Chapter 157 Just Like Dealing with Aimless People
Everyone's hearts were stirred for a long time. It took more than ten minutes for everyone to recover from their melancholy.
All the girls in the audience looked at Charles with unparalleled admiration and adoration.
"Is Mr. Smoke even real? He's so talented, so charismatic, so wealthy. How could there be such an outstanding man with all these excellent qualities in the world? How am I supposed to find a boyfriend after this? If I can't find someone like Mr. Smoke, won't I feel a huge gap in my heart?" a socialite said with tearful eyes.
"I wonder if I can take him back with me tonight. I'm not asking for much, just one night would be enough!" a stunningly beautiful and seductive girl said with a mesmerized look.
"My ideal husband used to be Tony, but now, I feel like I'm falling for someone else!" A girl, standing on tiptoe, looked obsessively at the dazzling Mr. Smoke on stage.
Then she turned and glared fiercely at Grace.
Soon, as if in a chain reaction, many girls present began to look at Grace with disdain.
'What did such an outstanding man like Mr. Smoke see in a bitch like Grace? Why would he spend 46 million dollars to buy her a necklace? What makes us inferior to that slut? She's just a bit prettier, has a better temperament, a better figure, and celebrity status. What's so great about that?' many socialites and heiresses thought.
[Grace: Favorability +10
Grace: Favorability +10
Current Favorability: 55 points.]
Facing the increasingly jealous gazes of a group of socialites and heiresses, Grace actually felt a bit of pride in her heart.
At the same time, she was also shocked by Charles's exceptional talent.
'So this is how mesmerizing a man playing the piano can be! His piano skills are astonishing. How could a man who could play such pure music be so rotten inside? Could I have been wrong about him?'
Grace pondered this as a warm feeling came over her. Shamefully, she realized that her heart had raced for Charles just now and that she wasn't in control of her feelings.
Besides Grace, Snow was also stunned!
At Jessica's birthday party, Snow had arrived at a very inopportune time, missing Charles's moment of showing off. This time, she made up for it.
Previously, his skill felt like he had a mere couple of decades worth of experience. This time, it felt as though he had been playing the piano for twice his lifetime. He truly was on another level!
A woman might hate a man, but she wouldn't hate a talented person, especially someone who made her genuinely admire him!
Today, Charles gave Snow a huge shock.
Since the day that he heroically saved her, she had always misunderstood him.
She didn't want to apologize back then because she was afraid of the awkwardness.
Then, she discovered Charles's identity and felt even more awkward!
And now, she finally understood why Jessica liked Charles!
'This guy seems to have a lot of good qualities. At first, you don't notice, but when you think about it, besides playing the piano well, he's also good at basketball and can outrun the track team captain. He fights like a boxing champion, and is very wealthy and handsome. He has a good figure and a great temperament.'
Snow became more and more stunned the more she thought about it. 'It turns out Charles meets all my standards of a male idol! This guy seems to have no obvious flaws except for being a bit frivolous. How can such an excellent man not have girls who like him around?
"His music is so pure; his heart must also be pure. To play with such heart-wrenching emotion, he must have experienced despair, darkness, and pain. Maybe I never really understood his feelings! I don't know his story, so what right do I have to judge him?',
Charles's rendition of 'Castle in the Sky' made Snow recall her unbearable past.
For many years, she never dared to sleep with the lights off, because when the lights were off, she felt enveloped by suffocating darkness, which made her suffer with despair!
In the music, she seemed to find a similarly lonely soul, as thought they truly had a connection.
Maybe, Charles and she were the same kind of people, both having built a hard shell around themselves after their hearts were scarred.
Through this piece, Snow seemed to have found a companion who could lead her from the shadows into the light.
Snow was someone who thought and felt things very strongly. When she hated someone, she hated them intensely, but when her impression of someone was reversed, her favorability would skyrocket.
[Snow: Favorability +100
Current Favorability: 5 points.]
Charles was almost shocked to see Snow's favorability soar by 100 points.
'What is this woman up to? Can it be that she is also impressed by my talent?
Could my piano-playing skills actually makes her favorability toward me increase by 100 points?' he thought.
Indeed, in some special circumstances, talent was more effective than money.
When everyone had money, even if you had more money than everyone else, it was not enough to impress the whole audience.
With money plus talent, a person was not just wealthy, but also had depth.
A wealthy person with depth and a wealthy person without depth were fundamentally different!
One was a noble who had a prestigious upbringing, while the other was just a nouveau riche.
Charles's piano skills undoubtedly told everyone that he was not just a nouveau riche. Only someone who had received private lessons from a young age could be so extraordinary!
Charles returned to his seat and Nancy, who was seated next to him, started to talk to him again.
"I didn't expect that you could play the piano so well. How about we add each other on Facebook? I actually have some professional technique questions I want to ask you!" Nancy said, taking out her phone.
Charles made found an excuse to refuse her request. "Uh, sorry, I didn't bring my phone!" Actually, his phone was in his pocket.
He really didn't want to have anything to do with Nancy.
[Nancy: Favorability +10
Nancy: Favorability +10
Nancy: Favorability +10
Current Favorability: 30 points.]
'What the heck?' Charles was dumbfounded. 'Refusing to add a girl on Facebook actually increases favorability? What kind of weird operation is this?'
What Charles wasn't aware of was the fact that Nancy, because of her status, was often deliberately approached by people with ulterior motives. Someone had even used her identity to exploit her, which almost caused her father a lot of trouble, and she learned her lesson from that.
That incident made Nancy wary of any man who deliberately approached her.
On the contrary, she felt at ease with those who completely ignored her because it showed that they had no ulterior motives!
She liked dealing with people who had no ulterior motives.
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