Chapter 307: – Key to Completing the Task
To be honest, Lin Jin's dancing was actually not bad, at least it was on par with what was shown in the video. The problem was that the dance in this classical Chinese dance tutorial video was not a dance that could make people feel it was visually amazing. It looked a bit slow, like the slow paced square dances.
Although after Lin Jin learned for a few days, asking him to dance something harder was not a problem, he had been focusing on building the fundamentals and correcting his posture these few days. Practicing those basic moves like splits and stuff. building his foundation, continuously correcting his posture and practicing basic moves like splits. He had gotten quite good at those basic movements, but hell, he had never really learned how to dance yet, okay?
"It looks pretty good…" The corner of Xia Tian’s mouth was twitching as he commented from the side "I can tell you've practiced, but couldn’t you practice a bit longer before embarrassing yourself…?"
Lin Jin also wasn't sure how to explain so he could only shuffle awkwardly to the side.
"How about I should try again?" Lin Jin felt that even he wasn't great at dancing, it shouldn't be this bad after all the exposure he had had. "The dance from last time, I think I can do it really well now!"
"I think you should go back and practice more" Xia Tian had always been brutally honest, "At least go back and get familiar with it first before coming over and showing the viewers. Otherwise, you’re just going to get roasted again."
"You think my dancing looks bad?" Lin Jin immediately raised his eyebrows and glared at him.
"No" Xia Tian, though blunt, was not an idiot. He shook his head without hesitation and immediately explained, "I'm worried the viewers wouldn’t appreciate your dance skills."
Lin Jin thought it over and felt that although he had made progress, going directly to the girl group dance he tried last time would still appear awkward. It would be better to go back and pick a classical song with a simple dance. Then, think about what clothes to wear to enhance the visual appeal for the viewers.
"Tomorrow then! I'll practice a lot tomorrow afternoon and come back to dance tomorrow night!" Lin Jin glanced at the live stream chat, which was full of mockery with just a few encouraging ones. Combined with Xia Tian's comments, Lin Jin felt he really needed to prove himself.
He stood up, pointed at the camera, and addressed the viewers on the other side of the computer, "This time tomorrow! Get your gifts and airplanes and rockets ready!"
Watching the barrage of messages about Lin Jin along with rows of 666 and other valueless gifts flooding the chat, Lin Jin confidently looked up and hummed: "My dance teacher says I’m really talented. I can definitely learn a dance in one day!"
Xia Tian thought Lin Jin looked a bit retarded and shook his head, helplessly dragging Lin Jin away from the camera.
"I'm going back to practice my dance!" But Lin Jin was still full of fighting spirit. He waved his little fist at Xia Tian and then puffed up his cheeks "If the viewers donate a lot of gifts tomorrow! You have to treat me to a meal!"
"Sure sure sure." Xia Tian shook his head as he watched Lin Jin defiantly wave his fist.
Lin Jin slowly made his way back to his room, then started earnestly looking for a beautiful yet simple girl group dance to fulfill his promise.
Speaking of which, the relationship between Lin Jin and Xia Tian seemed to have been mended. Xia Tian was upset with him because Lin Jin went back on his words and stopped streaming. But recently, Lin Jin had been showing up every night to help boost Xia Tian’s stream popularity, so most of the viewers who were originally attracted by Lin Jin’s looks stayed.
Meeting each other every night had slowly repaired their relationship.
"Nobody looks good." He sat in front of his computer and reviewed the girl group’s videos. He felt that Nobody seemed quite simple, though the hip twisting was a bit embarrassing for him.
He always felt that if he twisted his hips like that, he would end up injuring himself eventually...
And they danced so provocatively. He wondered how these girl group members managed to dance like that without feeling shame.
After seriously trying a couple times, Lin Jin was already blushing. He felt dancing this way was more like he was seducing men instead of showcasing the beauty of dance.
"Temporary task is here!"
While Lin Jin was sitting on the bed and playing on his phone with a flushed face, he suddenly saw the black cat appear on his phone screen with its own musical entrance "dang dang dang". It said to Lin Jin while twisting its hips and dancing a square dance "This temporary task came straight from your mouth! So it’s not against your will! You have to complete it seriously!"
So this black cat does have problems, right?
Lin Jin rolled his eyes at it. He didn’t know what to say, so he decided to just ignore it and opened the task list to check the latest temporary task.
Temporary Task!
Before 10 pm tomorrow night, present the most perfect dance to the viewers in the live stream!
Task Reward: Dance Talent +1 [This means it'll be a bit easier for you to learn to dance!]
Task Penalty: Dance Talent -1 [This means it'll be a bit harder for you to learn to dance!]
There's no way to avoid this task penalty!
However, Lin Jin was quite tempted by the task reward. After all, Lin Jin felt he had reached a bottleneck in learning dance and doubted whether he would be able to reach the beginner’s level of proficiency in the two remaining days.
After all, Teacher Lin also needed to rest on the weekend.
Lin Jin thought about it it and decided spending a day learning the dance videos and dancing for the viewers shouldn't be a problem. Then he can spend another night improving his dance skills to complete the task…
The time was a bit tight and Lin Jin wasn't sure exactly what beginner's dance proficiency meant.
"What counts as beginner's proficiency in dance?" Lin Jin asked the black cat with a frown.
The black cat hesitated for a bit. Not sure how to explain it, so it simply waved its paw and a progress bar appeared. The progress bar was already three quarters full, with just a quarter left to complete.
"When normal people learn to dance, they need to start with the basic steps such as leg presses at a young age. But because of your yoga proficiency, you skipped past that, so your progress bar naturally started at fifty percent" the black cat explained formally to Lin Jin, "Also, you’re unexpectedly talented, so the progress bar is now at eighty percent."
"What about the remaining twenty percent?" Lin Jin immediately asked.
"How would I know." The black cat rolled its eyes. "I'm not a god, I'm just a cat!"
Despite its words, even if the black cat wasn’t a god, the things it did could still be regarded as miracles, right?
But Lin Jin wasn't too bothered. In his view, a large part of the missing twenty percent was because of his poor balance.
Many moves in classical Chinese dance require spinning. Lin Jin could slowly spin just fine, but if he had to spin quickly in place, he would lose his balance and fall over after just one or two rotations.
And until now, he still didn’t know a real classical Chinese dance.
Maybe as long as he mastered a difficult classical Chinese dance, his dance proficiency would be considered to have reached the beginner’s level?
Lin Jin frowned and thought about the task, feeling that it might be possible for him to complete the task within two days.