Rebirth: He Decides to Lie Flat-Chapter 39 - 036 Unrequited Love
Chapter 39: Chapter 036: Unrequited Love
Chapter 39 -036: Unrequited Love
After breakfast the next day, the two of them headed straight for the café with their backpacks.
Considering she got all the answers right on the physics competition paper the first time, yesterday the physics teacher had sent her three more. The ones she had done previously had already been used as the standard answer and photocopied for the other three students participating in the competition.
So today, Song Jiawen only brought three physics competition papers, plus two classical Chinese novels borrowed from the Chinese teacher.
By comparison, Jiang Yan had a much tougher time.
Two English, two biology, one mathematic, one physics.
In the last year of high school, it’s all about repeatedly practicing, finding shortcomings, and then remedying them.
Of course, this method was only suitable for him and other regular high school seniors, not the abnormal Song Jiawen.
The two still sat in their original spots, with Jiang Yan ordering two cups of coffee and getting a strawberry cake for Song Jiawen.
Perhaps it’s because she was still growing, but Song Jiawen ate quite a lot at every meal and yet remained very slim.
He watched as her pale, slender fingers held the spoon, scooping up the cake bit by bit and putting it into her mouth, her movements slow and graceful. It seemed as if she had done this many times before, or as if it was naturally engrained in her bones.
“How much do you think the painting you did last Friday will sell for?”
Whenever he saw her hands, Jiang Yan couldn’t help but think about her painting—and the old man who took advantage of her.
“The teacher said traditional paintings are pricier. He plans to put a price tag of five hundred,” she said, then realizing something, Song Jiawen looked up, “When my painting is sold, I’ll treat you here next time.”
Jiang Yan was quite speechless. Was that what he meant?
He took out the test papers and started working on them, no longer discussing her paintings with her. However, he silently decided to follow her the next time Song Jiawen went to sell a painting.
This was the “big leg” he had his eye on—he hadn’t even gotten a chance to cling to it; how could he let someone else snatch it away?
The café was very quiet, and apart from the friction between their pens and the paper, there was no other superfluous noise between them.
That silence was broken when someone came over.
“Jiajia?”
Song Jiawen looked up and saw Yang Yi and the girl she had met at his house before.
Song Jiawen remembered that her aunt seemed not to like her.
She looked at Yang Yi, “You come here to study too?”
Yang Yi responded with a sound of affirmation, and he seemed surprised to see Jiang Yan so focused on his work. When had this guy become so serious about studying?
At that moment, Jiang Yan had just finished a test paper. He looked up at Yang Yi and nodded as a greeting.
Then he naturally pushed the test paper towards Song Jiawen, “Grade this.”
He never once glanced at Fan Jingjing, who was beside them.
After all, he didn’t know her, so what was there to look at?
But Fan Jingjing didn’t think so. She believed Jiang Yan was doing it on purpose.
It was because she had rejected him in the past, so now he was embarrassing her in public.
“Let’s sit over there, Yang Yi,” she said.
A greeting was enough. Why keep standing here? Did they really want to join them and study together?
Yang Yi indeed had that thought, but remembering Jiang Yan’s past interest in Fan Jingjing, he dismissed the idea.
Yes, the past. Yang Yi could tell Jiang Yan had changed; he had become very composed and serene, and the aggressive aura he carried when he left school last year was gone completely.
And….
He looked down at the biology paper in Jiajia’s hand and saw that most of it was correct, with only two fill-in-the-blank questions wrong.
Though it was just a regular practice paper, with his past grades, achieving this was simply unimaginable.
Then he saw the paper that Jiajia was pressing under her arm, which she was currently working on. Yang Yi paused, “Is that the physics competition paper?”
Song Jiawen nodded and handed him the paper she was holding.
Yang Yi was pretty good at physics too, but not yet at the level to compete in Beicheng. He knew that five people from their school were going to compete.
He just hadn’t expected… Jiajia to be chosen as well.
Yang Yi was starting to believe what his grandmother had said.
He didn’t stay there for too long and soon went to Fan Jingjing’s place.
When Yang Yi sat down, Fan Jingjing looked up at him, clearly dissatisfied with his tardiness. However, she didn’t say anything, as she had vaguely noticed a change in Yang Yi’s attitude towards her recently.
It was not as compliant as before.
It must have been something his grandmother said again.
It was truly annoying. Why did adult issues always have to involve the children?
Last year, when Yang Yi’s uncle got into trouble, her father, wanting to distance himself from the situation, did not lend him a helping hand.
But Fan Jingjing deliberately ignored another fact, which was when her father was approached to investigate Yang Yi’s uncle, he didn’t tell the whole truth. As a result, his uncle spent an extra half year locked up until, after a few roundabouts, the matter was finally cleared up.
If Yang Yi’s grandmother truly held a grudge, the Yang Family and the Fan Family would have cut ties long ago, and she wouldn’t have been able to visit the Yang Family so often.
Fan Jingjing was aware of these things, but Yang Yi was not. The Yang family members kept it secret considering their young age, not wanting the adults’ issues to affect them.
So some things were hidden from him.
Besides, Grandma Yang’s dislike for Jingjing had nothing to do with her father; she simply didn’t like her for being too cunning.
Yang Yi didn’t notice Fan Jingjing’s mood; after arriving, he took out his test papers and started working. If Jiang Yan was working this hard now, he had no reason to be worse than him.
When he came across some tough problems he couldn’t solve, he took them to discuss with the others.
But by ‘discussing,’ it was mostly watching Jia Wen lay out the steps.
She was not talkative, but her steps for each problem were clear and simple, easy to understand at a glance, even better than what their teachers explained at school.
Yang Yi’s mouth fell open in shock, at a loss for words. In that moment, he finally believed what his grandmother had said before; despite Jiajia growing up in the countryside, she was naturally cut out for academics.
Truly, her mind was very sharp and quick. Problems that took him twenty minutes to understand, she could lay out the solution steps in just five minutes.
Five minutes, this intelligence…
That morning, Yang Yi felt like he had achieved a higher learning efficiency than on any usual day.
“Let’s stay here this afternoon too, we’ll just go out for a meal nearby, then come back,” he said.
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After finishing, Yang Yi added, “It’s my treat.”
Song Jiawen and Jiang Yan had no objections; Fan Jingjing, holding back her frustration from the whole morning, initially didn’t want to go but was also unwilling to leave just like that. In the end, she silently followed the others to a nearby restaurant.
On the way, Yang Yi leaned in and whispered to her, “Don’t overthink it. I see Jiang Yan is completely focused on studying now, he has pretty much lost interest in you and will definitely not bother you like before.”
His intention was to persuade Fan Jingjing, hoping she would stop being so awkward with Jiang Yan and just treat him like a normal classmate.
However, these words only made Fan Jingjing even more furious. She glared fiercely at Jiang Yan, who was walking ahead. What did he mean by ‘lost interest in her’? She didn’t believe it!
She wanted to see how long he could hold out, when his fox tail would show.
