"Good morning, ixiu!" Yu Rou greeted when she opened the door.
"Good morning, Yu Rou." ixiu returned the greeting.
"Please, co inside."
Once Yu Rou entered their apartnt, she imdiately noticed ifeng and Wang Xiuying sitting in the living room.
"Eh? Miss ifeng? Wang Xiuying? What are you two doing here so early in the morning?" Yu Rou asked them with a surprised look on her face.
"I’m on vacation, so I figured I should visit the Young Master," ifeng said with a calm look on her face.
"I am here to check up on Yu Tian’s condition," said Wang Xiuying.
Although she wasn’t sure why, Yu Rou felt that sothing was amiss from the atmosphere in the place.
"I see... Where’s my brother? I’d like to see him before I talk... though I’m sure you can already guess why I am here."
"The Young Master is currently in his room," ifeng said.
Yu Rou nodded and approached his room, but then she noticed the beautiful piano sitting at the corner of the room and stopped to look at it.
"Wow! What is this premium piano doing here? It wasn’t here when I last ca here."
As a piano player herself, Yu Rou could instantly tell that the piano was a valuable one.
"That piano is mine... At least it was until I gave it to Yu Tian," said Wang Xiuying.
"Eh? It’s yours? But why?" Yu Rou asked.
"I have no use for it anymore, and I’d rather give it to my idol than sell it."
Yu Rou found it strange that she would give it to Yuan when he can’t even use it, and in her eyes, it was quite disrespectful to give an instrunt to Yuan while knowing his background and condition. It was almost like giving a blind man a book that he cannot read.
Though Yu Rou didn’t think too much of it for now.
"Brother, it’s Yu Rou. I am here to visit you," she said to him after knocking on the doors.
"Co inside," Yuan said.
Yu Rou then entered the room and sat beside the bed.
"Even though we have been playing together in Cultivation Online for a while, it still feels like forever since I last saw you..." Yu Rou gently caressed his silky black hair to the side so she could get a good look at his handso face.
"I’m sorry, brother..."
"Why are you suddenly apologizing?" Yuan asked her.
"Because of the Yu Family, both you and ixiu have been experiencing unpleasant situations. I wish I could help, but I am powerless within the family..."
"There’s no need for you to apologize, Yu Rou. If anything, it should be the ones responsible that need to apologize. This ans the Chairman of the Cultivators’ Association and our parents."
"..."
After a mont of silence, Yu Rou spoke, "Brother, I am thinking about leaving the family and joining a faction."
"Huh? W-Why would you do that?" Yuan was taken by surprise by her sudden reveal.
"Now that cultivation is widespread and the new trend, I want to take advantage of it, especially since I am currently ahead of many people. If I remain in the Yu Family, I will forever remain powerless. However, if I leave, I will at least have a chance to beco an influential person without the help of my family."
"It’s not going to be easy, but I hope to beco stronger than the Yu Family."
Yuan was speechless after listening to Yu Rou’s plans.
However, he didn’t imdiately dismiss it, and he asked, "Where will you go?"
"I don’t know right now, but I can tell you where I won’t go— the Cultivators’ Association! They’re just a bunch of bullies, and I refuse to lend them my assistance. I already have a Heaven-grade cultivation technique thanks to my family, so I don’t really care where I go as long as they’re good people with enough influence to not be bullied by the Yu Family."
"I see... When you decide, let know, okay?"
"Of course!"
"Anyways, I am here today because my parents wanted to convince ixiu to return to the family so that they could hand her over to the Cultivators’ Association. I agreed since it ant that I would get to see you and ixiu again, but I won’t be doing any convincing."
"I’m sorry to get you wrapped up in this ss as well... But don’t worry, I will handle everything soon."
"You will? What are you going to do?" Yu Rou couldn’t help but ask.
"It’s a secret for now," he said with a mysterious smile.
"I hope it’s not anything dangerous..." Yu Rou said with a worried frown.
"It won’t be." Yuan chuckled.
Soti later, Yuan said, "Yu Rou, you saw the piano, right? Why don’t you let ixiu play you a song?"
"Eh? ixiu knows how to play the piano? Since when?"
"She’s been practicing lately, you see."
"If you say so..."
Yu Rou then went back outside and said, "ixiu, my brother said you’ll play a song for ?"
ixiu nodded, "But you’ll have to wear this."
Yu Rou looked at the object in ixiu’s hand; it was a blindfold.
"Why do I have to be blindfolded? I won’t be able to see your performance that way."
"I want you to judge it using your ears, not eyes," ixiu then said.
"I guess so..."
Once Yu Rou took a seat on the couch, ixiu blindfolded her.
A few monts later, Yu Rou could hear the piano being played.
’Wow... ixiu is really good with the piano... How long has she been practicing to reach this level?’ Yu Rou wasn’t suspicious at first, but once she listened a little longer, she noticed sothing was off, and the feeling she got earlier grew more obvious.
’T-This can’t be ixiu playing the piano... It’s too good! Even I cannot play this perfectly with many years of practice! Unless ixiu has talents similar to my brother, there’s no way she learned the piano and reached this level in such a short amount of ti!’
Although she didn’t want to discredit ixiu or her talents, it was simply too hard to believe. It hasn’t been long since ixiu left the Yu Family, and even if she started playing the day she left, it wasn’t realistic for ixiu to reach this level of performance in such a short ti unless she was Yuan himself!
’Maybe this is Miss ifeng playing the piano and they wanted to play a trick on ...’
Yu Rou began having this thought.
Midway through the song, soone suddenly removed her blindfold, causing it to fall onto her lap.
"Hmm?"
Yu Rou subconsciously opened her eyes when she felt the blindfold fall off, and to her absolute shock, it wasn’t ixiu sitting in front of the piano, nor was it ifeng like she’d thought.
It was actually Yuan sitting before the piano! And he was playing with elegance and grace!
"B-Brother...?" Yu Rou stood up from the shock, and she stared at Yuan’s moving figure with a look of disbelief on her face.
However, she didn’t say anything else and silently watched Yuan play the piano with a seemingly healthy and normal body, feeling as though she was in a dream.
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