Lu Mingfei, why are you slaying dragons if you're not involved!

Chapter 119 Liu Miaomiao: I Will Fight Back Too! (5.1K)

"Don't be afraid of what I'm about to tell you."

The only light source in the room was the screen of the laptop that was in use. The cold light made the girl sitting in front of the computer look even more serious, as if she was about to say something about the end of the world.

"Scared? Do you know how complicated this travel plan I painstakingly crafted was? It was a perfectly timed, interconnected series of events! After receiving your inexplicable 'help' message, I had no choice but to cancel it!"

The red-haired girl on the other end of the video call had a "fierce" look on her bright face.

"So, girl, what you should be worried about right now isn't whether I'm scared, but that if what you're saying isn't at the 'life-saving' level, I'll immediately buy a ticket back to China, pin you to the bed, tie you up, strip you naked, take pictures, and send them to Chu Zihang!"

"I'm afraid that even if you take the picture and send it over, it won't be of any use..." Susie sighed, looking down.

"Ok?"

Nuonuo was taken aback. She thought Susie would say something like, "Even if you stripped me naked and threw me on his bed, someone like Chu Zihang would just think I was going to switch rooms with him."

"What's going on? Now I'm really interested. Tell me in detail."

Nuonuo, her face still full of curiosity, leaned closer to the camera. "Turn on the light so I can see your every expression! You've already come to me, so you should be mentally prepared for me to expose you completely, right?"

"We're now miles apart, and can only have a high-latency conversation via video call. How can you still 'profile' us like this?"

Susie turned on the room lights, and the bright light dispelled the darkness.

“Profiling is a reasoning technique based on criminal psychology, behavioral analysis, and physical evidence investigation. But I’ve never studied those things because my ‘profiling’ is more like ‘psychic’ than scientific; I just ‘see’ it directly. So as long as I can see it, that’s enough.”

Nono carefully observed every subtle expression on Susie's face in the video. The video's pixel quality wasn't very high, but it was barely enough. She kept talking.

"Besides, I've lived with you for so long, I've checked every inch of your body. Anything unusual is as obvious as finding a pimple on your smooth and bouncy thigh!"

Susie rolled her eyes helplessly. She and Nono were best friends who shared a dorm room at Kassel College. Girls often talked about incredibly juicy things in private, not to mention that Nono was a typical "show-off" who always acted like a thug towards her.

"Hmm, it seems the problem isn't too serious. The competition isn't so strong that you're desperate?"

Nono suddenly changed the subject, "But if that's the case, why did you send a 'help' message? Besides, you really do have something to struggle with..."

"You've already started 'profile'?" Susie was taken aback.

"Have you forgotten what I said? The profiling began the moment I saw you."

Nono raised an eyebrow and her words came out like a barrage of bullets.

"So who exactly appeared by Chu Zihang's side that made you feel threatened, to the point that you needed to find me? Yet you're just confused and don't understand why this happened? Let me think..."

Susie didn't answer, she just looked at Nono quietly and waited.

"I can't figure it out! My curiosity is really getting the better of me."

Nono decisively gave up struggling. "It must be because the video quality isn't high enough. If I were in front of you, I would definitely be able to 'see' it!"

Susie shook her head: "No, I think you 'saw' it, but it was probably too horrifying for you to choose not to say it."

"No... I don't think so?"

Nuonuo clutched her chest, looking somewhat startled. "Really a boy? A boy that Chu Zihang treats differently?"

"Yes. The president not only patiently answered all his questions, but also personally cut his steak, and even exchanged his own steak for the president's. His expression was natural, his movements fluid, and he didn't pause at all..."

Susie weakly recounted the scene.

"Do you know what I wanted to say at that moment? I wanted to just ask, 'Why are you guys so skilled?'"

"Then I think I know what you're struggling with..."

Nono looked at her strangely, then comforted her.

"But don't worry, I've met Chu Zihang. Although that guy is as wooden as a statue when it comes to emotions, he's definitely not gay! They're definitely just friends...brotherly love!"

"I understand what you're saying, but... it's really frustrating to think about."

Susie covered her face. "Can you imagine liking a guy for over six months and then finding out you know absolutely nothing about him? I only found out today that the student council president has this side to him! If only he could treat me like this..."

"Girl, you're acting like a teenage girl right now, caught up in your horny fantasies."

Nono gave a comment that was so precise it was almost sharp.

"If you ask me, instead of just dreaming, take action!"

"...How should we proceed?"

Susie asked instinctively, "Chu Zihang has never given me a chance to understand him..."

"Trying to get to that man who surrounded himself with mountains of ice is nothing short of a pipe dream! Your body heat is far from enough to melt those ice blocks; you'd probably freeze half to death before you could even melt them... Now that there's a shortcut, why not take it?"

Nono smiled slyly, her eyes narrowing. "The path others have walked is easier to walk!"

"What you said is rather ambiguous... but I think I understand it."

Susie, who became the vice president of the Lionheart Club right after the first semester of her freshman year, was naturally equally capable. "You mean, you want me to investigate how Lu Mingfei got such a good relationship with the president?"

"Lu Mingfei?"

Nono paused, "This name sounds familiar... Ah, I remember now, isn't it the S-class freshman who's still half a year away from enrollment that's been circulating on the Kassel College campus forum?"

"Correct."

"What kind of person do you think Lu Mingfei is? Tell me your first impression."

"First impression... good-looking."

Susie gave a fairly objective evaluation: "Even by the standards of mixed race, there is no flaw in her. She is the kind of person who can get by with just her face."

"nice?"

Nono blinked. "I remember Fingel selling exclusive materials on the forum, S-grade high school student ID photos, for a hundred dollars a set. I bought them, but they're way off looking good... like a solar system away, right?"

"No, that guy is clearly selling fake information!"

Susie shook her head vigorously, her teeth clenched, clearly one of the "victims" as well.

"I'll make him give me half of what he earns, or I'll expose his despicable behavior!"

"I want 70%, and I'll take 30% of that."

Nono, fully embodying the spirit of "everyone has a share," then asked, "And what about personality traits?"

"Well, I'm not sure about his personality, but he does talk a bit incoherently, and I even have a hard time keeping up with his train of thought. But the president is fine; he answers fluently and even comforts me by saying, 'You'll get used to it...'"

"Hiss." Nono gasped. "No wonder you're so conflicted, this is such an old married couple's kind of talk!"

“Yeah! You think so too, right? Luckily I held it in…” Susie nodded repeatedly.

"And then?" Nono urged.

"Gone."

Susie honestly shook her head, "That's all I could tell."

"……never mind."

Nono remained silent for a moment.

“I can’t profile you just from your description. How about this, I’ll buy a ticket and come back to China. Hmm… it might take four or five days or even a week.”

"Hmm...isn't this going a bit too far?"

Susie was a little embarrassed. "Didn't you also make travel plans?"

"When did I ever make a travel plan? I'm just kidding. I just go wherever I want and do whatever comes to mind. What if you don't tell me the truth if I don't make things sound serious?"

Nono laughed.

"Also, Caesar mentioned to me that the student council needs S-class people and absolutely cannot let them fall into the hands of the Lionheart Society. I am a member of the student council after all, so I'll just consider it as completing the task assigned by the president."

"I don't think your presence will make any difference. Caesar's plan is doomed to fail before it even begins."

Susie laughed with a hint of schadenfreude.

"I don't believe Caesar could actually help cut the steak!"

"Not necessarily."

Nono shook her head.

"Given Caesar's personality, as long as Lu Mingfei is good enough, he's capable of doing something like this. I reckon he'll interpret it as some kind of 'respect for talent,' and maybe even stage a scene of 'sleeping side by side' or 'welcoming with shoes turned upside down' or something..."

"I can barely accept that the student council president and the Lionheart Club president are both cutting steaks for S-class freshmen."

Susie's expression was a little strange. "But if it's something like sleeping side by side... wouldn't that be considered a banned film?"

"Now that you mention it..." Nono's eyes lit up, "I kind of want to see it!"

……

It was just a simple, tight hug that lasted for less than half a minute.

Liu Miaomiao felt that she probably wouldn't be able to forget it even after half a century.

Add to that Lu Mingfei's two sentences, which she interpreted as "six times already" and "you don't think my heart only beats over 300 when you're around, do you?"... This forgetting time probably needs to be multiplied by two.

It felt like a little deer was pounding in my heart, constantly shouting, "He loves me!"

As for who else the boy might have in his heart besides himself... the girl didn't subconsciously think about it.

Winning is difficult; just making sure you don't lose is already a great success for this stage!
She was so engrossed in the sweet atmosphere that she couldn't even engage in the subsequent four-hand piano duet—the piano piece contained emotions like "sadness" and "entanglement," and it was written about her own life.

However, given her current state, how could she possibly empathize with herself from a few days ago, when she felt heartbroken after seeing Ling in Lu Mingfei's room?

Your state of mind can affect your playing performance.

"Shall we rest for a bit first?"

Halfway through the piece, before Lu Mingfei could say anything, Liu Miaomiao herself was too embarrassed to continue playing.

"it is good!"

Although he was somewhat puzzled that the girl needed to rest, Lu Mingfei did not show it.

In fact, he was currently preoccupied with the musical expression of "words becoming law," so he didn't even notice that Liu Miaomiao's playing wasn't going very well...

Liu Miaomiao got up to "rest" and left temporarily, leaving only Lu Mingfei in the music room.

As part of his piano practice plan, there was no time allocated for rest in his schedule, and he had no intention of stopping.

Lu Mingfei recalled the true meaning of those words that had been "engraved," the scenes and insights he had experienced... and then began to try.

"The first part should be—the biting cold wind?"

He pressed the piano keys.

As the monotonous piano music began, Lu Mingfei frowned slightly.

"No, that's not enough..."

He kept trying and changing the method, and finally found the one that felt right after four or five attempts. After another ten or so attempts, he found the corresponding finger pressure and speed.

“Okay! Next is the second key…” After memorizing it, Lu Mingfei continued to try.

This is purely an arrangement based on "intuition," completely illogical. It's like solving hundreds of complex systems of equations without using any formulas, theorems, or simplification techniques, simply substituting numbers one by one and verifying the results!
The person who does this must be not only insane, but also a genius—only an insane person would do it. Only a genius could do it!
Lu Mingfei quickly entered a state of "flow".

In this state, his creative speed was further enhanced!

It's just about finding the corresponding keys by feel, adjusting the pressure and speed when pressing them, and matching the pedals to various details. The difficulty is probably like looking down from the top of Mount Everest at the bottom of the Mariana Trench and finding a needle of the correct color. It's not that difficult.

When the handle of the closed music room door was gently turned open, and Liu Miaomiao, finally "awakening" herself, walked in, she heard—

A completely unfamiliar section of piano music is blossoming under Lu Mingfei's fingers.

The notes flowed and went straight to the heart.

Liu Miaomiao subconsciously closed her eyes.

It was as if a cold wind had swept through, and the warm and comfortable music room had vanished, replaced by a vast expanse of frozen earth covered in frost...

The music stopped abruptly!

Liu Miaomiao opened her eyes and realized that she had been hugging herself with her arms crossed without her noticing. Goosebumps even appeared on her smooth arms, as if she had really experienced the torment of the cold wind.

She had never heard such a piano piece before; the sounds produced by the leaping keys were able to immerse her in such a dreamlike and realistic scene!
After hearing only a short section, Liu Miaomiao realized the quality of this piece of music—it was unparalleled!
Lu Mingfei started trying again. He pressed a key, frowned slightly, and then tried another...

"What kind of music is this?"

Liu Miaomiao stepped forward and asked in a low voice.

"what?"

Lu Mingfei snapped out of his daze.

"You're back? This piece doesn't have a name yet. If it had one, it would probably be... Nightmare? Let's just call it Nightmare! It's just something I made up. Let's practice four-hand duet instead."

"I've only composed half of the four-hand piano piece. You can memorize that short piece after playing it once, right? There's no point in practicing it any further."

Liu Miaomiao gently sat down next to him and couldn't help but ask, "Nightmare...this piece is extraordinary, its quality is absolutely top-notch! Who is the composer?"

"It is indeed I who am!"

Lu Mingfei was a little smug, thinking to himself that the insights he gained from dying so many times in his dreams were certainly extraordinary, otherwise wouldn't all the torment he had suffered have been for nothing?

Liu Miaomiao secretly breathed a sigh of relief; she was afraid that Lu Mingfei would say no.

When she saw Lu Mingfei's somewhat clumsy audition, she already knew it was a "wild" creative approach. But if Lu Mingfei didn't admit it, she couldn't force him to say anything.

Liu Miaomiao kept thinking about where her advantages lay compared to opponents like Su Xiaoqiang and Zero.

But after thinking it over, I still only have the option of playing the piano.

But how much of life does playing the piano actually take up? Or rather, how significant is it for Lu Mingfei?

Now she realizes that this might be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!
She judged the quality of a piece to be a milestone that would "go down in history" in the piano world after listening to only a short section!
If we can do it together...

Okay, it's no different from a four-hand duet. The pretty pianist admits that whether it's finished or not isn't important, the important thing is playing together!!!
"I might..."

The girl looked up at the boy's deep eyes, which she could almost see into, and finally mustered her courage, saying, "I can help you."

Lu Mingfei was taken aback, somewhat surprised.

How can this help?
Noticing his confusion, Liu Miaomiao explained in a soft voice.

“I am far behind you in terms of playing skills, but in terms of musical talent, we are very similar.”

My knowledge of music theory can save you a lot of time. You can tell me the feeling you want to express, and I'll play a few similar notes for you to choose from…”

Lu Mingfei suddenly realized.

He wasn't unaware that "solving problems using formulas and theorems" would be faster and simpler, but the prerequisite was that he had to have learned it!

Now there's someone who's studied music who can help him—Liu Miaomiao, a beautiful young pianist with "unparalleled musicality and arranging talent"!
Efficiency has increased by more than several times.
"Yeah!"

Lu Mingfei nodded vigorously, then realized something and scratched his head.

He used to grab his hair, but now that his hair is short, he can't grab it anymore, so he can only scratch it.

"Um... wouldn't it be too much trouble for you?"

"No way? I have time..."

Liu Miaomiao spoke softer and softer, her eyes secretly glancing at the four-hand piano score that was only half-finished beside her, thinking to herself, "Isn't this lie a little too easy to be exposed?"
"What I mean is, I should give him some kind of reward. After all, even brothers should keep clear accounts..."

Lu Mingfei shrugged.

"I……"

This really stumped the girl.

Countless thoughts flashed through my mind, such as "like me", "don't like them", and "be nice to me in the future", and then disappeared.

Promises are the most meaningless things in the world; let's be more realistic!
Thinking of this, Liu Miaomiao suddenly smiled sweetly.

I'm a little...cold.

Her face flushed, and she opened her arms slightly.

Lu Mingfei stared at her blankly, thinking to himself, "Girl, are you going down the road of becoming the first person to get me electrocuted?"
Stop it, Miaomiao, there are electric shocks everywhere outside!

But how can I say that?

The countdown to the electric shock had already begun. Lu Mingfei, with a death wish, hugged her tightly. He couldn't care less about the soft, warm body in his arms; he only had time to cast two buffs on himself to avoid getting killed.

[Electric shock released!]

"Ah ah ah ah ah!!!"

Lu Mingfei was unable to move or speak; only his soul cried out in helpless agony.

With a blush, Liu Miaomiao carefully took out her phone from the side pocket of her dress, unlocked it, took a selfie, and sent it.

All in one go!
"I will fight back!" she thought to herself.

(End of this chapter)