Gan Yan Yu Was Getting Stranger and Stranger

Looking at the confident expression on the young man's face, Gan Yan Yu was momentarily dazed.

Her mind suddenly replayed that night, when Lin Tian had stood on the railing, pointed at her domineeringly, and said he would help her.

He was always so cool.

If she had been a normal girl, she might have fallen for him already.

At that thought, a faint, barely noticeable trace of gratification flashed through the girl's eyes.

"By the way, Teacher Gan."

Lin Tian's voice suddenly interrupted Gan Yan Yu's thoughts.

"How are things with your parents?"

Ever since their conversation at the observation deck, Gan Yan Yu had resolved to break away from her parents and choose her own path.

But after all, Gan Yan Yu was still only a high school student. Her grandfather was gone, and living on her own was still very difficult for her.

Lin Tian had no parents, but Gan Yan Yu was different. Both her parents were alive, and they were fully capable of taking her back home.

If her parents insisted on taking her away by force, Gan Yan Yu probably would not have had much of a choice.

"It's already been settled." "Settled?"

"Mm. They agreed to let me live in Grandpa's house, and they'll transfer money regularly. As long as I let them come visit me every so often, that's enough."

"Not bad." Lin Tian had not expected things to go so smoothly.

He had thought Gan Yan Yu's parents would make another huge fuss.

Still, Gan Yan Yu's choice of words struck Lin Tian as a little strange.

"Let them?"

"Mm. I used the line you taught me."

"What line did I teach you?"

"People who abandoned me when I was three have no right to call themselves my parents."

"..." Lin Tian laughed.

Judging from that, Gan Yan Yu's parents could be considered practical people.

What, you said you wanted to play the cello?

Sorry, we're your parents. We firmly oppose it. We'll throw away every last one of your things.

What, you wanted to cut ties with us?

Okay, you just wanted to live in your grandfather's house, right? Live there! We'll agree to whatever you want! Just let us visit you regularly.

What did it mean to know when to bend and when to stand tall? This was it!

But jokes aside, this also showed that Gan Yan Yu's parents still had a bit of a conscience.

They knew they had wronged Gan Yan Yu all these years, and after she exploded, they were willing to lower their heads in time.

That alone was already more than countless parents could manage.

"That's amazing. Want to go out and celebrate tonight?" Lin Tian rubbed his hands together. "Celebrate freedom!"

"Okay." As soon as Gan Yan Yu said the word—

She quickly cut herself off and shook her head.

"Forget it. Don't you have class tomorrow?"

"I stayed up all night with you that day. Why would I care about that?" Lin Tian asked in confusion.

After all, to keep Gan Yan Yu company that day, Lin Tian had slept through an entire morning in class.

Usually, Lin Tian presented himself as a model student.

Such a drastic contrast had frightened several subject teachers so badly that they hurried to ask the homeroom teacher whether something had happened to Lin Tian—whether he had studied himself into depression lately.

Lin Tian repeatedly explained to the homeroom teacher that he had suffered from insomnia the night before, and only then was the matter settled.

"Mm. I just think that you should have your own life too, Lin Tian. You don't need to keep revolving around me."

After thinking for a moment, Gan Yan Yu gathered her courage and said it.

Putting everything else aside, Gan Yan Yu truly felt that she had troubled Lin Tian far too much.

If this continued, she would really feel too embarrassed.

"It's just a meal. Besides, I want to eat something good too," Lin Tian said.

He was not merely being polite with Gan Yan Yu. Having followed her in eating those all-in-one nutritious meals every day lately, he was honestly starting to feel sick of them.

He wanted something greasy, preferably the kind of food that looked like junk food at a glance.

"We should save some money. We've spent too much these past few days, and I've troubled you too much."

As she spoke, Gan Yan Yu quickly moved away as though she were fleeing.

She reached the door and changed into her shoes.

"Thanks for hosting me today too. Send me the grocery receipt, and I'll split the cost with you."

With that, the girl closed the door.

"..."

Lin Tian was left standing there in a daze.

What was going on?

Yesterday too—she had left halfway through the massage.

When they had first started creating together a couple of days ago, she had been quite enthusiastic.

It was not that Gan Yan Yu had become cold toward him.

They still got along harmoniously while cooking, working out, and doing other things every day.

But she was clearly spending less time at Lin Tian's home, and whenever their relationship seemed about to progress further, Gan Yan Yu would promptly cut things off.

It was like getting edged!

What men hated most was being edged by women!

If it had been another woman instead of Gan Yan Yu, after pulling that twice, he would have already pounced on her like a feral wolf.

You interrupted me. You interrupted me.

I'd make you pay for it properly.

Lin Tian could not figure it out. You could say Gan Yan Yu was emotionally closed off, but they had already opened their hearts to each other a few days ago.

Could it be that time of the month?

It actually seemed quite possible!

Apparently, during those days, even the quietest girls became impatient and irritable!

Maybe Gan Yan Yu was afraid she would not be able to control her emotions in front of him.

Or maybe she was afraid she would not be able to control... leakage.

Lin Tian quickly crouched down and checked the sofa cushions.

Tsk.

Unfortunately, there were no strange red spots.

Nor did he smell anything strange.

"Cough, cough."

Lin Tian sat up straight.

Of course, he knew that even if it really had come, Gan Yan Yu would definitely have sanitary pads to deal with it.

What he had done just now was purely for amusement, nothing more than a shameless spur-of-the-moment stunt from an eighteen-year-old boy.

His previous life? He had not even made it to twenty in that life.

Though he had lived two lives, he had never entered society. At most, he had gained a pile of useless middle and high school experience, so obviously his mental age could not be calculated as eighteen plus twenty!

Lin Tian turned his attention back to his phone.

For the moment, he had no time to think about what went through an adolescent girl's mind.

Right now, his top priority was solving the problem with the video.

Gan Yan Yu's concerns were definitely not unfounded.

Most people were watching the video because they wanted to see a pretty girl play the cello, so the video's potential was limited.

They only knew it sounded good. They did not know about Gan Yan Yu's terrifying professional-level cello skills at just eighteen years old, nor did they understand the value of Salut d'Amour.

There was a saying that went like this—

Right now, you're only in the Ascension Realm, so your horizons are still narrow. When you see me, you're like a frog at the bottom of a well looking up at the moon. One day, when you luckily enter the Fourteenth Realm, you'll see me as a mayfly seeing the blue sky.

Those Douyin users who only looked at legs and lacked any musical appreciation had yet to realize it.

What they were seeing was terrifying cello skill, along with a top-tier masterpiece that would change the world in the future.

Of course, he did not mean to look down on netizens. After all, he liked looking at legs too.

What Lin Tian needed to do now was make those viewers understand the true worth of Moonlight and Cat.

When that time came, forget twenty thousand likes—two hundred thousand, even two million likes, would be easy!

It was just that Lin Tian had not yet thought of a particularly good method.

The only thing he could do was improve the video's quality and draw in more traffic.

For the next recording, he would add piano accompaniment.

With that thought, Lin Tian opened the system settlement screen.

Mission completed—Create a piece of music, release a short video of yourself and your partner playing instruments, and receive more than 10,000 genuine likes!

Reward: 10,000 yuan

"Ding!"

Prompted by a text message, Lin Tian opened his phone and saw his bank account balance.

10,024.5 yuan.

Honestly, when he saw that number—

For the first time in his eighteen years of life, Lin Tian felt such a deep sense of security.

Awesome!!

Lin Tian felt exhilarated.

He had lost his mother at three and his father at fifteen.

All these years, had Lin Tian not also gritted his teeth and struggled through life alone?

He had studied desperately and worked part-time jobs to support himself.

All so that one day, he could rise above everyone else!

He wanted to get into a prestigious university and make piles and piles of money.

He wanted those two bastards who had abandoned him to regret it!

If Gan Yan Yu's dream was music and the cello,

Then this was what Lin Tian had always pursued.

Simple and plain.

Nothing else.

The first matter after getting the money was deciding how to spend it.

The first thing he did was pay the two months of rent he owed.

After sending it to Auntie Li, his WeChat balance had 7,824.5 yuan left.

Food and daily living would definitely not be a problem anymore.

But buying a piano was still wishful thinking.

After thinking for a moment, Lin Tian remembered that his only close friend at school seemed to have quite a bit of savings while trying to save up for a computer.

Maybe he could get him to cough up some coins.