Chapter 439: – First dance performance
Wednesday. Lin Jin arrived, holding Qiu Yufei’s hand, under the big banyan tree at the open space in the school,
Because she had to pick up Yufei, the performance was delayed until about one in the afternoon. By the time the two arrived, Teacher Lin, Wu Min, and Zhu Dong were already set up.
Speaking of which, yesterday's performance was successfully uploaded last night. However, maybe because the editing was a bit rough, the number of views wasn’t as high as the previous videos. When Lin Jin checked just now, A Site had just a dozen or so comments.
But Lin Jin didn’t really care about the number of views on these videos. Anyways, even if it got hundreds of thousands of views, there would probably only be a few dozen people who would come to watch her live at school.
After all, it wasn’t some local website, but a country wide one.
“Lin Jin! Who's the little girl beside you?” Teacher Lin noticed Yufei beside Lin Jin right away and her eyes lit up. Like a lolicon, she rushed over to the two of them and squatted down to ask Yufei “Little girl, what's your name?”
“My name is Qiu Yufei.”
Yufei was startled by the overly enthusiastic Teacher Lin. After softly answering the question, she immediately hid behind Lin Jin.
“She’s probably a little shy." Lin Jin explained with a smile. “She’s the child I teach dance to at the welfare institute. I’ve mentioned her to you before. If you really want to think about it, she’s kind of like your grand disciple.”
“Ohhh~” Teacher Lin very knowingly nodded. “So basically, you were too scared by yourself, so you brought your student over as support?”
“There’s no way, okay?!”
Although Lin Jin did kind of have that thought, she mainly just wanted Yufei to show off the ballet she had learned over all this time.
Since she had already performed here for an hour yesterday, with the few of them gathered together and starting to prepare their stuff, the people passing by gradually gathered around.
“Did you hear? Yesterday's singing performance here was pretty good.”
“Really? I hadn’t heard about it.”
“That crossdresser who sang really well at the Chinese New Year’s event seems to be here too.”
“That’s a crossdresser? So pretty and they're a crossdresser? What should girls do then?”
“Yeah, how do you not know anything at all? This crossdresser is very famous at our school, okay? All the forum posts were talking about him before.”
Alright. Although Lin Jin was already fully a woman, she was still considered to be a really beautiful man in the eyes of others.
Apparently, someone at school even started a club similar to a fan club because of her. Though even until now, Lin Jin still had no clue what the club was for or how it even got approved.
Today’s opening song was Lin Jin’s Little Sloppy, mainly because this song was relatively simple and was easier for Lin Jin to get into the right state. It was just that for the people who watched yesterday, they were probably already tired of hearing Lin Jin’s Little Sloppy.
Of course, there were still plenty of new spectators today. Those students who just so happened to be passing by, not sure what to do next, saw the crowd forming and just came in to join the fun.
Joining in the fun was probably a natural human instinct, especially for those who have nothing else to do. If they didn’t join, it would feel like such a waste.
After finishing Little Sloppy, Lin Jin went down for a water break, while the big boss Teacher Lin took the stage to perform a dance.
For Teacher Lin, being surrounded by an audience of a dozen or so people was not a problem at all. Doing a dance wasn’t difficult either. Anyways, with her level and experience, these were basically nothing.
Teacher Lin’s dancing skills were a whole level higher than Lin Jin’s. Although Lin Jin had been practicing very hard recently, for some reason, her dancing was just a lot worse.
However, Teacher Lin specialized in classical Chinese dance. The dances she chose were basically all classical Chinese dances or adaptations with a classical Chinese dance style. Anyways, it was all the same style. Although they were beautiful, it didn’t seem to resonate as much with the students.
Most of the students nowadays couldn’t fully appreciate classical Chinese dance. While they might think it looked beautiful, it obviously wouldn’t be as attractive as street dance or stuff.
Though, Teacher Lin’s didn’t make anyone want to leave. Rather, they chose to stay and watch.
Once Teacher Lin finished, Lin Jin took Yufei’s hand and walked to the open space. As soon as Lin Jin, the “crossdresser”, came up, the crowd immediately erupted. The ten or so people all applauded and the area under the big banyan tree quickly turned lively.
Lin Jin thought she should probably also dance, but she felt nervous under the crowd’s gaze. but under the watchful eyes of the crowd, she started to feel nervous. She could only put on the two headphones hanging around her neck, getting ready to continue doing what she did yesterday.
But Teacher Lin thought otherwise. Since Lin Jin was her disciple, or maybe student, she’d naturally prefer to see her dance.
So the song Hitorinbo Envy started playing.
The choreography for this song wasn’t too embarrassing, at least much better than Pomp and Circumstance. It was just around the average amount. Qiu Yufei had never heard this song before and Lin Jin had never taught it to her, so she could only cluelessly stand there.
As for Lin Jin, the coward who was too terrified to dance in front of a big crowd, it was basically as if she had been struck by lightning.
The f*ck! Why are you asking me to dance again! Didn’t I embarrass myself enough last time?
She blankly looked at Teacher Lin, who had a smirk on her face, then dejectedly put on her headphones.
Since she could close her eyes and put on the headphones to focus when singing, then it should work if she put on headphones and ignored the crowd when dancing too, right?
The song Hitorinbo Envy didn’t have any really difficult moves, so dancing wasn’t a problem. It was just that the headphone cords somewhat got in the way of her movements.
Luckily, it wasn’t a classical Chinese dance or ballet routine with sweeping large movements or a shameless dance like Pomp and Circumstance. So far, Lin Jin was still calm.
She can’t embarrass herself in front of Yufei! She was her teacher!
Lin Jin kept reassuring herself. During the ten seconds of the song’s prelude, she tried to suppress the anxiety and nervousness in her heart, hoping to deliver a perfect performance.
Teacher Lin also stepped up with a microphone. She slightly bowed her head and began softly singing the Chinese cover of Hitorinbo Envy.
Lin Jin suddenly felt that this scene was extremely familiar.
The first dance she had performed in Wanda seemed to have been just like this.
That time, she failed. She didn’t even manage to dance at all and just directly ran off the stage.
But this time, maybe because she didn’t want to embarrass herself in front of her little disciple Qiu Yufei, or perhaps because she had gotten used to being watched after yesterday’s singing, Lin Jin found her body instinctively moving.
She just needed to follow the steps in her head.
She kept trying to convince herself, hoping to get into the right state of mind. But even though she could dance, her movements were extremely stiff.
“There’s progress.”
During the break between the lyrics, Teacher Lin happily said “Come on!”