"If you still need me for practice, Senior, call me. I'll still come."
"It's just that things will probably turn out like before! If I come, I'll probably only hold you back."
"That's it. Goodbye!"
Those were the last words Bai Junze said to Lin Tian.
After that, the two went their separate ways at the restaurant.
As he walked back to the apartment, Lin Tian kept turning things over in his mind.
Bai Junze clearly possessed performance talent that lost to no one.
Yet he had wrapped himself up layer by layer, unable to communicate effectively with anyone through music.
All of this...
Had it all come from Bai Junze's family?
Lin Tian took a deep breath.
When he had listened to Bai Junze tell that story...
He had truly been unable to say anything.
Because Lin Tian himself was someone deeply affected by his family. He could not speak from a rational perspective. He deeply empathized with what Bai Junze had said.
Lin Tian understood all too well the character flaws carved into one's bones by family circumstances.
Just like himself.
Because of what he had gone through as a child, Lin Tian had been a rather cold-blooded person for a long time.
No matter what happened to anyone else, he could always view it as entertainment. It was not that he had low emotional intelligence or could not sense other people's emotions. Most of the time, Lin Tian simply did not care.
It was only after meeting Gan Yan Yu and finding music that Lin Tian gradually became able to understand others. Even so, whenever he considered anything now, he still put the dreams of himself and Gan Yan Yu first.
"..."
What should he do?
Should he give up on Bai Junze?
At a time like