Chapter 303: Balancing For Support
Wang Heng didn’t return to the dormitory, but went back to his own house. For the past few days, except for going back to the dormitory to get textbooks and such, he had been staying here.
As soon as he entered the door, he sat on the sofa, staring fixedly at the cage on the coffee table.
Inside the cage, the hamster was licking the water dispenser.
“The text message and phone call just now were your doing.”
Wang Heng said this in a declarative tone, quite certain.
The hamster let go of the water dispenser’s small plastic tube, stared at him, and nodded: “Of course.”
Wang Heng said solemnly: “Thanks, that reminder at the time was very important.”
The hamster waved its paw: “Support, right? Providing you with vision, it’s what I should do, no need to thank me.”
“Let me change the water for you, Nongfu Spring.”
After saying that, Wang Heng took down the water dispenser, poured out the water inside, and cleaned it. Then, he opened another bottle of Nongfu Spring and refilled it.
The water dispenser for the hamster was very small, almost oval-shaped overall, and could be completely held in one palm, even a bit smaller than the hamster itself.
After filling it with fresh mineral water, Wang Heng hung the small water dispenser back on the cage—the water reservoir part outside the cage, with the plastic drinking tube extending inside.
The hamster came over, but before it could take a lick, it heard Wang Heng say again: “How about I help you out?”
It blinked its little eyes: “How do you help with drinking water?”
Wang Heng pinched the water dispenser and said: “Catch it with your mouth, I’ll help you drink more at once.”
The hamster sucked the small tube into its mouth.
Then Wang Heng squeezed it a little with some force.
He had already controlled his strength, but the water dispenser was filled too full, and the oval water storage part was a tiny bit softer than he had expected. So the water squeezed into the hamster’s mouth was more than anticipated…
In an instant, the hamster’s cheeks on both sides puffed up.
After a second, it turned into a mouse-shaped spray bottle, spraying onto the wood shavings and cotton in the cage.
“Pfft…” After spitting out the water that had been poured into its mouth, the hamster roared angrily, “Are you trying to choke me to death!”
Wang Heng gave an embarrassed smile: “Sorry, I used a bit too much force.”
Hamster: “Then could you trouble yourself to clean the cage for me, change the wood shavings and such, okay?”
Wang Heng readily agreed and was about to get to work when his mobile phone rang. He picked it up and saw it was a call from Pei Ningle.
He set down the cage and answered the phone: “Hello?”
Pei Ningle: “Brother, Xiao Xuan says you’re going out to play tomorrow, can you take me along?”
Less than half an hour after just getting back, she had already gotten the information from Han Yixuan?
Wang Heng secretly marveled at how quickly these two girls transmit information, and calmly said: “Of course, are you free tomorrow?”
Pei Ningle: “Yes, yes, yes!”
Although he couldn’t see her face over the phone, from her voice, Wang Heng could imagine her shouting while raising her hand.
“Okay then, get up early tomorrow morning and wait for my call. We’ll meet at the school gate… Oh right, are you still living in the apartment that Lu Qi rented to you?”
The young girl’s tone had some bewilderment: “Of course, where else could I live?”
Wang Heng reminded her: “But paparazzi have already photographed your place there. Although I handled that paparazzi and the photos didn’t get released, since people know the address now, isn’t it not safe anymore?”
Although his tone was very sincere, Wang Heng knew that the apartment where Pei Ningle was currently living basically had no risk of further exposure. After all, the only paparazzi who had photographed it seemed to have been scared out of his wits.
But of course Pei Ningle didn’t know the inside story, and after his reminder, she couldn’t help but panic a little.
The young girl hurriedly asked: “What should we do? Do I have to move again?”
Wang Heng said seriously: “I suggest moving. By the way, I just bought a house recently, right nearby too, and it’s quieter than that apartment building with fewer people, you might like it…”
“What, what?” Pei Ningle couldn’t help but exclaim in surprise, “You bought a house here too?”
Wang Heng: “That’s right.”
Pei Ningle: “Houses around here… Oh right, you’re a rich guy now, Big Boss, buying a house must be a piece of cake.”
Wang Heng: “So, want to come be my tenant?”
Pei Ningle said happily: “Yes, yes, of course!”
Wang Heng: “Then it’s settled?”
Pei Ningle: “Pinky promise, a hundred years, no take-backs!”
Wang Heng: “There are no hundred-year rental contracts, property rights for bought houses are only seventy years… And you’re not even asking about the rent?”
The young girl laughed: “Hehe, I don’t lack money either!”
Wang Heng: “Okay, I know you’re a star now.”
Pei Ningle thought for a moment and asked again: “So after we go out tomorrow, we’ll finalize this?”
Wang Heng thought for a moment and asked in return: “Do you want Lu Qi to know about this?”
Pei Ningle: “She’s my current landlord, if I move out, she’ll definitely know.”
Wang Heng: “No, I mean, do you want Lu Qi to know that your new place is my house?”
The young girl on the other end of the phone hesitated for a few seconds.
Then she said hesitantly: “It doesn’t seem necessary to tell Sister Lu… Can we keep it from her?”
Wang Heng laughed: “Of course we can. Just say Sister Xu helped you find the place, to eliminate the possibility of being targeted by paparazzi again.”
Proactively strategizing for the side lacking strategy—this was the balanced strategy in the Asura Field.
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After hanging up with Wang Heng, Pei Ningle immediately dialed Han Yixuan’s number.
The call connected, and Han Yixuan’s voice came from the mobile phone: “Xiao Le, how did it go?”
She had originally wanted to boast that she had become Wang Heng’s tenant—but when the words reached her mouth, the young girl realized a problem.
Wang Heng suggested keeping it from Lu Qi, so should she keep it from Han Yixuan too?
Even if not deliberately hiding it, there was no need to volunteer the information, right?
Thinking of this, Pei Ningle abruptly changed her words: “I… I asked Wang Heng, and he said we can all go together tomorrow.”
Han Yixuan immediately laughed: “Heh heh, I told you it would be fine. Actually, we didn’t even need to tell him ahead of time; tomorrow you just come with me, would he not welcome you?”
Pei Ningle also smiled: “I’m his nominal younger sister after all, of course he’ll welcome me.”
As she said this, the young girl felt a faint secret joy in her heart—they all didn’t know she was Wang Heng’s tenant. Moving into his house so quickly, could any other girl do that?
At this moment, Han Yixuan suddenly asked: “By the way, did he tell you what we’re doing tomorrow?”
Pei Ningle was stunned for a moment and couldn’t help asking back: “He didn’t tell you?”
Han Yixuan: “You don’t know either?”
Pei Ningle: “I didn’t ask!”
Han Yixuan: “…”
Pei Ningle: “…”
For a moment, both ends of the phone went silent.
After a while, Pei Ningle said softly: “I think, as long as it’s with him, anything is fine, right?”
Han Yixuan said faintly: “As long as we don’t go to KTV…”
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