Pretending To Be A Boss

He was a very uninteresting person living in a very boring world.

Just like when he was a child, and his father brought him fresh flowers from the mines, he would find the flowers beautiful, but they would wither very quickly.

So he had someone make a crystal-clear, never-withering flower out of glass.

It was only when she grew up that Li Xiaoyu realized that the glass flower, while delicate in appearance, was quite uninteresting, and it too would wither, only that ordinary people couldn't see it.

Li Xiaoyu slowly made her way to the exit of the dance.

The sound of her crystal high heels on the floor was clear and crisp, and in the empty dance hall, there seemed to be an echo. But the two sounds were different.

She looked back in confusion and realized it wasn't an echo but the footsteps of another person.

Then, when she saw the person at the entrance,

Li Xiaoyu froze as if time had stopped.

"Good thing I'm not too late. I was thinking of waiting until most people left to ask you for a dance. But Little Nine said fruit alone wasn't filling, so I took her to Dong Ran's residence first to make dinner. The kid is so greedy; her belly has rounded into a ball, and yet she can still keep eating..."

Tang Xian's voice was light, but to Li Xiaoyu, it felt like a dazzling spotlight suddenly shining on a dark stage, stinging her eyes and blurring them with tears.

Tang Xian approached Li Xiaoyu and asked,

"Shall we dance?"

"I can't..."

Li Xiaoyu suddenly regretted not learning properly; she should have, even if finding a teacher to dance with her would have sufficed.

"I can, though. I might not be very skilled since it's learnt on the spot, but since there's no one watching, there's no need to worry about being laughed at."

"Why did you... come back after everyone left?"

"This attire is quite expensive. If this were in the mines, it could have been a huge deal. I couldn't just take it for nothing, right?"

Tang Xian extended his hand, inviting Li Xiaoyu.

Li Xiaoyu held Tang Xian's hand, her face instantly flushed with a light layer of rouge.

"I thought when you said you'd only dance with one person... it wasn't me."

Sensing the tentative probing in Li Xiaoyu's words, Tang Xian laughed and replied,

"Who else could it be?"

Li Xiaoyu's face turned even redder, fortunately, the lights above the dance floor were constantly changing, now they had softened.

This dance was very awkward, one being too unrestrained, the other too inhibited, neither of them proficient.

But to Li Xiaoyu, this uninteresting day began to take on meaning. Experience tales at My Virtual Library Empire

Tang Xian remembered his father once pulled his mother into a dance. Back then, Tang Xian thought it looked awful.

However, his father left behind a deep impression with his words.

"When you are dancing, you have to look into the girl's eyes. If she truly likes you, you will see the change of all four seasons and the blooming of flowers in the dance's elusive steps."

Li Xiaoyu's emotions were as clumsy as her dance steps, uncertain.

Only the intoxication and joy in her eyes were like the music accompanying the dance, prolonged and melodious.

Tang Xian saw all this and felt perplexed within.

There are many things in this world that can be logically figured out, yet some things become more confusing the more you think about them.

He stopped thinking about it, just as a pair of figure skaters would, even if their performance was truly terrible, trying their best to dance well was all that mattered.

As the lights and music subtly changed with their shallow dance steps, Li Xiaoyu was like a bloom of crystal clear flowers opening up once again.

Although her dance steps seemed awkward, if there had been an audience, they would surely find her more beautiful and stunning than any woman on the dance floor that day.

...

...

When the music ended, Tang Xian and Li Xiaoyu also finished their dance.

Li Xiaoyu didn't feel like it wasn't enough, on the contrary, she was somewhat surprised by what she gained today.

Tang Xian, however, still appeared the same, his expression a mixture of smiling and not, indifferent.

"Well, the first dance experience wasn't too bad. It's time for me to go back now. It's getting late; you should head back too."

Tang Xian really got up, ready to leave.

Li Xiaoyu called out to Tang Xian and said,

"Tang Xian, I want to ask you a question.

"What question?"

"The girl you used to like, what kind of girl was she?"

Tang Xian stopped in his tracks, not surprised by Li Xiaoyu's knowledge of this.

He remained silent without speaking.

Li Xiaoyu paused, then said,

"It's okay if you don't want to talk about it."

After saying this, Li Xiaoyu felt it was inappropriate and added,

"I don't mean I'm going to investigate afterwards, rest assured." Although she had already looked into it, Li Xiaoyu was sincere in her words.

Tang Xian chuckled and said,

"Come on, let's go to the third floor."

"Huh?"

"Generally, stories happen in places far away, but this story took place very close by."

"Now?"

"Next time, I might not want to tell you about it."