Chapter 53: 053 An Unintended Willow Pierces The Heart
That rental room was not far from the business district at the school gate. So while Sun Ruimin and Sun Xing Si were still texting and imagining things about each other, Wang Heng had already knocked on Pei Ningle’s door.
His train of thought went over the young girl’s head, seeing the state inside the house, and he immediately felt the urge to complain.
It was completely different from normal furniture placement ideas. The desk had been moved in front of the sofa, occupying the space that should belong to the coffee table. On the desk was a white laptop computer that could be called outdated—from escaping from home to the Imperial Capital, then to Rongdu, it had been lying in her suitcase the whole time. Next to it was a thumb piano about the size of a dictionary, and the numerous scratches on its body showed that its lifespan wasn’t short either.
Wang Heng pointed at the desk and asked: “When viewing the house, I remember there was a coffee table here! Where did you move it to?”
Pei Ningle asked in return: “This house only has a living room and a bedroom, right?”
Wang Heng lowered his head and looked, then asked: “Where are the slippers?”
Pei Ningle: “No slippers, I didn’t buy any. You don’t need to change shoes, just come in directly. Anyway, I don’t have slippers either.”
Wang Heng looked at the young girl’s feet. She was wearing a T-shirt and shorts, with sandals below. At first glance he hadn’t reacted, but now he realized that these were clearly shoes worn outside.
He vaguely remembered that during the first playthrough’s cohabitation period, this girl wasn’t so unkempt… But Wang Heng thought about it again; at that time, she had come to his rental room to stay, so she naturally followed his living habits.
Facing Wang Heng’s silent gaze, Pei Ningle didn’t realize what he was thinking at all and just pointed at the laptop computer: “Don’t just stand there, come over and help me check this!”
Wang Heng walked to her side, sat down, and looked at the screen.
He grabbed the mouse, and in twenty seconds, found the problem.
“Sure enough, the format is wrong.”
Adjusting the video format just required finding and downloading some software online, then operating it a bit. This didn’t need the keyboard; mouse operation was enough, but out of habit, Wang Heng still placed his left hand on the keyboard, occasionally pressing a shortcut key.
Pei Ningle sat beside him, quietly watching his serious profile.
Not long after, Wang Heng had converted the video format, but before uploading, he clicked on the video and took a look.
Pei Ningle’s face appeared in the frame. It was just that the resolution was a bit low, and the color tone had been adjusted to black and white, giving it a retro artistic feel. But the young girl in the video had pigtails, and her bright big eyes showed some confusion, making her look like a junior high student, so the art style was quite wondrous…
The familiar guitar accompaniment started, and Wang Heng suddenly realized: “So your first video was singing Miss Dong.”
Pei Ningle nodded, and after two seconds reacted that he was looking at the screen and definitely couldn’t see her nod: “Yeah!”
“What were you thinking?” Wang Heng couldn’t help but be curious. “Pigtails?”
Pei Ningle shyly covered her face: “I recorded it several times, tried different hairstyles, and then felt that pigtails suited me best… And didn’t you tell me that videos need a gimmick? I thought, Miss Dong has such a vicissitude feeling, so if I deliberately went in the opposite direction with my styling, wouldn’t it be more interesting?”
Wang Heng gave a thumbs up but didn’t speak. Because the young girl in the video had already started singing.
“Miss Dong, you’ve never forgotten your smile,
Even if you and I alike, long for aging,
Miss Dong, you’re beautiful when your mouth turns down,
Just like under the Anhe Bridge, the clear water…”
The singing voice coming from the laptop computer naturally wasn’t as clear as live, but it still made one couldn’t help but want to give it a like.
“So those might not be real, Miss Dong,
You’re not a classmate with no story,
Falling in love with a wild horse, but my home has no grassland,
This makes me feel despair, Miss Dong…”
Pei Ningle sang really well, but because she was still young after all, it was really hard to sing out the vicissitude and helplessness of the original version. But listening to the young girl’s singing voice, Wang Heng’s train of thought couldn’t help but wander.
Especially the line “Falling in love with a wild horse but my home has no grassland,” which made him involuntarily recall the matters from those years in the first playthrough, and for some reason, he felt a bit… criticized?
Although Wang Heng knew very well that the original author’s creation had nothing to do with him, listening to those lyrics, his feelings were still quite complex.
Just like that, Wang Heng listened to the whole song expressionlessly, about four minutes.
Then he turned his head and stared at the young girl next to him, asking: “Why did you choose this song?”
Pei Ningle thought for a moment and answered: “Because this song is quite popular recently, and I think it’s pretty good too.”
Hmm, no problem.
Wang Heng could only temporarily put this aside and change the question: “Then what kind of title do you plan to give the video?”
Pei Ningle: “Female voice version of Miss Dong?”
Wang Heng quickly returned to work mode: “Your song selection and posing are flawless, but naming isn’t great. Since there’s already a gimmick, wouldn’t it be a loss if it’s not reflected in the video title?”
Pei Ningle: “Then what should the title be?”
After serious and prudent thinking, Wang Heng typed a line of title on the computer:
【Loli cover of Miss Dong—Homework done, time to sing!】
Pei Ningle’s little face suddenly turned red: “What do you mean loli? I’m already 18! And where’s the homework? I’m not in school anymore!”
Wang Heng: “This is commercial marketing copy. It has nothing to do with whether you’re in school or not. The key is, you’ve already perfectly shown your personal characteristic in this video, which is pretty and cute, so the copy must highlight this point too.”
“Pretty… cute?” Pei Ningle blinked, staring at Wang Heng, seemingly only catching the keywords in his words.
Wang Heng glanced at her, pretending not to notice the details of the young girl’s expression, and continued explaining: “And since you’re so aware and prepared the pigtails yourself, wouldn’t it be too wasteful not to make the persona a bit smaller? How about this: in the future, you handle filming the videos, I’ll handle the uploading step, and replying to messages too, okay?”
Pei Ningle subconsciously nodded.
Then Wang Heng uploaded the video.
With this matter done, it was already early morning. But at that moment, a protesting sound came from Pei Ningle’s little belly.
Wang Heng: “You’re hungry?”
The young girl blushed and quickly shook her head, but after hesitating a little, she quietly nodded again.
Wang Heng stood up and walked toward the refrigerator, but after a few steps, he suddenly stopped and turned back to ask: “There’s nothing in the refrigerator, right?”
Pei Ningle continued nodding.
Wang Heng asked again: “Have you eaten dinner?”
The young girl subconsciously shrank back a bit: “No…”
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Couldn’t hold on anymore, going to sleep first, continue writing after waking up.
