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Chapter 93: Chapter 93: You Call This an Unsophisticated Monstrosity?
The barrage in the live broadcast room flew by at breakneck speed—
[I’m shaking, I’m crying! For the first time in my life, I’m moved to tears by a piano piece! This music really pierces my heart ahhh!]
[Finally understand what atmosphere feels like! The ending was like an intimate moment with a loved one at sunset, it truly deserves the name Dusk Descent.]
[The Piano Princess truly lives up to her name, Lu Qianrou is so beautiful and talented, truly the epitome of a young lady from a wealthy family!]
[Lu Qianrou completely outclasses her lowly sister, the championship is undoubtedly hers, right? People online who said Lu Sheng was better than Lu Qianrou, come out and take your beating!]
Not only did the barrage in China’s live broadcast room flood with praise, but international live broadcasts were also awash with positive reviews.
Similar comments like [Who is this girl?][Which piano master student is she?][This piano piece is incredible!][I’m going to record it and listen to it several times!]
Amidst the cheers from the audience below the stage, only Li Muchen’s imperial brow furrowed, and Chen An beside him took a sharp breath.
"President Li..." Chen An couldn’t help but speak up, "If I’m not mistaken, the piece Lu Qianrou just played is the one that the lady composed yesterday at home, right?"
Yesterday, Lu Sheng was composing and playing the piano at the top floor of the Li Family house, while Li Muchen listened from a couch adjacent to her.
Chen An, guarding outside, could also hear the tunes carrying through, and was moved by the music, leaving a deep impression.
When Lu Qianrou played the first section, he felt it was a bit familiar. As he listened further, he realized, the piece Lu Qianrou played was exactly the same as what the lady played yesterday!
What’s going on??
How did Lu Qianrou get her hands on the piece the lady composed and perform it first on stage?
More importantly, with the lady’s original piece already played, what would she perform when her turn came?
Since Chen An could recognize it, Li Muchen had naturally realized this long ago.
But even after he sent a message to Lu Sheng, asking her if she needed him to do anything, the girl didn’t reply.
Read but not responded to.
Clearly, she was still mad at him.
Li Muchen took a deep breath in exasperation.
Strangely, although worried for the young girl, he had an inexplicable confidence and certainty, a certainty that even in such difficult circumstances, his little girl could still handle herself with ease.
After the judges on the stage conversed for a bit, they each gave their scores. Excluding the highest score of 9.75 and the lowest score of 9.45, Lu Qianrou’s final score was actually 9.57.
9.57... the highest score of the evening!
She also widened the gap with the current second place.
Seeing the numbers displayed on the screen, Lu Qianrou’s eyes sparkled with excitement, her heart nearly leaping out of her throat!
With this piece, she had already seized first place; as long as Lu Sheng humiliatingly fails to play anything substantial later, the championship would be hers.
The special recruitment qualification from Beijing University, the proud praise of her uncle and mother, tonight’s top Weibo trend, chase and adoration from domestic and international fans...
All these would be hers!
Even Osborne was now looking at her differently.
The approving look from Osborne finally let Lu Qianrou deeply vent about not being taken seriously by him earlier.
And her third brother... he must definitely be watching her performance secretly from some VIP seat, surely proud of her performance just now.
At this moment, Lu Qianrou was basking in the joy of ranking first, utterly oblivious to the shameful manner in which her victory was achieved.
She’s not the slightest bit afraid of Lu Sheng standing up later and claiming that the piece she performed was stolen from her.
She has skills, a track record, reputation, and fans.
Compared to her, Lu Sheng had nothing except for that one video from a previous banquet, not even any prior competition experience.
Who would believe such a profound piece was composed by Lu Sheng?
They would only believe it was her own creation.
Lu Qianrou confidently basked in everyone’s envious gazes as she walked off the stage to a round of warm applause. In stark contrast, it was when Lu Sheng was about to go on stage.
After the host announced her name, there was a silence in the audience.
The camera swept across the faces of the audience, their expressions were a mix of disdain, contempt, or ridicule.
The comments in the live broadcast room were even harsher, containing words too indecent to bear.
This was all due to the recent rumors.
Some said Lu Sheng had slept with an older man before coming of age, just for eligibility to compete, throwing away her body and dignity for frivolous fame, bringing shame to all Chinese girls.
Some said the two sisters, though born of the same father, were worlds apart; one was a noble, elegant, genius young mistress, the other a shady, vulgar, countryside-born bastard.
Some had already started a trend to oust Lu Sheng from the stage, even before she appeared—
[For someone who has never attended a single piano contest, and being shameless at such a young age, don’t come on stage to embarrass the Chinese in front of the whole world! Go away!]
Not to mention these uninformed, chaotic-seeking netizens.
Even the other contestants in the backstage waiting room had almost rolled their eyes up to the sky when looking at Lu Sheng from behind.
You can never fathom the malice others might harbor against you.
Even when they’ve never met you, never known you.
Lu Sheng stepped onto the stage amidst such circumstances.
Tonight, all contestants were dressed their best, with female contestants secretly competing in beauty, each one more meticulously adorned.
Yet, when the audience saw the host exit and the girl who took the stage was only wearing a school uniform, they were taken aback.
Her ink-black hair, simply tied with a dark-red bow into a high ponytail, revealed her palm-sized face and her slender, elegant neck.
Her forehead was smooth, under her arched eyebrows lay a pair of black, indifferent eyes. Her fine features were as if favored by the creator, so beautiful that one glance made it hard to look away.
She was slender yet shapely. Wearing a white shirt beneath her school jacket and a dark red pleated tartan skirt, her long socks accentuated her lean and straight legs.
Especially the rose brooch on the front of her school jacket, which complemented the girl’s mysterious aura. At a glance, noble, exquisite, yet aloof.
...So beautiful.
A completely different feeling from that of Lu Qianrou.
As if born of dust, yet remaining unstained by it. As if all-knowing, yet indifferent to all.
The girl simply lifted those extremely beautiful eyes and scanned the audience below lightly, causing everyone to hold their breath involuntarily—
Seriously, does a girl who looks like this need to sleep with some old man for competition qualifications? One glance from her could make tycoons yearn to proactively offer help!
What on earth have people been spreading about this Lu Sheng online...
Not to mention the validity of the hotel scandal or the girl’s character, but to label her as an ugly, vulgar, bumpkin from the countryside, is that not blindness??
