Chapter 289: Is This Considered A Self-injury Ploy?, 288
Wang Heng was no longer attending a financing signing ceremony for the first time.
Even if the extremely simple two occasions of his previous angel round for fof and Lu Qi investing in Anzhi Technology were not counted, there was at least still the A round financing for Little Orange Book. So for Wang Heng, there wasn’t much emotional fluctuation.
But after signing, he looked up and saw that the expression of the person next to him was quite excited.
This man, excited to the point of flushed face and shining eyes, was the primary founder of fof, Wei Kai.
However, putting himself in the other’s shoes, Wang Heng could easily understand the other’s emotions at this moment. After all, just one year ago, Wei Kai was still an ordinary graduate student; half a year ago, he was an entrepreneur on the verge of failure, without even his own salary.
And at this moment, he held millions in funds in hand, and the company had also found a promising development direction. Looking to the future, all he could see was brightness.
In this way, how could it not make one excited?
“One of the most important qualities of an entrepreneur is calmness. No matter how good the situation is, don’t get carried away, don’t get hot-headed.”
Wei Kai suddenly heard these two sentences and turned his head to look, only to see Wang Heng staring at him.
He immediately composed his expression: “President Wang, rest assured, I understand.”
At this time, President Du of Levi Capital came over, placing one hand on each of Wang Heng and Wei Kai’s shoulders, and laughed: “Tonight, I’m treating. Let’s go to a private club to play around?”
Wei Kai couldn’t help but feel tempted: “President Du, the club you’re talking about, is it that kind of…”
Du Zhengyang winked and gave a look, without further explanation.
Wang Heng waved: “I’ll pass.”
Du Zhengyang: “President Wang, you’re finally coming to the Imperial Capital once, how can we not entertain you properly?”
Wang Heng turned his head and glanced. Not far away, Han Yixuan and Lu Qi were both staring intently at him.
Du Zhengyang followed his gaze and immediately understood: “I see… Then we won’t disturb President Wang’s good time.”
Wei Kai laughed: “President Wang is very busy too.”
Wang Heng nodded: “Yes, I still need to experience shared bicycles today.”
Wei Kai was slightly stunned and quickly said: “How about I accompany you to take a look?”
Wang Heng: “No need, I just want to experience it as an ordinary consumer.”
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In the campus of Imperial Capital University, he found a yellow shared bicycle, unlocked it, and when he got on, Wang Heng suddenly had a feeling of dreaming back to the first playthrough.
Back when he was working under Lu Qi, his place was not far from the company, and he rode shared bicycles to and from work every day.
At this moment, he looked back and saw Lu Qi right behind him, also mounting a shared bicycle. And crucially, Lu Qi was no longer his superior or boss, but a partner in the enterprise, one with an even smaller shareholding proportion than the odd change in his own hands.
This was very comfortable. At least he would no longer be pinched by the economic lifeline and made to do this or that…
Besides Lu Qi, Han Yixuan and Shen Yexi also mounted the same shared bicycles.
“Let’s experience it a bit, ride from here to the school gate on the other side, how about that?”
As soon as Wang Heng finished speaking, Lu Qi and the two assistants all nodded.
So they started riding.
But not even a minute later, Wang Heng heard a girl’s scream from behind. He turned back for a glance and saw Han Yixuan had already fallen to the ground.
Wang Heng quickly stopped the bicycle by the roadside and hurried to the young girl’s side, asking: “What happened?”
“It’s been too long since I rode a bicycle,” Han Yixuan said, covering her right knee with both hands and gasping: “A bit rusty…”
Wang Heng patted the back of the young girl’s hand: “Let me see the wound.”
Han Yixuan slowly moved her hands away, revealing the glaring fresh red.
She was wearing a short skirt today, with bare legs and no protection at all. So with this fall, she naturally skinned her knee directly. In the fresh red wound, there were also a few tiny pebbles mixed in.
Wang Heng sighed: “Go to the hospital.”
Han Yixuan instinctively shook her head: “Such a small injury, no need to go to the hospital, right?”
Wang Heng: “Mm, I’ve had injuries like this before, washing it at home and spraying some alcohol was enough. But anyway, we don’t lack time now, going to the hospital is the most insurance.”
Han Yixuan obediently nodded.
At this time, Lu Qi suddenly asked: “Have you had injuries like this before?”
Wang Heng calmly explained: “Boys, playing ball or exercising and such, getting a little injured is normal… Little Han, can you get up now? We’ll help you back to the car.”
Watching Wang Heng help Han Yixuan up, Lu Qi stared at the two’s backs and narrowed her eyes.
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After simple debridement and suturing, Han Yixuan’s wound was considered handled, as the injury was really very minor.
But on the way back to the hotel, Wang Heng noticed that Han Yixuan’s mood seemed a bit low, remaining silent all the way back to her room.
Four people, in this rather upscale chain hotel, of course had four rooms. When Wang Heng entered his own room, he noticed a WeChat from Han Yixuan.
【Sorry, could I please trouble you to come over?】
Wang Heng hesitated for a moment and dismissed the idea of pulling Shen Yexi along. In his view, with Han Yixuan’s current mood, she most likely just needed some care and comfort due to being overly dejected.
The reason for her dejected mood wasn’t hard to guess; after all, a young girl who always prided herself on being intelligent and capable had fallen off a bicycle in less than two minutes—this was too embarrassing…
But when he walked into Han Yixuan’s room, he realized the situation was slightly different from what he had imagined.
Han Yixuan sat on the edge of the bed, staring at Wang Heng standing not far away, and said with a red face: “Actually, when I fell at the beginning, it was intentional.”
Wang Heng: “?”
Han Yixuan tugged at a strand of hair by her ear and said softly: “I originally wanted to deliberately tip over, then sit there pretending to have sprained my ankle, so you would help me up… But I didn’t control it well and actually fell for real.”
“Hoisted by my own petard,” Wang Heng sighed, “Then why are you telling me now?”
Han Yixuan bit her lower lip and said: “Because I feel very embarrassed, and going to the hospital wasted so much time, I’m very sorry…”
Wang Heng: “No need to apologize to me, after all, it was you who got hurt. Just remember not to cause this kind of blunder in the future.”
Han Yixuan nodded, glanced at the wound on her knee, but became even more sorrowful. When she lifted her face again, the young girl’s peach blossom eyes were already glistening with tears, appearing even more delicate and pitiful.
“I feel so stupid, it really hurts, I don’t even know if it will leave a scar…”
Wang Heng suddenly realized.
This girl had just confessed her bitter ploy, and now at this moment, she was launching a new wave of offensive?
No forceful throwing herself into his arms, no coercion at all, even directly revealing her motives and purpose. But in front of Wang Heng, her frankness made it exceptionally lethal.
It was like a little fox trying to scheme against you, but accidentally messing it up, hurting herself, then running to you pitifully licking her wounds… Had to admit, it had a unique charm.
Wang Heng thought for a moment and decided to use a handling method similar to that with Pei Ningle.
He took a step forward and reached out to touch Han Yixuan’s head.
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