Lin Yuan died twice.
For the first time, he died at the entrance of the orphanage and was picked up and raised.
The second time, his death in a lake on the university campus was treated as an accident.
But when he opened his eyes again, there was the memory of another person in his mind - a musician from another earth with the pen name "The So-Called Man".
It's a strange world. Technology is much the same as it was in 2000, with touch-tone cell phones, pagers, and dial-up Internet access. But when you turn on the radio, the old love songs of "brother and sister" are sung all over the world. There was no popular music, no original singers, and simplified music scores were scorned by academics.
In Lin Yuan's mind, there is a hundred years of pop music history from another earth.
He just wants to live well. But to survive, you need money, you need an identity, and you need to bring back the 5-year-old girl, Tangtang, who was adopted by a bad family.
The little girl has a greedy mouth, a round face, and one missing front tooth. Her biggest dream is to "live with her brother and eat delicious food every day."
For this dream, Lin Yuan started playing and singing in the night market.
He uses the most "unsophisticated" simplified musical notation to sing songs that no one has ever heard. Some say he is a madman, some say he is a genius. Senior Bingshan was moved by his song "The Moon Represents My Heart", the school beauty roommate pestered him to learn guitar, and people from the record company started to stay at the night market.
Traditional music forces say: This is not music.
But the young man said: This is better than music.
But Lin Yuan just wants to make enough money to buy a small house with a kitchen so that Tangtang can eat enough every day.
Because he promised that little girl:
"Brother, I will prepare delicious food for you every day from now on."
Reader comments
It's touching, healing, and a little warm and nurturing. The little loli is so cute, I want to have one too [awkward laugh]
It's touching, healing, and a little warm and nurturing. The little loli is so cute, I want to have one too [awkward laugh]