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Chapter 16

Chapter No.16

Today is Christmas Eve, and the annual Christmas concert is in full swing on the school's football field.This is a festival that only belongs to the students. There is no discipline or rules, but only the highest music, the highest atmosphere, and endless joy and enthusiasm.However, Shizuru Higashino, who was waiting backstage to play, couldn't help becoming nervous when he heard the screams that were louder than the waves.

"Are you thirsty? Why are you drinking so much water?" Luo Ling got into the backstage at some point, and saw Dongye Jingxuan gulping down a bottle of mineral water.

Higashino Shizuru let out a heavy breath, but still did not put down the mineral water bottle in his hand.

"Don't be nervous, isn't your singing pretty good?" Luo Ling comforted.

"On stage and off stage are two different things."

"Don't tell me you've never been on stage."

"But I've never sung on stage."

"Don't worry, those guys outside are already so high that they don't even know their last name. Even if you really sang it wrong, they won't be able to tell." To help him relax, Luo Ling made a joke.

"This is the school's Christmas concert, do you think it's a psychedelic party?" Higashino Shizuru started drinking water again after speaking.

"It's okay, I have absolute confidence in you." After Luo Ling made a cheering gesture, he turned around and was about to go out, but just as he took a foot, Dongye Jingxuan unexpectedly grabbed his arm, and then He murmured embarrassingly: "Uh... can you not leave yet? With you here... I don't seem to be so nervous."

Luo Ling felt his heartbeat suddenly stop, and he nodded hurriedly after being stunned for a while.

Higashino Shizuru's frown was relaxed, and a smile finally appeared on his face. Just as he was about to say thank you, he heard the host on the stage had already announced his name, and then there was a loud noise from the audience. There was a thunderous applause.

"Will you wait here until I finish singing?" Higashino Shizuru was still a little worried before going on stage.

"How about you draw a circle under my feet, and then say a spell or something?" Luo Ling joked and made a promise.

Higashino Shizuru smiled, took a deep breath and walked towards the stage amidst screams.After a while, the applause became more and more enthusiastic, and accompanied by a beautiful piano sound, the audience immediately fell silent again.

"If I hadn't met you, where would I be? How is life going? Is life worth cherishing? Maybe I know someone and live an ordinary life. I don't know if there will be love as sweet as honey?" Gentle The singing echoed in the cold night sky, adding a bit of warmth and a touch of romance to this cold winter night.

"Why did Dongye choose such an old-fashioned song?" Liu Hao asked in confusion from the audience.

"What do you know? This is called paying tribute to the classics." Fang Jianyue said.

"It seems that Aunt Deng's influence in Japan is really not small. Even the post-[-]s generation like Higashino can sing her songs." Shen Sa nodded and said.

"Aren't we still playing Paganini from more than 100 years ago?" Fang Jianyue replied disapprovingly.

"Huh? Why are you all alone? Where's Luo Ling?" Wang Siyuan had just confirmed the order of the band's performance, and when he came back, he happened to catch up with Dongye's show, but he didn't see Luo Ling.

"Oh, he went backstage to be a doll pumper." Liu Hao replied casually.

"What doll inflator?"

"He was worried that Dong Ye would be nervous singing a Chinese song for the first time, so he went backstage to cheer him up." Shen Sa helped explain.

"I've always thought that Luo Ling was macho, but I didn't expect that he was still a warm-hearted man." Fang Jianyue put her hands in her arms with a smile.

"He's the only one who is still a warm boy? How many innocent girls' hearts has he hurt these years?" Shen Sa said angrily.

"If I were a girl, I wouldn't like Luo Ling, who is like a wild horse and can't be pulled. If you want me to say that Dongye is better, it is gentle and romantic. Alas, I don't know if there will be one tonight." How many little girls can't sleep." Liu Hao looked at the stage and sighed.

"That's true. Don't say it's a little girl, if someone sings to me like that, I can't stand it." Fang Jianyue said with a smile.

"Hey, I can sing this song too, and I must be better than him!" Shen Sa immediately raised her hand to signal.

"Pull it down, today is Christmas Eve, I don't want to kill anyone." Fang Jianyue said with a snort.

"Do you understand how to appreciate it! I am an authentic baritone, very rare." Shen Sa cleared his throat after finishing speaking, and then actually began to sing, "As time goes by, I only care about you, willingly Infect your breath,'

"Can you shut up! Are you looking for a beating?" Seeing that verbal persuasion was ineffective, Fang Jianyue started to fight.

"So I, please, don't let me leave you," Shen Sa showed a posture of vowing to persevere to the end, while continuing to sing and pulling Liu Hao as a human shield.

"Hey, it's up to the two of you to fight, don't hurt the fish in the pond, I've always been neutral!" Liu Hao didn't want to go through this muddy water, but he was helplessly caught by Shen Sa like an eagle catching a chick. He doesn't let go.

"Haozi get out of the way!"

"Haozi, don't give way!"

"Boss!" Caught in a dilemma between the two, Liu Hao could only ask Wang Siyuan for help with a bitter face.But Wang Siyuan looked at the stage without saying a word, as if he was also attracted by the moving singing.

"As time flies by, I only care about you, and I am willing to infect your breath.

How many times in life can gain a confidant, and it is not a pity to lose the power of life.

So I beg you, don't let me leave you,

I can feel nothing but you. "

When the last note ended, there was a sustained and warm applause from the audience.Higashino Jingxian got up and walked to the center of the stage to bow to the audience, and when he turned around, he saw Luo Ling giving him a thumbs up on the side stage.

Happy times are always short.Everyone hasn't had a good time yet, but the party is coming to an end.As the finale performance, the BOX band even surprised the audience with a rock version of "YELLOW", which also drew a perfect end to this year's Christmas concert.

"The arrangement of this song is quite interesting. It seems that Wang Siyuan has put a lot of effort into this concert." Song Yi said while chewing gum, looking at the five people on stage who were taking the curtain call.

Lian Kai was quite disdainful, "Let's go, stay here and wait for the autograph?"

"Well... I, my classmates and I made an appointment to go to church for mass." Song Yi scratched his head and said with a smile.

"Mass? You don't believe in religion, what mass are you doing?" Lian Kai frowned.

"Hey, it's fun. How about you come with us?"

"Forget it, I'm not interested."

Luo Ling eagerly searched among the crowd, and the moment he saw Shizuku Higashino, his face immediately burst into the brightest smile.

"I thought you had already left." Luo Ling ran to Shizuru Higashino in three steps at a time, with the smile still on his face.

"The performance just now was really wonderful! I didn't expect that you could arrange this piece of music so well!" Shizuru Higashino praised sincerely.

"You are also responsible for this." Luo Ling smiled and said, "I'm going to church now, if it's okay, let's go together?"

"Church?" Higashino Shizuru realized that today is Christmas Eve, and as a Catholic, he had to go to church for Mass. "I won't go, will I? I don't believe in religion."

"It's okay, I think the old man won't mind the Lord." Luo Ling joked casually.

The Christmas Mass in the Catholic Church begins in the afternoon of Christmas Eve.When the two arrived, Father Ding was doing the entrance chant for midnight mass.The two of them didn't dare to disturb them, so they had to sneak in through the back door and sat down on the seats in the last row.

For Higashino Shizuru, this was undoubtedly a lengthy and boring process, several times he almost fell asleep.Fortunately, the mass didn't take too long. As people left one after another, only the two of them were left in the huge chapel.

"Is it boring?" Luo Ling asked.

"Well, it's okay." Shizuku Higashino rubbed his eyes, "Fortunately, the time is not too long. If it takes longer, I'm afraid I will really fall asleep." After finishing speaking, he actually asked seriously, "What if I Is it blasphemy to fall asleep accidentally? You won’t do anything to me then, will you?”

"Yes! We will roast you on the fire and eat you separately." Luo Ling said solemnly.

"You think I'm a turkey?" Higashino Jingxian ignored his joke, sat up a little bit, then reached for the schoolbag that was put aside, took out a sheet of music from it and handed it to Luo Ling, "Here, Didn't you say you wanted it last time?"

Luo Ling took a look at it and smiled knowingly. "Is this a Christmas present?"

"You say yes."

"But I didn't prepare a gift for you, what should I do?"

"I knew you didn't have the heart." Higashino Shizuru yawned, and then lazily leaned back on the back of the chair. "Forget it, didn't you say you were going to rewrite it into a cello piece last time? After you rewrite it, consider it a Christmas present for me."

"Okay, it's a deal." After Luo Ling finished speaking, he picked up the music score and read it again.This time he looked very carefully, and when he raised his head again, Higashino Shizuru fell asleep at some point.There was a bitter chill in the winter night, fearing that he would catch a cold, Luo Ling took off his coat and gently covered him.

At this moment, the surroundings are quiet, and the unique colored windows in the chapel exude a blurred beauty under the influence of lights, making all this seem like a mysterious and beautiful dream.Dongye Jingxuan seemed to be in a deep sleep, with the sound of even breathing rising and falling along with the body, like a soft andante, but Luo Ling's heartbeat gradually began to become chaotic.Suddenly a gust of wind blew in, gently lifting Shizuru Higashino's hair, revealing a smooth and beautiful forehead.At this moment, Luo Ling felt as if his heart was suddenly grabbed by someone. An impulse so strong that it was almost suffocating instantly cleared all the thoughts in his brain, leaving only one thought.

Once emotion breaks free from the shackles of reason, it becomes even more out of control.Emotional, instant.

As if feeling the wonderful touch on her lips that she had never had before, Shizuru Higashino woke up.He opened his eyes in a daze, and the next second he was stunned by everything in front of him.He couldn't believe it was real, and even thought he was dreaming.But that face that was so close at hand, and the fiery breath from the other party told him that this was not a dream! !Under the extreme shock, he completely forgot what to do, and his whole body froze there as if he had been acupunctured.When Luo Ling realized that he had woken up, he immediately withdrew his body, feeling as if he had been punched hard in a dream, and his head was instantly awake.

For a while, neither of them spoke, but the ambiguity was flooding like a flood.

"Xiaoxian, I..." Luo Ling seemed to want to say something, but was interrupted by Dongye Jingxian just as he started.

"Uh...it's getting late, me, I should go back to school."

Luo Ling didn't say anything, just watched that familiar figure disappear into the thick night.At this moment, he suddenly felt a sense of despair and helplessness, like a drowning person slowly sinking into deeper darkness but powerless.He had no idea how it all happened, much less what was to come, and the only thing he knew now was that he had made a terrible mistake, one that might never be undone.

Higashino Shizuru was lying on the bed in the dormitory, staring at a small stain on the ceiling in a daze.He'd heard it said before that it was a distraction, a way to stop thinking about things you didn't want to think about.However, after several hours passed, he realized that it was all a lie.Because even if he stared at a hole in the wall, those messy images would keep flashing in his mind, reminding him of what happened last night over and over again.Is that reality or a dream?If it was just a dream, why did it feel so real?As real as the warmth that hasn't faded from the lips?But if all this is true, what does it mean?He didn't dare to think about it any further.The bedside alarm clock still rang on time at six o'clock in the morning, but the familiar beep sound made him feel terrified at this moment.Looking out of the window that was gradually lighting up, he was suddenly a little scared, because he didn't know what was waiting for him after dawn, let alone how he should face it.