Rebirth: He Decides to Lie Flat
Chapter 516 - 516 511 What Are You Going to Do

Chapter 516: Chapter 511 What Are You Going to Do Chapter 516: Chapter 511 What Are You Going to Do Mu Jiawen guessed right, Professor Li had indeed called Lu Qian’s mentor.

As for evidence, for a professor like Professor Li, who commands respect and carries weight at Beijing University and even in the physics community, it couldn’t be said to be unimportant, only that compared to the words he spoke, it held less significance.

Moreover, since Lu Qian’s mentor was more than a decade younger than Professor Li and had always held him in high regard, one could imagine what the reaction was upon receiving a call from Professor Li.

Furthermore, investigating this kind of matter was extremely easy, as long as someone from Lu Qian’s group told the truth, it would be very easy to find out where the tungsten that suddenly appeared in their group came from.

So, why did she come here late at night to block Mu Jiawen and Brother Wang? It was because her mentor had scolded her and ordered her to withdraw from the experiment and go back to write a 20,000-word reflection…

Unfortunately, even until this moment, Lu Qian had not realized the gravity of her actions, and withdrawing from the experiment and writing a reflection were not really punishments but merely a mild reprimand from her mentor, given her generally good performance.

Clearly, she had not grasped her mentor’s painstaking intentions, otherwise she wouldn’t have uttered such an absurd statement this time.

Brother Wang shook off her hand, feeling that speaking to her was like casting pearls before swine, a complete waste of words.

In the end, he gave her a cold glance and left with Brother Zhang.

The next day, after summarizing the situation, they began writing the report to be submitted to Professor Li for review as scheduled in the afternoon.

Mu Jiawen took the printed report and headed to Professor Li, seizing the opportunity to mention her travel plans for the next day.

“Go ahead, if there are any issues with the report, let your two senior brothers correct it,” Professor Li said.

After speaking, Professor Li added, “The tungsten you borrowed from your brother can’t be returned to the Wei Family for now. The university is currently strict about the control of rare metals, allowing each person to apply only once a year, and our quota has been used up. As for Professor Niu’s group, if they could apply for it they wouldn’t come to steal ours.”

Of course, failing to reapply is no excuse for stealing someone else’s materials.

But he trusted Professor Niu’s character, who indeed had used up his annual quota; otherwise, he would have certainly made good for Lu Qian’s actions.

“No problem, I got it from my cousin, and it’s his personal property, not belonging to their lab,” Mu Jiawen said.

In other words, there was no need to return it.

Yu Yue had always been cautious overseas, aware that the Wei Family was wary of him. How could he then wholeheartedly trust them?

Thus, over the years, he had secretly hoarded plenty of raw materials, and once he had settled in China, he had Yu Ci move it all back in one fell swoop. Most of it was handed over to the lab, but a small portion was kept for his personal use.

The one kilogram Mu Jiawen had asked for the day before was from his personal stash.

Despite this, she didn’t want to ask her cousin for it if she could avoid it; if possible, she would rather not get involved and let Brother Wang resolve the issue on his own.

After all, the failure to complete the experiment and the theft of tungsten were not her doing.

But she wanted to go on a self-driving tour, and how could she enjoy herself with this issue weighing on her mind if the experiment was not completed?

She had also made it clear to her two senior brothers that if they ran out of raw materials during their own experiments, they could always talk to her brother.

But to have her ask in this manner…

She didn’t finish her sentence, but both senior brothers understood.

After leaving Professor Li’s office, Mu Jiawen went straight to the specialty store.

She and Jiang Yan had to shop for some necessities for their self-driving tour the next day.

“Here’s the list I made, see if there’s anything else we need to add,” Jiang Yan said as he picked up Mu Jiawen, handing her a piece of paper.

“Just food, drinks, and some daily necessities. What else do we need?” Mu Jiawen asked while unfolding the paper and reading through the list. When she reached the second-to-last item, she was confused and asked, “Set? Set of what? Did you not write it down completely? What does this single word mean?”

Jiang Yan’s upper body stiffened, “Damn,” he thought to himself that since both of them had graduated and were considering getting married and registering for a marriage license, maybe staying at a hotel again could be… But he hadn’t noticed when he had written that stuff down.

When Mu Jiawen asked about it, he stammered, “I forgot, maybe… just randomly wrote a word.”

“Forgot, huh? Then it’s probably not important.”

Mu Jiawen didn’t mind, scanned the list again, crossed out the word “set,” and added a few more snacks underneath.

Jiang Yan caught a glimpse of her action from the corner of his eye and thought to himself how could it be unimportant? It’s very important.

The cheeky girl used to tell him she understood everything, but does this look like she understands? Couldn’t she infer anything from that word?

Once they arrived at the supermarket and bought everything on the list, they pushed the cart to the checkout. While queuing and passing the shelf behind the cashier, Jiang Yan reached up and threw two small boxes into the cart.

Mu Jiawen, standing beside him, glanced at the colorful boxes with letters and paused for a moment before reaching in and pulling one out.

Just as she was checking what it was, two more boxes were thrown into the cart.

Mu Jiawen blinked, and her face suddenly turned red.

She slowly put the box back in, stepped back, and stealthily twisted Jiang Yan’s waist hard.

Hiss…

Jiang Yan grimaced with pain, covered her hand with his, pulled it down, and held it in his palm.

When it was their turn to check out, Mu Jiawen would usually step forward to take out the items from the cart one by one and place them on the counter, waiting for the cashier to scan and settle the bill.

But today, she didn’t, and instead of going forward, she stood behind Jiang Yan and gave him a push.

Jiang Yan turned around with amusement and was met with a fierce glare.

After paying and carrying the bags out to the car, Mu Jiawen pounced from the passenger seat and grabbed Jiang Yan’s neck, grinding her teeth as she asked, “What are you trying to do?”

Jiang Yan looked at her with a smile in his eyes, “Shouldn’t I be the one asking you that?”

“Stop playing dumb, I’m asking about that.”

“Which one?”

“Jiang Yan!”

“Look at you, if someone didn’t know better, they might think you’re trying to overpower me here.”

Mu Jiawen was taken aback; she was indeed holding his neck, not really squeezing, just exerting a little force. However, her upper body was completely pressed against him, and at a glance, it indeed looked like she was initiating something intimate.

Just then, a man and a woman walked past the front of the car and caught sight of the two stacked up in the driver’s seat.

The couple stopped in their tracks and then quickly walked away, apparently talking about something, but because the car windows were shut, naturally, they couldn’t hear, but it likely wasn’t anything good.

Mu Jiawen’s face grew redder, and like an ostrich, she buried her head in his chest until those two walked far enough not to see them anymore, then released her grip and sat back down in the passenger seat.

“You’re typically good at looking after the front but not the back.”

Mu Jiawen rolled her eyes at him, “Say it again, and I’ll let the thing you just bought go to waste!”

Jiang Yan: …

You win!