Chapter 310: – Special Training
After eating at Wanda Plaza, Lin Jin took Teacher Lin to his rented apartment.
Lin Jin had also bought the clothes he had tried on earlier. Teacher Lin had planned to pay for it herself, but Lin Jin felt it wasn't quite right to have his teacher pay for his clothes, so he ended up spending over two hundred yuan on the outfit.
Anyway, he didn't have any summer clothes for women.
"Why is your place so small? How much is it a month?" Teacher Lin looked around Lin Jin's room. She was extremely disappointed and kept commenting on the lack of furniture, "How come you don’t have a single cushion on your bed, or any dolls and such on the table. You haven’t decorated you house at all, right? Look at your place, it looks just like a boy’s."
"Yeah, move in ready apartment." Lin Jin was busy clearing out an open space in the room. The room was small, with a large bed occupying nearly half of it. While tidying up, he casually explained, "What's there to decorate with a move in ready apartment? Plus, I am a boy."
Teacher Lin was invited over by Lin Jin. He planned to spend the weekend improving his dance skills, hoping to reach a beginner’s proficiency by noon on Sunday.
Finally, Lin Jin cleared a space of about three square meters and then mopped the floor until the tile was clean enough to lie down and roll on.
"Teacher Lin." After tidying everything up, Lin Jin kicked off his slippers and turned around to look at Teacher Lin, who was sitting cross legged on the bed teasing Braised Pork.
Braised Pork looked like it couldn’t go on with the rest of its life. It lay flat on the bed with all four legs in the air and a despondent expression on its somewhat gaunt face. Its four legs would be moved from time to time by Teacher Lin and its undeveloped little brother was occasionally fiddled with by her fingers...
"Teacher Lin, can you not do such vulgar stuff?" Lin Jin's mouth twitched as he hurriedly stepped forward to snatch Braised Pork from Teacher Lin's clutches. He protectively held it in his arms, then continued to question "Teacher! You’re a girl, alright?!"
"It's okay, I am a woman." Teacher Lin unabashedly winked at Lin Jin.
At a loss for words, Lin Jin sighed and placed Braised Pork on the desk with the laptop. Then turned to the teacher and said, "I plan to learn Nobody and some other more challenging classical Chinese dances."
"Nobody? That's a really old song." Teacher Lin was momentarily stunned. She frowned slightly, but soon relaxed and asked Lin Jin, "Why learn this kind of dance? You’re not even competing or anything."
Lin Jin was surprised to detect a hint of displeasure in Teacher Lin’s tone. He thought about it, and figured that Teacher Lin must think it was a waste for a rare talent like Lin Jin to learn commercial dances like Nobody.
Yeah, that must be it.
"My friend recently started a live streaming channel so I said I'd go on his stream to dance and attract viewers" When he mentioned the reason, Lin Jin’s face began to uncontrollably redden as he glanced away, unable to meet Teacher Lin's teasing gaze. Looking away, he continued to explain, "I told the viewers I'd dance for them tonight... I've danced for them before and got laughed at, so I came to you to learn how to dance..."
"Is that so?" Teacher Lin teased, "I thought you suddenly felt that you were a dancing prodigy, so you decided to find me and systematically learn."
"This isn’t some fantasy novel."
Rolling his eyes, Lin Jin pulled up the Nobody dance video on his computer and started practicing along. Teacher Lin also got serious, slipping into her teacher persona and began correcting Lin Jin's posture, dance steps, and rhythm.
Lin Jin felt that it wouldn’t be too big of a problem for him to learn this not so difficult dance. It would be best if he could thoroughly learn this dance before dinner. Additionally, this afternoon, he wanted to ask Teacher Lin to pick out a classical Chinese dance that was suited for his current skill level to practice after he finished his temporary mission.
After all, the reward for the temporary mission was +1 dance talent. Although he wasn’t exactly sure how the dance talent was calculated. Naturally, it must be beneficial for learning to dance, right?
Completing a dance to Nobody wasn't very hard, but dancing it perfectly was more challenging. The difficulty was mainly the rhythm and some small details. For Lin Jin, repeatedly practicing was enough. The whole process only took about an hour, focusing mainly on correcting his movements.
Then, Lin Jin began learning the classical Chinese dance taught by Teacher Lin. He had already laid down the foundations for classical Chinese dance. Although they weren’t very solid yet, especially since others typically accumulated their skills over many years whereas Lin Jin only had five days. But it should be enough to learn a classical Chinese dance that wasn’t too difficult.
However, though he thought it wouldn’t be too difficult, once he actually started practicing, Lin Jin realized his body still wasn’t flexible enough.
It wasn't that he couldn't perform the movements, but the transitions between them felt unusually awkward. The dance was supposed to be four minutes and thirty seconds, but because of Lin Jin’s jerky transitions, it would be stretched to five minutes.
"Lin Jin, to be honest, how about you just keep practicing the basics?" Teacher Lin said as she watched Lin Jin’s increasingly distorted moves and inwardly lamented for the art of classical Chinese dance, "Your foundations aren’t solid yet you want to learn such difficult dances. You’re rushing too much."
Lin Jin, who was twisting around on the ground, suddenly deflated. He was lying there on the ground, drenched in sweat and panting heavily. He looked up at Teacher Lin, unwilling to give up, and said, "I think my basics are pretty good already. Look at those dance teams, their classical Chinese dance foundations aren't even as good as mine."
"Nonsense, they aren’t even focused on classical Chinese dance" Teacher Lin rolled her eyes.
Some of the students on the dance team were born into ballet, some had studied a particular dance form for a few months, and some had no background at all and just joined out of interest. Fortunately, girls’ limbs were fairly flexible, and the dance team's routines weren't too challenging, mainly focusing on repetitive training... In other words, many of these girls were not even as good as Lin Jin, who had been learning for less than a week.
"Take a break. I've given you the movements and the tutorial. Just practice when you have time. If it doesn’t work, I'll come back tomorrow" Teacher Lin glanced at her delicate pink wristwatch, stood up, and told Lin Jin, "It’s already past five, I have to go back and cook for my husband."
"Bye." Lying on the floor and gasping for air, Lin Jin stretched out his arms with great difficulty and weakly waved at Teacher Lin.
Watching Teacher Lin casually teasing the still despondent Braised Pork as she walked out the door, Lin Jin took a deep breath, got himself up from the floor and began repetitively practicing the song Nobody.
Since he struggled with classical dance, he decided to master Nobody and perform it on the live stream to get the +1 dance talent before revisiting classical dance. With that, everything should go smoothly!