He Kept Me as His First Love's Stand-In, but I Saved Him First novel · Chapter 24 of 24
Chapter 24: The Stand-In Was the Real One
On the second Saturday of April, the sign over the shop door on Nanshan Road was repainted.
Qiu stood in the street all afternoon shouting instructions at the ladder.
"Higher! The N is too close to the I!"
"It's the same N you complained about in December," said the sign painter.
"It was wrong in December too."
NING AND QIU, PIANO TUNING AND REPAIR.
It was Qiu's idea to put the younger name first.
He had announced it at breakfast, in the tone of a man who would hit anyone who argued, and nobody had argued.
By seven in the evening forty chairs stood in rows between the pianos.
Every bench was pushed to the wall.
The baby grand had been dragged to the middle and tuned three times since lunch.
Zhe had checked the unison on the F above middle C half a dozen times and found nothing wrong.
"It's perfect," Hanjing said from the doorway.
"It's never perfect."
"It's perfect enough that I can't tell the difference."
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