Song of the Yue People-And It Deserved to Carry Young Master Guan's Shoes?! (First Update)

Chenxiang of Moonlight Pavilion took the stage to perform.

On the four-sided stage, the lights were dim and scattered.

She was a songstress, holding a pipa as she played and sang.

The selection was "Song of the Yue People" from Great Qi's Music Bureau. This ballad had later been rearranged with new lyrics by the Academy's Third Master, taking on a fresh brilliance.

"On the mountain are trees, upon the trees are branches; my heart delights in you, yet you do not know."

Her singing curled and turned, while the pipa's notes flowed long and clear.

The Third Master was proficient in music, especially skilled with the guqin, and could be called the foremost master of his age. He had once composed "Song of Rainbow Garments, a Hundred Birds Paying Homage to the Phoenix." Legend had it that, when it was played, it drew flocks of birds circling overhead, a sight beyond all praise.

Yet this piece somewhat overturned the traditional five notes—gong, shang, jue, zhi, and yu—and few in Bianjing of Great Qi could play it.

The Academy's four masters each had their own strengths.

The Fourth Master, Su Jing, was unmatched at Go. The Third Master excelled at music. The Second Master's calligraphy could serve as a model for all under Heaven. The First Master, meanwhile, was skilled in painting.

Chenxiang had deliberately chosen "Song of the Yue People" because Great Qi's ancestors had been Yue people.

According to Great Qi's historical records, the founding ruler of Great Qi had once been an orphan from a Yue fishing-village tribe, without father or mother.

At the village entrance, he encountered the first-generation Master of that time, thereby opening the path to Great Qi's thousand-year legacy.

Chenxiang's "Song of the Yue People" naturally stirred memories among some of Bianjing's nobles.