Shi Li thought, "I often feel out of place among you all because I'm too normal."
Everyone else thought: Do you have some misunderstanding about yourself? You're not normal at all!
The other students' suggestions would only embarrass themselves in front of the whole school.
The Class Teacher had a terrible headache. Although Shi Li's idea was the most ordinary and unremarkable, she was the only normal person among them.
Even with one normal program in the class, the Class Teacher wouldn't be satisfied with Shi Li's proposal.
But now, except for Shi Li's group, everyone else had failed.
The Class Teacher naturally favored Shi Li's proposal.
He thought for a moment and said, "Our class has put forward eight suggestions. According to my thinking, let's have a democratic vote. Whichever group gets the most votes, we'll use their idea for the arts performance. What do you think?"
Though he was asking for opinions, he had already taken out his phone and started operating the voting mini-program. Soon, the class group chat received the voting program from the Class Teacher.
"Three minutes to vote, everyone hurry up. After the voting deadline, you'll lose your voting rights, so please be quick."
The Class Teacher himself secretly took out his phone and pressed the decisive button.
According to the Class Teacher's thinking, in this vote, members of each group would definitely vote for their own group, and his vote would be the deciding factor.
The Class Teacher could see the voting situation in the backend, and when he saw that Shi Li's group had already exceeded his expected five votes and was far ahead, enough to crush other groups, he finally felt relieved.
When the three minutes were up, the Class Teacher posted a screenshot of the voting page in the group chat and said, "Since everyone has agreed, let's settle it then. For the New Year's performance, our whole class will do a group choir!"
While other classmates accepted it well, Shi Li was dumbfounded.
Her suggestion had just been a casual response to fulfill the requirement; she didn't want to participate in a group choir at all.
So during the voting, Shi Li had deliberately not voted for her own group, instead choosing a project with the least participants that would surely have nothing to do with her. However, unexpectedly, even so, their group's proposal still won.
Shi Li couldn't understand. Did everyone really love group choir that much, or did they really like this song? Otherwise, there was no way to explain this result.
It was truly a case of some rejoicing while others worried.
Now there was one month until the New Year's performance, and the Class Teacher immediately decided that they would practice choir in the music room during self-study periods every Monday and Thursday afternoon.
After saying this, he left the classroom to contact the music teacher he knew well to discuss rehearsal matters.
After the Class Teacher left, there were some discussions in the classroom about what clothes everyone should wear for the final performance and other such matters.
The class monitor said, "Stop talking, everyone. Start self-study. Have you finished today's homework? Have you previewed tomorrow's lessons? Do you have enough group points?"
The first two questions weren't very threatening, but the final deadly question restored silence to the classroom.
Shi Li was very worried.
A minute later, Fu Huixing received a piece of scratch paper with large words written in red ink in the blank space: It's all your fault for making me suggest group choir. I sing off-key! Now I'm going to embarrass myself.
Indeed, this group choir suggestion wasn't Shi Li's original idea. She didn't create bad ideas; she was just a carrier of them.
This happened when the discussion was about to end, and Shi Li had asked what she should answer.
Fu Huixing casually mentioned group choir, and the next second, the Class Teacher had stopped the discussion.
Shi Li didn't have any other ideas, so she simply used his suggestion. Who could have thought such a terrible idea would be chosen?
This made Shi Li couldn't help but sigh at life's unpredictability and fate's tricks QAQ.
After the line of text, Shi Li had drawn a crying figure to represent herself.
Fu Huixing instinctively turned his head to look, just as Shi Li was making faces at him.
His lips curved up, and two minutes later, he placed the draft paper on Shi Li's desk.
Shi Li opened it to find he had written simply: Just lip-sync like Milli Vanilli.
Shi Li couldn't help but laugh. Only he could come up with such a mischievous idea, though it was actually a good one.
Just as Shi Li had made up her mind to only move her lips without singing, her beautiful fantasy was shattered by the music teacher the Class Teacher had found.
Teacher Yu was a new teacher who had just completed her doctorate.
She divided the entire class of thirty-two people into male tenor, male bass, female soprano, and female alto sections, with Shi Li being assigned to the alto section.
In the first class, she said that students would have to sing in front of her every class, and she would correct them based on their performance.
Shi Li had a mental breakdown right there. What happened to just moving her lips without making a sound?
She hadn't even gotten the chance to fake it before being exposed.
Shi Li instinctively looked toward Fu Huixing, just meeting his gaze. Fu Huixing showed a faint smile, but Shi Li couldn't help glaring at him.
What kind of suggestion was this? Terrible!
Fu Huixing was also innocent. He had never been in a choir and didn't know this teacher's style. How could he have known they would be called on individually?
As classmates went up one by one to sing solo, Shi Li concluded that probably no one could sing worse than her.
Finally, it was Shi Li's turn. Under her classmates' expectant gazes, Shi Li opened her mouth and nearly sent the whole class running.
Everyone was shocked. Who knew that beneath Shi Li's angelic appearance lay such a devilish voice?
This was a voice kissed by the devil himself.
Even Teacher Yu, with her professional training, couldn't help but break character, and the piano music came to an abrupt halt.
Under Shi Li's confused gaze, she tried to hide her embarrassment, her fingers dancing over the black and white keys.
After finishing the piece, Teacher Yu praised everything about Shi Li, from her appearance to her speaking voice - everything except her singing.
When the whole class ended, Shi Li was asked to stay behind.
She thought that because of her poor performance, Teacher Yu would give her extra practice.
Teacher Yu praised her again, and before Shi Li could blush, she said, "Everyone has their strengths and weaknesses, and we can't deny that. I've noticed you're indeed not very good at singing. I heard you had injured your throat before, and this song doesn't suit you. So, from now on, during the choir, just move your lips without singing." Otherwise, she might throw off the other students.
Shi Li's eyes widened. This was what they called "just when the path seems blocked, a new way opens up." The wise ones were right - happiness must be fought for!
Leaving the music room, Shi Li quickly sent a message to Fu Huixing: [Teacher Yu said that during future choir practice...]
Fu Huixing thought that with your singing voice, this was to be expected.
So he quickly sent back a text: [See? I wasn't wrong]
Shi Li: [This is what I achieved through my own efforts, what does it have to do with you!]
