"Let's get down to business."

Gu Youran's ears felt hot and he interrupted her quickly.

Hearing this, Mai Wen cleared his throat and said, "I just received a call from Director Cen Su himself. He said there's a role that's practically tailor-made for you, and it has to be you."

Gu Youran moved the phone to her other ear, picked up the water cup on the coffee table, and responded calmly, "You know my principles. I won't take any roles."

"This time it's really different."

Mai Wen's voice was filled with a rare solemnity. "The play is called 'Between the Strings' and it tells the story of a girl who was adopted by a musician couple."

Gu Youran, who was about to drink water, suddenly stopped and the cup stopped at her lips.

"The adoptive father is a guitarist, and the adoptive mother is a rock singer. The girl was adopted when she was five, performed on stage at seven, wrote her own songs at eight, and at nine..."

"Stop talking."

Gu Youran loosened her grip, and the cup fell to the ground with a "bang" and shattered into pieces.

There was a brief silence on the other end of the phone. After a few seconds, the rustling sound of flipping papers was heard.

"In Scene 23, after her adoptive father's funeral, the girl played the wrong chord for the first time, only to discover unexpectedly that it was her adoptive father's favorite improvisation."

Mai Wen recited softly, "And this part... She found a note in her adoptive mother's old songbook that said: 'The real music is not in the notes, but in the silence between the notes.'"

Gu Youran's eyes widened instantly, her face full of surprise. Her adoptive mother had also told her the same thing.

"Who wrote the script?"