Chapter 49

Chapter 49: Symphony of Destiny

Translator: Kris Liu Editor:

Victor didn’t loosen his fist until the gate of the hall slowly closed . With a long sigh, he turned around and said to Rhine and the rest of the orchestra, “I’m going back to my office to finish my work . Everyone, keep practicing please . ”

“Mr . Victor, please don’t push yourself too much . ” Rhine put down his violin and walked to Victor . His face looked serious, “I don’t think you can come up with a good melody with your current mood . ”

Victor’s mind was being bothered by fatigue, depression and anger at the same time . He nodded, “Thank you, Rhine . I just… need some rest . ”

“Lucien, Lott, you two accompany Mr . Victor to his office . Felicia and Herodotus, you two keep practicing . ” Rhine said to the students .

On the way to the third floor, Victor didn’t say anything . Neither Lucien nor Lott knew what to do, so they just followed him silently .

Before leaving the office, Lucien noticed that Victor was looking at a lifelike portrait hanging on the wall . On the portrait there was a beautiful young woman with a smile on her face . She had black hair and black eyes .

When Lucien closed the door, Victor was still staring at the portrait like a statue .

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When Lucien and Lott came back to the practice room on the fourth floor, they saw Felicia and Herodotus were lost in thought .

“Well…” Lott tried to break the silence, “All director Othello asked was to give a smooth concert, Mr . Victor might feel less stressed now . ” Apparently, his words didn’t help .

“Come on… I care about Mr . Victor’s performance very much, okay?” Lott hurriedly added, “You all saw my cousin Mekanzi . If Mr . Victor’s concert can be a huge success, I can call myself the student of a top musician, which will help me with my qualification test . ”

Felicia puckered her mouth a bit, “Yes, we are all linked to Mr . Victor . I’m worried about him . If the concert goes wrong, I can’t imagine what is waiting for him . ”

On the other side, Herodotus leaned his forehead against his violin, murmuring .

Lucien got ignored again, but he didn’t care at all . He was also busy with thinking . In order to repay Victor’s kindness, Lucien was looking for a musical masterpiece from his world as a plan B . Before that, he had gone through all the songs in his spirit library to make sure there was nothing similar to what he was going to choose . The work was actually easier than Lucien thought, since all the songs were stored in Lucien’s spirit library and he could easily search them in his storage . Then Lucien had to find a proper way to give the music to Mr . Victor .

Fortunately, Lucien had finished the difficult part – translation . When Lucien was practicing reading music here, he marked many masterpieces from his world with the notes he had learned here .

During this period of time, Lucien had a better understanding toward the music trend in this world . Being affected by the church, music in Aalto featured traditional structure and religious style . Lucien wanted to choose one that fitted the trend . Therefore, Bach came first to his mind since his music also had some religious taste .

However, after comparing Bach’s work with many musical masterpieces in this world, Lucien found they were somehow too similar to each other! He was glad that he was cautious enough .

Then Lucien turned to Beethoven . Fortunately, none of Beethoven’s work overlapped the music from this world . Lucien didn’t want to waste much time on selecting, and thus he soon decided to use “Symphony of Destiny” . Lucien still remembered when he first heard it, he was shocked by the great momentum of the symphony .

The most difficult part that Lucien had to think about was how to “give” it to Victor . Lucien couldn’t just directly hand Victor a piece of paper with such an excellent music masterpiece on it, telling Victor that he found it in a book in the library . On the other hand, it would be even more suspicious if he claimed that he came up with the melody by himself, since a beginner like him writing a piece of symphony like this would obviously make no sense .

Lucien wished he knew how to do hypnosis, but his current spiritual power was not enough to infuse a whole piece of symphony into Victor’s mind .

Finally, he decided to rewrite Symphony of Destiny, but instead of revitalizing it, Lucien was going to “degrade” it . Lucien needed to destroy the whole structure of the masterpiece but leave some fragments for Victor . Lucien was hoping that his teacher could get inspired from these fragments .

After writing a small piece of melody down on the paper, Lucien sat down in front of the piano and heavily pressed the keyboard with his hands .

“Dang dang dang dang!”

It was so loud that Herodotus almost fell off his chair . Following the magnificent beginning, the rest part of the melody was like a disaster .

“What the heck are you doing?” Lott asked while frowning his eyebrows .

“I want to help Mr . Victor . What I saw today made me feel depressed but also angry, and this combined emotion just gave me some inspiration . I’m going to write it down . ” Lucien explained .

“What?” Lott almost laughed, “Are you saying you are writing a symphony?”

“How long have you been learning music? You don’t really understand how to play piano yet!” Felicia’s voice became higher .

Spreading his hands, Lott replied directly . “No, you’re not able to help Mr . Victor, Lucien . I understand your will but you are just a beginner . ”

“You think everyone can write a symphony just because they have so-called ‘inspiration’?!” Herodotus sneered, “What you just played was rubbish . Stop showing off in front of Mr . Victor to please him, you jester!”

“Lucien, please stop . ” Felicia shook her head with depression, “Can you just stop? Don’t make the situation harder . ”

But Lucien also shook his head firmly, “No . I’m inspired . I can write a good one . ”

Lott, Felicia and Herodotus were staring at Lucien as if he was a madman .