At seven thirty, the performance started on time.
Unlike the glamorous and dazzling openings of previous concerts, Gu Qiuyi’s final farewell concert did not adopt a high-profile opening method.
The originally pitch-black stage, with its multiple large LED screens, gradually lit up. A beam of light illuminated the centre of the stage at the same time. Under the light, a sand artist was painting with both hands and fine sand on a glowing sand board.
In the picture, there was a boy who looked two or three years old, holding a toddler girl who was learning to walk.
Then, the music started. Gu Qiuyi slowly rose from the lifting platform, wearing a pure white long dress. On stage, she sang a song she had written the lyrics for, called “Little Us”.
This song told the story of a pair of childhood sweethearts, from their intimate relationship as infants to childhood, then to the two being separated due to family reasons. Although they never had the chance to meet again, the girl always remembered the boy fondly. The background completely and truly showed her emotional journey before finding Ye Chen.
The sand artist skilfully cooperated with the song, constantly erasing and repainting the sand art. In the pictures, the two children gradually grew up. When the boy was seven or eight years old, he left the city with his parents. The girl shed tears, watched them get into the car, and chased after their car for a long time.
Then, the girl slowly grew up. Although she grew, studied, and played normally like other children, she always remembered the boy’s appearance at parting.
The girl gradually became graceful and elegant, but she never found the boy’s trace. Time passed year after year. The trees by Houhai sprouted and withered, withered and sprouted again. The ice surface that children loved froze and melted, melted and froze again.
Fans who knew Gu Qiuyi all understood that, as the only daughter of the Gu family with a net worth of hundreds of billions, the reason she put aside her status as a young lady in the Beijing circle to enter the entertainment industry was to find the boy she missed back then.
However, no one knew whether she had found that boy.
This song did not have a perfect ending either. The last lyric sang, “No matter where you are, please remember the little me and the little us back then.”
This song was somewhat tender and somewhat melancholic. From the performance effect, it was not suitable as the opening for a concert.
However, Gu Qiuyi’s fans all knew about her infatuation and painstaking efforts over the years. Hearing this song, they were even more moved than hearing other explosive songs.
Combined with the fact that this was Gu Qiuyi’s last concert, the fans empathised even more. Many people in the audience were already sobbing uncontrollably during the first song of the concert.
Ye Chen’s mood was complicated. A line of poetry kept emerging in his mind, “It’s easy to torment a scholar’s spirit, but the hardest to bear is a beauty’s grace.”
A girl who had silently devoted herself infatuatedly to him for so many years, even if one had a heart of stone, would probably be melted by this fervent sincerity.
What made Ye Chen even more at a loss was that the women who had devoted themselves to him in this way were not just Gu Qiuyi alone.
Gu Qiuyi’s melodious and lingering singing voice, combined with the lyrics of this song, and matched with the sand artist’s paintings, even Xiao Churan beside Ye Chen could not help but be moved by it.
At this moment, the snow that had stopped for about an hour began to fall gracefully again.
In the open-air venue, snowflakes fluttered down. Paired with this emotional song, it made the audience even more touched by the scene and moved.
One song quickly drew tens of thousands of people in the venue into the warm spring of pure love. Even with snowflakes constantly falling on their heads, people still felt warm.
After Gu Qiuyi finished singing the song, she turned around on stage to wipe away her tears.
She knew Ye Chen was in the audience, but she never dared to look directly at him openly.
Moreover, today, she had specially instructed the on-site photographers not to point the cameras at the audience below for close-ups, because she feared that the cameramen might unintentionally capture Ye Chen and be seen by those with intentions.
The audience saw her turn to wipe her tears and subconsciously thought that Gu Qiuyi must be feeling sad because of this song. From this, they inferred that she probably had not found the boy sung about in the song.
