Rebirth: He Decides to Lie Flat
Chapter 227 - 227 224 Initial Intention

Chapter 227: Chapter 224 Initial Intention Chapter 227: Chapter 224 Initial Intention A few days after that night, Lin Fei called Yu Heng to inform him that Ye Gaojun, the boss with the surname Ye in Mu Jiawen’s portrait, had been captured. He was Ye Junqi’s biological father.

Along with him, over a dozen human traffickers were netted, among whom were five nationally wanted murder suspects.

Additionally, near the outskirts of Kang City, close to Beijing, they discovered a prison-like cage underground where, astonishingly, over a hundred women and children were imprisoned…

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“How have you been sleeping lately?”

“I haven’t had a dream in three days.”

“So, should we celebrate that?”

Mu Jiawen turned her head, “How do you celebrate?”

Jiang Yan leaned against the railing, behind him was the most famous Golden Rooster Lake in Beijing University. However, by now the lake had already frozen over, and from a distance, an ice sculpture of a grand rooster with its head held high stood proudly on the surface of the lake, quite an imposing sight.

Not far behind it, two mandarin ducks were quietly touching heads at its feet.

It was said that the lake was originally called Mandarin Duck Lake, but due to the abundance of dating couples coming here, the school, irritated, renamed it to Golden Rooster Lake. They even placed an ice sculpture of a rooster in the center of the lake on purpose, as a reminder to the students of Beijing University — not every lake named Golden Rooster Lake necessarily contains a golden rooster; it could also house a white one.

Now with freezing cold weather, there were very few couples dating by the lake. If Jiang Yan and Mu Jiawen hadn’t passed by here after visiting an art exhibition at the academy, they wouldn’t have thought of entering the pavilion in the middle to look at the grand ice sculpture of the rooster.

Jiang Yan unbuttoned his coat and pulled Mu Jiawen into his embrace, wrapping her up with his arms. He leaned down to kiss her slightly chilly nose and whispered into her ear, “A kiss?”

Mu Jiawen’s face flushed red all of a sudden. She remembered what he said about five minutes the other day, which ended up being much longer than five minutes, seemingly endless.

“No, you’ll cheat.”

“How did I cheat?”

“Last time… you went overtime.”

“Overtime? You were the one who pressed up against me and didn’t move. If you don’t move and I don’t move, we’re just playing a sticking game, aren’t we?”

Mu Jiawen argued passionately, “Isn’t pressing close considered a kiss?”

As she spoke, she tilted her head and pecked his cheek, asking, “Isn’t that a kiss?”

Jiang Yan looked down at her, his eyes deepening. Noticing his intentions, Mu Jiawen quickly covered his mouth with both hands and leaned backward, “We already kissed. You can’t do it again. And don’t you sweet-talk me, claiming you’re celebrating but taking advantage of me. Do you think I’m an idiot?”

Jiang Yan: …

He pulled down her hands and corrected her seriously, “This kind of thing is mutual; there’s no such thing as one person taking advantage of another. If indeed someone is benefiting, it should be the passive party that does, because they exert less effort, don’t you think? So strictly speaking, the one who benefits is you.”

Mu Jiawen was stunned. Is… that so?

Then she snapped back to reality, glaring at him, “Nonsense! Deceiving! You think I’m a fool, don’t you?”

Tsk! The girl is getting harder to fool.

“Jiajia…”

Jiang Yan was about to coax her patiently when his phone in his pocket suddenly buzzed twice. He ignored it, continuing, “What if today I teach you…”

Buzz… Buzz…

Who the hell is this so inconsiderate?

“Answer it.”

Jiang Yan reached into his pocket with one hand and took out his phone. Seeing that the caller ID showed Jing Junyang, he answered irritably, “What’s up?”

Jing Junyang: …

“Am I interrupting something? Should I call back in five minutes?”

Your so-called good time is just five minutes!

“If you have something to say, say it.”

“If you have something to say, say it, right? Fine, Jiang Yan, have you fucking forgotten what’s happening today?”

Forgotten?

Jiang Yan couldn’t help but let out an “ah” noise and sheepishly smiled, “Sorry, I got held up by something. Are you guys already at Zero Degree? I’m just nearby the main gate, I’ll be there soon.”

Jing Junyang had arranged to discuss the company that evening with him, along with two other senior students from their final year, and also to introduce a genius senior from the computer science department. The meeting was scheduled for seven o’clock, and it was already twenty past seven.

After he hung up the phone, Mu Jiawen gave him a sidelong glance, “Close to the main gate? Arriving soon? There’s no bus service in the evening, and it takes at least twenty minutes to walk from here to the main gate. Don’t tell me you didn’t know.”

“What’s so important? Come on, let’s finish what we were doing before.”

“Go away…”

By the time Jiang Yan arrived at Zero Degree Cafe, it was already fifty minutes past seven.

“Finally here. I fucking thought you were cooped up in your dorm like you were on maternity leave…”

The moment Jing Junyang saw Jiang Yan he couldn’t help but want to curse, but before he could finish, he saw Mu Jiawen walking behind, head down. The words choked in his throat and he coughed several times in succession.

Mu Jiawen walked straight to a table at the back, ordered a fruit tea and cake, and then pulled out her superconductor teacher’s homework from her backpack and started working on it.

In their class, her homework was always used as a model, but her motivation for doing homework wasn’t due to this—it was simply because she liked it.

Otherwise, with so many majors to choose from, why would she have specifically chosen physics?

At the table next to Jiang Yan’s.

“Jiang Yan, this is Du Fan, our senior. He was recommended by the school for postgraduate studies during his junior year and now as a postgraduate second year, he’s been recommended for doctoral studies. When the company starts up after the new year, Du Fan will join us as well. That Taotao Net thing you mentioned before, I think we could look into it. Du Fan is also interested, and he has more experience with program design than we do.”

Jiang Yan touched his nose guiltily, that ‘what’s its name’, he had casually mentioned it when explaining a fantasy game to Jing Junyang, but he hadn’t expected this guy to actually remember it.

It had to be said, although Jing Junyang usually seemed a bit erratic, his eye for people and his business intuition were extremely sharp.

But…

Jiang Yan thought it over carefully. Taotao Net wouldn’t actually appear until the year after next, and by that time, they had already been researching for several years. And they were only starting now… What about starting now?

Jiang Yan felt he was being too obstinate. After all, after Taotao Net came out, didn’t a series of other online shopping platforms like Dongdong Net and other ‘nets’ emerge one after the other?

If they didn’t use the same name and made a few changes to the system, that would be it, wouldn’t it?

Since in this life, he had studied computer science, Jiang Yan spoke of the shopping websites that would emerge in a few years with great expertise, with technical jargon popping up one after another. He even surprised himself.

After talking about shopping websites and getting a bit carried away, he casually picked up his phone and started talking about the smart phones that would emerge in the future and the iPads that would be revamped from laptops. Then he continued, saying one needed a high-class mouse and a durable keyboard to play games…

The topic jumped all over the place, and at times, one had absolutely nothing to do with the previous. However, Jing Junyang and the others listened with rapt attention and weren’t the slightest bit confused or thought anything was amiss.

“Hold on, let me write that down!”

As Jiang Yan paused to quench his thirst, Du Fan quickly pulled out his notebook to organize the information. The other two senior students, Li Rang and You Chen, also picked parts they were interested in for a brief review. Then, they showed it to Jiang Yan to ask if there was anything he’d like to add.

Jiang Yan took the pen and filled in what was missing, thinking to himself that he might as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb. Since he knew which items would make money, wouldn’t it be foolish not to make good use of them?

If there was anything to blame, it was why he had been reborn.

But he was still a rather devoted person; even though he had changed the way he made money, his original intention had never changed. He still wanted to manage an art gallery for Jiajia.

Now, his goal was to help her open an art gallery and then help her manage it.