Chapter - 5
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It was not until a long time later did the journalist for interviews remember that Kim Taehyung had not yet played the song. He asked courteously, “Kim Taehyung, would you like to have a go?”
Lee/Kim Taehyung (O)
Lee Taehyung frowned with a troubled expression. “I don’t play this song that often. Can I take a look at the music score please?”
Zhou so-hee (Mi Kyung's niece)
“Just give up if you can’t play it. Don’t pretend as if you can play at an equal level if you take a look at the notes.” Zhu So-hee said callously without hesitation.
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Student 1 -“True, someone just has no idea of how weak he is.”
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Student 2 - “What is so good about a stupid prize won at primary school? The prize So-hee got was for the most valuable and professional prize for piano.”
Some Junior Sisters who supported Zhou So-hee started to sneer at Lee Taehyung who even needed to ask for the music score, after hearing Zhou So-hee’s performance.
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“This is So-hee’s catch song, and it is natural that she is familiar with it. Let Kim Taehyung read the score, this is a fair game.” The host suggested.
The music teacher asked the student to get her the score for Flight of the Bumblebee and when she gave it to him, she consoled him with kind words.
Ye Mei (Music Teacher)
“Try your best, don’t feel pressured.”
She was asked to be put into the shadows by Zhou So-hee anyway.
Lee/Kim Taehyung (O)
“Thanks.”
Lee Taehyung took the music score and devoted himself to reading every single note.
Kim Taehyung had not touched the piano for a long time. Although he was good at playing piano, he barely played this song before. It was not enough to just hear Zhou So-hee playing it once at such a speed.
Fortunately, he always had an amazing memory, so that he was able to memorize anything after reading it once or twice.
The students outside the classroom were about to leave when they found him reading the score sheet and refusing to play.
However, they had just reached the staircase when the melody of Flight of the Bumblebee arose from the classroom, and the performance sounded as good as the one done by Zhou So-hee.
Therefore, they all turned their heads back and saw the Omega boy wearing a cap fully devoted to the performance. The score was put aside and he barely had a look at it.
One baby faced boy in the crowd was making a clip of the devoted piano Omega boy with his cell-phone whilst mumbling.
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“Master Cha, it was the beautiful Zhou girl a minute ago and now it is your crush who is at the piano. Kim Taehyung must be a monster, isn’t he? he said that he couldn’t play a thing a minute ago and now he plays even better after reading the music score once or twice. That is totally crazy.”
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On the other side of the cell-phone, a clear voice of a young man said, “Can you just shut up?”
Even the students who were not from the music major could tell that Lee Taehyung gave a better performance than Zhou So-hee, let alone the music teacher and the T.V host who were in the industry. They were so shocked that their eyes almost rolled out of their sockets.
With a straight back, the omega boy had her ten longer fingers dancing upon the keyboard, and what the eyes of the audience could see was the phantom of the fingers. Zhou So-hee might have put on an almost perfect performance, but Kim Taehyung had put on an extremely flawless, performance show in this hour.
Zhou So-hee’s smile disappeared gradually with Lee Taehyung’s performance and what remained on his exquisitely-powdered face were fury and coldness.
Lee Taehyung looked up and let out a sigh of relief after he finished the last note.
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“This is called excellence. What kind of performance was it just a while ago?”
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“I made some calculations and he played 16 notes within one second when he was playing at his highest speed. How many hands does he have?”
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“Hehe, someone says that this song makes Zhou So-hee famous and that she won the competition and exceeded everyone else.”
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“Haha, someone wanted to show off with her catch song and now she is totally embarrassed.”
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“Don’t you think that what is coming next will be even more interesting?” A short fair haired girl said with a smile.
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“Kim Taehyung has managed to copy Zhou So-hee’s song, but will Zhou So-hee be able to copy Kim Taehyung’s upcoming song?”
Zhu Xiaoqin, who was Zhou So-hee’s follower, spoke with displeasure when she heard people demeaning Zhou So-hee next to her.
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Zhu Xiaoqin - “he was lying about not playing the song before. He must have practiced it hundreds of times before.”
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“True! Our So-hee still has skills that she is yet to show.”
The girls from the piano classes rolled their eyes at her. The short haired girl Park min-young squinted at the junior sister who defended Zhou So-hee.
Park Min-young (O)
“The best Zhou So-hee could do was to play 12 notes within one second, but this omega played 16 notes within one second. And apparently, Zhou So-hee played too fast at the first few sections so the rhythm became chaotic. But Kim Taehyung had a good control of every note and rhythm, and that was perfect! Stop being embarrassing just because you don’t know anything about music!”
Zhou So-hee could have been a professional, but indeed Kim Taehyung was a master.
Ming Ji-eun (O)
“Min-young, we don’t need to tell them anything. Let’s see if Zhou So-hee can do anything later.” Ming Ji-eun, who was wearing her hair in a bun, said as she stood next to Park Min-young.
Ye Mei (Music Teacher)
After Lee Taehyung finished the performance, the music teacher smiled dryly.
“Kim Taehyung, you don’t seem to be so unfamiliar with this song.”
Lee/Kim Taehyung (O)
“Oh, I don’t normally play Flight of the Bumblebee.” Lee Taehyung smiled.
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After hearing his performance, the host asked curiously, “Now it is time for you to play your song. What is your plan?”
Lee/Kim Taehyung (O)
Lee Taehyung exercised his knuckles and said mysteriously.
“Just one practice song.”
Zhou So-hee took a deep breath and pulled herself up. She must not lose, especially not to Kim Taehyung.
However, after Lee Taehyung reached the first section at a high speed, her mind became totally blank.
Even the music teacher and the interview journalist turned pale after they heard what he was playing.
The song he played was not as arising and interesting as Flight of the Bumblebee, but a piano song that was single in long notes and full of two-tones. It was a song that was rarely heard in daily life.
And although he played fast and used a tricky technique with fingers, the song he presented sounded plucky and fun, and ended within just four minutes.
After Lee Taehyung finished the song, Zhou So-hee, who was sitting opposite him, looked slightly desperate and pale.
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Zhu Xiaoqin and several of her supporters were a bit worried. “So-hee doesn’t look so well. Is she unwell?”
Ming Ji-eun (O)
Ming Ji-eun sneered at Zhou Linna’s trouble. “She is completely fine! She is just so shocked by Kim Taehyung’s performance that she has no idea what to do.”
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“Kim Taehyung is crazy! He played Feux Follets No.5 by Franz Liszt.” Another girl was very surprised.
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Zhu Xiaoqin said unconvinced, “Liszt is nothing. So-hee played La campanella before and she did it well. She doesn’t play this one often and soon she will copy it and play it out accurately! Just wait and see.”
Park Min-young (O)
“She won’t even if she is given a year.” Park Min-young continued as she saw Zhou So-hee’s shivering hands.
Ming Ji-eun (O)
“That is a super practicing song by Franz Liszt, and the Mt. Everest in piano practicing songs. Only people with the highest skills are able to play it, because you need to be very fast with your fingers. Few professional pianists would dare to take this challenge and Zhou So-hee is not capable of playing that at all.”
Park Min-young (O)
“True. Feux Follets No.5 shows the most magnificent skills.”
Ming Ji-eun (O)
“Haha, no wonder Kim Taehyung never plays Flight of the Bumblebee. It’s just too boring for him. He only plays the most difficult songs, okay?”
Park Min-young and Minh Ji-eun’s sneering voices greeted Zhou So-hee’s ears, making her completely pale.
She had believed that she would be able to beat him, knowing that Kim Taehyung had not touched the piano for years. But this omega ended up playing the super difficult practice melody of Feux Follets No.5!
And she herself had no memory of a single note that Kim Taehyung had played.
Lee/Kim Taehyung (O)
Lee Taehyung glanced at Zhou So-hee with mocked consolation. “What about reading the music score vtoo?”
His piano teachers had always been the most famous pianists across the world, and Zhou So-hee’s capability was not even a match against him at the age of eight.
Kim Taehyung played piano well too, and he had even won prizes at music festivals. But he gradually lost touch with the piano after he entered high school. He was not like Lee Taehyung who could get the best teachers in the world and learn whatever he wanted to learn.
Ye Mei (Music Teacher)
The music teacher took a look at Zhou So-hee and said with a dry smile, “This is a rare song and score sheets can hardly be found. What about changing it to another one?”
As Zhou So-hee’s teacher, she knew pretty well how far Zhou So-hee could go.
This song was impossible for Zhou So-hee and for the teacher as well.
Park Min-young (O)
Park Min-young bent down and scooped out her cherished music score and handed it out, “Ms. Ye, I have the music score here.”
Ming Ji-eun (O)
Ming Ji-eun asked Park Min-young with a small voice when she returned. “Min-young, why are you helping her?”
Park Min-young (O)
Park Min-young sneered. “Don’t worry. She won’t be able to play a thing even with the music.”
Without music scores she could find an excuse to get herself out of performing on the stage.
When the music score was given to her, she would have no way to leave the stage unless she played the song.
Zhou So-hee clenched her teeth and forced herself to open the music score. The dense array of notes made her hair stand up and her hands shook even more violently.
Ming Ji-eun (O)
“Champion So-hee, the notes are here, why haven’t you started?”
Seeing Zhou So-hee so frightened that her face got pale, Ming Ji-eun became very pleased inside her heart.
Because of Zhou So-hee, the other students didn’t even have the chance to participate in the contest.
After she won the first prize, the classroom was used as the background for her photo shoot and the school kept playing the song she had played, making their heads ache tremendously.
Park Min-young (O)
“What are you yelling for?”
Ming Ji-eun (O)
“I found what prize Kim Taehyung won when he was in primary school.” Ji-eun passed her cell-phone around and said as she pointed at the picture. “The competition was Franz Liszt International Music Festival, one that was held in Austria in memory of Franz Liszt, the king of piano! Kim Taehyung won the first prize of the children’s group.”
Having heard those words, Park Min-young squinted at Zhu Xiaoqin and her fan group who were completely dumbfounded.
Park Min-young (O)
“Ha, he got the international prize when he was still in the fifth grade of primary school, and someone even thinks that he is better than anyone else just because she has won a small domestic prize?”
saved the picture in which Mu Weiwei won the competition. “The winner is always the winner. She will never lose. I have made a decision – I will be the winner’s disciple.”
Ming Ji-eun (O)
Ji-eun saved the picture in which Kim Taehyung won the competition. “The winner is always the winner. He will never lose. I have made a decision – I will be the winner’s disciple.”
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