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    Chapter 20 It’s easy to kill someone but hard to leave the body behind, but you are a few steps away/can’t listen…

    As usual, this regular album has each member’s own solo, and what Li Hu is given is a jazz-style song with a sexy dance style, which Li Hu has never tried before.

    This kind of dance requires one to be immersed in it before he can dance out the feeling of laziness and temptation, but at first Li Hu was a little reluctant to let it go. He was still confused about how to express sexiness.Especially when he first started practicing, the members were still watching and making noises. Li Huan blushed and almost begged for mercy: “Can you come and see me later? I’ll practice first.”

    Yuan Zhiyan was so excited that he said in a weird voice: “Why are you so shy, brother?”

    Li Hu: “Would you like to eat chocolate sandwich egg tarts?”

    Yuan Zhiyan: “…I’ll just leave.”

    Before leaving, he even encouraged her: “Believe me, your face is sexy enough with just a few winks. Come on!”

    The others also left, but Tang Ruining remained where he was and had no intention of moving.

    Li Go asked him: “Why don’t you leave?”

    “I’m not laughing at you.” Tang Ruining said, “Let me take a look.”

    Well, Li Hu compromised, but he wasn’t so pretentious. It was good to have Tang Ruining by his side to guide him.

    The song plays and Li Go starts to dance.The first few sentences are still unfamiliar, but he has a strong learning ability and finds his state quickly. He looks at his expression intently in the big mirror of the dance studio.

    His arm was half-raised and slowly passed in front of his eyes. The wide sleeves of his sweatshirt fell down, revealing his beautiful forearm.In the past, when his hair was long, he often wore a hair tie around his wrist, sometimes two.Now that her hair could no longer be tied, her wrists were empty, which made Tang Ruining feel a pity. Those wrists were obviously too suitable to be wrapped with something.

    There was a short section of the choreography where he was sitting on a chair, but he forgot to move the chair over and simply sat on the floor, leaning back and crossing his legs – he was supposed to sit on a chair and cross his legs, but now he could only sit flat and straighten his legs and cross them together to make his legs look longer.

    He raised his head, as if thinking about his next move, looking at the ceiling, his chin and his entire upper body stretching out a graceful curve.

    Tang Ruining looked at his face again. His face, usually without makeup, showed innocence, but his eyes had their own charm. They were cold when they were serious and soft when they smiled. Looking at people with their chin raised like this was indescribably alluring.Tang Ruining has already imagined in his mind the scene of Jiang Yilan putting on makeup and doing this dance. The heavy eye makeup is very suitable for this song. If he puts on a pair of blue contact lenses, his inhuman sexiness will be even more prominent.

    The style of this song is lazy and meaningless, but the lyrics are about loving but not being able to get it, creating a conflicting feeling of tension.The song enters the bridge halfway through, and the dance also reaches an important part.

    Li Hu turned around and faced Tang Ruining, who was standing not far away. The other person seemed to be fascinated, staring straight at his face.

    Li Go took a few steps closer, put his arm around his shoulders, and smiled invitingly at him.

    This dance has a backup dancer, but it is still in the stage of Li Hu’s own practice, and there is no backup dancer. He also had a sudden idea and pulled Tang Ruining, who happened to be present, to cooperate with him.There are not many backup dancer scenes, only the bridge part needs to be coordinated with Li Hu.

    Accompanied by Li Gong’s somewhat melancholy voice coming from the speaker, Li Gong took him a few steps back and half hugged him from behind.

    “I’m most afraid of your monologue/I’m just an accident when I say you”

    Li Go looked in the mirror, touched his chin very gently from behind, and lip-synced the lyrics while singing.

    “What obstacles we have/It’s all up to you”

    He held Tang Ruining’s shoulders and turned him around, facing his face.But although there was no big movement, Tang Ruining’s breathing seemed to be rapid.

    “But you are a few steps away/can’t hear me say love”

    Li Hu grabbed Tang Ruining’s hand and touched his chest. Here, the female backup dancer was trying to push him away gently, facing the lyrics of “You are a few steps away.”Tang Ruining didn’t push him. Li Hu took two steps back to cooperate with the performance. Tang Ruining didn’t return to where he was. He still looked at him as if in a daze.

    Li Hu thought his expression was a bit funny, smiled, turned around and finished the rest of the dance.

    After the dance ended, Li Hu asked Tang Ruining: “Are you okay?”

    “…Huh?”

    He pulled out of the song very quickly, and his expression that he had been immersed in dancing in the first few seconds suddenly changed. He asked a little worriedly: “Is the effect good? Is it too much?”

    “No.” Tang Ruining suddenly looked down at the floor, “I think it’s good.”

    “That’s good.”

    “Um…” Tang Ruining raised his head and said, “As a dancer, do you want to be so close to your backup dancers?”

    “Are you intimate?” Li Hu recalled the movements and said, “Are you okay?” He just touched the dancer’s chin and the dancer pushed him away.

    “Fans may have opinions.”

    “No, it’s nothing.” After Li Huan finished speaking, he walked up to Tang Ruining and reached out to touch his chin, “That’s it, it’s not like touching the whole face.”

    Then he touched Tang Ruining’s ears, chin, and neck. He smiled and said, “Isn’t this considered intimate?”

    No one answered him. Tang Ruining looked at him unusually quietly, and couldn’t even hear his breathing.

    The look in his eyes was so heavy that Li Hu couldn’t understand it.The neck under his hand twitched, which was the sound of Tang Ruining swallowing his throat. Li Go put his hand down, and as soon as it left Tang Ruining’s skin, he was suddenly caught again.

    Li Hu looked at him hesitantly. Tang Ruining moved closer, but the hand being held was too strong.

    The background music was set to play in a loop, and when it was played for the second time, the phrase “Can’t you hear me say love” seemed to hit Li Hu’s ears, causing his heart to beat heavily.

    The songs that followed seemed to be muted and could not reach my ears.Li Go stared blankly at the person close at hand. Everything in those eyes that he couldn’t understand seemed to become clear in an instant, and everything was traceable——

    “I’m back!” Yuan Zhiyan’s voice came from the door one step ahead of others. Li Gou jerked his hand back and took several steps back.

    “I bought coffee!” Yuan Zhiyan trotted over. He didn’t like drinking coffee, but Jiang Yilan and Tang Ruining drank it often, so he ordered coffee for them.

    Tang Ruining took it silently and finished the glass in a few sips.

    “Are you so thirsty?” Yuan Zhiyan saw him pouring coffee and said, “Then I came just in time!”

    “It’s timely enough.” Tang Ruining squeezed the coffee cup in his hand and said with unclear meaning.

    “How about it, brother, dance it again for me to see?” Yuan Zhiyan was very interested.

    “Okay.”

    Yuan Zhiyan had seen the dance teacher’s teachings and knew that there were accompanying dancers. When Li Hu danced that part, he joined in very consciously, looked at Li Hu affectionately, and then gently pushed the person away. He was very involved in the performance.

    “No need to practice anymore, brother, it’s very good!!” After this time, Yuan Zhiyan applauded desperately, and then went to seek Tang Ruining’s opinion, and said with a smile: “You think so, Master Dancer?”

    Li Huo slowly looked at Tang Ruining, who looked at him calmly. The desire and restraint in his eyes a few minutes ago had been hidden, making Li Huo wonder if he had misunderstood something.

    If it’s a misunderstanding…that’s better.

    Back in the dormitory, Li Go made the chocolate tarts promised to Yuan Zhiyan.Usually, Tang Ruining doesn’t have dinner unless he has a meal or needs to eat while recording a variety show.This time Li Go brought out the baked egg tarts and invited everyone to come and eat, including Tang Ruining.

    “Hey, you want to eat something so sweet at night?” Rong Xiao asked in surprise when he saw him.

    Yuan Zhiyan felt sad that he might have to eat less, “You don’t like egg tarts, don’t you?”

    “I didn’t like it before, but now I like it.” As he said that, Tang Ruining looked at Jiang Yilan, “Okay?”

    “Okay, okay,” Yuan Zhiyan said, “But originally, how could anyone not like egg tarts? Or chocolate egg tarts, who can refuse this!”

    “Eat slowly, it’s hot inside.” Li Gu warned.

    “There are still a lot of ingredients. If it’s not enough, I can make more.”

    Yuan Zhiyan was about to speak when he suddenly remembered what Tang Ruining said that time, “Don’t make it a habit of ordering people around.” He stopped talking again and looked at Tang Ruining with a guilty conscience.

    “Brother Ruining, do you still want to eat?” Yuan Zhiyan asked.

    Tang Ruining raised an eyebrow, “What, you want to give me yours?”

    “No! I didn’t, don’t talk nonsense!” He covered his plate as if to protect his food.

    Li Go had already gone to the kitchen again.

    The tart crust was bought ready-made. Li Huo heated the evaporated milk and chocolate, took out the eggs, white sugar, etc., put them into a bowl and measured the grams.

    “Do you need help?” Tang Ruining’s voice appeared from behind.

    Li Gou paused and gave him the bowl, “Mix it for me.”

    “Okay.”

    The two of them were doing their own thing quietly. Li Huang arranged the tart shells one by one, took the stirred egg tart liquid and poured it in.

    “Did I make things difficult for you?” Tang Ruining asked when Li Go fell onto the third tart crust.

    The hand holding the bowl tilted, and a few drops of egg tart liquid dripped out.Li Go took out a piece of paper and wiped it clean without looking up, “No. I just… I just didn’t expect it.”

    Tang Ruining went to take the bowl in his hand, “I’ll do it.”

    He then poured the third egg tart in and asked, “Does that make you feel sick?”

    “No!” He hurriedly denied it and said, “Don’t think so, I never think so.”

    Tang Ruining curled her lips, poured all the egg tart liquid, and put it in the oven.

    The egg tarts slowly puffed up in the oven, and the two of them stared at them intently without saying a word, as if they were observing something.

    After a long time, when there were only a few seconds left in the countdown, Li Gu said, “Can I ask when it started?”

    “I don’t know.”

    With a “ding” sound, Tang Ruining opened the oven door, and the heat and fragrance hit his face.

    “When I found it, it was already like this.” He put on his insulated gloves and said to Li Hu, “I’ll carry it while you sit down.”

    After the egg tarts were eaten, Yuan Zhiyan touched his belly with satisfaction and suggested: “Shall we go to the gym in an hour?”

    Li Hu: “You go ahead. I’ve been practicing dancing all day today and I’m tired.”

    “I’m not going either,” Tang Ruining said, “I’m not in good shape today.”

    “You’re not in good shape after eating so well.” Yuan Zhiyan hummed.

    Tang Ruining ignored him and said to Li Hu, “If you are tired, go to bed early.”

    Li Huang raised his eyes in his direction, then lowered his eyes, “…Okay.”

    Rong Xiao glanced at the two of them.

    When the three of them came back in the evening, Tang Ruining and Li Hu had already gone back to their rooms.After Yuan Zhiyan took a shower, he wanted to go to Li Go’s room to find him, but it was still early.

    “Maybe you shouldn’t go to bed so early.” Yuan Zhiyan said and was going to knock on his door.

    Tang Ruining didn’t know when he appeared. He grabbed his collar from behind and whispered, “He’s asleep. Don’t bother him.”

    “How do you know? It’s only nine o’clock.” Yuan Zhiyan glanced at the clock on the wall and said, “It’s okay to sleep, so I’ll lie down next to him quietly.”

    “?” Tang Ruining pulled him back a little more, and his already low voice now sounded like he was gritting his teeth: “Can’t you sleep?”

    “I sleep better on Brother Lan’s bed.” Yuan Zhiyan struggled forward.

    “You slept soundly. Can he sleep well? There’s such a big person like you crowded next to him.”

    “I won’t squeeze him. If you join us, the three of us can sleep on this bed!”

    Tang Ruining was silent.Feeling the grip on his collar relax, Yuan Zhiyan turned to look at him, and suddenly realized after three seconds: “You don’t really want to join, do you? Ah, you should have told me earlier!”

    “No.” Tang Ruining said calmly.

    “Oh! It doesn’t matter! Who doesn’t want to lie down on Brother Lan’s bed? If you want to sleep, just tell him directly. Brother Lan will welcome you! You -”

    His voice got louder and louder at Jiang Yilan’s door. Tang Ruining covered his mouth and dragged him to his room.

    “Uh-huh——”

    Tang Ruining was very strong, and Yuan Zhiyan, who was dragged away swiftly, had seven big words floating in his mind: It is easy to kill someone but not to throw the body away.

    “You can sleep with me tonight.” The murderer smiled at him.

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