088 Incomplete Information Game
After the last class on Monday morning ended, Wang Heng handed his textbook to Fu Hanwen beside him and said, “Please take this back and put it on my desk. Thanks.”
Fu Hanwen nodded in agreement.
Wang Ke, who was beside them, suddenly asked, “You haven’t been eating with us lately. What’s going on? Do you have a girlfriend?”
Wang Heng smiled and glossed over it. “No, I just like to try something new outside recently…”
Tang Hexing suddenly asked, “Is it because you earned your salary, so you’re going to eat delicious food?”
Wang Heng: “Yeah, I’ll go test the poison first. When I find a delicious restaurant, I’ll take you guys there, and it’ll be my treat.”
Of course, he couldn’t say that the reason he was eating off-campus was entirely because he had promised to accompany Pei Ningle. Before the welcome party, the two of them could still eat in the campus cafeteria, but after the scene where she called him “big brother” at the party, they could only go off-campus to eat. Sometimes Wang Heng didn’t have enough time, so he could only let Pei Ningle figure it out herself. As a result, the times he ate with his roommates were naturally much less than in the first few days of school.
Smiling and saying goodbye to his roommates, Wang Heng walked out of the teaching building, left the campus, and walked two blocks forward before he saw the petite girl wearing non-prescription glasses.
Wang Heng observed her expression and walked up to her.
Hmm, she looks normal, no signs of going yandere. And speaking of which, her yandere level was the mildest in the first timeline. Now in the second timeline, without the so-called worldline interference factors, with normal development, even if she falls for me, she won’t go yandere, right…
Pei Ningle put her hands behind her back, tilted her head, and asked, “What are we eating today?”
This glasses girl seems a bit moe?
But Wang Heng’s expression remained unchanged, like an old monk in meditation. “A new vegetarian restaurant opened nearby. Want to try it?”
The girl, whose wallet was already bulging, immediately shook her head. “Can we have some meat? I can treat you now!”
“Then you choose,” Wang Heng threw the difficult problem of what to eat back to her. “But let’s be clear first, hot pot and barbecue are out of the question. I have class this afternoon, not enough time.”
“Alright… let’s go there then. It definitely won’t take up your time!”
Pei Ningle chose a specialty snack shop next door.
The two went into the shop and ordered several different snacks. Then, sitting face to face waiting for the food to be served, the atmosphere between the two became slightly strange.
Pei Ningle couldn’t help but ask, “When did you start dating? Why didn’t I notice?”
Sure enough, the main topic is here!
Wang Heng braced himself but pretended to be nonchalant. “We had a good relationship in high school, and we’re in the same city for university. After reuniting a few days ago, we had a great time, so we just got together. Do you want me to bring her over so you can meet her?”
Pei Ningle quickly shook her head. “Forget it. I’m busy making music!”
The face of her love rival appeared in the girl’s mind.
That Han Yixuan should just be a shield, and she probably doesn’t know about me, right?
The love rival was Wang Heng’s high school classmate and is also in university, so they definitely have more in common—fortunately, I still have an advantage. I can use the excuse of ‘manager’.
Thinking of this, Pei Ningle said again, “After I finish the lyrics and music, I’ll have to trouble you to help me find a recording studio…”
**
After the last class of the morning ended, the other students went to lunch in twos and threes, but Han Yixuan was different from them.
The girl sat in her seat, deep in thought for a long time.
In the Introduction to Finance class just now, the professor mentioned the Nash Equilibrium and then went on to talk about game theory. She had heard of game theory before but didn’t have any specific understanding of it. However, hearing about it just now, she was deeply fascinated. Perhaps it was related to the dilemma she was facing now?
“Game theory, simply put, is making decisions in a complex environment to maximize benefits…”
Muttering to herself, the girl turned her notebook to a blank page and wrote five big characters: 【Ownership of Wang Heng】.
“First, it can be divided into cooperative games and non-cooperative games…”
Below 【Ownership of Wang Heng】, she wrote two characters separated by a long distance: 【Me】 and 【Enemy】.
Then, she wrote 【Non-cooperative Game】. After thinking for a moment, she added 【Zero-Sum Game】 behind it.
A cruel zero-sum game, where one party’s gain is necessarily the other party’s loss.
The girl continued to mutter to herself, “Then it can also be divided into complete information games and incomplete information… Hmm, I know her, she knows me, but she doesn’t know that I know her. I know more information than she does.”
Han Yixuan wrote down the words 【Incomplete Information Game】.
“Think about it again. What are the enemy’s advantages?”
【Closer distance】, 【Richer】, 【No embarrassment of rejected confession】—after writing down these three lines, Han Yixuan couldn’t help but frown.
No matter how you look at it, it seems the other party has more advantages? How can I play this?
“No, I also have advantages.”
Moving the pen tip up, the girl drew a circle around the words 【Incomplete Information Game】 for emphasis.
Then she continued to write down:
【Current strategy should be to expand the information advantage. Actively approach the enemy and obtain more information about her. In an incomplete information game, the most important thing is not how big the advantage is, but knowing yourself and knowing your enemy. As long as I know the enemy’s overall situation, I can find a strategy to weaken the opponent’s advantage.】
Capping her pen, Han Yixuan closed her notebook and took out her phone.
Then she wrote a text message to Pei Ningle:
【Little Le, are you free recently? As agreed yesterday, I want to treat you to dinner!】
Before sending the text message, Han Yixuan looked carefully at these two sentences and tried reading them silently.
“No problem. Using ‘oh’ at the end of the sentence is fine. It seems very friendly.”
Analysis complete, send.
**
“What ‘chaoshou’? Turns out it’s just wontons?” Pei Ningle stared at the small bowl in front of her and mumbled.
Wang Heng picked up a piece of glutinous rice cake and mocked, “You’ve been here for over a month, and you just found out?”
Pei Ningle took a bite and her eyes lit up. “Mmm! It tastes good!”
At this moment, the girl’s phone rang with a text message notification sound.
Pei Ningle put down her chopsticks and spoon, picked up her phone to look, and her face froze on the spot.
Wang Heng noticed something seemed wrong and asked, “Is there a problem?”
“No, nothing, hahaha…”
Pei Ningle put away her phone, secretly blaming herself—her acting skills were really too poor. It was just a text message from her love rival. Why did even her expression change? Fortunately, Wang Heng didn’t press further, otherwise she might have revealed more details that would make him suspicious, right?
The girl picked up her chopsticks again and stole a glance at the boy opposite her.
Hmm, very good. He’s looking down and eating his noodles. He shouldn’t be thinking too much…
However, the girl could never have guessed that the question Wang Heng was pondering at this moment was—what exactly did that hamster do? What’s going on with this girl Pei Ningle? Such clumsy acting has come out. What on earth is she thinking?
