Volume 4 Chapter 30: My Rival Got Tired and Fell Asleep
The girl didn’t spend much time changing clothes, because the outfit was actually very simple to wear.
It was just a basic long-sleeve top and pants made of soft, stretchy fabric. It felt very comfortable when worn, and it was clearly good for dance practice.
As the saying goes, a good horse needs a good saddle...
Wait, that doesn’t sound right.
Does that mean Lin Lin is a racehorse girl?
Ahem...
The girl shook her head and walked out of the dressing room. She looked at her rival. Well, wearing this kind of outfit, there really was no need to ask her rival whether it looked good or not. There wasn’t much to look at anyway.
But…
Gao Liang didn’t think so. In fact, he found the girl in the light purple outfit quite interesting. The tight and stretchy dance clothes showed some of her body shape. Usually, when she wore other clothes, he never noticed that.
Only now did he truly realize…
Lin Lin wasn’t just small and cute. Heh~
She actually had a pretty good figure.
“Stop staring and hurry up! Teach me how to practice!” Lin Lin complained.
Gao Liang was stunned for a moment, then nodded. He stood up, led her to a mirrored wall, and pointed at the mirror.
“Keep some distance. Look at yourself in the mirror while you practice. This place is made for training. The floor and everything here are very good. Don’t worry! I’ll turn on the speakers for you.”
Lin Lin nodded while listening. But when her rival stopped talking and just stared at her in a daze, she became confused again.
Why…
Did he stop?
“Go on. Why did you stop talking?” she asked, scratching her head.
Gao Liang suddenly seemed to realize something. He slapped his thigh and said quickly, “I’ll go turn on the speakers. Tell me which song you want to practice first, Lin Lin!”
“No, no, no!” Lin Lin waved her hands quickly. “It’s not about the speakers. I… I still don’t really know how to do it. I can’t just start dancing right away.”
“I see…” Gao Liang nodded as if he understood. “Then let’s break the moves down and practice step by step! Ahem, I… I’ll rest for a bit. I’m kind of sleepy~”
He yawned and went back to sit on one of the chairs at the side of the room. He looked at the girl, as if waiting for her to take out her phone and watch the video again. After all, this kind of thing could only be learned by yourself. He felt like… yeah… he couldn’t really help her much.
These past two days, he had been waking up early to pick Lin Lin up for school.
Maybe he should take a short nap.
Meanwhile…
Lin Lin stood there awkwardly. She knew she had to learn by herself, so she took out her phone and watched the video again.
The more she watched, the more confused she felt. Even though her brain remembered the moves, her body just couldn’t keep up.
She tried to go step by step, starting from the first move. But standing in front of the mirror and watching herself made her feel a little embarrassed.
As time passed, she felt more and more tired. Her practice was not going well at all. It was actually very bad.
This made Lin Lin, who had a mission to complete, feel a lot of pressure. Damn it… at this rate, forget about having a 0% mistake rate. Just avoiding a 100% mistake rate would already be a big challenge for her!
“Rival… help me, please~!”
Because she had already gotten used to relying on him before, Lin Lin couldn’t help but look toward Gao Liang. But her rival was already half asleep. She quickly muttered,
“Gao Liang… h-help me…”
“Hm?”
Hearing her call, Gao Liang suddenly woke up. He blinked and asked softly, “What’s wrong?”
“Well, um… you… you’ve learned a lot of things before, right? Haha… can you t-teach me this? Please! I’ll really thank you—”
“Uh—”
Gao Liang went silent. After a while, he blinked and said with a bit of apology,
“It’s not that I don’t want to help, Lin Lin. It’s just… I’ve really never learned this kind of otaku dance! I’m a guy, how would I have learned this? I did learn some other types of dance before, but this… I’ve honestly never tried it.”
“Isn’t it… kind of similar?” Lin Lin asked, feeling disappointed but still holding onto a small bit of hope.
Gao Liang shook his head again. “I didn’t learn those dances very deeply either. I’ve already forgotten most of them. This… I really can’t help. You’ll just have to break the moves down and practice slowly.”
“Oh…”
Lin Lin nodded awkwardly. Even so, she felt troubled again.
There was no other way. If even Gao Liang said he couldn’t teach her, she had no choice but to figure it out herself.
But this 0% mistake rate…
Maybe she should just think about how to take a one-month leave from school.
And what does “force” even mean? If she simply doesn’t go to school, can they really force her?
Lin Lin was already thinking about this, but soon her attention shifted back to Gao Liang.
From the corner of her eye, she noticed something shocking, her rival had fallen asleep!
Seriously? She had been moving around next to him, making all kinds of noise, and he still fell asleep. And he was even sitting up while sleeping.
For a moment, Lin Lin sighed in disbelief. That guy… really like a pig.
But after joking about him in her mind, she suddenly froze. When she thought about it carefully, maybe it wasn’t so simple.
Maybe he was this tired because of her.
Gao Ye had once said that when Gao Liang came to pick her up for school, he had to wake up very early. After all, he had to drive to her neighborhood and wait downstairs.
And today again, he came early in the morning to pick her up and bring her here for dance practice.
The girl sighed and quietly sat down beside him. First, she didn’t want to disturb his rest. Second, she couldn’t really make much progress right now anyway. It might be better to rest for a while and think of a solution.
Did she really have no choice but to practice again and again, repeating the moves like a machine?
Hmm…
Wait!
Lin Lin suddenly remembered something. She hadn’t checked what new items had appeared in her system shop today.
For several days in a row, the shop had only refreshed useless items. But she had already adjusted her mindset, she treated it as building up luck before something good appeared.
She closed her eyes tightly, hoping that this time the shop would refresh something useful. Even if it wasn’t amazing, at least something that could help her overcome her nervousness in front of the mirror and the embarrassment of dancing otaku dance, something that could let her fully use her good memory.
Lin Lin prayed in her heart for a while.
Then, she suddenly opened her eyes and looked at the system shop in front of her.
Gasp—
This… this is actually not bad!