Rebirth: He Decides to Lie Flat
Chapter 439 - 439 434 Suspicious Seal

Chapter 439: Chapter 434: Suspicious Seal Chapter 439: Chapter 434: Suspicious Seal Scanning the area, Dai Lei couldn’t help but feel his face heat up.

Gao Jie was even worse off, craning her neck to look elsewhere as if the water splashing from the fountain was more interesting.

He cleared his throat softly and leaned in to whisper to her, “Let’s go sit over there.”

Their current spot was indeed close to the fountain, but who the hell comes here just to look at water?

Their position was uncomfortable, with couples embracing each other all around, especially the guy to their left, who kept pecking his girlfriend on the face from time to time.

The youth of today really don’t care about public decency.

It made the two of them exceptionally awkward.

Gao Jie nodded slightly, following Dai Lei without letting her gaze waver, eager to leave behind the area that was making her blush and heart race.

The two found a quieter corner to sit down, idly chatting about dry, uninteresting topics while watching the fountain and the crowd in front of them.

Suddenly, Gao Jie’s eyes fixed on a point in the distance. She adjusted her glasses and a mocking smile tugged at her lips.

Bumping into her mom at dinner and now her? What are the odds?

“Who is that over there?” she asked.

Dai Lei followed her gesture, frowning slightly, and thought to himself, what rotten luck, bumping into these people wherever he went?

Not wanting to greet them, Dai Lei said, “Shall I take you home? I’m visiting my grandma tomorrow. I will call you the day after.”

They both got up and walked out from the other side.

By the time Dai Lei got home, it was only half past eight.

Ji Bin, having been waiting at his house, was surprised to see him return so early and his eyes widened, “Damn bro, you… didn’t seal the deal?”

Seated on the couch watching TV, Dai Lei’s parents also turned to look, their eyes filled with curiosity and gossip.

While their son was their pride, no doubt, sometimes he gave them little sense of achievement.

He was at an age that even dogs found unsuitable for avoidance, didn’t rebel at an age of rebellion, didn’t fall into early love during adolescence, didn’t need prodding over his studies, didn’t require a tutor at home.

Moreover, every parent-teacher meeting, they were treated with great courtesy by the teachers as if they were VIPs, and other parents would hurry to get their contact information, eager to learn their educational methods.

What educational methods?

Dai Lei’s father was a mechanical engineer and his mother an accountant, both regular working folks with nine-to-five jobs, too busy to manage him beyond the normal daily school runs.

As for caring about his studies, his father only spent evenings with him working on test papers when he was moving up from primary to middle school. When it came time for his middle school exams, he thought to do the same, but was stumped by the papers and problems of the ninth grade and knew none of the answers.

Afterward, the couple could only put more effort into his daily life, ensuring he was well-fed and comfortable.

Their son was certainly low maintenance, but they also worried about him becoming a bookworm. He was already in his second year of university and hadn’t dated even once.

Dai Lei’s mom asked, “What movie did you watch? Was it good?”

His dad asked, “Did you take the girl out to dinner? What did you eat?”

Dai Lei: …

“Can you fatten up in one go after not seeing each other for two years?”

Ji Bin scoffed, “You want to boil the frog slowly, huh? Don’t forget, Gao Jie already liked you. Just tell us how you felt during the meet-up today.”

How did he feel?

It was impossible not to feel a slight stir of emotion, Dai Lei contemplated. Could he come right out with his feelings for Gao Jie?

Before he could have an answer, Ji Bin exclaimed with shock, “Oh my God, what’s this?”

Just as Dai Lei had taken a seat on the single-person couch nearby, Ji Bin suddenly pounced from the side, pushing his head away and leaning on his neck as if to take a bite, “Good lord, did she kiss you?”

Ji Bin looked at Dai Lei with astonishment, “You little rascal have gone bad, learning to play the game.”

Dai Lei’s parents were piqued by his explanation and crowded around to see for themselves.

“Uncle, look, is this what I think it is?”

“Hmm, it seems so.”

“Right, Auntie?”

But Dai Lei’s mother stared at him and asked, “Son, what does it feel like to be kissed by a girl for the first time?”

What else could it feel like? It felt like being slapped to death.

But even though he tried hard to explain, all three of them didn’t believe him.

“What mosquito bite? Do you think I’ve never been bitten by mosquitoes? Don’t I know a mosquito bite swells up? Go look at yourself in the mirror, it’s narrow on both sides and wide in the middle, obviously a suction mark, still saying it’s a mosquito bite? You think you’re trying to fool a ghost?”

Dai Lei was stupefied and quickly got up to look in the bathroom mirror. The red mark right in the middle of his neck was indeed narrow on the sides and wider in the middle, looking like a suction mark—although he had no experience with those—but clearly not a mosquito bite.

No, that wasn’t a mosquito, it was some unfamiliar little black bug.

After showering and climbing into bed, he suddenly felt like teasing someone, so he took out his phone and sent Gao Jie a text: “I got bitten on the neck by a black bug tonight, do you know what that piece of skin looks like now?”

Gao Jie quickly replied: “What does it look like? Do you need to go to the hospital?”

“No need for that, just left a mark, my brother said it looks like it was sucked out.”

“Sucked out? What sucked out?”

Dai Lei: …

Hey, this girl is even more innocent than he is, she actually didn’t get the hint.

“Nothing, go to sleep.”

“Why stop halfway through?”

“The kind sucked out with a mouth, get it now?”

After that message, there was no reply from the other side.

Dai Lei smiled, put down the phone, and casually picked up a programming book to read.

…

Du Fei and Ren Li’s group got home almost at midnight after singing karaoke.

She opened the door quietly, then closed it and changed shoes, turning to head to her room when suddenly the living room light clicked on.

She jumped in surprise, turned her head, and saw her mom standing at their bedroom door in her nightgown, looking at her with a cold face.

“It’s been over twenty days since the holiday started, are you attending a classmate’s gathering every single day?”

Du Fei explained softly, “Today is a classmate’s birthday, and they treated us.”

“Your classmate’s birthday, huh? Did Gao Jie go?”

Without thinking, she responded, “Yes, she just got home too.”

With a ‘smack’, Du Fei’s mother ferociously threw the remote control she was holding onto the floor, pointed at Du Fei, and screamed, “Another one? Have you gotten to the point where you lie as soon as you open your mouth? Do you think Gao Jie is like you? Not only did she find a boyfriend from Beijing University, but after meeting up, she obediently goes home early. And you? Dressed up all demonically every day, mixing with students from bottom-tier schools, and…”

“Why are you starting to argue again, keep it down, it’s the middle of the night.”

Du Fei’s father had been asleep but was woken by his wife’s yelling, sat up impatiently, and chided.

Du Fei’s mother ignored him and continued berating Du Fei, “Get back to your room, and from now until school starts, you stay at home and study, not going anywhere else, prepare for next year’s postgraduate entrance exam. You’re already far behind Gao Jie in college, if you can’t pass the exam next year, you might as well be dead…”

“I’d rather die than be dead, I’ll die right now for you to see.”

After saying that, Du Fei turned and ran towards the door…