Rebirth: He Decides to Lie Flat
Chapter 427 - 427 422 A Tense Night

Chapter 427: Chapter 422 A Tense Night Chapter 427: Chapter 422 A Tense Night Hong Jing held her cup and watched his retreating figure, her eyes flickering. This guy…

She turned her head to look at the blanket and pillow on the couch and pursed her lips.

Then she put down her cup, walked over to the blanket and stood there for about a minute, then bent down to place the pillow on top of the blanket before embracing them both and entering the bedroom.

Erdan was halfway through showering when he suddenly remembered he had forgotten to bring his pajamas. Not just that, he also hadn’t brought in the towel he’d dried on the balcony the day before.

With his head full of foam, Erdan stood dumbstruck under the shower head.

About ten minutes later, Erdan cracked open the bathroom door and bellowed, “Hong Jing…”

The bedroom door was unshut, and Hong Jing was sitting cross-legged on her bed listening to music when she heard Erdan’s shout and froze. Why was he shouting so loudly? Did he want me to bring out the blanket?

She hesitated, didn’t move, and didn’t respond to him.

Although it wasn’t particularly cold now, standing here freshly bathed with a wet body… Erdan couldn’t help but shiver.

After waiting a while with no response from outside, he had no choice but to raise his voice again and yell, “Hong Jing, grab me a sanitary pad.”

After shouting, he stood frozen, face flushing red as he realized what he had just said.

It was all Ding Yamin’s fault. In the afternoon, he had gone out to buy Guan Jiao sanitary pads, and on his return, he had complained to him. Why were there so many different types of sanitary pads? There were ones with wings, without wings, for nighttime, for daytime, thick, thin, ultra-thin, large, small, and even mini-sized. The most absurd one had a mint fragrance.

Listening to all that, Erdan was also staggered, as if a door to a new world had opened, which led to him mistakenly requesting a sanitary pad instead of a towel.

In a flustered rush, Erdan corrected himself, “Bring me the towel from the balcony.”

This time, footstep sounds finally came from outside. Hong Jing didn’t grab the bath towel, though, but approached the bathroom door and asked hesitantly, “What did you just say?”

Feeling guilty, Erdan touched his nose, “I, I said, can you help me get the bath towel from the balcony, and my pajamas are also hanging out there. Could you bring them for me too?”

So he was asking for a bath towel…

She thought so, how could she have possibly heard the word ‘sanitary pad’?

Relieved, Hong Jing quickly fetched the things he needed and handed them to him while she heard Erdan explanation again, “I came in in such a hurry, I really forgot.” It wasn’t intentional; after all, this kind of behavior could be seen as… cough, that was not his intention.

“Pfft!”

Hearing his stammering explanation, Hong Jing couldn’t help but laugh out loud, all of the tension from sitting on the bed waiting for him was gone.

But with a twinkle in her eye, she decided to tease him a bit, “Oh… You just forgot, huh?”

Erdan: …

He hurriedly dried off and got dressed inside, planning to go out and explain himself later.

But as soon as he put his worn clothes in the washing machine on the balcony and turned around, he noticed that his blanket was gone.

Erdan paused for two seconds, then his heart started pounding furiously.

He was 22 years old; could he not understand what this implied?

Erdan’s throat felt scratchy; he went to the dining table, picked up Hong Jing’s unfinished cup of water, and gulped it down in one go.

After drinking the cold water, his head cleared a lot, and he abruptly turned towards the door, putting on his coat from the rack, bending down to change his shoes, grabbed his keys, and left the apartment.

Hong Jing waited in the bedroom for a good while, not hearing him come inside, but eventually, she heard a loud ‘bang’ that sounded like a door closing.

She froze for a moment, then hastily got off the bed, put on her shoes, and briskly walked to the door, yanking open the bedroom door. But the place was empty; there was no one there.

Where’s Xiaotie?

Hong Jing got bewildered!

He couldn’t have… scared him off, could he?

Thinking of this possibility, Hong Jing’s eyes immediately reddened, and she turned to go back to the bedroom, slamming the bedroom door shut.

After a while, still sitting on the bed sulking, Hong Jing seemed to hear a squeak from outside. She froze again.

But this time, she didn’t go out to check and instead just sat cross-legged, staring at the bedroom door.

Before long, footsteps approached, and then with a “click,” the bedroom door opened, and Erdan stood at the doorway, looking at her somewhat awkwardly.

With emotions fluctuating, Hong Jing had lost the initial tension. She looked at him irritably, “Weren’t you gone? What are you coming back for?”

If you had to leave for something, at least tell me.

Erdan hadn’t expected Hong Jing to misunderstand. His face showed a bit of discomfort, but he still entered the bedroom and closed the door behind him. Then he walked over to her and pulled out a box from his sweatpants pocket.

Seeing clearly what it was, Hong Jing’s face flushed instantly, and she quickly lowered her head, not daring to look at Erdan.

Erdan cleared his throat hesitantly, “If you don’t want to…”

Hong Jing hurriedly looked up, stepped forward, and gave him a peck on the face, then gazed into his eyes and whispered softly, “You’re the one who’s scared right?”

It wasn’t about being scared, it was about… reluctance.

Honestly, up till now Erdan wasn’t very confident about their future, but his brother said he had been striving hard for it, and Hong Jing was sincere with him; under these circumstances, it wouldn’t make sense to always have the girl take the initiative, right?

She initiated the confession, and many of the intimate engagements that followed were mostly led by Hong Jing.

In this kind of situation, surely he couldn’t also expect her to take the lead? That would really be unmanly.

Anyway, she would graduate next year, and he had set his mind on her for life, so… what’s wrong with being crazy once?

Erdan wrapped his arms around her, fell onto the bed, and kissed her passionately…

They were woken up the next day by the incessant ringtone of a mobile phone in the living room. Erdan frowned, wondering which bastard was interrupting his sleep.

He didn’t want to get up at all, turned over with Hong Jing in his arms, and continued to sleep.

But the phone was relentless. The song “Good Luck Is Coming” played over and over again, as if determined not to stop unless he answered the call.

Hong Jing nudged him and whispered gently, “Go answer it.”

The two of them had been up until the early morning; it wasn’t that Erdan was particularly skilled, but due to the first time being so nervous, it was over quickly. Unwilling to leave it at that, they did it two more times before finally settling down, hence the reason for sleeping in until the sun was high in the sky and not wanting to get up.

“Hello? Who is it?”

Erdan threw on a pair of pants haphazardly, stepped out the door, picked up the mobile phone from the coffee table, and gruffly shouted.

“… Xiaotie bro, it’s me, Erdan.”

“Erdan?” Erdan exclaimed in surprise, “What do you want?”

Erdan was a neighbor from his hometown, a fourteen-year-old boy living behind his house. The last time he went back to Jianghai Town to burn paper money for his parents, he brought some things to Erdan’s family and entrusted his parents to keep an eye on his house, letting him know they could call if anything came up.

“Xiaotie bro, Sun Laizi has taken a liking to your house and wants to buy it. My dad told him you wouldn’t sell, but we think he’s not giving up. My dad’s worried he might pull something sneaky and wants you to come back to sort it out.”