Chapter 278: Upright In Conduct, Steady In Sitting, And Fearless In The Light, 277
While Ye Xun was sitting at the desk doing practice questions, she suddenly received a call from her father. And the first sentence she heard after picking up made the young girl stunned.
“Xiao Xun, I just ran into Wang Heng.”
After a few seconds of silence, Ye Xun still didn’t know what to say. Then her father on the other end continued:
“He transformed into an angel investor overnight, throwing out millions in a single day. To be honest, even when our family was at its best, I wouldn’t invest like that. I just asked him, and he said he was just an ordinary student last year who made his fortune trading stocks and Bitcoin. Do you think that’s believable?”
Ye Xun stared at the glowing desk lamp until the shape of the bulb left an afterimage in her vision.
Then the young girl said softly: “Why not believe it?”
Her father sighed: “It just feels too bizarre… Who makes tens of millions that easily? I’ve seen plenty of business prodigies, but this exaggerated is a first for me.”
Ye Xun: “So do you think he’s lying?”
Her father: “I think we could investigate…”
“Investigate? Why investigate?” Ye Xun interrupted, “Did he do anything wrong to our family? Why investigate him out of nowhere?”
She had originally been considering whether to tell her father about how Wang Heng had helped her out big time twice when they first met. But now it seemed she probably couldn’t say it. Otherwise, her father would definitely think it all too much of a coincidence, and his suspicions would deepen.
And now, to cover her own guilt, Ye Xun’s tone couldn’t help but become a bit irritable.
This startled her father a bit: “But he’s your tutor!”
Ye Xun: “Right, nothing happened besides him tutoring my studies, so why suspect him?”
Her father sighed: “Okay, Dad had a bit to drink today, my mind isn’t very clear, let’s talk later… Oh right, before the dinner party I saw his female assistant.”
Ye Xun raised an eyebrow: “Female assistant?”
“Yeah, he has two assistants, one male and one female. The male one is very capable, the female one is young and pretty, maybe still a university student, seemed like she didn’t do anything the whole time, and didn’t go to the dinner party afterward either…”
Listening to her father’s seemingly casual words, Ye Xun fell into contemplation.
The young and pretty female assistant by Wang Heng’s side—that role sounded just like Han Yixuan no matter how she heard it.
But thinking carefully, they were lovers to begin with, so having her as an assistant was totally normal, right?
However… Do Lu Qi and Pei Ningle know about this?
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That night in Magic City, for Wang Heng, was rather uneventful aside from dealing with Ye Xun’s father.
After the dinner party, Wang Heng returned to the hotel with Assistant Shen. Then he greeted Han Yixuan who had come downstairs to meet him, and they went upstairs together to rest in the room.
After one night, the three took an airplane out of Magic City back to Rongdu. After landing, they parted ways—it was now late August, time for school to start. Only Assistant Shen stayed in the office full-time; Wang Heng and Han Yixuan both had to return to school to continue classes.
When Wang Heng returned to the 414 dormitory, all his roommates were there, including Xiao Tang’s white cat.
As he placed his schoolbag on his seat and set down that hamster cage properly, he suddenly noticed an extra piece of paper on the desk.
It was the CET-4 grades, 610 points.
Picking up the palm-sized paper, he turned around and found his three roommates’ gazes all focused on him.
“Weren’t you cramming review too…” Fu Hanwen said wistfully, “Why is yours the only score like that?”
Wang Heng subconsciously asked: “What did you get?”
Fu Hanwen: “Over three hundred…”
At this point, Wang Ke suddenly reminded: “Xiao Fu and Xiao Tang both failed, Teacher Wang, don’t ask them for specifics, especially Xiao Tang. He just flew into a rage out of humiliation and wanted to hit me.”
That exaggerated?
Wang Heng looked at Tang Hexing.
Tang Hexing sighed and said self-deprecatingly: “Whatever, anyway I’m the true master of this dormitory—you can tell from the scores.”
Wang Heng still couldn’t help asking: “So what exactly did you get?”
Tang Hexing picked up his own grade sheet.
Wang Heng looked closely and saw the number after ‘Total Score’ was【414】, exactly matching the dormitory room number.
Wang Ke: “So Xiao Tang could’ve passed if he’d gotten just two more questions right…”
Tang Hexing: “Xiao Ke, shut up!”
At that moment, Wang Heng’s mobile phone ringtone rang. Hearing that familiar voice, his three roommates tacitly quieted down and all looked at him together.
While pulling out his phone, Wang Heng said with a wry smile: “It’s just a phone call, why are you all staring at me?”
Fu Hanwen: “We’re wondering which girl it is this time.”
“Who said it’s a girl!” After shouting that, Wang Heng looked at the caller ID—it was Ye Xun.
Then, under his roommates’ meaningful gazes, he walked to the balcony in silence and casually closed the door between the balcony and the dormitory interior.
He had to take this call away from them, or he didn’t know if his roommates would crowd over to eavesdrop and cheer.
After connecting the call, he heard Ye Xun’s voice with a hint of shyness: “I saw online that people are saying the CET-4 scores are out. Senior, have you seen your CET-4 score?”
Wang Heng: “Over six hundred, not bad. Thanks for your pre-exam tutoring.”
Ye Xun chuckled softly: “Haha, over six hundred should be a great score, right? And Senior, you did well on your own—my help was very small. Of course, if it did help, that’d be great.”
Wang Heng: “Uh-huh, very great…”
As his words fell, both ends of the call fell somewhat silent.
Wang Heng didn’t know the purpose of Ye Xun’s call and could only guess inwardly: Did her dad tell her about running into each other at that dinner party in Magic City? Did she want to ask something?
Suddenly, Ye Xun asked: “Does Senior still live in the dormitory now? Do your roommates know how rich you are these days?”
Wang Heng: “No need to tell them.”
Ye Xun: “Because you shouldn’t flaunt your wealth?”
Wang Heng: “Yeah, people hope their friends around them do well, but not too much better than themselves.”
Ye Xun: “Then why did you tell me…”
Wang Heng was immediately speechless.
Suddenly, the young girl asked again: “So does Senior have anything he doesn’t want others to know?”
Wang Heng: “What do you mean?”
Ye Xun: “Like, stuff you don’t want others investigating…”
Wang Heng immediately understood.
This must be her dad saying something—probably about investigating him. But Wang Heng did trade Bitcoin, did trade stocks, and the time he helped Qin Meng and Lu Qi trade involved a huge amount. Investigating from that angle, even if his privacy really leaked, he had nothing to worry about.
So Wang Heng said calmly: “No problem, I have a clear conscience and nothing to hide.”
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