Rebirth: He Decides to Lie Flat
Chapter 246 - 246 243 Enemies on a Narrow Road (3rd Update)

Chapter 246: Chapter 243: Enemies on a Narrow Road (3rd Update) Chapter 246: Chapter 243: Enemies on a Narrow Road (3rd Update) When Jiang Yan walked into the private room, Yu Hang and the others were engrossed in listening to Yin Shen speaking. The moment the door was pushed open, Yin Shen’s voice abruptly stopped, and both Yu Hang and Xiao Qi looked at him with a smile full of meaning.

Because Jiang Yan wasn’t one for bustling gatherings, Yu Hang didn’t invite others.

“What are you talking about? You’re laughing like a creep.”

Jiang Yan took off his jacket, hung it on a chair, grabbed a handful of sunflower seeds, and started cracking them while looking at the group.

Xiao Qi winked at him, “Heard you confessed your love to Jiawen?”

Jiang Yan looked at his mischievous expression and asked, “What are you trying to say?”

Xiao Qi raised a hand, thumb pointing backwards, “Next door, do you know who’s sitting there?”

“Who?”

“Your first love!”

Upon saying this, the three of them burst into boisterous laughter.

Jiang Yan was speechless, “My first love has only been one person, from ten years ago to now and even in the future, the original intention remains unaltered!”

“Eh!”

The others were so corny they started to rub their arms.

Jiang Yan turned to Yin Shen and asked, “What truth have you discovered?”

Jiang Yan pondered it was probably related to that Jingjing, but he truly had forgotten her, not remembering her at all.

“You’ve got some nerve, at the service area in August, didn’t you play a trick on me?”

Yin Shen grabbed a sunflower seed and threw it at him, which Jiang Yan deftly caught, looking innocent, “Don’t talk nonsense, how could I possibly trick you? What’s our relationship to each other?”

“Bah! Sweet talker, just deceive me. At the Experimental Middle School reunion last week, I went, and a lot of people were still asking about you…”

“Hey hey hey, that’s too much, what’s with this Experimental Middle School? Jiang Yan is from our City No. 1 High School, he was plucked from our school to go there. And asking, what’s there to ask? Could they attend your Experimental Middle School reunion? Ridiculous!”

Yu Hang glanced at Xiao Qi, “Why are you in such a hurry? Let Yin Shen finish speaking.”

“Right, let me finish, who is fighting over Jiang Yan with you? What’s so great about this broken toy to fight over?”

“Yin Shen…”

“I’ll continue,” Yin Shen said with a sly smile, “back then, wasn’t the love letter that Liao Chenyu wrote for Fan Jingjing stolen by you? No wonder I say you’re full of cunning tricks, when you gave it to Fan Jingjing, you didn’t mention who it was from, letting her think it was yours, only to have it torn up on the spot…”

“Brother Yan, you’re hopeless!” Xiao Qi laughed mischievously, “Clearly, she wasn’t into you.”

However, Jiang Yan completely ignored him and only looked at Yin Shen, asking, “What happened after?”

“After that? Of course, everyone thought it was a love letter from you, believing you wanted to pursue Fan Jingjing, and to this day, many people are still asking about it. Of course, it’s also because you got into Beijing University, otherwise people might say that a toad wants to eat a swan’s meat, that you’re not worthy of Fan Jingjing. Not like now, they’re saying you and Fan Jingjing are a perfect match.”

Normal, since people tend to be pragmatic and treat others differently based on their status, it’s not surprising.

“Pfft!” Xiao Qi snorted dismissively, “A perfect match? This Jingjing, can she compare to my sister Jiawen? Go where it’s cool and stay there.”

Thinking of Mu Jiawen, Yin Shen also admired Jiang Yan, for having encountered such a stunning beauty, and by stunning he didn’t just mean her looks, but also her intelligence and personality, which, in Yin Shen’s opinion, were exceptional.

However–

“Jiang Yan, why the hell did you tell Fan Jingjing that I wrote the love letter? Son of a bitch, you almost got your old man killed.”

Yin Shen was awkwardly embarrassed when he spoke of this, “Last week at the class reunion, Fan Jingjing was drunk. She confronted me and asked if the love letter you gave her was from me. Damn it, there were so many people looking on, I was utterly clueless and knew nothing. Luckily I had a stroke of inspiration and pointed to Liao Chenyu, said it was his letter. That bastard finally manned up and admitted it on the spot, else I really would have been unable to clear my name even if I jumped into the Yellow River.”

Ah, he remembered that.

Jiang Yan chuckled awkwardly and changed the subject, “So next door are Liao Chenyu and Fan Jingjing? Shouldn’t he be thanking you then? After all, you were the one who made this connection for him.”

“Do I care for his thanks?” Yin Shen curled his lip, “It won’t work out, Fan Jingjing would never fall for him.”

He tapped on the table and said, “Not to mention anything else, just the way Fan Jingjing changed her attitude toward you, that’s enough to show what a realistic person she is. Liao Chenyu, a community college student, would she fancy him? Impossible.”

Talking about it became uninteresting, and just as the waiter came in to serve dishes, they started to shoot the breeze about everything under the sun.

Yu Hang said to Yin Shen, “Kang City and Beijing are so close, why the hell can’t you make an effort to take the exam for Beijing University?”

“I’ll take the postgraduate entrance exam, you wait for me to make it to Beijing University.”

“Fine, then I’ll aim for Beijing University as well when I take the postgraduate exam.”

After downing two glasses of alcohol, Xiao Qi shouted, “Let’s meet at Beijing University in three years!”

Jiang Yan: …

We haven’t had that many drinks yet, have we?

He stood up and went around pouring out the alcohol from their glasses, replacing it all with plain water, “Wake up, I can’t send the three of you home alone.”

He knew Yin Shen couldn’t hold his liquor and kept giving him glasses of plain water until he felt better, then he and Xiao Qi supported each other to go out and relieve themselves.

Yu Hang leaned close to Jiang Yan and asked in a low voice, “Why do you think girls get mad out of nowhere?”

Jiang Yan knew who he was talking about and after thinking, he said, “It can’t be considered out of nowhere, can it? You said you went all the way there, and because we weren’t there, you turned around and left. Isn’t it normal for her to be angry?”

“I’ve already apologized to her over the phone for that, and she said it was fine, but on the day we came back from vacation, she didn’t say a word to me the whole way, just chatted with Zhu Zhen, treating me like I was invisible.”

Jiang Yan asked with a laugh, “Are you feeling uncomfortable inside?”

Yu Hang thought for a moment and shook his head, “Not really uncomfortable, just a bit awkward. I was thinking, maybe after the winter break ends and we go back to school, I just won’t go back with them?”

“Isn’t that unnecessary? You’re a grown man still holding a grudge against a girl? Over something this small, you won’t go back together, wouldn’t that make her feel even worse if she knew?”

Jiang Yan saw that Yu Hang hadn’t considered it from that angle and didn’t feel it was right to remind him, as it might make things even more difficult between them in the future.

He merely said, “Sometimes girls sulk and get moody, it’s all normal. Just be more understanding. After all, it’s just the few of us from Beijing, and if we don’t indulge her a bit, who will? When we go back, you should buy some snacks to sweeten her up.”

Yu Hang thought it over and agreed. It really wasn’t worth falling out over something so trivial. If they stopped seeing each other, it would be more awkward later, and their relationship would grow more distant and estranged.

Forget it, he’d be more generous, make a few more phone calls, take the initiative to talk more, and maybe things would ease up soon.

As they were talking, suddenly a tumult came from outside, and faintly, one of the voices sounded like Xiao Qi’s.

They looked at each other and stood up to walk outside.

At the end of the corridor outside the private room stood a crowd; Yin Shen was pulling Xiao Qi back, who was red-faced and thick-necked, yelling at the person opposite, “What the hell did you say? Say it again…”