But even after hearing the result with his own ears, Xue Jiamin was still a little dazed.
Then came the overwhelming joy.
He'd made it to the finals!
Yeah~!
Xue Jiamin shouted silently in his heart, clenching his right hand into a fist and giving it a hard pump.
Of course, he only did that in his heart.
Doing it onstage would make him look far too immature.
Xue Jiamin would never make such an embarrassing gesture onstage.
He looked down at the audience.
The stage lights blazed brightly.
They illuminated the audience...
quite clearly.
But the excessive brightness made every face in the crowd look a little blurry.
He couldn't make out everyone's expressions very well.
But he could clearly hear the applause filling the entire concert hall.
He struggled to keep the corners of his mouth from turning up.
For some reason, he thought of the leopard.
He couldn't even make out the expressions of the audience below, yet yesterday he'd spotted that tail at a glance.
A conspicuous, unmistakable tail.
He couldn't help feeling a sense of anticipation rise within him.
His gaze swept roughly over the seats below.
He even vaguely spotted his sister and her friends.
But...
He didn't see the leopard's tail, the one he'd been thinking about so much.
The intense emotions in his heart slowly... felt like a bucket of water had been thrown over a roaring fire...
The flames still flickered.
But they no longer blazed and surged as fiercely as before.
The boy behind him nudged him.
He came to his senses and followed the people ahead as they left.
By the time they reached backstage, their teacher was already waiting there.
The teacher patted each student who'd made it to the finals on the shoulder.
She