Chapter 16 Watching her dance, I happened to come to her teaching place...

"Your document has been deleted," Xie Xingzhi said, suddenly realizing. He looked at her with a half-smile. "You thought I deleted it?"

"Not you?" Yu Kui frowned. "Then who could it be?"

Xie Xingzhi didn't speak, but looked at the boys behind him. Sun Chaoyang looked blank and asked, "What document?"

He didn't go to the office to recite his lessons that day and didn't know what had happened.

After scanning the room, Xie Xingzhi looked at a boy with shifty eyes and said slowly, "Xu Ye, do you want me to drag you out myself?"

The boy whose name he called stiffened, then feigned ignorance and said, "Xie Xingzhi, what do you mean by this?"

"You still want to fool me?" Xie Xingzhi shrugged. "They've already shifted the blame onto me. That's not fair of you."

"I..." Xu Ye's expression changed slightly, but he did not deny Xie Xingzhi's statement. He looked at Yu Kui and said, "Classmate, I was wrong to do this. I apologize to you. I'm sorry."

His eyes were restless; he clearly wasn't sincerely apologizing.

Unexpectedly, it was him. A look of disgust flashed in Yu Kui's eyes. "No need."

She disliked Xu Ye's actions and hated Xu Ye as a person, who exuded a dark and decadent aura.

"Then you can't wrong my brother Xie anymore." Xu Ye didn't care what Yu Kui thought. He deleted the document to teach her a lesson, to show her that just because she was a good student she could look down on people like them. He never expected that she would come to his door asking him questions.

That's so embarrassing.

“I misunderstood you,” Yu Kui said solemnly, looking at the nonchalant boy. “I apologize to you.”

"It's nothing," Xie Xingzhi waved his hand, his smile returning to his face. "What's your name? Let's get to know each other."

Yu Kui didn't want to get to know him, but she still politely said her name.

"Yu Kui?" Xie Xingzhi said with a grin, "The Kui from sunflower?"

"Um."

"It sounds pretty good," Xie Xingzhi said, revealing his name, then turned and leaned against a table. "What kind of dance are you doing? Can I see it?"

“How can you people be so shameless?” Sun Shuya rolled her eyes. “Your brother has already deleted Yu Kui’s documents, and you’re still here pretending to be a good guy? Hurry up and leave, we don’t like to associate with these people.”

"What are you talking about?" Sun Chaoyang took two steps forward. "This is a misunderstanding. Didn't we already apologize?"

"You think an apology is enough?" Sun Shuya sneered. "How about I kill you and then apologize to you?"

Sun Chaoyang remained silent.

These people had never encountered a girl as assertive as Sun Shuya before, and they were no match for her at all.

Xu Ye's face turned even uglier. Sun Shuya's words were tantamount to stomping on his face.

“That’s true,” Xie Xingzhi sighed, seemingly only then realizing how unpopular he was, and glanced at Yu Kui with a slightly melancholy look. “In the end, it’s us who caused you trouble.”

Yu Kui neither confirmed nor denied it, only saying, "Later I found the document in the recycle bin."

"I see," Xie Xingzhi said with a smile. "Luckily, we found it."

He beckoned Xu Ye to come to Yu Kui's side, "If you're still not satisfied, slap him a couple of times, otherwise I don't know how long I'll have to take the blame, I'll be wronged to death."

Yu Kui would never hit anyone, so she quickly took two steps back and said, "I'm not angry anymore, you guys should leave now."

Her resistance was so obvious that the atmosphere instantly fell silent.

“Alright,” Xie Xingzhi stood up and said meaningfully, “Then you can’t misunderstand me anymore. I’m not the kind of person who does bad things behind people’s backs.”

Yu Kui: "..."

The boys arrived quickly and left just as fast. The classroom returned to silence.

Sun Shuya scoffed, "Are these people out of their minds?"

Yu Kui tugged at her sleeve, "It's getting late, let's go home."

“Alright,” Sun Shuya said, “What about the dancing thing? What have you thought about?”

“Sure,” Yu Kui wasn’t one to be coy. After discovering that dancing wasn’t as difficult as she had imagined, she said, “Can you sign me up?”

“Okay.” Sun Shuya nodded. “Then I’ll rehearse with you after school tomorrow.”

"Um."

In the following days, with Sun Shuya's help, Yu Kui practiced the dance until she was proficient. On New Year's Day, she specially brought the Hanfu that her mother had bought for her and wore a down jacket to school.

After finishing classes in the morning, the party started in the afternoon.

All the desks in the classroom were moved to the sides to make room for the students performing.

After the homeroom teacher finished speaking as usual, the class monitor distributed the snacks and fruits he had bought to each table.

As the host, Sun Shuya held up the program list and announced the start of the party.

While the class representative was singing, Yu Kui took her clothes and went out to change. She let her hair down, did a simple hairstyle following the video, and then returned to the classroom.

Qin You had heard from Tao Jiang that she was going to participate in a skit, so she left the classroom early to watch her performance.

As she reached the top of the stairs, she bumped into Yu Kui, whose clothes fluttered in the breeze. Her steps were light and graceful, her jewelry jingling, like a young girl who had stepped out of an ancient painting. Her back view was lively, and her beautiful hairpins seemed to dance with her steps.

Qin Youcai then realized that she also had to perform.

If this had happened before, she would have told him first, but now, as she walks ahead of him, he doesn't even have the right to call out to her.

Qin You followed behind her, watching her like a nimble bird as she pushed open the back door of the classroom and disappeared from his sight in the blink of an eye.

When Yu Kui returned, Tao Jiang was performing a skit. She was dressed very lively and had put on exquisite makeup.

Because it was a skit, the classroom was soon filled with laughter, amused by the frequent witty remarks.

Tao Jiang's acting skills are excellent. Watching her effortless and perfectly timed performance, Yu Kui felt for a moment that she was even better than many celebrities in the entertainment industry.

It seems like they were born to perform.

Even the picky Sun Shuya didn't point out her flaws.

It was so perfect, so perfect that she seemed to have completely immersed herself in the scene.

Qin You stood at the back of the classroom, staring intently at Tao Jiang. Seeing her graceful and charming appearance, his heart raced, and he could only see her.

"The Peacock Flies Southeast" is a complete tragedy, but the skit turned it into a comedy. The female protagonist, Liu Lanzhi, not only did not die, but also changed her original fate, cleverly escaping the persecution of feudal ethics and finding true happiness.

In the end, the skit naturally ends happily for everyone.

When everyone held hands and took their final bow, deafening applause erupted from the audience.

"She acted so well!" someone couldn't help but say. "Tao Jiang's acting is better than some actresses. I watched her the whole time. She could totally enter the entertainment industry!"

"Tao Jiang, you're amazing!" The girls in the class all looked at her with newfound respect. "How did you manage to get into character like that? You didn't break character at all!"

"Rehearsing with everyone, I naturally got into it." Tao Jiang smiled sheepishly, but her eyes held a hint of dissatisfaction.

It's just acting, isn't it?

Her life is a performance, so what difficulties could she possibly face?

She looked up and met Qin You's gaze. When she saw the infatuation in his eyes, the corners of her mouth curled up. She walked towards him and suddenly heard Sun Shuya say, "Now that the skit is over, let's watch some classical dance to calm our nerves."

After saying that, she looked at the girl sitting by the wall and said, "Welcome Yu Kui to perform the dance 'Flower Goddess' for everyone."

Yu Kui?

Everyone was surprised; Yu Kui could actually dance?

They knew Yu Kui was a good student and thought she was a bookworm; they never expected she could dance...

After she took off her heavy down jacket, everyone realized that she was actually wearing a flowing Hanfu (traditional Han Chinese clothing).

"Yu Kui is so beautiful!"

Someone whispered, "She always wore her hair in a ponytail before, so I never noticed her facial features."

"She looks like a fairy who stepped out of a painting."

"..."

As the music started, Yu Kui saw the dance from the video in her mind and instinctively started dancing.

She seemed to have truly transformed into a butterfly fluttering among the flowers, her steps graceful, her wings nimble, dancing like an elf in the sunlight.

The girl had a graceful figure, her skirt flowed beautifully, and her slightly immature face had surprisingly developed a stunningly beautiful profile...

Qin You looked at her quietly, almost forgetting who she had come for.

"Still looking?" Tao Jiang pinched his arm hard, a cold smile playing on her lips. "Have you forgotten who you came for?"

Qin You lowered his eyes. "How could that be?" He took a step back and was about to leave through the back door when he noticed several boys standing behind him, one of whom he recognized.

It's Xie Xingzhi from Class 13.

How did he end up here?

Tao Jiang's pupils contracted slightly. Were these people here to see Yu Kui?

“Brother Xie, I told you the liberal arts class had a performance, but you didn’t believe me,” Sun Chaoyang put his hand on the boy’s shoulder, “and look, we bumped into a fairy right away.”

He stared intently at Yu Kui, "Isn't this better than our class's performance?"

"Alright." Xie Xingzhi brushed his hand away, his gaze lingering on Yu Kui. He pressed his tongue against his palate and said with a smile, "It's a pity we're not in a real garden, otherwise—"

"Could you please move aside?" Tao Jiang walked up to him, looked up into his eyes, and said, "Excuse me."

"It's you," Sun Chaoyang and the others finally noticed her, looking at her hairstyle in surprise. "You're in a show too? It's a pity we didn't see you."

Tao Jiang's lips twitched, and Xie Xingzhi had already turned aside to make way for her.

As Tao Jiang passed by him, she smelled an extremely pleasant fragrance. It wasn't the smell of perfume, but rather the scent of his own body or laundry detergent. Her eyes involuntarily lit up.

Qin You and Xie Xingzhi exchanged a glance. The boy leaned against the wall with a nonchalant expression, seemingly boneless, and didn't seem to care about Qin You's scrutiny. Qin You, however, frowned.

It can't be such a coincidence.

Recalling their encounter in the hallway that day, Qin You thought to herself, "Why did I choose to come to Yu Kui's class when I was supposed to be in the humanities class?"

When the music stopped, the butterfly folded its wings, closed its eyes, and perched on the flower branch.

The classroom was silent for a moment, then erupted in enthusiastic applause.