Chapter 359: Invitation to Dance
Nantivian, Episcopal Square.
In the cold winter night, the grand New Year party was still going on. When that bright red figure appeared on the stage that attracted everyone's attention, the audience almost boiled over and the warm atmosphere reached its climax.
People at the scene did not expect that on this New Year's Eve, the most famous dancer in the whole of Tivian would not perform in a splendid palace or at an upper-class banquet attended by dignitaries. Instead, she would come to the shabby old square in the South City District, on this makeshift stage, to dance for the common people in the cold wind.
For these common people who could not afford to go to high-end theaters, they could only see the name Adele in newspapers on weekdays. For almost all of them, this was the first time they saw the woman who was known as the most charming woman in Tivian.
Surrounded by a group of dancers, Adele danced non-stop amid rounds of cheers from the audience. Her dancing was not only seen by many ordinary audiences below the stage, but also appreciated by two noble men on the balcony of a building at the edge of the square.
"I never thought that you could persuade Adele to come to this party. It's the first time for me to see her dance in such an occasion. Haha, little Issa, you have a really nice surprise."
Sitting in a comfortable seat on the balcony, Barrett looked at Adele on the stage in the distance and said with a smile, while Isabel, who was sitting next to him, also responded with a smile.
"As long as Uncle Barrett likes it, I hope that everyone who participates in this party can have a pleasant night, so I invited Miss Adele for this purpose."
"I see... But as far as Adele is concerned, she should have other more important and distinguished occasions to attend on a day like this evening. It must have taken a lot of effort for you to invite Adele here." Turning his head to look at Isabel, Barrett continued, and Isabel continued to answer in a humble tone.
"Uncle Barrett, you are wrong. In fact, I did not spend a lot of effort on inviting Miss Adele. As you said, Uncle Barrett, Miss Adele has many places to go at this time of the day. But when I sent the invitation letter to Miss Adele, I did not have high expectations. I did not expect Miss Adele to agree to my request so readily.
"Later, I asked her why. She said that her dance should not be limited to a small number of stages. She wanted more people from different walks of life to see her dance. She wanted to be the Ruby of Tivian, not the Ruby of Tivian's upper class. She seemed to want to make a breakthrough in the audience of her performances, and I happened to give her the opportunity at this time."
Isabel explained this to Barrett. Hearing Isabel's words, Barrett nodded thoughtfully. He looked at the distant stage and Adele couldn't help but murmured.
"What a dancer with a lot of ideas. Compared to those people who are called stars but are actually playthings, Adele may have a realm that we can't imagine. Maybe one day her fame will not be limited to Tivian, or even Pritt."
Barrett made such comments, and Isabel beside him nodded in agreement after hearing Barrett's words, and then continued to look at the stage in the distance. At this time, the dancers on the stage were performing new moves.
"Hey, Uncle Barrett, look, Miss Adele seems to be asking the audience to come up and dance."
"Really? Has she prepared such a program?"
Looking at the stage in the distance, Isabel said curiously, and Barrett also refocused his eyes on the stage in the distance.
At this time, on the stage at the edge of the square, Adele had finished a song to the cheers of the crowd. After that, Adele did not leave the stage. Instead, she winked at the dancers beside her and the backstage during the intermission. Soon after, soothing and melodious music sounded again, and accompanied by the new music, she and the dancers around her began a new round of dance.
Led by Adele, she and her dancers started dancing again on the stage, but this time their dance was a little different. After a few simple moves at the beginning, the dancers around Adele began to disperse around the stage. Amidst everyone's surprise, they walked down the edge of the stage, came to the front row of audiences, stretched out their hands and randomly invited the front row of audiences, pulled them up in astonishment, and then danced together.
This kind of direct interaction with the audience surprised countless people, and in this surprise, Adele slowly walked down from the stage with a smile on her face and extended her hand to the audience in the front row.
Faced with Adele's action, all the audience in the front row were boiling with excitement at once, and with infinite desire on their faces, they all stretched out their hands to Adele. The excitement in their hearts drove each of them to rush forward and hold Adele's outstretched slender hand.
Normally, such a scene would cause large-scale crowds and trampling. However, surprisingly, at the critical moment, everyone on the scene suppressed their inner impulses. They just stretched out their hands and looked at Adele who was approaching expectantly. They did not rush over without caring about others and cause chaos, leading to serious accidents.
Greg, who was standing in the front row of the auditorium, was looking at himself in astonishment. In front of him, Adele's graceful figure was slowly approaching. As he watched the beautiful face getting closer and closer, Greg felt his heartbeat quicken. He had never expected that Tivian's status ruby was walking straight towards him. He had never expected that the most shining star of the gala was extending an invitation to him.
With an incredible expression on his face, Gregor looked at the beautiful figure that had walked in front of him. His heart was full of expectations. He couldn't help but stretch out his hand, wanting to shake the slender hand that was stretched out to him. However, when their hands were about to touch, they brushed past each other in mid-air.
With a slight turn, Adele's hand brushed past Gregor's hand and then stretched out to his side. Seeing this scene, Gregor was stunned and stood there in a daze. When he turned his head to his side awkwardly, he saw Adele, who was slightly leaning down, staring at her younger sister Dorothy beside her with a smile. The hand she had just stretched out and brushed past his side was now shaking hands with Dorothy. At this time, Dorothy raised her head and looked at Adele in front of her, her expression revealing an indescribable complexity.
"Want to dance with me, little sister?"
Adele kept smiling as she spoke to Dorothy, who nodded silently. Seeing this, Adele's smile became a little more obvious. Then she took Dorothy's hand, and the two of them left the audience and walked onto the stage with the people they found for other dancers.
At this time, Gregor kept his hand stretched out, staring blankly at the person in front of him with his mouth wide open, watching his sister and the big star walk onto the stage, and he didn't react for a long time.
On the stage, the dancers continued to dance with their respective partners to the music. Adele smiled and held Dorothy's hands, guiding her smaller body to follow her steps, while Dorothy matched her every step exquisitely. Although the others who were pulled up by the dancers had professional guidance, they still looked awkward due to their lack of dance experience.
However, Dorothy's ability to cooperate with Adele was surprisingly strong. She could understand Adele's meaning in almost every move, and followed her guidance and stepped on the proper rhythm meticulously, just like another dance master. Under Adele's superb skills, the incoordination caused by the height difference between the two parties was even eliminated. The two danced surprisingly calmly and gracefully. The beautiful figures of the two danced together and became the focus of the stage again, and the atmosphere on the scene continued to be high.
"Ms. Dorothea!?"
At the edge of the square, in front of the emergency medical station, Vanya stood on a stool and looked at the stage. She couldn't help but murmur in surprise. She never expected to see a familiar figure in that place.
"Why is Miss Dorothea in this place? She's dancing on stage with the big star Adele, and she's dancing so well... Is that really Miss Dorothea?"
Looking at Dorothy on the stage, Vanya thought to herself that in her impression, Dorothy was always a girl from the literature department holding books, but she never thought that she could dance so beautifully with a big star now.
On the other side, on the balcony of the upper floor, Isabel looked at the scene on the stage in the distance and couldn't help but speak with a hint of surprise.
"I didn't expect Miss Adele to actually invite the audience to the stage to dance. Not only did she perform for the common people, she also danced with them. Is this the popular route she wants to take now?
"And... that girl with silver hair... she's not only pretty, but she's also a great dancer. She can even follow Adele's dance steps. It's really interesting that she can dance so well at such a young age... Don't you think so? Uncle Barrett."
As she spoke, Isabel turned to ask Barrett beside her. When she turned around, she saw that Barrett's expression was somehow very serious. He was looking at the stage in the distance with a serious expression, looking at the silver-haired girl dancing with Adele on the stage. Who knows what he was thinking in his focused eyes?
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