Starting as a War God: Global Goddesses Blocking my Door

"It seems like Brother Ye Fan is smitten!"

Feeling Ye Fan's hesitation on the other end of the phone, Wei Ziyi couldn't help but smirk slyly.

"Ahem!"

Having his thoughts read by Wei Ziyi, Ye Fan quickly coughed, "Not at all! I have something to do this morning, so let's not meet up. See you later!"

He had come to realize that Wei Ziyi, this young lady, was utterly obsessed with him, and she always teased him whenever they interacted.

Ye Fan found it hard to imagine if he would, over time, mistakenly cross the line with Wei Ziyi.

To avoid anything terrible happening, Ye Fan decided not to see Wei Ziyi for a short period.

"Brother Ye Fan, wait a second!" Realizing Ye Fan was about to hang up, Wei Ziyi hastily called out.

Ye Fan asked with surprise, "Is there anything else?"

"Brother Ye Fan, if you don't want to meet, that's fine, but do you have to hang up on me? By the way, there's a concert later, could you please come with me?" Wei Ziyi went straight to the point.

"A concert?"

Upon hearing this, Ye Fan hesitated for a moment, "Ziyi, I'm sorry, but I'm just not interested in that!"

By now, Ye Fan was totally scared of Wei Ziyi. He was afraid she'd use the concert as a pretense to lure him out and then... do unspeakable things.

"Brother Ye Fan, how could you be like this? It's so boring going alone; please, I'm begging you to come with me! I promise, I won't do anything inappropriate to you!" Wei Ziyi pledged earnestly.

Confronted with Wei Ziyi's pleading, Ye Fan furrowed his brows and asked, "Is that so?"

"Mhm, for real, absolutely for real!" Wei Ziyi nodded seriously.

"Let me think about it!"

Ye Fan stroked his chin. Coincidentally, he had no plans for the day, and having not seen Wei Ziyi for many years, he was indeed looking forward to catching up with her.

Then, Ye Fan said solemnly, "Ziyi, let me be clear first: I'm a decent man, and you're not allowed to lay a finger on me. If you agree, I'll accompany you!"

Ye Fan had already experienced Wei Ziyi's influence in the country. Should there be any hint of romance between them, and if fervent fans witnessed it, he could already picture a mob stripping the roof off his house.

"Alright, I agree!" Wei Ziyi chuckled.

In her heart, she thought, I will agree now, but whether I'll keep my hands to myself later depends on the situation, and then it won't be up to you.

With Wei Ziyi's assurance, Ye Fan asked, "Alright, where should we meet?"

"Brother Ye Fan, come to Huanghe Road. I've already sneaked out!" Wei Ziyi laughed.

"Okay, I'm on my way!"

Ye Fan drove his Rolls-Royce Cullinan expeditiously towards Central Plains Huanghe Road.

"Brother Ye Fan, over here!"

As soon as he arrived at Huanghe Road, he saw a girl in the flower of her youth waving her arms not far away.

Ye Fan was taken aback. The girl wore a mask and sunglasses, and she was wrapped in an overcoat as tight as a rice dumpling. If Wei Ziyi hadn't greeted him, he wouldn't have recognized her.

"Isn't this a bit excessive?" Ye Fan said, half-laughing and half-crying, as he approached Wei Ziyi.

Wei Ziyi got into the passenger seat and laughed, "Brother Ye Fan, if I didn't disguise myself, do you think I could have gotten out of the hotel?"

"That's true!"

Thinking of the thousands of frenzied fans outside the Earl Hotel, Ye Fan had an epiphany.

Checking the time, Wei Ziyi said directly, "Brother Ye Fan, hurry, let's go to Times Square. The concert is about to start!"

"Okay!" Ye Fan nodded.

Driven by Ye Fan, the two of them reached Central Plains Times Square in record time.

"Sorry! The concert has already started, no entry allowed!"

Following Wei Ziyi's lead, Ye Fan jogged all the way to the concert entrance, only to be stopped by the security staff.

Wei Ziyi said irritably, "Come on, why are you so rigid? Rules are meant to be broken, and we're alive and well. Besides, we bought VIP seats, so we should have some privileges, right?"

"I'm sorry, even if you have purchased VIP seats, if you didn't arrive before the concert started, entry is still prohibited," the head of security stated.

Slap!!!

No sooner had the head of security finished speaking than Wei Ziyi pulled out a stack of RMB from her pocket and slapped it into his hand.

Wei Ziyi stared at the head of security, "Is that enough?"

"This..." The head of security was stunned on the spot.

He never expected Wei Ziyi to suddenly give him a stack of cash. Based on his experience, this stack of hundred-yuan bills was at least ten thousand yuan.

Seeing the head of security hesitate, Wei Ziyi reached into her pocket again, and another stack of RMB was slapped into his hand, "Is that enough?"

"Enough, enough, enough!"

Seeing Wei Ziyi fork out money again, the head of security's face was flush with smiles like a daisy in bloom.

The next moment, the head of security said, "Distinguished guests, please follow me!"

"Captain, this isn't according to the rules, is it?" A young security guard said, taken aback.

The head of security scowled and barked, "They are VIPs, and therefore, they have privileges. Anyway, the concert has just begun, what's wrong with being a little late? Get out of my way!"

After being scolded by the head of security, the young security guard dared not utter another word.

"Please, this way!" After scolding the young guard, the head security's sycophantic smile returned.

He knew well he was breaking the rules, but the money Wei Ziyi offered was too much to ignore.

"Brother Ye Fan, let's go!"

Having successfully bribed the security staff, Wei Ziyi chuckled with glee.

Ye Fan couldn't help but laugh and cry, "Well look at you! Now you know how to win people over."

"Of course, these years haven't been spent in vain," Wei Ziyi said, full of pride.

Under the lead of the chief security officer, Ye Fan and Wei Ziyi successfully entered the concert venue.

As soon as he arrived at the concert venue, Ye Fan was shocked by the scene before him. He saw a vast concert hall with tens of thousands of seats—all of which were occupied.

Ye Fan exclaimed, "What a grand scale!"

In Ye Fan's memory, only those superstar singers could sell thirty to fifty thousand concert tickets in China.

It was not simple for a mere concert to attract tens of thousands of people.n/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om

After all, there's a fundamental difference between a concert held by a superstar singer and one held by a pianist.

"Brother Ye Fan, you may not know this, but today's the debut concert of the top rising star in our country's piano circle, Master Chen Chen. I've met Master Chen Chen before— he's really handsome, with over ten million followers on Weibo. This is his first concert, and there were tens of thousands of seats. The tickets sold out online in less than ten minutes—all ten thousand of them!" Wei Ziyi explained.

Ye Fan nodded in amazement, "Hearing you talk about him, this Master Chen Chen does seem pretty impressive!"

Whoosh——

Right after Ye Fan finished speaking, the stage lights at the concert venue suddenly lit up, revealing a handsome man in a suit already seated at a piano.

"Wow, Master Chen Chen!"

Upon seeing the young man on stage, the entire concert hall, filled with tens of thousands, erupted in excitement.

"Wei Chen, Wei Chen!"

"Wei Chen, I love you, I want to have your monkey babies!"

Many female fans, with stars in their eyes, even rushed out of their seats towards the stage, only to be stopped by the security staff when they got close.

"This is really madness!" Ye Fan exclaimed.

The young man on stage, who was the top rising star in the country's piano circle, Wei Chen, spoke into the microphone, "Thank you, everyone, for coming to my debut concert. Please keep quiet, now, and enjoy this musical feast!"

"No problem, Chen Chen, just go ahead and play!"

As Wei Chen spoke, everyone in the large venue gradually fell silent.

Pling!

Pling, pling!

Then, under the watchful eyes of everyone, Wei Chen's hands, smooth as white jade, danced across the piano keyboard, and beautiful notes instantly filled the venue.

"Wow wow wow! It sounds so good, Wei Chen, you really are my idol!"

"Yeah! It sounds incredible, my ears are about to get pregnant!"

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As the notes rang out, the venue once again became rowdy.

"Flight of the Bumblebee?" Ye Fan said in surprise upon hearing the notes.

Wei Ziyi asked in astonishment, "Brother Ye Fan, you know 'Flight of the Bumblebee'?"

"Yeah, I know a bit about it," Ye Fan replied with a smile.

'Flight of the Bumblebee,' a classic orchestral piece also known as 'Flight of the Bumblebee,' is one of the famous works of the Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov.

The impact of 'Flight of the Bumblebee' has been profound; because of its extremely fast melody, it is often chosen to showcase the technical skills of musical instruments like the piano and the violin.

In Ye Fan's memory, playing 'Flight of the Bumblebee' required lightning-fast fingers and wild rhythm, which made it hard for many to bring out its true charm. What surprised Ye Fan was that Wei Chen, known as the top rising star in the country's piano circle, chose this piece as his opening number.

Pling, pling!

Pling, pling, pling, pling!

With everyone's eyes on him, Wei Chen on the stage slowly closed his eyes, his hands moved like lightning across the piano keys, filling the hall with a sense that a swarm of bees from the highlands was enveloping the place.

"Wow! Isn't that a bit too explosive?"

"Amidst Master Chen Chen's music, I feel like I'm in the midst of a massive swarm of bees!"

Many fans gasped in admiration, and quite a few pianists looked at Wei Chen with a touch of respect in their eyes.

Clearly, the 'Flight of the Bumblebee' played by Wei Chen had conquered many.

Pling, pling!

Pling, pling, pling, pling!

As the notes continued to fill the air and exclamations of amazement were heard, more and more people looked at Wei Chen with admiration.

After the piece ended, everyone was silent for a long time, unable to snap back to reality.

Wei Ziyi said in shock, "Wei Chen truly is a musical genius. When I saw him last time, his piano skills weren't this strong, but after some time without seeing him, his abilities have improved a lot. Brother Ye Fan, what do you think of this piece?"

"To be honest, it wasn't that amazing!"

When Wei Ziyi asked, Ye Fan answered truthfully, "It's not hard to pick up 'Flight of the Bumblebee,' but to express the wild and exhilarating artistic conception is as difficult as climbing to heaven. For the past hundred or two years, countless people have challenged the peaks of 'Flight of the Bumblebee,' but sadly, all have ended in failure!"

"It's evident that Wei Chen has a good foundation in piano, but ultimately, he cannot reach the heights achieved by the ancients. If I were to give a grade, it would barely pass!"

What! A barely passing grade?

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh——

As he spoke, the entire concert hall turned their gaze onto Ye Fan, all shocked.

This guy, he actually said that the piece played by the top rising star in the country's piano circle was just so-so, and only worth a barely passing grade?

This kid must have lost his mind!