"Hahaha, he really let himself get worked up and took the bait!"
"I'm dying, such a difficult choreography, he only watched it once—if he could learn it that fast, I'd have been the dance god ages ago!"
"Exactly, exactly! If he can actually pull this off, I'll livestream myself eating shit!"
"......"
Soon, the surrounding area was filled with all sorts of mocking laughter.
Fan Chengcheng anxiously tugged at Li Mubai's sleeve. "Li Mubai, have you lost your mind? Aren't you just asking to humiliate yourself?"
Fan Chengcheng had already gone looking for Zhang Yixing about the choreography yesterday, so he knew just how difficult the routine actually was. Even with his lifelong training in dance, he could barely keep up with it now.
Li Mubai merely smiled, shot Fan Chengcheng a "trust me" look, and then calmly walked right into the center of the circle.
Zhang Yixing looked at Li Mubai as well. "Alright, Li Mubai, why don't you demonstrate it for everyone? It doesn't matter if you can't nail it!"
Clearly, Zhang Yixing still held some high expectations for Li Mubai.
"Got it, Teacher!"
With that, Li Mubai took a gentle breath, while everyone in the room watched him with expressions that clearly waited to see him make a fool of himself.
Soon, a brisk melody began to play.
An unprecedented aura suddenly radiated from Li Mubai, catching many of the people who had just been mocking him off guard.
Could this kid actually have learned it?
Then again, they immediately thought, the choreography Zhang Yixing had taught them was extremely difficult. Li Mubai had only watched it once—it would take a miracle for him to actually learn it!
A dozen seconds later, the music hit its beat.
Li Mubai, who had been standing completely still, suddenly moved, instantly following the rhythm of the music.
The entire routine was executed brilliantly from every angle, smooth and uninterrupted, without the slightest hesitation in the middle.
As time went on, Li Mubai moved faster and faster to the music's beat, his movements growing increasingly complex, yet they were almost identical to what Zhang Yixing had just taught.
The trainees all around who had been waiting to laugh at Li Mubai suddenly froze, the mocking grins stuck on their faces as astonishment washed over them one by one.
Fan Chengcheng grew more and more excited the longer he watched, finally standing up to keep the beat for Li Mubai himself and cheering aloud.
Even Zhang Yixing was shocked. This guy had only watched it once, and yet he managed to pull off such difficult dance moves!
How was that even possible?
As an OG in the dance world, Zhang Yixing could tell that some of Li Mubai's movements were still a bit stiff, but that didn't detract from the overall performance at all.
A three-minute choreography, executed seamlessly from start to finish by Li Mubai.
Shock was plastered across everyone's faces as they stared blankly at Li Mubai. The few who had been hurling insults just moments before now looked utterly horrendous.
"Incredible, absolutely incredible!"
"He said he wasn't good at dancing? You call *this* not good?"
"......"
"Alright, thank you, Li Mubai, for your demonstration." Once Li Mubai finished dancing, Zhang Yixing took the lead and started applauding, and instantly the entire practice room erupted into applause.
After returning to his seat, Li Mubai didn't say much to the few people who had just been mocking him.
In Li Mubai's eyes, those guys were nothing more than a bunch of foolish rich kids with some background and resources!
Pitiful souls, every last one of them.
Afterwards, Zhang Yixing went over a few key points of the technique with everyone before saying, "Alright, go ahead and practice on your own now. Come find me if you have any questions!"
Once Zhang Yixing left, Fan Chengcheng looked at Li Mubai in amazement. "Li Mubai, you are too incredible! And you said you were bad at dancing!"
Li Mubai said earnestly, "Yeah, compared to my singing, my dancing is way worse!"
Fan Chengcheng was rendered utterly speechless.
Deep down, he almost wanted to drop to his knees and howl: *Big bro, your singing level is already surpassing the judges!*
Seeing that the other trainees had also started practicing, Li Mubai asked Fan Chengcheng, "How about it, is your choreography done yet? Once it is, we can start running through it together!"
Fan Chengcheng was speechless. "Big bro, it's only been a day, I haven't even figured out the dance yet!"
Thinking of Li Mubai's performance just now, Fan Chengcheng smiled and said, "Why don't you just dance it? I feel like you dance better than I do!"
Li Mubai shook his head. "If you're the one singing, our ranking won't be high."
Realizing that sounded a bit harsh, Li Mubai added, "Of course, I'm not saying your singing is bad, it's just that this is our first public performance, we have to fight for first place!"
Fan Chengcheng nodded, feeling a bit wronged. He wasn't the arrogant type who wouldn't listen to advice; he knew Li Mubai said that for the sake of their small team.
"Here's what we'll do: I'll let you hear the melody of the song I've prepared, and you can choreograph based on that—it should go a lot faster!"
With that, Li Mubai dragged Fan Chengcheng into the music room, wrote down the melody, and played it for him.
Seemingly aided by the melody, the efficiency of Fan Chengcheng's choreography indeed picked up quite a bit.
For an entire day, the two of them practiced non-stop in the dance studio.
Through a full day of practice, their collaboration was beginning to show results.
"Alright, let's run it one more time, and that's it for today!"
Just as Li Mubai finished speaking and reached to play the melody, Fan Chengcheng collapsed onto the floor, completely exhausted. "I can't do it anymore, I really can't!"
"Li Mubai, are you made of iron? A whole day and you don't even look tired—my legs don't even feel like they belong to me anymore!"
Throughout the entire day of choreography, Li Mubai had been helping Fan Chengcheng, which meant he had been dancing right along with him.
Because he maintained a consistent routine of running and fitness training, Li Mubai's stamina was exceptional. After dancing all day, he basically didn't feel tired at all.
Though, naturally, he was completely drenched in sweat from head to toe.
"Hang in there just a little longer, we can rest right after this run!"
Li Mubai went to pull Fan Chengcheng up. Through Li Mubai's white T-shirt, soaked transparent by sweat, Fan Chengcheng caught a glimpse of Li Mubai's faintly visible, well-defined physique and was instantly dumbfounded.
"Holy shit, Li Mubai, do you have an eight-pack?"
"Yeah. Is that weird?"
Fan Chengcheng struggled to sit up. "How did you even train for that? This is insane!"
It wasn't like he had never worked out; he had traces of a fitness physique himself, but compared to Li Mubai, he was still leagues behind.
Li Mubai thought for a moment and said earnestly, "It's not that hard."
"Work out twelve hours a day, combine it with singing and dancing, and you'll get results like this in about six months!"
Fan Chengcheng involuntarily swallowed a mouthful of saliva and cried out in shock:
"Li Mubai, you really are a monster!"