Chapter 59 – You are my dance partner

As the rhythmic music started to play, the international students started to dance to the upbeat songs.

This is where the role of the dance partner comes to the fore.

In the centre of the venue, a pair of young men and women were dancing in pairs. The European and American students were clearly well versed in the art and danced naturally and without formality.

There were also a number of lesser dancers who then just swayed gently to the music and talked to their partners.

The most embarrassing part of the event was for some of the international students who did not find a dance partner.

They retreated silently to the edge of the stage and took seats at the tables, eating snacks and drinks in the same solitude as Shen Yu, boringly surveying the couples on the dance floor.

There were men and women, but not so many that they couldn’t even fill the tables around them.

And they didn’t know each other well, sitting sparsely and far apart, with no one to talk to, alone as a dog.

The table in front of Shen Yu was already stoned on a pile of melon shells, and looking at the time it was almost nine o’clock, a little more than half an hour before we could go home.

Asaba Rika had just won a prize and was now eagerly running backstage to collect her prize with her winning ticket in hand.

A foreign student from Russia, strong as a bear and not handsome, such a brawny physique is not very popular with young girls and falls awkwardly short of the bill.

He walks towards Shen Yu with a glass of pale yellow iced water and sits down next to him.

“Hey man, do you mind if I sit here? (English)”

“Make yourself at home. (English)”

Shen Yu’s English is still very good, when studying, many materials are in English, Shen Yu prefer to read the original English version than the translated version, after all, everyone’s translation understanding will be more or less different, if you read the original version, you will feel a little more accurate.

Shen Yu took one look at the big brother and thought to himself that there was a reason why he couldn’t find a partner for the dance.

Other than that first, the looks alone look like an older man.

He observed these men and women who had not found a partner for the dance and noticed an interesting phenomenon.

It goes without saying that the men are basically bad looking and have no unique temperament, they are just ugly and give people girls the impression that you are poor.

On the contrary, the girls who did not find a partner for the dance, seventy percent of them, were very good looking and had a good temperament, giving them a very high class feel.

This phenomenon, in turn, reminds Shen Yu of the often-mentioned issue of marriage.

In the big cities, it is common to find older women who are well qualified, but who just don’t have a date. The reason for this is simple: men are downwardly compatible, while women are upwardly compatible.

If the men and women are divided into four levels of abcd, excluding the normal level of marriage, that is, door-to-door kind of not to talk about, then d women can accept abc men, c women can accept ab men, b women can accept a men, but the quality of men where enough points ah, so there will be a lot of a women and d men left over, resulting in a first-class city, quality women can not find a boyfriend, remote mountainous areas, poor men can not find a wife.

Wei Qi felt a lot more comfortable after sitting down next to Shen Yu, and at least the feeling of being alone as a dog while the place was buzzing with activity faded away.

“Man, let’s drink to that.”

Wei Qi looks at Shen Yu with the pale yellow iced drink in her hand.

Shen Yu didn’t resent the big, cheerful guy and raised his drink to clink with him.

“What’s that cup of yours?” Shen Yu asked.

“It’s like a soda with lemon juice in it.” Wei Qi says.

“Is it sour?”

“It’s not sour.”

“Do you want a melon?”

“Good.”

Shen Yu then poured some melon seeds on his table, and Wei Qi froze, as he rarely ate melon seeds with their skin on.

So a pair of large hands struggled to squeeze such a small melon seed, and with great difficulty peeled out the kernels and brought them to their mouths to chew.

“Man, it’s too much trouble to eat this stuff, and it’s not as much meat as a mosquito.” Wei Qi said bitterly.

Shen Yu was dumbfounded.

It was the first time he had seen anyone peeling melons by hand, and such a strong man, peeling them as if he were squeezing an embroidery needle.

“Get high with your teeth.”

After Shen Yu had demonstrated, Wei Qi was able to understand the situation and followed Shen Yu’s example.

So dried out with a mouth full of shells.

As they chatted casually, Wei Qi just felt like she had found her partner and was no longer alone in this lively ball.

“Dude, one more toast.”

Wei Qi raises his glass of lemon soda again, and Shen Yu has no doubt that he would have blown a bottle if it had been replaced by wine.

Shen Yu was about to take his own glass and clink it with his when a fragrant breeze passed in front of him and he and Wei Qi both looked up.

“Hello, I’m Li Xianjing from Korea, can I ask you to dance? (English)”

The girl, who is very pretty and has exceptionally white skin, is bravely holding out a hand in front of Shen Yu’s face and looking at him with a smile.

As one of the remaining girls at the ball, Li Xianjing has naturally received a lot of enthusiastic offers from guys, but she has turned them all down, and now that the crowd is down, she sees Shen Yu over here.

Shen Yu’s good looks are not the effeminate look of a young man, his features are deep and defined, giving him a strong and sunny look.

Although the big man next to him is also ‘steel’, the two have a completely different aura. Shen Yu’s has a kind of softness in the steel, and just seems to be very intelligent.

Pretty girls are very good at reading people, like Rika who always says Shen Yu looks mean but is actually very gentle, like the uncle in the killer.

Wei Qi looked at the girl and then at Shen Yu, who was face-blind as far as Asians were concerned, and couldn’t quite tell how good-looking the two were.

“Sorry, I don’t know how to dance.”

Shen Yu declined.

Wei Qi sighs with relief and picks up her glass to continue clinking it.

” Shen Yu! Look at our headphones!”

Asaba Rika, who had finished redeeming his prize voucher for the headphones, came back with great joy, showing them to Shen Yu and looking curiously at the girl standing next to him and the hand she had reached out in front of Shen Yu before she could withdraw it.

So Rika subconsciously became a lady, puffing out her chest and slowing down her hurried pace.

Like a wary kitten, she puts away the mischievous look on her face, puts the headphones in her bag and takes Shen Yu’s hand.

“Let’s go dancing!”

“Hey hey…! I ……”

Shen Yu was pulled away by her.

Wei Qi and Li Xianjing were left frozen in place.

“How about I dance with you?” Wei Qi asked.

“Thanks, I can’t dance.” Li Xianjing smiles and turns to leave.

“You don’t know how to dance, you come over here and invite people to dance! What’s wrong with you!”

Wei Qi spits out a sigh, looks at Shen Yu who is dancing with a cute young girl over there, lonely as a dog himself, pinches a melon seed in his mouth, dries out again with a mouth full of shells, spits it out with two bahs, and takes another sip of soda water.

What wasn’t sour a moment ago is now so sour that it squints.

……

On the dance floor, Shen Yu stares at Asaba Rika with a stern face.

Asaba Rika blushes and looks down at his toes.

The two men’s hands clasped each other.

The palms are sticky and sweaty, mingling with each other.

To the rhythm of the music, two people who can’t dance, stiffly twist their bodies.

Holding her hand, feeling the softness of the powder, Shen Yu’s heart was beating fast and the rhythm of his breathing was a little disorganised.

He held his tongue for a long time and uttered two words.

“Nonsense ……”

“I ……”

Asaba Rika, not knowing what had just happened, bravely dragged Shen Yu onto the dance floor.

At this moment it feels like my small hands are surrounded by warmth and I can’t even hear the music in my ears, only my own pounding heartbeat.

His broad palm wrapped around her small hand, the heat coming from his palm, flowing into her body and up her neck, rushing up to the tips of her ears, bringing up a scarlet hue.

Boys’ hands, are they all this hot ……

Rika felt dizzy and tingly, as if she hadn’t drunk a single drop of alcohol.

“Was it fun?”

“Well ……”

“?”

Shen Yu must be pissed she pulled him onto the dance floor, but ……

She looked up suddenly and bravely into Shen Yu’s eyes.

” Shen Yu is my dance partner.”