1088 Envious Of People
As was decided before, the first dance belonged to Xiang Wai and Zhai Yanjun. And seeing them dance, Raelle agreed that Xiang Wai was a terrific dancer. There was a tacit understanding between Xiang Wai and Zhai Yanjun. Both were perfectly coordinated. And definitely lit the stage on fire.
They received warm applause from everyone once the music stopped and the dance ended.
Many couples got on the dance floor after this and even some young ones couldn’t help dancing to the music.
Raelle and Xian were left receiving congratulatory words from the guests who came to greet the newly engaged couple. After a while, Raelle couldn’t maintain her smile. It was tiring but she had to keep trying her best.
“Don’t push yourself,” said Shui Xian. He realized that she was tired of smiling. After all, the sincerity in her smile had shifted back to her practiced smile a while ago. It was the same smile that he still considered ‘ugly’.
“It wouldn’t look good not to smile on my own engagement.”
“But haven’t you noticed it yet? Most people are not used to this smile of yours,” Shui Xian pointed out since he had seen the awkwardness and shock in some people when they saw Raelle smiling at them.
Raelle decreased the arc of her smile. “Do you wanna dance?” she asked when she noticed Shui Xian looking at the dance floor.
Shui Xian pursed his lips and then shook his head, “Not really.”
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“But you do want to dance with me,” said Raelle.
Shui Xian smiled sheepishly, “Is it that obvious?”
Raelle nodded and held his hand, “Let’s go then.”
“Huh?” Shui Xian was dumbfounded.
“Don’t you want to dance?”
Shui Xian shook his head again, “No. It’s okay. We don’t have to dance.”
“How can we not when you want to?” was her response.
Shui Xian smiled at her helplessly, “You don’t always have to force yourself to do things for my sake.”
“Well, who asked me to dote on my husband so much?”
Shui Xian chuckled at her words.
Then with a proper posture, she stood before him and offered her left hand as she said, “So, dear fiancé, would you like to dance with me?”
Shui Xian looked at her demeanor in amusement before he placed his hand in hers and said, “Yes, of course! I’d love that.”
There were a lot of people who noticed their movements. These guests even started speculating who started the rumors that this was a marriage of convenience. Even a blind could see this couple was in love and no interests were even involved.
Once they got on the dance floor, Raelle seriously danced. She had coordinated well with Shui Xian that even he was a little suspicious. “Didn’t you say you don’t know how to dance?”
“I don’t,” replied Raelle. “At least, I can’t move like Xiang Wai. But that doesn’t mean I never learned the standard dance. How could Yanyan miss out on that class? Hyson and I learned dance etiquette together. But both of us weren’t interested. He was too restless for this proper dance and it was too cumbersome for my taste.”
“So the only reason you don’t dance is not that you can’t dance but just that you find it too troublesome.”
“Yes,” Raelle generously agreed, making Shui Xian baffled.
“Wow! My wife really...” Shui Xian didn’t know what to say. “And you’re here now just to dance with me? All because I wanted to dance with you?”
Raelle looked into his eyes as she replied, “Because I can go against my interests for you. It’s a little troublesome but nothing more than that. It’s not like I can’t afford this trouble. So, why can’t I just do it to make you happy? As they say, anything for the smile of a beauty. In my case, I do things all for the sake of the smile of this gentleman whom I fell for.”
Shui Xian’s ears turned slightly red.
He spun her around and when he pulled her back, he used slightly more force making her slam into his chest. He held her waist and pecked her lips unexpectedly as he said, “Raelle, this gentleman can smile just seeing you. You don’t have to make so much effort to make him smile. I’m very easily pleased.”
“I know,” said Raelle. How could she not know how easily was pleased? “But just because you’re easily pleased doesn’t mean I should stop putting in the effort. Isn’t that what you said when we first got married? You also told me I am easily satisfied with things but that doesn’t stop you from doing your best. I’m just following your lead.”
“Oh? I said that?” he repeated. “I didn’t know I talk so well.”
“Then you are really looking down on yourself,” she said.
“No way. I don’t look down on myself anymore. I have to have some great merit to manage to marry a wife like you home, right?”
“Silly.”
“That’s also your fault. Your presence makes my brain cells go haywire. How can I even think straight when you’re always seducing me? So, I become a little silly.”
Raelle actually wrapped her arms around his neck as they moved side from the side and she said, “It’s okay. I still like the silly you.”
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“Sigh. This love is envious and it’s blinding my eyes.” Fang Yiwen looked at Lin Zhen as he added, “Zhen Ge, don’t you think so?”
Lin Zhen seemed to be a bit distracted and only noticed when Fang Yiwen called him again. “Huh? What did you say?”
Fang Yiwen gave him a strange look before repeating himself.
“Oh, I got used to it,” responded Lin Zhen. “You should see them sprinkling a lot of dog food early in the morning. Trust me, it’s even more blinding when you have to eat this dog food even before the breakfast. I hardly have any appetite after running into them at the park every morning.”
Fang Yiwen laughed and patted his shoulder, “Ge, you have it tough.”
“What are you both doing here?”
Fang Yiwen looked over at Hyson who came over and told him what they were talking about.
In response, Hyson said, “You should also get used to it, Wen Ge. It isn’t even your first time seeing this.” He took a pause and looked around before asking, “Where are the other two?”
Lin Zhen pointed at the dance floor and Hyson found Pei Zi Han with He Rou dancing there with a sweet smell of love lingering around them.
“And Shuyi Ge?”
“We can’t find him,” said Fang Yiwen. “He actually disappeared a short while after we came inside.”
“But where did he go?”
“To meet the girl he is courting,” replied Fang Yiwen. “I’m 100% sure, he is with that girl.”
“And who is that girl?”
“If I knew would I be here? I’d have gone to catch them red-handed.”
“Instead of catching others,” started Lin Zhen. “Why don’t you look around and find someone that can catch your attention instead? That way, you won’t have to look at the dance floor and be envious of people who have partners.”
Hyson had to purse his lips to suppress the laughter that was threatening to come out but he still failed and looked at Fang Yiwen’s black face. “Wen Ge, Zhen Ge is right though. Instead of looking at other couples. Why don’t you find one for yourself?”
Fang Yiwen sighed, “Find a girl here? Have you seen the guests? They come from the elites of the elite. How can I fall into anyone’s eye? I am not looking down on myself. I’m very handsome. I accept that but the face alone isn’t enough for the people who are here. They are all capable people who change the weather of the country with the flick of their finger. At the end of the day, I’m just an idol. They won’t be interested in me. I come from a humble background too. That’s even worse to these people for whom I might just look like a country bumpkin.” He sighed bitterly, “Besides, to people like them, the people from the entertainment industry are just entertainers. They don’t really care about people like us.”
Although everything that Fang Yiwen sounded bad, it was the truth so Hyson and Lin Zhen couldn’t retort.
Hyson patted Fang Yiwen’s shoulder as he encouraged, “Ge, you don’t have to be so realistic in life. Sometimes dreaming and having wishful thinking are okay. Even if it’s deception, it can make you happy for a moment. Being overly realistic can make you stressful. Trust me, I’m speaking from experience.”
“The most realistic one between the two of us is you,” reminded Fang Yiwen. “And I’m also influenced by you. Heavily! Do you think I had no dreams when I first came to this city to become a trainee? I also had a lot of wishful thinking. It’s your brutal attacks of reality that made me fall from the sky and put my feet on the ground.”
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