Chapter 117: Self-analysis Of The Suspension Bridge Effect
When a person suddenly reveals a completely different side from before, showing new traits that are also very charming or beautiful, this is called contrast cuteness—excerpted from《a certain Wang surname scumbag’s little encyclopedia》.
Wang Heng naturally understood that Lu Qi wasn’t only rational, or rather, absolutely rational people almost don’t exist in this world. Lu Qi was just calmer than most people, better at using logic, and thinking in an orderly way, but that didn’t mean she could always stay calm.
Otherwise, what was that cleaver incident about back then?
But the current Lu Qi, even in Wang Heng’s impression, was extremely rare.
Her cheeks were flushed, her eyebrows lowered, and her fleeting gaze revealed shyness, as if she felt embarrassed about her occasional involuntary lapse.
Suddenly, she withdrew her hand, held the half-full beer cup with both hands, and took a small sip, as if to cover up her shaken emotion. But her slender, delicate fingers gripped slightly harder, so the beer in the cup was also gently shaking.
When an intelligent mature rational older sister type showed such a side, that feeling was simply…
Wang Heng quickly chugged a big gulp of beer, letting the cold liquid go down his throat, trying to cool his chest. But after a few seconds, he suddenly reacted, hating his momentary stupidity.
Alcohol won’t make people calm; it will only make them lose control!
At this time, Lu Qi peeled a boiled shrimp and placed it in Wang Heng’s dipping sauce dish, saying softly: “You see, resigning is no problem; you’re not a formal employee anyway. But I really hope to hire you long-term as my personal investment director. Give me the money, and I won’t interfere or ask questions. I just need you to tell me after each project is done, and we can do profit sharing as agreed.”
Wang Heng asked back: “What if I lose money?”
Lu Qi smiled: “Investment has risk, I understand, and I won’t force any rate of return on you. If there’s a loss, there’s no way around it; of course I won’t ask you to pay it back.”
Wang Heng’s fingers tapped the table, somewhat hesitant.
If he could do wealth management for Lu Qi, he estimated his chip accumulation speed would definitely be much faster, but how much risk would that add?
But thinking from another angle, with Pei Ningle and Ye Xun already around him, adding one more Lu Qi—wouldn’t that form an even more stable triangular structure?
The key was, unlike the boss-employee relationship in the first playthrough, now it was more like a financial advisor relationship, and Wang Heng’s freedom would be much greater. Naturally, he wouldn’t be gripped by the economic lifeline like before, sinking step by step without being able to struggle.
While contemplating, he subconsciously picked up the shrimp meat from the dipping sauce dish with chopsticks and stuffed it into his mouth.
Hmm, delicious.
But looking at Lu Qi in front of him again, she had a smile in her eyes and brows, staring right at his mouth chewing the shrimp meat.
Wang Heng swallowed it down, then said: “Okay then, anyway, I definitely have to resign, but I can still help you with investments afterward.”
Lu Qi: “No problem.”
Wang Heng: “But then there’s no need for me to go to your office; we can contact online, okay?”
Lu Qi smiled gently: “Of course. It wouldn’t be realistic for me to treat you to dinner every day anyway.”
Wang Heng settled his mind and stopped worrying.
Lu Qi, Ye Xun, Pei Ningle—the smarter and sharper they were, the farther they stayed from him; the more clueless and naturally ditzy they were, the closer they got. This triangular structure was very stable!
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Nearly two hours later, this dinner finally ended.
Per person one hundred fifty, five people was seven hundred fifty yuan. When settling the bill, Wang Heng had just taken out his wallet when Lu Qi had already handed her credit card to the waiter.
“I’ll pay. You can treat me next time.” Lu Qi smiled at him and said so.
Wang Heng put away his wallet, secretly complaining to himself—there definitely wouldn’t be a next time!
He said: “Then thank you. We’re heading back to school now; Sister Lu, are you taking the subway back?”
Lu Qi nodded, then suddenly seemed to remember something, clapped her hands, and said: “Right, I plan to go buy a car this weekend; do you want to come with me?”
Wang Heng immediately shook his head: “No no, I don’t know anything about cars, and I’m not interested.”
Lu Qi asked again: “You’re an adult now; aren’t you considering getting a driver’s license?”
Wang Heng: “Sure, I’ll go take the test when I have time later…”
Lu Qi chimed in at the right moment: “You can practice with my car, how about it?”
Wang Heng immediately shook his head: “Still no, I think practicing at the driving school is enough; I’m quite confident in my learning ability.”
Nearby, Fu Hanwen patted Tang Hexing’s shoulder, leaned in to whisper: “Learn from this; look at that ‘refusing yet welcoming’ skill!”
Tang Hexing sneered: “Heh, what use would I have learning that?”
Wang Ke also overheard their whisper and suddenly joined in: “So, you guys think how I should go about finding an opportunity to refuse a little loli?”
Fu Hanwen: “…”
Tang Hexing: “…”
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After bidding farewell to Wang Heng and his roommates, Lu Qi got on the subway for her return trip.
Peak period was over, and there were some blank spaces in the carriage, so she sat down and took out her mobile phone.
“What was that term again… suspension bridge effect?”
In Lu Qi’s impression, she seemed to have seen this term somewhere. A quick search on her phone confirmed it: suspension bridge effect.
【When a person walks over a seemingly dangerous suspension bridge, their heart rate will involuntarily speed up. If they happen to meet an attractive member of the opposite sex at that time, they will mistake the environmentally induced accelerated heartbeat for the reaction caused by being attracted to the other person. This misinterpretation of one’s own physiological reaction can instead give rise to romantic feelings.】
That was the explanation in the encyclopedia entry.
Lu Qi covered her left chest, feeling her heartbeat indeed faster than usual; this wasn’t just the alcohol’s influence—more of it was from Wang Heng.
“Because he helped me earn money, and the surprise from the big profits got transferred onto him, so it makes me have an illusion similar to romance?”
Murmuring to herself, she analyzed carefully.
After all, to say she really liked this young kid, Lu Qi couldn’t believe it no matter what; she had always upheld singlehood and scoffed at romance as a foolish thing.
So, the suspension bridge effect became the best explanation for those anomalous emotions just now.
But immediately after, Lu Qi’s focus shifted to the anomaly in Wang Heng’s performance.
“Why does he seem a bit afraid of me? Is it the superior’s authority? But that doesn’t seem right; I’ve been very careful—at least tonight I shouldn’t have any authority at all. Is he afraid I’ll eat him?”
For problems she couldn’t figure out for now, Lu Qi wouldn’t simply cast them aside. She imagined a few possibilities, planning to verify them slowly later.
The more puzzling the problem, the more value it has in exploring, right?
Lu Qi started getting curious…
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