Chapter 66: 066 Wait For Me, I’ll Do My Best..
Pei Ningle was very happy today.
In the evening, it was still bar resident singer time. After finishing this performance tonight, she not only got Yan Zitao’s two hundred yuan, but also got Teacher Zhao’s one thousand yuan.
This Teacher Zhao was an administrative teacher at Telecommunications Science and Technology University and one of the organizers of this welcome party. She was over forty years old, not particularly pretty, and her face always had a somewhat cold feeling, but she was very fond of Pei Ningle’s singing voice. After coming to the bar to listen to the young girl’s live performance, she gave one thousand yuan as a deposit and urged her to participate in the rehearsal on campus next week.
All at once, ten hundred-yuan bills—Pei Ningle had never received such high remuneration before—and this was just the deposit, only part of the total remuneration!
After leaving the bar, she didn’t go straight back to the rental room as usual, but called Wang Heng.
“Hey, where are you… I have something very very important to tell you! Don’t wait until tomorrow, you’ll know soon! Where should I go to find you… the sports field, right?”
After saying that, she hung up the phone and walked toward the campus.
Tonight, because Teacher Zhao came to watch, the performance started earlier than usual and ended even earlier, far from lights-out time. Although the sky was completely dark, there were still many students active on campus. Under the lights, people were playing basketball on the basketball court, football on the football field…
Pei Ningle arrived at the T-intersection in front of the sports field and saw Wang Heng standing under the streetlight waiting for her.
The young girl happily ran over and, without a word, stuffed an envelope into his hand.
Wang Heng opened the envelope in a daze, and then ten hundred-yuan bills fell into his palm, startling him.
“Where did you get this money?”
The young girl put her hands behind her back and pretended to be helpless: “Sigh, I originally wanted to keep it secret for a few more days, but I really couldn’t control my mouth… I received an invitation from your school to sing at your welcome party! So this one thousand yuan is the deposit. Teacher Zhao insisted on giving it, and I didn’t feel right refusing it, right?”
Wang Heng: “…Look at how smug you are.”
“Hee hee,” Pei Ningle laughed, “Anyway, the two thousand yuan I owed you, this clears half of it. After singing at the party, I’ll pay back the rest with interest!”
Wang Heng: “I didn’t ask you for interest.”
Pei Ningle: “Whether to give it is my business.”
Wang Heng said indifferently: “Alright, if you insist on giving it, it wouldn’t make sense for me not to take it. Besides this, is there anything else you came to find me for?”
The young girl shook her head.
“Then I’ll walk you back, let’s go.”
After saying that, Wang Heng walked out of the school with Pei Ningle.
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In September’s night, Rongdu hadn’t started cooling down yet, but Han Yixuan’s hands and feet were ice-cold.
On the train to Rongdu, that night, she had a dream. She couldn’t remember the other details of the dream, only that she saw Wang Heng and another petite cute girl.
That girl seemed… exactly like the girl with the binoculars right now! The only difference from the dream was that the unfamiliar girl and Wang Heng didn’t seem so intimate; she wasn’t holding his arm.
But just now, when the two met, the girl stuffed an envelope into Wang Heng’s hand. The thing in the envelope was money!
Of course Han Yixuan couldn’t see exactly how much it was, but it looked like definitely a lot.
“So that dream was really precognition…” Han Yixuan murmured, “What exactly is the relationship between these two? Why did she give him money?”
The two walked out of the school.
Han Yixuan silently followed behind and saw them arrive in a nearby residential area, stopping at the doorway of a residential building.
Then the girl reached out to pat Wang Heng’s head; this action really felt a bit intimate. But Wang Heng instinctively shrank his neck and dodged.
The girl didn’t seem to mind much, waved her hand, and entered the unit door.
Wang Heng turned and left.
Han Yixuan didn’t follow; she stood in the shadows of the building next to it, already with tears welling up.
The young girl remembered that day when she confessed to Wang Heng—how did he refuse?
He brought her to the doorway of that old house and then said something?
“Honestly, in these three high school years, the classmate I paid the most attention to was you. You ask if I ever liked you… it should be said not just liked, but a crush.”
“But the worst thing is, meeting the right person at the wrong age…”
“My dad is just an ordinary staff member, with average salary, and he divorced my mom long ago. This house was bought a few years ago, a second-hand house, not expensive, but my dad’s single salary has to support me and pay the mortgage, which is very tough.”
“So you understand, right? Whether I want to or not, I can’t date, and I don’t have the mind for it.”
Recalling that scene, recalling his heartfelt words, and then looking at Wang Heng’s dejected back under the streetlight now, Han Yixuan felt she finally understood him.
A mature man always has to learn to bow to reality.
Bow to reality, so he can’t be with the person he truly likes, because without financial conditions, he doesn’t even dare to date, and is more afraid of delaying his lover’s youth.
Bow to reality, so he can only compromise with someone he doesn’t like, exchanging for remuneration.
Why did that girl give him money? Does that even need asking? Love, dignity, even body, all have to become chips in a transaction!
“How much weight have you been carrying…” Han Yixuan was overcome with sadness and couldn’t help sobbing, “You’ve endured so much humiliation, but I didn’t understand at all, only knowing to confess lightly…”
Gradually, the tears dried, but the young girl felt even more heartbroken.
If a woman is forced to endure humiliation for family livelihood, how tragic is that?
So, if the genders are reversed? A boy who hasn’t graduated yet, trapped by money, even abandoning male dignity, tolerating it to please those rich lolis… how miserable is that life?
Putting herself in his shoes, her heart broke.
Han Yixuan wiped the remaining tear stains on her cheeks, clenched her fist tightly, squeezing the tear stains into her fist.
“Wait for me, I will definitely work hard! One day I will take out a check to let you know that whatever they give you, I can give the same!”
The young girl turned and left.
Compared to continuing to stalk Wang Heng, she felt that going back as soon as possible to improve herself and earn the first pot of gold was obviously more important.
But she didn’t notice that not far away, a hamster and a white cat were staring at her.
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The hamster clapped its little front paws: “Alright, we’ve finished all the sunflower seeds, time to go back.”
The white cat meowed curiously.
The hamster jumped up and patted the cat’s head: “Don’t daze, let’s go!”
The white cat meowed aggrievedly and obediently.
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Once, I was also a naive boy. Seeing the author begging for votes at the end of chapters, I cast disdainful looks at them…
Now, I’ve become the worldly version of myself that I disliked back then, bowing to you dear readers and shouting…
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