Thinking about it, Cecilia was so distracted, and a thin layer of tears couldn't help but cover her eyes.

If you are a bystander, you will definitely not be able to understand Cecilia's emotional behavior, joy and sorrow look like a grumpy child, but Don Quixote, who has really experienced those storms and waves, can understand Cecilia's inner feelings, and behind every footprint is a story.

Cecilia hid her embarrassment with a smile, "I'm sorry, I'm a little distracted. My favorite is always the young master himself. I know it's a bit flattering and speculative, but it's just the way it is. ”

Cecilia raised her head to look at the inquiring eyes around her, and whispered, "You know what? The young master composed a song for Heather, 'Say You Won't Give Up,' and it was an agreement between them, and he only sang it once in all public appearances, because it was a melody that belonged to Heather. ”

Some people saw Lan Li's acting skills, some people heard Lan Li's singing, and some people touched the truth of Lan Li.

In Cecilia's eyes, Lan Li is undoubtedly talented, but in essence, Lan Li is still the man who unswervingly pursues his dreams, he has never changed, and he refuses to change, just like Sisyphus, knowing that his efforts have no results, but he is still trying.

Lan Li's persistence, Lan Li's dream, Lan Li's sadness, Lan Li's joy, Lan Li's gloom, Lan Li's loneliness. All of this is what Cecilia likes most about him, and in the glitz and bustle of Vanity Fair, Lan Li has always been Lan Li, and it has not changed from before to now.

The controversy just now is because I like Lan Li's movies or music.

Cecilia, on the other hand, likes Lan Li's movies and music because she likes Lan Li. If someone said that Cecilia was crazy about everything about Lan Li, she would not deny it, because this was the truth, and she couldn't help but cry again when she just remembered those memory fragments of "One Man's Concert" in her mind.

A simple fact, but everyone around quieted down, thinking carefully and savoring.

Cecilia broke the silence with a laugh, hiding her jerkiness, "Don't let me spoil the atmosphere of the discussion, I'm just expressing my feelings." Actually, I like Lan Li, at first because of the performance, at that time the 'Don Quixote' album had not yet come out, I don't know if you watched the 'Pacific War', the scene in the ninth episode, he hugged the woman who was going to die, his eyes instantly captured me, I really have no way to refuse!"

"That's it!"

And the way he heard the baby crying before but couldn't help but step back, I still have to be heartbroken when I see it now. ”

"I know that episode, God! The young master looks like an angel in that scene!"

"I know about the show, but don't people say it's very heavy? So I didn't watch it. ”

"Ahhh

"Yes, yes, I will definitely not regret it, just quietly appreciate the young master. ”

This is the case when people in the same way get together, a topic can detonate everyone's discussion frenzy, and the endless stream of voices will never be lonely, and it is even impossible to tell who is who, but it is still easy to find a common topic. To outsiders, they look like a bunch of crazy people, but to each other, they are a haven of soul.

Cecilia fell silent again, and just watched everyone silently, becoming a listener.

After a while, the girl who had just taken the initiative to ask Cecilia a question asked again, "Do you remember the Grammys that year?" The girl paused for a moment, then sang softly, "So here we are, a lonely place to which we can't go back." Cast beauty, cast crown. ”

The girl's and Cecilia's eyes collided in this way, and they could faintly catch the hazy tears in the depths of their sight, and they both thought of the same thing.

"What's wrong, what's wrong?

"I know this song, 'The Beast'! I love it! I heard it on the Grammy stage!"

"Why did the young master choose this song as his acceptance speech at that time, and is there any story?"

The girl and Cecilia exchanged a look, and finally Cecilia smiled and signaled, giving up the right to speak to the other party, and the girl did not continue to excuse herself, and said, "This song is the young master's last promise to Heather." At the beginning, Heather had always hoped to stand on the stage of 'American Idol' and realize her musical dreams, and the track she chose was this 'beast', but just as she was about to go to audition, her illness suddenly worsened. ”

"Later......" The girl's voice was also slightly choked and paused for a moment, "Later, at the 'One Man Concert', the young master sang 'Say You Won't Give Up', which was the agreement between him and Heather: the young master held a concert, and Heather needed to go on the audition stage of 'American Idol'. That night, when Encore was in place, the young master refused to sing the song 'The Beast', because it belonged to Heather, and he was waiting for Heather to perform. ”

"But ......" pauses at this point.

Before the start of the Grammys, Heather still couldn't hold on after all, and the passage of time was frozen forever, and when Lan Li stood on the stage of the annual album awards, he finally sang the song "The Beast", in order to keep the promise between them, and also for the encore who was not able to sing.

A faint sadness and emotion lingered in the chest for a long time, lingering.

As Cecilia said, only Don Quixote who has really experienced everything can understand the lonely soul who walks alone on the path of dreams, "so we have arrived, a lonely place to which we cannot return", this lyric comes from the "beast", but it has a different meaning at this moment.

Heather Cross, the name is a memory that will never be replaced. After a two-year absence, it is very touching to return to Madison Square Garden, and all proceeds from the "Dream Back to the Kerosene Lamp Bar" concert will be donated to the Heather Cross Foundation.

fell into a deep contemplative tranquility, and then someone asked curiously, "So the young master starred in the movie 'Drunken Country Folk', does it really involve his own experience?"

Cecilia and the girl in front of her were about to answer, and then they realized the other party's action, and both chuckled lightly, and humbled a little, this time it was Cecilia who answered, "If you look at the news, you can see that in fact, 'The Drunken Country Ballad' was mostly filmed in a pub in Greenwich Village called Pioneer Village. ”

"First of all, when filming in the pioneer village, the crew invited a lot of general audience members to complete the filming on the set to ensure that the whole bar was realistic, and secondly, the young master worked in the pioneer village for a long time before he became famous, and the owner of the bar was also the driving force behind the release of the album 'Don Quixote'. ”

Cecilia just stated the facts, without too many annotations, but the effect was even more outstanding, and everyone else couldn't help but let out a low exclamation:

The more I understand these back stories, the more I am amazed - marveling at the beauty of the work "Drunken Country Ballads", and also marveling at the uniqueness of Lan Li, the birth of such an actor is indeed very different from other artists in the current fast food era, how can people not like it?

In just a few words, Cecilia showed her "deep heritage", and it can definitely be said that the story and experience of Lan Li are at her fingertips, which makes the girl in front of her show a look of surprise, and she took the initiative to stretch out her right hand and introduce herself, "I'm Hope Baez." ”

"Cecilia Wilton. ”

Hope smiled brightly, "Are you here alone? I have a large group of friends, they are now in the back to help maintain order, if you don't mind, I can introduce you to each other in a moment." ”

“…… Of course. Cecilia paused for a moment—she was still used to sitting behind her computer in support, her social phobia was flinching, but she looked at Hope's sunny smile and finally nodded in agreement, "It's my pleasure." ”

"Let me tell you, William and Graham are friends from childhood to adulthood, we met at UCLA, we are both seniors this year, and we are interning, I have always wanted to be a journalist, not the paparazzi kind, but a real journalist, I hope to be able to take the social news route and do some efforts for the society, guess who?"

"Except for the young master?"

"Ha, it seems that the answer to this question is very obvious. ”

It didn't take too many words for Cecilia and Hope to become friends, and soon after, familiar faces such as William Taylor and Graham Hughes also appeared at the Madison Square Garden scene one after another, it was a Don Quixote, how could anyone want to miss it?

What's more, their youth has also come to an end, spending their college years, about to enter society, and then find their place in the real world, just like Levine Davis in "Drunken Folk", maybe now is their last chance to chase their own Woodstock, everyone wants to be wanton.

Once, they followed in the footsteps of Lan Li, embarked on their own dream path, understood the meaning of dreams and freedom, and also understood the cruelty and bitterness of reality; now, they need to truly bid farewell to the campus ivory tower and create their own life, but their youth will never disappear, but become their own strength to continue to move forward.

Tonight in Madison Square Garden, a group of lonely souls gathered to look up at Lan Li again, looking forward to being able to keep up with Lan Li and realize their dreams. More and more spectators showed up at the door, more and more, more and more...... Loneliness will never be more.