Chapter 45: Please Live in the Mysterious Garden of My Heart 1
As Lu Ziyi prepared himself, the Hall fell silent.
Ye Chuxiao composed herself and began her performance.
It was an ethereal and tranquil piece. As the gentle, pure piano notes flowed out like a stream reflecting moonlight, everyone’s gaze was drawn to the girl in the simple white dress.
The girl’s fair, slender fingers played skillfully on the black and white piano keys. Her face was beautiful and serene, her temperament gentle and quiet, inexplicably fitting the mood of the music.
The girl in the white dress, like a moon spirit, lightly led everyone through the gate of time and space, into that legendary Mysterious Garden.
Legend has it that a long time ago, a Count, who yearned for a peaceful life free from worldly strife, found a paradise. He took his beloved Countess and their four lovely children and lived there. The Count named their home “Mysterious Garden.”
In those light and distant piano notes, people seemed to enter the territory of the Mysterious Garden, seeing skies of pure blue, and forests and grasslands of pure green.
The grayish-blue high walls, the white houses, the winding cobblestone paths, and the large expanses of rose bushes that the Count personally planted for the Countess.
This seemed to be the most authentic life, the most sacred love. Visitors to the Mysterious Garden smiled knowingly.
When the violin part was to enter, Ye Chuxiao still looked at Lu Ziyi, though she didn’t have much expectation of him.
However, the violin’s slow and melodious notes began to play, precisely when they were supposed to.
The music flowed as cleanly and earnestly as the performer, as if pouring out one’s heart.
It was so shocking that Ye Chuxiao missed a note. Her gaze, which she hadn’t yet retracted, met Lu Ziyi’s eyes.
The man, without a trace of pretense, his gaze was as warm and bright as the morning light, as calm and pure as white clouds.
At that moment, Ye Chuxiao’s heart felt steady, without a hint of hesitation.
The clear piano notes and the bright violin notes intertwined and flowed like the morning breeze on a fresh morning in the Mysterious Garden.
It was so joyful, people seemed to see the handsome Count and the elegant Countess walking hand in hand down the garden path lined with roses.
Their four children were chasing and laughing joyfully; the Mysterious Garden was filled with the carefree laughter of children.
The Count and Countess smiled at each other, anticipating such an ordinary, trouble-free life to quietly flow through their lives.
Ye Chuxiao loved this piece very much. When she first heard 《Song from the Mysterious Garden》, it resonated with her. Later, learning the story of the Count and Countess, this piece became the gentlest melody lingering in her heart.
The love she desired was nothing more than this: a man who kept her in his heart, letting her reside in the Mysterious Garden of his heart, where his love contained only her.
Even if their lives were ordinary, their lives only needed an ordinary life.
Ye Chuxiao never expected that on such a night, hearing a boy play 《Song from the Mysterious Garden》 with his violin would give her heart a strange feeling.
She thought that boy understood her…
