I was exposed for adding my female boss to my group of female friends.

When the screen lit up again, a person appeared on the screen.

A person sitting in front of a piano.

A black top hat, a black suit, a slender figure, and delicate fingers—

But only their backs were shown to the audience.

Seeing this scene, Qin Yun Chu felt a chill: "Seriously? Only a back view is shown again? They just don't want us to see their faces, huh?"

She was muttering to herself, something about being "insecure about her appearance" and that "Jiang Xinhai wouldn't like someone so ugly..."

Qin Yunchu wanted to say something, but forcibly suppressed it.

Let her struggle with it.

The moment the piano music began, everyone fell silent.

"This piano solo is truly worthy of the man who composed the works of Beethoven and Mozart," Cui Dayou said with admiration in his eyes.

“He must have just jotted this down on a whim,” Wang Feng said.

After all, his 20 timeless classics are just a handful of solos of this caliber.

"My brother is wearing a retro suit."

Holding a cane, playing a magical melody,

Strolling along, in Shamaridan,

Time, renewed by the years…

JX's voice rang out, and Cui Dayou commented, "It's exactly the same style as Xu Xiangxiao's."

Jiang Xinhai glanced at Xu Xiangxiao: "After all, he also has another identity, Tianya."

Qin Yunshang kept her eyes glued to the screen, hoping to see JX turn around.

Unfortunately, JX never showed his face in the music video.

Jiang Xinhai felt a little relieved.

She was a little nervous just now—what if Chen Ya's true identity was exposed?

The master gazed into the distance, studying the shapes of colors.

Suddenly, I was asked to talk about my impression of myself.

The madness of generations, the king of music, all things bow down to my symphony.

The road ahead is still being paved, I'm still creating, and the melody at my fingertips is yearning.

A generation's madness, the king of music, I think I don't need a frame.

It cannot contain the speed of the piano keys.

My musical notes are all art of the future…

During this chanting, subtitles appeared on the screen.

Gao Xiaobo finally found something to complain about, and excitedly pointed at the screen:

"Look at this... these lyrics are so outrageous, is there any logic to them?!"

At first glance, these lyrics do seem outrageously arrogant, which is quite unsettling.

However, after thinking about it, everyone realized that there wasn't much to complain about.

Cui Dayou squinted his eyes: "I know why he said that only he is qualified to sing this song."

“Yes,” Wang Feng nodded, “The madman of generations, the king of music, only he would dare to say such a thing.”

"No one but him deserves this title."

Gao Xiaobai's face turned the color of sour grapes, and he couldn't say anything more.

After all, even the most critical critic can only point out the problems with the song itself when it comes to these lyrics.

No one could find a single word to disagree with the lyrics' description of themselves.

Because the lyrics are simply stating the facts.

The lyrics are even a bit modest.

He is very likely the greatest musician of all time.

none of them.

As the song ended, just as Cui Dayou was about to say something, another song, "The Ordinary Road," started playing automatically.

Cui Dayou quickly shut his mouth. This song is completely different in style from the previous one.

In the music video, you can only see a white car driving in the vast desert.

"Wandering, on the road."

Are you leaving? Via, Via.

Fragile, yet proud.

That was once what I looked like.

JX used a different singing style for this song.

It is purer, unadorned, and more profound.

I have crossed mountains and seas.

We also walked through crowds of people.

Everything I once had

In the blink of an eye, they all vanished like smoke.

I was once lost, disappointed, and directionless.

Until I realized that ordinariness was the only answer.

I once destroyed everything I had.

I just want to leave forever.

I once fell into boundless darkness,

Unable to break free,

I was once like you, like him, like the wild grass and wildflowers.

Despairing, yet yearning,

I cry and laugh in an ordinary way. "

……

JX's voice, deep and full of stories, as he sang this song, seemed to be slowly telling a tale.

Just like the previous song, he himself did not appear in the video at all.

After the singing stopped, everyone in the music archive remained silent for a long time.

"What happened to the promise of real people appearing on screen?" Qin Yunshang shouted angrily, baring her teeth and brandishing her claws. "What a waste of our time!"

"It's obvious that he would never appear on camera in person," Cui Dayou said. "If he did show his face, his true identity would be exposed instantly, and the whole world would know."

Qin Yunshang turned around and asked in confusion, "Isn't it good that the whole world knows? He'll become an unprecedented superstar!"

Qin Yun Chu shook her head and said, "Does he care about that? He just wants to live a simple and peaceful life."

Everyone nodded.

They had never seen anyone in this world as indifferent to fame and fortune as JX.

While others would love to have their faces printed on every street corner in the world, he goes to great lengths to hide his identity.

“Perhaps this is the difference between an artist and a performer,” Cui Dayou sighed. “If he hadn’t always lived as an ordinary person, he wouldn’t have been able to write lyrics like those.”

Qin Yunchu was deeply moved.

Chen Ya...is that really the reason?

Thinking of the songs he had written and the novels he had written... Qin Yunchu felt that perhaps he really did get into her company for this reason.

She suddenly realized that letting him get promoted might have been a mistake.

Perhaps she should have a serious talk with him and transfer him back to head office to be a regular middle-level manager.

Yes, it's absolutely not for my own selfish reasons that I'm keeping him by my side. Absolutely not.

……

He Ling suddenly asked, "Teacher Cui, I have a question. Isn't this song about ordinary things? Why did JX say that this song, like the one we just heard called 'The Greatest Work,' is only worthy of being sung by him?"

Cui Dayou looked at He Ling and said, "Good question!"

Indeed, this song is completely different from the previous one, "The Greatest Work".

It's like two sides of the same coin.

If "The Greatest Work" is all about arrogance, then this song is all about untold vicissitudes.

It's like a weary middle-aged man who's already tired of walking the path of life, sitting down, lighting a cigarette, and starting to share his insights on life with you.

“I want to know, what exactly does he mean by losing everything and destroying everything?” He Ling said.

Jiang Xinhai turned around and looked towards the entrance of the music hall.

Looking out from there, you can just see the mountain cabin.

That was where their "Poetic Life" team lived, and also where Chen Ya was born and grew up.

"I was once like you, like him, like the wild grass and wildflowers, despairing and yearning, crying and laughing in an ordinary life."

Jiang Xinhai bit his lip.

She began to think about what Chen Ya had gone through before he left this place and appeared in front of her like that.

Xu Xiangxiao tilted her head.

Tianya, who only ever talks about music with himself, who seems like a workaholic and never enjoys himself, what kind of force is supporting him behind the scenes?

“We listened to the songs in the wrong order,” Wang Feng said. “We should have listened to ‘The Ordinary Road’ first, and then ‘The Greatest Work’. JX grew from a boy in a mountain village to become the king of music. He wanted to tell me that story.”

“No, we just happened to listen to the correct order,” Cui Dayou said. “Although the two songs sound completely opposite, they share the same theme—loneliness.”

"Standing atop the peak, overlooking all the mountains below, is a lonely and solitary state."

"Standing in a sea of ​​people, yet having no one to confide in, is more lonely than the loneliness at the summit."

He turned to look at them and said, "Perhaps this is the eternal theme of his songs now: crossing the hills only to find no one waiting. He is too lonely."

Qin Yunshang suddenly grabbed Qin Yunchu's sleeve and said, "Sister, he's so amazing, why is he still lonely?"

Qin Yun Chu's lips twitched: "Perhaps... no one can understand him?"

"Even if I can't do it, is that not enough?" Jiang Xinhai's smile was somewhat bleak.

Xu Xiangxiao looked at her, wanting to comfort her: "I have never... understood him either."

Cui Dayou said: "True geniuses are incomprehensible, especially those who create. Their inner world is too rich and delicate, which makes it difficult for others to approach them, and even touching them will hurt them."

"To see the work of a genius is a pleasure, but to get close to a genius in person is only painful. Because a genius is like the sun; if you get too close, you will feel burned."

“I never felt burned when I was with him,” Jiang Xinhai said.

Cui Dayou paused, then lowered his head and pondered, "Hmm... that's because, Xinhai, you yourself are a genius."

“No,” Jiang Xinhai shook his head, “it’s because he’s always been accommodating to me.”

If it weren't for always accommodating her, how could she have gone abroad and started wreaking havoc like a tiger released from its cage?

Jiang Xinhai suddenly rushed out of the private music collection.

She dialed Chen Ya's number on her phone, but couldn't get through.

She wanted to talk to him; she suddenly felt an overwhelming urge to speak to him, and she had so much to say that she absolutely had to.

She didn't want to see anyone in the whole world except him. There were millions of people in the world, but she only wanted to see him; at this moment, millions of people were searching for him everywhere, and she was the one who most wanted to find him.

Where is Chen Ya?