After rejecting my celebrity husband-Chapter 129: A Performance Shakes the Whole Venue
All eyes were focused on Luo Xiaoqian, including Leng Zimo’s.
Even though he was extremely familiar with her, the sight of her under the spotlight still made his dark eyes inadvertently reveal astonishment.
Luo Xiaoqian was very nervous, because standing in the light, she could see nothing; amidst the utter silence, she could hear nothing. She just pursed her lips and took steps toward the direction of the piano in her memory.
As she stepped onto the stage, her high heels wobbled slightly and her body shook violently. Fortunately, she steadied herself by grabbing the railing, preventing a fall.
"Idiot!"
Upon seeing her swaying moment, Leng Zimo cursed under his breath, instinctively tightening the fingers that held his pen.
Below the stage, someone chuckled softly.
Luo Xiaoqian raised her face, stood up straight again, and bitingly made her way to the piano. 𝘧𝓇ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝘣𝓃ℴ𝓋𝑒𝑙.𝑐𝘰𝑚
Backstage.
Xu Xia sighed in relief as she watched Luo Xiaoqian confidently sit down at the piano through the projector display.
Next to her, Shen Xinyi gave a cold smile. Her gaze fixed on the piano in front of her, she too felt a bundle of nerves.
When she had just come off the stage, she brushed past Luo Xiaoqian. Even she was taken aback by the beauty of this girl. She hadn’t expected the girl who usually seemed so unremarkable to turn out so stunningly gorgeous.
Onstage, Luo Xiaoqian glanced at the audience, her eyes pausing briefly on the judges’ table at the front. Thinking that he must be scolding her again for being an idiot, she mockingly lifted the corners of her mouth.
"I’m sorry!"
Raising her fingers onto the piano, she turned her face and nodded at the band, signaling that she was ready.
As her fingers fell, the notes began to flow from beneath them.
When the first note sounded, all her tension vanished, replaced by music which was all that remained in her heart.
Lowering her gaze, she started to sing softly.
"Moonlight, in some corner of my heart,
So bright, yet so cold..."
There she sat in the spotlight, in front of the white piano, every bit of her seeming to glow, her expression focused and immersed.
This was Luo Xiaoqian. When she sang, she would forget everything.
Without a doubt, the song itself was already classic, but after going through Leng Zimo’s adaptation, sung by her, it seemed to take on a different taste.
It wasn’t just about sadness anymore, but a resilience that shone through past the grief.
People inevitably get hurt, but always grow while carrying those wounds!
Beneath the stage, there was silence.
Many in the audience were reminded of past events by the song, recalling people they had loved, the hurts they had sustained, their own ’Moonlight’...
In many eyes, there were hints of tears.
On the judges’ panel, even Adamss and Park Anzi, who didn’t understand Chinese, were moved by the emotion in her song.
Leng Zimo watched the girl singing and playing, his lips pursed, listening intently.
The song was his arrangement. He knew every note. He had heard her sing it more than once, but this time, he could tell she was truly singing with her heart, pouring her soul out to everyone.
She captured exactly the feeling he wanted: rising from sadness, then striving to move forward.
After she finished the first verse, the song moved into the piano SOLO in the middle, which was a turning point for the entire piece. Following this SOLO, the latter half would shift to a stronger part.
At the end of the SOLO, there was a series of rapid triplet notes, and after the triplets, the string instruments entered.
