Until she read the ending of the story.
Kron went to Tokyo, but he failed.
His musical talent did not earn him a place in that huge city.
In the end, he returned to his hometown and prepared to take over the fresh fish shop he had fled from.
Upon seeing this, Shen Qingqiu's heart sank.
What is this? A futile struggle? A painful compromise with reality?
Is this what Teacher Jian Shen wanted to tell her?
Let Lin Que face setbacks and failures, and then have a sudden realization?
But on the very night that Kron was about to give up music completely, he received an invitation to perform at a children's welfare home.
In that small, dilapidated auditorium, he played his guitar one last time for the children and sang the songs he had written himself.
[...He sang a song called "Rebirth".]
The children in the audience listened quietly.
Many of them, like Kron, were people who had been abandoned by their families and society.
They couldn't understand the complex chords, but they could hear the struggle, the confusion, and the yearning for new life in the song.
As the music ended, thunderous applause erupted.
That very night, the orphanage caught fire unexpectedly.
Kron sacrificed himself to save a child trapped in a fire, and never emerged again.
His life ended in the year his dreams were shattered.
However, the song he wrote, "Rebirth," was remembered by the child he saved.
Many years later, that child became a famous female singer.
She sang this song to the world at her biggest concert.
She said: "This song gave me the courage to live on when I was at my most desperate."
Its author, my savior, is named Matsuoka Katsuro.
At that moment, under the spotlight, thousands sang together.
A fish from a fresh fish shop finally swam into the vast ocean.
The story ends here.
Shen Qingqiu remained seated, not moving for a long time.
The night wind blew in through the window, and she realized that her cheeks had become icy cold without her noticing.
That wasn't crying.
It's an indescribable shock, like being struck by immense force.
She finally understood.
What Professor Jian Shen wants to say is neither permissiveness nor compromise.
He was saying,
The value of talent lies not in whether it conforms to worldly standards of success.
It depends on whether it has been burned thoroughly.
Kron's music did not make him a star.
But it planted a seed of hope in a child's life.
So, what about Lin Que?
Was the darkness and destructiveness she perceived simply because...
Did she not find the right perspective to look at it?
Is the despair in "Fireflies" also a warning to the world not to blindly believe in false light?
Is the fear in "Human World as Prison" also an extreme way of exploring the survival instinct and struggle deep within human nature?
She remembered what Lin Que had said to her in his office.
"Teacher, you don't understand hope."
Perhaps he is right.
Her understanding of hope
Too narrow-minded, too standard.
It's too much like the standard answer in a textbook.
The hope that Professor Jian Shen understands is a flower that blooms anew on the ruins.
Shen Qingqiu let out a long, long sigh of relief.
It felt like a huge, heavy stone had been lifted from my heart.
She picked up her phone and slowly typed a line in the notes app.
Perhaps I shouldn't have been the gardener pruning the branches.
What I should do is ensure that even as this tree grows wildly, its roots remain in this land.
She felt that she had finally found a way to get along with that "prodigy" student.
Just as she was feeling emotional, her phone screen lit up and a new message popped up.
It was posted by Wu Di in the class group chat.
[Brothers! Big news! Hongguo Novels just made an official announcement!]
[Link] ByteDance Group enters the film and television industry! The S+ level project "Human World is Like Prison" is launched, aiming to create China's first "horror universe"!
[And it's confirmed! The Dream Weaver of Hell is personally taking on the role of head screenwriter!]
Shen Qingqiu's pupils suddenly contracted as she looked at the message.
The brief moment of peace was shattered instantly by this thunderous news.
She had just convinced herself to try to understand that "poisonous tree".
But in the blink of an eye, this tree...
It seems to be growing into a dense, all-encompassing forest.
...
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