"It's normal to suffer a little for you."

The man in black robe led her forward step by step: "All the males around you have to suffer more or less. Don't always think that you are unworthy."

"Don't cry so much in the future. Hold your head up and walk instead of always lowering your head. Straighten your back too. You are so pretty, why are you like this?"

Xia Tang sniffed.

"Also, if you really like that leopard, I'll let him go when this is over. He's in good health and won't die. But don't let him touch you before you come of age, okay?"

The more Xia Tang listened, the more something seemed wrong: "Are you lecturing me here? Do you think you're an elder? You kidnapper."

The man in black robe stopped talking and led her to another room.

"Come in. It's right here."

"Kidnappers, I need musical instruments to comfort them mentally..."

Xia Tang stopped talking in the middle of her words. There was a white grand piano inside. She was sure she had never seen it in an ancient museum.

"Who are you?" Xia Tang asked.

The man in black robe stood still: "I also want to ask you, do you know who you are? Where are you from? Who are your parents?"

"My name is Xia Tang. I'm from Earth. My father is Xia Zhenhua, my mother is Li Wei, and I have a younger brother named Xia Han."

The black robe sneered and said, "The answer is wrong, so I can't tell you who I am."

Xia Tang was confused: "I'm telling the truth."

The man in black robe saw that Xia Tang didn't seem to be lying, so he snorted coldly and said:

"That means you are not quite sober yet. I have seen many people who lie to others, but you are the only one who lies to yourself."

"I never lie."

The man in black robe threw a notebook out from his black robe. Xia Tang ran over to catch it and was very surprised because it was her diary on Earth.

She opened the diary to the first page.

The book says: [My father is Xia Zhenhua, my mother is Li Wei, my new parents like me very much, and they like to listen to me play the piano the most.]

Xia Tang couldn't believe what she saw.

new?

How can mom and dad be new?

She continued flipping through the pages, and found that all of them were diaries in which her parents asked her to practice various musical instruments.

Xia Tang's memories began to return.

It was a musical family that adopted her because of her outstanding musical talent. They were very satisfied with her at first. Whether it was out of love for her talent or out of the emptiness of having no children, she had a very happy time.

Actually, thinking back now, there was nothing good about that time. She just learned various musical instruments every day. Because she learned quickly and well, her adoptive parents would always smile at her.

Then the adoptive mother gave birth to their own flesh and blood.

She became the superfluous one.

She didn't dare eat too much, didn't dare walk loudly, and she couldn't practice playing as freely as before because it would disturb her younger brother.

Even though she was always cautious, it was not enough. As her younger brother grew up, her adoptive parents devoted a lot of effort to him, and tried to raise him like they had raised her, but it was still useless.

Unlike Xia Tang, her younger brother made no progress in music, and the huge psychological gap caused them to quarrel constantly.

Eventually they agreed that Xia Tang had taken advantage of their son's talent, so she was stuffed into a boarding school.

[It's okay, Mom and Dad will pick me up soon. ]

They didn't come, for a day, a week, a month... Three months passed, and she was only allowed to go home during the winter and summer vacations, or maybe that place had never been her home.

Then, the adoptive father thought that the adoptive mother’s genes were not good enough, which was why she gave birth to a child like my younger brother who had no musical talent at all, so he had an affair.

They quarreled, divorced, divided the property, and also divided the children. The adoptive father didn't want any of the children, so she and her brother were awarded to the adoptive mother.

Raising two children was too difficult for the adoptive mother, especially since she had limited financial resources and was enrolled in a special music program. After her adoptive father stopped paying for her tuition and medical expenses, the family was struggling.

【I don’t want to study music anymore.】

But her adoptive mother disagreed. Although she also felt that Xia Tang spent too much money at first, after hearing that her adoptive father's new wife had given birth to a child, she no longer thought so. She wanted to train Xia Tang to be a genius, a genius who could surpass that bastard in every way.

As for the issue of money, the adoptive mother turned her attention to the entertainment industry, which was a good place to make money. Besides, Xia Tang had always been good-looking and had real musical talent, so it was not a bad idea for her to enter the entertainment industry.

[My mom said this is a good place to make money, but I don’t like it here. I don’t think it’s a proper entertainment company.]

Xia Tang turned to the last few pages.

The last few pages of the diary were torn off, but she knew what had happened. Not to mention the various private concerts she had to attend every day and accept all kinds of comments from laymen, someone also suddenly made advances towards her during the trip.

That period was really like a nightmare. She couldn't afford the huge penalty for breach of contract, and her adoptive mother gradually lost her spirit. The pressure of life smoothed out her edges. Nothing was more important than the money Xia Tang got back.

"This is not true." Xia Tang closed the diary.

"You know whether it is true or not."

The man in black robe closed the door, but it opened again not long after. Some wild animals came into the room one after another, and finally a cage containing a snow leopard was pushed in.

The door slowly closed again.

Xia Tang placed her hands on the piano keys, she could hardly distinguish between reality and illusion.

A room full of beasts became her audience, but she felt that these beasts were better than those disgusting men who would comment on her performance in the middle of the performance.

She hadn't played the piano for a long time, but muscle memory led her fingers to press the first note. The moment the notes were connected, she remembered what she was playing.

It's "Croatian Rhapsody".

That was the piece she played on the day she traveled through time. The more she played, the more excited she became, as if she were back on that small stage. The man's eyes showed a desire that she didn't want to understand, so she closed her eyes.

Xia Tang couldn't remember which performance he started to close his eyes.

Maybe it started from entering this strange agency.

Or maybe it started from the divorce of my adoptive parents.

Or maybe it started when she entered boarding school.

Or maybe it was the day my younger brother was born.

Or maybe... it was when her adoptive father despised her for not being able to memorize the music score.

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