NOVEL NEXT Chapter 59: Strength Makes All Rumors Fall Apart
Chapter 59: Strength Makes All Rumors Fall Apart
As the music came to an end, there was no immediate applause.
Because people were still immersed in the lingering notes.
After a moment, Qin Zeming said, “Good, very good,”
which slowly brought everyone out of their intoxication.
Good music is like that; it can touch the heart and make you feel as if you are there.
Strength is the best power to conquer everything, the best force to silence people.
After Su Mu finished playing, all the previous doubts and sarcastic voices vanished completely.
There was no need for more words; whether there was a need for cheating or not, this piece was enough to make the rumors fall apart on their own.
Without a doubt, Su Mu’s final score ranked among the top.
This made Qin Zeming look at Su Mu with increasing approval. Fortunately, the future of the piano world in Huaguo had not lost a good seedling prematurely. Once this seedling grew up, it would surely help Huaguo advance its position in the global piano scene.
The West has always held a major position in the global piano world, and he believed that Su Mu’s emergence could break this long-standing monopoly of the West in the realm of musical arts.
Otherwise, if someone like Shen Song were to kick true talent out, it would be a loss for Huaguo’s music scene, and he would truly be unworthy of his position as president of the piano association.
For Su Mu, the competition had ultimately passed smoothly without any major incidents.
First, he almost missed it due to the bomb incident at Chuda Square, and then he was deliberately framed by the Su family at the competition, but in the end, falsehoods could not become truths.
As long as this ability remained with him, the Su family could never cut off his future.
Thinking of this, he recalled his past life, where the Su family tried to make him disappear completely from the piano world, blocking his path. After he had paved a brilliant future for Su Ning, they discarded him like a donkey after the grind.
He was willing to be a shadow, a substitute, but they even maliciously broke his hands, ensuring he could never play the piano again.
The midday sun was extremely blinding; as it shone down, everything before him became dizzying, the scene blurring, as if he were dreaming back to that little wooden house in his past life.
The tip of his nose was filled with the musty smell of rotting wood, mixed with a damp odor, exceptionally pungent and unpleasant, and the surrounding environment was even more nauseating.
Su Mu had no idea that there was such a decayed and abandoned place in the Su family.
He was bound to something resembling a torture chair. Thick restraints wrapped around his shoulders, emerging from under his armpits, firmly tying him to the back of the chair.
His waist and abdomen were similarly restrained.
His hands were laid flat and bound to the wide armrests of the chair. His elbows and wrists were tightly secured.
Just waking up from a faint, Su Mu initially thought he had been kidnapped, until he saw the dilapidated wooden door creak open, and the people who walked in were his most familiar family members. Only then did he feel relieved.
At that time, he was still completely unaware of the malice and cruelty of this family, treating them as his closest kin.
Even after Su Ning acknowledged him, he was neglected, bullied, and suffered various grievances. He still silently accepted that it was his fault for switching lives with Su Ning, and they had every right to resent him.
After countless instances of enduring domestic violence, he still sought reasons for their behavior.
It wasn’t until that one time that he stepped out of the illusionary fog and faced those things he had deliberately ignored and dared not admit.
That day, he saw Su Ning come in, followed by Su Mu. He called out for help.
“Brother, Mother, great! You’ve come to save me. I don’t know who brought me here.”
In truth, Su Mu saw that after the two entered, their expressions showed no surprise, no concern, no pity; they only smiled in a way that was extremely terrifying, as if they were watching him as a joke.
But even so, Su Mu never imagined they would be so ruthless!
“Brother, please come and untie me; it hurts a bit.”
He was genuinely in pain and had no idea who had kidnapped him. Su Mu felt as if the restraints were embedded in his flesh, causing a burning pain.
Moreover, after being tied up for so long, every part of him felt numb and extremely uncomfortable.
He wanted to twist a bit, trying to relieve some discomfort, but unfortunately, he was bound and could not move at all, with no room to maneuver.
Su Ning heard his plea, and the smile on his face grew even wider, leaving Su Mu somewhat confused.
Seeing his brother hesitate to untie him, he cast a pleading glance at Yun Yanrou: “Mother, can you help me get free?”
His tone even carried a hint of caution and pleading, his eyes filled with endless humility and pitifulness.
Su Mu merely let out a “huh” and took no action.
He thought they just wanted to look at him in such a pathetic state for a while longer.
He lowered his gaze, feeling a heavy blockage in his heart, as if a large stone was pressing down on him, creating a suffocating feeling.
Before long, his eyes became moist, and after blinking, a tear rolled down.
“Oh, brother, why are you crying?”
Su Mu did not answer; he knew they just wanted to see him make a fool of himself.
Once they had seen enough, they would surely let him go, right?
But with no response from Su Mu, Su Ning became displeased. He reached out and twisted Su Mu’s arm, as if trying to twist off a piece of meat with great force.
Su Mu winced in pain, gritting his teeth and remaining silent, his head lowered.
Not only that, but Su Ning also casually picked up a heavy firewood stick from the ground and, without warning, smashed it onto Su Mu, producing a muffled sound.
Su Mu wanted to speak, to plead with Su Ning to spare him. But when he met Su Ning’s mocking gaze, he suddenly felt he had nothing to say, swallowing everything back down.
Later, he spat out a mouthful of blood, splattering it onto Su Ning, who disdainfully tugged at his shirt that had been stained with blood, saying, “Is this so fragile? Brother is truly a pampered weakling.”
Eventually, Su Mu could no longer endure the pain and silently cast a pleading look at Su Mu.
But Su Mu had been like an outsider from the beginning, never stopping a single word, never intervening even once.
With an expressionless gaze, she watched everything unfold. When Su Mu looked at her, she turned her head away, pretending not to see.
Su Mu’s heart sank completely to the bottom.
He recklessly thought that once Su Ning had had enough, it would be over; he just had to endure.
But things were far beyond his imagination; he would never forget that day.
Covered in bruises, he saw Su Ning put down the tools of torture, thinking the torment was over.
Little did he know, everything had just begun.
What had just happened was merely an appetizer.
The expression of Su Ning while hitting him transformed into a malicious smile.
He pulled out something from his pants pocket, a hammer of moderate size.
“My dear brother, let me tell you the truth: the reason you are here today is because of us.”
“This is the Su family; you didn’t really think you were kidnapped by someone, did you?”
What? Su Mu was unsure if his ears had been damaged.
Had he misheard?
Su Ning said he was bound by them; this joke was not funny at all.
Ha, ha, ha…