Rebirth: He Decides to Lie Flat

Chapter 26: Chapter 23 Who is this? Chapter 26: Chapter 23 Who is this? Fan Jingjing had never expected to encounter Jiang Yan at this coffee shop she often visited.

Running into Jiang Yan was one thing, but why was he with Song Jiawen?

What was their relationship?

Besides, hadn’t Jiang Yan gone down to the countryside to study at his grandmother’s? Why was he here at this time?

“Jingjing, could it be that Jiang Yan knows you often come here and specially came to find you?”

The girl walking beside Fan Jingjing spoke with a sneer, “This guy really is a toad lusting after swan meat; he still hasn’t given up till now?”

Fan Jingjing glanced at Jiang Yan expressionlessly and saw him constantly looking down, writing something on the table—as if he hadn’t seen her.

Yeah right, what an act!

Originally, Fan Jingjing was revising with Yang Yi at the Yang Family home, but then Grandma Yang called someone to tidy up the garden. Annoyed by the noise, she decided to come to this coffee shop to study.

Yang Yi said he had to wait for a call from his brother, so he didn’t come along.

Fan Jingjing had called two classmates, only to find the last person she wanted to see as soon as she walked in.

Such bad luck!

“What should we do, Jingjing? Should we go somewhere else?”

Fan Jingjing scoffed, “Why should we leave? The coffee shop isn’t his house.”

“Exactly, if anyone should leave, it should be him. Why should we have to go?” The girl who first spotted Jiang Yan turned her head to Fan Jingjing, “Shall I make him go away? Just say you don’t want to see him.”

“Forget it, why bother with him?”

Fan Jingjing didn’t want to interact with such a person; ignoring him was the best punishment.

The three found a table farthest from Jiang Yan, with a corner in between them. Without specifically looking over, Jiang Yan couldn’t see the three of them at all.

But they could clearly see the two of them.

As a result, over the next couple of hours, the three girls noticed that Jiang Yan and the girl opposite him never left their seats. Both maintained one hand on a pen, writing and drawing all the time; the other hand either pressed down on test papers or held a cup of coffee.

There was no conversation between the two, yet the atmosphere was harmonious.

“That girl… she’s so beautiful!”

At first, because Song Jiawen had kept her head down, they had only seen her back and profile when they came in and hadn’t paid much attention to her.

But now, catching a glimpse of Song Jiawen’s face as she looked up, one of the girls couldn’t help but exclaim.

After hearing this, another girl turned to look and, despite not wanting to admit it, her momentary stun and the admiration in her eyes betrayed her.

Any girl as beautiful as her, if sitting with Jiang Yan, would probably not be overlooked for anyone else, unless they were blind, right?

They suddenly wondered, was their initial guess correct?

Was Jiang Yan… really here waiting for Fan Jingjing?

Seeing her companions’ reactions, Fan Jingjing sitting beside them frowned and said disapprovingly, “Are you guys here to study or to watch people?”

The two girls gave a sheepish laugh, withdrew their gazes from Song Jiawen, and guiltily bowed their heads.

At half-past eleven, Jiang Yan stood up to go to the bathroom.

When he came out after washing his hands, there was a girl standing not far from the door.

Jiang Yan didn’t pay her any attention, stepped to the side intending to walk past, but suddenly heard the girl’s icy voice, “Jiang Yan, enough is enough. I already told you when you left last time that there’s no chance between us and not to look for me again in the future. Didn’t you understand what I said?”

Jiang Yan was taken aback and looked up in surprise, “Are you talking to me?”

The girl gave him a cold glance and turned to leave.

Jiang Yan: ….

What the hell! Who is she?

Big sister, could you clarify before you leave? What relation do we have?

Jiang Yan racked his brain but couldn’t recall who the melon-seed-faced girl was.

First love at Experimental Middle School?

That can’t be right, he should have no such thing.

Then who is she?

Jiang Yan returned to his seat, baffled, and glanced toward the direction of those three girls, cursing, he didn’t recognize a single one.

But from the way they rolled their eyes at him, he could guess that even if they were classmates, their relationship must not have been good in the past.

He didn’t pay any more attention and turned to ask Song Jiawen, “Going for lunch?”

Song Jiawen had eaten two small cakes and wasn’t hungry at all.

She pointed to the test paper in front of her, “Let’s finish this first.”

Jiang Yan immediately pulled out a new test paper and started working on it. Even the top student had been seriously answering questions all morning, so he had no excuse not to be active.

The two focused on their work, oblivious to their surroundings. When they had finished a test paper and started packing up to leave for lunch, Jiang Yan specifically glanced at the corner table, and the three girls were gone.

He didn’t care and turned his head to ask Song Jiawen, “When the results come out tomorrow, how much do you think you’ll score?”

“Apart from Chinese, I should get full marks in the rest.”

Jiang Yan: “….”

He shouldn’t have asked.

After all, in the few days since she arrived, to blend in, she had painstakingly completed every test paper issued by the teachers, showing a much better attitude toward her studies than when she was at Jianghai.

As for handing in her exam paper half an hour early, that she didn’t leave an hour early was already giving the teachers at this school face.

……

Yang Family.

At noon, Yang Yi waited for the call from his older brother Yang Jue.

“Did you receive the materials? Have you started on them?”

“Yeah, I’ve done a bit.”

“How does it feel?”

“It’s kind of challenging.”

“Feeling it’s challenging means there’s still a lot you lack, a lot of space for improvement. Make sure to carefully study that notebook with the problem-solving steps…”

Yang Jue went on a long talk with his brother when he suddenly realized he didn’t seem too enthusiastic, paused, and asked, “Is something wrong?”

Yang Yi had always been quite reliant on his brother, and he couldn’t hide things from Yang Jue, so he ended up sharing that he had given Song Jiawen a copy of the materials and told his brother about it.

Yang Jue was surprised, “Jiajia? The smart granddaughter from our great-aunt’s family?”

Yang Yi remembered that just yesterday his grandma told him to call Shi Peirong ‘great-aunt’, but now his brother referred to her as ‘great-grandma’?

Is she the great-aunt or the great-grandma?

But that wasn’t important, what mattered was what his brother said next, “That’s our cousin, you should give it to her, right? What’s the problem? Why are you even conflicted about it?”

Yang Yi replied subconsciously, “Fan Jingjing said I should have refused…”

Yang Jue laughed out of exasperation, “Fan Jingjing said you should have refused? Who is she to meddle in Yang Family’s business? The materials she got were from you, what right does she have to stop you from giving them to someone else?

Besides, Jiajia isn’t just anyone, she’s family.

Yang Yi, you’re eighteen now, an adult. Use your brain when doing things, weigh the importance, and don’t let others lead you by the nose.”

Yang Yi was taken aback; his brother’s words were almost identical to their grandma’s, but his brother had never said anything about Fan Jingjing before, so why was he now so against her because of Song Jiawen?

It didn’t seem like that…

Yang Yi suddenly realized that now thinking of Fan Jingjing also made him feel awkward.

“Next time you see Jia Wen, ask her if she needs any other materials. Whatever you have, give her a copy. And you, with the college entrance exam coming up, focus more on your studies and ignore other things.”