Chapter 17: Awakened from the dream
Xu Shen was the finale performer. As the host announced "Zhuang Zhou's Dream of Butterflies", the prelude started.
The entire holographic projection stage turned into a Chinese style of ink painting.
Xu Shen plays the guqin and wears the ancient costume with pictures of mountains on his body, which gives him the feeling of being relegated to an immortal while waving seven strings in his hand.
In the audience, Lin Rao looked at the man infatuatedly, intoxicated by his singing.
Hua Yu is always holding on to a string that is about to break. When will Xu Shen fly up?
"Who is she? Why is she wearing my clothes?" Lin Rao suddenly said, stood up and sat down again at an inappropriate time.
On the stage, or in the air to be precise, there was a woman wearing a butterfly mask sitting on a swing made of flowers and vines.
Xu Shen recognized it at a glance. This was Hua Sheng.
He didn't know that Hua Sheng would appear. She was here to save the situation. She was supposed to sing the words that Lin Rao was supposed to sing, but she didn't even speak when the time came.
Years of stage experience allowed Xu Shen to deal with the past calmly, and even by temporarily deleting and adding lyrics, no one would notice any mistakes in his performance.
When the song reached the interlude, Hua Sheng came down from the swing and danced gracefully to the melody of Xu Shen playing the guqin.
Hua Sheng wore a purple skirt with two butterfly wings on the sleeves. She had studied classical dance since primary school. Her movements were graceful and she danced out of the flowery dream described in the lyrics.
In the audience, someone shouted: "Butterfly Fairy."
Lin Rao looked disheveled. At first, she deliberately made the hem of her skirt as short as possible, just to have a flattering effect. Now it is worn by another woman, and that woman's chopstick legs are white and thin.
, which took away the souls of the wealthy businessmen in the audience.
Amid a burst of warm applause, Xu Shen and the Butterfly Fairy flew into the air.
Lin Rao looked at the two people dancing in the air. He touched her waist, her hands, and her legs. From an artistic point of view, the movements were not out of the ordinary and had a sense of beauty that made people want to stop talking, but Lin Rao couldn't see it.
When she was out of beauty, she decided that the more tacit understanding two people had on stage, the less clear their relationship would be off stage.
"That's a slap in the face!" Hua Yu sarcastically said, "You think he cares about you and won't let you come on stage, but in fact he has found someone more suitable than you."
"Where did the vixen come from? Let's see if I don't tear her to pieces." The chopsticks in her hand poked the tofu into briquettes.
Hua Yu sighed, there was going to be a power outage and he had no time to go backstage to find Butterfly Fairy for an autograph.
But it's not a pity, his sister dances better than this one on the stage. He didn't recognize Hua Sheng because he remembered that Hua Sheng was afraid of heights and couldn't dance in the air.
A song "Zhuang Zhou's Dream of Butterflies" entered its finale, and suddenly everything on and off the stage fell into darkness.
The time when there was no light was only a few seconds. The people present were rich and experienced, and no one panicked because of the sudden power outage, yelling or moving around randomly.
Lin Rao still heard the sound of hurried footsteps. After the power was restored, there was only a complete skeleton that had been chewed into a chicken frame on the table, and Hua Yu who was gnawing on the chicken was gone.
On the stage, under the lights, Xu Shen held a butterfly mask in his hand, with an expression as if he had just woken up from a dream and was deep in thought.
"The butterfly is me, I am the butterfly." After saying the last line, he exited the stage.
Xu Shen found Hua Sheng's apartment based on his memory, and the key was still hidden under the floor mat.
He sat on the sofa in the empty living room without turning on the light.
Lin Rao rushed to the backstage but could not find Xu Shen, so she called him several times before getting through.
"Who is that woman? Didn't you say you wanted to sing it yourself?"
Xu Shen responded to her question with silence.
Chapter completed!