The show director didnât respond. Director Li said with an unhappy tone, âI think we should stick with the plan. Donât always make changes. Our Liuxi is a handsome boy so the audience wonât care if heâs good at singing or not. Seeing his face will be enough. If you really think heâs singing is not good enough, just let him dance.ân/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om
On hearing that, Yan Su wanted to laugh. Director Li was turning more and more like Mo Liuxi.
The director thought for a moment and said, âLet him dance then. Yan Su will sing alone. Iâll find him a dancing teacher. It might be a little difficult, though.â
Mo Liuxi frowned, thought for a moment, then nodded. Soon later, Mo Liuxi was guided to another room to learn how to dance.
Yan Su went to see him after the rehearsal. He was learning to dance with clumsy moves. His body was stiff and robotic, and that made the dancing teacher shake his head.
âYou guys go home.â Director Li sighed. âI think itâll at least take him a day. I donât get it. Why wouldnât he sing together with Yang Ziqian? And why did he refuse to do the lip-synching? Heâs not a professional singer. Even if people found out about it, they wouldnât say anything.â
Cheng Sheng and Yang Zixian both raised their eyebrows and glanced at Yan Su knowingly.
âEh-hem.â Director Li coughed. âThereâs no need to wait.â
The others had work to do, including Yan Su. She said goodbye to Mo Liuxi and left. When she got home at 10:00 p.m., Mo Liuxi was still not there.
She called him and heard music through the phone. âAre you still practicing?â
âYeah.â Mo Liuxi gasped. âDonât wait up. I wonât be back until about midnight.â
How could Yan Su possibly sleep? After all, Mo Liuxi worked so hard because he wanted to perform together with her.
At midnight, she sat on the couch and heard a noise from next door. He didnât come to her side.
She waited for a while, yet, he didnât come.
She couldnât describe how she felt. She was not a slow-minded person. Girls were always more sensitive than guys. Recently, she and Mo Liuxi made peace, but still, they didnât feel right. They werenât as close to each other as they used to be. Before, Mo Liuxi would come straight to her place and try everything to stay in her room for the night.
She hesitated briefly, then stood up to knock on his door.
The door wasnât answered immediately. Before she turned and left, it was opened. Mo Liuxiâs hair was moist, and his upper body was bare. He was wearing thin pajama pants. Obviously, he put the pants on in haste, because they were worn inside out.
âWhy are you still up?â Mo Liuxi raised his eyebrows with surprise.
Yan Su lowered her head awkwardly and said, âHowâs the dancing going?â
âFine.â Mo Liuxi murmured. He was a little frustrated.
He was a proud person, but recently he also got frustrated. He couldnât sing well and couldnât dance well either. The dancing teacher criticized him for his robotic moves.
Yan Su noticed the look on his face. She could tell how he felt because she used to learn dancing when she was little. For people who never learned how to dance, it could be very hard. For the gifted dancers, learning a new movement might only take a few hours. However, he spent a whole afternoon and a whole evening. It proved one thingâhe was not good at dancing.
âLiuxi, the director is right. Youâre not a star, so you donât need to be a professional dancer or singer...â said Yan Su with hesitation. âYou donât need to compare yourself with Shi Xiang. In my eyes, youâre better than him.â
There was something that he didnât speak out loud, but that didnât mean she doesnât understand how he felt.
Mo Liuxi blinked, then pulled her straight into his arms and said, âArenât you coaxing me?â
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