Rebirth: He Decides to Lie Flat
Chapter 523 - 523 518 Just Get Married

Chapter 523: Chapter 518: Just Get Married Chapter 523: Chapter 518: Just Get Married The origin of the matter was quite melodramatic.

Despite his teacher’s current facade of seriousness that mirrors a humble gentleman, he had his fair share of wild days in his youth, and this incident was a result of his romantic debts.

After completing the task in South City, that evening Mr. Ma took Yu Hang to the most famous local bar to broaden his horizons, but unexpectedly, they encountered an ex-girlfriend from long ago whom Mr. Ma had abandoned.

The moment she saw him, before even speaking, her eyes reddened, and she grabbed a bottle of beer and smashed it over his head, leaving Mr. Ma seeing stars and feeling dizzy.

But the woman was not yet assuaged. Grabbing a second beer bottle, she intended to continue her assault. Yu Hang, momentarily stunned, quickly snapped to his senses, unable to just watch his teacher be attacked.

He didn’t care whether the assailant was a woman or even if she were an alien; it wasn’t acceptable to crack people’s skulls open like that!

Thus, before the second beer bottle could crash onto his teacher’s head, without a second thought, he kicked out.

The woman was wearing high heels and was so focused on Mr. Ma that she didn’t notice Yu Hang, so his unexpected kick sent her flying three or four meters, ending with a thud as she fell to the ground in a disheveled and furious state.

Immediately after, Yu Hang and Mr. Ma were surrounded by seven or eight men.

After a brief bout of dizziness, Mr. Ma quickly regained his senses. He wiped the beer off his face with his hand and looked at the woman being helped up from the ground, as well as the grim-faced man supporting her, with a complex gaze.

It seemed that after they broke up, she found herself a tough guy with connections.

His guess was not wrong. That man had a stake in the bar they were in and could be considered one of the owners.

So how could they get away with hitting the boss’s lady in her own bar?

Even though it was the lady boss who had struck first.

But that didn’t matter to them. In the end, you hit my person, and if I don’t teach you a lesson, where would my face be?

Mr. Ma knew some martial arts, but on someone else’s turf, two fists are no match for four, and the result was that both he and Yu Hang were beaten and then locked up.

Since Yu Hang was implicated by him, Mr. Ma always protected him during the conflict, meaning Yu Hang escaped with few blows, but Mr. Ma himself received a severe beating.

He told the woman that their grudge was between the two of them and had nothing to do with Yu Hang, asking her to let Yu Hang go.

How could that be possible?

Leaving aside the kick Yu Hang gave her, what about if he left and called the police?

Finally confronting Mr. Ma, they weren’t going to let him go without venting the hatred in their hearts; she would surely regret it later.

Then, the two were taken and locked up in an abandoned factory on the outskirts, given only two meals a day, and during that time Mr. Ma was taken out for humiliation.

Perhaps fearing that making a big deal out of it would not end well, they refrained from further harming Mr. Ma, but the food they provided was nearly all spoiled.

A woman’s revenge can sometimes be truly terrifying. In the sweltering heat, they were given only one small bottle of water every two days.

The lack of food could be endured to some extent, but the lack of water was truly unbearable!

To save his saliva, Yu Hang stopped talking to Teacher Ma in the following days, his throat too parched to speak out.

But when he was first locked up, Teacher Ma had taken the initiative to confess his history with this woman.

He, like Yu Hang, had graduated from Beijing Media University, and during the second semester of his senior year, he interned at the South City television station. As a professional in the photography department, Teacher Ma believed that appreciating beauty was natural. Thus, he always carried his camera around his neck, snapping photos of anything attractive, including people.

The woman’s name was Lian Yanyan, a dance student at an arts school in South City. Attracted by Lian Yanyan’s sweet appearance, cute demeanor, and fiery figure during a performance at the television station, where Teacher Ma was responsible for photography, he took notice.

Teacher Ma pursued her for a week before winning her over, but they only enjoyed a brief romance of not even half a year. When his internship ended, he left South City without hesitation and returned to Beijing.

And Lian Yanyan hadn’t graduated yet, of course, she couldn’t follow Teacher Ma to Beijing. But when she went to find him a year later, she discovered that there was already someone else by his side…

A rather clichéd story, dry and uninteresting, but it revealed fully that Teacher Ma was truly a scoundrel.

“So you see, Yu Hang, you should never follow my example. When you meet someone you like and think about marriage, don’t hesitate. Once you hesitate, you might never get married. In life, you can have many relationships, but they all amount to the same thing. Eventually, after enough relationships, you might become sick of the very idea of marriage. Or you might think it’s time to settle down, but the person you’re with doesn’t seem as good as the last one, not quite right for marriage.

But does life give you a second chance to choose? Definitely not.”

Teacher Ma gave him this sincere lesson and experience, bleeding his heart out in warning: above all, never get yourself entangled in romantic debt!

On the eighth day of their captivity, some of Teacher Ma’s subordinates found Lian Yanyan and told her the police had come to the bar after their colleagues reported them missing.

In the end, Lian Yanyan released them reluctantly, warning Teacher Ma bitterly, “From today on, we’re even, but if you dare tell the police I kidnapped you, then from now on…”

“I won’t say anything, rest assured, I’ll go to the police station and clarify,” Teacher Ma interrupted her in a hoarse and languid voice before she finished. “I was indeed unfair to you in the past. It’s well deserved that I got locked up…”

Perhaps swayed by Teacher Ma’s somewhat receptive attitude, Lian Yanyan had someone drive them straight to the nearest police station.

Yu Hang was too lazy to make up a story, so he just listened as Teacher Ma told a serious pack of lies, claiming they went to climb an undeveloped Swan Mountain in South City and accidentally fell into a valley, and a bunch of other nonsense, so bewildering that Yu Hang couldn’t understand what was going on. The police officer across from them was even more confused.

But in the end, it was confirmed that they were both unharmed.

After clearing things up, they left the police station, returned to their original hotel, and because Yu Hang was in a hurry to find Zhu Jin, he grabbed his bag and rushed over without even taking a shower.

Zhu Jin was speechless after Yu Hang explained the whole story.

At the same time, she frowned worriedly, “With Teacher Ma being so unreliable and fickle, won’t you get influenced by following him?”

After all, the saying goes that you become like those you keep close. Zhu Jin was worried that Yu Hang might turn into another Teacher Ma.

Couldn’t he change to a different mentor?

“Don’t worry. Teacher Ma learned his lesson the hard way. Not to mention this incident, but because of his many past relationships, he’s been single for the past two years, not seeking a girlfriend, finding it all pointless.”

Yu Hang thought this would reassure Zhu Jin, but her expression turned even uglier upon hearing it.

After a moment’s thought, Yu Hang realized that any aspect of Teacher Ma’s situation was a bad sign for a couple deeply in love.

Well then, might as well just get married!