(Warning: This is a writing exercise, and the prose is pretty bad.)
He once said that Huaizhou Conservatory of Music was his dream.
She knew that becoming a pianist was her dream.
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Even years later, when she thought back to that summer at the end of ninth grade, Li Baizhi was still moved.
Outside the music room, the water bottle she accidentally dropped interrupted the piano playing inside. The man's glance back made her heart flutter with alarm.
She thought she was about to get scolded, but Xu Yan stopped in front of her, bent down, and picked up the bottle.
He smiled and asked, "Is this yours?"
His voice was as gentle as ever.
She remembered how he asked her that day, "Do you want to learn piano?"
"If you do, I can teach you."
Because of him, the piano dream she had secretly kept in her heart finally had a chance to see the light of day.
*
There were two things he loved most in life: music and drones.
There were two things that mattered most in her life: piano and Xu Yan.
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