Chapter 435: – Getting Better
The location for the second performance was under the big banyan tree at school. Since it was right on campus, there was no rush to prepare stuff ahead of time. Teacher Lin brough the speakers over at noon and then using her identity as a teacher, shamelessly found a store nearby the square to loiter at and wait.
In just a few minutes, Zhu Dong and Wu Min arrived. Wen Xuan also came over and joined in on the fun. After eating at the cafeteria, Lin Jin also arrived with her equipment.
After everyone gathered together, Teacher Lin started adjusting the speaker and helped Lin Jin connect her two earphones to the phone via Bluetooth. This way, when the music played later, both the speakers and Lin Jin’s earphones would play simultaneously.
“How do you feel? Although there’s quite a bit of people at noon, there probably won’t be as many who will stop and watch.” Teacher Lin saw Lin Jin had arrived and comforted her. “So don’t be too nervous. There were too many people yesterday, we didn’t plan it well.”
“Mm, I’ll try singing first? Going straight to dancing might be a bit hard to get used to.” Lin Jin’s expression was brimming with confidence. With the two earphones blocking the noise and then closing her eyes to pretend she was singing alone at home, she was sure today’s performance would definitely be perfect. Unlike that disappointment yesterday.
“Of course you can.” Teacher Lin touched Lin Jin on the head, all smiles as she looked towards Zhu Dong. Zhu Dong nodded, signaling that the filming was ready.
“Then let’s start?” Teacher Lin asked.
“Mhm.”
Just like the day before,Teacher Lin started adjusting the music. After confirming that the music from the speaker was synced with the music in Lin Jin’s earphones, she gave Lin Jin an OK gesture.
Lin Jin was a little nervous, but she still took a deep breath, lowered her head, and walked to the center of the open area. The speaker beside her started playing Little Sloppy. She then closed her eyes and tried her best to imagine as if she was in her own home.
I’m just singing at home.
She kept telling herself this over and over again. Gradually, Lin Jin actually began thinking she was just standing in her own bedroom at home, holding a microphone, and was just singing for fun.
The sound blocking effect of the two earphones were great, especially when combined with the music. This allowed Lin Jin to subconsciously block out the occasional background noise that made it into her ear. She calmed down and her body began to slightly sway with the music.
Although dancing today might still be very embarrassing, as for singing, it should be no problem!
"Little Sloppy~ really really sloppy. He is the sloppy king, he’s really a little sloppy~ Little Sloppy, really too sloppy. He is the sloppy king, he’s really a little sloppy… "
With her eyes closed, she had no idea if this well practiced children’s song would attract the attention of other students. But she was also not willing to think too much about that. She just pretended she was alone by herself and let her body move with the music.
At first, she felt a bit hesitant, but soon, she got into the groove. Her voice grew louder and louder, her singing became more and more clear. Her previous loli singing style very quickly shifted into her own more familiar young girl voice.
Because the first few lines were sung in a loli voice, it sounded a bit sickening. But the following parts of the song came out clear and pleasant, it was much more pleasing to the ear.
Maybe it was due to her having practiced dance for a long time, Lin Jin’s body very naturally started swaying to the music. Even though she didn’t know how the dance for this song went, her feet still moved to the beat and her head would also sway slightly.
After the simple Little Sloppy song ended, she opened her eyes and looked around. Only to regrettably find that although she may have sung well, only about five students passing by had stopped to watch. Most just glanced over from a distance before continuing on with their own business.
After all, they were on campus. It was school, Also, it was right after lunch. Most of the students were either hurrying back to their dorms or maybe they were rushing to the nearby delivery station to pick up takeout, right?
She inexplicably felt a little disappointed.
“That was great!” Teacher Lin walked up, smiling as she picked up the phone by the speaker. She turned to Lin Jin and asked “What about the next song? What do you want to sing?”
“Um, how about Fairy Town?”
Lin Jin actually hadn’t practiced Fairy Town much and had only heard it for the first time about a week ago. But she was attracted to it the moment she heard the song. She felt that the melody and lyrics of the song were very good. Of course, the main thing was still that she liked the lyrics.
“Sure!” Teacher Lin nodded and searched for Fairy Town on her phone. After clicking play on the accompanying music, she smiled and took a couple of steps back “Let’s see you go!”
“Yeah!”
Although she was once again singing in front of a crowd like yesterday, maybe because of the self hypnosis earlier, she didn’t feel as nervous this time.
She was great at singing! Why should she be nervous?
She took a deep breath, put her earphones back on and closed her eyes. She immediately got into the rhythm and her body began to swap with the music.
“I heard Snow White is running away. Little Red Riding Hood is worried about the big bad wolf~ I heard that the Mad Hatter likes Alice. The ugly duckling becomes a white swan…”
This song was clearly much harder thanLittle Sloppy, but with Lin Jin’s vocal proficiency… the voice skill she got, she could easily handle the song. She even felt like it was a bit too easy.
Her voice alternated between soft and tender and bold and passionate. Her body moved smoothly in response to the changes in the music. She began to lightly dance, as if she was in a dance performance rather than just singing. Her pretty skirt fluttered as she lightly spun. The tied ponytail also started bouncing up and down, left and right, with her movements.
“That girl is so pretty!”
A girl pulled her boyfriend to a spot about five meters from Lin Jin. She exclaimed in amazement: “So amazing. She’s singing and dancing at the same time, and she sings so well!”
“Yeah, really pretty." Her boyfriend expressed his agreement with his girlfriend’s words.
“Isn’t that Lin Jin?” One of Lin Jin’s classmates who was on his way to pick up a package was drawn in. He looked around and came over to Wu Min’s side, asking in surprise, “Lin Jin can dance too?”
“Yup." Wu Min confidently nodded.
“I always thought she could only sing. I didn’t expect her dancing to be so beautiful too.”
A crowd gradually began to gather. In just half a song, Lin Jin was surrounded by about twenty curious onlookers. Meanwhile, in the live stream that was happening at the same time, the online viewers were also getting excited.
“Wife Lin Jin is awesome!”
“Wife Lin Jin’s singing is 6!”
“6666666”
“Fairy Town sounds so good. Of course, wife sings very well too!”
“Sister Lin is great!It’s time for the ult!”
However, Lin Jin, who was still dancing and singing, didn’t notice what was happening in the outside world. Her eyes were still tightly shut, fully immersed in the music in her ears. Although she could vaguely hear the noise from the surroundings, the loud music made it impossible for the small outside noise to distract her.
I must be singing very well, right?
Lin Jin thought to herself.
Translator’s Note: Fairy Town / 童話鎮 by 暗杠. I just took the English lyrics from Genius.com