107 Your Voice
“Sister Lu, relax. Leave it to me, okay?”
As Wang Heng said this, he was also faintly excited. He couldn’t help it. Thinking that in just one more month, Bitcoin would rise to its peak price of eight thousand yuan per coin, and the more than one hundred thousand yuan he and Lu Qi had invested together would become more than one million… This feeling of sudden wealth being within reach was really hard to calm down from.
Lu Qi on the other end of the line was obviously also a little excited, her breathing slightly heavier.
But after all, she was a programmer with a five-figure monthly income. Soon, Lu Qi’s voice calmed down. “Okay, you discovered this opportunity, so you decide when to cash out, but… hey, hey, hey, I just saw that the price of Bitcoin dropped by three percent again!”
Wang Heng: “It’s okay. Normal fluctuations.”
Lu Qi swallowed. “Alright, alright, I’ll listen to you. By the way, do you know the director of the investment department, Tan Meng?”
Wang Heng recalled carefully and remembered the investment elite who had spoken a few words to him that day.
“Is he the one with gold-rimmed glasses?”
Lu Qi: “Yes, that’s him. Tan Meng also bought Bitcoin yesterday. He spent more money than us, but he entered the market late, so he bought much fewer coins than us.”
Wang Heng: “It’s not too late to enter now. He can still make a lot.”
Lu Qi couldn’t help but ask again, “Are you sure?”
“Of course I’m sure! Sister Lu, is there anything else?”
“No…”
“Alright then, goodbye.”
Hanging up the phone, he put it away, turned on the faucet, and washed his face with cold water. He casually pulled a tissue, wiped the remaining water droplets from his face, and looked at himself in the mirror—hmm, still as calm as ever, flawless.
Then Wang Heng walked out of the restroom and returned to the seat opposite Ye Xun.
“How is it? Have you digested these exercises?”
The girl rubbed her forehead, looking a little troubled. “I seem to have forgotten the train of thought you just explained…”
Wang Heng sighed. “Then I’ll explain it again. Starting from where? The fifth problem on this page?”
Ye Xun suddenly had a flash of inspiration. “Wait a minute. Can I record what you say? That way it’ll be easier for me to review when I go back.”
“Sure.” As soon as the words of agreement left his mouth, Wang Heng had a faint premonition that something was wrong. But it was just recording the explanation of problems. What could be the big deal?
**
The tutoring session ended.
After saying goodbye to Wang Heng, Ye Xun ate dinner alone outside, then returned home, took a shower first, and changed into clean clothes.
After blow-drying her hair, she sat at her desk, staring at the blank notebook she had just taken out, lost in thought. Next to the notebook were the test papers she had done today—the total number of questions on these papers was not small, but Wang Heng had only selected a part of them for her, so she hadn’t actually done many problems.
But to make a notebook for wrong questions and copy all the problems onto it, the workload would be a bit large.
After thinking for a moment, Ye Xun came up with a solution.
She got a pair of scissors and cut out the problems on the test papers and the parts she got wrong, and pasted them into the notebook. Then, she solved the problems independently again, compared them with the correct answers, and copied them into the notebook if she was sure they were correct.
This workload wasn’t small either, but the efficiency was obviously much higher.
By the time she finished these tasks, the night was already quite deep. Looking out the window, many lights dotted the building opposite, and the faint smell of food drifted in. The girl wasn’t hungry at this moment, but she inevitably felt a little lonely.
At this time, she couldn’t help but recall Senior Wang Heng who had helped her with her studies in the afternoon. He was only one or two years older than her, just a freshman. But for some reason, this senior always had a maturity beyond his age…
Was it because he had saved her twice? She always felt particularly safe around him?
Thinking this, Ye Xun subconsciously picked up her phone and opened the recording.
“The key to this problem is the auxiliary line, and there’s more than one. First…”
The phone played the recording of Wang Heng explaining the problems in the afternoon, but Ye Xun didn’t carefully distinguish the specific content.
She was listening to the voice.
“Hmm… his voice is also very nice, very calm.”
Listening and listening, Ye Xun yawned.
The girl held her phone and fell onto the bed. Her head sinking into the fluffy and soft pillow made her sleepy very quickly.
Just like that, listening to Wang Heng’s voice, she gradually fell asleep.
But her sleep was not peaceful. Starting from some unknown time, she fell into a wondrous dream.
In the dream, she was a young lady from a fallen family, just like now, only her situation was even more miserable. She couldn’t even go to university and had to work in a martial arts gym right after graduating from high school. At the most difficult time in her life, she met Wang Heng.
The place and time were different from reality, but she still met Wang Heng. And this time, it was also he who solved the immediate problem, helped her pay off that deadly debt, and introduced her to a better job.
Compared to her combat skills, she was more confident in her English and communication skills, but suffering from a lack of academic qualifications, she could never get a chance. But with such an opportunity, she quickly grasped it firmly, and from then on began a counterattack in life… It was just that regarding the emotional line with Wang Heng, she hadn’t expected so many twists and turns.
The dream ended abruptly here.
Ye Xun suddenly woke up with a start and sat up. Turning to the right was the still-lit desk lamp; to the left, there was only her own shadow.
Looking down, the phone lay quietly, and the recordings of the problem explanations had long finished playing.
“So strange, this dream…” The girl murmured, covering her face with her hands. “Have I fallen for him?”
**
In dorm 414, lights-out time had long passed. Wang Heng lay in bed, sleeping soundly.
The little white cat in the dorm heard a slight movement, opened its eyes, and saw a small black shadow moving in that strange cage.
Its beastly instinct told it that such a tiny thing was weak; but its experience some time ago made it deeply aware that at least this tiny thing was different.
The little white cat closed its eyes, lay down properly, and pretended to be fast asleep.
In the dorm, the snores of the four boys rose and fell. Wang Heng and Fu Hanwen’s were the faintest, while Wang Ke was grinding his teeth and Tang Hexing was talking in his sleep, which was quite lively. The little white cat couldn’t understand a word of the sleep-talk mixed with names like “Misaka,” “Saber,” and “Shana.” It just felt that its owner’s voice made it feel very safe.
Suddenly, a long sigh drifted from that mysterious cage.
“The one who appeared later enters the scene first… Lu Qi, can you try a little harder…”
The little white cat twitched its ears, still not understanding the meaning of this sentence. It was just that the fact that the tiny thing could imitate human voices made it feel particularly terrified, and its SAN value(Sanity value) dropped a little more.
Didn’t hear it, didn’t hear anything, keep sleeping.
***
