Chapter 43 Liu Xiaoli: What is a surprise?

The lights are like the moon and the stage is like a lake.

A group of young girls in white ballet costumes stood in neat rows on the stage, motionless and quiet.

Liu Xiaoli was also among them, wearing a slim-fitting ballet dress, and the pure white stockings made her straight and slender legs look even more exquisite.

The light from above poured down on the girl’s beautiful face like water. Her tall nose blocked the bright white light, leaving a shadow falling into her beautiful eyes.

“Music! Start!”

Following the announcement from the rehearsal teacher offstage, the orchestra, piano and drum beats backstage began to rise intensively.

As the first note jumped, Liu Xiaoli slowly raised her arms, touching the sky with her fingertips, like a swan combing its feathers. She took light steps and slowly glided across the stage. Every movement revealed incomparable softness and harmony.

The music gradually became more passionate and the girl’s movements became faster.

Her slender and graceful body began to spin, round and round, like ripples on the surface of a lake, and her arms drew graceful arcs in the air, like a swan flapping its wings ready to fly.

As the music reached its climax, the girl danced to the famous “Dying Swan”.

She leaned forward, one foot tapping lightly on the ground, the other foot gracefully stretched back, her whole body forming a perfect arch.

Her expression was full of sadness and reluctance, as if she was telling the swan’s final farewell to life.

The music slowly faded and the girl’s movements gradually slowed down.

She gently lowered her arms and slowly stood up, like a swan floating quietly on the lake.

Finally, she stood quietly in the center of the stage, like a noble swan, quietly guarding the tranquil lake under the moonlight.

The whole dance is a perfect combination of strength and softness. Every movement of the girl is like an elf in Swan Lake, elegant and full of vitality.

Instructor Jiang Ling was deeply attracted by the perfect performance of the crowd. At that moment, she seemed to really see a swan dancing in the moonlight.

As soon as the girls finished dancing, they jumped off the stage like dumplings dropped into a pot.

“Teacher Jiang, how are we dancing? Isn’t it great? You don’t know that I almost sprained my ankle just now!”

The youngest among them, Wang Danping, who was only seventeen years old and petite and cute, threw herself directly into Jiang Ling’s arms and said in a tender voice.

Jiang Ling is the dance teacher of these girls. She has been teaching them ballet since they entered school in 70. It has been nearly ten years now. She has basically watched these girls grow from little girls in their teens to beautiful young ladies.

In addition, there are less than 30 students in this group, so Jiang Ling treats them as her daughters and is very concerned about the girls both in their careers and in their lives.

“Good, good, good! You danced well! I’m sure your performance next month will be a big hit! You little girl! You’re so grown up but you still like to act like a spoiled brat!”

Jiang Ling caught Wang Danping who jumped into her arms. She first praised everyone’s performance, but then felt helpless and pinched Wang Danping’s little face in a reproachful manner.

“Hey hey hey!”

Wang Danping scratched his head embarrassedly.

“Haha! That’s right, Danping is just like a little brat!”

“You little brat who never grows up!”

The girls all started laughing.

Liu Xiaoli, standing in the crowd, also laughed. She had just finished dancing, and her pretty, porcelain-white face was covered with fine beads of sweat. Her cheeks also looked a little rosy from the intense activity, adding a touch of cuteness and loveliness to her graceful and soft temperament.

Crystal clear sweat slid down her cheeks like water drops flowing on white jade, and finally dripped onto the delicate nipples of her beauty.

Liu Xiaoli subconsciously raised her arm and wiped it. She and her sisters have been rehearsing the Swan Lake dance for nearly half a month and have made rapid progress.

But this performance is different from previous ones. Liu Xiaoli and her group of new dancers have only been in the job for less than a few years and are all newcomers.

They are all rated as first or second level artistic assistant dancers. If you want to become a formal dancer and dance solo in a theater, you can’t do it without ten years of training.

Apart from some small performances on weekdays where everyone is allowed to go on stage, they are basically not chosen to go on stage for large-scale public performances, consolation performances or tributes to important festivals.

This large-scale performance before the Spring Festival will be watched by the city’s leadership team. This is their chance to officially step onto the stage, so everyone is working extra hard, fearing any mistakes.

“Alright, alright, go change your clothes first. Look at you all sweating profusely.”

After the dance, Teacher Jiang Ling quickly waved her hand and told everyone to change their clothes.

The group returned to the locker room.

Liu Xiaoli stood in front of her closet, took out her casual clothes, and gently untied the laces on the back of her ballet costume. She stood on tiptoes and gently took it off, revealing her delicate body as white as jade.

“It’s so cold, why isn’t there heating in the locker room?”

The cold air hit Liu Xiaoli instantly, making her shiver. “What are you thinking! Heating? Do you think this is the north?”

Wang Danping and a roommate Zhang Yi came over, surrounded Liu Xiaoli, and started touching her all over.

“Wow! Xiaoli’s skin is so white, so smooth.”

“Even that thing is bigger than ours, let me touch it!”

“Fuck you!”

Liu Xiaoli felt the mischievous little hands on her body and her face suddenly turned red. She spat lightly, quickly protected herself and put on her clothes before stopping.

After a while, another roommate, Xiao Caiyun, ran in with a letter and shouted:
“Xiao Li has a letter for you!”

Liu Xiaoli suddenly thought and remembered that she had written a letter to Cheng Kaiyan last week. It was time for her to come now.

He took it from Xiao Caiyun, looked down, and found that it was indeed a letter from Cheng Kaiyan.

“Did your aunt send it? Your aunt came to visit us during the National Day holiday and took us out for a big dinner.”

At this time, Wang Danping came over, put his arm around Liu Xiaoli’s slender waist, rested his chin on her shoulder and asked casually.

No one in the dormitory is from Jiangcheng, so everyone relies on letters to keep in touch with their families.

But no one writes to their family as frequently as Liu Xiaoli. Once a week is too frequent. It costs a lot of money just to send letters, and some people are reluctant to do so.

“Hey? It’s not my aunt, how come it was sent by someone named Cheng Kaiyan!”

Wang Danping suddenly looked at the mailing address and name on the envelope and said in surprise.

“Hehehe! Could it be my little lover?”

Xiao Caiyun was a plump girl. Before delivering the letter, she had already seen the sender and had some guesses in her mind, so she teased him.

“That’s it!”

Seeing her friends teasing her, Liu Xiaoli blushed and immediately put away Cheng Kaiyan’s letter.

The word “small” is too revealing!
Although Comrade Xiao Cheng and I had been engaged to each other, we were not very familiar with each other after all.

Now the two have reached an unspoken agreement that the next year will be a time for them to communicate their feelings.

Therefore, according to this calculation, the two of them are currently in a relationship…

In a relationship?
Not yet?

At least we should have met each other, but we haven’t even met each other, and there is only a photo of us when we were fifteen or sixteen years old.

Now he is at most a friend or a younger brother.

Liu Xiaoli pursed her lips and said openly, “This is the younger brother of a family friend! Don’t talk nonsense!”

“Ouch! Brother.”

“Okay, okay, if you say yes, then yes.”

After everyone finished their meal and returned to the dormitory, Liu Xiaoli washed up and couldn’t wait to sit at the desk, opened the envelope and started reading.

“I am pleased to see your letter, Sister Xiaoli…”

The letter was not long, just one page.

But Liu Xiaoli read it very carefully and also mentioned some of the other party’s daily life. When he was working at Beijing Normal University, he basically read books and wrote articles.

The content is very plain, and from it you can tell what kind of person the other person is.

Liu Xiaoli knew that Cheng Kaiyan was working as an assistant professor at Beijing Normal University through her aunt Jiang Ting, and her aunt sent her a letter as soon as possible.

So in the letter last week, Liu Xiaoli encouraged him, telling him not to feel inferior because of his academic qualifications and being a temporary worker, and to work hard and write well.

At the end, the girl’s face froze: “Where are the photos? I sent them!”

She shook the envelope again and squinted her eyes to look inside it, but still didn’t find the photo that Cheng Kaiyan had attached. Her eyebrows immediately raised, “Damn it!”

“Snapped!”

Liu Xiaoli slapped the letter paper on the table, but unexpectedly found a line of words written on the back of the letter paper.

“Surprise? I want to see what surprise you have prepared!!”

Thanks to I Have Twins and Fang De for the 100-point reward
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(End of this chapter)