Someone raised his wine glass directly to Qin Jian.
Facing all kinds of looks, Qin Jian felt overwhelmed, but he still calmly smiled and nodded to everyone.
As an experienced musical performer, this is just a small scene
It's just that Qin Jian wanted to scold his mother after sweeping him down.
“Isn’t this a gathering of Steinway artists?”
He didn't see a single pianist, not one!
The men were dressed neatly and held wine glasses in their hands.
The ladies were dressed elegantly and gathered together in small groups.
In his opinion, this was more like a high-society drinking party.
Then Qin Jian quickly noticed that everyone's attention had been diverted from him, and everyone went to talk about it.
In other words, he just made an appearance and was ignored.
It's ignoring.
This made him a little unhappy, probably because in the past two days he had become accustomed to compliments and adoring looks wherever he went.
But it's okay, the rest are looked at as monkeys.
The reception was still a buffet style, and Qin Jian took a light blue cocktail from the waiter's tray that passed by him.
Holding the wine glass, he came to the floor-to-ceiling window alone, and the bustling city lights outside the window began to light up.
This party has really disappointed him so far.
As he turned his head, a light blue dress locked his eyes.
A graceful figure was walking towards him with a smile.
Suddenly, the other party had already walked in front of him.
"Hi."
Rachel smiled and raised the goblet in her hand.
"Hi."
Qin Jian squeezed out a smile in 0.1 seconds, finally meeting an 'acquaintance.'
In the current scenario, this is really familiar.
Probably because of Rachel's appearance, Qin Jian found a sense of similarity, so he naturally raised his hand and touched the other person's wine glass.
He skipped the awkward part and took a closer look at the other party.
It's not too much to say that men like to look at beautiful women, especially beauties of Rachel's level.
To be honest, she admires the female hormones emanating from New York girls
But this is just a normal psychological reaction as a man.
...
However, what Qin Jian didn't know was that Rachel was in a similar situation to him. As a young artist who had signed a contract with Steinway & Sons, she also received the invitation letter this morning.
She really didn't like this kind of party. She had attended some so-called high-class drinking parties.
But there was no way, her agent asked her to participate in this event.
She had no choice but to attend the invitation on time.
She came earlier than Qin Jian, and only after arriving did she realize that she was alone.
Already accustomed to the various looks from men, she quietly found a corner to kill some time after she came in.
During this period, she also made love to three men who came to chat with her.
It wasn't until Qin Jian appeared that she finally saw an 'acquaintance'.
After much hesitation, she stood up with the wine glass in hand.
...
So there is this scene now
The two people facing each other quickly found their way to communicate.
German.
Qin Jian did not expect that Rachel could speak German, although her German was only half as good as his.
Rachel also didn't expect that Qin Jian not only spoke German, but was also a much kinder person than he seemed.
Or maybe she has always had a cordial feeling towards Qin Jian. This is because she likes Mozart and has been listening to Qin Jian's records for the past year.
The two of them communicated effortlessly in a mixture of German, English and gestures.
When talking about Qin Jian's Mozart record, Rachel used many adjectives to describe her fondness for this CD.
This surprised Qin Jian and also gained him a lot of vanity.
Rachel pointed out several of her favorite movements in this record that Qin Jian paid special attention to during the recording process.
For example, the third movement of k491, the first movement of k466, and the second movement of k271.
Even if the other person is just a classical music lover who can't play the piano, Qin Jian will still feel like he is 'understood'
"Thanks."
Qin Jian taught Rachel to say a Chinese sentence with a Yangcheng flavor as a thank you.
As the two chatted, Argerich and Talibek finally appeared at the door of the hall, followed by Trivno and other Steinway artists.
At this time, the hall was a little warmer, but that was all.
It wasn't until Baudelaire's figure appeared in the hall that the atmosphere really began to flow.
People rushed forward to greet Baudelaire.
Only then did Qin Jian seem to realize some problems. It seemed that in this situation, the status of musicians was not high.
Even a world-famous grand pianist like Argerich only acted as a foil to Baudelaire on such occasions.
With the appearance of the great CEO Baudelaire, tonight's event officially began.
Soon, the hall became distinct, and the artists took the initiative to form an independent circle.
After roughly understanding the nature of this so-called gathering of Steinway artists, Qin Jian couldn't say he was disappointed or anything else.
But now that he's here, he still has to show off before he can make sense.
As a complete competitor in the Chopin Competition, he took the initiative to propose a toast to Argerich and Taribek.
Both expressed their congratulations to him.
Argerich behaved particularly kindly.
Talibek even hugged Qin Jian casually and took a photo together.
Then Qin Jian toasted to the senior artists one by one as a newcomer who is about to join the Steinway family.
His humble gesture was well received by everyone.
...
This scene was all in Baudelaire's eyes, and he was very satisfied.
After three drinks, the sound of live piano sounded in the hall.
Baudelaire walked towards Qin Jian holding the wine glass.