Chapter 5: Classmate, who are you?

  "If you really have the skills, then don't just talk big, come and play a tune for me to hear how it sounds? Dare or not?" Ye Siying said with a cold smile, expecting to see the stranger's embarrassed expression, but unfortunately Chen Chufan disappointed her.

  "Great!" Chen Chufan responded excitedly. At this moment, Chen Chufan was already in a state of frenzy. He had been impulsively wanting to rush to the piano in the classroom and play the piece with his own hands. This impulsive feeling was like being in the desert, parched to the point of madness, and suddenly seeing someone drinking an ice-cold Coke right next to him. However, the last bit of rationality left in him had kept him from taking action. After all, it would be impolite to use someone else's things without permission. And Chen Chufan was naturally a well-mannered young man who tried his best to behave properly.

  But now his whole brain is the complete melody of this modified song, he can only delay his impulse to play it himself by talking continuously, and also unconsciously want to criticize the girl's playing through language, let the other party actively ask him to demonstrate, in order to get the opportunity to play.

  Even if the girl didn't invite him to play, perhaps in the next second Chen Chufan's rationality would be overwhelmed by his impulses, and he would violently push away the girl in front of him and rush to the piano to start playing.

  Now that the girl had taken the initiative to invite him, Chen Chufan naturally felt even less burdened. He rushed straight towards the piano.

  Ye Siying followed Chen Chufan to the piano and watched as the strange man sat down in front of it with a sanctimonious expression. The man's holy look made Ye Siying feel particularly annoyed! Go ahead and pretend, I'll see how long you can keep up the act! Ye Siying thought to herself.

  At this moment, Chen Chufan had already placed his hands on the piano keyboard. Because Chen Chufan had never touched a piano keyboard before, the chill that was transmitted through his fingers felt extremely unfamiliar to his body, but at the same time, it seemed as though his mind was very familiar with this feeling, just like he had played this instrument countless times before. This contradictory feeling caused Chen Chufan's hands to remain on the piano keyboard without immediately starting to play.

  Ye Siying's face was already filled with cold smiles. From the moment the man touched the keyboard, she could tell that this stranger didn't understand piano at all. He might have never even touched a piano before. A piano master who doesn't know basic fingerings? Ye Siying had already thought of how to mock this shameless man next.

  When Ye Siyi shifted her attention from Chen Chufan's awkward movements to his hands, she became enraged. Because Chen Chufan had been called away by Old Xiao as soon as he returned to the dormitory from the hospital, he hadn't even had time to wash his hands, and there were still some black stains on his fingernails from touching something in Nanhu Lake. Thinking that her piano, which she played every day, was being touched by such dirty hands, Ye Siyi could no longer suppress her anger and was about to loudly tell Chen Chufan to get out when his hands moved.

  A faint, ethereal sound of a shooting star seemed to come from the horizon, passing by Ye Siyue's ears, and that kind of distant and profound feeling made Ye Siyue almost instantly forget her anger. She only wanted to desperately lift her head to find the trail of the shooting star, but unfortunately, the shooting star disappeared with the gradual music. The last glissando was still slowly fading away from her ears, and a soothing melody began to surround her ears again. At this time, Ye Siyue couldn't help but close her eyes, feeling as if she was standing alone in a desolate wilderness, lonely and looking up at the stars in the sky. A gentle breeze blew by, lifting her long hair, making her want to dance lightly with the wind.

  She gently stretched out her hands, using one to scoop up the moonlight, and began to dance with the breeze under the starry sky. As the music quickened, she too accelerated her steps, and suddenly felt herself floating amidst the ethereal melody, freed from earthly constraints. In this perfect starry night, she felt a sense of liberation, joy, and lightness. At that moment, rhythm and movement were cast aside, and she simply danced with her most natural and elegant posture, bringing her an indescribable delight and excitement.

  At last, in the most joyful moment, she felt as if she had left the earth and entered the universe. The sparkling stars around her accompanied her to play and dance together, making her no longer feel lonely, full of joy.

  As the last note faded away, Ye Siyue still hadn't opened her eyes, she was still immersed in that joyful feeling, reluctant to leave.

  At this time, Chen Chufan was completely awake. When he finished playing a song, he found himself sitting next to the piano in the school music room.

  Chen Chufan had taken music appreciation in his freshman year, so he had been to this classroom before. But he couldn't remember at all how he walked in and sat down by the piano this time. He vaguely remembered that he seemed to have just played a piece of music. But he had never learned how to play the piano? Was he dreaming during the day? Could he sleepwalk? And could he even play the piano while sleepwalking?

  Chen Chufan didn't know that because he had just been injected with alien music genes, they hadn't fully digested yet. So when the music genes in his body sensed a melody strong enough to attract them, they would involuntarily take control of Chen Chufan's brain and use his body to fulfill their desires. And after they achieved their goals, they would voluntarily relinquish control over Chen Chufan's brain and quietly wait for their host to fully assimilate them.

  And when they occupy the host's brain to complete the appeal process, it is dominated by musical thinking, while Chen Chufan's own thinking is just an onlooker. So when the music gene exits the control of the host's brain, the host will produce a feeling like a dream, that is, there will be some impressions in the hidden, but they dare not confirm whether everything that happened is true or not.

  Of course, this problem will be solved as the music gene continues to merge into Chen Chufan's body and become one with him. Only then can Chen Chufan truly inherit all of the alien's musical legacy and create and perform music under his own conscious control.

  Actually, the benefits that Chen Chufan obtained from the alien civilization's music gene were far more than that. The music gene was constantly improving Chen Chufan's physical constitution, which in turn served the music better. For example, in a grand musical performance of the alien civilization, performers often needed to play for several hours non-stop, how could they persist without sufficient physical strength? Moreover, some large wind instruments required a huge lung capacity to produce sound, let alone rhythm, and the demand on lung capacity was extremely high. What's more worth mentioning is the alien's unique big drum. The drumstick alone weighed dozens of kilograms, and the musician using it needed hundreds of kilograms of force in both arms just to lift it up, not to mention striking a sound. So, the music gene invented by the aliens not only brought musical heritage to intelligent life but also constantly transformed the host's physical constitution. Otherwise, how could they continue to pass on their musical heritage? Of course, Chen Chufan didn't know any of these things at present.

  So at this time Chen Chufan, who had completely woken up, looked bewildered and helpless. He hadn't even noticed that there was a beautiful woman beside him, lost in thought with her eyes closed.

  So when Ye Siyue slowly opened her eyes, what she saw was not a sacred-looking piano master sitting beside the piano ready to teach her, but a silly-looking young man sitting beside the piano, at a loss for what to do.

  Ye Siyi stared blankly at Chen Chufan, who was also lost in thought. Although immersed in the beautiful piano melody, she could still distinguish that Richard Clayderman's "Starry Sky" had been modified by the stranger in front of her in more than one place. However, each modification blended perfectly into the original atmosphere, making the entire piano piece even more perfect. Not to mention the man's playing skills and techniques, which were absolutely on par with Clayderman himself, or even surpassed him, at least that was what she thought at the moment.

  When did the school have someone with such a deep understanding of music? And I didn't even know myself?

  "Classmate, what's your name? Are you from our music department?"

  "Ah?" Chen Chufan only then realized that there was actually another person beside him.

  He turned around in a daze and found that it was actually the school flower of the music department. He felt even more at a loss.

  Ye Siying didn't know Chen Chufan, but Chen Chufan had seen Ye Siying before, thanks to his brother Yang Tao. From the school flower of North China University to the departmental flowers of each department, Yang Tao knew them all by name. Walking with him on campus, as long as he met a real beauty, he could accurately tell you her name, college and department, and if she was an extreme beauty, Yang Tao could even accurately report which dormitory building, floor and room number she lived in.

  The girl in front of him was Ye Siying, the school-level beauty queen, an extremely beautiful woman. At that time, to describe the beauty of the girl in front of him, Yang Tao used no less than 20 adjectives, and Chen Chufan still didn't quite believe it. Yang Tao specially took Chen Chufan to the building where Ye Siying's dormitory was located on a certain day after class, and waited for her to return to the dormitory, just so that Chen Chufan could take a look.

  So Chen Chufan could recognize Ye Siyi at a glance.

  "Ah! Ye classmate, I didn't intentionally barge into the music classroom, and I don't know what came over me earlier? I was possessed by a ghost!" Chen Chufan almost cried. He had just received a disciplinary action from Old Xiao, how did he suddenly end up in someone else's music department classroom again? What was wrong with him lately? Could it be that he was really possessed by a ghost?! The beauty in front of him shouldn't think that he came to cause trouble on purpose, right? He lowered his head and saw that the originally spotless piano keys had been stained with many black fingerprints due to his touch. Chen Chufan became even more anxious! If this piano were to be damaged by his careless playing, he wouldn't be able to afford it!

  Chen Chufan hastily stood up and said incoherently: "Ye classmate, I really didn't mean to run in, please believe me, do you want to use the piano? I won't disturb your practice, I'll leave!"

  Chen Chufan finished speaking incoherently and turned around to run out of the music classroom quickly.

  Ye Siying stared blankly at the boy performing in front of her, until Chen Chufan turned around and ran out of the music classroom, she still hadn't fully come back to herself!

  The contrast is too big! Before entering the door, he looked down on him and scolded himself with a clear expression. As a result, after playing a song to prove his strength and shocking himself, when he wanted to get to know him, he was flustered and didn't dare to face himself. What's wrong with this man? No wonder Ye Siyuan can't turn her head around, anyone would be confused by Chen Chufan's contrasting behavior before and after.

  Deng Yexi finally came back to her senses and ran out of the music room, wanting to chase after Chen Chufan, but Chen Chufan had already run so far away that even his shadow couldn't be seen.

  Ye Siying walked back to the piano with a troubled expression, "What a strange person!" Ye Siying muttered softly. Sitting back at the piano, Ye Siying no longer had the interest to continue practicing. She gazed listlessly at the white piano keys, which still had some stains left from the man's playing earlier, and said fiercely to herself: "I will definitely find you!"