Guide To Reign My Tycoon Husbands - Chapter 154

Chapter 154: Obsession of musical notes (2)
Bai Shiliu was even more amused than the two snakes. She arched her brow and said, “So you agreed to this dud of a mission because of ramen?”

“No. Who said that it was dud?” Luo Huian asked while looking at the screen which was showing the coordinates of the house of the girl whose parents submitted the request for the mission. “It is not a dud.”

“Then do you mean that there is indeed someone who is infected by Gloom in that family?” Bai Shiliu’s eyes widened in shock. She had not expected to hear such a shocking revelation after all. “Who is it?”

“Well, isn’t that we need to find out?”

On the east of the city, in a beautiful mansion where roses were in full bloom with white marble halls and corridors gleaming under the sunlight, a little girl was playing a tune on the piano.

As she played ‘Dream of the Moon,’ a famous song written by her own grandmother, Yin Bi— the little girl made a mistake. The soft melody which was filling the silence of the room turned sharp and unpleasant causing the serenity to be disrupted.

“Again?!” A shrill scream echoed causing the little girl to flinch in fear. She turned and looked at her daddy who stood behind her with a scale in his hands, looking furious and embarrassed. “Tell me, Ren Lin… just tell me if anything goes inside that thick head of yours? How many times do I have to tell you that you need to play the major keys when the third stanza starts and not use the minor ones? How can you be so foolish!”

“Three minors and then transition it to the Major D one, how difficult it is for you to do something so simple!”

Yin Song’s agitated voice echoed in the piano room and Ren Lin who was just ten lowered her head. In a soft voice, she said, “I am sorry, Daddy.”

“Sorry? Sorry??? Do you think that saying sorry will cut it?” Yin Song smacked his hand on the surface of the piano. “I have given you the finest teachers, resources and everything else and yet you are nothing! You cannot even awaken as an A-rank hunter. When your grandmother was alive, she became the finest pianist in the city —no in the nation!”

“All I have asked from you in exchange for giving birth to you after suffering so much pain is to bring me back the glory that your grandmother lost because of others—all I want you is to follow the footsteps of your grandmother, am I asking for too much now?”

He did not wait for an answer instead went on to say, “I don’t think so! Compared to losing my life while giving birth to you, I am asking almost nothing from you!”

“Can’t you do this for me? Can’t you slap those who have laughed at your grandmother in the face by surpassing her?” Yin Song asked agitatedly.

“I will try harder, Daddy,” even though tears were shining in the eyes of the little girl, she dared not to cry because she knew that it would only make her daddy dislike her even more.

“Enough, there is no need for you to say anything,” Yin Song eyed Ren Lin with great distaste as if she was everything that he disliked. “Go back to your room, there will be no lunch of course. Maybe once Miss Huian takes a look at you, you will know what to do.”

He raised his hand and pressed it against his face, “It must be because of the infection of Gloom or maybe it’s something worse like an infection of Hollow. How can my daughter of all people be so useless, after all? With the blood of the glorious Yin Bi in your veins. You should have awakened ages ago. Like seriously!”

“But I am not—” Ren Lin began but she stopped when she saw the expression on her daddy’s face.

“Hmm? What did you say?” Yin Song asked his daughter who lowered her head and shook it three times.

“N—nothing.” Her daddy was scary when he looked like that, it was a sign that she needed to get quiet or else he would get even more mad at her.

It was terrifying.

“Very well, then you need to go back to your room,” snapped Yin Song. “Don’t think of playing any games and pay attention to your studies. With an A grade on the last tests, I thought I would die of shame! How could you even make such a blunder? Make sure that it is an A+ or I will have to take some very serious steps!”

“I —I understand Daddy,” Ren Lin stammered.

“Why are you stammering like a stutter?” Yin Song picked up another fault when he saw that his daughter was stammering like a fool. “You are my daughter! The great Yin Bi’s granddaughter! How can you stammer like a fool? Straighten your spine and look me in the eyes.”

Ren Lin didn’t want to but if she didn’t then—

With her feet trembling, she raised her head and looked Yin Song in the eyes before saying, “I understand, Daddy.”

Her daddy continued to study her for a long time before he snorted and said, “Go..go back to your room. Just looking at you makes my stomach feel upset.”

“Yes,” Ren Lin muttered quietly before turning on her feet and running out of the piano room. As she walked out, the many portraits of her grandmother stared at her back as if accusing her of not being competent enough to touch the piano that she had gifted Ren Lin when Yin Bi was alive.

Ren Li closed her eyes and then ran out of the room even faster. She did not want to see the non-existent disappointment in the eyes of her grandmother.

It was terrifying to look at and heartbreaking to see.

Once Ren Lin ran out, the door of the piano room closed on its own, leaving Yin Song alone with the many records he had been obsessing over for ages.