Push Me Away When I Come, Don't Hold Me Back When I Leave - Chapter 170

Chapter 170: Ruoming Plays the Guqin, Ye Han Accompanies

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After the two-day camping trip ended, the relationship between Xia Ruoming and Xu Fengwu was no longer as awkward as before.

However, Xia Ruoming still had lingering doubts in her heart. An Jinrou had said that someone had lent her their luck, allowing her to possess the fortune of two people, which enabled her to counter Ye Han’s heavenly luck.

But… who could that person be?

If Ye Han was truly as An Jinrou said, a destined golden child whose life was meant to be smooth sailing, then whoever could oppose her must also be quite remarkable. Yet among the people she knew in her previous life, apart from Jiang Ruhua, there seemed to be no one who could be considered ‘not inferior to Ye Han’?

Not to mention that Jiang Ruhua herself was quite unlucky.

But before she could ponder these questions further, Xia Ruoming’s life became fully occupied with her career.

On Tuesday, when Xia Ruoming returned home, Xiao Qinghan discussed something with her. Now that Raspberry had Wu Kejin’s official support, along with various benefits and marketing points like ‘an App developed by a university valedictorian’, Raspberry had become extremely popular on Zhejiang University’s campus.

The number of regular users was even higher than some popular apps.

So she wanted to strike while the iron was hot and have Ruoming and Ye Han add more fuel to the App’s success.

Xiao Qinghan had somehow learned that Ye Han was skilled at violin and traditional bamboo flute, and hoped that Xia Ruoming and Ye Han could perform a duet.

Previously, Ye Han had used her own account to post a secretly recorded video of Xia Ruoming’s singing and playing “A Glimpse of Beauty,” which remained one of the most popular videos on Raspberry. Every day, it received dozens of pages of new comments — though many were comments like “want to marry the girl in the video” or “can I have your contact info, junior sister” and such.

Xia Ruoming didn’t particularly enjoy being in the spotlight, as she had no interest in becoming an internet celebrity. She hesitated for a long time but ultimately agreed since it was her own App.

Ye Han had originally planned to refuse but immediately changed her mind like switching faces when she learned it would be a duet with Xia Ruoming.

After avoiding Ye Han’s overly enthusiastic advances using various excuses, on Wednesday, in a temporary music room set up in the villa, Xia Ruoming and Ye Han sat together wearing matching traditional costumes — Xiao Qinghan had specially bought a set of traditional costumes for each of them.

The piece they performed together was “A Glimpse of Beauty,” the same song they had played when they first met at the banquet. Xia Ruoming used the guqin she had received at the banquet, while Ye Han chose her specialty, the bamboo xiao.

Ruoming played the melody, and Ye Han accompanied.

It truly matched the phrase “Hearing the jade qin under the willow, rising to dance to accompany the tune,” though Ye Han didn’t actually dance.

The duet, combined with Xia Ruoming’s heavenly voice, nearly brought Xiao Qinghan to tears. The phone’s recording quality wasn’t that good, so when Xia Ruoming started singing, Xiao Qinghan was especially surprised — she hadn’t even known Xia Ruoming could sing so beautifully.

What couldn’t Xia Ruoming do? Was there anything she didn’t know?

Although she had told Xia Ruoming about the recording earlier, when Xia Ruoming started playing, Xiao Qinghan suddenly had an impulse and started a livestream for her. Even though this was an impromptu stream and Raspberry platform’s first public livestream test, Xiao Qinghan used Raspberry’s official account, and the livestream room was immediately promoted to the homepage, attracting many viewers.

When the piece ended, the screen was filled with complimentary comments, with people calling for an encore.

The music stopped, but the audience remained, all listening intently.

“Ruoming, look at the comments asking for another song, do you want to play another one?” Xiao Qinghan showed her phone to Xia Ruoming while asking for her opinion.

Leaving the guqin, Xia Ruoming raised an eyebrow and asked, “Sister Qinghan, didn’t you say we were just recording a video? When did you secretly start a livestream? Come to think of it, is the livestream function already officially online?”

“Yes, today is Raspberry platform’s first broadcast. Ruoming, won’t you play another piece? The audience is all asking you to stay,” Xiao Qinghan continued with a smile, then posted a message in the livestream’s public chat.

Host @Qinghan Culture Official Account: Would you like to see Ruoming play another piece?

The quality was so good it almost rivaled a live concert broadcast, and the comments section immediately filled with countless “yes” responses, almost covering the original video screen.

“Little Ruoming is about to become a big star. Even those big streamers on Shark Live don’t get as many comments as you,” Xiao Qinghan continued showing her phone to Xia Ruoming while teasing.

“Sister Qinghan, stop teasing me. I’m not cut out to be any kind of star,” Xia Ruoming shook her head helplessly and continued, “Since Sister Qinghan started the livestream and so many people came, I’ll play one more piece.”

After a brief discussion with Ye Han, Xia Ruoming performed another duet with her, “Drunken Dreams in the Clear Breeze.”

“You need not compare yourself to a caged bird beneath the corridor,

For in the inner chambers there should be poetry, books, and laughter on swings.”

“Even if just getting drunk on cold wine for once,

It still shows beauty like a painting, displaying grace and elegance.”

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After performing another piece, the livestream audience wasn’t satisfied but kept asking for more, with comments continuously scrolling “caught you” and “don’t let the host leave.”

Seeing this situation, Xia Ruoming quickly had Xiao Qinghan say some farewell words and then closed the livestream. Although the number of viewers kept increasing, Xia Ruoming really had no intention of continuing.

After all, this scene was just like being caught at the foot of Tianqiao telling stories — just finished reciting “The moral ways of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, the glory of the Xia, Shang, and Zhou. Heroes of the Five Hegemons stirred the Spring and Autumn, the rise and fall of Qin and Han passed through their hands. A few lines of names in the green history books, countless burial mounds on Mount Beimang. Later people reap what earlier people sowed, what’s the point of dragons fighting and tigers battling,” and the crowd keeps shouting “Good, good, another one!” The result would be not being able to leave until 10 at night.

“Sister Ruoming, just like Sister Qinghan said, you’re becoming more and more like a noble young lady. You seem to be good at everything and popular everywhere. If Sister Ruoming were to stream on her own platform, you could definitely become a big star,” Ye Han sat on the plush carpet and said with a smile, though that smile made Xia Ruoming uncomfortable because it was identical to the smile from that night.

Can’t look too long, looking too long makes her waist hurt, looking too long makes her legs weak.

“Please don’t say that. I have absolutely no desire to become a big star,” Xia Ruoming shook her head. She had never even thought about such things, and even if she could become one, she wouldn’t do it.

After experiencing a fall from the peak, she preferred a simple life — wealthy, but simple.

What Xia Ruoming didn’t know was that Ye Han was posting their photos together on social media every day, and often shared videos of Xia Ruoming playing and singing. Now everyone in Ye Han’s circle knew her, and quite a few young ladies had even developed strange thoughts.

After all, they couldn’t possibly think they were inferior to Ye Han, or even if they were, it couldn’t be by much.