125 Dancing Together
“Senior, I can not only teach you combat, but I can also protect you in the future, protect you forever…”
In a standard rear naked choke position, Ye Xun wrapped herself around Wang Heng, whispering words that made him tremble with fear.
Then, the two were silent for a long time.
Wang Heng finally spoke up, “Um, I already know what a rear naked choke is. Can you let me go?”
Seeing that he still wouldn’t answer directly, the girl’s anxiety turned into dejection. She silently released her arms and stepped back.
Wang Heng turned to face Ye Xun and saw the annoyance and melancholy in her eyes, and couldn’t help but feel a little sorry for her. But he really couldn’t answer that question just now, otherwise it would feel like he was accepting her confession, which would be terrible.
He cleared his throat and changed the subject—this time, he had to learn his lesson and absolutely not lead to a dangerous development.
“I haven’t asked yet, how were your monthly exam results this time?”
Asking about studies, asking about exam results, this shouldn’t be risky anymore, right?
Ye Xun lowered her head and whispered, “First in the grade for English, tenth for Chinese, the others are average. And math, as expected, I didn’t pass.”
Wang Heng: “It seems the tutoring wasn’t very effective.”
Ye Xun suddenly raised her face and emphasized, “No, it was very good! Without your tutoring, my math score would definitely be much lower than it is now, and definitely further from the passing line! So I think I need more tutoring.”
“More?”
“Yeah, just Saturday isn’t enough. We should have tutoring on Sunday too.”
Wang Heng asked, “What about your time for hitting the punching bag to vent?”
Ye Xun hurriedly said, “We can do math tutoring in the morning and go to the martial arts gym in the afternoon. Or tutoring in the afternoon and go to the martial arts gym in the evening, either is fine!”
Wang Heng sighed, really not having the heart to say ‘no’ again.
So he nodded and added, “Alright then. You decide the tutoring time for Sunday. But one more thing, you don’t need to give me the tutoring fee anymore.”
Ye Xun blinked. “You don’t want money?”
“You’ve started teaching me combat, and I haven’t paid you tuition, so you don’t need to pay me either.”
Hearing Wang Heng say this, Ye Xun seemed to think of something, and her mood improved a little.
She smiled. “Then let’s continue training. What do you want to practice?”
Wang Heng immediately said, “Boxing. Boxing is better!”
**
Ye Xun returned home alone, put down her backpack, and the first thing she did was take a shower.
Standing under the showerhead, listening to the monotonous and repetitive sound of water, the girl couldn’t help but recall the scene of herself putting Wang Heng in a rear naked choke not long ago.
The first time she used a ground technique on a boy; the first time she was so close to the boy she liked. But with two joys superimposed, why… was the development different from what she had imagined?
Wang Heng seemed to be avoiding, dodging. Was there some danger chasing him?
Recalling the feeling of hugging his neck tightly, Ye Xun seemed to have an indescribable realization.
“He definitely doesn’t dislike me, but… he seems to be afraid of something?”
At this time, the shower was finished. Ye Xun turned off the hot water, wrapped herself in a bath towel, and walked into the bedroom.
Then, just as she put on her pajamas, she suddenly had a very reasonable guess.
The girl hurriedly sat at her desk, opened her diary, and picked up her fountain pen.
She hadn’t written in her diary for a long time. The last entry was the early morning when she dreamed of Wang Heng and realized her feelings many days ago.
Turning to a new page, the girl brewed for a moment and wrote:
【He doesn’t dislike me, but he seems to avoid me a little. Is it because he knows he can’t be with me? It doesn’t seem like social anxiety?】
Looking at these two questions, the answer in Ye Xun’s mind became clearer and clearer. And the more she thought about it, the more real it felt.
She continued to write:
【He acts chivalrously on the internet, punishing evil and promoting good. Twice, just saving me alone happened twice, so how many similar things has he done without me knowing? Across the internet, his identity is hard to expose, but what if? If his identity is exposed, what will those frenzied bad guys do to him?】
Combining these two paragraphs, Ye Xun could be sure that she had deduced the truth.
【So he actually likes me too, but in order not to bring danger to me, in order not to put me in a dangerous situation, he refuses.】
When writing this sentence, the girl’s cheeks felt slightly hot. After all, this seemed a bit too self-righteous, suspected of wishful thinking. But recalling the interaction in the martial arts gym during the day, recalling Wang Heng’s always hesitant eyes when looking at her, Ye Xun’s confidence became more and more sufficient.
However, there was still a considerable distance between not disliking and liking—the girl deliberately ignored the possibility that Wang Heng didn’t like her. After all, alone in a strange city, her father trapped in a bankruptcy lawsuit, she not only couldn’t help but also had to face heavy academic pressure. Under such circumstances, if she imagined the possibility that Wang Heng didn’t like her, how could she bear it psychologically?
So Wang Heng must like her, must!
【What does he think I will do? Retreat in the face of difficulties? Ridiculous. How can the word ‘give up’ exist in my dictionary!】
Today’s diary entry wasn’t long. After writing a mere two or three hundred words, Ye Xun capped her pen.
Gently blowing on the ink that hadn’t dried yet, she waited for a while, then slowly closed the notebook and placed the fountain pen in the cartoon puppy pen holder next to it.
That pen holder was the last small gift her mother gave her when she was still alive.
Gazing at the pen holder, Ye Xun murmured, “Mom, you will definitely bless me too, right?”
**
The first thing Wang Heng did when he returned to the dormitory was to carry the cage to the rooftop.
There was no one on the rooftop, so the hamster spoke up, “Why do you always pull this stunt? Can’t you be a little more creative?”
“Don’t give me that useless talk,” Wang Heng sneered. “First explain clearly, why did Ye Xun also go to that martial arts gym?”
The hamster looked up at the sky. “It’s normal. The combat industry in Rongdu isn’t very developed yet, and there aren’t many slightly professional martial arts gyms to begin with…”
Wang Heng: “Do you believe I’ll dance ‘New Treasure Island’ with this cage? The part with the fierce ghost slapping the door?”
The hamster immediately grabbed the cage. “I beg you, be human! Don’t blame me for every coincidence you encounter!”
“Heh, who else can I blame besides you?”
“You can’t blame randomly. This is clearly the effect of the worldline correction mechanism.”
Wang Heng sneered. “But you clearly knew this would happen, yet you didn’t warn me?”
The hamster: “…”
Wang Heng: “This blame is yours after all, right?”
The hamster whispered, “What if I told you, and you changed your mind and didn’t go to the martial arts gym?”
Wang Heng: “As expected, let’s dance ‘New Treasure Island’.”
“No!”
The hamster’s small face was full of panic, and its front teeth were exposed under its small red nostrils.
Then the next moment, the whole hamster was shaken into a blur…
