Chapter 1: Li Dong
Several days of continuous drizzle filled the city with a thin layer of fog, and the thick black clouds squeezed the sky, making it look particularly humid and gloomy.
Li Dong looked up at the rain falling in the sky, sighed, tightened the guitar case on his back, and continued to walk aimlessly on the street.
Turning the corner of the street, a music-themed bar called "Mandala" caught his eye.
The scale of this bar is not small, and the decoration style is also very high, and the drizzle is sprinkled on the transparent floor-to-ceiling windows, and you can vaguely see the interior of the bar.
"Let's try again, if it doesn't work, I'm really going to go to the subway passage to sing or I'm going to go hungry tonight. ”
Thinking of this, Li Dong quickened his pace, pushed the door and walked in.
At this time, there were not many people in the bar, and there were nearly twenty or thirty tables sparsely, most of which were single girls who chose the position by the window, or looked out of the window in a daze, or sat there thinking about things with a lost face.
A young man was playing the piano, and the cheerful sound of the piano drifted gently in the bar, adding a touch of life to the already gloomy afternoon.
He Guangwei stood there with his eyes closed and enjoyed the sound of the piano, the young man who played the piano was a student of the nearby Royal Academy of Music, and his basic skills were good, but he may lack life experience, and there was a little less connotation in the sound of the piano.
As a former professor at the Conservatory of Music, Ho Kwong Wai has always had a critical mindset in his appreciation of music. For the boy who plays the piano now, to be honest, he is not satisfied.
But the afternoon was the lightest time of the day, and good singers and musicians could not be invited, so he could only introduce some students through his former colleagues at the Conservatory.
At this time, a person pushed the door and walked into the Qing bar, He Guangwei turned around and looked at it, and immediately frowned.
It was a tall, thin boy of about twenty years old, very delicate.
Wearing a soaked pullover sweatshirt on the upper body, a pair of shabby jeans on the bottom, a pair of dirty sneakers on the feet, and messy hair soaked by the rain, looking extremely depressed.
Since running this Qing bar, He Guangwei's academic temperament has become weaker and weaker, but his eyesight has increased.
The boy was selling from top to bottom, and the dilapidated entry-level piano case behind him, not like a child from a formal conservatory, maybe just watching a talent show and being infected before embarking on the road of music.
It's just that they don't know that the path of music requires talent, and there is no way out with enthusiasm alone. Moreover, they have to receive a formal college education, and the average family cannot afford it.
This may be the case with the child in front of him, he should have appeared in a subway passage, or a street overpass and other crowded places, relying on singing every day to make a living, wandering outside for several years, experiencing the hardships of the world, until his dream was shattered, he repented, and went home to find a job like a courier delivery but died.
Like this, He Guangwei can see a few children almost every month. While he respects these children's love of music, it doesn't mean he will accept them singing here.
"Do you need a resident singer here?"
The boy's voice was low and hoarse, which made He Guangwei's heart feel a little sad.
"Sorry, we don't have a place here for the time being......"
Listening to He Guangwei's words, a trace of disappointment flashed in the boy's eyes, and then he nodded and was about to leave, when suddenly he stopped, turned around and said, "Can I use the bathroom here?"
He Guangwei nodded with a smile, and then said to a waiter next to him: "Xiao Zhang, you lead him over......"
Looking at the boy's lost back, He Guangwei smiled bitterly and shook his head.
At this time, the boy who played the piano had finished playing, he came to the door of the Qing bar, and said to He Guangwei with a smile: "Teacher He, I'm leaving......"
He Guangwei smiled and waved his hand at the boy, then took out the phone with a frown and dialed a number.
"Xiaojia, why haven't you come yet...... What, why didn't you say it earlier, where am I going to find someone now, you ......"
He listened to the busy sound on the phone, cursed in his heart, and then dialed a few more times with a gloomy face, it turned out that the good person was not coming, so he could only keep dialing the phone when he went to find the resident singer for a while.
Li Dong stood in front of the mirror in the bathroom, looking at the strange self in the mirror, feeling very ridiculous.
was obviously hit by a speeding car, but when he opened his eyes, he found that he had become another person, although his name was also Li Dong, but his appearance had completely changed, and he was more than ten years younger.
What scared him even more was that although this world was also China, the history was not related to the original world, and this Chinese empire really had an emperor.
Luckily, he kept most of the boy's memories.
It took Li Dong nearly an hour to slowly straighten out the things in his mind, and found that the original owner of this body was even more tragic than his previous life.
Since childhood, he has lived in a very privileged family, his father runs a large company, his mother is gentle and virtuous, and the family is happy and happy.
But who knew that there were unforeseen circumstances, my father's company closed down and I had a heart attack, and my mother was hit and couldn't afford to get sick, and she died one after another.
After the family's real estate and savings have paid off the debt, there is almost nothing left. He is a rich second generation, how can he live a careful life, and he will not be able to open the pot in a few days, he sold all his brand-name clothes and musical instruments, and he barely persevered until now.
The boy was also a student at a nearby conservatory, but he was not admitted by major, but was a self-funded student who was sponsored by his father's company.
It turned out that he was just a scumbag, and he usually didn't learn anything, so his parents didn't know how much he was worried about. Affected by entertainment news, he wanted to be a singer as soon as his head was hot, so he grinded his parents to buy a guitar for him, and hired a vocal teacher to teach him to sing.
His father saw that he was interested in music, so he made a lot of connections, and even made a lot of sponsorship, so he sent him to the Imperial Royal Academy of Music and became a self-financed college student.
But he has no musical talent, and he is not so diligent, let alone a love of music, and he studied at the Royal Academy of Music for two years, but he has always been living in school with a bunch of gentlemen.
In the past few months of the family's decline, the boy also learned what the world is hot and cold, and his relatives in his hometown are avoiding him, for fear that he will borrow money. The classmates who were originally good with him at school also began to deliberately alienate him.
The most difficult thing for him to accept was that the girlfriend of the academy also broke up with him because of the change in his family background.
These days, he has found that girl countless times, hoping that the other party will change his mind. But the girl's injuries again and again made his heart cut like a knife. This boy also wants to leave the country and leave here forever, but he can't let go.
The boy who grew up in a privileged environment suffered the blows of family failure, the death of his parents and the loss of love, let alone a young man of 20, even an experienced adult could not bear it.
Coupled with the fact that the living conditions in the past few months have deteriorated compared to the past, the boy's health has been very bad, and finally he passed away in extreme depression.
The boy's death also made Li Dong's soul inexplicably occupy this body and be reborn into this world.
This boy has been very miserable recently, and in order to make a living, he can only rely on a broken acoustic guitar to sing in the subway passage, but his level is very scummy, and he can't make a few dollars a day.
From the time Li Dong woke up to the present, he has been hungry, and he doesn't even have money in his pocket to buy a steamed bun.
Fortunately, this boy's voice is good, and his slightly hoarse smoke voice is more textured and recognizable, which is better than his own conditions in his previous life.
Thinking of this, Li Dong shook his head fiercely, looked at himself in his glasses again, and took a deep breath.
"Since you were reborn once, let's live well from now on......"
This sentence seemed to be said to himself, or to the previous owner of this body, and even Li Dong was a little in a trance at this time.
He straightened his messy hair, then walked out of the bathroom with the case on his back.
Li Dong came out of the bathroom and was about to push the door and leave. Just as He Guangwei put down the phone, he saw Li Dong as soon as he looked up, hesitated, but still stopped him.
"You're a singer......"
Seeing Li Dong nodding, He Guangwei said with a smile: "There is a musician who sings today, can you help Ying Ying temporarily?"
The music had been stopped for a long time, and the customers in the bar were waiting for the next musician to come out, but no one came on stage for a long time, which made them a little dissatisfied.
This is a high-end theme music bar, any cup of coffee costs 100 yuan, and customers who come here to consume will certainly not go to the kind of low-end bar that only plays records.
Li Dong stepped onto the stage and immediately attracted everyone's attention. The down-and-out image, as well as the stalls, are obviously incompatible with the grade of this bar.
Fortunately, Li Dong looks good, although he is not very handsome, but he is delicate and white, and he also has a slightly immature face, and his handsome appearance is quite feminine.
In the afternoon, there were many girls in the bar, and they all subconsciously persuaded themselves to listen to how this shabby and handsome boy sang, and maybe there were any surprises.
Li Dong helped the microphone in front of him, closed his eyes and stayed for a while.
Scenes from his previous life kept flashing in his mind, from a teenager who loved music, to being a resident singer in a bar, and finally participating in a talent show and signing a record company, he was once the darling of major media and a smash hit.
When he was young, he did a lot of things wrong, and he didn't want to repent, he gave up on himself and drank too much, and slowly lost his love for music.
In the end, he was pointed out by thousands of people, his reputation was ruined, and he was finally kicked out by the company, and he could only be a resident singer in a bar for the rest of his life, earning a meager income to barely make ends meet.
Thinking of this, Li Dong took a deep breath, silently chose a song from his previous life in his heart, and then habitually plucked the strings.
But as soon as the sound of the piano came out, Li Dong's eyes suddenly darkened, and his heart was broken.
The sound of this piano is so inaccurate, it runs out of bounds.
This boy can be regarded as a student of the conservatory, and he can't even tune the piano, so he dares to come out and sing.