Rebirth: He Decides to Lie Flat
Chapter 420 - 420 415 Has She Gone Mad

Chapter 420: Chapter 415: Has She Gone Mad? Chapter 420: Chapter 415: Has She Gone Mad? Mu Jiawen was not actually born to the Song family’s third child and his spouse; this news spread after she made a book donation to Jianghai Middle School.

Initially, among their high school classmate group, after the principal publicly proposed to praise her, many classmates raised doubts, asking why Mu Jiawen changed her surname, wasn’t she a Song originally?

Song Xiaoli was her cousin, and regardless of how bad their actual relationship was, they were indeed related by the same grandmother, making them family by blood.

So someone asked Song Xiaoli about it.

Of course, Song Xiaoli was completely clueless, what did she know?

The discussion was fiery, with many people inquiring, but those who knew the truth—Yang Dan and Guan Jiao—kept their mouths shut tight, not revealing a thing. Eventually, a teacher heard a bit from the principal.

It turned out Mu Jiawen was not the Song family’s biological child; she was lost as a child and picked up by the Song family. But she had found her biological parents now, hence the surname change.

Everyone suddenly understood, no wonder the Song couple were not good to her, she wasn’t their own after all.

But when Song Xiaoli heard this, she was completely baffled; even her parents found it hard to believe, because Xie Jingying had indeed been pregnant with a second child years ago and had even fled to Yunzhou to rent a place to avoid the family planning policy.

If Mu Jiawen was picked up, then where did the second child that Xie Jingying and the third Song gave birth to go?

However, considering Mu Jiawen hadn’t come back since getting into university, the Song family partly believed it, though they still couldn’t completely unravel their doubts.

Song’s fourth child went to the old man and the old lady, hoping to ask the third Song what was the deal with Jiajia.

But as soon as the name was mentioned, old lady Song scolded him, “That heartless wretch, she caused her aunt to lose her job…”

Song’s fourth child could almost recite these words by heart, hearing them just annoyed him, so in the end, he didn’t ask further, let them do whatever, why should they care about the Song family not being united, just take care of their own household and that would be enough, why bother with other people’s business?

Therefore, even though there were plenty of rumors in the village later on, the Song family acted as if they hadn’t heard, not paying any attention to them.

With their own family uninterested in the truth, let alone strangers, even those gossips who wanted to know the truth didn’t dare to inquire, seeing how the third Song couple had become increasingly gloomy over the past two years.

So even now, Song Xiaoli was still confused, not knowing where exactly Mu Jiawen came from, was she really picked up as outsiders said?

Now that she had found her wealthy biological parents, she just discarded her foster parents like old shoes and stopped caring about them?

Thinking of how Mu Jiawen casually donated five hundred thousand yuan worth of books to the school, Song Xiaoli felt a pang of jealousy in her heart. Indeed, she was rich, half a million, ordinary people couldn’t earn that much in a lifetime, and here she was, giving it away to the school for free!

What does this tell you?

It shows that her biological parents are even richer!

Mu Jiawen didn’t even bother to pay attention to Song Xiaoli, as Jiang Yan wrapped his arm around her, bringing her close to him, as if to avoid getting touched by something dirty. He sneered, “Whether or not it’s true, what does it have to do with you? Modesty worries over those who can’t be bothered!”

Song Xiaoli was shocked by the arm Jiang Yan had around Mu Jiawen and momentarily forgot to retort, staring blankly as the two of them leaned closely together, until they walked far away, turned a corner, and disappeared from sight, only then did she snap back to reality.

They… they were actually together now?

Had Mu Jiawen gone crazy? Dating the son of a reformed criminal?

For a moment, she actually thought there was something wrong with Mu Jiawen’s brain. As a provincial top scholar, now with parents of extraordinary status, she was dating a boy from a family with issues, wasn’t that sabotaging her own future?

After these four words appeared in her mind, Song Xiaoli froze for a moment, then her lips curled up, revealing a sinister smile.

She turned around to go back and buy steamed buns, then quickly headed home.

As soon as she got home, she told her parents about encountering Mu Jiawen, and then she embellished the tale of how the two of them hugged and cuddled in the street in front of everyone. At last, she said, “Mom, do you think her biological parents would approve if they knew she was dating the son of a man who’s been in prison?”

“Approve? They should be thankful if they don’t break her legs.”

After Song Four Aunt finished speaking, she curled her lip, “No wonder that Jiang boy doesn’t come back to Old Lady Jiang’s place anymore, apparently he’s climbed up with that wretch Jiajia… Fourth Brother, what exactly do her biological parents do? They’re so rich. Your third brother has been fostering their daughter for so many years, why haven’t they given him a couple of hundred thousand?”

Song Fourth Brother’s head was still quite clear, he lifted his eyelids to take a glance at the mother and daughter, and scoffed, “Give a couple of hundred thousand? Have you forgotten how the third sibling and his spouse used to treat that girl? They almost sold her.”

Song Four Aunt lamented, “I bet they regret it now; if they had known her parents were so rich, they surely would have treasured her like an ancestor.”

“Alright already, don’t bring up that girl in front of the third again, careful or they might turn on you.”

After all, they had all seen the changes in Xie Jingying over the past two years, either she ignored people, or she looked at them with a chilling gaze, too frightening!

Especially that head of white hair, it felt like it turned white suddenly, as if she had seen a ghost.

And because of this, now nobody in the village dared to speak to her, they didn’t even dare to greet her when passing by.

Seeing that her mother was scared off by her father’s few words and didn’t dare to speak anymore, Song Xiaoli pursed her lips, pondering in her heart how to leak this news to Old Lady Jiang.

…

At the Xie Family, Mu Jiawen made up an excuse at breakfast, telling her uncle and aunt that she could no longer go to Jianghai.

When her aunt heard that she wasn’t going, she didn’t want to go either.

With only a few days off for May Day, she wanted to go to the driving school in the county to register and then find out about the test components, aiming to cover some of the content for the first subject during the remaining days and finish the other subjects during the summer break in order to get her driver’s license.

Since she had decided to learn, it was best to put it into action.

“I think for the first visit to see your Second Uncle, it should just be you, Big Sister, and Xiaolin, I don’t really need to go.”

Actually, that could make sense, since Song Third Uncle wasn’t going either.

But Xie Yanhai really wanted her to come along, “I already told my Big Brother that you were coming yesterday, and now if Jiajia doesn’t go, and you don’t either, how does that look?”

Li Yun frowned, and Xie Yanhai quickly said, “Alright, alright, you don’t have to go, you don’t go.”

The lady of the house hadn’t forgiven him yet, and he truly didn’t dare to provoke her further.

After finishing the meal, while Mu Jiawen and Jiang Yan went to the high school family quarters to visit Teacher Yu, Li Yun began to pack clothes for Xie Yanhai and Xie Lin at home.

Although she didn’t really want to deal with Xie Yanhai, if it meant he’d stop annoying her by getting out of her sight, she was very willing to do so.

And she didn’t even notice how her thinking had changed in just one day. Previously, when she couldn’t see Xie Yanhai, she would be full of worries and wild thoughts, but now that he was in front of her she wanted to kick him away.

With the father and son gone, she could finally enjoy some peace for a few days.

While she was contemplating this, the front door suddenly was knocked on, and then an old woman’s voice followed, “Is anybody home?”

Before Li Yun could go out, Xie Yanhai, who had just finished using the toilet, came out and looked toward the gate, where he saw Old Lady Jiang and Jiang Third Uncle standing. He asked in confusion, “Do you need something?”

He certainly recognized them, as they lived next door to Xie Jingying’s house and had seen each other numerous times before.

After he asked, he quickly realized – they were Jiang Yan’s grandmother and Third Uncle… so, were the two here to see Jiang Yan?