Retreat to Advance

As soon as he entered the door, Xia Yu was grabbed by the hand by Kong Hanyue.

"How did you manage to pull off playing 'Flight of the Bumblebee'' for sixty-six seconds?" Kong Hanyue turned Xia Yu's palm over, examining it.

Xia Yu didn't answer; there was no way he could answer that question.

After pinching Xia Yu's hand for a while, Kong Hanyue let him go.

"Who knows when the world record was set. If you push the record for a few milliseconds, you could be the fastest violinist in the world!" she said.

"No, I'd rather not," Xia Yu refused.

"Hehe." Kong Hanyue revealed a mysterious smile.

Before she could say anything else, Xia Yu pinched her face.

"This is forbidden," he warned Kong Hanyue.

"Is it that serious?" Sighing, Kong Hanyue led Xia Yu to the guzheng room.

The originally tidy guzheng room had become somewhat messy because of Kong Hanyue's frequent visits – there were potato chips, Coke, and snacks everywhere, along with many stuffed animals.

At first, Xia Yu helped her clean up, but after discovering that it only took two or three hours for the room to go from tidy to messy, he gave up.

"By the way, you've been hiding your secret weapon – 'Flight of the Bumblebee' – without telling me!" Kong Hanyue said indignantly, eating chips as she stared at Xia Yu.

"...I just practiced in the piano room. It's you who wasn't interested and didn't listen," Xia Yu argued.

"I won't listen, I won't listen! It's because you figured out my psychology and used various unnoticed psychological hints to make me leave the room," Kong Hanyue rolled around on the ground.

Lately, Xia Yu felt that Kong Hanyue was becoming more and more childish. Perhaps it was because she hadn't fully let loose before, and only now was truly revealing her true nature?

Ignoring her, Xia Yu started playing the guzheng.

After one tune, Kong Hanyue sat up and said to Xia Yu, "Try playing 'Flight of the Bumblebee' on the guzheng."

Without giving it much thought, Xia Yu started playing on the guzheng.

Due to the differences between the violin and guzheng music, plus the fact that this was Xia Yu's first time playing it, though the rhythm wasn't wrong, the pitch was a bit strange.

Kong Hanyue pondered for a moment and said to Xia Yu, "You've pretty much met the requirements."

"What requirements?" Xia Yu asked.

"The requirements to go to the secret realm for cultivation!"

"Speak human."

"There's a piece that requires extremely high hand dexterity, but I don't know it," Kong Hanyue said, "I plan to have my teacher come and teach you."

"What piece?" Xia Yu asked.

"'E Ending'."

"Isn't that a piece for an ensemble?" Xia Yu wondered.

"You'll understand when my teacher arrives."

Kong Hanyue hugged Xia Yu again, her face serious as she said, "But before that, you need to understand one thing."

Seeing her solemn expression, Xia Yu's demeanor turned serious as well, "Hmm."

"You are a disciple of our Kong family. This time, you're going to steal someone else's secret manual to strengthen our family. You cannot really join their family, understand!"

Seeing Kong Hanyue's serious face, Xia Yu picked up a book from the side and knocked it on her head.

"What the duck!" Kong Hanyue said.

Xia Yu practiced at Kong Hanyue's place until ten o'clock before returning home.

The next day, when he arrived at school, he was surrounded by a group of classmates congratulating him.

"I watched the live broadcast, you were really amazing."

"I saw it on the live broadcast on Saturday, and it wasn't obvious on Sunday. Compared to those people on Saturday, it's really amazing."

The classmates said.

The live broadcast they were talking about was not the live streaming platform in Xia Yu's previous life, but the live broadcast on TV stations.

In this world, TV stations often have live broadcasts of various competitions.

After getting rid of these classmates, Xia Yu saw Yan Wei again. Yan Wei simply congratulated him, but was teased by several girls.

This time, Yan Wei didn't ignore it like before. She actively said, "We are just ordinary friends, Xia Yu already has a girlfriend, and they have agreed to go to Linglan City University together."

The surrounding students were shocked and asked Xia Yu for confirmation. Xia Yu thought about it and felt that there was no harm in it, so he agreed.

He looked at Yan Wei again. He told Yan Wei that he was going to Hua University with that non-existent girlfriend, but Yan Wei changed it to Linglan City.

This was because Hua University is difficult to get into, and saying that would be ridiculed by some unbalanced people.

Caring, good at cooking, (indescribable), other than being a bit old-fashioned in dressing, there seemed to be no other shortcomings.

However, she was too grounded and ordinary, which made her lose the aura of An Siyao and Xu Youxiang, and Xia Yu was not interested in this type.

Seeing Xia Yu agreeing, Yan Wei became happy.

She calculated in her heart: Gui Zixiao said I pushed too hard, so by saying "I know you have a girlfriend" openly, it would create a necessary distance. Moreover, now that everyone knows that Xia Yu has a girlfriend, there would be no more rivals.

Anyway, the girlfriend is imaginary, and when Xia Yu gets to Hua University, can he just create a girlfriend out of thin air?

She happily sat in her seat.

Going through an ordinary day, at ten o'clock at night, Xia Yu logged into An Siyao's body.

An Siyao was waiting for him in the piano room.

Exchanging the remaining game points for four experience cards, Xia Yu began to play the piano.

Today, he was learning a piece called "River Cicada."

This is a sad love song with a melody that is like weeping and lamenting. This piano piece has also been adapted into flute and xiao music, which have more feel than the piano.

Seven and a half hours passed, Xia Yu stopped the experience card and chatted with An Siyao.

"The Feng sisters said they wanted to take you out, when?" he asked.

Last time he talked about the study trip, An Siyao said she didn't want to go, so the Feng sisters said they would go out together when others are on the study trip.

"They haven't mentioned it again, and the study trip is next week." An Siyao said.

"What about Zhong Yunxin? Is she still behaving?"

"No more trouble." An Siyao hesitated for a moment and then said, "But I seem to have heard that she has been bullied recently."

"She's being bullied?" Xia Yu was surprised.

"It seems that the people she bullied before have teamed up to bully her." An Siyao wasn't clear about the specifics, and she heard all this from Feng Yujia.

Xia Yu pondered for a moment. Originally arrogant, Zhong Yunxin was subdued by him. It was normal for those who had been bullied by her before to make sure she was handcuffed and then let out some harsh words. It was also normal for them to accidentally cross the line while speaking harshly and feel the thrill of it.

Moreover, if they teamed up, Zhong Yunxin wouldn't be able to resist even if she wanted to.

When being humiliated, they scattered and fled; when humiliating others, they flocked together.

He wondered whether he should interfere in this matter.

Kong Hanyue certainly didn't care, and he had no particular connection with Zhong Yunxin either.

Just watch for now.