Yes, he wouldn’t mistake it! This piece is the one he heard ten years ago!
"Tang Huang’s Memories," originally drawn from a long opera by Mozart. Tang Huang, a famous playboy in Western history, was a noble filled with enticing charm yet shameless. In the story, countless victories and conquests in love numbed Tang Huang, causing him to lose the sense of love. In the end, Tang Huang ended up falling into hell, yet he remained unrepentant until death.
Later, Liszt adapted "Tang Huang’s Memories" from Mozart into a short piece, but it became synonymous with ultra-high difficulty! Those who could perform "Tang Huang’s Memories" flawlessly were basically considered geniuses in the piano world!
However, for Yu Zexiao, what "Tang Huang’s Memories" held was not the ultra-high technical difficulty, but rather—what drove him to choose the path of music, and that girl!
He never told anyone that he once had a deep crush on that girl!
When he was most perplexed and at a loss, at the crossroads between the path his father chose for him and the musical path he himself loved, at eighteen, he was completely unsure of how to choose!
It was that girl, her music, that seemed to give him a light! It was she, with the most pure, most stirring, and most fundamental music, that shook his soul, allowing him to honestly face himself, to face the choices within his heart!
"Tang Huang’s Memories," with its intricate techniques, requires extremely quick hand movements across almost the entire piano keyboard. One large section includes the right hand playing chromatic scale runs in minor thirds with dotted accompaniment in the left hand, plus octaves and thirds in the highest register—a true emblem of the highest skill! The issue was, the girl’s performance never caused anyone discomfort, but instead, repeatedly reverberated, washed over, and shook his heart!
Tang Huang’s hesitation seemed like his hesitation. Tang Huang’s choices seemed like his choices. Would he, like Tang Huang, follow in the glory of his father and ancestors, walking the frivolous path, or strike out on his own, willing to endure hardships, to continue on his musical path?
The girl ten years ago, with a piece of "Tang Huang’s Memories," seemed to let him see clearly the true cry of his heart! He didn’t want to repeat his father’s path, didn’t want to sink into a soulless existence!
He liked that girl, not just because of her ultra-high musical skills, but precisely because, at his most difficult decision point, she used a piece to open the window to his soul! He knew in his heart that he did not possess the pure, natural, and shocking music she did! He aspired to the girl, regarded her as a monument on his path, looking up to her with admiration! In the years that followed, he worked hard to study music, only hoping to get a little closer, even closer to that pure music, that pure soul! Even, facing the girl’s pure music, he felt ashamed! No matter how hard he tried, he knew that his music would never reach her peak!
What he totally didn’t expect was, at this moment, Nie Anni was playing that piece which haunted his dreams—"Tang Huang’s Memories"!