#452 - While the dance is going on

"Science exhibition?"

Xue Xi blinked her big eyes with curiosity. As a phenomenon-level idol, she naturally had to perform at this Midtown dance. Not only that, but she even needed to run on both ends, performing once in the students' venue and then again in the adults' venue.

The reason for this was that she heard there were many Xue Xi fans among the adults, but as adults, they were embarrassed to be chasing after a little girl idol. Therefore, the school had no choice but to ask Xue Xi if she could handle both sides to save these adults' face.

Xue Xi naturally had no objections, because the school dance also had other programs arranged, so she could only perform two songs. You should know that for Xue Xi, who sings and dances live throughout an entire concert, this didn't even count as a warm-up.

However, in order not to take up too much of the children's time, and to prevent that young Master Stark from being dissatisfied, only one song was arranged for the adults. After all, since Xue Xi transferred to Midtown High School, her interaction with Tony had been obvious to all, and everyone knew about their ambiguous relationship.

It had even spread online, but neither of the parties cared. Tony didn't need to be said much, and Xue Xi, as a popular idol, should normally hide her relationship, but should it be said that she was influenced by her environment? Xue Xi's attitude was the same as Tony's, not caring much.

The most important reason was that Xue Xi became an idol because she loved music and loved singing and dancing. Making money was secondary, so she didn't care about losing fans after announcing her relationship.

As for the company Xue Xi signed with, they didn't dare to say a word. Who was Xue Xi's boyfriend? Tony Stark! The young master of Stark Industries. All the companies in South Korea combined were no match for Stark Industries, so a small brokerage company naturally didn't dare to act rashly.

"Weak companies bring out products to attract investment, and stronger ones take this opportunity to show off their skills."

Tony yawned, obviously not paying attention to this matter at all. Xue Xi also looked helpless. Her boyfriend was like this, usually like an unreliable second-generation rich kid, but when it came to the field he liked, the brilliance he showed was no less than the best diamond.

"Tony, you should care about this kind of thing. After all, don't you always say you want to impress your dad?" Xue Xi earnestly advised.

"Those people are almost all mediocre, not many are worth caring about." Tony waved his hand, putting on a face of 'I'm the boss'.

"I'd rather spend that time looking at you in your performance clothes to feast my eyes."

Faced with the teasing of her beloved, Xue Xi was not at all timid, opening her arms and generously showing herself.

Today, she was wearing a set of blue and white clothes. The upper body was a blue short jacket plus a white navel-baring vest, the lower body was blue hot pants, and she was stepping on a pair of black short boots, with a fishnet stocking on her left leg.

"How is it? Is it good-looking?" Xue Xi turned around again to let Tony see clearly.

"Very suitable for you." Tony snapped his fingers. If it were before, he might have said some sweet words to please girls, but Xue Xi didn't like that kind of thing. She preferred more direct and sincere answers.

"The dance is about to start." Xue Xi glanced at the clock on the wall. "We should go to the venue too."

She and Tony had been staying in the laboratory that the school had approved for Tony. As mentioned before, Midtown High School had plenty of land, and could even use a building solely as a place for students' club activities. Tony's laboratory was in this building.

This laboratory was twice the size of a normal activity room. The school specially knocked down the wall between two activity rooms to combine them into one. It could be said that except for some sports or more special clubs, Tony's laboratory was the largest in the school.

This was not only because Tony's last name was Stark, but also because Tony's talent was indeed worthy of the conditions he enjoyed. Some of the gadgets he made in this laboratory had helped the school win many awards, and these reputations were also very important to Midtown High School.

By the way, the weapon Tony used to fight A.I.M at the concert was made in this laboratory. Although the materials at home were more complete and the equipment was better, Howard never let him do these dangerous things.

However, since the A.I.M attack, Howard took the initiative to find Tony and said he wanted to send him some gadgets for self-defense. Tony naturally refused. Claiming to be no weaker than his father Howard, he said he wanted to make his own self-defense items.

Howard couldn't resist him, so he could only give the green light on materials and equipment, allowing Tony to invent some safe gadgets, such as the little thing lying on the machine tool in the laboratory now.

Urged by Xue Xi, Tony got up. He glanced at the workbench and saw his invention at first glance. After hesitating, he still picked up the watch-shaped gadget.

"Hopefully, I'm overthinking it." Tony murmured, taking off the Vacheron Constantin 4300V he was originally wearing on his left hand and casually throwing it aside, before putting on the simple mechanical watch on his wrist, but it didn't match his black pinstripe suit at all.

"This is what you've been working on these days." Xue Xi leaned over, her head close. Because the two were so close, Tony could smell the fragrance on Xue Xi's body with just a light breath.

If it were the protagonist of a normal novel, he would blush, heartbeat, and panic because the girl was too close to him, and have all kinds of fantasies, but Tony wouldn't be like that.

"Still in testing, some planned things have not been realized yet, it's a semi-finished product." Tony said, pulling his sleeves to cover the watch. Showing off a semi-finished product made him feel more shy than showing off affection.

After a long time of interaction, Xue Xi naturally knew Tony's little thoughts. She smiled and patted Tony on the shoulder, encouraging him: "Overcoming these difficulties is only a matter of time for you, I believe you can do it."

"Of course, who am I, I'm Tony Stark!"

Looking at Tony's arrogant look, Xue Xi secretly chuckled, and then pushed him towards the venue, but as soon as she walked out of the activity building, she saw the helicopter in the sky, which made Xue Xi's heart skip a beat.

"Don't worry." Tony put his hand on his partner's shoulder. "That's our family's helicopter, you can't expect my dad to attend the parent-teacher conference in armor, right?"

Noticing the Stark Industries logo on the helicopter, Xue Xi was relieved. She had to admit that since the previous concert, she had some psychological shadow about helicopters.