Rebirth: He Decides to Lie Flat
Chapter 231 - 231 228 Death

Chapter 231: Chapter 228 Death Chapter 231: Chapter 228 Death “Bang!”

Accompanied by a loud explosion, a dark shadow flew into the air, followed by a thud as it fell, and then the shrill screeching of a car’s brakes. A small truck in the next lane couldn’t stop in time and ran directly over the shadow that had fallen from mid-air. The shaken truck driver drove a long distance before tremblingly turning the steering wheel to stop by the roadside.

“What happened? Why did they suddenly run onto the road?”

“You can’t blame me for this…”

Two drivers who did not understand the situation stopped their cars and came over to question the group, but their words fell on deaf ears to Jiang Yan and the others.

Jiang Yan pulled Jiajia into his arms, their eyes fixed on the woman in black in the middle of the national highway whose body had been disfigured from being hit and then run over.

It was Yu Xin!

She had crawled out of the car intending to hit Jiajia, but instead, she herself was struck and sent flying.

At this moment, she was dead through and through, her head twisted to one side, her face frozen in a mix of shock, unwillingness, and fear. Her arms and legs were twisted in irregular shapes, and her chest had been flattened by the wheels of the truck, with blood all underneath her, presenting a ghastly sight.

Yang Dan collapsed to the ground, her legs giving way; her face was deathly pale, and her whole body shook.

Mu Jiawen came to her senses and crouched down quickly to grab her hand, “Yang Dan, this is not your fault. She brought this on herself; you saved me…”

The second brother felt his scalp tingle and felt a bit nauseous. He averted his gaze and crouched to comfort Yang Dan as well, “We can all testify that this wasn’t your fault, don’t be afraid…” But could she not be afraid? Even as he spoke the words, they lacked conviction.

Not just them, the two taxi drivers who had come along were also staring in shock.

Soon, the sound of police sirens could be heard, and Yu Heng and Lin Fei arrived one after the other.

In addition to Ye Junqi and Yu Xin, there were two other men in the car that crashed. They were all once underlings of Ye Gaojun.

The kidnapping was carried out in haste and without detailed planning. Mainly because Mu Jiawen’s life was too regular; she barely left school from Monday to Friday, and she stayed home on weekends. It wasn’t easy to find her shopping outside with a classmate. With only two of them, Ye Junqi felt it was a rare opportunity and, ignoring another person’s advice, directed them to drag Mu Jiawen into the car on the side of the busy street.

As for why Yu Xin was with them…

Ye Gaojun’s underlings believed that the capture of Golden Brother and Pan Dalong was caused by Yu Xin, so when they saw her coming out of the police station, they kidnapped her that night.

They had her in the car because they initially planned to leave Beijing today and then find someone to sell Yu Xin to. But then, the little beggar who was watching Mu Jiawen called to say that the target was shopping in the city.

Ye Junqi had been harboring a grudge against Jiang Yan, but that guy was not easy to deal with. Now that they were leaving, wasn’t it perfect to capture Jiang Yan’s girlfriend to get back at him?

But none of them anticipated that an eighteen-year-old girl would prove so difficult to control.

No sooner had they gotten into the car and before they could tie her up, she immediately pounced on Yu Xin, who was in the car, and started fighting with her.

With limited space inside the car, besides the driver and Ye Junqi in the passenger seat, the other man couldn’t separate the two. Worried about being chased down by the police or her friends, he simply let them fight and didn’t bother to tie them up.

Who would have thought that when the car got on the national highway, that damn girl would suddenly pull out a bottle of something very irritating and start spraying it at them.

At first, she sprayed the man who had pulled her into the car in the back seat. Hearing the commotion, Ye Junqi turned his head to look back and got sprayed directly in the face.

The driver, not knowing what was happening, also turned his head and got sprayed as well.

On the national highway, blinding the driver was not a wise move, but if she hadn’t, she didn’t know where she would be taken.

Facing the unknown risks, she chose to gamble.

After spraying the driver, she immediately curled up with her head down between the seats, which could greatly reduce the impact of a car crash and protect her head.

It turned out she guessed right. Although there was still a car accident, the driver involuntarily lifted his foot off the accelerator once blinded, and instead stepped on the clutch.

As the speed decreased, she tucked in the gap was indeed the least impacted.

She just hadn’t expected that the first thing Yu Xin did after crawling out was still trying to kill her.

…

“Yang Dan, don’t go back to school today, come home with me,”

Mu Chenyan, who arrived later with the police, also eagerly invited her, “Good girl, you’ve been frightened today. Stay at my place for the night, and go back tomorrow.”

By then, Yang Dan’s complexion had improved a lot, especially after hearing that the other person was the one who had abandoned Jiajia all those years ago. Although she was still fearful of death, she also felt a hint of satisfaction.

Such an evil person deserved to die in a crash!

But even though she thought this way, whenever the image of that person’s death involuntarily appeared in her mind, she was still scared enough to shudder.

In the evening, she slept with Mu Jiawen and the two lay together. Yang Dan didn’t stop talking the moment she got into bed, “… our dormitory doesn’t have the facilities yours does, it’s still metal bunk beds, but it’s much better quality than Jianghai High School’s. The other five people in the room are quite easy to get along with, though one is a bit proud and doesn’t talk much. There’s also one who likes gossip and often asks me how much I earn from part-time jobs…”

“Yang Dan, you’re scared, aren’t you?”

Mu Jiawen interrupted her non-stop chatter, recognizing that Yang Dan was finding topics to avoid thinking about the day’s events.

She held her hand and whispered, “When I was three years old, I saw the auntie who tried to save me get her head split in two with a watermelon knife by those people…”

Yang Dan couldn’t help but widen her eyes and cover her mouth with her hand.

“You might never be able to imagine what it’s like to watch a face split in two right in front of your eyes…”

“Stop, Jiajia, stop talking,”

Yang Dan clung to her, finally understanding why Jiajia always had nightmares and why she sought a psychologist.

“Yang Dan, you should know that if it wasn’t for you today, I might have been the one lying in the middle of the national highway.”

For Yang Dan, this was even more unbearable, but with that thought, she suddenly felt that the twisted expression on Yu Xin’s face at the time of her death wasn’t so terrifying after all.

After all, compared to Jiajia’s life, it definitely was better that she was the one lying there.

“I’m much better now, Jiajia, let’s sleep; I’m not afraid anymore.”

“It’s normal to be scared. If you start having nightmares frequently or feel uncomfortable in your heart, you must tell me. My second brother knows a psychologist, and I can go with you once,”

“Okay, I understand. Actually, I’m quite brave. You don’t know, when I was a kid, we grew watermelons, and my dad would guard them at night to prevent theft. I went to bring him food, and when I saw the ghost lights over the graves next to our field, I wasn’t scared at all, I even wanted to go up close to have a look…”