AMTBYIGA Chapter 21

Chapter 21: First Battle Victory

Lin Sui was still sweating from the pain, but he smiled like a little fox, “I want to use those instruments you have on the third floor.”

Gu Nian was slightly stunned. His hand, which was resting on the young man’s knee, unconsciously tightened, causing Lin Sui to gasp. He frantically tried to pry Gu Nian’s hand off.

While pulling, he pouted and complained, “What are you doing? I already put on the medicine. Even if you don’t want to, don’t bully me.”

Gu Nian released his hand, “Only that?”

Lin Sui rubbed his knee, and said unhappily, “What else could there be? If you don’t want to, forget it. I’ll think of something myself.”

Gu Nian was imperceptibly at a loss. His fingers curled slightly, and he said in a low voice, “No, you can use anything upstairs.”

Lin Sui’s eyes lit up, instantly forgetting Gu Nian’s offense of hurting him. He jumped off the sofa and ran towards the door, thanking him as he ran, “Thank you!”

After speaking, he couldn’t wait to open the door and run out. Gu Nian watched his light figure for a long time before returning to his desk, opening his computer and bringing up the WeChat interface.

Gu Nian: [Hurry up with the investigation, I need it this afternoon.]

Jiang Sheng: [??? Do you think I’m Superman? Shouldn’t you have said tonight?]

Jiang Sheng: [If you keep this up, I’m going to quit!]

Gu Nian: [This month’s bonus will be doubled.]

Jiang Sheng: retracted a message.

Jiang Sheng: [Boss is generous, I will definitely send it to your email before I get off work today.]

Seeing the reply, Gu Nian lowered his head and opened the documents he needed to process, seemingly throwing himself wholeheartedly into his work.

Lin Sui ran and skipped all the way to the music room on the third floor, touching and fiddling with everything. Finally, he settled on the piano by the window.

He was the type who learned a lot but didn’t master anything. His best skill was the piano.

The music room wasn’t dusty. Lin Sui adjusted the piano stool to a suitable height and casually pressed a few keys, playing a solo to test the feel.

Pleasant piano music flew from his fingertips. Lin Sui lowered his eyes, his dense eyelashes fluttering slightly. While playing, his heartbeat gradually accelerated. His slender fingers on the keys began to speed up. The originally gentle music became soaring, and then suddenly stopped when it reached its climax. In the quiet music room, Lin Sui’s rapid heartbeat could even be heard.

Lin Sui covered his heart, his apricot eyes filled with excitement, and it took a long time for him to calm down.

Thinking about it carefully, it had been a long time since he had played so freely. In his previous life, his body wasn’t healthy, and he had to stop playing after a little while. His weak body was always willing but unable. He had never been able to release his passion like he could now.

Lin Sui exhaled, took out his mobile phone to find the most popular songs recently, picked one that he liked, and then started transcribing the music.

This song had a brisk style and a strong sense of rhythm, full of a cool summer feeling, perfect for now.

Lin Sui would put his whole heart into whatever he did and quickly became immersed in it. After transcribing the music, he practiced repeatedly until he was satisfied before starting to adjust the camera angle to prepare for filming.

It was also at this time that he realized that it was already evening without him realizing it. Through the glass window, the dim sunlight cast into the music room, creating a unique tenderness.

Looking out the window, he could also see the sky full of red clouds, which were intoxicatingly beautiful.

Lin Sui silently took out his mobile phone to capture this scene, then put the phone in the adjusted position. He sat on the piano stool, took a deep breath, and at the moment of the shooting countdown, his fingers slid, and strings of fluent and emotional music poured out like silk.

Lin Sui half-closed his eyes, as if he had merged into the music.

From the angle of the camera, the young man in the video looked calm and focused. The evening glow outside the window outlined a circle of gold around him, making him look even more gentle and sacred. Coupled with the refreshing music, it easily reminded people of the gentle, smiling boy in their youthful memories, always wearing a clean white shirt and waving brightly at them.

As the song came to an end, Lin Sui neatly pressed the last key and subconsciously turned to look at the camera, the light in his eyes was astonishing, and the corners of his mouth raised in a bright arc, even more breathtaking than the beautiful scenery outside the window.

Lin Sui took the mobile phone down to watch the filmed video. After discovering that it had reached his expectations, he breathed a sigh of relief. After a simple editing, he directly posted it to the newly registered account, and after thinking for a moment, he added the caption—

[The red clouds fill the sky, I’m here to pick you up.]

Then he clicked send.

This copywriting was the essence that Lin Sui had summarized after watching dozens of videos, with a faint ambiguity but not excessive. The final effect was directly proportional to the video protagonist’s appearance.

Lin Sui was very confident in his face.

Although he thought so, Lin Sui was still inevitably nervous. He checked the backstage three times in the dozens of seconds it took to walk to the first floor, and he was still thinking about it when he went to the kitchen to make dinner. His absent-minded appearance quickly attracted Gu Nian’s attention.

Gu Nian frowned and caught the chopsticks that Lin Sui had accidentally knocked off and asked, “What’s wrong? You’ve been absent-minded all the time.”

Lin Sui took it and smiled, but didn’t say anything. Not for any other reason, but if he failed and Gu Nian found out, it would be too embarrassing.

What man doesn’t want face?

Lin Sui sighed for his self-esteem.

Gu Nian was about to open his mouth, but suddenly felt his mobile phone vibrate slightly. He forcibly swallowed the words of concern and his dark eyes sank slightly. Without waiting for Lin Sui to continue explaining, he finished his dinner in a few bites and hurried upstairs.

Although Lin Sui couldn’t figure out what was going on, Gu Nian’s not continuing to ask really relieved him. After tidying up, he hid back in his room.

He knelt on the bed, closed his eyes and turned on his mobile phone to the short video backstage, then suddenly turned the mobile phone upside down on the bed before daring to open his eyes. His round little face was tense with nervousness, physically showing the two big words “tangled.”

A burst of energy, then decline, and finally exhaustion. With such a pause, the courage that Lin Sui had managed to muster disappeared like a leaky balloon.

Lin Sui finished swallowing and looked up at the ceiling, while suddenly flipping the mobile phone over, and then slowly lowering his gaze, stopping at the moment he saw the number of likes on the video.

He was like a robot that had suddenly run out of power, his neck maintaining an awkward angle. After a few seconds, Lin Sui’s mouth gradually widened, and his whole body almost jumped up.

Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, one hundred thousand likes! It wasn’t an illusion!

Lin Sui was as foolish as if he had been hit by gold falling from the sky. With a whoosh, he picked up his mobile phone and read the comments in the comment section one by one. After discovering that they were all praising him, he tried his best not to scream like the comments.

He seemed to have really started to become popular!

Lin Sui was so dizzy from the huge surprise that he slammed himself onto the bed, burying his face deeply in the pillow to hide his excitement.

The feeling of being recognized was so wonderful. At this moment, Lin Sui didn’t even think about making money and living. His whole person was floating like an immortal in the rainbow farts of the comment section. A breath could lift him off the ground.

But in this villa, there was another person whose heartbeat was as rapid as his.

Gu Nian sat quietly in his wheelchair, his mobile phone placed on the table in front of him. The cheerful and pleasant piano music was constantly coming from the speaker. The short video of less than a minute had already been replayed four or five times in this room.

And its owner had no intention of stopping at all.

To be precise, Gu Nian couldn’t hear the piano music anymore.

His ears were filled with his own heartbeats, louder and louder, pounding like drums. He closed his eyes, and his mind was full of the young man playing the piano in the sunset.

So beautiful, so warm, so…heartwarming.