For someone who really makes music, it doesn't take much, just being in this circle for a year or even playing in an underground band is enough. You'll know that the sense of achievement you find in ordinary people's eyes, such as "Wow, you can actually write songs!", "You're so amazing!", "You're so cool!", "You're a music genius!" and so on, will be easily crushed by the cruel reality of this circle!

  There are lyrics and melody, that's a complete song, no doubt about it.

  But having lyrics and melody doesn't necessarily mean it's a good song!

  There are lyrics and melody, and even if we assume it's a good song, it can definitely be made into a record... that's even more uncertain!

  In the music circle, there are indeed "music geniuses" who carry dozens of their blood-and-sweat masterpieces in their bosoms and peddle them everywhere.

  Formed their own band, ran various venues, and dreamed every day that one day they would be discovered by a big shot in the music circle and become famous overnight with "music is my lover" ... there are also those!

  Li Qian from the previous life was one of them!

  But Qijie Ke is not one of them!

  Like every ordinary person of the same age, she listened to children's songs and sang children's songs when she was young. As she grew up, she listened to love songs and sang love songs. Now, she works from 9 to 5 every day, earning a decent salary. In her free time, she listens to her favorite songs, watches her favorite TV dramas, and occasionally finds something new to watch. Although life is dull, it's still enjoyable. She has some dreams, but she quickly dismisses them herself, thinking that they are impossible to achieve. As a result, the only thing left for her future seems to be waiting to get married. Even after getting married, she will still enjoy listening to songs and singing.

  However, she can't read sheet music, she doesn't play any musical instruments. Occasionally, she'll sing a tune at KTV and maybe get some praise, but if a professional were to listen, they could find at least ten or twenty off-key places in just one song...

  She never thought she'd have anything to do with music in this lifetime!

  Oh, right, compared to other outsiders, she's a bit stronger because she has a good sister who is also in the music circle, so at least she already knows what an underground song is.

  But... she is an utter amateur.

  What is the first thought of an outsider towards music workers?

  Curious!

  In my impression, people who make music seem to all like having long hair, right? So why do you have short hair?

  You guys who make music, especially need inspiration, right? How do you usually write songs?

  Are you guys making a lot of money from music? Those singers' cars are so expensive!

  Do you play piano or guitar every day?

  Do you know so-and-so? Wow, it's really great, I love listening to his songs...

  And so on.

  However, an outsider, and one who quite likes listening to songs, with a slight innate love for music, when she suddenly discovers that there is actually someone "lurking" around her who makes music, writes songs and sings, what would be her first thought?

  Wow!

  Wow, you?

  You can even write songs?

  …………

  This is what Zijie has in mind now.

  "So, she asked: 'The song... you wrote yourself?'"

  With a look of shock and astonishment on his face.

  Li Qian nodded, as if he was talking about something extremely ordinary, "Yes, I wrote it myself."

  "Really? You can write songs?" Qijie asked incredulously again.

  Li Qian smiled and said, "I know a little, just scribbled randomly."

  Qijie took a deep breath, turned her head and gazed into the distance for a moment, before slowly coming back to herself.

  Then, she turned around and stared at Li Qian with a gaze as if sizing up a strange creature, her eyes tightly fixed on him, as if wanting to take a good look at whether this Li Qian was the same one she knew.

  Obviously.

  She shook her head, her face unable to decide whether it was a smile or surprise, anyway it was a slightly twisted expression, shaking her head and saying: "This is really... unexpected. I didn't expect, really didn't expect that you can actually write songs!"

  Then she quickly said, "Sorry, Li Qian classmate, the teacher is not suspicious of you, the teacher just thinks... feels... very happy! That's right, very happy! You understand? You can actually write songs, my student can actually write songs! Ha, this feeling is really... surprising!"

  Li Qian smiled and replied, "Thanks. Actually... it's just for fun, I'm just writing for my own amusement!"

  Qijie's smile didn't diminish on her face, and she praised without hesitation: "That's not bad either, writing for fun is still writing, and...and the song you sang just now, didn't you say it was your own work? The teacher thinks that song is quite good! Look, the melody is nice to listen to, the lyrics are also great...all very good! Li Qian, you're really not simple!"

  Li Qian was really embarrassed by such pure praise and could only smile in response.

  At this time, Qi Jie was still staring at Li Qian with a surprised face.

  It's like watching some kind of extremely rare national protected animal!

  If the two of them were talking, it would be better, but just standing there being sized up inch by inch wasn't a comfortable thing, so Li Qian soon looked a bit embarrassed. He glanced around and pointed to a nearby stone pedestal, saying: "Teacher Qi, do you want to... sit for a while?"

  "Huh? Oh...... thanks, no need to, teacher still has something later...", she subconsciously replied halfway, Qijie made another "uh" sound, smiled and said: "It's okay, hehe, teacher is just more curious about you writing songs!"

  She sat down on a stone bench beside him.

  Yeah, the stone pedestal was a bit hot, and sitting down like this, half of her body was exposed to the sun, which was obviously not very comfortable. But at this moment, she just slightly turned her head to glance at the position of the sun, then turned back again, and seriously looked at Li Qian once more.

  No choice, as she said herself, she was just too curious!

  Who is Li Qian?

  That's the student she has been in charge of since her freshman year!

  It's been two years, she has taught him hundreds of lessons and corrected dozens of his compositions! Although apart from school and class, she doesn't have much understanding of him in other aspects, but after interacting with each other for two years as teacher and student, they basically understand each other.

  In my impression, his entrance exam scores were quite good, but later it seemed that puberty had arrived, and boys will be boys, he started to become a bit playful, and his studies relaxed a bit, so his grades kept falling. He was once the most impressive counterexample in the two classes she taught, until recently, yes, it was during the last monthly exam, after going through her own education in the office, he seemed to have woken up a bit, and only then did he start to show some signs of hitting rock bottom and bouncing back.

  This student, how to say it, hmm, is a bit mischievous, loves to play, has a very smooth tongue, and sometimes can be quite sarcastic. However, his personality is a bit lazy, belonging to the type that will drag things out if possible and won't take action unless necessary.

  That's right, I remember he should be quite fond of playing basketball, tall and big, long legs, broad shoulders, slender waist, belongs to the kind with particularly explosive power, one jump up and no one can touch the ball in his hand. The school's two sports meetings, the fifth class basketball seems to have achieved a good ranking, he is the main force!

  He also has a girlfriend who is a model student and his own student, named Wang Jinglu.

  Oh, right! Most importantly, his composition is written very well!

  His father, Li Shuwen, is also a Chinese teacher!

  Huh...... It's just like a jigsaw puzzle, and now it's finally complete!

  Yes, he writes well!

  Good writing skills and good penmanship are required to write such great lyrics!

  That's perfect!

  But... I don't think he's ever been known to like singing? Every New Year's Day, the class and school would organize a cultural performance, but it seems like he never sang on stage?

  …………

  A flurry of impressions about Li Qian flashed through her mind, and Qi Jie couldn't help but turn her head again to stare at Li Qian, seeing that he seemed to be blushing from being looked at so intensely. She couldn't help but smile, thinking about the songs she had secretly listened to in the corridor earlier. Her curiosity was piqued, and she asked: "Uh... do you have any other works? The song you sang for the teacher just now sounded great, I think your other works must be good too! Why don't you sing another one for the teacher?"

  Except in cases where he didn't know, once face to face and knowing that they were sung for others to hear, Li Qian's protective consciousness of those songs in his mind suddenly popped out.

  Although Li Qian didn't experience the frustration of having his songs stolen in his previous life, he had heard about it after being in the circle for a long time. So from the beginning, he knew that if he wanted to make those treasures in his mind truly shine, protecting them from being stolen prematurely was an extremely important matter that couldn't be overstated.

  After all, the saying "human heart is treacherous" is absolutely true in any time and space!

  So, let him sing to his parents, he has no worries at all, think about how to sing and what song to sing, sing to Wang Jinglu... um, basically won't worry about anything, at least now he can be sure that Wang Jinglu will absolutely not do anything harmful to himself.

  But... Teacher Qi Jie...

  He hesitated for a moment, then looked up at Qijie.

  Obviously, as an outsider, Miracle wasn't clear what Li Qian was worried about at this moment. She still looked at Li Qian with a hopeful and encouraging expression. Seeing Li Qian look over, seemingly hesitant, she thought he was just shy, so she smiled and encouraged him, saying: "Come on, sing one! The teacher really likes your songs!"

  It's okay... Even if I sang it for her, she probably wouldn't remember the tune anyway.

  Then Li Qian smiled and said: "Well... Teacher Qi, if I sing badly, don't laugh at me."

  Qijie waved her hand, "How could that be! With a music genius like you in the class, how would the teacher mock you? I haven't even had time to praise you yet! Come on, sing one!"

  Li Qian thought for a moment, hugged his guitar, cleared his throat, smiled brightly at Zhi Jie, and began strumming the strings. He started singing: "Because I dreamed of you leaving, I woke up from my tears..."

  As soon as he opened his mouth, Qijie's eyes lit up in front of him.

  As expected!

  No wonder I felt that this song was so unfamiliar at the time, and yesterday evening I couldn't find any information about it online either. It turns out that it's actually a song he wrote himself!

  Then her eyes sparkled, from head to toe almost without blinking, staring at Li Qian until he finished singing the whole song - this song wasn't heard for the first time, but... it still sounds so good!

  Li Qian closed his eyes, his body swaying gently to the rhythm of the street snap, following the beat of his jumping fingers, following the opening of his lips, that moving music, that moving singing voice, just echoed on this rooftop.

  Qijie looked at him, and unknowingly became a little distracted.