Supporting Role’s Aura

Arc 1.47: The Bearing of Great General1Raw 大将之风(Dàjiàng zhī fēng);  In martial arts = the virtue of a true master

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Ye Chen was called to the Head Leader’s office to talked. Although he did not make any actual actions, but he had such thoughts, and it was already very dangerous. Moreover the words he shout out caused a psychological harm to the people in the Field Management team.

Actually there were few people in the Field Management team who liked Ye Chen. When he got married, they were still sad for a while, but after hearing what Ye Chen said, they felt that they were really blind and was wrong about him. They never thought Ye Chen would be such a vicious person.

After Liu Hui got the news, she immediately rushed to intercede for Ye Chen. She still hoped to rely on Ye Chen to seized control of the Dance team. If Ye Chen was punished too severely, she would not be able to compete with Zhao Yuan who was helped by Ye You in the future.

“Head Leader, please believe me. It was because he is too angry, so he just said those angry words, it wasn’t because he really have those bad thoughts. I watched him growing up,  I know clearly what kind of person is he.” Liu Hui explained eagerly: “It’s all because Zhao Yuan and Ye You, they saw Ye Chen are close to me, so they deliberately excluded him from performing and practicing. That’s why he was so angry and said those words irresponsibly.”

“At a time like this, you still want to pass the responsibility to others!” The Deputy Leader angrily said: “Zhao Yuan and Ye You came to me in person and told me that they hope all members of the Dance team who are willing to participate in the performance can participate, after all, such an important occasion will become an important lifetime memory for some Literally Art soldiers, moreover they promised me that they will help others to practice well. Ye Chen and the others do not participate in the selection because of you, could Zhao Yuan and Ye You can still force them to participate?”

Liu Hui has nothing to defend herself being questioned like that by the Deputy Leader, and she could only stare blankly with an ugly expression there. And Ye Chen stood still with his head bowed, he said nothing.

At such an important and tense moment, when this kind of thing happened, the Head Leader was very angry. If it was in normal times, this matter could be big or small, but it affected people’s hearts at this time, it was a very serious matter.

The final result of the Head Leader’s punishment was that Ye Chen was suspended of his participation in all performances in the Cultural Regiment. The suspension time was three months and he was going to received ideological education. If he failed the assessment of ideological education, he will increase the time to stop the performance indefinitely.

As for Liu Hui, because of repeated dereliction of duty and morality, she was incapable of discipline. After long-term observation, it was determined that she was inadequate. She was removed from the position of Team Leader and was demoted to be Deputy Team Leader. Zhao Yuan will temporary replaced her as the Team Leader. In other words, Liu Hui became the Deputy, and Zhao Yuan now as the acting Team Leader. This was a big blow to Liu Hui.

Ye Chen’s mood was as if he had fallen to the bottom of a deep valley, with high cliffs on both sides, and he felt that he would never be able to climb up.

Ye Chen didn’t want to go back to the dormitory. He hid in the practice room in a daze. The feeling of weakness caused him to slowly fall to the ground. He thought, if everything can go back to the original moment, how great it would be.

Ye Chen didn’t know how long he had been lying on the ground in the practice room. He didn’t even notice that the sunlight outside the window had disappeared, and the sky had gradually dimmed.

Ye You pushed the door and walked in, took a look at Ye Chen who was lying on the ground, closed the door and said, “You really are here, how do you feel now? Are you feeling angry, regretting, or both?”

“If you came to see me as a joke, you have seen it now, please get out.” Ye Chen said blankly.

“‘Please get out’ these three words, they are really familiar.” Ye You smiled and said: “If you can disappear from my sight when I say these three words to you, now all of this, it might won’t happen.”

Ye Chen closed his eyes and said nothing.

“You said that you are also the protagonist of your own world. I think this sentence is very reasonable. Each of us is the protagonist of our own world. Everyone can live brilliantly in our own world, but why are you, despite of everything, run into my world and play a vicious role? I think when you are asking why I robs you of the limelight in the Dance team, you seem to have forgotten the reason why I joined the dance team.”

“Winner take all. If I win, then I am the protagonist of this world, but I lose now. You can say whatever you want.”

Ye You nodded and said: “Your words are also very reasonable. Since you know in your heart that you are only my defeated opponent, then you should also know that you can’t beat me. But, I am the kind of person who don’t have the slightest pity for people who like to ask for trouble. So, it will not end if you say it is over, nor will I agree to stop if you say that you want to stop.”

“What do you want? Make me and Teacher Liu leave the Cultural Regiment? I also advise you not to overestimate yourself. Behind me, there are still the Ye Family and the Sun Family.”

“Oh, the Ye family and the Sun family.” Ye You nodded again, and then said with a smile: “As you said, something unexpected might happen at any moment. The things in the future, no one really can predicted.”

“This sentence, isn’t it the same for you?”

“Yes, it’s the same for me, so I’ll be more careful, and so are you.” Ye You said, “Look at the clock on the wall.”

Ye Chen opened his eyes and looked at the wall clock suspiciously.

“It’s already half past six. If you don’t go to the cafeteria now, you won’t be able to have dinner today. I’m going to Team Leader Xu’s house to practice Chinese Lute(Pipa), so I won’t disturb your meditation. I hope you can think of a good way to deal with me.” Ye You turned and left after speaking.

Ye Chen looked at the wall clock, and he was stunned for a long time without responding. The pointer on the wall clock was clearly six o’clock. Why did Ye You say that it was half past six now?

Ye Chen felt like a layer of dense fog appeared in his heart. Something was faintly discernible, as if he could see it clearly, but also couldn’t see it very clearly. He wanted to get rid of that layer of dazed, and then to find out detailed explanations to the answer that puzzled him.

Ye Chen got up from the ground and walked to the practice room next door. He glanced at the wall clock on the wall. It was indeed half past six. He walked back to the original practice room again. The wall clock on the wall showed that it was six and two minutes.

Ye Chen slid against the wall and sat on the ground, staring at the wall clock for a long time. He wondered why the wall clock in this practice room was slowed by half an hour. Someone mobilized the wall clock in this practice room, but why did he do this?? He thought about it again. He saw a narrow slit was left on the big practice room’s door, then he walked in, and then Ye You appeared behind him. He fly into a rage out of humiliation because he(YY) speak out of what was in his(YC) heart, and because he wanted to suppressed the fear in his heart, he yelled at him.

Ye Chen grabbed his hair tightly, his inner fear made him trembled, unexpectedly there would be such a terrible person in this world, he even calculated every step, just waiting for him to walk in his trap step by step and then capture him. Sure enough, he shouldn’t tried to compete with the Son of Destiny, let alone to provoke and anger him again and again.

At this time, Ye You’s words sounded in Ye Chen’s mind: I am the kind of person who don’t have the slightest pity for people who like to ask for trouble. So, it will not end if you say it is over, nor will I agree to stop if you say that you want to stop.

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After more than a month of preparation and practice, the Aurico country’s army finally arrived. First, a welcoming ceremony was held, and then they were taken to the Cultural Regiment to watch the performance.

After the soldiers participating in the confrontation exercises of the two armies entered the performance hall and took their seats, the Marshals of the two countries also walked into the performance hall surrounded by generals and senior officers of the two countries.

Before taking his seat, Marshal Bunaber2Raw 布纳伯(bù nà bó); sometimes google translate this name to Bunab, sometimes bunaber or just bunabo. It sound like Bernard but it’s not. But then in one of the later paragraph author change it to 伯纳德(bó nà dé) which is Bernard. This is very confusing (◎_◎;)
I will just follow the original text for this chapter only. If this Marshal is still in next chapter, should I change it to Bernard? from Aurico said: “Marshal Cheng, our country’s Military band is not only well-known in our country, but also has a certain reputation among other countries over the years. Because in the past few years, we have gone to many different countries to participate in confrontation exercises, in addition to the victories of the Combat Legions again and again, our Military band has also brought shocking performances to other countries time and time again.”

When Marshal Bunaber said these words, there was undisguised pride in his eyes.

After listening to the interpreter, Marshal Cheng’s expression was calm, and he replied with a slightly polite tone: “I’ve heard about it.”

“In the past few years, our Military band have performed in various countries and there is a new way of performing, that is, allowing the bands of the two countries to perform on stage at the same time, we can appreciate the different performance styles of the two bands at the same time, also it would be interesting to be able to compare with each other. I also heard that your country’s Cultural Regiment is very outstanding, and I really want to see what kind of sparks it will produce when performing on the same stage with the our Military band.” Marshal Bunaber paused, pretending to be politely backed down, but in fact provocatively said: “Of course, if you are not ready, I will not force it.”

Marshal Cheng turned his head and glanced at Head Leader Wu, who nodded slightly.

“Since Marshal Bunaber has such an interest, we will comply with your request, please.” Marshal Cheng raised his hand.

“Please.” Marshal Bunaber gave in politely, and before he took his seat, he said again: “Oh, yes, our Military band is too similar to our country’s Combat Legions. They are used to being strong and domineering, when they are engrossed in performing, they may forget to be humble. If they offend your country’s Musical band later, please don’t take offense.”

“Since it is a comparison, naturally there will be difference between high and low. If the skill is not as good as others and still want to blame, it is just like losing the skill as well as failed in elegant.” Marshal Cheng suddenly turn the topic and said: “It’s just too early to draw a conclusion now.”

“That’s right.” Marshal Bunaber smiled and nodded in agreement before sitting down.

After the two Marshals took their seats, the others also sat down, and the interpreters of the two countries sat directly behind the two Marshals to facilitate communication between the two.

Aurico country has only Military bands, no Dance teams and Vocal bands, so after the chorus performance of the first Vocal band, people from the two countries take turns to perform musical instruments on stage.

Ye You and the others were preparing in the backstage. The Deputy Leader was communicating with the Leader of the opposing Military band. After the exchange, he will come back to tell Ye You and the Musical band people what the order arrangements of their respective performances will be when they come to the stage to performed together.

Others just need to remember the order. But Ye You has to go through all the details. The Deputy Leader make it clear that he must remember everything no matter what, because the other party’s Military band has a conductor, and in their band, Ye You served as the chief and conductor at the same time. However, there was no difficulty in remembering things for Ye You, he can remember them all at a glance, but in order to reassured the Deputy Leader, he still pretended as if he was very serious in taking notes.

After performing several shows in a row, Lin Dong asked Du Yao doubtfully: “They have performed several performances already, why haven’t seen sister-in-law go on stage? The chorus performance just now, the person leading in singing also not sister-in-law.”

“All your sister-in-law’s performances are the last ones. The previous performance is just a warm-up. He will definitely not come out until the final performance.” Du Yao said in a low yet proud voice.

“Yes.” Lin Dong nodded and continued to watch the performance on stage.

After all the previous warm up performances were over, the Musical bands of the two countries took the stage, sat down on both sides of the stage and made preparations.

The chiefs usually enters the stage last after the curtain unfolded, so Ye You was holding a Chinese Lute(Pipa) at the moment, standing inside the door of the entrance.

After the curtain was unfolded, applause was sounded. The other party’s chief violinist came to the stage. Ye You also went on stage holding the Chinese Lute(pipa). The two stood in front of the stage, bowed to the audience, and then turned around amidst the applause. Ye You took a seat in the forefront position and the opponent’s violinist chief was also seated firmly in the forefront position.

When Marshal Bunaber saw that the other party had sent a child to be the chief, he said: “Our chief violinist, Chris3raw 克莱斯(Kè lái sī) is tl to Claes in google. It could be Clause, Kleis or Chris. I had thought to use pinyin for their name but it sounded awkward, so… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ In one of later paragraph it also change to became 卡莱斯(Kǎ lái sī); Carles. (Author, be consistent please Orz), has participated in violin competitions since the age of six. He has won numerous awards for 30 years and has also composed many famous pieces. In contemporary, not only in our country, but even in the whole world, there is probably no better violinist than him. Your chief looks so young, I don’t know if he has any extraordinary experience.”

Marshal Cheng raised his hand and have the people behind to asked Head Leader Wu about Ye You’s situation. After the inquirer came back, he replied: “Our chief is a genius in instrument performance. He can play various instruments, although his violin is also very good, but in this performance, our Musical band all uses our National Musical Instruments. What our chief holding in his hand is a Chinese Lute(pipa). This is the first time he’s using this instrument to perform on stage.”

“Oh, genius.” Bunaber smiled and said meaningfully, “I have seen some of the so-called geniuses in our country. When they were young, these people did show some amazing talent, but often these so-called geniuses have to stop earlier than other people who were hardworking, or can be described as falling. But it is very smart for you to avoid choosing a violinist as the chief. “

When Marshal Cheng heard that it was the first time Ye You had used the Chinese Lute(pipa) to perform on stage, he couldn’t help but take a look at him a few more time, but he still didn’t have too many fluctuations in his heart, because he believed that Head Leader Wu would not used the entire Cultural Regiment’s reputation, or even the reputation of the entire country, to takes the risks. The so-called you can’t judge a person by appearance, just as you can’t measure the sea with a pint pot(idiom), each and everyone should not judge a person’s ability by appearance.

After listening to the interpreter’s translation of what Bunaber said, Marshal Cheng did not answer, and raised his hand to signal that the performance could begin. Arguing was a woman’s expertise. Since they were soldiers, they should directly used their strength to compete.

The other party was a guest, so they started to performed first. Ye You and the others only knew the other party’s performing order, but they didn’t know the specific piece of music they would play. So, after the other party finished performing, only then Ye You decided what piece of music they would used. Ye You will play a prelude first, and then others will follow.

The opponent’s first song was a section from “Cavalry on the Chenor Steppe4Original text 切洛尔草原上的骑兵 but Google suggested me to correct it to 切诺尔草原上的骑兵. This might be typo or author was actually change it on purpose. 切洛尔 = Celor;  while 切诺尔= Chenor. I choose to use Chenor bcoz it seem fit more than Celor XD“, it was like ten thousands of soldiers were riding horses, whistling and running across the grassland.

After waiting for them to paused, Ye You played a prelude, and the accompaniment in the back immediately followed. Ye You choose the folk song “Prairie Hunting”. Although it looked like there was no way hunting can compare with the other’s cavalry, but in fact, the magnificent scene of ancient nomads hunting on the grassland was not less imposing than the cavalry riding across the grassland. Especially the thrilling, tacit and cooperative artistic conception in the hunting, all showed in the song.

Ye You and the others were just slightly got the upper hand, which already surprised Marshal Bunaber so much, but after another thought, he felt that the credit for Ye You and the others for having the upper hand should be attributed to the music piece itself, not the performer. When they really started their performance competition later, he believed that the other party’s performance would surely be defeated by their Military band.

Both parties played their own three pieces, which gave people the impression that they were on par, and both played very well. But the individual performances in the front can be said just to communicate and to be polite to each other. Their performance at the same time later was the time to really start the competition.

At this time, it was like a battle confrontation. It was not only to compete ability, but also strategy.

Aurico wanted to seize the opportunity with a calm and orderly, but rather fast-paced “Battle of Skoder March”, Ye You immediately led the accompaniment and inserted “The Battle of War Lions”, and both sides began to revealed a spearhead, they wanted to overwhelmed each other and compete for the upper hand.

Chris was originally quite engrossed in playing, but his tune was suddenly led off track by Ye You’s pipa sound. He was stunned because of the shock. As soon as he stopped, the musical band that accompany him could only stop.

After the opponent paused, Ye You quickly adjusted the rhythm that suited them, and Chris quickly concentrated, ready to find the best time for insertion.

“What kind of music sister-in-law and the others are playing, it’s pretty good.” Lin Dong asked in a low voice. Although he didn’t know much about music, let alone playing, but he could feel that Ye You and the others had won temporarily, so he felt very happy in his heart.

“This song is called “The Battle of War Lions.”” Du Yao replied.

“The Battle of War Lions?” Lin Dong was even more excited after hearing this: “Did it mean us?”

“You think too much, this song describes the scene of a real lion hunting, but it just happens to have the same name as ours.” Du Yao explained.

“Since everyone is a War Lion, then just regards it as talking about us.” Lin Dong clutched his chest and said: “I am really a little excited and nervous when I thought that sister-in-law is command us to fight now.”

Chris quickly inserted the song “Ambush of Night Battle” and tried to disrupt Ye You and the other’s rhythm. Ye You led the accompaniment to slowly retreated. When Chris was about to be complacent, Ye You quickly changed the piece to “Beacon”, once again snatched the rhythm back, Chris and the others could not keep up, so they were forced to pause again.

After two consecutive paused, and obviously in a disadvantageous situation, Marshal Bunaber frowned and clenched his fists. This was a situation that has never happened before. The award-winning violinist Chris was actually inferior to a so-called genius who looks like only in their teens… Who know if it was a boy or a girl, and this was impossible!

Marshal Bunaber was glaring, and he was launching a strong thought towards Chris, to had him quickly seize the upper hand and defeat the opponent.5 It seems that Marshal Bunaber hope he have a telekinesis superpower here lol

Was Chris doesn’t want to? No, his desire to gain the upper hand was stronger than Marshal Bernard². He has not felt the feeling of failure for almost ten years, and he must not lose to a teenager.

Ye You had asked the Head Leader to do everything possible to obtained all the information about the Aurico’s National Military Band and Chris, including all the pieces they have played, as well as the situation of them performing on the same stage with other countries’ military bands. This was called know yourself know your enemy and you will never be defeated(idiom)6From Sunzi’s Art of War (孫子兵法|孙子兵法[Sūn zǐ Bīng fǎ]).. In any case, attacking the mind was the best strategy, especially for someone with a very strong self-esteem like Chris, it was relatively easy to smashed his innermost being.

So Ye You didn’t used any special tactics. He just tried every means to disrupt Chris and forced him to be paused again and again. This approach had a much better effect. This country has some National Instruments that didn’t exist in his original world. This time Ye You had used all that he could use. He was responsible for defeating Carles² and the accompaniment Musical band must also have the strength to compete with the opponent’s Musical band. As soon as the sounds of a few instruments sounded, the opponent couldn’t find the tune anymore, which made the members of the opponent’s Musical band feel very flustered.

When Chris was forced to pause for the fifth time, his mind was already completely confused, and the tunes he played directly messed up the accompaniment Musical band, causing their performance to gradually collapse and become chaotic.

Marshal Bunaber was very angry. Before the performance started, he had said all the bragging words, yet now the result has put him in shame like this. How could he not be angry? In recent years, their Military band can be said to be invincible and they were actually defeated by those unrecognizable instruments, especially the opponent’s chief, who was still so young, even if he was really a genius, but the time of performance experience and practice was definitely can not be compared to that of Chris. Why was he able to have Chris played in the palm of his hand?

Marshal Bunaber stared at Ye You earnestly, as if trying to see him through. Others also looked at Ye You and found that although he had a gentle and handsome appearance, he also had a very delicate facial features. He was also very young, but the aura that he exudes was like a commander with great authority, calmly arranging the battle situation, and commanding the battle with the bearing of a great General.

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1Raw 大将之风(Dàjiàng zhī fēng);  In martial arts = the virtue of a true master2Raw 布纳伯(bù nà bó); sometimes google translate this name to Bunab, sometimes bunaber or just bunabo. It sound like Bernard but it’s not. But then in one of the later paragraph author change it to 伯纳德(bó nà dé) which is Bernard. This is very confusing (◎_◎;)
I will just follow the original text for this chapter only. If this Marshal is still in next chapter, should I change it to Bernard?3raw 克莱斯(Kè lái sī) is tl to Claes in google. It could be Clause, Kleis or Chris. I had thought to use pinyin for their name but it sounded awkward, so… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ In one of later paragraph it also change to became 卡莱斯(Kǎ lái sī); Carles. (Author, be consistent please Orz)4Original text 切洛尔草原上的骑兵 but Google suggested me to correct it to 切诺尔草原上的骑兵. This might be typo or author was actually change it on purpose. 切洛尔 = Celor;  while 切诺尔= Chenor. I choose to use Chenor bcoz it seem fit more than Celor XD5 It seems that Marshal Bunaber hope he have a telekinesis superpower here lol6From Sunzi’s Art of War (孫子兵法|孙子兵法[Sūn zǐ Bīng fǎ]).