Chapter 80: The Fully Formed Asura Field
“Is Little Wang not coming?”
The next morning, on the way to the train station while Pei Ningle was sending her parents off, Mother Pei finally couldn’t bear to ask.
Father Pei remained silent, seemingly still looking down at his mobile phone. But the finger scrolling through the news page quietly stopped.
Pei Ningle took out her mobile phone and opened the text message record: “Look, he said he has to work today, something came up temporarily, he must go to the Penguin Building…”
Mother Pei frowned and asked quite sharply: “Does he need to work every weekend? Did he go yesterday?”
Pei Ningle wasn’t too certain: “Probably… yes.”
As she spoke, she recalled Wang Heng’s actions these days, feeling less and less certainty the more she thought about it. As long as he was by her side, that sense of security was real, but the problem was if he didn’t want to stay by her side?
Thinking of this, the young girl asked again: “If he’s avoiding me, what should I do? Mom, help me think about it?”
After some careful contemplation, Mother Pei shook her head: “Forget it, we won’t get involved in you young people’s matters. If we two talk too much to him, it might give him too much pressure and scare him off instead. Besides, the way people date these days is different from back in our time, don’t cling to outdated methods.”
Father Pei beside her said leisurely: “Allowing you to date now is already very open-minded, and even asking us to be your military advisors? In your dreams.”
Pei Ningle looked at that text message on her phone and involuntarily fell into contemplation.
After a good while, Mother Pei still couldn’t bear to and gave a suggestion: “Alright, Xiao Le, listen to me. A stubbornly persistent child like you, many boys will like, but you can’t be too obsessive. Don’t force him, attract him. Young boys can’t resist temptation, so you must clearly express your liking, but not be too aggressive, give him some space. For a girl, modesty is very important, but you can’t be too modest.”
The young girl seemed thoughtful: “So, show good feelings, but don’t rush to confess?”
“Exactly!” Mother Pei nodded gratifiedly and continued to give guidance, “When it comes to dating, the most time-consuming part is before confirming the partner. Unless you’re ninety percent certain, don’t reveal it easily. And the most important point is… if there are competitors, get along well with the competitors first, probe the enemy situation before deciding how to act. Remember, you have to act very modest, but that’s for the boy to see, you yourself can’t just sit and wait.”
Father Pei next to her suddenly put down his mobile phone, stared at his wife who had strictly controlled him for many years, and asked: “Did you do that back then?”
Mother Pei was immediately choked.
On Father Pei’s face was the realization of finally learning the truth after many years: “So that’s how it is, no wonder there were so many coincidences back then! What fate, it was your scheme!”
Mother Pei: “…Right, train meals aren’t tasty, I’ll buy some instant noodles later!”
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Wang Heng sat in the office in the Penguin Building, in front of the computer, slacking off.
The work that needed to be done, he had already finished entirely last weekend, and for the remaining specific work, Lu Qi hadn’t assigned tasks, so he couldn’t intervene. Even slacking off wasn’t that fun… new anime, manga, web novels, he had already seen most of what interested him, he could even go to the authors and guide them on how the plot should develop.
“It’s just that I have a bit of integrity, otherwise if I wrote a Great King Demands Life, Lord of Best Friends now, wouldn’t that be… forget it, I can’t even remember the details of the main story clearly, useless.”
He closed the web browser, yawned somewhat melancholy, then opened the atom editor and started writing his own code.
After a night of contemplation, he thought of a good way to ensure he wouldn’t be stalked by the female assassins—write his own app, find an opportunity to put it on their mobile phones, and monitor their location in real time. When the other’s distance from him was less than one kilometer, trigger an alarm, and secretly send the alarm information to his own mobile phone.
But because he hadn’t slept well the night before, he really had no energy today. Sitting in front of the computer, he couldn’t write the code well, so he could only set up a framework first and slack off a bit…
Suddenly, his mobile phone vibrated. Glancing at the caller ID, it was Pei Ningle.
Wang Heng picked up the mobile phone and quickly walked to the unoccupied break room. Just this short dozen meters had already made him determined.
Answering the call, the two said almost simultaneously:
“I have something to tell you!”
“I have something to tell you…”
After a two-second pause, Pei Ningle asked first: “What’s your thing?”
Wang Heng: “No, you say first.”
So the young girl cleared her throat and announced seriously: “The melody for my song is finally done! Actually, it’s not just composing, I’ve thought a lot about the arrangement too, as long as the lyrics are filled in, we can start production!”
Wang Heng: “Oh, congratulations, congratulations.”
Pei Ningle smiled and asked: “And you? What did you want to tell me?”
Wang Heng swallowed, mentally prepared.
Then he said in as calm a tone as possible: “I’m dating.”
Pei Ningle: “…What?”
Wang Heng: “I said, I have a girlfriend.”
Pei Ningle: “…”
On the other end of the phone, there was silence.
Wang Heng’s feelings at this moment were quite complex, but he thought that if he could nip the danger in the bud, extinguish the fire while it was still just a small flame, that would undoubtedly be the best.
After a long silence of several seconds, the young girl on the other end of the phone said: “That’s great, congratulations! Is it convenient to say where you met your girlfriend? A university classmate?”
Wang Heng: “Not a university classmate, a classmate from high school.”
Pei Ningle laughed: “Then can I meet her next time?”
“Of course, no problem at all.”
Just like that, after hanging up, Wang Heng was still secretly relieved—clearly, Pei Ningle’s level was far inferior to Han Yixuan, and under the forced smile, that uncomfortable feeling wasn’t hard for him to detect.
Although this was a bit too ruthless… but as long as he didn’t give her the opportunity to exercise and grow, nipping her thoughts in the bud now should be foolproof, right?
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Pei Ningle sat on the sofa in her own room, hugging her knees, her whole body almost curled into a ball.
She didn’t have tissue, so the pants at her knees were soaked by tears. Not crying out loud during the call earlier had already exhausted the young girl who was experiencing this for the first time…
“What probing the enemy situation!” Pei Ningle slapped the cushion hard, muttering to herself with a sobbing voice, “I don’t even know who the enemy is, how can I probe!”
After another good while, she finally calmed down a bit, suddenly feeling her throat dry and uncomfortable. She wanted to get some water to drink, but as she looked up, she saw a little hamster climbing in through the window.
Wait, isn’t that Wang Heng’s hamster?
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