Prelude – Detachment
"Do you like him?"
Fan Zixi's smile was full of malice. "Shouldn't I wish you good luck?"
Li Ran was silent and stepped forward to pick up the posters and albums scattered on the ground. The people above have smooth skin and a noble air in their gestures; His dark eyes shone with a strange brilliance. He tilted his head slightly, and the corners of his lips rose slightly, all showing the nobility of this person. And when the man sat on the piano bench, his bony hands were covered by the black and white keys, and his eyes were fascinated by the galaxy as he looked around gently.
Li Ran lowered his head.
"I'm sorry."
Before the words fell, the person on the other side was already angry and ran away from the door. The door slammed shut, and the force was so great that even Li Ran's heart trembled.
It's finally over, and this two-year-long underground romance is over.
Boyfriend, ex-boyfriend to be precise - Fan Zixi is a world-renowned violin soloist. The Chinese-American has the same name as the musician Beethoven, Ludwig va
[1] As a young man, he also showed great talent in music, with the only difference being that Beethoven chose the piano and he chose the violin.
Remember the year they first met. The young soloist was rehearsing the concerto for the first time with the orchestra when he was stuck in traffic and was ten minutes late. When he arrived with the case and apologized to the conductor, he turned his attention to the concertmaster. The beautiful young chief lady smiled politely at him, and immediately tugged at his heartstrings.
At the official performance, he and the conductor walked up to the stage, and the principal led the whole orchestra to stand up in salute, and the young lady stepped forward and extended her fair and delicate hand to him.
Like silk, it's cool, but it's soft.
This was Fan Zixi's first feeling when he held that hand. His heart beat abruptly, and he involuntarily clenched that hand. It wasn't until the man coughed lightly that Fan Zixi woke up like a dream.
Thinking about it day and night, haunting dreams. After a series of pursuits, the goddess finally opened her arms towards him.
"I have a weird personality." Li Ran told him at that time.
"It's okay, I like it."
When Li Ran heard the answer, she couldn't help laughing, she looked at Fan Zixi and said seriously: "You are a soloist, and I am just a small principal." ”
Fan Zixi frowned: "The chief is also very good." ”
Li Ran shook his head and sighed, "You don't understand. ”
Li Ran said that he didn't want to affect Fan Zixi's career, so their relationship was always cautious. Fortunately, classical musicians are not as hot as stars in the entertainment industry, and they usually don't have to worry too much about the media.
Once the Li Ran Orchestra was on a long vacation, and Fan Zixi happened to be holding a concert in Russia. Li Ran got on a train from Moscow to St. Petersburg and gave him a big surprise. After the performance, Fan Zixi saw his girlfriend with red eyes, holding a large bouquet of flowers, and showing a faint smile to him.
He rushed forward and hugged her tightly, as if he was afraid that the person in his arms would disappear in the next second.
"It's not a dream, is it?" He asked.
"It's not."
Fan Zixi smiled and asked again, "What do you think of today's performance?" ”
"Good." Li Ran stroked his sideburns, his eyes were gentle, but he seemed to be looking at another person through him.
"So good that I am jealous." She said.
Later, after her contract with the orchestra expired, she did not choose to renew it, but went to the Mariinsky Orchestra in St. Petersburg alone to audition.
She became the first violinist of the orchestra, but she didn't even get mixed up as an associate principal. The head of the orchestra did not deny her skills, but commented that Li Ran's performance was too "capricious".
Fan Zixi was very surprised when she found out, and comforted her on the phone: "Everyone has a different understanding of the music, maybe the person in charge just doesn't like your way of handling it, don't take it too seriously." ”
Li Ran responded lightly.
Someone else's girlfriend is a clingy goblin, she will hold you and be coquettish, eager to make your heart turn into a puddle of water. But Li Ran was cold, just like the handshake before the performance, it was cold. Fan Zixi always comforts himself, it doesn't matter, the person he likes is just born not good at expression.
But then he learned that he was a little late, so that the man had already given all his heart to another person.
That day, Fan Zixi heard that Li Ran had a severe cold, so he went directly to her apartment with medicine. Li Ran, who opened the door, was wearing a white classical dress pajamas, wrapped in a thick blanket, and the tip of her nose was still pink.
She was a little surprised to see Fan Zixi, but she didn't say anything. Out of politeness, she turned sideways and let the guest in.
She leaned back on the sofa, and Fan Zixi intimately poured her a cup of hot water and urged her to take the medicine. Li Ran frowned and swallowed reluctantly. It's really childish, Fan Zixi smiled. Seeing that all the doors of her room were closed, she said, "If you are sick, you should pay attention to the ventilation of the room, and I will go and open the windows and doors, shall I?" ”
Li Ran nodded, and Fan Zixi got up and prepared to open the first door next to the living room.
As if he suddenly remembered something, Li Ran suddenly pulled out of his drowsy state, forgot to put on his shoes, and jumped up directly from the sofa to stop him.
But it was too late.
Fan Zixi had already opened the door, and because Li Ran pounced directly on him, his center of gravity was unstable, and he unintentionally bumped into the shelf at the door of the room, and things were scattered all over the ground.
In fact, it's not something special, it's just some albums and posters of pianist Jiang Xianzhi, it's normal for girls to have these things. But the strange thing is that her reaction is a behavior that she likes but never mentions. She bought four or five copies of the same album repeatedly, and the signed ones were deliberately placed in another glass case, which is a treatment that she doesn't have as a boyfriend.
She wanted to cover it up, but she didn't want this behavior to amplify her inner thoughts.
Fan Zixi suddenly remembered that once he and Li Ran were walking on the street in the winter before, and found a notice that Jiang Xianzhi's piano performance was coming to St. Petersburg posted in the record window. Fan Zixi casually asked Li Ran if she wanted to visit with him, Li Ran's eyes seemed to light up, but in a flash, she glanced at the poster again with a little reluctance, and finally shook her head calmly.
No wonder she would show a rare look when mentioning Jiang Xian, no wonder her mobile phone ringtone was always piano music, no wonder she was always cold to him......
Fan Zixi recalled that when they first got together, Li Ran said that he didn't understand. Indeed, Fan Zixi doesn't understand. He never seemed to have walked into Li Ran's heart, and every time he saw her sigh and shake her head, he could only watch her close the door. He could not cross the invisible chasm between them, the endless shore that separated him, and he could no longer see it. Just like Li Ran said - Fan Zixi, you don't understand.
You don't understand.
It was so heavy and weak, and little by little it tore the last trace of adhesion left between the papers.
"Are you...... Loved him a lot. Fan Zixi felt as if his heart had been cut open by a knife, but the initiator didn't know it.
Li Ran bit her lower lip and restrained herself from losing her temper. Her secrets, treasures that had been kept since she was seventeen years old, were now completely exposed to the air, swept by by scrutinizing eyes, burning to the point of bewilderment.
"So, what about me?" What am I? Are you bored to pass the time of the experiment?
Li Ran opened his mouth, with a hint of pleading in his tone: "Can we calm down?" ”
"Don't calm down." Fan Zixi said, "Break up." ”
At this time, he was still hopeful, hoping that she might soften her voice and say a word of retention, maybe he could continue to wait for Jiang Xianzhi to become a thing of the past.
But Li Ran didn't, she seemed to have let go of a burden that she had used all her strength to carry, and a trace of relief finally appeared on her face.
"Okay."