Chapter 94: 094 She’s Here, She’s Here
For his first worldline correction mission, Wang Heng stayed up all night.
In the first half of the night, he reported Liu Rong; in the second half, he made a record at the police station. After handling a series of matters, he took a ride to the nearest subway station, then boarded almost the earliest subway train and returned to school.
Entering the dormitory building and climbing the stairs, Wang Heng happened to run into three roommates heading downstairs for breakfast.
“Yo, Teacher Wang didn’t come back all night!” Fu Hanwen raised his eyebrows suggestively. “This time, you must have been playing with a girl all night, right?”
“Actually, it’s… never mind.”
Wang Heng had wanted to say “spent the night dealing with an old man,” but on second thought, that sounded even worse.
Tang Hexing said wistfully, “Next time, bring the girl to show us. For an experienced Teacher Wang to stay out all night, that girl must be something special.”
“If there really was a girl, I’d definitely bring her back for you to see, but last night I just went to an internet cafe to play games all night…”
Racking his increasingly drowsy mind, Wang Heng finally came up with what he thought was a reasonable excuse.
Fu Hanwen asked curiously, “Aren’t you not interested in games? You play too? Want to play together from now on?”
Wang Heng: “I’m very interested in games, I just don’t like playing together. I like single-player games.”
Fu Hanwen: “What single-player game is so fun that it kept you up all night?”
Wang Heng yawned and said, “Civilization. It felt like I only played a few rounds, and before I knew it, it was dawn.”
Wang Ke chimed in, “I’ve played that game too, it really is time-consuming… But Teacher Wang, there’s a compulsory course soon, aren’t you going?”
“You guys go ahead, I’m going back to catch up on sleep. Do you know how sleepy I am right now?”
And so, Wang Heng waved goodbye to his roommates and returned to the dormitory alone.
Then, he took off his jacket and long pants, climbed onto his bunk, and plunged headfirst into the pillow.
Before long, he fell asleep.
In his drowsiness, Wang Heng heard the notification sound from his mobile phone, but he didn’t want to look at the mobile phone screen anymore. So, naturally, he didn’t see the short message from Ye Xun right away.
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Another Advanced Mathematics Class. Fu Hanwen looked at the classmates around him who were buried in taking notes and felt that he was probably beyond hope.
It had only been a little over a month since the start of school, but the professor teaching Advanced Mathematics had already pushed the lecture progress to nearly halfway. Fu Hanwen realized that now, every word the professor said at the lectern—except for “class dismissed,” “roll call,” and “assign homework”—was basically incomprehensible to him.
Turning his head to look at his roommate beside him, he saw Wang Ke still listening seriously, nodding from time to time. Tang Hexing was holding Wang Heng’s notebook, comparing it with the lecture while looking thoughtful… Fu Hanwen couldn’t help but feel a bit collapsed.
Could it be that I’m the only slacker here? That can’t be possible, right?
After a good while, when the class dismissal bell finally rang, Fu Hanwen pulled his two roommates beside him and asked, “Are you guys keeping up?”
Wang Ke nodded. “It’s okay, he’s lecturing a bit fast, but it’s not that hard.”
Tang Hexing also nodded and said, “Teacher Wang’s notes are written very clearly. Even the parts the teacher didn’t explain well, you can understand by looking at what he wrote.”
Hearing his roommates say this, Fu Hanwen couldn’t help but tug at his hair. He couldn’t understand the professor’s lecture now, and he couldn’t understand Wang Heng’s notebook either. Thinking about it carefully, probably only the Canyon could ease his anxious mood…
At that moment, Class Monitor Sun Xing Si came over and asked, “Is Teacher Wang not here?”
Tang Hexing: “He’s sleeping in the dormitory. Why, do you need him for something?”
“It’s not me looking for him. There’s a girl at the doorway who said she asked at the administrative center about Classmate Wang Heng from our class and wants to find him.” Class Monitor Sun pointed to the classroom doorway, his tone also quite meaningful.
“A girl?” The three roommates immediately perked up.
Tang Hexing asked the question everyone cared about most: “Is the girl pretty?”
Class Monitor Sun could no longer suppress the smile on his face. “Just come out with me and see for yourself!”
Fu Hanwen: “Then what are we still standing around for!”
The three of them immediately stood up and followed Class Monitor Sun out of the classroom.
Sure enough, it was a very pretty girl. She didn’t look like a university student, more like a middle school student, but the orange flame-like ponytail at the back of her head seemed impossible to have in a middle school campus. And her shirt, knee-length skirt, and black mid-calf socks made her look even more like a young girl who walked out of a manga…
The three boys were immediately stunned.
In the end, Class Monitor Sun was the calmest and said politely, “Classmate Wang Heng didn’t come to this class; he’s in the dormitory, probably busy with something. But his skipping class is different from others—he’s the type who doesn’t need to attend lectures.”
Ye Xun blinked. “Doesn’t need to attend lectures?”
Facing this young girl, Sun Xing Si couldn’t help but think back to the social gathering a few days ago.
No wonder Wang Heng wasn’t interested in the girls at the social gathering; no wonder he hurried away as soon as they arrived at the KTV—turns out he really knows such a pretty girl!
Tsk tsk, she even came to the school to find him, and not only to his class, but she even found out his course schedule. How much time and effort did that take? Such persistence just to see him once—this charm, this approach, it’s simply astounding.
So, since Teacher Wang is so impressive, as a responsible class cadre, he couldn’t possibly hinder his classmate, right?
So Sun Xing Si continued to assist: “Didn’t you know? Classmate Wang Heng was spotted by Penguin Company and will go there on the weekend for a part-time job writing code. Although he’s a first year university student, his coding level is at a teacher level, so we all call him Teacher Wang. He’s really, really amazing…”
As for Wang Heng’s coding level, Sun Xing Si wasn’t clear on it. After all, it hadn’t been long since enrollment, and he hadn’t even mastered C language grammar yet, so he really couldn’t evaluate a programmer’s level. But no matter, the girl in front of him definitely knew even less about code, so hyping up his classmate a bit was naturally harmless.
After all, Sun Xing Si was a responsible class cadre with a strong awareness to support the scene for his classmate at key moments.
Hearing him say this, Ye Xun couldn’t help but feel curious too. “So he’s a genius too?”
Sun Xing Si: “Of course, didn’t he tell you?”
Ye Xun: “I haven’t met Classmate Wang Heng yet, how could I know?”
Sun Xing Si frowned, realizing that things weren’t quite like what he’d imagined earlier.
Hasn’t met him? Then why did this girl come?
The next moment, Fu Hanwen voiced the question stuck in Sun Xing Si’s mouth: “If you haven’t met him, then what are you looking for him for?”
Ye Xun cleared her throat and said solemnly, “He helped my family out big time, so I came specifically…”
Before the girl finished speaking, the minds of these four boys—Sun Xing Si, Fu Hanwen, Tang Hexing, and Wang Ke—simultaneously flashed with a phrase.
Great kindness goes without thanks, so it should be repaid with what for what again?
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Thanks to everyone for the recommendation ticket support, and thanks to the rewards from Classmates Si Zhai Zheng Qing Si, Si Fa Ju E Han, Lin Shi Xian Jun, GAx Dong, and Lin Xian Ge!
