Chapter 1: The Prince of the Violin
Los Angeles College of the Arts, M
The grass is still green, the pond is long, the sky is blue, the sun is shining Li Shusheng is lying comfortably on a lawn near the water, a thick black book is separated from the middle and covers his head, and the fingers that jump from time to time indicate that he is not asleep.
"ShengβCan you stay in a different place?" A hearty male voice came, and the sound of shoes rubbing against the grass was getting closer and closer.
E, on, Tony! This is the quietest place in the entire art academy! There was a sound of urns under the books.
"Okay, but you did a great job yesterday!" The boy known as Tony walked up to Li Shusheng and put the thick book together, his face full of excitement.
"Do you know what the teachers in the academy call you now? A rising star in the music industry, the second David Gretel?"
"That German musical genius?" Li Shusheng yawned lazily, covered his mouth and sat up slowly, his eyebrows were a little gloomy, and his voice was calm and slightly harsh, "Anyway, didn't you go to the University of California?" β
"Don't mention it!" Tony lowered his head in frustration and looked at Li Shusheng resentfully, "Hey, you guy is really, why are you so handsome!" β
I subconsciously wanted to pinch the fair skin that was better maintained than a girl, and I seemed to withdraw my hand with a cower when I thought of something.
"People want to get close to you through me~" The helplessness and bitterness in his tone made Li Shusheng smile bitterly
"Ahem!" Li Shusheng patted his face that was a little tense because of the oppression of books, and said coolly, "You are at least better than those boys who can't get close to their prey, you have always gained something in the past few years!" β
"Hey~" Tony's curled blonde hair swayed slightly in the wind.
"Tony~"
"Huh?"
"I'm leaving at the end of this semester~" Li Shusheng raised his head, his eyes narrowed slightly, and the bright sunlight poured on his body, indescribably coordinated.
"We're all graduating this year, huh?" Tony clearly didn't see his companion's faint sadness.
"I'm going to country H!"
"What?" Tony looked at him in confusion, filtering the distribution of countries on the world map in his head, and grinned hesitantly, "That small country in the East?" β
"Yes, my dad has a new appointment at work, plus my mom would love to go back, that's her hometown!" Li Shusheng pulled up a piece of grass and put it between his nose and breathed deeply, a little uncomfortable, "I'm afraid it will be difficult to come back in the future!" β
"Oh~ Sounds terrible!"
"yes, there's nothing worse than that!"
"Music!" Tony said nervously, "I mean, you're going to focus on the instrument in the future, right?" β
"Tony!" Li Shusheng put his hand on his partner's body, "You know, whether it's the violin or the piano, learning them is not my original intention, I just tell those who laugh at me that I'm not worse than them!" β
"Huh! They're bad boys, I thought you didn't take them to heart after beating them up! Tony puffed out his mouth and thought of some unpleasant experiences when the two were in the same year, and shook his head, "Okay, we'll still be good friends, aren't we, the Internet technology is so advanced now, even if you are lazy, you always have time to surf the Internet, right?" β
"Hehe~" Li Shusheng smiled happily for the first time today, even if he performed at the much-anticipated Los Angeles Opera House yesterday with great success, he was never so happy.
Tony, his only friend from country M, the same talent, the same unruly surname, the friendship between the two has been quietly built since childhood, elementary school together, skipping grades together, and applying for the Los Angeles Conservatory of Music together. The only difference is that Li Shusheng is more demonic and his family is richer.
"You can come to country H to see me in the future, although many of the women over there are neatly finished, but if it's just a pickled girl, it will definitely satisfy you, at least their skin is much better!"
"Why didn't you come to see me?"
"Because I'm more handsome than you!" Blurted out almost thoughtlessly.
β**οΌβ Tony looked at the playmate in front of him with envy and hatred, with handsome black hair, ethereal and clear blue eyes, and a confident smile on the corners of his mouth raised slightly.
"God is really unfair, with this guy of you, all my light has been taken away by you!" Looking at Li Shusheng's slender and upright figure, which looked thin but had perfect abdominal muscles, thinking of someone who still had a terrifying resume of picking through the academy taekwondo club, Tony's heart was even more unbalanced.
"Oh, this is for you~" Li Shusheng took out a bunch of keys from his pants pocket and handed it to him.
"Huh?"
"The spare key to my apartment, because things came suddenly, the rent I paid before was enough for you to live for more than half a year."
"Aha, then you're welcome. This can save me a lot of money to open a house~ Dude, you're so nice! β
"Why do I feel the urge to take back the key?" Li Shusheng feigned anger.
"Don't, you've got it all for me!" Tony took advantage of the situation and made a nervous look and put the key in his pocket like a baby.
"Fluff-" The two looked at each other and smiled.
"Before leaving, let's play another song together~" Tony looked at Li Shusheng seriously.
"Well, in addition to yesterday's "Long Live Life", I also have a violin and piano ensemble "Love and Hate", but it is not finished yet!"
"That's it~"
"Let's go to the practice room!"
As one of the best music schools in the United States, Los Angeles Art Institute is one of the best in terms of facilities and open venues.
Although Li Shusheng is indifferent, he is a peerless jade in the eyes of all the tutors of the Academy of Arts, and in just three years of contact with musical instruments, his attainments in piano and violin are no less than theirs, if it were not for the fact that he was already quite old when he learned the piano, he would definitely be a modern Beethoven-like figure. Still, when he performed a successful performance at the Los Angeles Opera with a song he composed himself, "Long Live Life," the name was destined to go down in the history of the Los Angeles Institute of the Arts.
So when Li Shusheng took Tony to ask a teacher to borrow a practice room, the teacher agreed almost without even thinking about it.
"I have a request, I have a request, you shouldn't mind me as a listener, right?"
"Of courseβ"
Tony straightened his face and walked to a piano in the corner and sat down, then tried to play the tone, and nodded to Li Shusheng who was standing next to him after a while.
The silver-white violin rests on his neck, the strings are pulled slowly, the head shakes rhythmically with the rhythm, and after a soothing bass, the high-pitched piano sound sounds, melodious and impassioned. Like a woman's outpouring, like a crying murmur, like a broken duckweed, the lightness of the violin and the connection of the piano are flawless, and the melodies of one after another are more touching, and there is a sad emotion in the heart.
More and more people gathered outside the practice room, mostly teachers from the conservatory, but also some students who were about to graduate. All of them remained silent in tacit understanding, no one made a sound, they were deeply immersed in the sea of music, and the crystal in the corners of their eyes showed the vibration in their hearts.
The listeners are fascinated, and the performers are also intoxicated, Li Shusheng is as elegant as a prince, Tony is as agile as a fairy, and his five fingers fly on the black and white keys or press quickly or slowly.
From time to time, they looked at each other and smiled, and the eye contact made the whole piece not show any sense of youth and rustiness, and the years of friendship allowed them to know each other's emotions.
The ensemble became more and more intense, and now even the windows of the practice room were full of people. Li Shusheng seems to have returned to the Los Angeles Opera House, and the feeling of being watched by people makes him deeply obsessed, and his expression is more engaged.
"It's like a fish drowning in water, it's very comfortable!"
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At the end of the song, when Li Shusheng and Tony bowed to the onlookers with Western etiquette, the overwhelming applause thundered.
"I'm really looking forward to the full version of this piece!" An old professor patted the two of them on the shoulder, looking relieved.
Li Shusheng and the others hurriedly and humbly said that they had worked hard, and the person in front of them was a leader in the classical music scene who had won the Nielsen Award.
"It's not a shame that it's the genius twin stars of the art academy!"
"Oh~ Sheng is really so handsome, the perfect prince in my mind!"
"I think Tony is better for me, at least he's not as cold as Sheng!"
Ignoring the discussion of the students of the art academy behind him, Chen Xiaofeng squeezed through the crowd and walked out after greeting Tony.
They have graduated, and saying that the semester is over is actually equivalent to leaving soon, Los Angeles has been the place where he has lived alone for n years, and after seeing the biggest bond, he still has some places to go.
A figure with a sense of surname slipped through his mind, and the corners of Li Shusheng's mouth pulled out a warm arc.
"Sister Jiaxi~"
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