Rebirth: He Decides to Lie Flat
Chapter 528 - 528 523 Know Thyself

Chapter 528: Chapter 523: Know Thyself Chapter 528: Chapter 523: Know Thyself What a buzzkill!

The two of them turned and left without even saying hello.

Si Tian’s smile faded from her face, and she looked at their departing figures with scorn, disdainfully curling her lip.

“Si Tian, are those two from your Beijing University?”

Only when the figures were no longer visible did one of the round-faced male students who was with Si Tian manage to drag his gaze back and ask, “What’s that girl’s name? What year is she in?”

Si Tian turned to look at him, laughed, and said, “Old Bi, stop dreaming; you don’t stand a chance. Didn’t you see she already has someone by her side?”

“So what? Where there’s a will, there’s a way. Besides, I think that guy looks pretty average. His family background must be mediocre, right?”

The girl beside them glanced at him, thinking to herself that he could only talk about family background; without his family and parents, he was nothing.

She looked at Si Tian and asked, “I heard you on the phone earlier; is that guy in the same class as Liu Wenhui? Then he must have already graduated.”

“Yeah, relying on his computer skills, he opened a computer store right by the school gate,” Si Tian said, clearly unimpressed. “Thinks he’s a big entrepreneur because he’s got a couple of storefronts? Even dared to keep Brother Hu at his internet café to watch the shop.”

“What?”

The group of companions looked at her incredulously, “Liu Wenhui, a Beijing University graduate, working as an internet café manager? Has he lost his mind?”

“Exactly, why doesn’t he help out at his family’s factory?”

In her heart, Si Tian thought it was all because of that bitch, Qi Lihong.

She didn’t cling to Liu Wenhui as she had in the past, but perhaps it’s human nature to think that what you can’t have is always the best.

Plus, the few boyfriends she had over the last couple of years had all been too gentle and lacked masculinity – she always felt that none of them had the manliness of her Brother Hu.

Therefore, she couldn’t help but think again lately; after all, the two of them had grown up together in Kang City and had connections and a factory there. The best path after graduation would be to come back home to develop.

She pondered that even if Qi Lihong had the thickest skin, she wouldn’t possibly follow them to this place, and even if she did, it wouldn’t matter, because Liu Wenhui’s mother was no easy foe. She wouldn’t dare do anything to her in Beijing, but in Kang City, it would be a whole different story.

But what she hadn’t calculated was that Liu Wenhui would inform his family after graduation that he wasn’t coming back and planned to stay and develop in Beijing.

Develop?

Running an internet café counts as development?

Si Tian knew in her heart that his internet café was not like ordinary ones, and he was even renovating a new store in another district of Beijing, with plans to open a national chain.

But she could never say such things to Liu Wenhui’s mother. She exaggerated Jiang Yan’s moral shortcomings without mentioning Qi Lihong, cleverly emphasizing how Liu Wenhui was loyal to his friends, that his new internet café might not be able to stand on its own feet in Beijing, and that was why he had asked Brother Hu to stay and help manage it.

Liu Wenhui’s mother had never met Jiang Yan and given her dissatisfaction with her son’s decision to not return to Kang City after graduation, she took Si Tian’s words for truth, growing a strong dislike for this former class president.

A Beijing University graduate running an internet café, what was he thinking?

So when she had just received Si Tian’s call and heard that this class president had come to Kang City, wanting her son to show hospitality and take him out… Take him out, my ass. She was already doing well not to trouble him, and here he was, coming to disturb them at home.

“Being a graduate of Beijing University, how can you be so brainless?”

After hanging up the call with Si Tian, Liu Wenhui’s mother got up, intending to leave the bedroom to find Liu Wenhui, but was stopped by Liu Dad, who had already lain down and was planning to sleep, “What are you doing?”

“What else would I be doing? Of course, I’m going to warn your son not to go out and see his so-called class monitor tomorrow.”

Si Tian’s call earlier had been on speakerphone, so Liu Dad had heard everything loud and clear.

To be honest, he didn’t like that girl Si Tian at all.

When she was little, she was cute and well-behaved, and quite endearing. But as she grew up, he realized she became increasingly cunning, often causing trouble, and was completely unscrupulous in her attempts to be with Xiao Hu.

His wife, due to her friendship with Si Tian’s mother, loved Si Tian like her own, even more than her own son, which was quite preposterous.

The call just now was clearly meant to sow discord, yet his wife seemed oblivious, cursing Jiang Yan’s class monitor after hanging up, which gave him a headache.

“Your son is already twenty-six this year, not a child. He knows what he’s doing. Besides, do you even know what kind of person his class monitor is? You blame them just based on a few words from Si Tian, but why don’t you consider the kid who’s been starting businesses since his freshman year? If he had no capabilities, if he wasn’t making money, could he have continued his businesses until now?

You’re only listening to Si Tian’s side of the story, not even trying to understand your own son’s perspective. His class monitor, in his sophomore year, started a company with a partner, and in his junior year he set up an electronics factory. Even the computer we have at home is produced by their factory. Do you think that having our own factory is something great? They may have earned more assets in these two years than we even have.”

“How is that possible?” Liu Wenhui’s mother wasn’t convinced at all, “Are you exaggerating? Moreover, how close am I with Tian? How could she possibly lie to me?”

“Close to you?” Liu Dad snorted in mockery, “More like using you. Let me ask you, isn’t it true that every time she reached out to you, you ended up fighting with your son? These past few years, your son either hasn’t come home or avoids you when he does. Why is that? Have you ever considered reflecting on yourself?”

“Why? Isn’t it because of what’s her name, Qi…”

Liu Dad frowned and interrupted her impatiently, “What era are we living in? Ever heard of the freedom to love? Your son isn’t a puppet in your hands, for you to dictate who he dates. And what, is our family some high and mighty clan? We might have been back in my grandfather’s day, but over the years, my father and us brothers were just average, and our family has been nothing special after the division of property. Do you not know how much money we actually have, or are you just not clear about it in your own heart?

Your son is dating a classmate from Beijing University and you’re still so picky. Do you have the right to be choosing at all?

His classmates from Beijing University will all be important contacts for him in society in the future. If you think these connections aren’t important, then go ahead, do everything you can to drive a wedge between your son and his capable class monitor, oh, that’ll solve everything, you’ll be satisfied, right?”

After saying his piece, Liu Dad turned over and went to sleep without looking at her again.

Liu Wenhui’s mother stood at the bedroom door for quite a while with a mix of green and white on her face, looking very unpleasant.

But after standing there with her head down for a good while, in the end, she didn’t step out and instead turned around to go to bed.

…

Jiang Yan and Mu Jiawen were walking along the lakeshore, both of them not taking Si Tian seriously at all.

They were hardly acquainted with her. What she thought or did had nothing to do with them.

As for Liu Wenhui, Jiang Yan wasn’t planning on meeting him either. He was now the manager of the internet cafe just outside Beijing University, a decision he made on his own, which wasn’t solely for Qi Lihong, as he also liked his current job.

Of course, Jiang Yan had given him more than one option, including the electronics factory and the game company, but he enjoyed working in the internet cafe.

Whether his family agreed or not was not Jiang Yan’s concern.