She Is Brighter Than the Stars

Cheng Nian smiled, “Go to my room.”

Seeing that Cheng Nian was going to walk on the floor barefoot like this, Li Shubai reminded, “Put on your shoes.”

Cheng Nian seemed to have noticed that she was still barefoot.

When she was young, she didn’t like playing the piano and always went to lessons with bare feet, but she took it off just on a whim.

Fortunately, the room was warm enough, otherwise she would catch a cold.

Back in the room, Li Shubai took out a new test paper from his schoolbag and handed it to Cheng Nian.

He looked serious, but his tone was calm.

“There will be the last exam after New Year’s Day, so focus more on serious things.”

Cheng Nian responded again and again: “I know, I wrote an extra set of papers last night.”

As she spoke, Cheng Nian took out the paper and spread it out on the table, and said with a focused expression, “I think the information on this question is wrong.”

When Li Shubai looked carefully, Cheng Nian’s cell phone rang.

Her mobile phone was placed on the table, and Li Shubai saw the name displayed on the screen at a glance.

【Xie Junyu】

At the last meeting, the four of them in the band left each other their phone numbers.

In order not to interfere with Li Shubai’s reading of the questions, Cheng Nian picked up the phone and walked out the door.

“Hello.”

The door was closed, and the room fell silent.

Li Shubai stared at the irregular graphics on the test paper, as if there was a silver needle in his mind, shuttling through his thoughts uncontrollably.

He read the question several times but couldn’t see where Cheng Nian was wrong, and he couldn’t even understand what the question was talking about.

In the hallway.

Xie Junyu’s deep voice came from the receiver, “The song is finished, listen to it.”

Cheng Nian responded, and heard the sound of the guitar over there.

“I love you……”

Cheng Nian couldn’t help but interrupted immediately: “A love song?”

“Yeah.”

Cheng Nian looked distressed, “Isn’t it not easy to pass the review with a love song? You know that the people in the school are very strict. Is it too straightforward to say that I love you?”

“How can a love song not say I love you?”

“The highest state of literary expression is not to say, but to make people feel.”

“But I’m just a layman.”

Cheng Nian couldn’t help laughing. She didn’t expect Xie Junyu to have such a childish side, so she compromised and said, “Well, I’m actually a layman too. Go ahead.”

The guitar falls on a major chord and the music stops.

Xie Junyu asked: “How is it?”

The two discussed the song for about five minutes, and felt that they couldn’t make it clear on the phone, so Cheng Nian said directly.

“Why don’t you come to my house?”

Xie Junyu was silent for a while, and whispered: “Will you not disturb your family?”

Cheng Nian glanced at the bedroom door and hesitated.

“My parents have gone out, and Li Shubai and I are the only ones at home.”

Xie Junyu didn’t speak for a long time again.

Cheng Nian was thinking that it doesn’t matter if he can’t come, when a low voice came from the phone, “Okay.”

In the room, Li Shubai was still staring at the question in a daze.

Cheng Nian walked over and sat down, and casually threw the phone on the table, “Xie Junyu will come later.”

Li Shubai seemed to be bitten by a poisonous snake for a moment, and he asked alertly, “Why is he coming here?”

Cheng Nian smiled flatteringly, “We’ll discuss the song, it won’t take long.”

However, after Xie Junyu came, the two of them stayed in the piano room all morning and almost remade the whole song.

Cheng Nian felt that the lyrics were too straightforward and worried about censorship. Xie Junyu was very persistent, and she finally compromised.

During lunch time, Li Shubai knocked on the door of the piano room.

“What do you want for lunch?”

Cheng Nian glanced at Xie Junyu, who had already got up and started packing his guitar.

“Let’s stop here today, and ask Pangpang and their opinions at school.”

Cheng Nian also stood up from the piano, “Well, that’s fine.”

The impatience in Li Shubai’s eyes was beyond words, and he didn’t have any intention of keeping him here any longer.

He stopped Cheng Nian who wanted to send Xie Junyu off, “It’s cold outside, I’ll go.”

Cheng Nian could only wave to Xie Junyu awkwardly, “See you at school.”

Xie Junyu walked out of the door of Cheng’s house, and Li Shubai closed the door behind him.

The heavy closing sound of the door well expressed his attitude towards Xie Junyu.

Hate.

After school started, Cheng Nian and the others had to juggle their studies and rehearse songs, and sometimes they were so sleepy that they fell asleep in class.

The weather is getting colder, the music classroom is in another school building, and there is no heater, so people are often too cold to stretch out their hands.

Mi Le and Pangpang were fine, but Cheng Nian and Xie Junyu would play wrong notes from time to time due to stiff fingers.

Cheng Nian thoughtfully prepared several hand warmers for everyone.

Out of affection, no one complained.

Mi Le was particularly excited, not only because the saxophone that she had studied hard for many years finally had a place to play, but also because she felt excited for everyone to work together to do something.

When it was time to review the program, the four of them looked at the name column on the application form and realized that the band didn’t have an official name yet.

In the music classroom.

Mi Le first suggested: “I think philharmonic is pretty good.”

Pangpang immediately denied it, “The Philharmonic Band, what a mouthful.”

Xie Junyu thought for a while, “How about Breaking Wind?”

Pangpang shook his head again and said, “It’s too heavy metal.”

He tilted his head and thought for a while, “Above the clouds, is that good?”

“You can come down now.”

Everyone looked at Cheng Nian together.

Cheng Nian bit her lip and said with a smile, “Why are you looking at me?”

Mi Le leaned over, “We’ve all expressed our ideas, why don’t you participate too.”

Cheng Nian leaned back on the table behind her, and said casually, “Then call it parallel world.”

“What’s the meaning?”

Cheng Nian laughed and said amusedly: “There are countless choices in the parallel world, and there is always a world where I can be admitted to Qingbei.”

She just said it casually, but Pangpang became serious, “It seems quite interesting.”

Mi Le glanced at Xie Junyu and nodded, “I think it’s good too.”

Xie Junyu wrote the name directly on the application form.

The days of waiting for the results are particularly long this winter, especially for Mi Le.

On the day of the audition, she played a wrong note, and she has always been worried about it, for fear that everyone’s efforts for more than a month will go to waste because of herself.

In fact, like Li Shubai, the people in the review team know nothing about music. It happened that such a performance was missing at the party, so they passed it without much consideration.

In the process group, there is a little fan girl of Xie Junyu who specially bought time for them to perform two songs.

When the girl told Xie Junyu about this shyly, she almost wrote the words “I did this because I like you” on her face.

Xie Junyu politely said thank you, turned around and went into the class to tell Cheng Nian and the others about it.

The girl didn’t have time to say anything else, her face was full of regret, but she still felt very happy that she could do something for the person she liked.

Mi Le almost cried happily when she heard it. She put her hands together on her chest, and she didn’t know which god she was thanking.

Sitting on the seat, Li Shubai looked at the program list that Cheng Nian had streamed out in advance, and asked softly.

“Parallel world, what is the meaning?”