Chapter 66: Do You Know?

They passed another building, then a China Mobile service center, and then a China Post office. As the surroundings grew increasingly familiar and more exhilarating, he led her into the office building where the piano room was located!

After that, a blast of cool air from the central air conditioning greeted them—it was familiar, yet the small lobby on the first floor, where they had never seen a receptionist before, felt entirely new.

What a coincidence!

Is he also in this office building?

After that, following Chen Ciyi ahead, the two went up the stairs together. The office building only has elevators starting from the 4th floor, while Xu Yannuo’s piano room is on the 3rd floor. So, he must also be on either the 2nd or 3rd floor.

Xu Yannuo followed Chen Ciyi upstairs. After passing the 2nd floor without stopping, it seemed they were heading to the 3rd floor—making this coincidence even more coincidental.

Sure enough, upon reaching the third floor, Chen Ciyi led Xu Yannuo into the corridor—it was indeed the third floor! Xu Yannuo could only scream inwardly, “Holy shit!”

After that, Chen Ciyi led her all the way inside. With every classroom they passed, Xu Yannuo would glance at Chen Ciyi’s back and then at the classroom—was it this one?

No, keep going further inside.

Is this the one? Looking at his back, he didn’t stop, still walking further in, no, still further… still further?

Xu Yannuo felt her heartbeat becoming unsteady. With every step she took, her heart raced even more wildly. Could this be? Such a coincidence? This isn’t just a coincidence—it’s coincidence opening the door for coincidence, the epitome of coincidence!

Xu Yannuo even had the thought that Chen Ciyi knew where she would be over the weekend and deliberately brought her here to tell her, “See, I know you play the violin here. Surprised? Unexpected, isn’t it?”

However, the scene Xu Yannuo imagined did not unfold. Instead, an even more bizarre and unexpected scenario played out.

They walked all the way to the innermost room, right in front of her practice room’s door, where Chen Ciyi finally stopped. Then, he stepped up to the door of the practice room opposite hers, took out a key from his jeans pocket, and—under Xu Yannuo’s astonished gaze—inserted it into the lock.

Twisted it.

Click!

The door opened!

Chen Ciyi pushed open the door to that piano room. At this moment, Xu Yannuo still couldn’t connect the handsome young man before her with the idiot in the piano room she had never met but had battled countless times over the piano. Perhaps, this was his friend’s piano room, and he occasionally came here to play, so he brought her to take a look.

So that idiot isn’t him!

But soon, Xu Yannuo’s hope was shattered as Chen Chiyi turned to look at him and said, “Deskmate, welcome to my piano room. Today, I will specially play a piece for you…” Before Chen Chiyi could finish speaking, he paused, noticing Xu Yannuo’s surprised and strange expression.

What’s going on? Chen Chiyi frowned and waved his hand in front of Xu Yannuo’s eyes. Has he been scared silly? That shouldn’t be the case. It’s just a piano room—there are no monsters or ghosts inside.

After that, he noticed that Xu Yannuo didn’t go in but glanced at the music room across the hall. “Ah, this room.” Chen Ci initially introduced to Xu Yannuo the brain-damaged person he’d never met from the opposite room. “The one playing the erhu in that room hasn’t arrived yet. That guy seems like he’s got issues—his erhu playing sounds like a fighting version of a drum set.”

But after the introduction, he didn’t receive Xu Yannuo’s agreement, and Xu Yannuo’s expression didn’t ease from the earlier strangeness. Instead, it became even more indescribable.

“The people in this house…” Chen Ci asked tentatively, “Do you know them?”