Chapter 125: 125 Let’s Dance Together
“Senior, I can not only teach you combat, but also protect you in the future, always protect you…”
Using the standard rear naked choke position, Ye Xun wrapped around Wang Heng’s body, softly saying words that made his heart race with fear.
Then, the two were silent for a good while.
Wang Heng finally spoke: “So, I already know what a rear naked choke is now. Can you let go of me?”
Seeing that he still wouldn’t answer directly, the young girl’s anxiety turned into melancholy, and she silently released her arms and backed away.
Wang Heng turned to face Ye Xun and saw the annoyance and melancholy in her eyes, which made him feel a bit heartbroken too. But that question just now really couldn’t be answered, or else it would feel like agreeing to her confession, which was way too bad.
He cleared his throat and changed the topic—this time, he had to learn his lesson and absolutely not lead to any dangerous development again.
“I haven’t asked yet, how were your grades on this monthly exam?”
Asking about studying and exam grades, this shouldn’t carry any risk, right?
Ye Xun lowered her head and said softly: “English was first in the grade, Chinese tenth, the others were all pretty average. And math, as expected, didn’t pass.”
Wang Heng: “It looks like the tutoring effect wasn’t very good.”
Ye Xun suddenly lifted her face and emphasized: “No, it was very good! If you hadn’t tutored me, my math would definitely be much lower than it is now, even farther from the passing line! So I think we need even more tutoring.”
“Even more?”
“Yeah, just Saturdays aren’t enough, Sundays should have tutoring too.”
Wang Heng asked: “What about your time venting by hitting the punching bag?”
Ye Xun hurriedly said: “We can do math tutoring in the morning, martial arts hall in the afternoon. Or tutoring in the afternoon, martial arts hall in the evening, either works!”
Wang Heng sighed, really unable to bear saying ‘no’ again.
So he nodded and added: “Alright then, you decide the tutoring time on Sundays. But there’s one more thing: you don’t need to give me the tutoring fee anymore.”
Ye Xun blinked: “You’re not taking money anymore?”
“You’ve started teaching me combat, and I didn’t give you tuition fee, so you don’t need to give me any either.”
Hearing Wang Heng say this, Ye Xun didn’t know what she thought of, but her emotions seemed to improve a bit.
She smiled: “Then let’s continue training. What do you want to practice?”
Wang Heng immediately said: “Boxing, boxing is better!”
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Ye Xun returned home alone, put down her backpack, and the first thing she did was take a shower.
Standing under the showerhead, listening to the monotonous repeating sound of water, the young girl couldn’t help but recall the scene not long ago when she rear naked choked Wang Heng.
The first time using ground techniques on a boy; the first time having such close contact with the boy she liked. But with these two joys combined, why… was it different from the development she had imagined?
Wang Heng seemed to be evading, dodging. Could it be that some danger was chasing him?
Recalling the feeling of hugging his neck tightly, Ye Xun seemed to have a sliver of an indescribable realization.
“He definitely doesn’t hate me, but… he seems to be fearing something?”
At that moment, the shower was done. Ye Xun turned off the hot water, wrapped a bath towel around herself, and walked into the bedroom.
Then, just as she put on her pajamas, she suddenly had a very reasonable guess.
The young girl hurried to the desk, opened her diary, and picked up the pen.
She hadn’t written in her diary for a long time; the last entry was several days ago, in the early morning when she dreamed of Wang Heng and understood her own feelings.
She turned to a new page, pondered for a moment, and wrote:
【He doesn’t hate me, but he seems to be avoiding me a bit. Is it because he knows we can’t be together? It doesn’t seem like social phobia?】
Looking at these two questions, the answer in Ye Xun’s mind became clearer. And the more she thought, the more real it felt.
She continued writing:
【He’s out there on the internet acting as a vigilante, doing things like punishing evil and fighting injustice. Twice, just saving me twice, so how many similar things has he done when I didn’t know? His identity is hard to expose across the internet, but what if? What if his identity is exposed, what would those crazy bad guys do to him?】
Combining these two paragraphs, Ye Xun could confirm that she had deduced the truth.
【So he actually likes me too, but to not bring danger to me, to not put me in peril, that’s why he’s refusing.】
When writing this sentence, the young girl’s cheeks felt slightly hot. After all, this seemed a bit too self-flattering, like wishful thinking. But recalling their time together in the martial arts hall that day, recalling Wang Heng’s always hesitant gaze when looking at her, Ye Xun’s confidence grew even stronger.
But between not hating and liking, there’s still quite a distance—the young girl deliberately ignored the possibility that Wang Heng didn’t like her. After all, alone in a strange city, with her father caught in a bankruptcy lawsuit, she couldn’t help but had to face heavy academic pressure. In this situation, if she also imagined the possibility that Wang Heng didn’t like her, how could she bear it psychologically?
So Wang Heng must like her, he must!
【What does he think I’ll do? Give up? Ridiculous, how could ‘give up’ be in my dictionary!】
Today’s diary wasn’t long, just two or three hundred words, and Ye Xun capped the pen.
She gently blew on the ink that wasn’t fully dry, waited a moment, then slowly closed the notebook and placed the pen in the cartoon puppy pen holder beside it.
That pen holder was the last little gift her mother gave her while she was still alive.
Gazing at the pen holder, Ye Xun murmured: “Mom, you’ll definitely bless me too, right?”
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The first thing Wang Heng did when he returned to the dormitory was to take the cage to the rooftop.
There was no one on the rooftop, so the hamster spoke: “Why do you always pull this routine? Can’t you have some originality?”
“Don’t tell me useless stuff,” Wang Heng sneered, “Explain clearly first, why did Ye Xun end up at that martial arts hall too?”
The hamster looked at the sky: “Very normal. Rongdu’s combat industry isn’t very developed yet, there aren’t many somewhat professional martial arts halls to begin with…”
Wang Heng: “Believe it or not, I’ll take this cage and jump New Treasure Island? That part with the ghost knocking on the door?”
The hamster immediately grabbed the cage: “I beg you, be human! Don’t pin every coincidence on me!”
“Heh, besides you, who else can I find?”
“You still can’t just pin it randomly. This is clearly the worldline correction mechanism at work.”
Wang Heng sneered: “But you clearly knew something like this would happen, yet didn’t warn me?”
Hamster: “…”
Wang Heng: “This blame is yours, right?”
The hamster said softly: “What if I told you and you changed your mind and didn’t go to the martial arts hall?”
Wang Heng: “As expected, let’s jump New Treasure Island after all.”
“Don’t!”
Panic filled the hamster’s little face, its red little nostrils below revealing its front teeth.
Then the next moment, the whole mouse was shaken into a blur…
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