Chapter 249: Lu Ziyi’s Countermeasure
To help Lu Ziyi, Ye Chuxiao diligently studied and practiced the dance choreographed by Nangong Yanting.
Lu Ziyi watched quietly from the side. Nangong Yanting irritably emphasized that Lu Ziyi should look at her with a deep and lost gaze. Lu Ziyi naturally let his eyes rest on Ye Chuxiao.
At first, her movements were stiff and not very fluid, but she practiced tirelessly, over and over again.
Lu Ziyi watched Ye Chuxiao’s expression shift from tense to gradually relaxed. Her posture also slowly loosened, and sweat trickled from her smooth forehead down her cheeks, which she completely ignored.
It wasn’t easy, but Xiaoxiao did her best and mastered the dance for the intro.
Lu Ziyi couldn’t help but be moved. Her effort was for him, using all her sincerity.
“Xiaoxiao,” Lu Ziyi said with a voice full of doting affection, “Take a break. You’re already dancing very well!”
“I’m still far from as good as Senior Nangong,” Ye Chuxiao said with a shy smile.
Lu Ziyi walked to Ye Chuxiao’s side, dotingly cupped her face, wiped away her sweat, and said, “I think you dance better than Nangong Yanting!”
“Hmm, that just means Senior Ziyi doesn’t understand and is quite amateur!”
Ye Chuxiao was very humble. Her joke made both herself and Lu Ziyi laugh.
Lu Ziyi said with concern, “If you’re too tired, we don’t have to dance. Xiaoxiao, don’t work too hard. I never intended to have a backup dancer anyway.”
Ye Chuxiao said seriously, “But Brother Chusheng’s proposal was very good, and Teacher Liu also enthusiastically arranged for her disciples to help you. We can’t let their kindness go to waste just because we’re afraid of hardship.”
Lu Ziyi felt even more heartache for Ye Chuxiao. It was because of his rivalry with Lin Chusheng that Lin Chusheng had proposed having a backup dancer.
Unexpectedly, Judge Teacher Liu strongly agreed and immediately called her disciple Nangong Yanting onto the stage to be his backup dancer.
After a few words, Lu Ziyi understood that Nangong Yanting had no intention of teaching him to dance, which suited him perfectly.
Lu Ziyi had a plan. He would agree for now, and when it was time for the competition, he would create a conflict with the ill-tempered Nangong Yanting. Nangong Yanting would definitely refuse to participate and wouldn’t go on stage.
In any case, Lu Ziyi would not have this backup dancer. He would then explain to Teacher Liu that he was too clumsy and hadn’t learned it in two days, and that Nangong Yanting had tried her best to teach him.
He took the responsibility upon himself, so Nangong Yanting wouldn’t be blamed by her mentor.
This was originally a singing competition, and a backup dancer wasn’t mandatory. Even if Teacher Liu was a little disappointed, she wouldn’t say anything.
Under the circumstances at the time, Lu Ziyi couldn’t refuse Lin Chusheng’s “kindness,” otherwise Lin Chusheng would have come up with another difficult task for him.
And on Teacher Liu’s side, if Nangong Yanting wasn’t available, Teacher Liu had other disciples. It was better to have Nangong Yanting; if it were another disciple, they might have genuinely tried hard to teach him to dance and perform as his backup dancer.
Lu Ziyi was fortunate that when Lin Chusheng presented him with a difficult task, Nangong Yanting, who clearly disliked him, appeared.
However, now, Xiaoxiao was diligently helping him, and he had made her suffer.
Lu Ziyi said sincerely, “I mean it. I think Xiaoxiao dances better than Nangong Yanting!”
Lu Ziyi agreed with Teacher Liu’s teaching. Nangong Yanting’s dance technique was indeed superb, but she pursued fame and fortune too much, forgetting her original passion for dance. It was like a perfect shell without a soul.
