273 Please Look at Me
“Little Xuan and you are not lovers, I know this, and you also know that I know, right?”
After speaking, Pei Ningle raised her face and stared straight at him.
Wang Heng pretended to be calm. “Couples always break up and get back together…”
Pei Ningle shook her head seriously. “No, I mean, you have never really been in a relationship with Little Xuan. You don’t need to rush to say no, I don’t mean to blame you. I just want to say… well, you should be able to guess what I want to say.”
The corner of Wang Heng’s mouth twitched. “Are you learning Zen, speaking in riddles?”
Seeing that he was still trying to evade, Pei Ningle simply made it clear: “Brother Wang Heng, you don’t want to fall in love now, so you discussed with Little Xuan and asked her to act with you to push away other girls. Sister Lu was pushed away by you like this, Little Xun too, and me.”
Wang Heng: “…”
The topic had progressed to this extent, and playing dumb was no longer possible.
Pei Ningle finally said, “Just like Little Xun and Sister Lu, I like you. Of course, Little Xuan must be the same, maybe she likes you even more than I do.”
Wang Heng sighed. “Why do you have to say it?”
Pei Ningle pouted stubbornly. “Because I want to say it! Little Xuan can hold her breath, Lu Qi can act even better than her, but I don’t like this. I don’t like living life so complicatedly, I want it to be simpler. Because I am a very simple person!”
Wang Heng: “You…”
Pei Ningle subconsciously reached out her hand, but before touching him, she retracted her hand and touched the table knife resting on the dinner plate. This small movement made Wang Heng’s eyelids twitch.
Fortunately, the subsequent facts proved that it was really just an unconscious small movement. What she wanted to do and say had nothing to do with knives.
At least, not at this moment.
The girl hesitated for a few seconds and said, “I don’t know what you think of me, and… maybe you can say I am a very selfish person. I like you, but this has nothing to do with you.”
Wang Heng: “Nothing to do with me?”
Pei Ningle nodded, with an extremely solemn expression on her young face, which made Wang Heng opposite her feel a sense of dissonance.
In his impression, Pei Ningle had always been a girl who didn’t like to ponder real-world problems and didn’t like to invest too much energy in reality. Except for music, all the rights and wrongs in life would only make her feel troublesome, and she subconsciously wanted to escape. So focusing on things other than music and food like this moment, and trying to talk about feelings like an adult, was really rare for Pei Ningle.
The girl stared at him and said, “I understand, you don’t want to fall in love. So when I say I like you, this is not a confession.”
Wang Heng didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. “You said all this and it’s not called a confession?”
“Asking you to be my boyfriend, that’s a confession,” Pei Ningle argued seriously, “But when I say I like you, I’m just telling you that there is such a thing, that’s all.”
Wang Heng: “Okay… then, I know about this, and then?”
Pei Ningle took a deep breath, seeming to calm herself down as much as possible. After all, when she heard that Han Yixuan was going to be Wang Heng’s assistant and her own manager contract was to be replaced, she was pondering what to say at this moment.
What she had to do now was to speak out calmly, like a mature adult.
After a brief silence, the girl said, “If you and Little Xuan… no, I want to ask first, nothing will happen between you two, right?”
Wang Heng: “Probably not.”
Pei Ningle: “Probably?”
Wang Heng: “No one can guarantee what will happen in the future. I can only say that now I have absolutely no idea of falling in love, absolutely not.”
Pei Ningle: “Then I just want to ask you, can you…”
Seeing her tangled and hesitant look, Wang Heng couldn’t help but get nervous. “Can I what?”
Pei Ningle whispered, “Look at me.”
Wang Heng was a little baffled. “Now? I am looking at you.”
“I mean, can you look at me more in the future?” With every breath between words, the girl’s chest rose and fell, “I understand you will be very busy in the future, but can you act as my fan?”
Wang Heng: “Act as your fan? I am already your fan.”
Pei Ningle smiled sweetly. “Thank you, just like now. I don’t want to see you with other girls, I don’t want to see you ignore me, I don’t want… I want you to look at me.”
Wang Heng picked up the water glass and took a sip of lemon water as a cover.
The warm lemon water tasted sour when entering the throat, and after swallowing, it revealed a hint of sweetness in the aftertaste.
He said seemingly calmly, “Don’t worry, I will always pay attention to you. And as I said just now, whether it’s me or Little Xuan, when we are not busy, you can come to us to play.”
Pei Ningle: “Whatever about Little Xuan, I want to have more time with you.”
“I can only say I’ll try my best…” Wang Heng considered his answer, “Actually, this is the reason why I don’t plan to fall in love. I don’t want to spend too much time. The next few years are very important to me, and I have many things I want to do.”
The girl’s big eyes blinked, the stubbornness in her gaze remained. “Just right, I also have many things to do, many songs to write. But when you want to fall in love one day, can you tell me?”
Wang Heng nodded immediately. “Of course.”
Pei Ningle: “No hesitation at all? Feels a bit perfunctory…”
Wang Heng: “Stop it, hesitation or not doesn’t mean anything. Anyway, if I change my mind in the future, I will definitely tell you, okay?”
Pei Ningle nodded, but suddenly seemed to remember something and frowned. “But if you have already started dating someone at that time, then never tell me. I don’t want to hear that kind of thing.”
Wang Heng also frowned slightly and fell into deep thought.
What did this girl mean?
If he wanted to fall in love, tell her first. But if he had already started with someone else, then keep it from her… Was this encouraging him to two-time, encouraging him to be a scumbag?
No, no, no, with Pei Ningle’s brain circuit, there shouldn’t be such deep meaning hidden.
Wang Heng secretly warned himself not to think about things in the most optimistic way. Even if this girl liked him very much, if he really showed the characteristics of a scumbag, she should also leave sadly, right?
For everyone’s safety, it was best to maintain the status quo and keep a reasonable distance that was neither too close nor too far.
Coming back from his brief thoughts, Wang Heng noticed that the girl in front of him seemed to be a little lost in thought too…
What was she thinking?
