Seeing that her son was not behaving well, Hong Xue didn't dare to ask any more questions and drove straight home.
The results of the music association's assessment would be available in a week, and Hong Xue checked the results every day at the notice board in front of the music association's gate.
Although she was notified via text message, Hong Xue still insisted on going to the entrance of the music association so that she could take a picture of the results list as soon as possible and send it to her ex-husband to show off.
Finally, the results came out. The staff posted the list of those who passed the assessment, and a group of parents, like Hong Xue, who were waiting for the results, gathered around.
Hong Xue squeezed her way to the front with difficulty, looking at the list from front to back and back to front again and again, but she still couldn't find Li Chuan's name.
That's impossible. Could it be that someone was left out of the list?
Hong Xue ran to the music association's security room, where the staff member who posted the list was still picking up a package and hadn't gone far. Hong Xue spoke up anxiously.
"Hello, have the lists of those who passed the music association's assessment been posted yet?"
The man looked up and replied, "They're all pasted on the outside."
"What if it leaked?"
The staff member frowned and said, "They're all on there. Don't worry, we've checked them several times. If they're there, they're there; if they're not, they're not. It's impossible for us to miss them."
Before Hong Xue could ask anything else, the staff had already taken their packages and left.
Hong Xue was a little anxious. She paced back and forth in front of the security room, and finally squeezed to the place where the list was posted. She stared at the list from top to bottom, but still couldn't find her child's name.
How could that be? Even Teacher Tian said Li Chuan's skill level was excellent, so how could he not have a name?
Hong Xue immediately called Tian Rui to inquire.
"Teacher Tian, the results of today's music association assessment are out, and I didn't see Li Chuan's name. Could it be that the staff overlooked it and missed it...?"
Tian Rui, who received the call, sighed and replied in a less-than-pleasant tone, "I checked the results as soon as they came out today, but I didn't find Li Chuan's name. I asked the staff in charge of the exam that day, and they told me that Li Chuan didn't even perform!"
When Hong Seol heard the words "no performance," she felt as if she had been struck by lightning.
"No, Teacher Tian... Is there some misunderstanding...?"
"Sigh, at first I wondered if something had happened in the middle, how could there be no performance! The staff told me that Li Chuan did enter the examination room and did go on stage, but he didn't start playing for a long time, and in the end he actually apologized to the judges and left the stage!"
“I also checked the exam room surveillance footage from that day, and it’s exactly as the staff said. I don’t know what happened to Li Chuan, he didn’t perform at all. He just stood there on stage for a few minutes in a daze and then went back off!”
"You should go back and ask him yourself what happened. The results of this assessment have already been decided. Li Chuan missed such a good opportunity. His situation is considered passive taking the exam, and he won't be allowed to apply again for three years. He can only try again after three years..."
Hong Xue hung up the phone, unable to recover for a long time. Why didn't Li Chuan perform? He was already on stage, why didn't he perform? He had studied the piano for so many years just for this moment!
Hong Xue returned home with a belly full of questions and a surge of anger. Seeing Li Chuan still huddled in bed, she dragged him out.
"Explain to me, what's the deal with the Music Association's assessment?"
“I went to the music association today. The results were posted, and your name wasn’t on the list.”
"I only found out after asking Teacher Tian that you didn't play anything that day! What happened to you? You were up there, why didn't you play?"
"What did you tell your mom before the exam? You said there was no problem, no problem, and told me to relax. Now tell me, what's the situation? Is this what you meant by 'no problem'?!"
"Stop pretending to be mute! Speak!"
Li Chuan had been locking himself in his room for the past few days, barely eating anything, and spending all his time in a daze. Hong Xue's shout finally brought him back to his senses.
Li Chuan managed to say, "Mom, I'm sorry..."
Hong Xue clutched her chest, exasperated, and said angrily, "Are you letting me down? You're letting yourself down! You've studied and practiced for so many years, and you actually gave up at the last hurdle?"
Hong Xue leaned against Li Chuan's door in anger, then slid down to sit on the floor, her voice trembling with tears.
"Li Chuan, you've wronged me...you've wronged me so much. I raised you with such care and hardship, I was willing to spend any amount of money on you, while I lived frugally myself, taking care of all sorts of things for you, and spending a fortune to hire people from the Music Association to give you lessons. And this is how you treat me?"
"Are you just like your cheating father, who has long disliked me and wanted to embarrass me, so you did this?"
“You know perfectly well how much your mother hates… how much she hates your father’s side. She’s worked so hard to raise you, just so you would make me proud and show your father that we, a widow and orphan, can still be successful even without them…”
"Mom just wanted your heartless family to regret it, to regret that he didn't want me and abandoned you... But what you've done now, how can I face them! How can I face them again!"
"mom……"
"Don't call me Mom! You're just like your dad! You're all the same! You just want to see me make a fool of myself!"
"Don't you know? Your father's heartless, adulterous wife gave birth to a son who's about your age, and he's already been admitted to a top university in Beijing! But what about you? You didn't even get into the Music Association!"
"What do you expect me to compare with them with?! Huh? What do I have to compare with them with?!"
"What will they think of my son and me? That bitch probably knows you didn't pass, and she'll definitely be talking behind my back, saying we deserved it! Saying your dad was right to abandon me! Saying we're all useless!"
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