Yu Xin quickly picked through the movements of the entire song, memorizing them all.
The next step was formation and practice. She often organized rehearsals for her classmates in the Dance Department and participated in various school celebration performances, so she was familiar with the work of ‘dance instructor’.
The most important thing to teach people to dance was the first let people remember every little dance movement, picked out the details, laying a good foundation, practicing all the little sections, and then following the rhythm of the music from the beginning to end, connecting all the little dances, practice repeatedly, over and over again, forming muscle memory, and then they wouldn’t make any mistakes when the time came for them to perform.
But there was a troublesome problem at the moment—— Waltz’s dance steps were divided into male and female steps, 8 of them, of which 3 boys and 3 girls could be partners. Then it was only Xingwen and Pingce, how should they follow the partnering in the dance sample?
It would be strange for one of them to dance directly on the female’s steps.
Because, waltz’s dance performance costume, the females were wearing that kind of layered wide skirt, spinning like a flower stamen. They couldn’t let Xingwen or Pingce wear women’s clothing, right? Could two handsome men agree?
Yu Xin was entangled. Yue Xingwen noticed that her brows were furrowed, so he took the initiative to step forward and come to her. “Senior sister Yu, if you have any difficulties, you can just tell us, we will try our best to cooperate with you.”
Yu Xin said frankly, “As you’ve found out, Xingwen, this waltz, since it’s a male-female duet, and the dance sample given to us by the library are also 4 males and 4 females, which means that you or Pingce have to dance the female’s steps.”
Yue Xingwen said with a smile, “I know this, when I first learned to dance together with Pingce, we both tried to dance the female step, and we both know a little bit of the female step, so it shouldn’t be too hard to relearn it.”
Yu Xin frowned. “However, the library let us perform live at the New Year’s party. When the times comes, we will definitely have a uniform costume, and you have also seen the waltz’s dance costumes, this kind of wide skirt, are you two willing to wear it?”
Yue Xingwen: “…”
Jiang Pingce: “…”
In the dance sample, the women were all wearing skirts, and the wide skirt would spread out as it rotated, like a blooming flower, which made for a particularly effective visual effect. But the thought of wearing such a complicated skirt made Yue Xingwen’s scalp tingle. He didn’t dare to think and let Jiang Pingce wear it. It was estimated that Pingce’s face would freeze into ice cubes when he wore that skirt.
Yue Xingwen couldn’t help but spit out, “I won’t mind wearing women’s clothes for once, except that it’s easy to trip over in these kinds of performance clothes. In case I fell down on the stage, won’t it all go to shit?”
Liu Zhaoqing laughed and said, “It’s hard to imagine Xingwen and Pingce wearing women’s clothes.”
Jiang Pingce saw Yue Xingwen frowning and looking tangled, and suddenly stepped forward and said, “Can the dance be adapted?”
Yu Xin was stunned, and her eyes lit up. “Right, we’re participating in a cultural performance this time, not a dance competition. What the library provided us with just a dance demo, we can totally modify some of the details!” She craned her head to the large screen and asked, “Can we ask for 5 sets of men’s clothing and 3 sets of women’s clothing?”
The library said, “The dance can be modified, but the effect after modification is not necessarily better than the original, the system will score according to everyone’s performance during the show, the risk is higher, please consider carefully before making a decision.”
Yu Xin simply said, “Let’s change, Xingwen and Pingce will lead the dance in the front, and both of them will wear men’s clothes.”
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Yue Xingwen was psychologically very resistant to wearing women’s clothing, and he didn’t want to make himself so strange in front of Pingce. Yu Xin’s willingness to change the choreography couldn’t be better. Yue Xingwen breathed a sigh of relief and said somewhat apologetically, “I’ll trouble you.”
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It was more important to dance the whole piece smoothly than to fall on stage because the movements were too difficult.
After sorting out the ideas from the beginning, Yu Xin began to teach separately.
She asked, “Between Xingwen and Pingce, who will dance the female’s steps?”
Yue Xingwen took the initiative to stand up and said frankly, “I’ll come, Pingce is slightly taller than me, and when it comes to movements like spinning and lowering the waist, it will be weird if he does it.”
Yu Xin nodded and said, “Then I’ll teach the female steps first, picking up the details from scratch.”
Xu Yishen also learned to waltz, and when Yu Xin arranged for the task to be given to him, he was happy to oblige.
The dance room was soon divided into two groups and began to learn, and from time to time there were the voices of Yu Xin and Xu Yishen teaching——
“This set of movements is a cycle of forward, sideways, and side-by-side feet, jamming rhythm points, three beats to a group, and the movements under the feet are always like this. Let’s leave the hands alone for a while and practice the dance steps.”
“At the end of the first rotation, the second rotation involves switching feet, noting that the center of gravity is exchanged between the two feet in turn. The time when the center of gravity falls on our feet is very short, giving the body a sense of uprightness and lightness.”
“The ankles, soles of the feet, and toes should form smooth lines, with the body pushed upward and the toes should touch the ground…”
Yu Xin was very serious, a movement to be practiced several times. Other students were also very cooperative, repeatedly corrected, until Yu Xin thought that they passed. Some seemingly simple movements, and even to practice more than a dozen times, everyone did not show the slightest impatience.
This was much stricter than the dance classes were back in the day.
In just a few minutes, the students were already sweating, Yu Xin looked at everyone and said, “Take a break, we only have 3 days, and the dance is changed to be not quite the same as the demo in the library, which will inevitably lower the clearance score.”
Xu Yishen smiled and said, “It’s okay, I think the previous version was too difficult. Although the basic score is lowered after the improvisation, our completion is very high, and the final score won’t necessarily be bad.”
Liu Zhaoqing echoed, “If we can pass, 60 is already good enough. If we can get more than 70, 80, that counts as a bonus. We don’t lack those points now, the important thing is not to get flunked and knocked back to the 1st floor to retake the course.”
With the understanding of the students, Yu Xin also relaxed a lot and continued to patiently teach everyone to practice the dance.
On the 1st day, everyone spent the dance practice repeatedly. They just ate instant noodles casually for a meal, took a nap in the rest area arranged by the library and got up at 7 am to practice again.
The next day, with the addition of hand movements between male and female dance steps, everyone’s tacit understanding was very poor at the beginning, stepping on each other’s feet, or two groups bumping into each other. This situation was frequent, Yu Xin patiently corrected everyone. Everyone realized how stiff their bodies were after they really practiced these seemingly simple dance steps!
After training, their limbs became numb, and they even felt that their hands and feet did not listen to the command.
Yue Xingwen was so tired that he laid on the floor. Jiang Pingce walked over and sat next to him, handed him a bottle of water, and said in a low voice, “This is the first time we’ve all experienced such a high-intensity dance practice.”
Yue Xingwen poured down a few mouthfuls of water and said helplessly, “It’s too difficult, I found that compared with Yu Xin and the others, I’m as stiff as a piece of wood when I dance by myself.”
The corners of Jiang Pingce’s lips lifted lightly, thinking to himself, not only do you dance like wood, but your heart is also a log.
However, looking at Xingwen so tired that his whole body was soaked with sweat, Jiang Pingce was a little distressed. This guy had been the proud son of heaven since he was a child, he had never suffered in study, and he would memorize books once or twice, when did he suffer from this kind of crime?
Yu Xin’s requirements were strict, especially Yue Xingwen’s dance steps had been changed a lot, so Xingwen had become her focus, practicing the same moves over and over again. Yue Xingwen had no complaints, and last night, he secretly practiced until 3 o’clock in the middle of the night.
Jiang Pingce sighed softly in his heart and stretched out his hand to him. “Shall we continue?”
Yue Xingwen frowned, “If I lie down for another five minus, my legs will cramp up. Teacher Yu Xin coaches me to rest for 10 minutes. Alas, for the first time since I was a child, I experienced the treatment of being focused on by a teacher.”
Seeing his smug appearance, Jiang Pingce thought about it and simply stretched out his hand and gently held his calf. The boy’s long fingers moved gently to massage the muscles of Yue Xingwen’s legs. Yue Xingwen squinted his eyes comfortably and commanded nonchalantly, “A little bit up and to the left, mmm… so comfortable…”
The corners of Jiang Pingce’s lips rose lightly, and his movements became even more gentle.
He liked the way Xingwen was completely relaxed in front of him, like a big lazy cat spreading its belly for its master to knead.
After Jiang Pingce rubbed his left side, he massaged his right leg, and his voice was low and gentle, “Feeling better?”
The boy’s fingers were slender and strong, the originally sore and stiff leg muscles really relaxed a lot under his message. Yue Xingwen opened his eyes to look at him and laughed. “You’re not bad at this, I’m resurrected with full health.”
After speaking, he held Jiang Pingce’s hand, stood up with strength, and smiled brightly. “Come on, continue to practice!”
Jiang Pingce held Yue Xingwen’s hand back and said, “Okay. Let’s follow the music and go through it again from the beginning.”
The familiar ,Tales from the Vienna Woods> rang out. Jiang Pingce stepped away, leading Yue Xingwen onto the dance floor.
By the end of the second evening of practice, everyone was able to dance through the entire piece smoothly.
On the last day, Yu Xin corrected some details from the beginning, deepened muscle memory, and asked everyone to pay attention to their position. From the original stumbling, the entire dance became like flowing water by the afternoon.
Yu Xin said, “Let’s take a break, we need to preserve our strength as we are going to perform in the evening.”
Everyone was finally able to get some rest and went to catch up on their sleep.
Everyone slept deeply, and they were woken up at 4:30 pm. Everyone arrived at the TV station early and were guided by the staff to change into their costumes.
The boys all wore well-tailored suits, while the girls wore long red dresses and silver high heels.
The organizer also issued a beautiful mask to everyone, only covering the part above the eyes and there were black and white feathers on the side of the mask, black for Jiang Pingce and white for Yue Xingwen.
After they changed their clothes, everyone walked out of the dressing room. Yue Xingwen saw Jiang Pingce in the crowd from afar.
Although it was hard to tell the difference with everyone wearing the same clothes and masks, he recognized the man right away.
The pair of eyes behind the mask were deep and cold, and with this kind of suit, it set off his figure as straight and slender. Jiang Pingce, who had changed his clothes, was like a prince attending an aristocratic dinner party, with a unique aura tha unconsciously attracted Yue Xingwen’s attention.
Yue Xingwen smiled and greeted him, “The library is quite reliable. They gave us performance clothes, you look quite handsome in this.”
A hint of tenderness floated in Jiang Pingce’s eyes, “You’re also very handsome.”
He bowed slightly, and stretched out his hand to Yue Xingwen in a gentlemanly manner. Yue Xingwen consciously placed his hand in his palm, Jiang Pingce took Xingwen’s hand, interlocked his fingers, and led Yue Xingwen to the preparation room.
Interlocking ten fingers?
Yue Xingwen was stunned for a moment, when he danced with Pingce before, he just politely put his hand in the palm of the other party’s hand, everyone did this and Yue Xingwen also felt that it didn’t matter. But now, wasn’t this gesture of holding hands too intimate?
Yue Xingwen’s heartbeat stopped for half a beat, the roots of his ears were a little hot, and he whispered, “Pingce…”
Jiang Pingce tightened his five fingers, held his hand tighter, explaining in a low voice, “I’m a little nervous about my first stage performance, so give me some encouragement.”
Yue Xingwen realized, “Oh, it’s fine, I’m here!”
Therefore, Yue Xingwen did not break free, but held Jiang Pingce’s hand and gave the other party some encouragement. However, he didn’t know that Jiang Pingce, who said he was ‘nervous’, had his mouth slightly curved, and a hit of a smile appeared from the bottom of his eyes behind the mask.
After so many years, it was finally time to hold Xingwen’s hand.
It was the kind of intimate interlocking fingers between lovers. Thanks to this course by the Dance Department, he was able to take the first step towards his dream by holding Xingwen’s hand in an upright manner.
I always forget just how much of an iron will Pingce has. Don’t worry bud you are slowly worming your way in there, Xingwen is close to cracking 😂
Awww Pingce 🥺
Thanks for the update ❤️
i finally caught up with everything 180 chapters later 😅
thanks for all of the translations!! <333
Real slowburn!!
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