081 The Cycle of Karma
The hamster climbed in through the window.
The hamster stared at the girl for a couple of seconds, then dropped a tiny piece of paper on the windowsill.
The hamster climbed out the window and ran away.
Pei Ningle sat on the sofa, watching blankly. It wasn’t until the hamster had climbed out the window that she came to her senses and quickly ran to the window. Looking down, she saw the little thing clinging to the cracks in the wall, nimbly sliding down.
“Did it come to deliver a letter?”
The girl muttered, picking up the small piece of paper on the windowsill. On it was written in fly-like tiny font: 【His shield is named Han Yixuan, but don’t be afraid. I’m optimistic about you. Good luck!】
“…Does this hamster understand human nature!” Pei Ningle slapped her head hard. “No, no, the key is this shield! Han Yixuan, I know the name, but then what?”
After a long moment of thought, the girl decisively opened her laptop and went to Renren.
This website was now very popular all over the country, recording many classmate relationships, and most of them were real names. To look up a person, this was undoubtedly the best choice.
“Han Yixuan, Han Yi… got it, it must be this one! She only has three special friends set: Zhao Ran, Song Xiaoxia… Wang Heng!”
Pei Ningle pumped her fist in a small celebration. Then, she began to look through Han Yixuan’s photo albums and various other updates.
The girl had to admit that the appearance of this suspected love rival gave her a strong sense of crisis. It was obvious that this girl’s appearance was more mature than her own, at least more like Wang Heng’s peer, a better match. And she also noticed that from a photo of her wearing a short-sleeved shirt in the summer, this Han Yixuan’s chest… had some substance.
Looking down at her own, which was still like a little junior high school girl’s, Pei Ningle was instantly dejected.
Although she had never been in a relationship, she had recently binged quite a lot of anime on Bilibili. From those anime heroines, it seemed that boys’ preference for this aspect was, the bigger the better?
Although there was also a strange group called “lolicons,” on second thought, Wang Heng didn’t seem to show that kind of preference…
Pei Ningle closed her laptop and ran to the bathroom.
Looking at herself in the mirror, at her large, bright eyes, delicate and exquisite features, and fair, youthful skin, the girl finally regained a lot of her confidence and secretly cheered herself on.
Suddenly, she had a strange idea.
“You can do it, you’ re no worse than anyone else! It’s just a different style. If he’s not a lolicon, then I’ll train him to be one!”
As for why that hamster understood human nature and why it took the initiative to assist her… for Pei Ningle, such temporarily incomprehensible questions were of course set aside for now.
“But there’s still a problem. What exactly is the relationship between Han Yixuan and him now? Are they really a couple?”
**
Wang Heng opened the third video Pei Ningle had posted on Bilibili and watched it silently.
He was not feeling good at this moment.
Pei Ningle had only dreamed of the first timeline’s memories after she realized she liked him, but Wang Heng was different. He remembered it all from the beginning.
He remembered seeing the girl’s post asking for help back then and letting her stay at his place. Later, he had witnessed her gradually gaining some fame and had promised that she could come to him anytime if she had difficulties in the future. Further on, there was that unexpected kidnapping, which had triggered the warning measures he had set up in advance, and then he had smoothly called the police to rescue her… After that, it was Pei Ningle who took the initiative to attack, making him fall step by step.
When he had personally rejected her just now, Wang Heng had not been without hesitation. It was just that thinking of the hidden danger of Han Yixuan and the vow to “resolutely not be a scumbag again,” he could only make such a decision.
After hanging up the phone, he was in a daze for a long time before opening the video Pei Ningle had posted on Bilibili.
The first video already had nearly twenty thousand views. The second and third videos had even more, breaking thirty thousand and fifty thousand respectively. Looking at the number of followers, it had also exceeded one thousand. It couldn’t be called a hit, but at least it was a start.
“Although I’m still very envious of that fifty percent…” he sighed. “Forget it. I’ll just tell her that we shouldn’t be too close in the future.”
Making such a decision was inevitably a little sad. But just as he was feeling sad alone, a new text message arrived.
Pei Ningle: 【I suddenly had another inspiration just now, so I don’t have time to deal with you. You can go and have fun with your girlfriend. Bye.】
Wang Heng breathed a sigh of relief.
He had been hesitating about what to do if Pei Ningle insisted on seeing his girlfriend in person before giving up. Of course, he could get through this hurdle by finding Han Yixuan, but that would undoubtedly be like drinking poison to quench his thirst. But besides her, it was hard to find a suitable shield.
And now, since this hurdle was removed, it was naturally for the best.
Wang Heng opened his editor and started to write code again.
He understood that his rejection of Pei Ningle would very likely lead to another intervention from the worldline’s correction mechanism. To prevent accidents, he should write that warning app as soon as possible and add a monitoring and alarm function.
Of course, it was best to keep a distance from the girls, but if they were to suffer irreversible harm because of it, that would be too terrible.
**
Pei Ningle had made up her mind.
Thinking about it carefully, her mother was right. She should first figure out the enemy’s situation. The current situation was that Wang Heng said he had a girlfriend, and the only suspicious target was Han Yixuan. But were they really a couple? Could it be that Wang Heng didn’t want to be in a relationship and had just made up an excuse to deceive her?
To determine the truth, Pei Ningle decided to play the role of a private detective and see the truth with her own eyes!
To see the truth more clearly, the girl first went to a nearby shopping mall and bought a pair of portable binoculars. Then, she walked into the subway station.
She had already found out which university Han Yixuan was at and the route to get there from the internet. The next thing to do was to find out where Han Yixuan’s dormitory was based on those bits and pieces of information. This was not a simple task, but Pei Ningle had confidence in herself.
And after really embarking on this path, the girl suddenly found that she quite liked the feeling of playing a detective to investigate the truth.
It was just that she didn’t notice that not far behind her, the hamster was watching her walk into the subway station.
The hamster didn’t follow her in. After all, the subway was not convenient for its movements. Besides, it didn’t need to follow to know what would happen at the University of Finance and Economics—it would just be a little delayed due to its limited authority.
This Spacetime Administrator squeezed a melon seed out of its cheek pouch and lamented as it ate, “Those who kill will be killed; those who follow others will eventually be followed by others. This is truly the cycle of karma, and retribution is swift.”
