Rebirth of the Luminous Potato Girl Chapter 3 Dance Partner (Part 1) "Classmates, choose your own dance partners and line up in three rows!" The teacher who was teaching social dance demonstrated the gesture for inviting a partner to dance, turned on the music with the volume at its lowest, and explained the characteristics of various dances.
"I almost didn't make it, and I didn't even have time to go back to the dorm to take a shower." Zhou Ling said in a low voice, while letting Ning Qing smell her clothes, afraid that she had sweat from rushing back from the beach.
Ning Qingmin rubbed her head, still feeling a bit dizzy in her mind. She only felt that the lights in the dance hall were spinning rapidly, and her heart was also constantly racing. Seeing Zhou Ling approaching, she pressed her wildly beating heart and forced a smile, saying: "It's okay, beautiful people even if they sweat, it's fragrant sweat."
That year, when returning from the seaside, it was just in time to rush to the dance hall to learn waltz. I didn't finish dancing and left first, leaving Zhou Ling in the dance hall to continue dancing. Later, Jiang Mingzhi sent Zhou Ling back to her dormitory. It seemed that something had happened at the time, which scared Zhou Ling badly. Afterwards, Zhou Ling often used this incident to say that I had abandoned her.
What happened at that time? Ning Qingmin leaned her head and thought hard, but still couldn't remember.
Zhou Ling saw Ning Qing standing there stiffly, thinking she was nervous, and smiled: "It's just learning to dance, not doing anything bad, what are you nervous about?" On the other hand, he whispered: "Look over there, it seems to be our classmates Xiao Yesheng and Jiang Mingzhi! I didn't expect them to come learn ballroom dancing too!"
The Chinese department originally had more girls than boys, and most of the boys were weak in literature, so when the tall and handsome Xiao Ye Sheng and the majestic Jiang Ming Zhi appeared, they caught the attention of many girls in the department. Now that they have come to learn waltz, Zhou Ling has also taken notice.
"If you had to choose one of them as a dance partner, who would you choose?" Ning Qing thought back to the beginning, it seemed that both Xiao Ye Sheng and Jiang Ming Zhi had taken a liking to Zhou Ling, but Jiang Ming Zhi had pursued her more aggressively, which was why he had succeeded.
"It's best to have two wheels as dance partners!" Zhou Ling blinked, with a mischievous glint in his eye, and chuckled: "Each has its own strengths, really, it's hard to choose between them!"
"Beauty, you've simultaneously charmed two handsome guys, causing many people to lose out on two opportunities at the same time. That's not fair!" Ning Qingming smiled and secretly glanced over at Xiao Yesheng and Jiang Mingzhi among the group of boys. However, she saw that Xiao Yesheng and Jiang Mingzhi also seemed to have looked over this way, so they quickly turned their heads away.
"They're looking over! They're looking over!" Zhou Ling also hastily turned her head and whispered to Ning Qingmian, "I don't know if they'll come over to invite us as dance partners?"
"He'll definitely come invite you!" Ning Qing whispered, following Zhou Ling's lead in lowering her voice, "But he'll never invite me!"
"Don't say that!" Zhou Ling pinched Ning Qingmian's hand, trying to find words to comfort her, but was momentarily speechless.
As they spoke, some bold boys had already chosen their dance partners. Jiang Mingzhi saw Zhou Ling and Ning Qingmian standing in the crowd of girls from afar and hurried over, nodding at Ning Qingmian while extending his hand to Zhou Ling, making a gesture inviting her to dance. Zhou Ling smiled slightly, placed her hand on his palm, and stood up.
Ning Qingmin saw the scene as it was that year, and hastily turned her head to look towards the door. There, just like that year, walked in two female classmates, Duan Shurong and Li Xiuzhen.
Duan Shurong is a local, good at dressing up, charming and flirtatious, always putting on airs, loves to coquettishly tease boys, and used to look down on Ning Qingmian, the country bumpkin.
Li Xiuzhen was quite charming and always liked to follow Su Rong's lead in everything.
The ballroom was dimly lit, and Duan Shurong and Li Xiuzhen suddenly couldn't see the people in the hall clearly, so they were busy asking the teacher to teach them the gestures of inviting a dance.
As she saw everyone else pairing up with dance partners, the group of boys was left with only a few people. Ning Qing suddenly caught a whiff of something strange and noticed that a skinny boy was moving towards her. In a moment of distraction, Ning Qing recalled an incident from years ago. She remembered that it was this very same boy who had asked her to be his dance partner back then, but she could barely last for a while because the boy had body odor.
In Ning Qing's mind, the image of Fox Stinky Man appeared, with his right hand wrapped around her waist. As they moved together, the strange smell crept towards her inch by inch. She didn't dare to breathe heavily and only slightly shifted her body, taking small sips of air. When the next dance track started, she had already disappeared from the dance floor.
Ning Qingmin bit her lip, the money for learning dance was only 50 yuan, she didn't want to pay it herself, but Zhou Ling dragged her along and even paid the tuition fee for her. To waste Zhou Ling's 50 yuan for a stinky man like him wasn't reasonable at all!
The smell is getting stronger and stronger, the stinky man is approaching, approaching...
No way, I won't just sit and wait for death, changing my life starts with tonight's dance partner.
Ning Qingmian took off her glasses, suddenly stood up heroically, bypassed the thin boy who was walking towards her, and rushed to a few boys on the other side.
Xiao Ye Sheng saw Jiang Ming Zhi take the lead and invite Zhou Ling as his dance partner, feeling a slight sense of loss in her heart. Zhou Ling was pure and lively, and she also had a very good impression of her, but... Just then, she suddenly saw Ning Qing Mian walking over this way, and the eyes of the two people met unintentionally.
"Shall we dance?" Ning Qing saw Xiao Ye Sheng looking over at her, so she stretched out her hand and made a dancing gesture, her attitude calm and composed.
Xiao Ye Sheng was taken aback for a moment, this girl had been inseparable from Zhou Ling, but she was usually quiet and unresponsive, with half of her face hidden behind large black-framed glasses. Although they had been in the same class for over a month, she had never spoken to him before, and now suddenly took the initiative to invite him to dance...
Xiao Ye Sheng blinked his eyes. No matter what, since the girl had taken the initiative to invite him, he should give her some face. So, he stood up.
"Who would have thought that the country bumpkin is the boldest of all!" Duan Shurong and Li Xiuzhen gradually got used to the lighting in the ballroom, seeing Xiao Yeshe embracing Ning Qingmian standing in the dance pool, the remaining boys looked at each other with a look of regret, blaming themselves for being one step late.
"She's really the most rustic one in the whole venue, honestly..."
Duan Shurong raised her voice to speak, and her words carried over the music to Ning Qingming's ears. Ning Qingming lowered his head and smiled faintly. They were classmates after all; what was the hurry?
Xiao Ye Sheng also felt a bit too much, and comforted Ning Qing Mian: "Don't mind it, just pretend you didn't hear it!"
Ning Qing withdrew one hand to adjust her black-framed glasses, looked up and saw the boy in front of her with thick eyebrows and big eyes, wearing a white cotton shirt and deep blue casual pants. Then she looked at herself, wearing a plain grey short-sleeved shirt that was even pilling at the edges, and couldn't help but feel a little self-conscious despite having seven more years of experience.
"Don't worry, next time I'll dress up properly and come to learn dance again, I guarantee not to lose face for you as a dance partner." Ning Qingming saw that Xiao Yesheng also noticed her attire, and hurriedly promised.
