Rebirth: He Decides to Lie Flat
Chapter 536 - 536 531 Little Rich Lady

Chapter 536: Chapter 531 Little Rich Lady Chapter 536: Chapter 531 Little Rich Lady Watching Ma Zheng leave on the bus, Jiang Yan and Mu Jiawen then turned to walk towards the nearby new residential complex.

After reporting the building number and apartment number at the security booth, the two of them entered and looked around left and right, “All duplexes, huh.”

“There’s quite a distance between buildings. Yu Hang said their place has two hundred square meters over two floors, and it’s only fifty.”

Mu Jiawen’s eyes lit up, “That’s so cheap. Should we buy one? We won’t decorate or rent it out, just let it appreciate in value.”

“Of course, that’s no problem. I’ll ask Yu Hang later to see if there are any left in this complex.”

In fact, there were available units. After all, the real estate boom had not yet arrived, and many people still did not realize the importance of commercial housing. Whenever a new development opened, it was certain it wouldn’t sell out for a year or two.

Especially in a small city like Yunzhou, which was pretty far down the urban hierarchy.

Meanwhile, Mu Jiawen was counting on her fingers how many properties she now owned, “After the demolition of the old and dilapidated ones in Beijing, I got four units. We live in Qinghe Garden ourselves, so that doesn’t count. I have one in Jade City rented out to your dad. I also have a villa in Beijing that originally belonged to my older brother, but he gave it to me…Wow, I actually have six residential properties now. In the future, even if I do nothing, just collecting rent will be enough to support our family of three.”

“Family of three?”

Jiang Yan turned to look at her, the smile in his eyes nearly spilling over.

Mu Jiawen didn’t think it was a big deal. Sooner or later they were going to have children anyway, and they weren’t planning on being DINKs (Double Income, No Kids).

Yu Hang’s place was on the third and fourth floors. Before they got close, someone called out to them from a balcony window, “Jiawen, over here…”

It was Wang Xiaole.

This was the first friend Mu Jiawen had made after transferring to No.1 High School. Although they hadn’t seen each other in years, they never lost contact. They had even corresponded by letters during their first year of university.

Mu Jiawen raised her hand and waved back, then immediately saw Xu Yan’s head also appearing at the window.

Back in high school, Zhu Jin was primarily focused on her studies and didn’t pay much attention to her own image. Plus, with her blunt nature that often didn’t spare people’s feelings, she really didn’t have many close friends.

Counting Mu Jiawen, it was just the three of them: Wang Xiaole and Xu Yan.

Of course, after she got into Beijing University and successfully transformed herself, many classmates asked for her contact and frequently called her. But what was the use?

With her temperament and family background, once she saw someone’s true colors, would she give them the time of day?

But Yu Hang was popular. When people heard he was getting married, regardless of whether they were notified or not, almost half the boys from his class turned up, and a bunch from other classes as well.

After Jiang Yan and Mu Jiawen arrived, there was a continuous stream of greetings.

Mu Jiawen was pulled upstairs by Zhu Jin and others to talk, while the males all remained downstairs.

“Jiang Yan, Yu Hang and Zhu Jin are already married. When are you two planning on it?”

The boy who asked the question, Jiang Yan, couldn’t remember what he was called, but before he could answer, Yu Hang said irritably beside him, “Legally, they’ve long been a married couple, just haven’t had the wedding yet.”

Everyone suddenly understood, and then a chorus of teasing erupted, asking when the wedding would be.

At that moment, someone sighed, “Ah, it’s better for you guys, dating a high-school classmate means you know each other inside out, come from the same hometown, and there are no issues communicating with parents. Even if you live together and have kids in the future, there won’t be many conflicts, unlike me…”

The way he talked sounded rather world-weary, not like a twenty-three or twenty-four-year-old, but more like someone in their thirties with kids and whose wife doesn’t get along with his parents.

Someone in the know sitting beside asked, “What? You brought your girlfriend from South City to meet your parents?”

The boy who was speaking nodded with a pained expression, “I did, but neither side was very pleased. My parents said she has a bit of trouble understanding Yunzhou dialect, which made her feel like they weren’t respecting her, and they didn’t even try to speak Mandarin to her. Seeing that she was indifferent to them, they called her arrogant and pretentious… Anyway, both sides don’t have a good impression of each other, and I’m caught in the middle, feeling incredibly uncomfortable, like the cream filling in a sandwich cookie.”

“There’s already such a big conflict before marriage, what will you do after getting married?”

“What else can I do? After graduation, he stayed in South City to work, and his girlfriend’s family is also from there, so that’s pretty much like becoming a live-in son-in-law. If the two sides don’t see each other, they can’t even start a fight, right?”

“Not meet? You make it sound so easy, but his parents only have this one son, so if he settles down in South City, they’ll definitely have to move there too, right?”

To everyone’s surprise, the boy shook his head saying he didn’t know and that they would see what happens in the future.

Zhu Zhen, who was usually quiet, spoke up rarely, “When I started university, my mom laid down the law, telling me not to date anyone from another place. Otherwise, it would be like my elder cousin whose wife is from out of town. During festivals, she can’t even hold a conversation with her in-laws, and the kids are even estranged from their grandparents. It’s not that they don’t want to help with the kids, but their daughter-in-law dislikes the kids learning the local dialect from their grandparents, thinking it sounds bad. So they decided not to let the grandmother take care of them, and instead, the kid is raised by its maternal grandmother.

My aunt complains a lot about this, feeling like their son has been raised by others, not by them.”

“That’s right, my cousin has the same issue. He stayed out of town after graduating from university, and his wife is also from there; they rarely come back even once a year. And if they don’t come back for the holidays, when my aunt and uncle go to visit them, his wife is not happy and complains about this and that, generally unable to get along.”

A few voices of agreement continued the conversation on this topic, while Jiang Yan slightly raised his eyebrows. Are these really a bunch of twenty-something-year-old guys?

Why does it feel like he stumbled into a gathering of old ladies?

The conversation downstairs left Jiang Yan in utter confusion, but the chats among the girls upstairs were the complete opposite.

“Zhu Jin, the day after tomorrow you’ll become a married woman, You won’t be able to go anywhere tomorrow evening, and the day after that you’ll need to get your makeup and hair done early. So tonight is your last chance to have fun. Why not… let’s hit the club and dance? I haven’t even been once in my life.”

The suggestion to go to a bar came from Wang Xiaole, and all of them were good and diligent students. Even during their university years, they hadn’t tried out some of the places repeatedly warned against by their parents.

But now, wasn’t Zhu Jin getting married? And with so many boys downstairs, it couldn’t be dangerous if they all went together.

However, Zhu Jin glanced at Mu Jiawen’s face and decisively shook her head, “No, Yu Hang said there are all kinds of people there, and it’s especially noisy. What’s there to enjoy about dancing?”

“Alright then, no clubbing, let’s just drink then, hmm… to celebrate the end of your single life, tonight we won’t return until we’re drunk!”

When drinking was mentioned, Mu Jiawen’s smile froze slightly; although she always thought she had a tolerable capacity for alcohol and wouldn’t pass out after one drink… Because she simply had no such memories, for some reason, Jiang Yan had always forbidden her from drinking outside.

If she wanted to drink, she could, at home.