Rebirth: He Decides to Lie Flat
Chapter 515 - 515 510 Wheres the Face

Chapter 515: Chapter 510: Where’s the Face? Chapter 515: Chapter 510: Where’s the Face? After Mu Jiawen left, Senior Zhang turned to Senior Wang and said, “If she said the camera was turned off, it probably was, so even if you tell the teacher, it’s no use, there’s no evidence, and she won’t admit it. So…”

Senior Wang’s face was still an ashen color; though they had been together for four years, he truly hadn’t expected Lu Qian to be this kind of person!

She had hurt him, just to benefit herself.

All she thought about was that she couldn’t complete her experiment and wouldn’t meet her credit requirements, but she never considered what he would do without the materials she took.

“Whether there is evidence or not, I must be honest with the teacher. Besides, we can’t finish our experiment without tungsten; that’s something we must explain to the teacher.”

From beginning to end, they never considered asking Mu Jiawen to get materials from Professor Yu.

Truth be told, due to Mu Jiawen’s connections, both Professor Yu had helped them quite a bit. Although Professor Li was rather authoritative, he was getting on in years and couldn’t be expected to stay up late working on experiments with them.

Oftentimes when they faced difficulties, Mu Jiawen would call her brother. If he was available, he’d come over to guide them in person; if not, he’d give them detailed answers over the phone.

If someone was willing to help them to that extent, how could they have the nerve to ask for materials?

They just couldn’t.

On the other hand, after Mu Jiawen went out, she symbolically checked the computer connected to the camera and found that it had indeed been turned off.

She took out her phone and stepped outside to make a call.

About half an hour later, Yu Yue leisurely arrived in front of her on a bicycle.

“Have you just finished?” Mu Jiawen reached out to take the small box handed to her by Yu Yue and asked, looking at the dark circles under his eyes.

“Yeah, I haven’t been home for three days.”

Yu Yue said as he rubbed his face. He didn’t ask his sister why she needed tungsten, simply waved his hand, and walked away.

Mu Jiawen looked down at the box in her hand and turned to go back to the laboratory.

As she entered, she happened to hear Senior Wang on the phone with Professor Li, “… I’m sorry, teacher, it was my oversight, I shouldn’t have let her in…”

Mu Jiawen put the box on the experiment table and turned to look at Senior Zhang, who was watching her, then slightly nodded her head.

Senior Zhang sighed helplessly.

After Senior Wang hung up the phone, Mu Jiawen said, “No matter what, let’s first complete the experiment.”

As for how to deal with Lu Qian, she believed that Senior Wang would definitely handle it properly.

…

As the neon lights came on, night fell.

Jiang Yan made his rounds on the second floor of the franchise store, reminded the two part-time students on duty, and then rode off to pick up Mu Jiawen.

Having come there frequently, he was well acquainted with the security guard at the door. After tossing a pack of cigarettes to the guard, he boldly rode through.

When he got to the entrance of Mu Jiawen’s laboratory, Jiang Yan stretched out his long legs and stopped at the side of the road, then keenly noticed a person standing in the shadows where the streetlight didn’t reach, across the street.

From the figure, it was apparent that the person was a woman.

He glanced at her casually and didn’t look again, but in his mind, he pondered: who could she be waiting for?

Was it Senior Brother Wang or Senior Brother Zhang?

It wasn’t until half-past ten that the lights in the laboratory finally went out, one after another, and shortly thereafter, three people came out.

“Jiang Yan.”

Senior Brother Zhang smiled as he greeted Jiang Yan, while urging Mu Jiawen to hurry away, saying he would lock the main door.

“It’s this late, are you hungry?”

Mu Jiawen shook her head wearily, “Tired, I want to sleep.”

Jiang Yan tenderly rubbed her head, turned the bicycle around, and expected her to get on immediately, but she stood still in the same spot for a long time without moving.

Jiang Yan turned his head to follow her gaze and saw that the woman who had been standing in the shadow had slowly walked under the street light, her narrow eyes glaring fixedly at Mu Jiawen.

“Mu Jiawen, did you ever treat Wang Mingrui as your senior brother? When you just joined the group, he helped you so much, but why can’t you lend him a hand in such a simple matter?”

Hearing the voice over here, the two senior brothers, Zhang and Wang, who were locking the door, turned their heads at the same time.

When Senior Brother Wang recognized the person standing under the street light across the road, his face instantly turned ashen.

“Lu Qian, what nonsense are you talking about?” Senior Brother Wang said as he strode across the street.

Before Wang Mingrui could come over, Mu Jiawen looked at Lu Qian and said coldly, “Senior Brother Wang helped me because he is my senior brother. If he’s in trouble, I will definitely help him. But what are you supposed to be? Using Senior Brother Wang to steal our things, and now you have the nerve to accuse me? Where is your shame?”

Lu Qian’s face changed dramatically, and she was overcome with anger. She hadn’t expected the usually quiet Mu Jiawen to curse someone.

“Mu Jiawen, you…”

“Me what? Oh, I get it now, you’re here blocking our way and so angry obviously because your advisor criticized you. Even if we don’t have evidence, just based on Senior Brother Wang’s character, our teacher will certainly believe him. Did he talk to your advisor already?”

Professor Li is not one to let things slide, and obtaining rare metals is not so easy. Even with just a kilogram, he had planned for it and needed it for important purposes.

So he definitely wouldn’t swallow such a loss without a fight.

“Don’t slander me, I’m not a thief. I’ve never stolen anything from you all. Mu Jiawen if you keep this up, I’ll sue you for libel!”

“Sure, go ahead and sue,” Mu Jiawen said, finding it laughable, “A thief so bold as to sue others… Fine, go ahead! Or how about this, I call the police now, and you can guess whether our dear police officers can figure out who stole the tungsten from our lab with the cameras off?”

At the mention of calling the police, Lu Qian’s complexion looked even worse.

Mu Jiawen looked at her indifferently, a look of disdain in her eyes, “During the day we neither reported it to the police nor made it public, and that was all out of respect for Senior Brother Wang. Otherwise, who do you think you are?”

Having said her piece, she turned around, lifted her butt, and sat down steadily on the back seat of Jiang Yan’s bike, wrapping her right arm around his waist and said, “Let’s go.”

Jiang Yan glanced at that woman, turned his head, and pedaled away on the bike.

Senior Brother Wang had already reached the spot where Mu Jiawen had stood. He looked at Lu Qian and said coldly, “Lu Qian, I realized today that I really don’t understand you at all. And I really don’t get it, under these circumstances, how could you dare to come and confront Mu Jiawen? Are you out of your mind?”

To be honest, he didn’t want to see her right now, not a single word did he wish to say to her, but he needed to deal with the mess that had arisen because of him, to avoid causing trouble for Jiawen.

“From today on, our relationship is over!”

After these words, Senior Brother Wang turned and walked away, but Lu Qian took two steps forward and grabbed him, “Wang Mingrui, you did the experiment again late at night, right? Doesn’t that mean Mu Jiawen got the tungsten from her brother? Since she got it, why did you still tell Professor Li?”