Chapter 380: – Dance Practice
Lin Jin hopelessly watched Teacher Lin perform the Pomp and Circumstance dance she choreographed. Completely baffled, Lin Jin let out a sigh.
"Lin Jin, come on, it's your turn" Teacher Lin smiled as if she were begging for money and tried to reach out to grab Lin Jin’s wrist, but Lin Jin uncourteously pulled away. Only then did Teacher Lin ask, confused "What's wrong?"
"I'm not doing this dance." Lin Jin turned around and sat on the couch, her expression as dark as coal.
"What's wrong?"
If before watching Teacher Lin's demonstration, Lin Jin's biggest concern was getting a flood of hookup messages after posting her dance video. Then now, after seeing the demonstration, she was sure there wouldn't be any hookup messages. Instead, those people might just directly ask for her rates.
F*ck. If she wore something a bit more revealing, what difference would this dance have from a striptease?! It was just that she wouldn't actually strip, right?!
"What? You think this choreography I spent so long on looks ugly?"
"No, I'm not saying it's ugly." Lin Jin shook her head. "Actually, my main issue is with you."
"I've never seen someone turn a perfectly good song into something like this with their choreography." Lin Jin coldly huffed and turned her head away. "Is there something wrong with your head?"
"Where’s this song good? My choreography fits this song perfectly, okay? Come on, give it a try?" Teacher Lin smiled and tried to get Lin Jin to try dancing it, but Lin Jin just stubbornly turned her head away, refusing like oil and water.
Teacher Lin sat helplessly next to Lin Jin. Seeing Lin Jin’s dark expression, she hesitated for a bit before finally shaking her head and saying "Forget it, good thing I prepared another version."
"Is it also that seductive?" Lin Jin had completely zero expectations.
"This is your first dance. If you dance more provocatively, you’ll get more viewers, yeah." Teacher Lin confidently explained her actions. "I’m doing this entirely for your good. You need to trust your teacher’s judgment."
Hah! My teacher would definitely not try to trick their students to do striptease!
Lin Jin glanced at her with a disdainful look. Then leaned her body against the cushion on the sofa and turned her head away, not wanting to look.
"Really. Let me dance it for you?"
Teacher Lin stood up. With the music playing on her phone, her body began to sway slightly with the prelude.
The dance this time wasn’t bad, at least it wasn’t as provocative as the previous one.
Lin Jin thought for a moment. After watching this dance, she found it to be as pure as a lily when compared to the previous one.
If the previous dance were performed in a set of sexy clothing with more exaggerated expressions and movements, then it would be almost indistinguishable from a striptease. No one knew how Teacher Lin could perform such a dance in front of her students. As for this current dance, it was probably similar to the kind of dance Korean girl groups perform. Although there were a few sexually suggestive movements, it was still within a range that Lin Jin could reluctantly accept.
Hmm...
Lin Jin nodded, feeling that this dance seemed pretty okay.
"Okay, right?" After Teacher Lin finished dancing, she looked at Lin Jin with a slightly disappointed expression. She still hoped for Lin Jin to dance the first version rather than this one. "How about you try the first one? This one doesn't look good, not as impressive."
"Not interested."
Lin Jin stretched lazily, stood up from the bed, and picked up the stack of papers Teacher Lin had brought. They were covered with what appeared to be stick figures. No normal person would even understand what was drawn, but Teacher Lin had occasionally glanced at them while dancing for Lin Jin. It was probably her rough drafts when making the choreography.
"Come on, we’ll just go with this second version." Lin Jin finally showed a bit of a smile on her face. She walked to the center of the living room and looked towards Teacher Lin "Teach me step by step?"
"Sure, no problem. How long do you plan to spend learning it?" Teacher Lin tilted her head at her.
"It's Friday now. I need to have it figured out by Saturday night." Lin Jin frowned and said, suddenly realizing she didn’t seem to have enough time. "You’re too slow. Otherwise, we wouldn’t be this rushed."
"Saturday night, huh? Then we still have a whole day, we’ll make it." Teacher Lin nodded. "Then Let's start now."
Dancing was quite a physically demanding activity for Lin Jin, but fortunately, she had been exercising for the past few days. Now when she practiced dancing, she wouldn’t be exhausted and drenched in sweat after half an hour like before.
This way, the efficiency was actually much higher than when Lin Jin was learning classical Chinese dance before. Back then, it took Lin Jin a week to train her dance skills to a decent level. Now, she just needed a day to learn a dance. It wasn’t too far of a stretch as she already had the foundations learned. She was very confident she could master this dance in just one day.
Then, on Saturday night, she would call in people to film it. After filming, she would send the video to Xia Tian for editing.
Now that Xia Tian was also in Xiamen, Lin Jin could stay by his side and give her inputs during the editing process. Although her thoughts might be those of an amateur, she felt that she should carefully check over her first video herself.
The time she practiced dancing quickly passed. By the time Lin Jin was so tired she could barely move, it was only around five or so in the afternoon. She and Teacher Lin went out for a meal. On her way back, she actually ran into Xia Tian who just came to Xiamen that day.
"Yo!" Lin Jin greeted Xia Tian, who was currently picking out clothes at a stall near the market.
Xia Tian looked up at Lin Jin. He just nodded without saying anything and just continued bargaining with the vendor over the pair of pants in his hands.
Did Xia Tian come in such a hurry? Not even bringing enough clothes? He actually had to buy clothes at a place like this where the quality might not even be as good as most Taobao stores.
You didn’t even say anything when coming here." Lin Jin only planned to practice a bit more in the evening, so she wasn’t in a hurry. With her hands in her jacket pockets, she stood next to Xia Tian "Are you still staying at the same place as before?"
"Yeah." Xia Tian's expression was still an iceberg like before, completely devoid of the enthusiasm he had when they played games or talked on the phone. He was as cold as if he were facing a stranger.
"I'll send you the video tomorrow night" Lin Jin didn’t care either. She stood next to him and said "At that time, I’ll come to your place to take a look?"
"Sure."
Xia Tian's handsome face was as cold as if he had facial paralysis. He nodded at Lin Jin, then continued haggling nonstop with the vendor. In the end, he finally secured the black cotton pajama pants in his hands for a price of thirty yuan.
Well, this person’s personality was really different between online and in person. Before, when they live streamed, he often sounded excited. Lin Jin thought Xia Tian had perhaps no longer that much of an iceberg, but it turned out he was still like this.