That female lead opened her mouth with a so-called Coloratura Soprano.
The sound that came out was like heavenly music, with a lingering charm that lasted for three days.
Xia Chujian felt as if her skull was about to be lifted off by the high notes, and quickly ate a mouthful of clear stewed beef to suppress the feeling of floating into the sky.
Quan Caiwei said softly, "... This is Mei Jiangli, big brother's fiancée."
Xia Chujian: "..."
Her gaze involuntarily fell on the woman's waist, which was cinched so tightly it seemed a handful could grasp it, and her wide Whalebone Skirt.
Judging from this, she didn't seem to be pregnant...
Then, out of the corner of her eye, she glanced at Quan Yuxun.
Quan Yuxun still wore a warm, spring-breeze-like smile, but in his heart, he couldn't wait to grab Xia Chujian's little peeking eyes and beat them up.
On the surface, he smiled without saying a word, and even refilled Xia Chujian's glass with Golden Fruit juice.
Xia Chujian knew that her sneaky observation had been noticed, and awkwardly changed the subject, asking, "What's the name of this opera? It sounds quite nice."
Quan Caiwei said, "It's called Noble Lady's Marriage."
Xia Chujian: "..."
She listened attentively for a while, and began to understand what the play was about.
Since it was Noble Lady's Marriage, it told the story of a daughter from a Noble family who had reached the age of marriage and needed to find a husband.
The plot of the opera Noble Lady's Marriage seemed quite complex.
This Noble family was very distinguished and had only one daughter, who was naturally spoiled and pampered, and they found many suitors unsatisfactory.
But in fact, this daughter was secretly in love with the eldest son of another Noble family.
However, this eldest son already had a sweetheart and was about to get married soon.
The beginning of this opera was the Noble girl attending the wedding of her secretly loved sweetheart.
In the first act, she tried every possible way to find an opportunity to confess her love to her sweetheart.
But in such a Noble wedding occasion, where would she have the opportunity to talk to the groom alone? Let alone confess her love.
Therefore, her wish was not fulfilled until the end of the wedding.
However, her abnormality was noticed by the groom's younger brother.
This younger brother had taken a fancy to the Noble girl.
In the second act, the groom's younger brother sent someone to propose to the Noble girl.
Just when everyone thought this younger brother had no chance, the Noble girl proposed that if this younger brother could kill his current lover, she would marry him.
This younger brother was of Noble birth, but his current lover was not a Noble, but the daughter of his nanny, and it was not public, even his family did not know.
Somehow, an outsider found out, causing a great uproar in the family.
The second act ended with the younger brother killing his lover and taking the body to the Noble girl's house to hand it over.
In the next third act, the younger brother, after dealing with his lover, once again had his family propose marriage to the Noble girl. The Noble girl actually agreed, and soon married him a month after the wedding of the person she secretly loved.
The two spent a honeymoon period as sweet as lacquer, but not long after, the older brother sacrificed himself on the Starry Sky Battlefield.
The older brother's wife, who was nearly in labor with her pregnancy, received the news from her sister-in-law, and was shocked and angry, causing her to give birth prematurely.
The prematurely born infant died soon after birth, but the older brother's wife was already half-mad after learning of her husband's death, and regarded this child as her only spiritual sustenance.
If she knew that the child was dead, she would definitely not survive.
Therefore, the news of the child's death was secretly sealed by the family, and only a very few people knew about it.
They tried every possible way, and finally discovered that the sacrificed older brother had been keeping a mistress outside, and his mistress had also given birth to a child.
The time of her giving birth to the child was only one day apart from the time his wife gave birth to her child.
Of course, his wife was premature, and her expected date of delivery was originally three months later.
But because the news of her husband's death suddenly came, it caused her child and her husband's mistress's child to be born almost one after the other.
Her premature child died, but her lover's child was healthy and thriving.
So the younger brother in the family came forward and took the child from his older brother's lover, passing him off as the posthumous child of his older brother's wife, and sent him to her.
The older brother's wife had been in a state of depression since giving birth, and those around her were busy taking care of her health.
Moreover, the nanny and caretaker who had been nursing the child were all killed after the premature infant died.
Therefore, when the little baby was sent over, the older brother's wife and those around her had no idea that the child had been switched.
The ending of this opera is that the Noble Lady, who has become the younger brother's wife, lives lovingly with her husband, has a son and a daughter, and lives happily ever after, while marveling that the person she secretly admired was not so noble after all, and even had a lover and an illegitimate child...
As she watched the older sister-in-law dote on the child from her husband's lover, this Noble Lady smiled slightly, strictly disciplining her own children and ensuring they received the best education.
...
After watching the three-act opera, the boxes inside and out were filled with sighs and condemnations.
The sighs were for the tragic experience of the older sister-in-law.
The condemnations were for the older brother's duplicity.
Finally, some people sighed that some people were truly born with good fortune.
For example, this Noble Lady, who found a good husband as a result of misfortune.
If she had really been with the person she secretly admired, that older brother, then the older sister-in-law's tragic fate would have been hers.
Xia Chujian was initially very interested in watching, but later became less and less interested, preferring to focus on eating Xiang Fruit Chestnut Cake.
To be honest, it was really delicious!
Even she, who had grown up eating her Aunt's cooking, had to admit that the ingredients were top-notch!
She estimated that she could eat it as a cake even if it was just Xiang Fruit Chestnut covered in cream.
Quan Caiwei and Xia Chujian's three roommates were all crying as they watched, joining the audience outside in cursing the older brother incessantly.
Quan Yuxun had been observing Xia Chujian, and seeing her indifference, asked with a smile, "Second Lieutenant Xia doesn't like this opera? It was only rehearsed last month, and every performance since then has been sold out. Television stations and producers have already started discussing film and television contracts."
Xia Chujian shrugged and said, "It's okay, but it's not my cup of tea."
"Not your cup of tea? Then what kind of tea do you like?" Quan Caiwei wiped her tears with a tissue and asked in surprise, "I think it's very good!"
Xia Chujian thought with a smile, Isn't it just the scandalous affairs of noble families?
So even though they are Nobles, they are no different from ordinary people in this regard...
Quan Caiwei must have read too few Star Network web novels and doesn't have the ability to separate the wheat from the chaff.
Xia Chujian said perfunctorily, "That's why I said it's okay. Although I don't like it very much, there are always people who like it, which is normal. It's not like Beichen Coin, it can't be liked by everyone, right?"
Quan Caiwei laughed and said, "Chujian is always so humorous."
Quan Yuxun, however, did not let her go, and said with interest, "Why doesn't Second Lieutenant Xia like it? Is the plot not tortuous enough, or the reversals not sharp enough? Or is the character development not three-dimensional enough? Or did those people sing out of tune?"
Xia Chujian put down her chopsticks, wiped the crumbs of cake from her mouth with a tissue, and then said seriously, "Of course not. These are all very, very good, but they just can't move me. That's the reason."
"Why can't it move you? What would it take to move you?" Quan Yuxun sat leisurely, pushing up the gold-rimmed glasses on his nose.
Xia Chujian didn't want to say much at first, but Quan Yuxun kept staring at her, so she just said something casually, letting these Nobles who thought they were so noble see the power of a child who grew up being influenced by small web novels! So Xia Chujian picked up the Golden Fruit juice and took a sip, saying, "When I say it can't move me, I mean that its plot tells half the story and hides the other half, which leads to the key points not being self-consistent, making it impossible for me to sort out the context of the story."
"Oh? What's not clear? I think it's too detailed." Quan Caiwei asked curiously, "For example, when the Noble Lady was proposed to by the groom's younger brother, she said so many conditions that I was annoyed."
Xia Chujian nodded and said, "That part is indeed very cumbersome, and it is meaningless cumbersome, as if it is just to drag out the length of time so that the time of the three-act opera remains consistent."
"That's right! It seems to be like that!" Chu Qingjuan nodded in surprise, "Now that you mention it, it really might be like that!"
Xia Chujian continued, "It doesn't matter if it's dragging out the time. Anyway, it's a one-and-a-half-hour opera, so it's only natural to drag it out for a few minutes. What I mean by the plot not being coherent, of course, refers to those very key points."
Quan Yuxun narrowed his eyes and said with a smile, "Which key points? I didn't notice."
Xia Chujian glanced at him and said with a smile, "Chief Quan Da didn't notice? - Really? I don't believe it."
Then she leaned over and looked at Quan Caiwei, who was sitting on the other side of Quan Yuxun, and said, "Caiwei, don't you think it's very abrupt that the older brother suddenly died in the Starry Sky Battlefield? He was newly married at the time, right? Has half a year passed? I remember that our troops have a honeymoon leave, at least a month, right?"
"Then, his wife became pregnant not long after they were newly married. According to the Empire's military regulations, when a wife is pregnant, the Sergeant can extend his leave, right? Of course, I just vaguely remember these two points. Whether this is the case, the Second Lieutenant officers of the Fifth Interstellar Fleet will have to confirm it."
She turned her head to look at her three roommates on the other side.
Mao Yonggui thoughtfully nodded and said, "There are indeed these two rules. The honeymoon leave is one month. After a female Sergeant becomes pregnant, she gets half a year of leave."
"If a male Sergeant's wife is pregnant, the male Sergeant can have one month of leave to accompany his wife. After childbirth, both men and women have maternity leave."
"Because one of the principles of the military is that soldiers should preferably have families and descendants. This avoids wiping out the population..."
Xia Chujian said, "Then I didn't remember it wrong. So, under these two premises, why would a big brother still on his honeymoon go to the Starry Sky Battlefield?"
Quan Caiwei added, "That's right, the lyrics are very clear that the big brother went to the battlefield less than a month after getting married."
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