Chapter 10 A perfect pair!

A blackout!

A fucking blackout!

At this moment, everyone was angry.

"It is the Mid-Autumn Festival gala!"

"It is the moment that the campus belle Jiang Miaoyu was going to open her mouth and sing a song!"

"But a power cut happened!"

The audience remained deathly quiet for a few seconds before bursting into thunderous roars of complaints, venting their infinite rage.

"Fuck! How come the power failure occurred at this moment? Do they have no compassion at all?"

"My Goddess is just about to sing. The power cut really picked its timing well! "

"What is the power supply bureau doing? Giving us a blackout on the 15th day of the 8th lunar month, during the Mid-autumn Festival! Don't they fear incurring the public’s wrath?"

"Return my electricity! I need electricity! I want to hear Jiang Miaoyu sing!"

The furious protests grew louder and louder.

Hearing the violent howls of rage, the dean, who had been sitting in the audience, was also taken aback. Scowling, he hastened to ask a nearby staff member, "What's wrong? Why is there a sudden blackout?"

The staff member answered in a hurry, "At present, we don't know the details. But the surrounding communities are also experiencing a blackout. I'll investigate the specifics right away!"

After saying so, he took off in haste.

After the staff member went away, the dean stood up. He felt the need to step forward at this moment and appease the raging audience. Otherwise, if something bad happened, as the dean, he could hardly absolve himself from the blame.

Precisely at this moment, Jiang Miaoyu spoke on the stage.

"Please quiet down!"

Although it was she who was speaking, in comparison with the indignant snarls coming from all over the audience, her voice was like a pebble being tossed into the sea: too insignificant to make any waves.

"Please quiet down!"

"Please quiet down!"

Jiang Miaoyu let out three anxious shouts in a row, but no one responded.

Now she became quite worried.

At this point, a voice as loud as a clap of thunder suddenly sounded over the sports ground.

"Jiang Miaoyu is asking everyone to quiet down!"

The voice instantly drowned out all the noises.

It was Fang Qiu who spoke

However, he did not allow others to detect that he was the speaker, because he changed his voice and let it burst out directly into the air.

When they heard that it was the campus belle who wanted them to be quiet, the whole audience, who had been overwhelmed by fury, immediately became silent and cast their eyes upon Jiang Miaoyu, whose figure looked mistily beautiful in the pool of the bright moonlight of the Mid-autumn Festival.

The dean also let out a sigh of relief and sat down, emotions rising in his heart.

"Seems that I'm living in a world where good-looks prevail!"

"Thanks, everyone!"

Jiang Miaoyu did a little bow and tried to speak as loudly as possible, "The song I'm supposed to sing is 'Hélène', Cai Chunjia's version. I wonder if any of those students who performed with musical instruments is familiar with this song. If so, can you accompany me to sing this song?"

Nobody replied.

Apparently, none of them had ever heard of it.

Li Qingshi could play the guitar, and he was really eager to accompany his Goddess onstage. But he knew nothing about the song.

"Well then, let me sing it without musical instruments."

Just when Jiang Miaoyu finished those words, an abrupt shout suddenly broke out from the audience.

"Fang Qiu!"

At this, Fang Qiu froze.

But the eyes of everyone on the scene lit up.

"Exactly!"

"Fang Qiu!"

"The show he just did was truly amazing. If he can play this song and accompany our campus belle Jiang to perform it, they will make a perfect pair!"

"Fang Qiu! Fang Qiu!"

The crowd suddenly broke into a chorus.

Many turned to look at the area where class three was sitting.

The whole school was staring at class three, while the whole of class three was staring at Fang Qiu.

Fang Qiu looked around in a daze.

He could not figure out why everybody's train of thought was so odd—naming him as the candidate!

Onstage, Jiang Miaoyu was looking expectantly at the position where Fang Qiu was in her memory. She asked, "Fang Qiu, can you play the song 'Hélène'?"

Offstage, Li Qingshi looked a bit nervously towards class three.

How he wished Fang Qiu did not know the song.

"If he knows it, then, the Jiang Miaoyu will be even more impressed by him.”

But Fang Qiu nodded and said, "Yes, I can."

Although his voice was not loud, all the people on the sports ground heard it clearly.

"Then, could you accompany me for the song?" asked Jiang Miaoyu.

Sun Hao and Zhou Xiaotian rapidly looked over their shoulders to stare at Fang Qiu, their eyes rather sharp.

As if they were telling Fang Qiu that if he refused, they would never let him off the hook.

As everyone was watching him intently, Fang Qiu slowly got onto his feet and strode up to the stage nervously.

"It will be my honor."

"Clap, clap, clap..."

Seeing Fang Qiu head for the stage, the audience immediately applauded enthusiastically.

At this, Li Qingshi’s heart skipped a beat. A very bad feelings crept across his body, and a bitter sensation started to spread in his heart.

But Liu Feifei felt very happy for Fang Qiu.

"Good for you, kid."

"Seems that you're bound to shine today!"

Arriving at the edge of the stage, Fang Qiu directly leaped up to the stage that was one meter and a half high.

Due to the darkness, few saw Fang Qiu's movements. Instead, he appeared onstage and people were curious about how he had done it.

But Jiang Miaoyu saw it quite clearly. She was a bit amazed by Fang Qiu's leaping ability.

"Thank you, Fang Qiu."

After getting over her amazement, she gave a courteous bow to him to show her gratitude.

"You're welcome."

Fang Qiu also did a little bow in return.

"The musical accompaniment is up to you," said Jiang Miaoyu with sincere gratitude, her eyes following Fang Qiu.

With the bright moon shining, the two could clearly see each other's expression.

"No problem."

Fang Qiu said, "Shall we begin?"

"Yeah!"

Jiang Miaoyu turned around to face the audience and announced, "Please enjoy the song 'Hélène' performed by Fang Qiu and me. The sound might be a little low, so please pardon us."

"It's OK!" many in the audience responded.

Jiang Miaoyu gave a smile, and nodded at Fang Qiu.

Fang Qiu saw the signal and pressed his palms together and put them on his mouth.

In a pool of white moonlight, the two stood there motionlessly, looking like a wonderful picture.

An elegant melody slowly streamed out through Fang Qiu's fingers.

Jiang Miaoyu's fabulous voice broke out into a wonderful melody.

"Hélène, sitting by my side."

"Thick longing for you, spreading along the moonlight."

Although she only sang two lines, the whole audience was dumbfounded.

"What a beautiful voice!"

"The campus belle is such a good singer!"

"She is not less than any professional singer!"

"Her voice and Fang Qiu's hand flute complete each other."

"They have created a kind of ethereal beauty!"

"The two's joint performance is perfect!"

After some cheering and applauding for Jiang Miaoyu and Fang Qiu, the audience fell silent.

Some students took out their smartphones and lit up the screens. Then, they raised the smartphones up in the air and waved them in silence.

More and more students did the same.

Very soon, the entire sports ground was turned into a sea of light.

It looked as if clusters of fireflies were fluttering in the night sky.

Fang Qiu was also surprised that Jiang Miaoyu could sing so melodically. Her pure and flawless voice made the song sound so warm and touching.

The music continued.

"Hélène, being at your side."

"Watching your smiling face, kissing the edge of your lips."

"If love is a swing."

"Then you're my pivot."

As Jiang Miaoyu's sang, a smile involuntarily spread on everyone's lips.

They envisioned girl in white sitting on a swing and swaying gently. That girl was the one they had a secret crush on from their innocent middle school days.

"I just want to be with you, and you're my starting point."

"Hélène, is a stack of yesterdays."

"How I wish I didn't hear the sorry you said to me."

"Hélène, is an antennae."

"And only captures the past, the pictures from memories."

"Without you, how do I perform?"

"Those forevers that you said to me."

Love at puberty is always fragile. The "forever" lovers promised each other was prone to end with apologies.

Everyone could not help but heave a sigh for their faded love.

Wafts of bitterness surged up in their mind.

After all, whose adolescence was not full of hope and dream?

And whose dream did not have the presence of the one they loved?

"Hélène, let me stick to love."

"After all, I used to have it for a bit."

"Or perhaps, parting is another kind of help to you!"

"Love, will remain in my heart."

"Some things don't have a time limit."

Everyone thought. "Exactly!"

"Perhaps, parting is just another kind of help. I used to have your love for some time, and that is enough for me."

"I'll put the love in my heart and treasure it forever. No time limit is set. I'll do so until the end of time."

"No matter where you are in the world."

"You'll always live in my heart."

After singing, Jiang Miaoyu, with everyone gazing at her, reached out a hand towards Fang Qiu.

Fang Qiu obviously froze for a second when he saw this gesture. His mind started to race:

"What does she want?"

"Is she asking me to sing?"

"Didn't she merely want me here to accompany her?"

"Why did she change her mind and want to turn this into a chorus?"

But there was no time for Fang Qiu to think it through. He just began to sing.

"Hélène, is an antennae."

"And only captures the past, the pictures from memories."

"Without you, how do I perform?"

"Those forevers that you said to me."

Gasp!

The whole audience was shocked.

His voice captured everyone's heart!

The most astonishing thing was that his singing was not inferior to Jiang Miaoyu's at all!

Jiang Miaoyu's soft tune was as if a girl was murmuring in her sweet dream, while Fang Qiu's magnetic voice was more like a young man confiding his thoughts to the wind.

This guy's hand flute skills were already quite amazing. Now, his singing skills were also fantastic. How could anyone compete with him?

At this point, Liu Feifei was already at a loss of what to think of Fang Qiu.

That kid had been hiding some great talents!

If she had known that Fang Qiu could sing so well, she would have signed up two shows for him.

Meanwhile, Li Qingshi's face turned rather nasty.

Fang Qiu was far more brilliant than he had imagined, which made him feel a lot of pressure.

Jiang Miaoyu blinked her gorgeous eyes several times and looked at Fang Qiu in amazement. She never expected Fang Qiu to be so good at singing.

In fact, she had only meant for Fang Qiu to do a solo with his hand flute.

Instead, Fang Qiu had misinterpreted her gesture and went straight into singing by himself.

But his singing was even better than any music solo!

"Hélène, let me stick to love."

"After all, I used to have it for a bit."

Although there was no music with his singing, it was still incredibly beautiful.

The girls underneath the stage started to gaze at Fang Qiu with ever glistening eyes.

Meanwhile, all the boys were hoping to take Fang Qiu’s place on the stage.

This guy was just too cool and too awesome!