C24 Their Video Had Gone Viral

“Everyone, turn your textbooks to page 85. Today, we will be reviewing…” The teacher, Xue Ningyu, who had on a black dress at the moment, was lecturing at the podium when she was interrupted mid-sentence by a knock on the door.

“Whoever it is, please come in.”

The door of the classroom slowly opened to reveal Meng Ran. At the moment, he was carrying a schoolbag on his shoulders.

“Sorry, Teacher Xue. I overslept just now. That’s why I’m so late.”

All eyes fell on the young man dressed in white casual clothes. After a short stint of silence, the entire class burst out laughing.

“Hahaha, that’s hilarious, sleeping in until two o’clock in the afternoon…”

“Damn it, genius Meng Ran is genius Meng Ran. His excuses are always so fresh and refined. I’m sooo convinced!”

“Meng Ran, did you get the chance to help the old lady cross the road today? Is that why you’re so late?”

Xue Ningyu and Meng Ran didn’t know what to do when they heard the teasing of the crowd. Teacher Xue initially wanted to scold Meng Ran for his tardiness, but then she saw that Meng Ran carried a school bag today. Usually, Meng Ran would have nothing with him when he went to school. This was an unexpected surprise.

Maybe his mother had called him to remind him to be more responsible and to study hard. Maybe he actually listened and came to school prepared this time. Thinking about this, Teacher Xue decided to let Meng Ran go for this. She said with a straight face, “All right, all right, go to your seat and pay attention to my lecture.”

Meng Ran nodded his head and walked in the direction of his seat, but his mind kept flipping through his past memories, but nothing about him being late because he ‘helped an old lady cross the road’ turned up.

The rest of class passed by rather peacefully. During the lecture, Xue Ningyu even asked Meng Ran to get out of his seat to answer a question. Xue Ningyu usually taught history and asked Meng Ran a simple question related to historical facts. Not only did Meng Ran answer the question correctly, he also led the discussion to the end of class.

By the time class ended, Xue Ningyu packed her things and ran out of the room with a face full of shame. That was because Meng Ran taught the class a lot of things that even she, as the teacher, had no idea about.

“Hurry up and continue playing that video. I haven't finished listening to it yet.”

As soon as Xue Ningyu walked out of the door, everyone gathered around in a circle. It looked like the person in the center was in the middle of playing a video on her smartphone.

The school usually prohibited students from carrying their smartphones while on campus. However, since most students’ families were well off and powerful, and due to the fact that smartphones were a common commodity nowadays, the school had no other choice but to turn a blind eye to students carrying their smartphones around school all the time.

“Wow, so nice. This flute sounds a lot better than Zhou Lunjie’s new love song!” Faang Qing clutched onto her brand-new smartphone and sobbed as she said this.

“What’s this?” Meng Ran suddenly had a bad feeling in his heart. He leaned in closer toward Faang Qing so that he could get a better look.

“It does sound very nice! But doesn’t the girl look familiar to you?” Jiang Yufei brought this up.

Meng Ran glanced down at the phone screen.

On screen was a young girl wearing a white t-shirt with a band-aid on her face. There was also a young man in casual white clothes next to her. They played the guqin and the flute, and the tune was very sad and melancholy. However, the camera was very shaky. Just from looking at the angle of the shot, you could tell it was secretly filmed!

Suddenly, it hit Meng Ran like a ton of bricks. He was in a good mood last night and tried to accompany Soong Anqi on the guqin as she played the flute. The shop owner filmed the scene last night and uploaded it online!

Luckily for him, the lighting of the room was a little dim. Also, the phone’s pixel wasn’t very high, and the footage was blurry. The shop owner only got Meng Ran’s side profile, and there was no way anyone would be able to recognize him.

Just as Meng Ran was starting to relax somewhat, Faang Qing exclaimed, “Fei, don’t you think this shop looks a little familiar? Why does it look a lot like that music shop on West Street? And… I also feel that the man looks very familiar. What about you? What do you think?”

Meng Ran started to sweat bullets. He didn’t like the attention, and he didn’t like being popular. Now was not a good time to become a celebrity.

At this time, someone suddenly spoke up. “Look! The clothes he’s wearing are a lot like what Meng Ran likes to wear!”

This sentence caused everyone to look over at Meng Ran, and soon, almost everyone agreed that he really did look like the person in the video.

Faang Qing, who was clearly moved by the song, wiped her tears and barked, “Wang Dong, don’t insult my idol! If Meng Ran so much as learns how to play the piano, I’ll jump down the stairs!”

Everyone considered it and let out a long sigh. There was no way Meng Ran could be this musically talented! After the commotion was over, everyone stopped paying attention to Meng Ran and instead focused on watching the rest of the video.

After a while, the entire classroom was moved to the point of tears.

Jiang Yufei knitted her brow, and she would look over at Meng Ran from time to time. She, in fact, did know that Meng Ran knew how to play the piano, but the tune that Meng Ran played that day was very ordinary compared to this.

The more Jiang Yufei looked, the more she was convinced that Meng Ran looked similar to the man in the video. But she remembered how Meng Ran only cared about ignoring her yesterday. Jiang Yufei was in a bad mood because of that. She instantly whipped her head back and returned to watching the video. She would, every once in a while, wipe the tears from her eyes as she tried to forget all about Meng Ran.

At this time, Meng Ran also pulled out his phone, wanting to search for the video on the Internet. But when he opened his browser, the first trending topic that flashed on his screen was: “Band-aid Girl Teaches You How to Play the Flute.”

Meng Ran opened it. Only then did he realize that the shop owner was the one who posted it on Youku. Already, there were over a million views, and a lot of celebrities even forwarded and commented on it.

Even Penguin Music commented, expressing that they wanted to buy the copyright to the song and that money wasn’t an issue. It was their hope that the original poster would contact them after seeing this comment.

Meng Ran didn’t know how to react when he saw all those comments below the video.

One trending comment with over ten thousand likes was from the popular celebrity Hu Gu. His comment said: “I look forward to working with this artist. If my new TV show can use this song as an interlude, it will be my dream come true. This will go great with the show’s martial arts techniques.”

The comments below were as followed:

I want to buy the copyright to this song!

This is such a good song. I cry every time I listen it.

The author must’ve personally experienced something truly momentous in their life to be able to create such a moving melody. I love it!

Meng Ran scrolled through the comments, his interest piqued. At the same time, the image of that peerless beauty appeared in his mind. Thoughts of Jade Pool Fairy filled his brain.

“Jade Pool Fairy, you were there with me through thick and thin in my previous life. I’ll never let you down in this life! If Jade Pool Holy Land doesn’t agree to let you and me be together, then I’ll fight them until they admit that we’re meant to be together!”

Meng Ran’s cell phone rang at this time. He checked his phone and discovered it was Zhang Tao, Meng Ran’s best friend from his previous life!

“Hello? Ran, are you free right now? I need a favor to ask of you.”