This novel by Xu Lin is pure love and sweetness, with slight obstacles, but nothing too serious.

However, the piece Xu Lin is going to compose is not of a sweet and joyful style.

In the main world line, the male and female leads are together, sweet and happy, not much different from a prince and princess in a fairy tale.

In the if world line, the male and female leads miss each other and do not end up together.

Xu Lin is going to work on the if world line.

In artistic creation in romance, humanity shares a special commonality regardless of nationality or race.

Humans all aspire to beautiful emotions, but in creation often like to make things life-and-death, and in romance, these creations often carry even heavier emotions, like using the love between the leads to criticize the decadence of European medieval religion in "Notre-Dame Cathedral," or the "Dream of the Red Chamber," one of the four great classics, which makes the subject even heavier when examined closely.

Broadly speaking, it's because beautiful things are not easily cherished and noticed, losing them or having a bit of regret creates a greater shock to the mind and soul, especially when other themes are added, the work seems even greater.

"Yu Hua has a fulfilled life and happy family, which doesn't stop him from writing 'Living'."

Xu Lin has read this book; when he was young, Ms. Ren made him read it, but kids don't really feel anything reading such things.

Looking back now, Xu Lin doesn't think much of the book, after all, it's been a long time.

Moreover, having just listened to Suzuki Shojiro's "Original Scenery of Hometown," Xu Lin is feeling a bit emotional.

Therefore, Xu Lin decides to compose a melancholy piece, and later work on a happier piece.

For this, Xu Lin specifically found some sad love music to listen to, of course not those random love songs, but music like "Butterfly Lovers," which is extremely emotional.

Xu Lin listened to it for an hour, his mood considerably lowered, and feeling in the right emotional state, he began composing on draft paper.

For the melody, adjustments were made through pitch and interval; overall, it is sad but not overly so. The so-called sad but not overly so here means that the grief in Xu Lin's piece is moderate, not excessive, not sorrow for sorrow's sake, and is not life-and-death. After all, people must look forward, love may be lost, but life goes on, so while being sad but not overly so, it carries a sense of power.

Additionally, Xu Lin plans to hold an activity where readers fill in lyrics, meaning he needs to set up a framework, akin to the metrical pattern of Song lyrics, with different requirements for tone patterns and word count for each pattern.

Therefore, Xu Lin put effort into rhythm, harmony, and form.

A whole set of framework was established here.

After much editing and adjusting for over an hour, it was finally completed.

Then, Xu Lin picked up the guitar.

In composition, there's also the concept of "timbre," which refers to the instrument, as different instruments have different timbres.

For instance, the guitar Xu Lin holds is a folk guitar, with bright and clear high tones and deep, resonant low tones.

After picking up the guitar, Xu Lin played directly without needing to look at the score.

Thanks to his excellent memory, everything was already memorized.

Soon, the room filled with the sound of melancholy music.

"Life has eight great sufferings: birth, aging, illness, death, meeting with hatred, separation from love, unfulfilled desire, and the five aggregates burning with desire."

"Buddha said, the realm of Saṃsāra is filled with regrets, so it is a world full of regrets."

Xu Lin begins to imagine the protagonist in his story, as if experiencing his life, meeting and loving the female lead, but later having to part due to reality, the female lead departs far away, thus beginning to find solace in nature, living alone, while the male lead gradually achieves career success but always wears a wedding ring on his ring finger, never surrounded by other women, until one day years later, during a trip, the male lead arrives at a small tea house and sees the tea house owner's wife, both stunned in the moment, as if experiencing through the years.

This is one emo version, and Xu Lin adopted several different emo versions as the ending.

This is the if world line, a conclusion filled with regret yet seemingly complete.

Song title: Undecided.

Xu Lin played the guitar for over an hour until the piece was mastered, making minor adjustments along the way, until it was finally done.

Afterwards, he spent over half an hour adjusting the audio in Cubase, eventually generating a complete piece.

Time: Five-thirty in the afternoon.

Xu Lin set his phone upright and recorded a short video of himself playing the guitar, without showing his face, just him sitting on a chair and playing.

After recording, Xu Lin created a new account on a short video platform.

Username: Mr. Xu?

Xu Lin searched and found this username was already taken by many people.

He decisively changed it to: Charming Mr. Xu.

Immediately after, Xu Lin uploaded the video.

After doing this, Xu Lin logged into the writer's backend and published a single chapter.

"I composed a piece for this book, everyone can go to the short video platform and search: Charming Mr. Xu."

Additionally, Xu Lin screenshotted the homepage of the short video to prevent readers from not finding him.

Xu Lin's book has a large reader base, so immediately many people clicked in.

Generally speaking, most readers are too lazy to search, but as mentioned above, Xu Lin's book has a large reader base, even if one in ten people search, that's still a huge number.

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