Chapter 1543
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Chapter 1543 Special Event
“Hello! I’m looking for Teacher Jiang Zhihua!”
In the academic administration building, Li Yifei rushed to the central information desk and asked.
“Teacher Jiang Zhihua?” The female teacher at the information desk paused, searching on her computer, “You mean the administrator of Building 5? She got sick this morning and went home on sick leave…”
Li Yifei froze on the spot.
“Went home sick?”
“Yes… student, did you need something from her?”
“No… nothing.”
Li Yifei walked out of the administration building in a daze, sitting on the steps at the main entrance, looking dejected.
With Jiang Zhihua not at school, it would be impossible to find her to release those lingering souls. Even if he could get her phone number or address, it would be too late by the time she arrived.
Li Yifei had also considered asking Lin Qiye to open the barrier with another glare… but Lin Qiye and his team had spent two or three days gathering the wandering souls back to the classroom. Now he would ask them to open it again and release those souls?
Setting aside whether some mischievous souls might disrupt the evening party and refuse to return to the classroom, what right did he have to make Qiye and the others pay for his guilt?
Li Yifei was too sentimental. He wanted to help those lingering souls but didn’t want to trouble Lin Qiye and his team. Now with Jiang Zhihua absent and himself lacking the ability to open the barrier, he could only sit on the stairs in front of the administration building, scratching his head in frustration.
In the distance at the evening party venue, the audience’s cheers rose and fell like waves echoing through the quiet campus. A spotlight swept across the administration building behind Li Yifei as his hand slowly clenched…
Li Yifei looked down at the time.
Ten minutes remained until his performance.
He needed to head to the welcome party venue now.
Li Yifei silently shouldered his guitar and ran quickly toward the venue. If he missed his performance time, there would be a gap in the program, and if the hosts rearranged the schedule, his performance would be canceled.
But after running just a few steps, he gradually slowed down, his expression full of conflict.
He had promised Zhang Yang he would perform at the welcome party, but he had also promised those lingering souls in classroom 609 that he would return for them… At this moment, those white shadows might be waiting by the window, hoping he would take them to the venue to watch the grand event.
But… even if he went back, what then?
He hadn’t found Jiang Zhihua and couldn’t bring them out of that classroom. Even if he returned, he could only bring disappointing news.
Li Yifei stood in the middle of the dim road. Not far to his left was the welcome party venue with its interplay of light and shadow, while to his right stood the nearly empty teaching building. A breeze swept the withered leaves from the treetops overhead, lightly brushing his shoulders.
As maple leaves flashed before his eyes, for a moment, he seemed to see again the anguished, weeping expressions of those white shadows from that day when he sang here.
Li Yifei’s heart suddenly trembled.
“Damn it… I’m going all in!” Li Yifei gritted his teeth and, with his guitar on his back, sprinted toward the welcome party venue!
He rushed to the edge of the venue where a staff member who had been waiting in the corner spotted him, eyes brightening, and hurriedly approached saying, “Student Li Yifei, why are you so late? Your performance is about to start!”
“Sorry, senior!” Li Yifei pressed his hands together sincerely and said, “I really have something urgent, so I probably can’t perform today. I thought it would be too rude to leave without saying anything, so I came to let you know… Please rearrange the program order! I’m really sorry!!”
While speaking, Li Yifei forcefully pulled down a string of balloons and streamers from the edge of the venue, then turned and raced toward the teaching building!
“Hey! Hey!! You…”
Seeing Li Yifei run off, the staff member stood dumbfounded, only regaining his senses moments later to urgently rearrange the program order over his walkie-talkie.
In this vast venue with over a thousand people gathered, Li Yifei’s coming and going would hardly attract attention, but there were exceptions.
“Why did Li Yifei rush off again?” An Qingyu looked at the program list in his hand with surprise. “Isn’t his performance coming up soon?”
“I don’t know… he’s not getting stage fright, is he?”
“He doesn’t seem like someone who would get stage fright.” An Qingyu thoughtfully looked in the direction Li Yifei had gone.
“It seems we might not get to hear his formal performance…”
…
Bang—!
The door of classroom 609 was forcefully opened, and Li Yifei stood in the doorway, guitar on his back, clutching balloons and streamers, panting heavily.
Seeing it was Li Yifei, the white shadows hiding in the classroom gradually appeared. The twin-tailed white shadow curiously walked to the front, her lips moving as if asking about the result.
“Sorry, everyone… I still can’t get you out.” Li Yifei caught his breath and spoke bitterly.
Hearing this, the white shadows lowered their heads in disappointment. After hesitating for a moment, the girl wrote something in her notebook and placed it in front of Li Yifei:
—It’s okay, we can hear some sounds from here too. Thank you for trying for us.
Li Yifei’s gaze fell on the white shadow. Though he couldn’t see her face clearly, he could feel that she was smiling at him.
“Friends! Although I can’t get you out, you can still see this welcome party!” Li Yifei grinned.
Under the puzzled gazes of the many shadows, Li Yifei decorated the classroom with the balloons and streamers he had snatched. The previously lifeless classroom suddenly gained some color.
Li Yifei forcefully pushed open all the windows on the north side of the classroom, and the music from the distant venue immediately became clearer. He took off his guitar, picked up a piece of chalk, and wrote several crooked large characters on the blackboard with forceful taps!
—Welcome Party!
Li Yifei tossed the chalk into the trash can, stood tall and straight on the podium, and swept his smiling gaze over the many white shadows below.
“From now on, whatever they sing at their welcome party, I’ll sing for you along with their sound system. If they dance, I’ll dance for you too! Although my dancing is quite painful to watch, I can still liven things up for everyone!”
“Everyone, what you’re about to see is Li Yifei’s personal welcome party special!!”
“Applause!!!”
At Li Yifei’s impassioned voice, all the lingering souls stood stunned in the classroom. After a long moment, someone came to their senses and began to applaud for Li Yifei… Gradually, more and more souls reacted, looking at the figure on the podium with emotion, frantically clapping their hands!
But they had no physical form, so even their applause made no sound. The classroom remained deathly silent.
Li Yifei didn’t mind at all. He sat directly on the edge of the podium, put his guitar in front of him, listened to the sounds from outside for a moment, and smiled:
“Alright, now I’ll present the first song of tonight, ‘Blue Lotus’!”
Twang—!
“Nothing can stop your longing for freedom~”
Brilliant lights flashed in the distance,
In the dead silence of night,
That figure sat in the dark, empty classroom,
Singing passionately.
