Chapter 9: That Fear (Part 1)

  The girl the three men met was named Otaka Ai, a newcomer signed by Aiba last year in a singing audition. Although she is a newcomer, Aiba has already put her on the debut schedule, and at the latest this autumn, he will release a single or album for her to make her debut!

  "Hey, aren't you on vacation? Why are you back at the company today?" Ota Aiya had just arrived too, and since she was already preparing for her debut, she was also working hard to practice.

  "I brought my younger brother and sister to play, this is Xiu Ying, Choi Soo-young of the Korean-Chinese combination Route0, this is Li Qiu who just moved in half a month ago, Xiu Ying, Xiao Qiu, this is Otani Ai's older sister." BoA and Otani Ai still have a pretty good relationship, although Japan also emphasizes seniority, it's not as strict as Korea's, the two are four years apart, and both work for the same company, due to their busy schedules, they don't often meet in person at the company, but with their bright personalities, after meeting a few times, they quickly became good friends.

  "Hello, I love you, sister."

  "Xiu Ying, I know, the song is not bad, right? BOA, you're hiding this handsome little guy?" Daizong Ai puffed out her chubby cheeks, which were already quite plump from her baby fat, and gazed at Li Qiu while teasing BOA beside her.

  "What's with that? Minying Shu's brother's godson!" Boa was teased by Ota Ai for a bit, and raised her hand as if to hit her, but sneaked a peek at Li Qiu who was following behind, remembering the situation when they first met on the first night, her cheeks immediately turned pink, then she pinched Ota Ai's arm again to cover up her abnormal behavior.

  Ota Ai's arm hurt, and she immediately counterattacked Boa. With a playful tone in her voice, she said, "Aren't we living together? The pavilion nearest the water enjoys the moon first!"

  "Xiao Ai jie jie, you still say!"

  Translation: "Little Ai sister, you're still talking!"

  "Alright, boa, I won't tease you anymore. Today, I'll play with all of you instead. Practicing alone is so boring! I'm going to your exclusive practice room, poor me, I don't have one yet."

  "Later on, Little Ai will have it too, and besides, isn't my practice room also your practice room? You're using it less often, though."

  "Haha, mind your own business!"

  "I don't dare."

  Li Qiu was still in a vague stage with Japanese, and when Bora and Otaka spoke, she didn't understand a word, only picking out words like "uncle, brother, son, sister". She gazed at the two people fooling around in front of her, and calmly fell back one step behind Choi Soo-young, following behind.

  The three became four, Boa and Otae were chatting in front, you one sentence I one sentence, Choi Soo-young was sandwiched in the middle, because Lee Qiu really didn't have the courage to walk side by side with Choi Soo-young...

  BoA's exclusive practice room is not very big, but also not small. At the entrance, there is a large mirror that is convenient for correcting posture while practicing dance. Inside the practice room, there is a compact recording studio with some simple recording equipment used for practicing singing. Such a professional practice room can only be found in SM, Asia's largest record company and leader of J-pop. Even DSP, which has Korea's number one girl group, does not have such a good practice room.

  "Let's warm up with some music!" As soon as BoA entered the practice room, she ran to the CD player in one corner and played a highly energetic dance track. "There aren't any chairs for you to sit on in this practice room, so just sit on the floor. Next, please enjoy the dance I, BoA, have brought!" Since her debut, BoA has been known as Korea's little dance queen. For her, dancing is like an extension of her body, and at just 16 years old, she can already dance with incredible skill. Her dance moves aren't overly flashy, but they're extremely powerful to watch, with perfect coordination between her arms, legs, and waist - not a single movement is wasted.

  "Xiu Ying, come on, dance a segment for sister to see."

  "Oh." Next to Li Qiu sat down, Cui Xiangying heard BoA's call and immediately stood up again, listening to the music, slowly starting hip-hop dance steps. Cui Xiangying's singing and dancing skills are quite balanced, both are excellent, and her specialty is jazz dance.

  Jazz dance is more suitable for girls because it's a combination of ballet and hip-hop. When dancing jazz, the sensuality can be said to flow from every movement, which is also why jazz is more suitable for girls. New jazz, also known as power jazz, requires each movement to have explosive force, with a wildness to it, but it's different from popping. A simple analogy is that the intensity of new jazz is like a wild horse, agile and powerful; while the intensity of popping is like a mad cow, showing crazy shock and vibration...

  Choi Soo-young has a slender figure, especially those perfect long legs. When she dances, it's like a galloping horse, her slender legs bursting with an unusual intensity that makes people exclaim, "What a pair of long legs!" As the music plays, Choi Soo-young floats across the floor, swinging her ponytail and jumping out a smooth jazz routine.

  "Wow, Xiuying, your dance has improved again! Don't say that Boa doesn't care about you, just now, this step of yours, if you stretch out a bit with your foot, your legs are longer, stretching out a bit more can show off the charm of those long legs of yours, and...” Boa only watched once, but she picked out a whole bunch of flaws from the dance segment that Cui Xiuying had just performed, correcting each one for her.

  "Thank you, BoA sister." Choi Soo-young smiled slightly, her face flushed from dancing, and with her small round face, she looked like a red Fuji apple at this moment. Although she lived under the same roof as BoA, they had previously practiced together in the practice room at home and often communicated, but as BoA gradually rose to fame, the opportunities for them to meet became less and less, and that practice room was slowly abandoned.

  "Ah, Boa, you know, I'm not going to dance!" Otsuka Ai exclaimed, waving her hand and shouting as soon as she saw Boa looking at her. While Otsuka Ai's music director, Tsunku, praised her musical talents, it seemed that when it came to dancing, she was a negative number...

  "Xiao Ai jie jie, just jump a segment, come on and play, how can you not jump!"

  "I knew you'd be like this, always saying it's okay to use your practice room, but every time I run into you, you drag me off to dance. My poor image!" Otowa Ai glanced at Choi Soo-young and Li Qiu, couldn't help but pat her forehead, however, Otowa Ai's cheerful personality wouldn't be embarrassed to "dance" in front of the two kids.

  At the beginning of Otaka Ai's dance, Boa couldn't help but burst out laughing. Accompanying her was Choi Soo-young, while Lee Chae-yeon's face showed some movement, but she still managed to hold it in. Otaka Ai raised both hands and swung them wildly, with her legs spread apart like a frog's, shaking her body left and right. The first impression of this move was "dancing like a madman", the second impression was "sheep epilepsy", no, it should be added with a prefix, "stiff-bodied".

  "Come on, let's dance!" Otome was the first to pull out Boa, and Boa also started dancing wildly with Otome. The two girls danced without caring about their image.

  "Li Qiu, let's go too, it'll be so much fun!" How could 13-year-old Choi Soo-young endure such a fun thing? She just watched for a while, and the lively cells in her body burst out, stood up, pulled Li Qiu, who was shorter than her, and also became a "big god".

  Li Qiu was dragged by Cui Xiuying to the center, feeling very embarrassed. If it were in the past, he would never have gone crazy with three girls together. These things, he had never done before. But the music on the side tempted him, and Cui Xiuying's hands lifted his hands high, his straight feet also couldn't help but go crazy...

  It wasn't until the CD player changed songs that the four of them came back to their senses.

  Boa has been living in the world of dance since she was young. Just now, with a glance, I felt that Li Qiu's dance foundation is very strong, and her crazy "jumping big god" movements have a hint of hip-hop flavor, but it's hard to tell what specific style it is. After the music ended, the four of them stopped moving, exhausted from their energetic performance, with sweat dripping down their faces as they sat on the floor, panting heavily.

  Li Qiu was very strange, but the corners of her mouth still curled up, and she panted heavily, her bangs were fine and smooth, "I don't like this myself, so why did I get infected by them?"

  "Little Autumn, come on and give us a segment!" One sentence immediately made the other two girls turn their heads and look at Li Qiu on the side.

  “……”

  "Li Qiu, hold it in, just the three of them, you can't even dance in front of them, how can you conquer the stage? Not conquering the stage, standing at the top, how can you be worthy of being sister's brother! Li Qiu, hold it in!"

  "I..." Three people, just three pairs of eyes, just one sentence, just a word from Boa. Suddenly, Li Qiu's heart rose with a sense of unease and fear, her pupils constricted, her eye sockets bulged like bronze bells, her entire body trembled as if she had fallen into boiling water...