He Broke Me to My Lover's Music, Now the CEO Chases Me novel · Chapter 19 of 24
Chapter 19: Switch
The bridge came at two in the morning, the night before the premiere, in a room above a piano shop.
Mingzhou had played the cassette over and over on the landlord's machine.
A woman's voice, light and a little out of tune, hummed four notes over the clatter of a neighbour's kitchen.
Then a laugh, and the tape ran on to hiss.
He hadn't heard that laugh in eighteen years.
He sat at the upright with the tape running and the lamp low.
The four notes opened into something he had never been able to find.
He wrote it down in an hour.
Not a sketch. Not a hum. Every bar of it, on staff paper, in pencil, with the left hand answering the right.
He put the pencil down.
His hands were shaking.
Someone knocked on the door, softly.
"It's open," he said.
Yuheng came in with his collar undone and his coat over his arm, and stopped.
"I heard it from the stairs," he said.
"All of it?"
"The last page." His voice was low. "It's finished."
"It's finished."
Yuheng put his coat down on the chair.
He crossed the room and stood behind the piano stool, not touching, and looked at the paper over Mingzhou's shoulder.
He read the bars for a long time.
"It's your mother's," he said.
"Yes."
"It was always hers."
"Yes." Mingzhou's eyes stung. "The first four notes. Everything after it is what I did with them."
Yuheng rested his hand on the back of his neck.
It lay there, warm, over the bond mark, and he said nothing at all.
After a minute Mingzhou turned on the stool and looked up.
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