Chapter 437: Chapter 411 The Cat at the Concert Chapter 437: Chapter 411 The Cat at the Concert The next day, Zheng Tan heard while out and about that someone had dropped dead on a certain street, reportedly in the middle of a phone call, never to get up again. By the time the ambulance arrived, the person had long since passed away.

Zheng Tan didn’t feel too much upon hearing this news, just thought that street was quite close to where he had been the day before. Besides that, he didn’t give it much more thought and continued on with his life as usual.

Zheng Tan took a stroll around the lakeside villa, Feng Baikin had graduated, but he had decided to start a business in Chuhua City, setting up a game development studio.

Mr. Jiao, since his kids were rarely at home now, didn’t find the 70-some-square-meter house crowded at all. In fact, it felt emptier, and he didn’t think about moving to the villa side at least for the next three years. Feng Baikin was quite accustomed to living there, so the lease was renewed. It was just that Zheng Tan went there less often now.

Tiger was rarely seen around these parts nowadays, and as the weather grew colder, that guy almost always stayed at home fattening up. He would often monopolize Feng Baikin’s laptop keyboard, and when Feng Baikin returned from the restroom while working, he would find Tiger squatting on it. Later, Feng Baikin had someone make a keyboard-shaped heating pad to divert Tiger’s attention. Unfortunately, after a couple of days, Tiger returned to taking over the laptop keyboard, completely ignoring the heating pad. Perhaps it just wanted to cause trouble, to feel its own presence?

Cats that liked to sleep on keyboards apparently weren’t just Tiger. Zheng Tan saw many cats do the same, such as Heimi on the third floor. Now when Zheng Tan went down to the third floor to visit, he would often see Heimi taking over Ermao’s laptop keyboard.

After loitering around and having lunch at Feng Baikin’s, Zheng Tan slowly made his way back.

Chuhua University was very lively recently. While walking, Zheng Tan overheard most of the conversations about the concert on Christmas Eve.

Some places on campus had set up promotional signs, with large posters on them, depicting new boy, with the band members standing in front of a huge black cat pattern, which was the insignia of the new boy band.

New boy, that is, Jin’s band.

Jin’s fame had been growing, and they had long shed their initial naivete. Their popularity had been on the rise, especially among many students.

This year, Jin’s band’s campus tour had Chuhua University as its last stop. It was set for the evening of the 24th, which coincidentally was Christmas Eve and a Friday too.

If you wanted to get tickets, you either received them from buying albums or other related products or as a reward for participating in certain activities. Of course, the school also had many tickets.

There were ticket distribution spots at several fixed points within the school, where students stood in long queues, unbothered by the cold wind. There they would either chat with people around them or play with their phones. No matter how long the queue, they would wait to get their ticket. If they missed out, they would have to buy from someone on the school forum, but then the prices would be much higher, beyond what many students could afford. Compared to those resold at exorbitant prices, they would rather endure the cold wind for a while and be done with it.

Besides tickets, the ticket distribution spots also sold some new boy band merchandise, like the Black Cat Team insignia, which sold quite well. It wasn’t expensive, and most students would spare a few bucks to get an insignia after getting their ticket, which could serve as a nice souvenir even after the concert was over.

Of course, some people didn’t care about these kinds of things. Seeing the long queue, they would ask the person next to them.

“What’s going on over there? Is it another lecture by some celebrity?” Sometimes the school would host notable guests in the university’s auditorium, such as veteran actors, famous hosts, successful businesspeople, and professors with significant domestic and international influence. Each time, there would be a long queue to get the tickets.

“You don’t know? It’s new boy, of course!” said someone with derision.

“What’s new boy?” the person asked again.

The person next to them, with a look of exasperation, explained to their classmate.

“I heard that Jin, the lead singer of new boy, once came to perform at our school’s Guitar Association event.”

“I know that. A member of the Guitar Association told me that Jin performed with their former president who served multiple terms ago; the opening guitar duet was by the two of them. I still have the video, which I’ve watched several times. It’s quite thrilling!” someone joined the discussion.

“When did that happen? It must have been years ago, right?”

“The lead singer of new boy did something like that?”

“What’s so surprising about that? New boy wasn’t as famous back then as they are now, but Jin’s skills were still strong. He even had a guitar duel with the former president of the Guitar Association.”

“Wow, I didn’t know about that!” a student exclaimed in surprise.

“Ignorant, aren’t you? If you didn’t pay attention to the Guitar Association, you wouldn’t know how popular it is in our school. Nowadays, if you want to join, you have to go through a strict selection process; it’s really strict. Otherwise, the association would be overrun. The main reason for this phenomenon is precisely because of the new boy band, which ensures the Guitar Association gets some tickets to their concerts every year, with pretty good seats.”

Every time Zheng Tan heard someone discuss Jin’s band, it made him think of those down-and-out youths, who had almost been driven to a corner back in the day.

And now, they had reached such heights.