Rebirth: He Decides to Lie Flat
Chapter 149 - 149 146 I Quit

Chapter 149: Chapter 146: I Quit Chapter 149: Chapter 146: I Quit As soon as the first semester of senior year began, Jiang Yan transferred to their class. At that time, his grades were a mess, and he would often pester Song Jiawen to explain various problems to him.

But Jiajia wasn’t a very patient person and sometimes didn’t feel like explaining the simpler and more basic questions in detail to him.

At those times, aside from turning to his deskmate, Jiang Yan would occasionally seek her out.

In less than a year’s time, other than Song Jiawen who might not have noticed, Yang Dan and Jiang Yan’s deskmate were eyewitnesses to how Jiang Yan went from the very last in class, a drag on the class ranking, to gradually making his way into the top few.

Back then, the four of them were almost equal in their relationship, and Jiajia might have even been closer to her.

Being younger and also because of Song Xiaoli’s big mouth, they all knew that her parents were not good to her, and Yang Dan, who was two years older than her, naturally took very good care of her.

Latter on, Jiang Yan schemed and managed to move to the seat behind her, and then followed Jiawen to the No. 1 High School in the city, that was when Yang Dan should’ve clearly realized, what nearly equal relationship, it’s miles apart!

Even so, what could it hurt to greet her when she returned to her hometown?

But Yang Dan didn’t let it get her down for long, because starting from the 2nd, the business at the milk-tea shop where she worked picked up quite a lot thanks to her Mango Pomelo Sago and the half-priced second cup promotion.

Originally, there was only one employee in the shop, and now with her, there were only two, both of whom were incredibly busy throughout the entire holiday.

“Yang, you said before that you had other recipes that were also good. How about trying them out?”

After a rare moment to rest at noon, the female boss sat behind the cash register and said to Yang Dan with a smile, “Trying one new product or two is the same effort, so why don’t you work a little harder and test another one? That way you can better evaluate if your sales plan is really fitting, right?”

Yang Dan wasn’t dumb, she had come to her senses over these few busy days. Just yesterday, she made no less than three hundred cups of Mango Pomelo Sago, and it only stopped because they ran out of mangoes.

If there were commissions involved…

So when the boss said this, she didn’t make a sound.

Still too thin-skinned and hadn’t learned to say no.

It was at this moment that Jiang Yan and Song Jiawen walked into the milk-tea shop.

The female boss’s words at the door had already been overheard by the two, and seeing Yang Dan’s reaction, Jiang Yan guessed that she certainly hadn’t done what he’d suggested.

Song Jiawen didn’t know the details and Jiang Yan hadn’t told her about these matters before, but she could tell that Yang Dan wasn’t happy.

The female boss, seeing Yang Dan silent, wanted to coax her further, hoping she would naively produce two new products, but as she was about to speak, people entered the shop.

Thinking it was students coming in to buy milk tea, she didn’t pay attention.

It wasn’t until one of them—a girl who hadn’t placed an order—called Yang Dan outside that the boss lifted her head to look over at them. She didn’t give it much thought, assuming it was a schoolmate of Yang Dan’s who wanted to have a word with her.

It was only a short while later that the boy came back in and politely said to her, “Yang Dan has quit.”

What?

Quit?

The female boss was taken aback, sprung up from her seat, and asked the boy, “What? What did you just say?”

This was the busiest time for sales, how could she quit now?

The Mango Pomelo Sago was quite complicated to make, and the previous clumsy employee she had hired cheaply still hadn’t mastered it, yet Yang Dan had already gotten the hang of several of the milk tea varieties in her shop long ago.

When made by her hands, the same items tended to taste better.

In terms of making drinks, she truly had a gift, and she was also quick in her work—so much so that the sales these past few days had matched the total from the previous two months.

So how could she leave at a time like this?

“Boss, do you know why your shop wasn’t doing well before?”

With a smile that wasn’t quite a smile, Jiang Yan looked at her, tapping his fingers lightly on the counter, and said word by word, “Because you are unscrupulous!”

The female boss blinked guiltily but quickly regained her composure and said righteously, “Student, as a university student, you should speak with evidence and be a person of quality, do you understand?”

“Evidence? Offering you a new product and a sales plan, are those worth merely six hundred as a base salary? And what about her working like a dog in your shop? Is that free labor? What, do you have some life-saving debt to her, or what? Deserving her to work like this? If you want to exploit labor, be more clever about it. With these petty tricks, do you think everyone is a fool, and no one can see through you?”

At that moment, Song Jiawen walked in with Yang Dan and tossed something onto the counter with her hand.

It was Yang Dan’s apron.

Upon looking down and seeing it, the female boss started to feel a bit panicky.

But she didn’t show it on her face, still looking calm and collected as she said to Yang Dan, “Xiao Yang, don’t listen to your classmate’s nonsense. You have been working here for five days already, just push through for more than twenty days and you will get your salary. If you leave now, you will end up with nothing. Besides, part-time jobs for university students like you aren’t that easy to find. If you leave my shop, finding another place with such a good environment won’t be easy.”

“A good environment?”

Jiang Yan turned his head to look at the ordinary milk tea shop, where the walls were no longer that white, with no ceiling decorations and somewhat worn tables and chairs. He genuinely didn’t understand how she had the nerve to say that.

“Yes, a salary of six hundred isn’t high, but you aren’t full-time, right? Except for holidays, you can work at most four hours a day. For a part-time job, getting six hundred is already quite a lot.”

He had seen shameless people, but he had truly never seen someone this shameless. All that talk about the new product and the sales plan was completely ignored.

Yang Dan pursed her lips, raised her head to look at the female boss, and with the backing of Jiang Yan and Song Jiawen, the words she had been afraid to say before now came out, “Boss, in your eyes, am I a fool?”

Even at this juncture, the boss was still trying to fool her, so Jiang Yan was right—having such a boss, this shop wasn’t going to prosper.

“My initial request was very clear, to help out after school in the afternoon, with a two-dollar commission for every Mango Pomelo Sago sold. Not counting the sales plan I provided, just on this new product alone, you wouldn’t be at a loss, yet not only did you not agree, you lied to me. You… a person like you with no integrity, I’ll just consider these days of working here as lessons for myself. Keep the money, see if you can become a millionaire with it!”

Yang Dan really regretted not listening to Jiang Yan’s words now.

Working five days and not earning a penny, she felt extremely upset.

“Hey, Xiao Yang, we can negotiate again…”

The female boss tried desperately to retain her, but the three of them walked away without looking back.

“This is infuriating, what brazen kids…”

Stomping her foot in anger at the door, the female boss watched as another of her employees came over timidly and asked, “Bo-boss, I still don’t know how to make the Mango Pomelo Sago. What if someone orders it later?”

“You still don’t know how to make it? You’ve been watching her do it for days! You’re so stupid you might as well be dead… And why are you still standing there stupidly? Go back and try it out right now.”

“With so many steps, and Xiao Yang never really explained, always covering it up, plus her quick hands, it’s normal for me to not remember…”