The scene opens in the main teaching building at the Berlin Conservatory of Music, where a young man named chen-chen-s mother is teaching her son ling-yin, an eighteen-year-old student. The young man asks the professor what he thinks about the song "spring," and the professor replies that he doesn't think the young man deserves an "exceptional opportunity" because he makes people pay less attention to him than to the music that he plays. He says that he hopes the professor will not let him down, because there are plenty of talented and hard-working students around him, and he hopes that he will not be upset by the professor's words. He tells the professor that he has played very well recently, and that he thinks it is even close to his mother's. The professor tells him that he is on the way to becoming a professional performer, but that he needs to be stricter with the child, because he does not want to lose one like him, so he will have to be strict with the other child. He asks if the hottie from another school came for her, and she thinks he did not mean it, but she still thinks that he