Chapter 232: Xiao Tang’s Outrage
After escaping the encirclement of his three roommates’ mix of teasing and admiration, Wang Heng arrived at Pei Ningle’s room.
As soon as he entered the door, he said, “The mentor for a good song really practices free-range parenting, huh? Just pointing you in a direction, and the rest is up to you?”
The young girl who opened the door for Wang Heng stood right in front of him, nodded, and was about to speak. But at that moment, a little head poking out from the bedroom caught his attention.
That little girl, whom Wang Heng had seen just a few days ago, he of course still remembered—she was Lu Qi’s younger cousin, wasn’t she?
“Why is that child here with you?” Wang Heng asked in a low and quick voice.
Pei Ningle: “I’m tutoring her in her studies…”
Wang Heng was completely shocked: “You really dare to teach, huh!”
“What do you mean ‘really dare to teach’?” Pei Ningle was immediately unhappy. “I’m a high school graduate at least. Can’t I tutor a first-year junior high student?”
Behind the young girl, the little girl Fu Jiu said weakly, “Sister Xiao Le, I’m a middle school student, not a little kid…”
Pei Ningle: “You be quiet. We’re adults talking!”
Fu Jiu shut her mouth.
Wang Heng stared at the young girl in front of him and teased, “So what have you been tutoring her in?”
Pei Ningle: “Mathematics!”
Wang Heng: “Doing problems? Or explaining knowledge points?”
Pei Ningle: “Knowledge points!”
Wang Heng: “What knowledge points?”
Pei Ningle thought for a moment, turned her head to the little girl, and said, “Xiao Jiu, you tell him what I just taught you.”
Fu Jiu tugged at her little braid, racked her brains for a good while, and finally squeezed out two words: “Chord?”
Wang Heng burst out laughing with a “pfft.”
Pei Ningle: “…”
After laughing, Wang Heng sighed: “You should focus on preparing your arrangement. I’ll handle the tutoring.”
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Compared to tutoring Ye Xun, tutoring Fu Jiu was obviously much more difficult. But for Wang Heng, who already had quite a bit of experience, it wasn’t too challenging. In half an hour, he explained quite a few important knowledge points to this little girl.
Half an hour was already the limit; any more, and Fu Jiu couldn’t sit still at all.
So Wang Heng went to Pei Ningle and asked, “Did Peng Xiaoya tell you about the specific arrangement? Like when the rehearsal is?”
The young girl was holding a guitar at the moment. Hearing this, she looked up, thought for a bit, and said, “On stage ten days from now, go five days early to discuss with the band, rehearsal three days early.”
Wang Heng: “This time the schedule is much more relaxed.”
Pei Ningle smiled and said, “Of course! Oh, right, I just messaged Xiao Xuan too, but she has class today, so she can only come over on the weekend. She also said that her classmates all know she’s acting as an agent now, even the counselor specifically told her she can ask the school for leave before the next round of the competition starts, and the school will definitely approve it!”
Wang Heng: “Yeah, that’s pretty good…”
Pei Ningle blinked her big eyes and asked softly, “Your roommates have met me now, right? They should know too?”
Wang Heng shook his head: “No, not at all. These days, fewer and fewer people watch television. Your fame hasn’t reached that level yet. And unlike Xiao Xuan, I wasn’t on camera.”
“Oh, I see…” The young girl sighed, seeming a bit disappointed. “You don’t want to tell your roommates?”
Wang Heng: “It’s not that I don’t want to. I just like the feeling of keeping my skills and name deeply hidden, not liking to show off.”
Pei Ningle: “Not liking to show off?”
Wang Heng nodded firmly: “Exactly!”
Joking aside, in the first playthrough, when he was showing off the most and at the peak of his success, he had substantial relationships with boss Lu Qi and singer Pei Ningle almost at the same time, and Han Yixuan and Ye Xun were by his side… then he got cleaved.
Staying low-key is how you make big money—this life lesson learned with his life, how could he not engrave it in his heart?
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When Wang Heng returned to the dormitory, the scene before him stunned him.
He saw Tang Hexing sitting on the bed, holding a cotton swab in his right hand and hugging his little white cat in his left—the kitten was wriggling hard in his arms, showing none of its usual docile demeanor.
Wang Ke and Fu Hanwen stood nearby, each holding a mobile phone with the camera mode on.
“What are you guys doing?” Wang Heng couldn’t help shouting. “Filming cat videos?”
Fu Hanwen: “That term is spot on…”
Wang Heng hurried over in a few steps and held down Tang Hexing.
Then he said solemnly, “None of us are veterinary majors. Shoving a cotton swab in there—are you sure?”
Tang Hexing asked blankly in return, “Wasn’t that what you said?”
Wang Heng: “I’m not the president. You actually listened to me?”
Tang Hexing: “But you are Teacher Wang!”
Wang Heng sighed.
Because in the first playthrough, Han Yixuan had also kept a female cat that went into heat before spaying, so back then Wang Heng had looked it up with Han Yixuan on how to handle it. Shoving a cotton swab in wasn’t actually a particularly good choice.
“Cotton swabs can break off inside, and that would be real trouble,” Wang Heng explained. “Plus, they can cause infection. So if you’re not spaying her, better give her a massage instead.”
Tang Hexing looked bewildered: “How do you massage?”
“Like this…”
Wang Heng took the cat from his arms, first stroking along its soft back to calm it down.
After a while, the little white cat’s tail tilted to one side, and its hind paws pedaled back and forth…
So Wang Heng focused his efforts on massaging the area on its back near the tail, using techniques like kneading, rubbing, slicing, and pressing, dazzling the three otaku roommates.
Though Wang Heng had never used this technique on a cat before, it clearly worked great now.
“Meow… mm… meow…”
“That did it?”
As he asked casually, Tang Hexing bent down to pick up the little white cat. But the usually obedient kitten dodged its master’s hand this time and deliberately hid near Wang Heng’s feet.
Tang Hexing’s expression froze instantly.
Fu Hanwen, still holding his phone to film, murmured, “The legendary… right in front of the husband?”
Wang Ke: “And she switched sides?”
Tang Hexing pointed at Wang Heng, then looked down at the little white cat’s dazed eyes, full of shock: “Teacher Wang, I took you as a brother, and you NTR me!”
Wang Heng looked innocent: “You asked me to help, and it’s just a cat!”
Fu Hanwen and Wang Ke immediately burst out laughing.
Tang Hexing: “You’re still laughing? Still filming!”
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This chapter has been revised… what’s going on? Even cats won’t do?
