After the New Year's holiday, everyone began returning to school.
During the holiday, nobody stayed idle. The school forum was flooded with new posts, and discussions were going wild.
The focus of the discussions largely revolved around two main topics.
The first was Shen You'an's stunning solo piano performance at the New Year's Eve gala. Before the event, rumors between Shen You'an and Qin Xiangge were rampant, claiming that the two had wagered on performing the same piece at the gala. Almost everyone thought Shen You'an had overestimated herself and was blindly showing off in front of an expert.
In literature, there's a rhetorical device called "raise by suppressing," where initial criticism or negation—"suppressing"—is used to magnify praise—"raising."
The more people criticized and mocked Shen You'an beforehand, the more her breathtaking solo performance at the gala left a searing impression, as if branded deep into everyone's mind, unforgettable for a long time.
