Reborn as a Mortal Heiress Pampered by Big Shots-Chapter 212 - 201 Dimensionality Reduction Strike begins!_2

Everyone in the Capital City Ancient Flute Circle knew just how strict Master Tan was about taking on apprentices.

Not even the heavy hitters, whether they threw in lots of money or visited repeatedly, could sway him in the slightest!

This was truly a blessing in disguise, her future prospects were boundless!

Qiao Yufen agreed swiftly, hung up the phone, and looked at Xia Yourong with radiance: "Prepare yourself these next few days, in three days, both Grandma and your mom will personally take you to Master Tan’s studio!"

It had been a long time since Qiao Yufen had felt this sense of pride in her granddaughter, especially after a string of disappointing performances.

Especially earlier on the phone, Master Tan’s proud demeanor was almost spilling out from the mobile phone. She was certainly not pleased but dared not show it due to needing a favor from someone.

Now everything was perfect, as that proud Master Tan changed his attitude 180 degrees after listening to her granddaughter’s performance recording. Not only did he arrange a make-up exam for her, but he also wanted to take her as a disciple.

Was this the legendary drama reversal? A face-slap?

Xu Qing and Qiao Yufen were overjoyed, the only one who was smiling somewhat superficially was Xia Yourong.

She had fooled Master Tan with the recording of Xia Ye’s playing, and it had actually satisfied Master Tan to such an extent!!!

Indeed, that recording wasn’t hers at all, it was Xia Ye’s!

After the opening ceremony that day, when she ran into Xia Ye and Tang Tianjiao in front of the teaching building, Xia Ye "bang, bang, bang" pointed out the flaws in her ancient flute playing. She was unconvinced and challenged Xia Ye to play a piece on the spot for her.

This was the recording made at that time. She initially wanted to share it on the school’s forum for everyone to mock her.

However, it turned out that Xia Ye’s playing was unexpectedly good, so Xia Yourong did not release the recording, keeping it on her phone instead. She hadn’t expected it to come in handy today.

Feeling that she had neglected her practice recently and afraid of making mistakes in a live performance, she came up with this idea on the fly. But Master Tan’s high praise for Xia Ye’s flute skills was a bit too exaggerated, wasn’t it?!

Xia Yourong pinched her phone, having secured this valuable opportunity for the makeup exam but was unable to feel happy about it!

In the next three days, Xia Yourong locked herself in her room, practicing day and night, fearing that Master Tan would realize during the makeup exam that the recording wasn’t played by her.

Besides practicing the pieces she was most skilled at, she even tried to play the melody from Xia Ye’s recording several times.

Then she discovered... those seemingly simple melodies were very difficult to play!

The scale changes were extremely complicated, she was all fingers and thumbs, and after several attempts ending in failure, she finally gave up.

Although she couldn’t play it, she practiced her usual favorite pieces with great confidence.

She’d let Master Tan hear what real ancient flute music was all about!

**

The day of the makeup exam.

Qiao Yufen and Xu Qing, both dressed up, sparkling and shiny, sat in the back seat of the car, escorting Xia Yourong like stars around the moon, with the driver leading them grandly toward the suburbs.

At the highway toll station, while the driver was waiting in line for clearance, Xia Yourong craned her neck, in a good mood, and looked out at the scenery.

Suddenly, she saw a familiar car speeding through the next lane.

She stretched her neck, following the direction the car was moving in.

But the car quickly drove out of sight.

Xu Qing, seeing her do this, asked curiously, "What are you looking at so intently?"

Xia Yourong paused, then smiled back, "Nothing, Mom. I must have been mistaken."

That car, it looked a bit like Uncle Jiang’s...

In fact, she wasn’t mistaken at all. The car that had just passed was indeed Jiang Xuan’s.

If she had looked more closely, she could have seen that the person sitting in the passenger seat was the very person she was most afraid of seeing today—Xia Ye!

Jiang Xuan had a private vineyard in the suburbs, known to few.

Today, he was bringing Xia Ye there to enjoy the vineyard.

Xia Ye was actually someone who didn’t like taking long drives.

Who would have the patience for a several-hour car ride when you’re capable of using the Teleportation Spell?

However, it was fortunate that they were going to the vineyard today, a place worth the trip for her.

Xia Ye had stayed up late last night and yawned loudly now, opening the small packed meal that Jiang Xuan had prepared for their trip.

Now on vacation, Xia Ye’s time was entirely her own. These past three days at home, she had been living as nocturnal as a fox, venturing out at night.

She had barely slept at all last night, fulfilling her promise to her third brother to graft a new species of flowers.