Chapter 98 The match went well

Li Diyun walked into the room and took the last seat left for him. He sat in the middle of the table and looked at the people surrounding him. After counting, he couldn't help but feel a little dazed.

"Wait a minute, what's the name of Julian, um... Jia Zhichao? Yes, that's the name. Didn't Jia Zhichao come?"

"Jia Zhichao?"

After everyone looked at each other, they shook their heads slightly.

No one knows this person named Jia Zhichao, but everyone knows that he exists.

After all, there are only so many contestants in the Chopin International Piano Competition. Apart from the 6 they currently have, everyone knows who is left.

Seeing that no one had Jia Zhichao's contact information, Li Diyun couldn't help but sigh.

"Okay, forget it if you don't want to come, that's it."

After that, he raised his chopsticks and poked the fish in the middle of the table, smiling at everyone.

"Okay, let's not talk about this. Eat it quickly. It won't taste good when it's cold. We'll talk about other things after you finish eating."

After saying that, everyone looked at each other and started moving at the same time.

At this moment, there are eight people sitting on this side of the table. He Shen and Li Diyun sit on the main seat and on the right side of the main seat. Fu Diao is next to He Shen, and Yu Tianyou is next to Fu Diao.

On Li Diyun's left hand side are Kong Qi, Xu Zi, Wang Chao and Zhang Cheng.

Although it was not stated explicitly, judging from the atmosphere at the scene, everyone's status was already very obvious.

As a judge of the Chopin International Piano Competition and the top pianist in China, Li Diyun's status is a bit transcendent and he has the highest status among everyone.

Next is He Shen, a performer who ranks among the top performers in China's Chopin rankings. His understanding of Chopin can be regarded as the second best among the crowd.

And He Shen also has rich experience as a competition instructor.

Because he is too old, he is unable to participate in many competitions that were originally suitable for him. He can only work as an assistant to some players to help them adjust for competitions.

Although his competition experience is not particularly rich, he still has a rich understanding of the players and knows how to help the players adjust.

And the third place is Fu Tiao.

In fact, the reason is very simple. It is not because of how powerful Fu Diao is or how high the score is.

They can't see Fu Diao's score now, they can only know a general appearance.

But they are very aware of Zhao Chengzhen's level.

Zhao Chengzhen is the kind of person who can control her body even if her arms are shaking when she is sick, so that she can perform an extremely perfect interpretation.

With his level of strength, almost no one among the players present was willing to face Zhao Chengzhen head-on.

Yes, no one can touch Zhao Chengzhen.

As long as they listen to Zhao Chengzhen's performance on the first day, they will understand how terrifying Zhao Chengzhen is.

The ultimate purity, the ultimate Chopin, with nothing superfluous in it.

This level of performance really made people tremble in their hearts. They even suspected that it was not Zhao Chengzhen on the stage, but the real Chopin who had come to this stage.

They all dream that they can have such strength and can show a perfect Chopin to attract the attention of all the judges and tell them their strength.

It was such a terrifying player, a player they did not dare to compete with, but Fu Tiao was able to withstand the pressure of that person and continue to move forward, and even played a performance that was not inferior to him.

Fu Tiao's level is definitely not number one, but he was able to block the number one and left a deep impression in everyone's mind.

Then even if he is not number one, he is not far away from number one.

This is why that group of people revered Fu Tiao to the third place.

As for everyone else…

The treatment of others is more normal, and there is no one who is superior to others.

After all, we are all relatively ordinary players. If we can enter the finals, everything will be fine. As for winning the championship?

It would be better not to think too much, so that you will feel more comfortable when you are eliminated.

Just like Yu Tianyou now.

Yu Tianyou is in a very relaxed state right now. He can perform as much as he can in the second round. Anyway, he has no hope of the third round. If he stays in the Chopin Hotel for one more night and collects a penny from the organizing committee, he will make a profit.

What? Make it through the second round to the third round?

Yu Tianyou never thought about this possibility. It's not like he didn't know his own strength. How could he still expect to pass the second round and enter the third round?

He was thankful to be able to enter the second round, especially when he was between Xu Zi and Yang Yike. When he saw that his level of strength was obviously lower than the two of them, he was so excited.

Almost crying.

Now that he can finally enter the second round, it is obvious that he is lucky. Naturally, he will not have any extravagant expectations in the third round.

Everyone just ate in silence, and only He Shen and Li Diyun chatted a little.

When they were almost done eating, everyone put down their chopsticks and looked at Li Diyun, waiting for the reason why he invited them all to come for dinner today.

Li Diyun looked at the large piece of squirrel mandarin fish left in front of him, put down his chopsticks helplessly, looked at everyone, and said helplessly.

"Aren't you hungry? Just have a good meal. Why are you so serious?"

Wang Chao, who was sitting on the side, immediately said: "Mr. Li, if we just want to eat, we can eat later. Isn't it just for..."

Wang Chao did not continue, but his meaning was very clear.

He hoped that Li Diyun could give them some advice or something.

He Shen happily took away the last piece of squirrel mandarin fish from the center of the plate and raised his eyebrows at Li Diyun.

"Tell me, why did you call us to this place?"

"Nothing, just... come here and talk to you about the Chopin International Piano Competition...ah!"

His volume gradually increased. Seeing the last piece of fish entering He Shen's stomach, Li Diyun sighed and could only continue: "Forget it, that's it. I'm just here to brief you on your situation.

, tell me where you stand in the competition."

"First is the worst, Yu Tianyou." Li Diyun looked at Yu Tianyou, without any hesitation, and said straightforwardly: "Your level of strength is the worst, you should also feel it, right?"

"Well, yes, so I gave up struggling in the second round. I probably won't be able to make it in the third round." Yu Tianyou said cheerfully, not caring.

Seeing Yu Tianyou's attitude, Li Diyun breathed a sigh of relief and explained.

"Actually, you are the last contestant to enter the second round this year. Our organizing committee struggled with that for a long time. In the end, we don't know who voted for you and voted you up because your score was 17.38 points, so

You happen to be in last place this year, and the score of your previous contestant... was 18.64 points, which is a whole point higher than yours."

Yu Tianyou was stunned for a moment, and couldn't help but ask: "Well... won't the announcement of the results reveal to others that you maliciously manipulated the competition?"

"All our judges who have a relationship with you have been banned from voting. If there is really a problem later, then check the judge who voted for you. He voted you in. It has nothing to do with us, but according to your results

, the possibility of receiving votes in the next round will not be so great."

"It's okay, I'm ready to go back to China. I even bought all the tickets for the next few rounds, just waiting for me to be eliminated."

"you……"

Although I am glad that Yu Tianyou can recognize the reality, Li Diyun always feels uncomfortable when Yu Tianyou says this.

He could only shake his head slightly and look at the others.

"Zhang Zhang, your score is..."

"Wang Chao, your score is..."

"Kong Qi, your score is..."

Everyone's scores were revealed one after another, and finally stopped at Xu Zi's side.

"Xu Zi, your score is 21.56. This is a very good result. You are ranked 17th in the first round. I am optimistic that you can enter the third round."

"Thank you, Teacher Li Diyun!" Xu Zi stood up immediately and thanked Li Diyun.

His feeling made Li Diyun a little restless for a moment, and he couldn't help scratching his head: "Thank you, no need. Just work hard and qualify for the finals of the Chopin International Piano Competition."

"Well, I will fight for it!"

Finally, Li Diyun looked at Fu Diao and couldn't help but smile with satisfaction.

"Fu Tiao, your score is 23.41 points, ranking third among everyone. The gap between you and the top three is not big. You are only 0.5 points behind Zhao Chengzhen, who is first! You can still make up for this gap later.

You have every chance to charge towards the championship! It’s amazing! It’s amazing! Congratulations on Fu Tiao!”

Fu Tiao was stunned. He didn't expect that he was only in third place.

"Am I... only in third place?"

"Yes, but you don't have to worry. The gap between the third place and the front is not big. It may just be a matter of the judges' personal preferences, right? You are like me. I like Fu Tiao's performance very much. If I can give it to you

In terms of scoring, I will definitely give you a very high score, at least starting at 24 points! It’s just a pity that your performance doesn’t seem to be in line with the preferences of most other judges.”

"Well, that's it, it's okay."

Fu Diao shook his head, not particularly unhappy, just a little disappointed.

For him, he originally thought he should be in second place, but unexpectedly he was ranked third.
To be continued...