
Bai Xiao escorted Yimin to school. Although she is still worried about her daughter, Yimin insists on going to school because she is.
"Yimin, remember don't get too tired, okay?"
"Yes, mama"
Bai Xiao gave a kiss and then kissed on the forehead and got into the car. After the car left Yimin was about to enter the gate but his gaze was directed at a black luxury car. A man with a messy appearance opened the door , then a boy came down. He immediately stepped towards the gate. He stopped when those cold blue eyes met bright black eyes. The girl immediately took a look and immediately left. The man, Liu Yaoshan felt disappointed that Yimin ignored him, why did the girl suddenly change. Liu Yaoshan was trying to ignore his feelings.
***
Yimin walks into class and greets friends.
"Good morning"
"Good morning class president"
The students answered the greeting of their class leader. Yimin sat down on his seat earlier. Liu Yaoshan entered the classroom, he walked past Yimin just like that.
"Chairman, did you have a fight with that brat? " my classmate Yimin was astonished that the class president was not paying attention to the boy.
"No"
"Then why are you being so cold to her?"
"No, I'm not being cold. I'm acting like usual"
The doorbell rings. A teacher came in. That teacher was their music teacher - Teacher Chen. Yimin took the lead to greet teacher Chen. All students do.
"Today I'm going to split the group up for next week's music exam. This assessment is a group assessment so you have to work together"
"Mom will start mentioning and you will go straight to your duet or trio friends"
"Group 1 is Lin Yi and Ma Fei, the second group is bla bla bla"
All those who were called had already prepared themselves with their friends. Now only Yimin and Liu Yaoshan are left.
"...and the last group is Yimin and Liu Yaoshan"
Yimin moved to the seat beside Liu Yaoshan. Teacher Chen handed out a paper containing the lyrics of the song.
"Do you seem reluctant to partner with me?"
Liu Yaoshan said it in a flat tone.
"Eh? No, I just think that you're the one who doesn't like to pair with me. Doesn't Lui Yaoshan hate me, does he?"
"Did I ever say that I hate you?"
"You told me you didn't like being with me"
"I don't like someone sticking up to me but I don't hate you, it seems like one group with you isn't a bad thing "
Yimin smiling.
"Then, let's work together as partners"
"Yes"
Teacher Chen gave the lyric paper to Yimin. The song they will perform is the song pengyou (friend) from Zhou Hua Jian. The two of them read the lyrics on the paper and talked about their concept.
"What if the piano is accompanied? I can play the piano"
"That's great"
"What if we practice in the music room after school"
Liu Yaoshan nodded.
***
Mr. Si shouted in annoyance, the company's shares were declining but Shen's company did not want to help their company. He used his daughter to get close to the Shen company heiress in order to support the company but the son did not also manage to marry Li Huan Rui and the Shen company did not want to deal with their company. Mr. Si was dissatisfied with his plan which went according to what he thought.
"Sorry, President Si. If I may advise you what if you break off the engagement of Miss Helena and President Li?"
"I heard the CEO of Lee International is looking for a wife for his youngest son"
"Your youngest? That sickly louist who was rumored to be the importen?"
"Yes, the third master is bad but President Jay will definitely help our company. However, our company relationship and international lee are also good"
"Yes, you seem right. Make an appointment with CEO Jay"
"Okay, President"
His assistant then withdrew and left the room.
***
At lunchtime, Helena brought food for Li Huan Rui.
"You don't have to do this"
"It's okay, doesn't a fiancee have to pay attention to her fiance"
Helena gave the food box to Li Huan Rui and the man reluctantly accepted it.
"Henry, the day after tomorrow is my family's corporate birthday party. Can you come with me"
"All right"
Li Huan Rui of course had to come with Helena, however she had to give face to him as a fiance although she was not very fond of pretending to be intimate as a fiancee but she had to. Helena smiled happily, she was initially afraid that Li Huan Rui would not come with her and make her lose face. At least he still had this chance to get close to Li Huan Rui.
Li Huan Rui ate his food quickly.
"Henry, eat slowly, you'll choke"
Li Huan Rui did not care. Then he stood up.
"Henry, where are you going?"
"I have business"
"You're gonna want to see that woman, aren't you?"
Li Huan Rui did not say anything and immediately left.
***
At the return hour, Liu Yaoshan and Yimin went to the music room. They started practicing for their duet song. Yimin's little fingers danced in piano keys and Liu Yaoshan began to sing.
"Zhe xie nian yi gen
Ferin yu yue zheu
Yue gua lei yyu gua
(all these years, I'm alone
bear through wind and walk through rain had tears, had mistakes
When had I insist something?)
Yimin's fingers stopped.
"Why?"
Liu Yaoshan looked with a look of astonishment.
"Liu Yaoshan, you have to give the feeling in that song"
"Should it?"
"of course. If you sing with such a flat expression how can a song be delivered. I'll give you an example"
Yimin is back to playing the piano.
"Zhe xie nian yi gen
Ferin yu yue zheu
Yue gua lei yyu gua
Yimin sings with feeling.
"Like that"
Yimin looked towards Liu Yaoshan who was staring at him unblinkingly.
"Hey, Liu Yaoshan, what's wrong?"
Liu Yaoshan awoke from his daydream.
"No. I can't sing"
"Can you play a musical instrument? A piano? A guitar? Violin?"
Liu Yaoshan. She was born in a cruel family, how could she possibly practice soft musical instruments. The thing he could do was to use a gun and a knife and also make people battered.
"Then you can only sing"
" ...repeat the content of the song and put your soul in the song"
Liu Yaoshan sighed, he started to read again the lyrics written on the paper that teacher Chen gave.
"Listen to the piano well and focus on the song"
Yimin started playing the piano again. Liu Yaoshan looked towards him and he started singing the first lyrics again, this time he could easily fit into the song he was singing. He felt that this song was just like how he felt.
"Zhe xie nian yi gen
Ferin yu yue zheu
Yue gua lei yyu gua
(all these years, I'm alone
been through wind and walk through rain
had tears, had mistakes
When had I insist something?)
Yimin began to sing his part in a soft voice.
"Zhen' city huin
China huin huishheu
Zhang yng yng zhin zhi zhi xin zhng"
(only the one who had loved will understand (sometimes) will be lonely, will regret
still have a dream and you in my heart)
They sang the song well. They don't even have to use text anymore when singing. Who would have thought that the first time they practiced, they had already gotten the chemistry to sing the song.
"Liu Yaoshan, you sing well. I'm glad I'm in a relationship with you"
Liu Yaoshan still showed a flat expression even though inwardly he shouted in excitement, somehow he felt happy to get compliments from this girl.
"You're not a bad partner either"
"Let's go home, you can't be too tired, right?"
"How did you know?"
"Aren't you in pain when you're tired of running? Doesn't mean you shouldn't be too tired, right?"
"Is Liu Yaoshan worried about me?"
"No, I just don't want to be blamed if something happens to you"
"Here you go, let's go home"
***
Li Huan Rui looked at a woman standing in front of the gate, the school was deserted but it seemed like her daughter had yet to come out. Li Huan Rui originally wanted to see Yimin because Bai Xiao forbade him from meeting Yimin even though the Li family home was tightly closed to him, because he did not want his daughter to get sick again in case of a commotion so he could not fight back. So he asked someone to find out where Yimin went to school.
Li Huan Rui clenched his hands when he saw a man approaching Bai Xiao and invited him to chat. The man was well dressed and looked to be 30 years old. He could not hear what they were talking about but Bai Xiao looked comfortable while talking to the man. Li Huan Rui could not help his anger as he rubbed Yimin's hair that had just come out. Li Huan Rui got out of the car.
"Yimini"
Li Huan Rui walked over and called out her daughter's name. Yimin looked towards the person who called out to him. She was surprised to see the man she was always waiting for, she wanted to hug his papa but seeing the look of anger in her mama's eyes when she saw his papa, she did not dare to move.
"Yimin, sorry, papa just came to see you"
"Oh, are you papa Li Yimin, hello I'm Chinese teacher Li Yimin, my name is teacher Zhou"
Li Huan Rui greeted him kindly even though he felt annoyed at the man who claimed to be the teacher of his daughter.
"Your daughter is so smart, she gets perfect scores in calligraphy"
"Yes. He's really smart"
"All right, I'm first"
The teacher gave a smile to Bai Xiao.
"Yimin, let's go..."
"Mr Li, Yimin is tired. He needs a break"
"Then I'll drop you off"
"No need, there's a driver waiting for us"
Bai Xiao took Yimin and walked towards the car. The little girl just looked at her father. He remembered the words of his mother and also his father did not even fulfill his promise. It may be true that the aunt was more important to her father than she and her mother.
Li Huan Rui chased after him and stopped Bai Xiao's hand from opening the car.
"Jiao, let me fulfill my promise to take Yimin for a walk"
"Mr Li, Yimin has just finished studying. He was tired and needed rest. Next time, though"
"Other times? I know you won't give me time next time, right? Yimin, papa apologized for cancelling our trip. So, papa's gonna make it up to you"
"no need. Yimin no longer wants to go out with uncle. Uncle better be with that aunt alone"
"Yimin, why are you..."
"You heard, didn't you? So please step aside"
"Yimin, are you angry with papa? Yimin, papa's sorry"
Yimin did not say anything and he took his eyes off Li Huan Rui.
"Mr Li, put your hands aside. We need to get home soon"
Li Huan Rui moved his hand away from the car door hesitantly. Bai Xiao opened the door and entered. He asked the driver to drive the car. Yimin looked back and looked at her father until he could no longer see her. Bai Xiao was aware of the sadness in her daughter's eyes but she didn't want her daughter to be too attached to Li Huan Rui. Even though he feels guilty should separate the relationship between father and son. However, he did not want his daughter to be disappointed if Li Huan Rui did not return to them eventually. The man will have a married life with Helena and have children of his own. He did not want his daughter to feel disappointed because of that. Maybe separating them early is the best thing before their relationship deepens.
Li Huan Rui still stood still looking at the car that had already moved away. Li Huan Rui did not expect that she would also be rejected by her own daughter and her daughter now hated her.
Liu Yaoshan was not far from Li Huan Rui. He did not know if the girl's family relationship was so complicated but Liu Yaoshan did not want to interfere. He simply walked leisurely past Li Huan Rui and headed to his car. The man in black opened the door for her.
Long enough for Li Huan Rui to stand up, Li Huan Rui sighed then he returned to his car. He tried to swallow his disappointment.
A/N: a song by Liu Yaoshan and Li Yimin, the lyrics are taken from here
https://googleweblight.com/i?u\=https://lyricstranslate.com/en/peng\-you\-%25E6%259C%258B%25E5%258F%258B\-friend\-%25E6%259C%258B%25E5%258F%258B.html&hl\=id\-ID
there's a video too