Jian Anning’s passion for music, for the piano, was no less than Yu Zexiao’s. However, her passion had killed her father!
She had made an oath never to touch the piano again as long as she lived—and now, even though sometimes she would dream about it at night and her fingers would keep playing uncontrollably, she dared not touch the piano again!
At this moment, the person being questioned by Director Li was stuck. He too had learned piano many years ago but had not touched it in a long time. If he played calmly, perhaps he could stammer through it.
To suddenly give him a score to play without any practice—however, this time the filming schedule was so tight, there was simply no chance to let him practice many times.
And even if there were time for him to practice, what if he made mistakes once he was on stage?
For a moment, the room fell silent. The others, who also knew a little piano but weren’t experts, slowly shrank back.
Even if someone had decent piano skills, they didn’t dare volunteer now—for fear that just a slight mistake would make Director Li angry, and instead, he might scold them, right?
"If it doesn’t work out... we can only dub the piano in post-production," the assistant director finally suggested after a long pause.
Though the piano sound was very important, the show could go on without it. However, this final song was originally planned as an acapella performance. Without any accompaniment except for the piano, it showcased the ethereal beauty of Yu Zexiao’s voice.
But without the piano, just his voice, it would be quite challenging.
Director Li glanced at Yu Zexiao, who remained indifferent. As a singer by trade, he had no preference for either noisy rock or transcendental acapella performances: "Let’s just go with that."
"Alright Zexiao, this is the time to rely on your strength. You’ll just have to sing acapella live, and we’ll synthesize the accompaniment in post-production," Director Li hesitated for a moment but finally made up his mind. The group walked out, and no one noticed that a small car was bringing in a woman dressed in black.
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Just as the woman saw someone moving the piano off the stage, she furrowed her brow, her expression quite puzzled: "What’s going on here?"
Maybe because the Starlight Entertainment staff that accompanied her gave off the impression that she was a senior executive, the on-site stage assistant answered patiently, "Oh, a pianist was originally scheduled, but they had an accidental fall and couldn’t perform. There’s no point in keeping the piano here, so we moved it away."
"What, no one can play the piano?" the woman asked curiously.
"It’s not that. It’s just that our director is very demanding." Actually, it wasn’t that—the piano piece was composed by Yu Zexiao himself and naturally, it was much more intricate than ordinary pop music chords.
"I see." The woman didn’t say much else but, surprisingly, she went onto the stage.
"Hey, what are you doing?" The staff member was startled seeing her stepping onto the stage.
Just as he was about to pull her down, several people accompanying her from Starlight Entertainment just smiled and said, "Don’t worry, it’s fine."
Just then, Director Li and Yu Zexiao’s group happened to walk out from backstage, and they saw someone sitting down at the piano, casually playing a few notes—tuning it.