Chapter 306: Equally Matched Opponents
He hadn’t even made a move yet, but Pei Ningle and Han Yixuan had already run off. This didn’t make Lu Qi very happy at all; instead, it made her secretly vigilant—was it that those two girls were plotting something again in secret?
Wang Heng suddenly asked, “Sister Lu, should we find a place to rest?”
Lu Qi shook her head: “I’m excited right now and don’t want to rest. How about we two play something even more thrilling?”
Although she needed to stay vigilant about those two girls’ plotting, since there was now a window for being alone, how could she waste it?
“Thrilling…” Wang Heng looked around and suddenly brightened up, “How about that one!”
Following his gaze, Lu Qi saw the go-kart track.
She had never played go-kart before and had only heard about it without much knowledge. But at this moment, a strong interest welled up spontaneously—perhaps because racing with an interesting person made it particularly interesting?
“I’m an old driver with a driver’s license,” Lu Qi patted his shoulder and teased, “Do you think you can beat me?”
Wang Heng shrugged: “Let’s give it a try.”
The two didn’t have to wait in line much and soon got in the cars. Sitting in the cars, wearing gloves and helmets, their faces were somewhat obscured. But when Lu Qi slightly turned her head toward him, Wang Heng of course knew exactly who she was staring at.
Suddenly, Lu Qi lifted the visor of her helmet and shouted loudly: “Come on, see if you can keep up with me, or if you can’t even catch my exhaust!”
She lowered the visor and stepped on the accelerator.
Wang Heng glanced at his mobile phone. No new messages, no missed calls, no support warnings. In other words, playing go-kart shouldn’t lead to any serious accidents.
Wang Heng relaxed and stomped hard on the accelerator.
Perhaps because the seats were exceptionally low, and he hadn’t driven for a long time, Wang Heng felt a very strong thrill right at startup. When turning the first corner, his heartbeat sped up even more.
As for Lu Qi, although it was her first time playing go-kart, she seemed to get the hang of it quickly. So when Wang Heng finally caught up behind her, he found he couldn’t overtake no matter what.
There were a few tourists on this winding track, but everyone was clearly not as into it as Wang Heng and Lu Qi. They were overtaken one after another, then watched as those two kept accelerating and decelerating, entering and exiting corners, grappling endlessly… Especially at the three consecutive hairpin turns, both cars seemed almost to drift, the roar of the engines and the intense friction of the tires resounding throughout the race track.
Of course, these cars’ top speed was only about fifty kilometers per hour, and with more curves than straights, it was almost impossible to accelerate to the max, so Wang Heng and Lu Qi’s actual speeds weren’t that fast.
However, both in their subjective feelings and in the eyes of the onlookers, those two were already racing quite intensely…
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Han Yixuan bought sanitary napkins for Pei Ningle, handed them to her, and only when waiting outside the women’s toilet did she finally have time to check the new messages on her mobile phone.
“Two people, playing go-kart?”
Looking at the short WeChat from Wang Heng, Han Yixuan breathed a sigh of relief. In her view, among the amusement park’s various entertainment projects, go-kart was perhaps the safest— of course, safest in the romantic sense.
By comparison, projects like the Ferris wheel were much more terrifying. Two people in a small space isolated from the outside world, rising high up, gazing romantically at the distant cityscape, and no matter what they did, they wouldn’t be disturbed by the outside… Unlike go-kart, which has only one seat; let alone holding hands, with helmets on, they couldn’t even see each other’s faces clearly, so there was naturally no romance at all.
After waiting a good while, Pei Ningle finally came out.
Han Yixuan observed her complexion and asked with concern: “How are you feeling now?”
Pei Ningle rubbed her lower abdomen: “It’s okay, not hurting much anymore.”
“It doesn’t hurt already?” Han Yixuan found it a bit unbelievable, “With your period and the roller coaster, you recovered this quickly?”
Pei Ningle tilted her head: “Well, what else? Should it hurt for a long time?”
After a moment of silence, Han Yixuan suddenly let out a long sigh: “People are really so different; sometimes, I really envy you…”
Pei Ningle scratched her head and smiled: “Nothing to envy. By the way, where are Wang Heng and Sister Lu?”
Han Yixuan casually pointed in the direction of the go-kart track: “They should be driving.”
Pei Ningle: “Then let’s go watch.”
The two young girls walked over there.
Arriving at the audience area by the track, they held onto the railing and observed. Although the driving tourists all wore helmets obscuring their faces, the two of them of course remembered what clothes Wang Heng and Lu Qi were wearing, so it wasn’t hard to recognize them.
Then Pei Ningle asked quietly: “The two going the fastest?”
Han Yixuan nodded gravely.
She suddenly realized a problem—compared to physical contact, sometimes spiritual communication seemed even more dangerous.
Looking at them now, Wang Heng and Lu Qi had a feeling of being evenly matched. This kind of no-holds-barred competition seemed to bring two people’s hearts closer than a mundane date.
After a while, Pei Ningle also sensed something off and asked in a low voice: “Xiao Xuan, Xiao Xuan, don’t you feel that the two of them like this seem… very… compatible?”
Han Yixuan neither confirmed nor denied it, but her peach blossom eyes seemed to turn into an unfathomably deep peach blossom pool, her gaze exceptionally profound.
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In the end, Wang Heng still didn’t win.
He did successfully overtake twice, but not long after, Lu Qi overtook back. After ten laps, Lu Qi crossed the finish line first.
Right behind Lu Qi, he stopped the car and got up to remove his helmet.
Then, Lu Qi came in front of him, put both hands on his shoulders, and shook hard.
Lu Qi pinched his shoulders and said happily: “It’s been a long time since I played so satisfyingly! Haha, both of us have quite the driving talent!”
Wang Heng: “Yeah…”
Lu Qi: “I originally thought as an old driver, shaking you off would be a piece of cake? But you stuck to me the whole way!”
Wang Heng: “Yeah, stuck pretty tight, really tight.”
“Let’s play again next time!”
After saying this, Lu Qi suddenly noticed the two young girls walking toward them from not far away, so she subtly let go and put her hands in the pockets of her long pants.
Wang Heng didn’t need to turn around; he guessed from the subtle change in Lu Qi’s expression that someone was coming up behind him.
So he took out his mobile phone and sent a text to Han Yixuan: 【Where are you?】
Han Yixuan: 【Turn around and look?】
Wang Heng obediently turned around and sure enough saw Han Yixuan and Pei Ningle. In that instant, his eyes showed thick surprise, as if from the heart.
This fleeting look of surprise made Han Yixuan feel much comforted—she could see he still cared so much about her.
And while showing this gaze, Wang Heng had his back to Lu Qi, so Lu Qi naturally felt no anomaly at all.
At this moment, Pei Ningle shouted: “It’s noon already; aren’t you hungry? Let’s go eat hot pot!”
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