Chapter 7: Kindly Offering Help

As soon as Alex left, Will's pestering became even more intense.

"Junior sister, I'm Will.

The 'Will' with the 'W' for 'willpower' and the 'ill' for 'willing'. "

"What are you going back to school for?

Our club has an international-level competition.

As a junior senior, I'm sort of a key force.

If you're interested in robotics, I can invite you to watch the competition then."

"Students from your Imperial Dance Academy practice even harder than we do in the Institute of Technology.

I really admire you guys for this.

You could easily rely on your good looks to get by, but you still have to strive for talent instead..."

Although being complimented, Lucy was getting more and more impatient.

To be fair, taken on his own, Will didn't look too bad.

His school was good, his height was okay, his appearance was decent, and his dressing was also quite nice.

But compared with Alex, whom she had just met, he suddenly seemed not so great.

Actually, when waiting for the train at Gujiao Station, although Lucy had a bit of an impression of

Alex, she didn't really have a good feeling about him.

The change happened when they got off the train and transferred.

In the waiting room of the provincial capital, Lucy was sitting diagonally opposite Alex.

She saw with her own eyes that Alex was reading a thick tome in a proper and relaxed posture.

For a full twenty minutes, he hardly moved at all.

That calmness and focus really impressed Lucy.

Moreover, Lucy felt that Alex was very amiable - because of his deportment.

His waist was straight, his head was held upright, his shoulders were relaxed and open.

When walking, he was tall and straight; when sitting, he was upright; when looking at people, his eyes were steady and didn't wander around.

These characteristics were very much like those of students who studied dancing.

However, Lucy was certain that Alex definitely wasn't from a dancing background.

Kids who study dancing would use ballet basic training to correct their postures, and the details left would not escape the eyes of an expert.

So this could only mean that Alex had been well brought up and had paid attention to his deportment since childhood, which was why he now had such natural body coordination and self-confidence in his posture.

Therefore, although Alex's appearance wasn't really that handsome and still had a kind of unripened look, Lucy still thought that he had a good temperament.

Even though Alex was dressed very casually, to the point of looking a bit shabby.

A young boy, wearing cheap street-stall clothes worth only a few dozen yuan, yet could still stand tall and straight.

Paired with a pair of canvas shoes worth over a thousand yuan and a travel bag worth tens of thousands of yuan, it didn't look out of place at all.

It was really a mystery.

If there was a flashy but empty person beside him as a contrast, it would surely make people have an infinite liking for him.

In psychology, this is called the "contrast effect".

Lucy was eagerly looking forward to Alex's quick return so that she could get rid of this clingy Will next to her.

She couldn't help thinking to herself: You're not even qualified to be a backup.

Don't you have any self-awareness?

Lucy was staring eagerly at the figure of Alex when suddenly she noticed a detail: Alex didn't push the door of the washroom.

Instead, he just walked around the door and then came straight back.

What was going on?

Didn't he say he was going to the toilet?

While she was still confused, Alex came back, stood in the aisle, winked at Lucy and smiled slightly.

"Senior sister, there's someone in the washroom.

Can I take a seat outside for now?

So that I won't have to trouble you to get up for me when I go out later."

"Oh... sure!"

Lucy finally came to her senses and was overjoyed.

She quickly moved inwards.

"I was just thinking of sitting by the window to enjoy the view.

Thank you, junior from the rival school!"

Finally getting away from this annoying guy, Lucy felt so relieved.

When Alex also sat down, Lucy couldn't handle her happiness anymore.

She leaned close to the young boy's ear and whispered in the softest voice: "Junior, you're so smart!"

Lucy's breath was as fragrant as an orchid, gently blowing on Alex's ear.

Her soft hair brushed against Alex's neck, and that faint fragrance made Alex completely flustered.

To be honest, the cultivation device could only ensure proper deportment but couldn't control the body's natural reactions.

As a result, goosebumps quickly appeared on Alex's body and his ears turned a bit red.

Seeing Alex's reactions, Lucy realized that her action just now seemed a bit too intimate.

Her pretty face blushed slightly and she immediately moved away from Alex.

But looking at this young boy's innocent reaction as if he hadn't been in contact with women for ages, the shyness in her heart was immediately replaced by amusement.

She even felt a kind of exciting feeling with a touch of taboo in her heart.

I'm the female bully, and he's the little puppy!

Eh~ He's a bit dark. Let's call him the little black dog!

To say that she liked him already, it definitely wasn't that fast.

But it was true that Alex made Lucy feel very pleasant.

So she rarely took the initiative to flirt: "Junior, you going to be in a relationship?"

Being exposed by such a delicate and cute girl like a kitten, how could he bear it?

"No."

Alex turned his head calmly and looked at Lucy directly.

"Mainly because I haven't met anyone as beautiful and elegant as you, senior sister."

Only God knew that actually Alex was already extremely flustered inside.

His heart was pounding like a tractor, thumping non-stop.

No matter how rich one was, a novice was still a novice.

When it came to matters between men and women, book knowledge was of no use at all.

Everything before actual experience was just nonsense.

Those who could keep their heart from pounding and their hands from shaking when having close contact with the opposite sex for the first time after reaching maturity, stand up and let everyone see!

If you're a natural master of the dating scene, don't choose the wrong path.

Alex was flustered inside, but Lucy didn't know.

Being complimented and looked at affectionately by Alex, Lucy's previously arrogant air was immediately gone.

She was a bit shy and happy instead.

"Humph, you're good at talking!"

Alex secretly breathed a sigh of relief and then asked casually: "Senior sister, what about you?

Have you been in a relationship?"

"Of course I have!"

Lucy raised her eyebrows in an aggressive manner, but then, for no reason, she lost her steam and muttered in a low voice: "Does the relationship in primary school count?"

"Sure."

Alex held back his laughter and comforted her gently.

Suddenly, he was curious: "Senior sister, surely you couldn't have been without pursuers?

Why are you still single until now?"

"Are you kidding?

I'd like to be in a relationship, but where do I have the time?"

Just this one question made Lucy's resentment burst out completely.

"Do you think the Imperial Dance Academy is that easy to get into?

Only 300 freshmen are recruited each year.

There are so many art students competing across the country, and there are also those art seedlings from various affiliated high schools in the imperial capital blocking the way.

For those from other places who can get into the Imperial Dance Academy, each of them has at least practiced for 8 hours a day for 8 years! "

"8 years, practicing 8 hours a day, not including cultural courses!"

"I thought I could relax a bit when I got to school.

But the result was that I had to get up at 6 o'clock in the morning, dancing, rehearsing, and taking cultural courses until at least 8 o'clock in the evening.

Even after the regular classes were over, there were always some 'perverts' who would drag you to practice extra.

By 11 o'clock when I went to bed, I would pass out as soon as my head hit the pillow..."

"As for vacations, it's even worse.

Where are the Winter and Summer vacations?

If you're not practiced for a day, you'll regress.

If you're not practiced for a week, you'll be destroyed."

"I got back home on the 22nd.

Every morning, I had to go to the local park to practice basic skills while being watched by people.

Today I'm going back to celebrate my sister's birthday, and after that, we'll all have to soak in the practice hall together again..."

"Romance?

The male to female ratio in our school is 3:7.

Do you think all those guys have girlfriends?

Wrong!

More than half of them are single practice dogs!"

Alex was a bit incredulous and also very puzzled.

So he asked: "Why do you put so much pressure on yourselves?"

Lucy lowered her eyelids.

Her expression was a bit lonely and also seemed a bit confused as she said softly: "Dancing is a youth meal that highly depends on talent.

You don't understand."

Alex suddenly felt a bit sorry for her.

Maybe it had nothing to do of other things but was just the work of hormones.

Young boys probably all have such a day.

Anyway, Alex gently and kindly offered his encouragement: "Tell me about it.

Maybe I can understand."

Lucy suddenly looked up and blinked twice.