Chapter Twenty-Five: Suspected Reconciliation

  Although the book has been returned, Ji Xin'an doesn't have time to read it now, so she plans to focus on it after finishing her album. Now Ji Xin'an thinks about what songs are suitable for herself and Zou Ze every day, and also need to be suitable for singing now, it's really not easy to find.

  Inside the training ground.

  "An An, what's wrong with you? You've been absent-minded for the past two days. If this continues, forget about practicing, it's too easy to get hurt." Ji Xin'an was kicked down by his opponent without noticing, and the coach on the side couldn't take it anymore.

  "Sorry, Officer Zhang, it won't happen again." Ji Xin'an immediately came down to apologize, after all, it was for her own good.

  "I think you've been having some issues lately, so why don't you take a break for a few days? It's the same with other exercises, don't overdo it. I looked at Ji Xin and her attitude was great, plus she wasn't a real student, so her requirements were relatively more relaxed."

  "Alright, let's stop for now, thank you Officer Zhang." Ji Xin'an thought about it and felt that she was right. Continuing like this wouldn't work out either. It would be better to focus on practice after everything else is done. Thinking that she needed to seize the time, or else everything would be delayed.

  In a few days, apart from attending classes as usual, I didn't go anywhere else and didn't think there was anything wrong, but somehow Yu Yao and the others were called over.

  "Ji Xin'an, are you hiding from me? Why haven't you been to the training ground or the piano room lately? Do you think you can avoid it by hiding?" Yu Yao saw Ji Xin'an sitting on the playground and came over with Shi Lin, but before she could even open her mouth, she started firing away like a machine gun.

  "Yu Yao, what are you talking about? How did I dodge you?" Ji Xin An was left bewildered by her.

  "You were doing so well with piano and violin, but then you just stopped going. You even persisted in training at the boxing gym for half a year without missing a single day, but now you've suddenly stopped going again. Is this because I said I wanted to challenge you, so you're avoiding me? Are you too proud to compete with me?" Yu Yao's words became more and more agitated, as if she was about to cry. She had never lost so badly in her life, and now it seemed like the other person didn't even care, which only made her angrier.

  "Don't be angry, sit down first. I'm really not avoiding you, you misunderstood." Ji Xin'an quickly invited her to sit down in this manner.

  "What do you mean?" she said, and tears fell down. Shilin and Jixian comforted her immediately.

  "Yu Yao, don't cry first, hurry up and wipe your tears. If you keep crying, you won't look pretty anymore. And if Zou Ze sees this, he'll think I'm bullying you!" Ji Xin'an inadvertently revealed the truth.

  Yu Yao's thoughts were seen through, and she immediately stopped crying, her face also turned red. "You..."

  "Alright, let's not talk about you and me anymore. I'm telling you, I really have something on my mind lately, and doing these things isn't in the right state of mind. Even if I go, it'll be a waste of time, especially at the training grounds. Nowadays, I'm always distracted, and going there might even lead to accidents. So it's better to focus on finishing up my tasks first before heading out." Ji Xin'an looked at her expression and suddenly felt a strange sensation. In his impression, You Yao from his past life had never shown so many expressions as she did today.

  "Really?" Yu Yao's expression improved a lot and returned to normal.

  "Of course, I won't just do nothing to avoid you. Besides, can I even avoid you? I'm still going to school every day." Ji Xin'an smiled at her expression and thought that today was a good opportunity to clear things up. "Yu Yao, actually, I know why you suddenly came to pick a fight with me, but you're really looking in the wrong direction. Zhou Ze and I are just friends, whether it's now or in the future, we can only be friends, there won't be any other situation between us."

  Yu Yao looked at Ji Xin An's determined expression and didn't know what to say for a moment. Instead, Shi Lin couldn't help but speak up, "Who are you kidding? You're always laughing and talking with Zou Ze, and he even sends you a guitar. You say it's just friendship, does anyone have friends like that?"

  "Lin Lin." Yu Yao's face turned even redder upon hearing this, wasn't this a tacit acknowledgement?!

  "How can friends not have fun and give gifts? Do you really need something to talk about?" Ji Xin'an smiled at their expressions, refuting Shi Lin's words.

  "It's okay, but Ji Xin'an, maybe you don't have much to do with Zou Ze, but his attitude towards you is really different. I've grown up with him since childhood, and I understand him too well." Yu Yao finally couldn't help it.

  "What's the big deal, even if he treats me differently? Even if I liked him now, we still can't be together. We're destined to be two intersecting lines." Ji Xin'an sighed.

  "I don't understand, if two people truly love each other, why can't they be together?" Yu Yao thought very simply.

  "You grew up with him, you should know how much he loves music and will continue to develop in this path. I think you are the same too, but I am different from both of you. For me, piano or music is just a hobby, I will take a completely different road from yours. Since the ending is already set, why waste each other's time?" Ji Xin An was no longer an innocent little girl who would do anything for love, she would think more rationally about her life, but it was unclear whether this was good or bad.

  Ke... Yu Yao suddenly couldn't speak.

  "If you say that again, I'll suspect you're here to match me with Zou Ze." Ji Xin'an smiled and joked with her.

  "Who set you two up!" Yu Yao indeed didn't say anything more about it.

  "Never mind, since we've already said so much, let's just make up and be friends. Being friends is better than being enemies, don't do things you don't like just to spite me, okay?" Ji Xin An also hoped she could return to her normal life.

  "Thank you for your honesty, Ji Xin'an. I will consider it carefully." Yu Yao, still in a daze, stood up and pulled Shi Lin to leave with her.

  Ji Xin'an watched their backs, shook his head and smiled, then threw this matter behind his mind.

  After a week of deliberation, Ji Xin'an finally came up with the list of songs to be sung. She first wrote out the lyrics and then sought Zou Ze's help in composing the melody.

  "How... did you write so many songs so quickly?" Zou Ze looked at the dozen or so sheets of paper in front of him, each one filled with lyrics.

  "This isn't just lyrics anymore!" Ji Xin'an thought, if she didn't have to find some suitable ones, it would be even faster than this.

  "That's fast enough, it's only been a few days!" Zou Ze looked back one after another, and the more he looked, the more surprised he became.

  "Alright, stop staring and get to work. I didn't call you over here to be a spectator." Ji Xin'an snatched it away, and the two sat back down at the table.

  Ji Xin'an chose six songs for herself, four of which are motivational. In addition to "Invisible Wings", there are also "The First Dream", "Girl with Wings", and "Sunshine After the Storm". These songs are more suitable for now and are also Ji Xin'an's favorites. Later, she added two unconventional ones, a fast song "Green Light" and an English song "God is a Girl". Ji Xin'an doesn't know if people will accept these two at this time, but since there are already the previous ones, it doesn't matter, just singing for the sake of singing.

  Zou Ze only has four songs in this album because it's not his main album. Ji Xin An chose for her Zhou Hua Jian's "Friend" and "Is There a Song That Can Make You Think of Me", Shin Band's "Sea and Sky", and finally, there is also an "Angel's Wings". The first two are the main hits, but Ji Xin An likes the last two.

  In addition, there are two duets. Ji Xin'an also chose four songs. "Happy Worship" and "Lotus Pond Moonlight" were originally duets, while the other two she chose, "Snail" and "Legend", were solo singles, but Ji Xin'an rearranged them into duet versions.

  "Wow, I think you're amazing, every one of these songs could be a hit single!" Zou Ze listened to her humming along to each song and the more he heard, the more he liked them.

  "Do you like it?" Ji Xin'an smiled.

  "I like it, I really like it." Zou Ze's smile grew wider and wider.

  The two of them didn't say much more and directly started composing, Ji Xin'an was quite grateful that she had been exposed to those things about music during this time, allowing her to write out some scores by herself, so she wouldn't just be watching Zou Ze working busily over there.

  Because there were already existing songs, they just had to write them out, so the work was a bit simpler. After a few days, the two of them took their finished products to Song Jiangliang.

  "Already finished?" Song Jiangliang was even more surprised, holding the score in his hand felt unreal.

  "Oh, these songs were written a long time ago, this time I just organized them a bit, so it was relatively quick." Ji Xin'an couldn't help but tell a small lie, after all, it was so fast to come up with so many songs.

  "Alright, I'll get ready and try to have you guys start recording songs within these two days. You guys should also take a look at your schedules." Song Jiang Liang, having gone through big events before, quickly regained his composure after the brief surprise.

  "Okay, but Manager Song, we have classes during the week, so we only have time on weekends." Although the contract stipulated that she should be given ample freedom in terms of time, Ji Xian still felt a bit embarrassed to have a large group of people following her schedule.

  "This is no problem at all, wasn't it agreed upon from the start? I won't let you fall behind in your studies." Song Jiangliang was indeed a man of his word.

  "That's good." The two of them smiled and there was nothing else to say, they could only go back and wait slowly for the time to record songs.