It was very cold in the middle of winter, so the New Year's Eve party started quite early.

It's only a little past five o'clock, but people have already started performing on stage. The magnificent sound of the chorus can be heard from afar, but by the time it reaches them, they can't even hear the lyrics.

They didn't have time to listen to music either.

Mu Tian finally stopped crying and started talking to Guan Baiyu, repeatedly saying that she missed him very much.

Guan Baiyu listened attentively and even offered her his hand, letting her hold it tightly.

It took a long time for the three of them to calm down.

Jiang Xingsheng finally said, "Xiaoyu, we hope you can come back. What are your thoughts?"

If the people who adopted Guan Baiyu treat him badly, they will definitely try every means to take him back.

But now... Guan Baiyu is being taken good care of, and Shi Zhen even took the initiative to help Guan Baiyu find his relatives, which makes it impossible for them to force Guan Baiyu to return to their side.

“I’m an adult now, and I’m independent,” Guan Baiyu said. “Can we take it slow?”

Guan Baiyu doesn't mind changing his surname and name, but it's definitely not possible for him to go back to Jiang Xingsheng and Mu Tian's side now, like living together or something.

There's also the matter between him and his brother... He wants to explain things to them as soon as possible.

If they can't accept it, it's better to bring it up when the feelings aren't that deep...

"Okay, okay, we'll take it slow," Mu Tian said quickly. "I'll prepare a room for you at home. You can come and stay for a few days whenever you're free."

Mu Tian looked on expectantly, and Guan Baiyu said, "Okay."

Mu Tian burst into tears again.

Jiang Xingsheng and Guan Baiyu also had tears in their eyes.

They had already said everything they could say. Guan Baiyu said, "I still have some things to do at the New Year's Eve party..."

"You go ahead and get busy," Jiang Xingsheng said.

Guan Baiyu then left.

Guan Baiyu left with mixed feelings.

Once outside... he didn't go to his classmate's place immediately, but instead called Shi Zhen: "Brother... they really are my parents."

Guan Baiyu realized that his voice sounded a little off. He wiped his face and then discovered that there were tears on his face.

“Xiaoyu, this is a good thing. You will have one more set of parents from now on…” Shi Zhen carefully comforted him.

As Guan Baiyu listened to Shi Zhen's voice, his mood gradually calmed down.

He suddenly said, "Brother, I feel like I've let them down a bit."

"What?" Shi Zhen was stunned.

Guan Baiyu said, "They keep saying that they wish they could have found me sooner... but I don't think that would be good either. If that had happened, I wouldn't have been able to meet you."

Shi Zhen gripped his phone tightly, speechless.

Guan Baiyu then said, "Brother, I have something to do, I'll go take care of it now."

Guan Baiyu hung up the phone, went to the restroom, washed her face with cold water, and felt much better.

He cried bitterly when he suddenly gained another set of memories.

But that was mainly out of concern for Shi Zhen.

And after that... precisely because he gained another set of memories, he no longer wanted to cry.

Everything is so wonderful right now!

When Guan Baiyu returned to the competition venue, he found that the students were all crowded together watching the performance and talking. Many of them were still wearing their performance costumes, and it was impossible to tell who was who.

He didn't know where his classmates were, but he did see student council members sitting next to the stage, helping to play music and such.

Guan Baiyu went over and stayed with them.

Their department's activities didn't have any particularly good equipment. The only thing they used to play music was a large radio, and the tapes for different performances were labeled separately. After the host announced the program, they would start playing the music.

"There are too many people, and many of them are still talking. If you stand far away, you can't hear the sound on the stage..." Guan Baiyu said.

"There's nothing we can do," said the person playing the music. "We've already turned the volume up to the maximum."

There's really nothing we can do about it.

The audience members were all from their department; many of them were both audience members and performers.

Most of them weren't there to enjoy the performance; they just wanted to have some fun together, so many people were gathered in twos and threes talking.

There were also people who had just finished performing, or those waiting to go on stage, who were fooling around.

Of course, that's nothing. They just wanted to have some fun at the New Year's Eve party.

The performances went on one after another, and after the older students finished, it was the younger students' turn.

Guan Baiyu noticed that some of the choral pieces were repeated, but no one seemed to mind and they were laughing and joking.

At this moment, the students from their class came on stage.

Putting everything else aside, the opening was pretty good; the costumes and props were quite professional.

Guan Baiyu had chatted with the class monitor before, and they talked about the script. The script was quite good, and overall it was wholesome and uplifting. It told the story of an old farmer who went to the city and saw the rapidly changing world. As a result, he made some funny mistakes and also received help from others.

In the end, everyone felt that the world was wonderful!

But it's too noisy here. The people in front are okay, but the people in the back can't really hear what the people on stage are saying.

They were close to the stage, so they could hear clearly and noticed that someone had misspoken their lines and that someone had burst out laughing during their performance.

But that's nothing. There were quite a few mistakes in the previous performances, but nobody really cared.

"Guan Baiyu, look, that man's pants are ripped," the person sitting next to Guan Baiyu said to him.

Guan Baiyu glanced over and, coincidentally, there was a slit in the back of Cai Huidong's pants.

However, the gap isn't serious; viewers who are far away probably can't see it, and even those who are close won't notice anything amiss.

Cai Huidong plays a young student, wearing a white shirt and trousers.

This outfit is probably meant for a slimmer person. Cai Huidong, well, you can't say he's fat, but he's definitely a bit stocky.

That's fine, but it's winter now, and everyone is wearing clothes and pants under their performance costumes.

When it's stretched too tight, it cracks.

Guan Baiyu couldn't help but laugh.

By this time, the performance on stage had ended.

Cai Huidong and his group took their bows and turned to leave.

As Cai Huidong turned around, more students noticed the ripped seam in his pants.

Even the people following behind Cai Huidong and performing with him saw it, and went up to him laughing and patted him on the shoulder: "Cai Huidong, your pants are ripped, haha!"

Cai Huidong had already stepped off the stage. He turned to look at his backside, touched it, and immediately exploded: "How could it be cracked? Why didn't you tell me before?"

"They didn't see it!" The person who told Cai Huidong about it was a little confused, and then said, "Don't worry, it's okay, you're wearing long underwear underneath."

The costumes were all very thin, and they all wore pants underneath. Cai Huidong wore light blue thermal underwear underneath, and it didn't matter that the pants were ripped.

Unfortunately, Cai Huidong is a bit sensitive, and... he noticed during the performance that the audience wasn't really watching the show!

He prepared for so long, but the audience didn't even pay attention to the performance. And what about the performers? Some of them even laughed out loud!

Now his pants are ripped!

Things are going wrong everywhere.

It was quite a coincidence that the place where Cai Huidong and his group came down was exactly where Guan Baiyu and his student council members were playing music.

They were already preparing to play the next tape, and they took out Cai Huidong's tape and returned it to them: "You can take this tape back..."

"Guan Baiyu, did you do this on purpose?" Cai Huidong glared at Guan Baiyu.

Guan Baiyu was puzzled. What was he doing on purpose?

Why are you playing our music so softly?

"All the music is turned up to the maximum volume." The senior student in charge of playing the music was unhappy.

“When we rehearsed before, the sound was clearly very loud!” Cai Huidong said.

"Is rehearsing indoors the same as performing outdoors?" the senior student frowned.

"Did Guan Baiyu deliberately make you turn the volume down?" Cai Huidong felt that Guan Baiyu was definitely unhappy that their class's performance didn't include him, and was deliberately making a fuss.

On stage, the performance had already begun, and at this moment, the senior student was so angry that he laughed: "Do I have to listen to Guan Baiyu when I do things?"

This is the first time this senior has worked with Guan Baiyu, and to be honest, they're not familiar with each other at all!

Moreover, he's not good at remembering names; he only learned Guan Baiyu's name after Cai Huidong called out to him just now.

"Otherwise, why were we speaking so softly? The audience below couldn't hear us, could they?" Cai Huidong said. "They weren't even watching properly! They were all laughing!"

"Yeah, everyone's laughing at you for your ripped pants," the senior said irritably.

Nobody likes to be wrongly accused.

They've been busy here all day, and everyone else comes over to thank them after their performances. But this guy, instead of thanking them, is framing them!

Cai Huidong then looked at Guan Baiyu: "Did you tamper with my pants? Otherwise, how could they have torn?"

Guan Baiyu hadn't expected Cai Huidong to frame him for this. He wasn't one to hold a grudge, so he immediately retorted, "You're the one who's fat and you're blaming others?"

“You’re the fat one!” Cai Huidong retorted angrily.

"Anyway, I'm thinner than you." Guan Baiyu said with certainty.

Guan Baiyu pays quite a bit of attention to his appearance. Now that he has money, he is willing to spend money on clothes.

Even in the dead of winter, he wasn't dressed bulkily, and because of his small face, he looked thinner than Cai Huidong.

Cai Huidong came to cause trouble, but he was just venting his anger. However, after being rebuffed several times, his temper grew even stronger.

He even suspected that Guan Baiyu had tampered with his costume: "You weren't here before our performance, where did you go? Did you tamper with our costume?"

Cai Huidong and his team arrived very early, and their performance costumes were placed in the classroom next door.

During this time, Cai Huidong wanted to show off to Guan Baiyu, so he went to find Guan Baiyu, but he couldn't find him.

What was Guan Baiyu doing at that time? Did he tamper with his performance costume?

"If you want to frame someone, get your brain clean first. Is there no one else where you keep your costumes?" Guan Baiyu thought Cai Huidong might not be thinking straight.

If he really wanted to cause trouble for Cai Huidong, he wouldn't do it in a place with so many people coming and going.

And what good would that do him?

Why would he do something that doesn't bring him any benefit?

This didn't even hurt Cai Huidong—the tear in his pants wasn't big, and many people didn't see it. If they did, they'd just think the costume was of poor quality.

Everyone else thought Cai Huidong was acting strangely, even the people who performed with him thought so.

Cai Huidong ran out just now, but most of them stayed there to rest, and the performance costumes were right under their noses.

Moreover, Cai Huidong's pants were ripped... This can't even be called "torn," it's just that the seam came ripped... Basically, it's because they were stretched too tight and the threads of the costume broke.

This is perfectly normal!

The quality of the costumes was generally poor, and this one was borrowed. It had probably been used for several years, so it was perfectly normal for the threads to break.

Speaking of the earlier chorus, some classes brought out People's Liberation Army performance uniforms to wear, but they were all small sizes for the girls. Because the uniforms were too small, several boys could only barely wear them, but no one made a big deal out of it.

“Cai Huidong, we were all there back then…” someone behind Cai Huidong reminded him.

Cai Huidong was even angrier and said to Guan Baiyu, "They're all on your side!"

Guan Baiyu: "...Your own butt is too big, and you're blaming others?"

Just then, Teacher Li and Cao Li came over.

Most of the teachers in their department came to watch the performance, and now that there's a problem here, they've come to check on it.

"What's wrong?" Teacher Li asked.

Cai Huidong immediately complained: "Professor Li, Professor Cao, Guan Baiyu caused us trouble several times during our class's rehearsals. Today he even ruined my costume and deliberately turned down the volume of our performance."

Cao Li frowned.

Guan Baiyu couldn't let Cai Huidong frame him: "When did I cause you any trouble? I'm so busy, I don't even know where you're rehearsing! It's even more ridiculous that you said I ruined your costume. There are so many people here today, what am I supposed to do?"

"You were nowhere to be seen before, you must have been doing something under the guise of it! And the volume, why is our performance so low?"

The volume of today's performances was indeed not very good, and the audience could hardly hear this stage play.

But it also depends on the nature of the performance. Others are doing a large chorus, while you are doing a stage play... so you can definitely hear their voices more clearly.

Teacher Li asked the student council members, "What exactly happened?"

“Professor, our volume has always been turned up to the maximum,” the senior student said. “Their volume is low, which just means their tapes are inherently low in volume.”

Teacher Li said, "This is all a misunderstanding, so let's stop arguing."

Cai Huidong, however, refused to give up: "What about my performance costume? My clothes are torn, and Guan Baiyu even mocked me for being fat and said I have a big butt!"

Some people around couldn't help but laugh, and Guan Baiyu did too.

Cai Huidong's face turned bright red: "You're still laughing at me! Where were you before? Did you cut my pants?"

Teacher Li and Cao Li hadn't seen Cai Huidong's aggressive demeanor before, but now that they saw him like this, they felt a little sorry for him.

Cao Li said, "Guan Baiyu, no matter what happened, you shouldn't make fun of your classmate. Also, where did you go before?"

Guan Baiyu had always known that Cao Li didn't like him very much.

After all, when he went to see Professor Li before, Cao Li didn't talk to him much.

He didn't think anything of it at the time; he never expected everyone to like him. But now that Cao Li was clearly helping Cai Huidong, he was dissatisfied.

Actually, his life this time was not bad. Although Yan Jiangtao caused him some trouble, Shi Zhen came along later, so those troubles were nothing.

But in another part of his life, he was truly wronged and had nowhere to turn for help.

Guan Baiyu was by no means good-tempered, and he was not afraid of Cao Li.

If Cao Li or Professor Li really cause him trouble, he can simply change his major.

Students with poor grades are not allowed to change their major, but it is not difficult for students with good grades to change their major.

Even if you stop reading, it's not a big deal.

In another phase of his life, his dream was to become a teacher, because at that time his vision and resources were limited, and he couldn't do anything else. But now he feels he can try starting his own business.

He has never been a content person. If he knew the future trend, not taking a gamble would not be in his nature.

Guan Baiyu's face immediately turned cold: "Professor, no matter what happened, you shouldn't have taken sides without understanding the situation."

Not to mention Guan Baiyu, even the other students present felt that Cao Li had some issues.

Her saying that clearly shows she believes Cai Huidong.

They had seen the whole thing from beginning to end, and it was clearly Cai Huidong who was being unreasonable.

However, Cao Li was very angry. She was a professor, and ordinary students would give her face no matter what. She did not convict Guan Baiyu, but wanted to understand the situation properly.

"Then tell me, where did you go before? And how did Cai Huidong's performance costume get torn?" Cao Li asked.

"What's wrong? What's wrong? He was with us earlier..." Mu Tian squeezed in.

After calming down, Mu Tian and Jiang Xingsheng went out to watch the performance.

Of course, they weren't interested in watching the performance; they were focused on Guan Baiyu.

Later, it seemed like something happened over there. They didn't plan to go at first, but then the crowd kept moving, so they rushed over.

As it turned out, Mu Tian happened to hear this sentence.

At this moment, Mu Tian's mind was entirely on Guan Baiyu. To be honest, even if Guan Baiyu was utterly wicked, she could still find reasons to justify him.

Cai Huidong didn't hear Mu Tian's words clearly. Upon seeing Mu Tian, ​​he said, "Auntie, Guan Baiyu ruined my performance costume!"

He's now determined to frame Guan Baiyu.

He was furious.

Mu Tian's face turned cold: "Where is your performance costume torn?"

Cai Huidong turned around to show Mu Tian.

Without even thinking, Mu Tian said, "It's because you're too fat, what does it have to do with Guan Baiyu?"

Cai Huidong was stunned.

The people around were also stunned.

There are quite a few here, all of them students from Guan Baiyu's class. They all know that Cai Huidong knows the professor.

Some of them even started to treat Cai Huidong differently because of this incident.

Just now, when Mu Tian arrived, Cai Huidong called her "Auntie"... They felt that this professor was probably going to side with Cai Huidong again.

As it turned out... this professor actually helped Guan Baiyu!

"Aunt? Uncle?" Cai Huidong was stunned.

"Wasn't your performance over? Why are you still here?" Jiang Xingsheng asked.

Before the other students could say anything, Guan Baiyu said, "He thinks we deliberately turned down the volume during their performance... Today was an outdoor performance with a lot of people, so the volume of all the performances was not high! He also thinks I ruined his costume. I was very busy and didn't get close to their costume from beginning to end. All the students in our class can testify to that."

The students behind Cai Huidong, somewhat worried that Cai Huidong's uncle might cause trouble for Guan Baiyu, said, "Guan Baiyu really didn't approach us."

"Guan Baiyu has never been here, neither during the previous rehearsals nor during today's performance."

“He is usually very busy. When we need to find him, we go to the place where he does part-time work.”

...

Everyone started talking.

Cai Huidong said, "He's been giving me trouble. He's angry because I took away his performance opportunity, he..."

Guan Baiyu was speechless: "Participating in the performance won't earn me any points, so I didn't even want to participate! If I really wanted to participate, would it be your turn?"

Guan Baiyu was still confident in himself.

If he really wanted to oust Cai Huidong and join the class monitor, he could easily persuade most of the students in the class.

With a little money, he can find someone to teach them, and if he feels he doesn't have enough sound equipment, he can find a way to borrow some.

Liang Qinxuan partnered with someone to open a nightclub, which has professional equipment!