Chapter 444: – Safety shorts is the worst invention
Lin Jin had practiced this Nobody dance many times before. When she first performed it for the live stream viewers, she got quite a lot of positive feedback. She even received a few airplane gifts worth hundreds of yuan.
However, after not dancing it for a long time, Lin Jin was a little nervous doing this dance again for the crowd. She somewhat hesitantly walked to the center of the open space and glanced around at the onlookers circling around two or three times. Sighing, she closed her eyes and waited for Teacher Lin to start the music again.
She took a deep breath, listened to the music in her ears, and started moving her somewhat stiff body.
However, because she was too nervous, her body was really stiff. Even though she had practiced this dance many times and it was basically ingrained in her bones, her body was just too stiff and was unable to express the youthful energy of the dance. Instead, her stiffness made the audience feel somewhat embarrassed.
"This person dances even worse than that little girl just now. Why’d she still come up to hurt our eyes?"
"Exactly. This girl looks quite pretty, just her dancing’s a bit lacking."
"Her singing is pretty good too, didn’t you hear it earlier?"
"But her dancing just stings my eyes."
Fortunately, Lin Jin quickly got into the right mental state. After about a minute, she gradually forgot she was currently dancing in front of a big crowd. Her nervousness vanished and her body became more fluid.
She breathed a sigh of relief. After entering the right mental state, her dancing clearly leveled up. Her toes lightly tapped as her hands and feet coordinated to perform dance moves that were either really cute or a bit flirty.
The surrounding crowd finally calmed down. Earlier, they were all talking about why Lin Jin, who was even worse at dancing than the little girl, bothered to come up and embarrass herself. But now, they were all silent. They weren’t sure how to react to the dramatic gap in performance between Lin Jin earlier and just now.
The four minute dance was soon coming to an end and Lin Jin got more and more absorbed in the dance. The surrounding crowd began to clap one by one. This time, the applause didn’t startle Lin Jin at all, but instead, it gave her the feeling of being on stage, making her feel even better.
She had the feeling of being a big celebrity.
But it was only four minutes, after all.
When the song ended, Lin Jin also stopped dancing and bowed to the audience. Then, she walked over to Yufei with a delighted smile, tapped Yufei’s noise with her finger, let out a huff and said: "Sister, me, am still better than you! Look, they’re all cheering for me!"
"That's because you’re cheating!" Yufei looked completely dissatisfied. "When I turn eighteen, I'll definitely be better than you!"
Duh, I've only been learning dance for how long?
Lin Jin rolled her eyes and watched as Teacher Lin stepped forward to act as the host. She giddily turned to Zhu Dong next to her and showed off: "They all said I danced super well!"
"Yeah, yeah, yeah." Zhu Dong also learned to be perfunctory like Wu Min.
Rolling her eyes, Lin Jin continued to show off to Wu Min: "Wu Min! I’m really great at dancing, right!"
"Yeah, yeah, yeah." Wu Min nodded nonstop.
Alright, everyone's just ignoring me…
Lin Jin lowered her head, feeling deflated. This was clearly her first time dancing in front of so many people, and she’d danced so well too. But she couldn’t hear a single compliment. This kind of feeling was really unpleasant. Even the joy she had felt on stage just now was washed away.
"Enough, sister~" Yufei tiptoped and stretched out her hand to pat Lin Jin on the shoulder "Even though sister was a bit too nervous at first, you danced really well afterward!"
Lin Jin pouted, grumbled twice, and lifted her head to glance over at Teacher Lin in the center of the open space.
Teacher Lin seemed to have a lot of stage experience. Judging by her demeanor, she had probably been going on stage since at least her student days, facing crowds of spectators. So Teacher Lin didn’t seem to have any signs of stage fright at all. Even though she was surrounded by circles upon circles of people, all making noise, she still controlled the overall situation. She was chatting away with the audience, completely on par with those famous hosts on TV.
Lin Jin thought that when Teacher Lin first went on stage, she must have definitely been worse than herself. It was only because of years of experience on stage that she could perform so well now.
Teacher Lin talked for a few minutes in the center of the open space, then turned to look at Lin Jin and motioned for her to come up and perform.
"Then up next! Is student Lin Jin and this teacher’s classical Chinese dance performance! Let's give a warm welcome!"
Amidst the chaotic applause, Lin Jin walked to Teacher Lin’s side with a flushed face and asked in a low voice: "Which dance are we doing?"
"Just the one you learned in the dance studio before."
"Oh that one..."
She vaguely remembered that the dance Teacher Lin mentioned was a dance performed by the school dance team for competitions. It seemed to be a classical Chinese dance Teacher Lin had adapted from some particularly well known dance. It wasn’t very difficult, but it was very physically tiring to dance. When a group performed it in unison, it was super impactful and visually striking.
However, there were only two of them at this moment. It was obviously impossible to achieve that kind of impact.
Lin Jin sighed. She wasn't very familiar with that dance. Although she had practiced it before, she still felt a bit nervous because she hadn’t practiced it for a long time.
As the accompanying music started, Lin Jin forced a smile. Her face turned a bit red, and she began dancing side by side with Teacher Lin.
Because she hadn’t practiced the dance in a long time, Lin Jin couldn’t clearly remember some of the steps. So she consciously took a couple steps back and watched Teacher Lin’s actions, with her own movements being half a beat slower. Although this would cause the two to be a bit out of sync, it was the best way to avoid making a fool of herself.
With her being on edge, Lin Jin’s dancing naturally wouldn’t be too perfect. Adding on the half beat difference, the surrounding crowd could easily tell at a glance the difference in skill between Lin Jin and Teacher Lin.
But it was still okay, at least Lin Jin looked pretty and was wearing a short skirt. When she spun around, the skirt would flutter which looked quite beautiful.
Anyways, she had safety shorts under her skirt so Lin Jin completely didn’t mind if her skirt flew up while she spun. After all, others couldn’t see anything at all.
When Lin Jin and Teacher Lin started to spin together, Zhu Dong’s camera immediately focused on Lin Jin’s short skirt, zooming in for a close up. However, he discovered that when the skirt fluttered up, what was exposed wasn’t anything to make a man’s heart race, but a pair of safety shorts covering everything up.
"So safety shorts are the most inhumane invention ever." Zhu Dong’s face looked disappointed as he complained "This safety shorts thing has crushed all my dreams."
His grumbling immediately resonated with the livestream viewers. One after another, they all complained about safety shorts and even asked Zhu Dong to convince Lin Jin to take off those safety pants. The best would be to not wear anything underneath the skirt.