Chapter Twenty-Four: Singing Badly and Playing Badly

  Although Tang Menglong agreed, Li Chengguo felt a bit more at ease. As for introducing a girl to someone they had just met less than an hour ago, wasn't that a bit unsafe?

  For someone who can take out 300 million won to buy a ceramic flute and has previously played it briefly, Lee Sung-kuk felt no need to suspect the other person at all, and the two of them chatted quite well, so he happened to hear such an interesting thing, that's why he had the idea.

  Li Chengguo sat down on one side and dialed the other party's phone number. After a while, a soft female voice came over.

  "Hello! Is there anything I can help you with, Uncle Cheng?"

  Li Chengguo said with some pride: "Zhi En, you'd better come here quickly, today is a great day for you!"

  "What? What's good?"

  "How was the performance of the popular song and dance, is it a good thing?"

  Tang Menglong, who was standing beside him, stared at the guy with a black line on his head. Previously, he had doubted whether he could participate in the popular song contest, but now he was actually showing off in front of the girl, and it really... suited his taste.

  "Hurry up and come over, don't forget to bring your beloved guitar!"

  Li Chengguo hung up the phone, and his arrogant expression instantly disappeared. He then asked with some trepidation: "Meng Long, ask you again, can you really go on that show?"

  Tang Menglong really wanted to spit a mouthful of tea at him, where did that arrogant look from just now go?

  "Don't worry, it's all right!" Tang Menglong replied helplessly.

  …………

  After about half an hour, the door of the music store was pushed open, and then a girl with a guitar bag on her back rushed in panting.

  The girl was wearing a light-colored plaid shirt, with 7/8 length jeans on the bottom and white canvas shoes on her feet, appearing in Tang Menglong's line of sight.

  She indeed looks pretty good, just like Li Chengguo said. She has shoulder-length black hair, with a slightly slanted fringe that reveals a bit of her forehead, and her cheeks are plump, looking quite cute.

  Looking at this completely bare-faced young girl, Tang Menglong nodded his head in satisfaction. If someone didn't know better, they would think she was here for a blind date.

  "Zhi En, come quickly! Uncle will introduce you to this guy. He's my friend, Tang Meng Long. It was he who asked for my help, so I thought of you!" At this moment, Li Cheng Guo transformed into his usual boastful self, shamelessly saying that Tang Meng Long had sought him out.

  Tang Menglong rolled his eyes and really wanted to give this guy two big slaps, he couldn't believe that this guy was even more shameless than himself.

  However, Tang Menglong also stood up at this moment, looked at the little girl who was sweating profusely and stretched out his right hand, revealing a smile that he thought was extremely gentle: "Hello, my name is Tang Menglong, nice to meet you!"

  The little girl, upon hearing that he was a friend of Chengguo's uncle, hastily bowed and then stretched out her hand to shake his, saying: "Uncle, hello! My name is Li Zhi'en. I'm a trainee under LOEertai and have been practicing guitar for two years already!"

  Uncle...... Uncle...... It's uncle again!!!!!!!

  "Do I really look that old?"

  In an instant, Tang Menglong felt as if the entire world had collapsed. If it were Rensheng's sister and those two little ghosts calling him "uncle", he could barely accept it, but this little girl who had just met him for the first time also called him "uncle". Tang Menglong suddenly wondered if he really looked too old?

  Actually, Tang Menglong didn't know that this girl named Li Zhi'en just thought that since this handsome brother is a friend of Cheng Guo Shu, he should be quite old, and in Korea, it's generally only people born in the same year who become friends. For someone like Li Chengguo and Tang Menglong, it's very rare.

  So Li Zhen thought for a moment and decided on this title, of course she didn't know how much impact this title would bring to Tang Menglong.

  "Sit down first and listen to Zhi En's playing! It will definitely satisfy you!" At this time, Li Chengguo spoke up, and the two sat down again.

  Then Li Chengguo explained to Li Zhi'en about Tang Menglong's identity and the rumors.

  Li Zhen stared at Tang Menglong with wide eyes in disbelief, then looked at Li Chengguo. At this moment, Tang Menglong was still somewhat dispirited and dazed, while Li Chengguo thought that Zhen was excited to the point of losing his voice.

  But in fact, Lee Ji-eun's inner thoughts were: "What the heck, Sung Deok-oppa is really something, hastily calling me over when it wasn't even confirmed yet!"

  The greater the expectation, the greater the disappointment. Li Chengguo said it so definitely on the phone, although it was just playing guitar accompaniment, but if he could really go on stage, Li Zhi'en would still be very willing, but now there's a feeling of being deceived.

  With that in mind, Lee Ji-eun started singing and playing under the urging of Lee Sung-kuk, a song she liked and had been practicing recently.

  “Loving.you

  Is.easy.‘Cause.you‘re.beautiful

  Making.love.with.you……”

  Bang!

  "It's done!"

  When Li Zhen was singing, Tong Menglong also came back to his senses, although he was a bit traumatized, but things still had to be done.

  But just as Li Zhi'en had sung only three sentences, Tang Menglong suddenly slapped the wooden table and loudly interrupted Li Zhi'en who was playing and singing.

  Li Zhen and Li Chengguo were startled, the two of them looked at Tang Menglong as if he had changed into a different person, they became somewhat awkward, because at this moment Tang Menglong's appearance seemed a bit serious, as if he was angry or something, could it be because of that "uncle" remark?

  "Meng Long, what's wrong?" Li Chengguo asked cautiously.

  Tang Menglong didn't respond to him, instead he furrowed his brow and looked at the girl named Li Zhi'en, asking: "You just started learning this song, right?"

  Li Zhi'en also didn't know what was wrong with this uncle and nodded slightly in fear.

  "So, as I said, you played terribly and sang even worse. You were completely perfunctory with me, without any sincerity at all. If you weren't interested in the first place, you could have just refused. Was it necessary to come here and waste my time?"

  Li Zhen was startled, she had no idea that this seemingly young uncle could see through her thoughts with just two or three sentences.

  And was criticized for lacking sincerity, and even worse, being told that he sang terribly and played terribly, which was more harsh than the criticism from those teachers in the company. Li Zhen's eyes immediately turned red, and then he lowered his head in shame, saying "Sorry, I just...I just..."