, picked up the pick, and prepared the chords with her fingers, she still showed a little temper and said with a pout:

"Let me make it clear first, if I don't play well, you are not allowed to laugh at me."

"No, no, no one will laugh at you. Please play quickly, Chihaya-san."

The impatient classmates also surrounded Ain. Some of the more knowledgeable classmates had already vaguely seen from Ain's skillful movements that Ain's skills were definitely not bad.

Among the crowd, Takamatsu Deng, who had been sitting quietly in the front row, did not turn his head but kept his ears perked up to pay attention to Aine's every move behind him, and was also waiting for Aine's piano sound.

She really wanted to know what was special about this classmate who had a very similar smell to Qi?

Could she be the same person as Qi?

"Chihaya-san, which song would you like to play?" someone in the crowd asked.

“I think you haven’t heard this song.”

Aiyin, who was once again asked a crucial question, suppressed her joy and forced herself to focus on the performance in front of her. After tuning, she stroked the guitar and cleared her throat, as if she was afraid that someone hadn't heard her. She couldn't hide her pride and said word by word:

"This song is called "ただ君に晴れ" (Sunny Days Only for You)."

If it's not a rare song, then it must be... original?!

At this moment, Gao Songdeng, who had sorted out these thoughts in her mind, turned her head involuntarily as if she was clicked. At this moment, her trembling eyes were enough to show her inner turmoil.

Are there really people in this world who are almost identical? Are Chihaya-san and Inori the same genius?

Chapter 15: The difference between Aiyin and Chenqi? The band-aid that was discovered

"Well, let's get started then."

Surrounded by her classmates, Chihaya Aine, who had no choice but to raise her electric guitar, held her breath and concentrated her attention on the guitar in her hand.

Because Aiyin had no audio equipment and could not fully utilize the advantages of the electric guitar, he did not choose to plug it in and planned to play only with the sound of the electric guitar itself.

The moment Aiyin's fingers approached the strings, the students around her all began to quiet down at the same time. Some of her colleagues knew that the sound of an unplugged electric guitar was only so loud that only the people around them could hear it, so they moved closer on purpose.

In the front row, Gao Songdeng suppressed her inner excitement and continued to prick up her ears silently. She wanted to know whether her guess was accurate.

Just when Takamatsu Deng and the other students were looking forward to Aine's guitar, what they didn't expect was that, at the same time as the sound of the electric guitar, it was Aine's more attractive, bright and sunny singing voice that sounded:

"Floating in the night."

"The moon blooms like a jellyfish."

"Peek behind the bus stop."

"You were in my mind that summer~"

At the moment when the bright singing voice just fell, the lively and brisk sound of the electric guitar was inserted seamlessly, just like Aiyin's warm voice. The electric guitar seemed to turn into a brisk summer breeze under her nimble fingers.

Yes, the summer breeze also seems to have wind chimes, beaches... Of course, an electric guitar cannot produce so many different sounds, but for some reason, everyone can hear the scent of "summer" from this lively melody.

This immersive feeling... seems a little different?

After being pleasantly surprised by the beauty of the lyrics, Takamatsu Deng was slightly stunned. This seemed a little different from what she had expected.

But Takamatsu Deng still maintained great interest and continued to listen to the singing from Aine. She wanted to know, what exactly was the difference between Aine and the brother in her memory, these two geniuses?

Accompanied by a lively melody, he played the song that he had basically practiced yesterday.

Chihaya Aine, who was convinced that Chen Qi had "no fault to find with her amateur band", also seemed extremely confident at this moment.

This also makes her singing and the melody in her hands more lively, seeming so relaxed and cheerful.

"The shrine, the dried clouds, the smell of summer brushing my cheeks."

"Until you become an adult, just keep standing on tiptoe, okay?"

The confident and cheerful melody of Ai Yin is also very rhythmic, making everyone who hears it feel relaxed from the bottom of their hearts. Combined with the summery atmosphere of the lyrics, it also makes the easily infected girls unconsciously sway their bodies to the melody.

Sure enough, Heqi’s composing style is very different.

Takamatsu Deng, who was also moved by the rather gorgeous lyrics, nodded gently, while quietly making a judgment in his heart about this song that he had never heard of.

Aine and Qi have very different songwriting styles.

When he was in Crychic, Gao Songdeng had watched all the songs composed by Chen Qi without exception.

Even their band's proudest song, "Spring Shadow", was completed by the two of them together, and many songs composed by Chen Qi later also showed traces of Deng's participation.

How did Gao Song Deng and Chen Qi complete the composition together? Gao Song Deng wrote his thoughts in a notebook, and Chen Qi adapted Deng's words into rhyming lyrics and then added melody.

Therefore, everyone in the band has always believed that the inspiration for all the lyrics written by Chen Qi comes from Deng’s voice.

Gao Songdeng, who is close to Chen Qi, has a deeper understanding of this point.

She always had a vague feeling that Chen Qi's creations were not limited to her inner voice, or rather, Qi had always intended to use lyrics to depict the inner voices of everyone in the band.

It was the same when she was in Crychic. Deng couldn’t really relate to many of Chen Qi’s songs, but she could still appreciate that there was a strong sense of resonance in Chen Qi’s lyrics and melodies.

The only threshold to understanding Chen Qi’s lyrics is “whether there are people who can empathize with him.”

Gao Song Deng sometimes cannot resonate with the lyrics because Chen Qi's lyrics are not written with her voice, but Chen Qi's style is deeply imprinted in Deng's memory - Qi's lyrics may not be gorgeous, but they are definitely very resonant.

At the beginning, it seemed that it was because of this that Mu and Qi got along so well.

But this song of Aine’s… is different.

The lyrics are very gorgeous and dreamy, making people feel as if they are in the scene, which is very different from the feeling of Qi.

However, it still sounds great, with that kind of joy and ease from the heart, as well as a slight hint of worry...Ain and Qi are two completely different people in terms of their state of mind.

But why is this warm feeling and the aura of Aine exactly the same as Qi's?

In an instant, a strange light burst out from Gao Songdeng's eyes. She was very curious, but she felt her heartbeat speeding up unconsciously. For some reason, she seemed to always feel that there was something she had been waiting for for a long time, getting closer and closer to her...

"Unable to catch up and grow up at the same time,"

"You have a blooming night in your pocket~"

"Crack, snap."

On the other hand, Aiyin's singing had already reached its climax. The moment she felt that everyone's eyes were focused on her, the calm Aiyin played the song that Chen Qi had tailored for her with complete confidence, and put all the skills that Chen Qi had taught her, which could be said to be the soul of the song, into use.

Even the "applause" in the middle of the climax, which had been imperfect no matter how hard she tried, was performed perfectly by Aine with unprecedented ease.

This was her first time completing the most difficult part of this interlude.

The next moment, her hands flexibly returned to the strings, without a trace of disobedience, and found the corresponding strings again. Under the admiring gazes of her classmates who were completely immersed in the gorgeous lyrics, she smiled and sang again:

"If I can't say it, I'll be alone,"

"That's good~ I gave up anyway."

"That's all."

It is another light and soulful melody, with slightly sad and troubled lyrics. It seems like the end of summer. The whole summer has unconsciously flowed to the end in the strings of Aiyin, leaving people with a lingering feeling.

The song ended. This could be said to be the first time that Aiyin had performed it perfectly, and she couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. For a beginner like her, this song was really difficult.

But her hard work paid off in the end. After the failure of dropping out of school in the UK, Aiyin felt proud for the first time in a long time. The moment she put down her guitar, she cast her gaze towards the classmates who were still in a daze around her. Seeing that no one spoke to break the silence, her heart couldn't help but tighten.

"Everyone...what's wrong? Is it because I didn't play well enough?"

Was I too absorbed in the subject just now? Did I make many mistakes without realizing it?

Brother Qi, did you just choose the words I like to hear to comfort me just to make me happy? I’m not that good at playing the piano?

For a moment, Aiyin was quite nervous because of her past experience of losing confidence, especially because she felt that Chen Qi was capable of doing such a thing. In order not to discourage her, who usually only had a short-lived enthusiasm, she said something that could make her persist...

But her words that broke the silence were like the first domino to fall. All of a sudden, all the classmates who reacted were like a chain reaction, with a tidal wave of surprise and compliments that immediately overwhelmed Chihaya Aine who had not yet reacted.

"Chihaya-san! Your guitar skills are really strong! That solo made me tremble!"

"Chihaya-san, your movements are so flexible! The clapping in the middle is really amazing!"

"Chihaya-san, you don't have a band yet, right? Why don't you join our band!"

"Everyone, everyone! It's a bit too enthusiastic. I can't breathe--"

Aiyin, overwhelmed by the belated compliments, felt that a huge stone weighing on her heart had finally been lifted. But faced with the overwhelming enthusiasm of her classmates, she was a little overwhelmed.

Aiyin, who had been accustomed to such crowds in the past and had even dreamed more than once of living in such an atmosphere every day, suddenly found it difficult to adapt.

No, it wasn’t that Aine felt uncomfortable with everyone’s compliments. If Aine suddenly didn’t want to be popular anymore, she wouldn’t have gone through so much trouble to reveal her true colors.

But everyone’s compliments always made Aine feel like something was missing…

How should I describe it? Sincerity? Professionalism? If it was Brother Qi, he would have praised her, pointed out some of her problems, and continued to practice with her, right?

And none of the classmates around her could hear any flaws in her performance. Was her performance really perfect this time?

No, maybe it was because everyone couldn't tell whether my performance was good or bad. They just followed the crowd and echoed my words because my performance just now seemed so confident and gorgeous.

"...No, maybe it's just that I've been with Brother Qi for too long in the past six months, so I'm not used to it now."

"Really? Brother Qi has passed on his aloofness to me. I must ask him to praise me when we get home."

Aiyin couldn't help but mutter this in her heart, but what she didn't realize was that at the moment when her voice full of complaints rang out, the smile on her face was still so sweet, without any trace of blame.

But even though she was thinking this in her heart, Aine’s surface remained flawless. She said to all the classmates who were surrounding her with a slightly embarrassed tone:

"Everyone, I just finished playing the song. I feel a little tired now. I want to go eat a lunch box to replenish my energy."

"Hey……"

The classmates could naturally hear what Aine wanted to express in her euphemistic words, but most of them still looked unsatisfied, especially those classmates who had already asked Aine to join their band, who had regretful expressions on their faces.

Among them, there was a classmate who was unwilling to give up like this, and asked Aine in the crowd:

"Well, at least tell us, Chihaya-san, is this song your original creation?"

"I didn't find this song on the Internet just now. This song must have been written and composed by Chihaya-san, right?"

This unknown classmate may just want to confirm the news so that he can share it with his bandmates in the future, and use it to convince his bandmates to invite a talent like La Ain to join.

But the moment this question was asked, in front of everyone, Aiyin, who had been enjoying countless compliments and admiration just a second ago, suddenly froze in her face.

This could be the question that Aiyin least wanted to answer, because she knew very well that this song was written for her by Qi Ge, and she was not the original author.

But to say that this song is not original under the admiring and yearning gaze of so many people is, in a sense, a great test to one's vanity, and now, Aiyin is facing such a test.

Sure enough, she should admit it, right? After all, this was a song written by Brother Qi. Although Brother Qi gave this song to her, she shouldn't impersonate him.

"actually……"

"Idiot, you already said that this song can't be found on the Internet, so this must be an original song written by Chihaya-san."

However, before Aine could suppress her vanity and speak awkwardly, a girl on the other side patted the student who asked the question in an unpleasant manner, and immediately spoke to break the awkward atmosphere, saying:

"Didn't you see how confident and calm Chihaya-san was when she played? How could she have played so perfectly if it wasn't the original author?"

"That's right, this song is definitely Chihaya-san's original creation!"

"As expected of Chihaya-san, is this a genius?"

"Ah ha ha……"

However, this time, facing the compliments from her classmates, the person who awkwardly echoed them was Aine herself. This was the only time in her life that she felt that everyone's praise of her was so harsh, and everyone's admiring eyes made her feel a little at a loss as to what to do...

But, now that things have come to this, I can no longer say that this song is not my original work.

Anyway, they were just a bunch of ordinary classmates, so if they misunderstood, it was just a misunderstanding, right? No one of them took out their phones to record videos or audios, so there shouldn't be a chance to post it online, so Brother Qi wouldn't know about it.

At worst, if someone asks me to play it again next time, I will definitely not perform it a second time.

Now, Aiyin, who had already achieved her goal of becoming popular in the new environment, strictly speaking, no longer needed this song. Although this made the song that Qi Ge had tailored for her a disposable item, it was still much better than letting Aiyin torture her conscience.

This time when we go back, let mom cook a few more delicious dishes for Brother Qi, as an apology to him.