Rebirth: He Decides to Lie Flat
Chapter 345 - 345 342 Bold Fabrication

Chapter 345: Chapter 342: Bold Fabrication Chapter 345: Chapter 342: Bold Fabrication Mu Jiawen was very polite when she greeted the Sixth Grandma, mentioning that her grandfather and Sixth Grandpa shared the same ancestor, which seemingly didn’t make them distant relatives by more than five generations.

So, they were quite closely related, right?

The tea house was rather noisy, and this Sixth Grandma spoke in a soft and slow manner, like a lady of high society, but Mu Jiawen had trouble hearing her clearly. Even when the lady introduced the three women and two men who came with her, Mu Jiawen couldn’t catch their names. She only knew that the woman in her thirties sitting closest to Sixth Grandma was her niece, apparently the daughter of her sister, and that she should call her “auntie.”

“Xiaosi, the young man who came back with you today, the one who looks a lot like your second uncle, is he his son?”

She was asking Wei Yue.

Mu Jiawen nodded, “Yes.”

“Didn’t your second aunt already divorce your second uncle? That Yu Xin is not his daughter, so how come suddenly there’s a son popping up? Where did he come from?”

The situation had unfolded so abruptly that it was not just outsiders who were taken aback—Yu Zexiao, the man in question, had barely managed to understand what had happened back then.

Of course, everyone else was still utterly confused.

Mu Jiawen too had heard just the beginning from her third brother and then, through a combination of guessing and speculation, she had barely pieced together a sensational story about something that happened after a drunken mishap, which she had just used to warn Jiang Yan.

But she definitely couldn’t say that to strangers.

After thinking for a moment, and recalling the romance novels she had read, she said to Sixth Grandma, “My cousin’s mother was my second uncle’s college classmate and also his first love. They were very close back in the day, but then Tan Min, my former second aunt, came between them, causing a big misunderstanding and their breakup. But at the time, my cousin’s mother didn’t realize she was pregnant…”

At this point, Mu Jiawen felt it necessary to explain to the elderly that customs abroad differ from those at home; what we consider openness is almost synonymous with what you would call conservatism. Therefore, having a child out of wedlock shouldn’t cast my cousin’s mother as too frivolous.

How should she put it?

Mu Jiawen agonized for two seconds, then continued, “You probably know, my second uncle is incredibly handsome; if he starts to seduce someone, who could resist? So the pregnancy, it really wasn’t my cousin’s mother’s fault. You could only say that she was unlucky to have been involved with my second uncle, and then tricked into bed by him…”

She was sure her version was fine, but Mu Jiawen couldn’t understand why Sixth Grandma and her niece were giving her strange looks.

The story was quite smooth, wasn’t it? Was there any flaw?

She blinked, turning to look at Jiang Yan.

Jiang Yan: …

It’s okay, keep making it up, be bold in your fiction!

Mu Jiawen felt reassured and turned back, affirming, “My cousin probably came into being that way.”

“Even though they’re more liberal overseas, having a child before marriage still suggests a lack of self-respect for the woman. No matter what, your second uncle wouldn’t have let that woman force herself on him, would he? It was still her choice, right?”

Mu Jiawen looked at the speaking aunt in surprise, thinking to herself, aren’t you just an outsider here to listen to the story? How can you speak with such emotion? What did my cousin’s mother ever do to offend you?

And besides, you interrupt me before I’ve even finished my story. Is that polite?

Considering this was a distant aunt, Mu Jiawen decided not to bother with her and instead turned to look at Sixth Grandma, asking, “Would you like to hear more?”

Sixth Grandma glanced at her niece, then turned back to Mu Jiawen with a smile, “Good girl, keep going. So, if this first love of your second uncle let her son come to find his real father, what is she planning herself? Is she looking to reunited with your second uncle and mend their broken relationship?”

A reunion for a shattered mirror?

This question was way beyond her expectations, she hadn’t even considered this possibility just a moment ago. After all, her second uncle and that person weren’t even lovers in the past, so what mirror was there to talk about mending?

Moreover, Wei Yue was already so grown up; there wasn’t a need to provide him with a complete family or anything like that, he probably didn’t need it either.

However, one could spin a story about it, but it would be overly melodramatic!

“That will depend on whether my second uncle can win him back. As you know, my second uncle has nothing but his good looks, and now, not everyone might find him attractive. Especially at his age, that face of his isn’t worth much.”

Chasing after a wife to the crematorium, that’s probably what this is all about.

Jiang Yan: …

You sure have the guts to say that, aren’t you afraid your second uncle will come over and beat you to death!

Yet, to everyone’s surprise, the sixth grandmother said with a smile, “You don’t understand, child. The Yu Family’s appearance is always valuable. Not to mention your second uncle, even your father— who can tell he’s over fifty? Besides, your second uncle has more than just a handsome face. Since he was young, he has been extremely talented in jade carving. It’s just that he is lazy and unwilling to work. If he were willing, casually carving a jade Guanyin or jade pendant wouldn’t leave him short of financial resources, would it?”

Jade carving?

Talented?

Is she talking about her second uncle, the good-for-nothing playboy?

Mu Jiawen was a bit disbelieving.

And right beside them, the sixth grandmother’s niece couldn’t help but chime in, “Xiaosi, why do I hear you belittling your second uncle in everything you say? Is it because your cousin told you something and you trust him and his mother more? But I think you should trust your second uncle. Have you never suspected why, after all these years, he never sought out his biological father, and why he came to find him now, all of a sudden?”

Mu Jiawen looked at her expressionlessly, thinking, who I trust is none of your damned business.

Yet she forcefully uttered three words from her mouth, “Why not?”

“Because he wanted money from your second uncle, obviously. Think about it, he’s in his early twenties now, needs to date, maybe even buy a house and get married—the time when he needs money the most. His mother letting him come back to the country to recognize your second uncle has an obvious purpose. But it’s normal for you at your young age not to think of this. That woman’s motivations are certainly not simple, and it would be best to advise your second uncle to be cautious. Recognizing his son is fine, but he must maintain the right balance and not just give them whatever they ask for. Otherwise, who knows? One day his son might drain all his assets. Then, he could just leave without a care after slapping his butt, and your second uncle would be abandoned.”

Mu Jiawen: …

How had she not thought of such a plot?

She couldn’t help but review all the novels she had read before in her mind and found that none matched what this aunt was describing.

Sheesh! This woman should be writing novels; what a waste—her imagination is richer than mine, and she can spin a tale even better!

Was the next line going to be something like, “A son not raised by your side will never truly be aligned with you, hoping for him to provide for you in your old age is nothing but a wild fantasy!”?

Were they misunderstanding her second uncle?

Emptied of wealth? What a stretch. Her second uncle, a wastrel who only thought of eating, playing, and never working for the rest of his life, would be lucky not to leech off her cousin for support, let alone give away his wealth. Does he even have any to give?

Reliant on that little bit of real estate he had placed under her older brother’s care?

Mu Jiawen guessed that her cousin wouldn’t even spare it a glance. After all, he was a genius in the field of physics, and his achievements were no less than her third brother’s; the wealth in his hands was probably several times more than her second uncle’s.