Rebirth: He Decides to Lie Flat
Chapter 328 - 328 325 Are We Even Now

Chapter 328: Chapter 325 Are We Even Now? Chapter 328: Chapter 325 Are We Even Now? Zhu Jin turned her head and glared at him, “You did that on purpose, didn’t you?”

“I…”

Yu Hang had uttered only a single word when the door to the private room was pushed open from the inside, and everyone at the table turned their heads to look at them.

Zhu Jin rushed into the room, heading straight for Mu Jiawen, “Jiajia, he took advantage of me!”

Everyone: ???

Yu Hang: …

There was a collective silence as gazes swept back and forth between Yu Hang and Zhu Jin.

Normally, Zhu Jin gave the impression of a study fanatic and a strict student, but Mu Jiawen knew about her more unrestrained side, having learned it from novels that were quite rogueish. Every time Jiajia went to her, she would be taken advantage of, often getting her chest groped.

So when she now said that Yu Hang took advantage of her, you really couldn’t think of the word “advantage” in the normal way.

Mu Jiawen, looking at Yu Hang who had a red face and didn’t know how to explain, asked calmly, “Where did he touch you?”

Everyone: ???

Could they really just ask that?

“Hand.”

Everyone fell silent once again.

“Pfft!”

Xiao Qi was the first to burst into laughter, looking at Yu Hang who had just come in with obvious bad intentions. Just moments ago, he had been pretending to be embarrassed, and in the blink of an eye, he was touching someone’s hand. That’s so Yu Hang, always quicker in actions than words.

Jiang Yan and Zhu Zhen were curious about what had just happened outside? Why did Yu Hang touch Zhu Jin’s hand?

Of course, because they knew Yu Hang well enough, they knew that “touching the hand” was definitely not intentional.

Facing the inquisitive looks from the others, Yu Hang didn’t respond. He glanced at Zhu Jin and felt quite speechless. But at the same time, he found it quite funny.

After finishing their meal, they planned to go to the KTV next door to sing. Just as they were leaving, they happened to run into Deng Tao and her group.

Seeing Mu Jiawen and Jiang Yan among them, Deng Tao’s face changed instantly. She hastily turned and called to her companions to leave quickly, losing any desire to speak with Yu Hang.

Zhu Jin gave a cursory glance at Deng Tao’s retreating back, then turned to look at Yu Hang.

Yu Hang: …

He leaned in close to her and lowered his voice, “Why are you looking at me? Was everything I explained just now in vain?”

Zhu Jin snorted coldly, ignoring him, and turned to find Mu Jiawen.

Xiao Qi came up from behind, slung an arm around Yu Hang’s shoulder, and joked with a laugh, “Come clean with your bro, have you had your sights set on her for a while? I was wondering why the hell you wouldn’t let me chase her, talking about long-distance relationships and awkwardness, why bother with all that useless talk? Just say you want to chase her, right? Would your bro even compete with you?”

Yu Hang didn’t want to explain anymore; he realized that the more baseless the issue, the harder it was to explain clearly.

Forget it, whatever.

This was Mu Jiawen’s first time at KTV. She walked to the private room with her arm linked with Zhu Jin’s, curiously looking left and right along the way. Occasionally, when a room door opened, a deafening cacophony of screeching and howling would burst out, startling her.

Truth be told, she had never sung karaoke and wasn’t very good at it. Luckily, everyone understood her temperament and didn’t insist on her picking songs.

Wang Xiaole, Xiao Qi, and Xu Yan huddled in front of the computer to search for songs, while Zhu Jin and Mu Jiawen sat behind the coffee table on the sofa, cracking sunflower seeds.

“Grab me a bottle of soda.”

Mu Jiawen said to Zhu Jin while reaching for a bag of chips to open.

Zhu Jin had sunflower seeds in her mouth and nonchalantly shifted her butt to the left on the sofa. She raised her left arm to grab the bottle nearest to her. But… she grabbed a hand instead!

Following the arm up to its owner, Zhu Jin found Yu Hang looking at her calmly, “So now it’s you taking advantage of me, huh? Does this even things out?”

Jiang Yan and Zhu Zhen turned to look at the two and both cursed in their hearts, “This guy is really shameless as hell!”

They had a suspicion that Yu Hang must have quickly reached for that bottle of soda when Zhu Jin stretched out her hand.

Mu Jiawen turned her head towards Zhu Jin and blinked.

Expressionless, Zhu Jin’s hand remained on top of Yu Hang’s without retracting it. In the summer heat, they were both wearing short sleeves and sitting very close; when their arms touched, it sent a shiver down Yu Hang’s spine.

But the shivering did not stop there; it wasn’t just inside his heart but also his flesh.

Zhu Jin pinched the skin on the back of his hand with two fingers, twisting it like turning a knob to a painful one hundred and eighty degrees, making him grimace and hurry to withdraw his hand.

But Zhu Jin didn’t let go and asked him, “Does that even the score?”

Jiang Yan and Zhu Zhen couldn’t help but laugh wickedly on the side.

“Not even, not even…”

Yu Hang, in pain, quickly grabbed Zhu Jin’s hand with his other one, pleading, “My bad, can you let go please?”

Zhu Jin loosened her grip and let go of him with a cold snort.

Yu Hang quickly rubbed his hand and shifted his butt a little closer to Jiang Yan, muttering under his breath, “She’s really fierce.”

Zhu Zhen said to him, “You had it coming. Wasn’t it enough to take advantage once? You had to do it a second time?” He felt that before long, he was going to end up as the third wheel.

Yu Hang opened his mouth to say he was just caught up in the moment, but didn’t expect her to pull such a move.

What was strange, however, was that after these two incidents, the awkward air that had lingered between them seemed to have dissipated. Now, when they sat together, even butt to butt, the airflow between them felt smoother than before.

…

The next day, Jiang Yan and Mu Jiawen left Yunzhou to return to Beijing.

Before leaving, they went to see Song Qingping and Huang Kai, then made a trip back to the city’s No. 1 Middle School, which took up half a day. By the time they got back to Beijing, it was already eight o’clock in the evening.

If it weren’t for some urgent business at the electronics factory the next day, Jiang Yan had really not wanted to rush back, and he still hadn’t made good on his promise to take Jiajia out.

Half a month flew by, and the time came to mid-August. The summer vacation was about to end.

Mu Jiawen had been following her mother in the art gallery during this time. Her traditional Chinese painting and sketching had improved considerably, and she had sold quite a few pieces.

Jiang Yan, on the other hand, had been running between the electronics factory and the game company. He hadn’t had much time for the specialty store and had mostly left it to Jing Junyang to manage. As for the repair shop, it was out of the question; he only headed there in the evening when Xiaotie was completely unable to resolve a problem.

On the 17th of August, Xiaotie went to the electronics factory to pick up components as per Jiang Yan’s request.

As usual, he first observed and learned assembly in the workshop before driving away with the components.

With a “thunderous” boom, the overcast and sultry sky finally broke open, pouring out a torrential rain.

“Xiaotie, when I came over just now, I found the road by the river fenced off. There might be a situation, so take a detour through Mao Mountain,” the security guard familiar with Xiaotie shouted at him as he left, reminding him to drive slowly and be safe in the rainy weather.

Xiaotie was now driving Jiang Yan’s Great Wall; his previous van was no match for it—this one was so nice to drive it could take off.

He took the main road from the front of the factory and circled around to the Mao Mountain road.

Perhaps because of the overcast weather, there were quite a few people who had gone to climb Mao Mountain. At this moment, they were coming down in groups, each soaked like drowned rats.

The windshield wipers moved back and forth frequently. Driving slowly, Xiaotie casually glanced towards the pedestrian walkway on the side of the road ahead and spotted a familiar figure hurrying forward while soaking wet, desperately trying to avoid the man following closely behind…