Chapter Fifty-One: Piano Duet

  I held the cookies that Ye Zi made for me and was about to send them to Ouyang Luo, I didn't know if he would like them or not. I thought it was unnecessary, they were so delicious, who wouldn't like them?! I tossed the package of cookies into the air and caught it again with my hand. I smiled smugly.

  I arrived at Ouyang Luo's door and knocked for a long time, but found that he was not in the room, so I looked around.

  No room, no balcony, no living room, and no garden. Has he gone out? I sat down under a big tree in the garden, feeling a bit lost, swinging on the swing, thinking that I'd better wait for him to come back before thanking him. I looked at the cookies in my hand and stood up to leave.

  Just as I was about to enter the house, a familiar melody drifted over, it was that song "Maple", who was in the piano room? Yezi? I curiously walked over.

  The door was slightly ajar, I carefully pushed it open and walked in. To my surprise, the person turned out to be Ouyang Luo. He had his back to the door and was playing with great enthusiasm, completely unaware of someone behind him.

  Ouyang Luo was wearing a white shirt, and his face couldn't be seen, only his back could be seen. I remembered when I was young, my piano teacher would come to our home for lessons, Yezi was always very serious, so she played the piano very well, but I didn't want to learn and just wanted to play, now I can only play a few short songs. I also remember that Ouyang Luo didn't practice much at that time, he liked sleeping more. I thought he was worse than me, but now hearing him play is hundreds of times better than me. I really doubt his IQ.

  I stood behind him all along, listening to him play that song "Maple", and when he played **, I couldn't help but hum along:

  Gently falling maple leaves like nostalgia

  I light up candles to warm the autumn at the end of the year

  Aurora sweeps across the sky

  The north wind sweeps across thinking of your face

  I turned love into fallen leaves

  But can't exchange back for that familiar face

  Gently falling maple leaves like nostalgia

  Why recovery must be done before winter comes

  Love you across time

  Two lines of tears from the end of autumn

  Let love permeate the earth

  All I need is you by my side

  I hummed along with the piano sound, and suddenly the piano sound stopped abruptly. I came back to my senses and found that Ouyang Luo was looking at me. I smiled awkwardly and said: "Hehe, I didn't know you played the piano so beautifully!" As I spoke, I walked over and sat down beside him.

  "Anything wrong?"

  "Uh-huh." I nodded and handed him the package of cookies, "Here you go."

  "Huh?" Ouyang Luo looked at me with a puzzled expression, but didn't take the cookie.

  "Because I wanted to thank you, Yezhi and I made up, it's the story you told. Wei'er said making cookies is more sincere, so..."

  "I don't want it!" Ouyang said coldly. Honestly, someone worked hard to do something and wanted to thank him, but he wouldn't accept it, what a devil!

  "Why? This is delicious."

  "Did you just say that doing it personally is the most sincere?"

  What does he mean? Did he find out that I didn't do it? Impossible! He hasn't eaten anything, and he only looked at the packaging. Did Yezi tell him? No way!

  "It's what Ye Zi did, not you!" Ouyang Luo said calmly as he looked at me.

  I was utterly astonished. "How... did you know?" It was already strange that he knew it wasn't me who did it, and yet he even knew it was Yezi who did it.

  "......" Ou Yang Luo didn't say a word, he just smiled faintly.

  "It's because I got scalded that Ye Zi helped me with it, otherwise you wouldn't want me if I were all charred!"

  "Are you burned? Let me see!" Ouyang Luo said, grabbing my right hand and examining it carefully. He furrowed his brow, "You're really an idiot!"

  He actually said I'm an idiot, I just accidentally scalded my hand, do you have to say I'm an idiot? I pulled my hand back from his, "It's okay now, Hee-ah has already applied medicine for me. And besides, I just accidentally got burned, you don't have to call me an idiot, right?" I pouted and looked down at the black and white keys on the piano.

  Out of the corner of my eye, I saw Ouyang Lu suddenly smile. He took the cookie from my hand: "Ouyang Yue, this isn't something you're good at."

  "What's wrong, looking down on people? 'You... I will definitely make better-tasting cookies than this.' After finishing speaking, I stood up and prepared to leave, but my hand was held back by Ouyang Luo. I looked at him in confusion, 'Wha... what's going on?'"

  "What's your sincerity?"

  "Sincerity? I gave you cookies and you didn't even want them!"

  "Then play a song!"

  Was he doing it on purpose? He clearly knew that my fingers were scalded, yet he still wanted me to play the piano. "I won't... eh?"

  I was just about to say I didn't want to play, when Ouyang Luo raised his right hand in front of me and waved it back and forth. Did he mean to play with me? Well, that's okay too, since I only scalded one hand, the other can still play.

  Ouyang Luo didn't say anything else, his hands tapped on the piano keys, I sat down beside him again, stretched out my left hand and started playing along with his rhythm. Because I liked this song so much, it was one of the few that I could play really well.

  The two of us worked well together and it wasn't as bad as I had imagined. When we got to the back, Ou Yang and I spontaneously started singing:

  Gently falling maple leaves like nostalgia

  I light up candles to warm the autumn at the end of the year

  Aurora sweeps across the horizon

  The north wind sweeps across thinking of your face

  I turned love into fallen leaves

  But can't exchange back for that familiar face

  Gently falling maple leaves like nostalgia

  Why recovery must be done before winter comes

  Love you across time

  Two lines of tears from the end of autumn

  Let love permeate the earth

  All I need is you by my side

  I had never heard Ouyang Luo sing before and didn't know he could sound so good, which makes me feel that singing with him is redundant.

  I don't know if I was in a trance or just too into it, but the two of us kept playing one round after another, getting more and more in sync...