Chapter 37.3

In actuality, this wasn’t the first time Luo Shuyan participated in a group dance. As the most beautiful child in the whole street, she was outstanding in kindergarten. However, this time was different from the activities she’d participated in kindergarten.

Luo Tianyuan was particularly excited about his daughter being on a local TV show. Not only did he tell all his friends, he even borrowed a video recorder from a friend early on. He was prepared to capture countless precious memories for his daughter.

In the past two years, his interest in taking pictures has decreased a little. Before Luo Shuyan was three years old, he would take pictures of her almost every day. Thus, there were many photo albums in the drawers at home.

Luo Shuyan occasionally flippled through the album, and she couldn’t help but wonder — It was obviously the same movement and the same expression, so why did her father happily take so many of the same pictures?

After much anticipation, 31st of December finally came.

On this day, after rehearsing with the few other girls all morning, Luo Shuyan came to the Ning City Gymnasium in the afternoon. The gymnasium was quite old, and the facilities inside were very old, but there was a big auditorium in the gymnasium. Once built, the venue can accommodate one to two hundred people.

The school didn’t hire a make-up artist. Fortunately, their beautiful music teacher owned make-up products and loved putting on makeup. So, she helped the kids do their make-up.

Luo Shuyan has seen elementary school students dance with makeup on before. It was very ‘eye-catching’ to put it simply.

Their lips were usually red, the eyelids were blue and green, and there was a little red dot drawn between the eyebrows.

Even a naturally beautiful little girl couldn’t handle such a look.

Luo Shuyan mustered all her courage. She figured that if the music teacher also planned to draw such makeup on them, could she voice her opinion to have her not put eyeshadow on her eyelids?

She always felt that painting one’s eyelids with such bright colors would make them look like the Monkey King.

Unexpectedly, the music teacher was one of the most sought after beauty by unmarried male teachers in the school. She was very skilled in makeup, so Luo Shuyan was relieved. After putting on makeup, she quickly picked up a small mirror and looked at herself in the mirror. Suddenly, she breathed a sigh of relief.

There weren’t any blue and green colors on her eyelids. Her eyelids were a pretty color, and it wasn’t conspicuous at all!

Her lips weren’t too red either!

Although there was still the little red dot between the eyebrows, this was a popular trend nowadays anyway. The children in other classes, including the boys, all had a red dot on their heads, so the dot on her head didn’t look too out of place.

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As the prelude to “Jingle Bells” sounded, the curtains were lifted, and Luo Shuyan was the first to dance towards the center of the stage. The other girls followed behind her and surrounded her one after another.

Six to seven-year-old little girls were gradually losing their baby fat. The chubbiness adds to the innocence of a little girl. The dance was very eye-catching.

It takes ten years of practice for a minute on stage. They have rehearsed for so long and have memorized every movement. They will not make any mistakes.

At the same time, they were also very nervous. Luo Shuyan didn’t dare to look at the audience, let alone the TV cameras facing them.

They always remembered what the teacher told them — To keep a smile on their faces.

Luo Tianyuan found a seat in the front row. Shen Yan was on his left, and Shen Qingruo was next to Shen Yan. Although the girls on stage had similar costumes and they were some distance away from the stage, he was able to identify Luo Shuyan at first glance.

The audience behind were discussing in low voices——

“The little girl leading the dance is very beautiful.”

“She will definitely be a beautiful woman in the future. She can dance really well, no less able than those child celebrities on TV.”

“She clearly dances better than the other little girls. Her dancing skills are impeccable, right? Her parents probably spent a lot of time on her. Hey, I kinda want to have another daughter.”

Luo Tianyuan was very proud after overhearing this.

If it wasn’t for the fact that it was a public place and everyone was watching the dance seriously, he really wanted to shake hands with the audience behind him and tell them that the little girl leading the dance was his daughter.

He was filming with a video camera. He stared intently at the sweet little girl on stage. For some reason, his eyes started feeling warm, and he almost had the urge to cry.

He was a fickle person, he was seemingly gentle, but he cared little about others in reality. Other than the time when he cried over his parents’ death, there were only a handful of times that he’d shed tears, and every time, it was for his daughter.

It felt like yesterday when he held her in his arms as a baby. In a blink of an eye, she had grown up so much.

From a baby to a little girl.

Shen Yan stared intently at Luo Shuyan with a smile on the corner of his mouth.

While others thought about how well she was dancing, Shen Yan was feeling relieved for her. She had been complaining all this time, saying that she is as tired as a bird who’s flown across the ocean. After today, she should be able to relax for a while.

After the dance was over, the audience burst into a thunderous applause. Luo Shuyan and the other little girls couldn’t be happier.

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