Rebirth: He Decides to Lie Flat
Chapter 190 - 190 187 With a Clear Conscience

Chapter 190: Chapter 187: With a Clear Conscience Chapter 190: Chapter 187: With a Clear Conscience Xia Shi and his mother were completely irrelevant to Song Jiawen, she even forgot about it by the afternoon.

But Xue Weisong used it as an excuse to invite her to dinner.

“Don’t you like mutton? A new mutton restaurant opened next to Jinkuaizi, I’ve been there once, their braised mutton is quite good. Let’s call Liang Yujun and the rest, add Shen Mengfei to the mix, just the six of us, no strangers, right?”

The two had been desk mates for some time, and Xue Weisong had gotten to know Song Jiawen a bit.

She was particularly annoyed by troublesome people and situations, only liked dining with familiar faces, and rejected others outright without any sense of guilt.

That’s why, even though they were classmates and desk mates, they weren’t especially close up to this point. It was particularly difficult to get close to her as she seemed to have a natural aversion to people, or perhaps to boys in particular.

This reminded Xue Weisong of a tall boy he had seen in the cafeteria during military training. She seemed very relaxed sitting with him, showing no resistance at all.

It was quite…enviable.

Therefore, the phrase “no strangers” meant he really hoped she would consider him a friend.

But to Song Jiawen, things were far simpler than Xue Weisong thought. Just like now, when she heard what he said, the “braised mutton” was far more important than the last sentence about “no strangers.”

The weather was getting colder lately, and eating mutton seemed like an excellent choice.

She took out her phone to send a message, “I’ll ask the other three.”

The phone was a gift from Yu Heng, a pink, glittering, trendy flip phone, which she had disliked for several days. She was secretly considering swapping her SIM card with Jiang Yan’s, using his blue bar phone while he used this sparkling flip phone.

Mm, he should get used to it quickly.

A few minutes later, she replied to Xue Weisong, “They agreed.”

Xue Weisong was very pleased.

After school, the six of them headed out together. Shen Mengfei, with his sharp eyes, spotted Xia Shi ahead of them, walking briskly, clearly in a hurry to meet someone.

He nudged Xue Weisong’s shoulder and then tilted his chin forward.

Xue Weisong shook his head; he had now learned from Song Jiawen to be indifferent, to ignore people and things that did not bring joy, avoiding unnecessary troubles for himself.

But Shen Mengfei leaned close and whispered, “I’m just worried we’ll run into her and her mom at the restaurant, that would totally kill the mood.”

If they did run into them, it would indeed be a mood killer.

But…

“Who cares, let’s just eat our meal and ignore them.”

Shen Mengfei gave him a look and said no more.

Luckily, once they left the school, Xia Shi’s direction was different from the one to the mutton restaurant they were headed to, and Shen Mengfei breathed a sigh of relief.

Once at the mutton restaurant, they took a round table inside. Xue Weisong ordered a large pot of braised mutton and, after asking Song Jiawen, also ordered stir-fried lamb blood and some vegetables, mentally noting which dishes she liked.

Suddenly, Ding Yuanyuan fixed her gaze on a four-person table not far from theirs, in the corner, and whispered, “Jiajia, look over there, isn’t that guy Jiang Yan’s roommate?”

Before Song Jiawen could turn her head, Sha Yali nodded and said, “That’s him, the guy who went down with Dai Lei to buy breakfast that morning. He’s the slick type.”

They were talking about Liu Wenhui, but Song Jiawen had already forgotten what he looked like, only remembering Dai Lei and Tian Xiaohui.

“Isn’t the girl sitting opposite him the one who suffered from acute gastroenteritis like Yujun?”

Ding Yuanyuan and Sha Yali found this pairing quite strange because the two didn’t seem to match at all, sticking out like a sore thumb.

Song Jiawen reminded the two, “Don’t keep staring at others.”

Meanwhile, Liu Wenhui in the corner was sending Jiang Yan a message: “Bro Jiang, your sister-in-law and two guys are eating at the mutton restaurant. Aren’t you going to do anything about it?” He had completely ignored the three people with Liang Yujun.

Jiang Yan was with Jing Junyang in the computer store, upgrading computers because the company hadn’t officially started yet. Jing Junyang had taken some orders to help with upgrading the computers of some seniors from their computer science majors.

Each upgrade wasn’t expensive; it was just to build good relationships.

Jing Junyang felt that Jiang Yan was giving him a lot of face. After all, it was a lot of effort for little money, but Jiang Yan took all the work without any hesitation.

What a bro!

The guy next to them was holding a computer basics book and matching the part names, and with nothing much to do, Jing Junyang simply took a small stool and sat down to teach him.

Even though his grades were nothing to brag about, barely passing each time, teaching the guy was still well within his abilities.

By the time Jiang Yan was done, it was already close to eight o’clock. Jing Junyang took the computer and left, and only then did Jiang Yan have time to check his phone.

Eating with two guys?

Jiang Yan raised his eyebrows, his first reaction was that it was impossible.

But after thinking it over, he still sent a message to Jiajia, “I just finished work and haven’t had dinner yet. Anyone to keep me company?”

About five minutes later, a new message came in: “Where do you want to go eat?”

Jiang Yan replied, “Let’s go to the mutton restaurant and have a bowl of mutton soup.”

Jiajia replied, “I’m at the library, now going downstairs towards the entrance.”

Jiang Yan: “I’ll come pick you up. Walk down the eastern main road.”

After sending the message, he told the other guy he was leaving and took off.

Jiang Yan hadn’t reached the library when he ran into Song Jiawen.

After she sat on the back seat and grabbed the hem of his clothes, Jiang Yan didn’t start driving immediately. Instead, he moved her hand down and put it into the pocket of his hoodie, so from the front, it looked as if Song Jiawen was hugging his waist.

“This way, your hands won’t be cold.”

Song Jiawen didn’t refuse. Her face was almost pressed against his back, her nose surrounded by a scent that was uniquely his, mixed with a faint smell of tobacco.

If this scene had happened before, she would have certainly leaned her head back in disgust, firmly refusing to smell that masculine hormone odor typical of boys on him.

But now, she slowly rested her forehead on his back, finding the scent oddly comforting. At the same time, her heart was beating noticeably faster in her chest…

Once they arrived, she didn’t get off right away; Jiang Yan with one leg on the ground, didn’t move either.

They maintained this position for about three minutes. Then Song Jiawen lifted her forehead from his back, withdrew her hands from his pocket, hopped off the bike, and urged, “Aren’t we going to eat? Let’s go.”

Jiang Yan watched her for two seconds, trying to confirm if she had any feelings for him now, but unfortunately, he couldn’t read anything from her cool face.

Fine then. She’s not even eighteen yet, no rush!

The two sat at a window table in the mutton restaurant, one eating, the other playing with a cell phone.

Song Jiawen was fiddling with two cell phones in her hands, and Jiang Yan occasionally glanced over, thinking to himself, “Go ahead and check, I have nothing to hide!”

After he finished eating, and they left the mutton restaurant, the blue bar phone in Jiang Yan’s pocket had turned into a shiny, small, pink flip phone.