Chapter 196: Dancing with a Male Dancer Up Close

While talking with Zhang Zhang Ningning, the dancers on stage, dancing all the while, took off their suit jackets and casually tossed them down to the floor.

The female audience below the stage began to scream.

With the dance moves, the male dancers casually loosened their ties and unbuttoned their shirts one by one; as the vigorous dancing continued, the outlines of their pectoral and abdominal muscles were faintly revealed.

"He's starting to strip, he's starting to strip!" Zhang Zhang Ningning covered her face and shouted repeatedly.

Yang Yi felt a bit restless; she took a sip of her cocktail and glanced around once more.

Everyone was excited, shouting, laughing, and making a scene; some were even throwing money onto the stage, while only she, when she should have been enjoying life to the fullest, hesitated and looked back and forth, and when she should have been working seriously, she was frequently bored, and when she should have been resting, she was anxious and empty... losing one thing to gain another, losing another to gain one, unable to find the joy of living in anything.

Chopping wood is chopping wood, carrying water is carrying water, cooking is cooking.

You cannot think of carrying water while chopping wood, or think of cooking while carrying water.

Put aside all worries and enjoy the present moment!

Thinking this, she tried to relax her body and leaned her back against the chair back.

The performance on stage was intense and explosive; at this moment, the dancers had all taken off their suit jackets, their ties were lost who knows where, their shirt buttons were half undone, their clothes half exposed, and with the dance moves, their charms were suddenly revealed.

"Do you like it? This is just the opening dance; there will be something even more explosive in a moment!" Zhang Zhang Ningning, seeing her relax, winked vigorously at her.

"I think this is just right; half-hidden and half-revealed, knowing how to leave blank space gives it a bit of artistic sense; if it were any more explosive, I wouldn't be able to appreciate it..." Yang Yi, playing with her cocktail glass in one hand, said with a smile.

"Oh, oh, oh, I get it, you like the secretly passionate type..." Zhang Zhang Ningning chuckled.

Just as they were speaking, the opening dance ended, and the group of dancers retreated backstage via the staircases on both sides.

The second dance featured five muscular men, each performing a solo: Spanish dance, tap dance, modern dance, jazz dance, and finally, the golden-haired young man named Ryan performed a pole dance.

Afterwards, the five of them walked off the stage to interact with the female audience below.

Seeing the golden-haired young man walking towards their direction, Yang Yi lowered her head and shrank back, while Zhang Zhang Ningning waved excitedly to signal him.

Probably because they had chosen the most expensive seats, this spot was always taken care of each time; seeing Zhang Zhang Ningning's signal, Ryan indeed walked over to them.

Yang Yi struggled to shrink back, trying her best to minimize her presence.

"Please give my sister some shock! This is her first time here!" Zhang Zhang Ningning said loudly to Ryan, then gave Yang Yi a mischievous smile.

Yang Yi's vision went black.

Having received the signal, Ryan smiled generously, slid over in a gliding step, held the back of her chair, and circled her in his arms.

Yang Yi froze completely in place.

The golden-haired young man had just finished his pole dance; at this moment, his body radiated heat mixed with perfume, his well-defined, muscular waist twisted on her lap, his white shirt had only two buttons fastened, and with his movements, the shirt opened and closed, revealing infinite scenery right before her eyes, within reach of her hand.

Some of the other female audience members had already started touching, while Yang Yi remained motionless, pretending to be dead. Zhang Zhang Ningning was frustrated, wishing she could personally step in to teach her how to have fun here.

Perhaps Yang Yi's indifference sparked Ryan's competitiveness; Ryan suddenly picked her up, frightening Yang Yi so much that her telekinetic power almost activated.

"Relax! Relax! This is normal interaction!" Zhang Zhang Ningning hurriedly shouted to signal her.

Thus, amidst everyone's cheers, Yang Yi was carried princess-style by the golden-haired young man onto the stage; Ryan gently placed her on a chair in the center of the stage and performed a sexy, spicy solo in front of her, sitting on her lap and twisting, pulling her hand to stroke his waist and abdominal muscles.

Yang Yi was completely numb; an existential question involuntarily arose in her mind: "Who am I?" "Where am I?" "What am I doing?"

Sensing Yang Yi's restraint, Ryan wrapped his arms around her and whispered in her ear: "Don't be so restrained; enjoy this moment!"

He had just finished dancing, and his soft words of comfort were accompanied by heavy and coarse breathing, which was extremely seductive.

Zhang Zhang Ningning could not sit calmly in her chair; she jumped and shouted excitedly below the stage, "Yi..." Realizing what she had said, she quickly corrected herself: "Dear, to hell with work, you need to relax! Enjoy this moment!"

Yang Yi wished she could immediately burst through the roof and fly straight out of the theater.

Fortunately, the interaction time was not long, and she was safely returned to her seat.

Only after sitting back in her place did she breathe a huge sigh of relief, downed her cocktail in one gulp, and suddenly said amidst Zhang Zhang Ningning's teasing gaze: "I have to tell Director Zhou exactly what you brought me to do!"

Zhang Zhang Ningning was shocked, "Don't! That's repaying kindness with ingratitude!"

"Didn't you say Director Zhou agreed?" Yang Yi raised an eyebrow.

"He's a middle-aged old man; how would he know what us young girls actually like? He said to let me take you to relax and make you happier, and the first place I could think of was here!"

Yang Yi was somewhat speechless. "Do you come to places like this often?"

"No, I've only been here twice. Once in the Ark Country, and once in Britain..." Zhang Zhang Ningning said awkwardly, "My studies are very intense, you know?"

The subsequent dances, as Zhang Zhang Ningning had said, became increasingly explosive. One dancer stripped completely naked while dancing, holding only a jazz hat to cover the key parts; seeing this, Yang Yi led a reluctant Zhang Zhang Ningning away.

"The performance was only halfway through!" Zhang Zhang Ningning complained as they walked.

"Watching any longer would be indecent... Moreover, this performance style is just the routine of men consuming women; objectifying people... I don't like it." Yang Yi, dodging the cheering crowd, said in a low voice.

"The dancers here sign up themselves and are selected through layers of screening; no one forces them, and they gain fame and fortune through this method! They are also pursued by many people! Look, they are dancing very happily too!" Zhang Zhang Ningning couldn't help but defend.

Yang Yi looked back once at the noisy theater; amidst the flashing neon lights, jade bodies twisted on the stage, while the crowd below cheered.

She couldn't help but smile helplessly: "This world loves men; in the same industry, men can gain fame and fortune, while women can only receive humiliation."

"Why do you live so tiredly?" Zhang Zhang Ningning whispered, "We are here to spend money and enjoy ourselves, not to conduct social observation..."

Not long after they left the theater and returned to Xia Country, people online who constantly tracked Yang Yi's whereabouts suddenly discovered that Yang Yi, who had been in the public eye for nearly 3-4 days, had disappeared.

"Has she finally gone to rest?" In a fan forum for Yang Yi, someone posted a message like this.

Yishen Sect Fan Duck Blood Soup: "Continuously solving alien creature incidents all over the world for 3 consecutive days without stopping, and then going straight to the United Nations for a day-long meeting; with such work intensity, even immortals couldn't stand it!"

Met Her: "More than 200 alien creature incidents in total, handling more than 2 per hour on average; how many kilometers has she flown in the sky during these 3 days? Has anyone calculated it?"

Loose Love: "No need to calculate; she probably flew around the Earth more than 100 times!"

Someone posted a schedule of her recent days, compiled from news reports in various places and photos and videos taken by people, with time precise to the second.

Yishen Sect Right Guardian: "Yishen, please rest more; seeing such work intensity makes one's heart ache."

Yishen Sect Minion: "Exactly, we can't always let Yishen solve all the problems; there are so many awakened ones in the world, surely not everyone is incompetent!"

After a while, someone posted a picture taken at an airport.

"Everyone, a supersonic aircraft from the Xia Country Awakening Bureau appeared at the international airport in the capital of France; does this mean there is some cooperation between the awakened ones of the two countries?"