Chapter 146 The Performance Begins
Li Xiaoru's voice was not loud and the environment was so noisy.
But what was strange was that everyone suddenly became quiet and looked at Li Xiaoru and Liu Lan, who was half a step slower.
The backstage staff also stared at Liu Lan for a while with a very subtle look in his eyes. He said, "I thought you guys had given up the performance. Team No. 3 has been arranged to take your place. Since you came in time, you should go on stage in the original order."
He loudly informed the leader of Team 3 of the news, and the students in that team said there was no problem.
Then he called other staff members behind the scenes. His hands were not idle either. He looked through the original program and said, "Yes, yes, yes, after the first show, prepare two grand pianos and a guzheng table..."
At this point, the backstage staff asked Liu Man and Li Xiaoru, "Where are your guzhengs?"
"Here," Yu Zhan stepped forward and placed the guqin in its bag on the ground.
"Oh, okay, just leave it here for now."
The tables for guzheng and guqin are the same, but Yu Zhan didn't understand this, so he thought he was holding a guzheng.
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"Where's the other performer?" The backstage attendant read out the name on the program aloud, "Where's Wen Fangfei from Guzheng Department Class 1?"
Liu Lan said frankly, "She's not coming, so it's just the two of us performing."
Some people started whispering, and some laughed out loud.
The backstage attendant was surprised. He thought Liu Lan was here to make people laugh. "Your piece is a trio. How can two people perform it? You even want me to put all three instruments on the stage." He kindly reminded her, "Since there is one person missing, just give up the performance. You can retake it if you fail. Don't be stubborn. Don't let the performance get out of hand and make a big fool of yourself on stage. This performance is different from the previous students' self-entertainment. The audience seats are full. What you do will definitely be filmed and posted on the Internet."
The backstage staff meant well. He was truly concerned about the students so he specifically mentioned the word "Internet". The Hanfu goddess already has a bad reputation on the Internet. If she were to cause such a scene at a concert again, not only would she become a complete laughing stock and never be able to hold her head up on campus, but the school leaders would also probably notice her, and her prospects and future would be over.
"Thank you," Liu Man expressed her gratitude to the backstage staff, "Please believe us, we can really complete the trio."
"I am convinced by this fraudulent boasting."
The other performers began to laugh at them in low voices:
"How do two girls from the piano department play the guzheng? Do you play it like you play cotton?"
"Hahahaha, it's really possible. Thinking of fluffing cotton as chords is pretty trendy."
"Is she out of her mind? How can she snatch Tang Tu from Shen Mozhen? Tang Tu must be blind. Shen Mozhen must be mad to death."
"I guess she deliberately wanted to disgust Shen Mozhen, so she brought the Guzheng, which Shen Mozhen is best at, onto the stage."
"Please stop talking. I'm worried that Liu Lan has gone insane because of the revelations online. Please stop provoking her."
"Oh, I feel so sorry for her."
"I feel sorry for her too. She went from being a popular internet celebrity to a clown that everyone wants to beat up. You guys should stop adding insult to injury. What does her affair with Tang Tu and Shen Mozhen have to do with you?"
The comments were not all negative, some students remained neutral.
Faced with cold words, Liu Lan remained calm and acted as if she heard nothing.
Face-to-face humiliation is more deadly than online humiliation. She doesn’t know the people online, so she can just ignore the insults they say to her. But the people in front of her are all Liu Lan’s classmates and people around her.
If she was really just an ordinary 20-year-old girl, she would definitely be scolded and cried by these people, and would run out of the door without having to perform.
A fragile woman cannot survive in the cold palace. During the past twenty-four years of life in the cold palace, Liu Lan suffered from the contempt, insults and even persecution from the palace servants and the resentful women in the palace. She had long since built an iron wall-like shell to protect herself.
It was impossible to repel her with words.
On the other hand, Li Xiaoru, who prided herself on being mentally strong, could no longer maintain her composure. Her face flushed red, and she wasn't sure whether it was out of anger or shame. She was about to rush up to argue with these people.
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