The Farewell Concert

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At the height of Qi Chen's popularity, an ordinary seat ticket to his concert was being resold for over a thousand. When his tour came to Haicheng, even the buses were running ads for him.

That year, Zhong Sui scrimped and saved to buy an overpriced scalper ticket to his concert.

This gifted singer-songwriter had won countless awards not long after his debut. At the end of the concert, he sang the debut song that had first brought him into the public eye.

There was no accompaniment and no backing vocals. After becoming famous, he had never chosen to dress up the song, "Farewell Concert". It was still as simple as a demo.

Zhong Sui drifted off, her mind wandering back to the night five years ago when a flash flood broke out.

They had squeezed into a run-down hotel, where she listened to him play the song on a guitar with a missing string.

The song had no name, so he asked her to give it one.

She thought for a moment and said, "Farewell Concert."

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She had once kept him company through the days when he was unknown, his only listener.

Now he had countless listeners, and she was just one among them.

The superstar onstage shone brightly, surrounded by a roaring tide of cheers.

She watched, smiled, took a step back, then turned and walked away.

Softly, in her heart, she said, "Goodbye."

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