Volume 2 The Flower Withers and the Water Flows Artesian Chapter 61 Norma's Memory
You live in darkness, you plan everything in secret, but I can't see you. You are the desire hidden in the darkness, the nightmare of my fear.
After Gu Mo was awakened, he found that he was lying on the bed, and Cheng Yunjing on the side was sleeping peacefully. But the scene in the nightmare was so real that her heart beat and she broke out in a cold sweat.
Frightened, she turned on the lamp on the bedside table, and after the light illuminated the room, she gradually calmed down. But this light also woke up the sleeping Cheng Yunjing, he leaned over and gently took her hand: "Have a nightmare?" β
"I dreamed of a white fog, I was cold and hungry, I couldn't escape...... Gu Mo trembled, even his teeth chattered, "That fog seems to swallow all life, I keep running desperately...... I'm so scared......"
"It's okay...... It's all gone. Cheng Yunjing hugged her gently, "It's just a nightmare." β
Those days of not having enough food and clothing, being cold and freezing all day long, and being afraid of being hunted down and killed are long gone, but they are just memories of the aftermath.
Cheng Yunjing's eyes were deep, and his thoughts couldn't help but come to the time when he had just found Gu Mo.
She was in a hospital gown, and in a trance, she didn't notice him standing in front of her, stumbling over and falling into his arms.
She looked up and looked at him with alarmed eyes, but she was confused that he looked familiar, as if she didn't know him anymore.
The hallways of the hospital were filled with the smell of disinfectant water, and people kept walking past them, and they were still staring at each other all the time, as if time had become an eternity.
A long time passed, and finally he coughed, and the ambiguous atmosphere between them disappeared: "...... Where is your ward, I'll send you back. β
Gu Mo, who was lying on the hospital bed, looked so weak, as if she was even thinner than before, and she looked at him with that strange probing gaze, as if she wanted to know her identity.
"Do you remember...... Own name? He asked tentatively.
"Name ......" Gu Mo repeated confusedly.
"I'm Cheng Yunjing, your fiancΓ©, do you remember all this?"
"......" Gu Mo's gaze fell not far behind him, and it seemed that compared to him, a big living person, the flowers that bloomed wantonly in the sun were more attractive.
"You are Gu Mo......"
Cheng Yunjing's words instantly stung Gu Mo, and she sat up suddenly: "...... Can you stop calling me by that name! Disgusting to death. β
Her eyes surged with simple and clear ferocity, like a lone wolf wandering in the dark night looking for prey, and the cold murderous aura that erupted from her body made his eyes tremble slightly.
He couldn't adapt to Gu Mo's sudden change for a while, and the two of them were unnaturally stalemate for a long time before Cheng Yunjing continued: "I heard about your family's affairs...... Are you going to take refuge in me? β
ββ¦β¦ Good. Gu Mo looked at him and spit out a sentence leisurely.
Everything was as fast as a dream, Gu Mo agreed to him without any hesitation, and it was not quite like her usual style.
Maybe it's because the family's temperament has changed greatly, and Cheng Yunjing didn't think much about it.
So after returning home, Cheng Yunjing hugged Gu Mo to his lap and rubbed her face affectionately: "Baby...... It scared me so much, I thought I would never see you again. β
Gu Mo looked at him with a little sharpness in his eyes, and directly penetrated his disguise, and said softly, "You like me." β
Cheng Yunjing's face suddenly turned red, and he was powerless to fight back by her straight ball. He looked at Gu Mo nervously, he was about to lose his breath, but unexpectedly, Gu Mo lowered his head and was silent after finishing speaking, as if what he just said was just a simple declarative sentence.
His face turned pale and pale, and his hand unconsciously grabbed her wrist, making red marks on it, and then suddenly let go of his hand as if he had suddenly realized what he had done.
"I've got someone to buy something for you, and I guess I'll have it delivered in the afternoon." He touched Gu Mo's hair soothingly, as if apologizing for his recklessness just now.
ββ¦β¦ I have an international piano competition tomorrow. Gu Mo raised his head to look at him and asked softly, "Can I borrow your piano?" β
ββ¦β¦ Yes, yes. Cheng Yunjing was puzzled, "But why did you go to participate in any piano competition?" You're just sick. β
"I reported it at the beginning." Gu Mo said before the accident happened.
ββ¦β¦ Don't go. "It's happened so much before, wouldn't it be worse if it failed?
"You don't understand what this game means to me." Gu Mo's voice was hoarse, with the stubbornness of not hitting the south wall and not looking back.
So he had no choice but to take Gu Mo to the piano room, and then stood at the door and listened to her play "Norma's Memories" over and over again, but she couldn't even reach her usual state, and her voice was torn miserably.
He couldn't listen anymore, so he walked over and told her to go back to rest: "You're too tired...... It hasn't been long since I was discharged from the hospital, so I don't have to fight so hard. β
But Gu Mo struggled desperately, her fingers kept stroking the piano keys, as if they were the habitat of her soul.
Cheng Yunjing had no choice but to give up when he saw this.
"It's considered one of the hardest tracks in the world...... Since you're so insistent, then I'll help you tutor you. Cheng Yunjing's fingers pressed the piano keys and patiently explained to her step by step.
But after listening to him for a while, Gu Mo suddenly said, "You didn't play it right." β
"Huh?" Cheng Yunjing pressed the fingers of the piano keys and stopped, and began to be at a loss, "What's the problem?" β
Gu Mo couldn't speak.
As soon as her hand touched the keys, the tombstone of her parents and the scene of her sister lying on the ground covered in blood shook in front of her eyes, causing her fingers to tremble and shatter the whole track.
But at this moment, there was a piece of music circulating in her heart, a strange but vivid voice, full of spirituality and creativity, breaking all the rules.
Gu Mo's face was extremely ugly, and he held his hand stiffly, trying to make it stop trembling, but instead it trembled even more.
Cheng Yunjing held her hand in her hand and rubbed it incessantly, with persuasion in her tone: "Do you believe in miracles?" Shall I go to bed first...... I promise everything will be fine when you wake up. β
"Really...... I'm so tired. Gu Mo looked at him with a strong hope, and after receiving an affirmative answer, a strong sense of exhaustion suddenly hit him.
"I have to win this fight, you know what......" she didn't know who she was talking to, "I have to win." β
At the competition scene on the second day, Gu Mo wore the floor-length dress that Cheng Yunjing helped her choose, like a burning red that outlined her youth and beauty to the fullest, and the dazzling gemstone headdress set off her pale face.
But her hands were still shaking.
She reluctantly stood on the stage and bowed to the judges, but inadvertently found that Cheng Yunjing, who was originally sitting not far away, had disappeared.
When she sat down in front of the piano and put her trembling hands on the keys, she couldn't hold back her tears.
I can't win.
You know, in fact, I'm going to lose.
My pain, my despair, my senseless struggles, in this moment, are all sent to you.
The sound of the piano carried the sadness of the cuckoo's cry of blood, like a wound deep into the bone marrow that was torn in front of the public, and the audience was immediately silent.
I've never loved the piano, never. I was never allowed to choose my life as I wanted like any other child.
The piano is performed with a breathtaking virtuosity, and the music of the extremely complex fingering takes the audience away.
I know you're thinking my voice is too much about technique and form, I know your brow is furrowed, I know that, listen to me.
Let me take you to see the world as I see it, the breathing and beating of the whole world as I feel it.
The style changed slightly, and the piano sound no longer followed everything in the repertoire as before, but began to incorporate something of its own. The constant intertwining of the faint emotions and the stave illuminates the whole of the music.
My dear, do you know that there is never fairness in this world, it's like you don't want to hear me play the piano, but I have to play it for you.
I want to be your glory more than anything else.
I didn't have a big funeral for my parents because my home went bankrupt. I couldn't get them to be mourned in a gorgeous venue like their parents, and I didn't even have the courage to tell them that I would support it all for them.
But I know that even if they are gone, they will want me to live in applause and glory and the envy of everyone.
So you know what? Actually, this is a big secret funeral, shhhhhh
I came here instead of crying at their tombstones. I want them to see in the sky how I played the piano on stage, and then let the moment of your applause become an eternal memory for them. Then they will know that I will live well without them.
Many viewers quietly shed tears, struggling to suppress the sound of crying. The judges stood up and were thrilled to discover a musical genius.
At the end of the track, the applause thundered and lasted for almost ten minutes.
The professor, who was the most senior on the judges' bench and had always been very strict with the contestants, smiled at her with a smile of relief for the first time in a long time when he handed her the trophy of the champion.
She smiled softly and thanked everyone. After the game, she went to the hall outside to look for Cheng Yunjing. He was sitting unruly on the steps of a secluded place, looking down at his mobile phone, which seemed to be playing the scene of the game.
"I won the game." After their reunion, Gu Mo smiled at him very rarely.